Former Badger, current NFL player and longtime philanthropist JJ Watt was the keynote speaker at the event, which was packed with a crowd of 45,300 people. He opened his speech with a relatable comment about Spotted Cow.
As a walk-on football player at UW-Madison who became a star defensive lineman and now plays for the Houston Texans, J.J. Watt offered lessons on pursuing dreams at the university’s spring commencement Saturday.
The Wisconsin dairy industry, challenged in numerous ways, remains an inescapable presence in the state — from the remaining number of small family farms dotting the landscape from county to county to the sprawling mega-farms housing thousands of cows.
Former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl made a $10 million donation to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.
When we heard about The Restorative Justice Project, it was hard to believe and we certainly didn’t understand it. The program at the University of Wisconsin Law School introduces victims of violence to the convicts who committed the crime. Our first reaction was “who would want to do that?” And to what end? It was only after we met these families and the convicts that we could see what a life-changing experience could come from the most unlikely of meetings.
A unique program at the University of Wisconsin Law School brings crime victims and the criminals convicted of those crimes face to face. Forgiveness is not the point of the program, but it happens and it’s not always the convict asking for forgiveness as Scott Pelley finds out on the next edition of 60 Minutes, Sunday, May 12 at 7:00 p.m., ET/PT on CBS.
MADISON – Donald Hayes will graduate from the University of Wisconsin Saturday fulfilling a journey that went more than two decades.
Christina Olstad, currently the interim assistant vice president for student affairs, housing and residence life at Towson University in Maryland, will begin her new job as dean of students at UW-Madison on July 1.
UW-Madison is one of a handful of universities in the Big 10 that do not require students to get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. But with measles outbreaks in several other states, university health officials are discussing whether their vaccination recommendation to students should be a requirement.
Behind the scenes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s bustling Union South, where many students are taking shelter from a rainy afternoon, Bret Kuhn is busy wrapping up a shift washing dishes in the lower-level kitchens.
The committee’s other co-chair, Republican Rep. Samantha Kerkman, said attracting nonresident students means more money and a chance to persuade them to stay and work in the state after graduation. Republicans and businesses often contend that Wisconsin faces a worker shortage that will only worsen as the population ages.
A tabby cat has new back legs, with the help of some University of Wisconsin-Madison students and a 3D printer.
After years of having plenty of students, colleges and universities across the country now have the opposite problem — dwindling enrollment leading to cost-cutting measures like buyouts and other changes.
Sen. Howard Marklein and Rep. Travis Tranel are sponsoring a bill that would give the University of Wisconsin System $7.9 million fund annually to create and fund the UW Dairy Innovation Hub at UW-Madison, UW-Platteville and UW-River Falls.
With the end of the 2018-19 school year approaching, The Badger Herald interviewed University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank on a range of issues, including higher education funding, the campus climate and UW mental health services.
UW-Madison on Tuesday named Corey Pompey as the successor to legendary UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone.
Out-of-state students graduating from UW-Madison would be eligible for up to about $54,000 in grant money if they lived and worked in Wisconsin for a seven-year period after graduation under a Republican bill introduced in the Legislature.
UW-Madison named Corey Pompey as the successor to legendary UW Band director Mike Leckrone, the first passing of the baton in 50 years.
It’s a passing of the baton over at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The school has named a new marching band director for the first time in five decades.
American Family Insurance said Friday it will invest $20 million in data science initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expanding an existing partnership between the insurer and university.
The gift includes $10 million in research over the next 10 years, and an additional $10 million to create the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute on campus. The institute will be located in the McArdle Building.
American Family Insurance announced Friday that it will invest $20 million in UW data science initiatives.
The plastic milk jug is familiar to most consumers but its days may be numbered as a newly announced grant will allow experts at UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research to begin working on producing dairy beverages that won’t need refrigeration.
UW-Madison will open Wisconsin’s first Prevention Research Center this fall, thanks to a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mike Leckrone knows how to make an entrance. Making an exit is much harder.
One of the most prestigious scholarships in the country, the Truman Scholarship provides recipients with a $30,000 award toward graduate school and opportunities to participate in public service leadership professional development.
A little over a year after proposing to eliminate 13 academic majors, UW-Stevens Point announced that no programs will be discontinued.
UW-Madison officials are hoping lawmakers will help pay to build a new veterinary school on campus.
The UW System, which has fielded a raft of misconduct complaints at universities around the state, announced Wednesday it was joining a national coalition to prevent sexual harassment on college campuses.
Spectators want more than a show. They want to witness UW Bands director Mike Leckrone’s last “last”: the sold-out concert series — slated for Thursday, Friday and Saturday — that will cap an end to a storied 50-year career before he retires this academic year.
Former athletes including Melvin Gordon III, Carey Lohrenz and more posted tributes to the university in support of the fundraiser.
UniverCity is in its third year at UW-Madison. It’s helped or is in the process of helping the city of Monona, Dane County and Green County.
“It’s really meant to show that every person in Madison has different stories and they come from different backgrounds,” the Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Yogev Ben-Yitschak said. “But in Madison … we’re all the one identity of being UW students, even though we all have our own stories and experiences of how we got to where we are.”
UW is one of only 25 U.S. hospitals named to Newsweek’s Top 100 Global list, which includes hospitals from 11 countries.
UW-Madison students are signing up in record numbers to study computer science, elevating the program to be the most popular undergraduate major on campus in each of the last two years.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will pay the federal government $1.5 million to settle a claim that the university “overcharged” for several research projects between 2007 and 2017.
University of Wisconsin fans went crazy when Beata Nelson touched first in the 200-yard backstroke Saturday night to complete the greatest individual effort at the NCAA swimming and diving championships in program history.
For the first time in eight years, the Badgers are national champions, giving them a fifth NCAA trophy to finish the program’s 20th season.
Seventy-five Badgers — more than any other U.S. university — are currently serving a 27-month stint in developing countries promoting peace through community integration.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have decided to settle allegations they overcharged the federal government for research projects for $1.5 million.
This weekend is Wisconsin forward Annie Pankowski’s last shot to go out a winner in college hockey.
UW-Madison agreed to pay the U.S. government $1.5 million for allegedly overcharging federal agencies on the money it receives for research projects, the Western District Court of Wisconsin announced Thursday.
Since 2016, the university has topped the list of top volunteer producing colleges and universities. Since 2012, it has been ranked in the top five.
In a likely unprecedented move, the State Building Commission failed Wednesday to recommend any of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ $2.5 billion in proposed capital budget projects after Republicans voted them down one by one.
Some Wisconsin higher education leaders say the proposed state budget from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers could reduce a worker shortage and keep more talent from leaving the state.
New work by two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers provides crucial insight into a major medical mystery: how a protein that normally protects cells from tumors is induced to abandon its mission.
UW-Madison researchers have discovered one way a gene that usually protects against tumors can, when mutated, spur cancers of the breast, ovaries, lung and bladder.
UW-Madison employs a comprehensive admissions process, spokesman John Lucas said, where “every student admitted to the university is judged to be capable of success.” The university received nearly 43,000 applications for the freshman class that arrived in the fall. About 52 percent were accepted, according to UW-Madison data.
The University of Wisconsin System recently hired a big-data consulting company to help campuses, other than Madison’s, identify at-risk students and save them from dropping out.
Democrats have been pushing the concept for years, but it has failed to earn the support of Republicans who control the Legislature. Evers will need Republican approval to implement the refinancing effort, along with the rest of his budget.
Gov. Tony Evers is proposing to restore $3.5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Extension under the next budget and boost the number of county agriculture agents.
The University of Wisconsin System says its launching an effort to improve retention and graduation rates, especially for students of color.
Governor Tony Evers’ proposed capital budget includes borrowing $2 billion over the next two fiscal years, a plan at least one legislative leader calls “alarming.” A release from the governor’s office says Evers is “recommending historic investments in state-owned vertical infrastructure.”
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has requested more than $2.5 billion in his two-year building projects capital budget, with close to half of the proposed money going to upgrades and renovations at University of Wisconsin System facilities.
Gov. Tony Evers wants to spend $2.5 billion on building projects — nearly half of which would be for University of Wisconsin System campuses.
The National Science Foundation ranks universities based on the number of Ph.D.’s granted. UW-Madison came in first in 2017 with 844 Ph.D.’s, up from second place in 2016.
A $150 million funding increase for University of Wisconsin campuses and major interstate improvements in the Milwaukee area are unlikely to happen without tax increases Republicans oppose, Gov. Tony Evers said Monday.
Noted: UW System. Evers would maintain a tuition freeze at University of Wisconsin System campuses and fund it through an increase of $150 million in state funds. Evers also proposed increasing funding for building improvements by $65 million over two years.
The University of Wisconsin System would receive a $150 million boost, including funding to continue a tuition freeze implemented by former Walker, a pay raise for UW employees, a provision to allow Dreamers to pay in-state tuition and a study to determine the feasibility of creating a student loan refinancing authority.
Touching on lame-duck laws, criminal justice reform and repealing Walker legislation, Governor Tony Evers has given his first biennial budget address.
