Allan “Bud” Selig, the founder of the Milwaukee Brewers and former commissioner of Major League Baseball, will deliver the headline speech at UW-Madison’s commencement ceremony in December.
This has been a big year for his beloved team, who came within one game of the World Series.
UW-Madison is bringing one of the biggest names in Wisconsin baseball history back to Madison for its winter commencement.
Allan “Bud” Selig will deliver the winter commencement on Dec. 16 at the Kohl Center, the university announced Wednesday.
For months, James Thomson rose at 5 in the morning, hours before his day job, and hustled off to a secret scientific project in a lab next to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s in vitro fertilization clinic. His chest felt tight, as if he’d been holding his breath, worrying constantly.
Anti-Semitism did not appear and did not end with the Holocaust. Neither should our fight to end hatred.
Hundreds of students came, and many shed tears during the speeches. The event ended with a prayer, singing and hugs between community members.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank condemned the violence as terrorism and called for love and unity to prevail in a time of fear. “My sympathy and the sympathy of all of us are with the families and the community that suffered this attack. Vile acts of anti Semitism cannot be condemned strongly enough,” Blank said. “I am proud that our campus has such a vibrant Jewish culture and community, and we will do everything we can to support it. Please remember to care for each other in the days ahead.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden will visit Madison and Milwaukee on Tuesday to encourage voters in the state’s most liberal areas to vote for U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Democratic candidate for governor Tony Evers.
Biden will stop first in Madison around 9:30 a.m. for a rally on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Baldwin, Evers and lieutenant governor candidate Mandela Barnes. He will then head to Milwaukee for a 2 p.m. rally at Laborers’ Local 113 at 6310 W. Appleton Ave.
Biden planned to hold an early voting rally Tuesday morning on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was to be joined by Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, candidate for governor Tony Evers and others.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be in Madison Tuesday for an early-vote rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be at UW-Madison on Tuesday to tout early voting alongside Democratic candidates who will appear on the midterm elections ballot.
It’s a story that Madison loves to hear. Two plucky entrepreneurs, Kevin Conroy and Manesh Arora, are hired in 2009 to revive a moribund health-tech startup in Boston. They have the temerity to move it from the best-known metropolis in the country for medical innovation to the much smaller Madison, where Conroy had run Third Wave Technologies. Their company had but two employees.
Taiwanese technology company is partnering with UW to increase student, faculty, alumni interest in Foxconn jobs.
Students, staff and community members have a chance this week to learn about the opportunities that Foxconn Technology Group will provide to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Foxconn is looking to tap into young talent when it opens its new plant in Wisconsin.
Egan spoke about specific effect of invasive species, pollution.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she is “really, deeply worried” about funding for the university’s building projects.
UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine and its adjoining hospital is poised to expand the amount of working space for students and staff by about 50 percent as part of a $128.1 million project.
Another University of Wisconsin campus is dealing with declining enrollments.
The university’s Morgridge Institute for Research is studying placentas from births at UnityPoint Health-Meriter to identify structural changes in fetal membranes that could be associated with preterm births.
Two transgender Wisconsin state employees will receive $780,000 after previously being denied healthcare coverage for treatments such as sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. A jury awarded the damages this week.
A federal jury in Madison has awarded $780,000 to two transgender state employees who were wrongfully denied insurance coverage of transition surgeries.
This year’s top winners, Elizabeth Haynes and Jiaye “Henry” He of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, captured a time-lapse video of a zebrafish nervous system as it developed over 16 hours. The entire thing was condensed into a 40-second clip.
“If the fungus dies, the ants die,” said Cameron Currie, a microbial ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the fungal-farming ants and their mutually beneficial relationships with other species.
What could possibly bring together a painter, an economist, a pastor and a planetary scientist? If you ask the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the answer is simpler than you may think: They’ve all shown creativity, potential for future achievements — and the likelihood that $625,000, meted out over five years, will help them complete their grand designs. UW alums Rebecca Sandefur and Lisa Parks are awardees.
TOWN OF SOMERS – Shortly after convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar was sent to prison for sexually assaulting multiple gymnasts during medical appointments at his Michigan State University office, the UW-Madison athletic department launched a proactive review of its own policies and practices.
Not many students are like Abdulai A. Conteh. At least not in Sierra Leone’s Koinadugu District. He’s getting ready for college.
The University of Wisconsin System is still building cash balances in thousands of fund accounts, and carrying them from year to year.
Program provides internship opportunities, coursework specifically oriented towards poverty studies.
Campaign focuses on misperceptions about admissions, affordability, state funds.
Apple won its appeal of a patent infringement case brought against the company in 2014 by the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. A federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., threw out part of the $506 million in damages originally awarded to the university by a federal court in Madison. It’s unclear how much has been thrown out.
A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a $506 million damages award against computer-maker Apple Inc. that had been awarded to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation after a jury in Madison found in 2015 that Apple had infringed on a WARF computing patent.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has balanced its budget for the first time since 2012 — big news for a campus that was facing a deficit of more than $40 million three years ago.
UW-Madison is ranked among the top 50 universities in the world once again, and is in the top 25 of U.S. universities, according to rankings released Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked among the top 50 universities in the world.
UW-Madison is ranked among the top 50 universities in the world once again, and is in the top 25 of U.S. universities, according to rankings released Wednesday.
The college ranked 43rd on the list universities worldwide in a study done by Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Among the United States UW-Madison ranked 23rd.
About 28 percent of UW-Madison undergraduates took at least one summer course in 2018, up from about 21 percent in 2014.Officials said Wednesday that nearly 8,300 undergrads enrolled in at least one summer course this year, up from about 6,300 in 2014.
UW-Madison welcomed 6,862 freshmen, for a class of 2022 that’s 3.8 percent bigger than last year’s class of 6,610.
Temperatures have risen 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the 417 national parks between 1895 and 2010, twice the rate of anywhere else in the country, according to the study by the University of California Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The class of 2022 at the University of Wisconsin is the largest class in school history, including the highest number of students of color in an incoming freshman class.
Pass the trash, pass the harasser: call it what you will, but the University of Wisconsin System doesn’t want to do it anymore. So it’s moving forward with a policy on disclosing misconduct findings against employees to future employers during reference checks. The system will automatically share such information between its campuses and other state agencies. And it wants such disclosures on its own potential hires, too.
“There is a huge difference between the very gradual and accidental warming trend that early farmers probably caused, versus the much more rapid climate changes that our modern industrial world is effecting knowingly,” said Stephen Vavrus, a senior scientist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Climatic Research who conducted the study, which recently appeared in the journal Scientific Reports.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said this project, however, is a unique one in that it has been six years in the making and includes one of the largest private/public partnerships in the university’s history. In eight months, almost 200 partners came together to donate $16 million toward the project.
Plants have no eyes, no ears, no mouth and no hands. They do not have a brain or a nervous system. Muscles? Forget them. They’re stuck where they started, soaking up the sun and sucking up nutrients from the soil. And yet, when something comes around to eat them, they sense it.
“Plants look like they are just so intelligent—they do the right thing at the right time, they sense a huge amount of environmental information, and they process it”, says Simon Gilroy, who runs the botany lab that at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But they don’t have the brain, the information processing unit that we think should be necessary to make those really elegant calculations”.
Plants have no eyes, no ears, no mouth and no hands. They do not have a brain or a nervous system. Muscles? Forget them. They’re stuck where they started, soaking up the sun and sucking up nutrients from the soil. And yet, when something comes around to eat them, they sense it. And they fight back.How is this possible?“You’ve got to think like a vegetable now,” says Simon Gilroy, a botanist who studies how plants sense and respond to their environments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison’s College of Engineering and Foxconn Technology Group aim to open an interdisciplinary institute near the Racine-based manufacturing campus by 2020 with a minimum of 100 researchers, some of whom may be paid by the university.
MADISON, Wis. – Wednesday, one of Madison’s most successful public arts projects comes to an end with the conclusion of Bucky on Parade.
Just a few years after rewriting the rules on program cuts and related faculty layoffs, the University of Wisconsin System is again seeking to limit faculty — and even institutional — say in academic matters.
Quoted: “The facility is going to be one of the premiere dairy education and research centers in the nation,” Blank said. “And most importantly, it’s going to be a hub for discovery and innovation for Wisconsin’s dairy industry, working closely with our faculty and our students.”
Wisconsin’s flagship university remains one of the top public higher education institutions in the United States despite a slight drop compared to last year, according to a report released Monday.
Officials with UW-Madison, the biohealth industry and the state’s economic development agency announced the launch of a biomanufacturing initiative Thursday to enhance opportunities for Wisconsin researchers and entrepreneurs.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will open two new cultural center “startup spaces” to serve students who have Asian and Latinx cultural, ethnic or racial identities, in response to the efforts of student organizers to create such spaces.
University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Robert Fettiplace this week will receive a gold medal from the king of Norway, a share of a $1 million science prize, and take his place in the running for a future Nobel Prize.
In 1983, UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty tried to recruit a young female professor to be their next postdoctoral fellow, according to then-director Sheldon Danziger.
olleges got a preview on Wednesday of what might be coming in the U.S. Department of Education’s long-awaited regulations on campus sexual misconduct.
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is preparing new policies on campus sexual misconduct that would bolster the rights of students accused of assault, harassment or rape, reduce liability for institutions of higher education and encourage schools to provide more support for victims.
Foxconn is planning to give up to $100 million to UW-Madison for engineering and innovation research. We discuss how that money may be used, how the partnership would work and reaction to the development.
