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.
MADISON, Wis. – In his first budget proposal, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will increase Wisconsin’s minimum wage, raise the gas tax, provide new funding for schools and give income tax cuts to middle income families.
Highlights of the two-year Wisconsin budget proposal released Thursday by Gov. Tony Evers:
Wisconsin’s gas tax would go up by 8 cents per gallon, state government would pick up a bigger share of school funding than it has in more than a decade and Medicaid would be expanded to an estimated 82,000 residents under the state budget proposal unveiled on Thursday by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Eighth graders throughout Milwaukee joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) alongside alumni for a ribbon cutting ceremony in celebration of the Milwaukee Office Grand Opening.
“In the ancient world, there were other places people could have moved that were more resource-rich,” says Sissel Schroeder, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and co-author of the study. “In the modern world, we’re experiencing the same pressures but it’s becoming more difficult to find resource-rich areas that aren’t already occupied by humans.”
UW-Madison’s new director of University Health Services brings a national reputation to campus.
CALS Quickstart, WI Experience, Engineering Summer Launch help students get ahead.
“When we see correlations with climate, some archaeologists don’t think climate has anything to do with it, but it’s difficult to sustain that argument when the evidence of significant changes in the climate show people are facing new challenges,” said Professor Sissel Schroeder, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Cultures can be very resilient in face of climate change but resilience doesn’t necessarily mean there is no change,” said study co-author Sissel Schroeder, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in a statement. “There can be cultural reorganization or decisions to relocate or migrate. We may see similar pressures today but fewer options to move.”
Gov. Tony Evers will propose a $150 million boost for the University of Wisconsin System in his first two-year budget, including funding to continue a tuition freeze implemented by former Gov. Scott Walker, a pay raise for UW employees, a provision to allow Dreamers to pay in-sate tuition and a study to determine the feasibility of creating a student loan refinancing authority.
People who entered the country illegally could pay in-state tuition, a long-running tuition freeze would continue for another two years and institutions would receive an additional $150 million under Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ executive budget proposal for the University of Wisconsin System.
Beto O’Rourke is going to the University of Wisconsin—Madison on Friday for a brief grip-and-grin with students and faculty.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke will hold an event Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the Texas Democrat mulls a 2020 presidential bid, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.
Following a massive rally in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, on Monday, the former Texas congressman and potential presidential candidate will visit with students at University of Wisconsin, Madison on Friday.
Potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Friday for a meet and greet with students and faculty, a closely guarded event that will be the former Texas congressman’s first visit to a key state in the battleground, industrial Midwest.
University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman Mackenzie Straub told the UW System Board of Regents on Friday, Feb. 8, that the new Bucky’s Tuition Promise program has made a big difference for her.
