Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a proposed rule Friday that would revamp expectations for colleges’ handling of campus-based sexual misconduct.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is proposing a major overhaul to the way colleges handle complaints of sexual misconduct.
Crave credits the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison for assisting him in reaching his goal. The center provides educational programs and short courses to cheese makers and provide them with experience in working with several varieties of cheese.
Panel discusses hopes for new stem cell technologies
The 2018 Open Doors Report showed UW-Madison led U.S. institutions in the number two spot for participation in semester-long study abroad programs, and 16th in the nation for overall study abroad participation.
The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point plans to cut six mostly humanities majors, less than half of the cuts proposed in March, as part of its strategy to offer more career-focused programs, the university announced on Monday.
The training program consists of two tracks veterans can choose from: a two-year certificate program through the UW-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course, in partnership with the UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems; and a one-year and one semester technical diploma program through Madison College.
A growing number of universities are trading notes on how to improve student success rates. And the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities wants to take this cross-institutional collaboration to the next level.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that woodland hawks, a species that suffered greatly at the hands of pollution, habitat loss, and hunting by humans, are making a comeback — and they’re doing it in the big city.
The scientists from the university of Wisconsin-Madison say that the wide availability of bird feeders in cities is allowing songbirds to thrive, and birds of prey are paying attention.
MIAMI – Democrat Donna Shalala, a former Cabinet secretary and University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor, Tuesday won a U.S. House seat in Florida that had been held by a Republican.
For most of his eight years as governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker was a thorn in the side of the state’s public colleges.
Even as many were gripped by the potential change in control of Congress, races for governor could be exceptionally important for public higher education. Governors appoint board members and have great influence over appropriations.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison in late August, chancellor Rebecca Blank and Foxconn chairman Terry Gou announced the largest industry research partnership in the school’s history.
Ian Robertson, head of the engineering school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that even without Foxconn, the state has a challenge attracting enough engineers.
Ian Robertson, head of the engineering school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that even without Foxconn, the state has a challenge attracting enough engineers. “If you look at our numbers, the answer is no,” said Mr. Robertson, about whether there are enough engineers to supply Foxconn at this stage. The school of engineering currently has 4,500 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students, he said.
The public art project featuring the beloved Badgers mascot’s likeness raised $1 million for charity, organizers said.
Randolph Ashton is using human embryonic stem cells to grow neural tubes, which give rise to the brain and spinal cord.
The heads of Rutgers University, Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison asked Betsy DeVos in an open letter Thursday “to do everything you can” to stop the Trump administration from undermining the rights of transgender students.
The heads of Princeton, Rutgers and the University of Wisconsin-Madison penned a joint letter Thursday urging Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to protect transgender students.
Separately, the leaders of Princeton University, the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University wrote a letter to DeVos expressing their “deep concern” that the government might drop civil rights protections under Title IX for transgender students.
In November of 1998, a developmental biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison named James Thomson described the first successful derivation and culturing of human embryonic stem cells in the journal Science. Now, a new paper is exploring how much stem cell science has grown in the time since it was first introduced 20 years ago.
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.
