As the verdant hills of Wakanda are secretly enriched with the fictional metal vibranium in “Black Panther,” your average backyard also has hidden superpowers: Its soil can absorb and store a significant amount of carbon from the air, unexpectedly making such green spaces an important asset in the battle against climate change.
The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point plans to address “fiscal challenges” by expanding some academic programs and discontinuing others, it announced Monday. Tenured faculty positions are at stake, with possible layoffs occurring by 2020.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is planning a sweeping elimination of academic majors in order to address a $4.5 million dollar structural deficit.
University of Wisconsin System Administration needs to better oversee and monitor relationships with foundations and other nonprofit organizations formed to support state universities, the Legislative Audit Bureau said in a report released Friday.
The UW Board of Regents will welcome two new members this year, and one current Regent was reappointed to the board.
In a recent survey, students reported a UW-Madison inclusion program effectively increased awareness of and respect for diversity on campus among first-year students in residence halls.
A chorus of faculty demanding that University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross demonstrate respect for their role in governing the university is rising, as news of looming layoffs on one campus renews concerns over the way Cross is leading the institution.
Before administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Superior shocked faculty members by cutting more than two dozen academic programs, the campus’s top leaders discussed how much action they could take without soliciting faculty input.
A UW-Madison lab next month will start making an experimental Ebola virus vaccine for use in a clinical trial to start in Japan in December.
Could the sexual assault scandal that unfolded in Michigan State’s athletic department take place at the University of Wisconsin? It’s a fair question, said Walter Dickey, the Badgers’ special assistant to the athletic director. “We feel no,” Dickey said, “but we also feel a responsibility to our kids and our fans to assure them that we are managing these things in a responsible way.”
Oversight of Wisconsin Public Radio and TV will return to the University of Wisconsin–Madison July 1 as part of a reorganization of the statewide university system.
Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television will become part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer, members of the UW System Board of Regents decided Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is responding to criticism from faculty and students who say he failed to consult them on the plan to merge two-year campuses with four-year universities.
Captain Meghan Duggan, forward Brianna Decker and backup goaltender Alex Rigsby also were among the former Badgers players celebrating. On the other side, it was heartbreak for five former or current UW players with Canada: forwards Blayre Turnbull, Sarah Nurse and Emily Clark, defenseman Meaghan Mikkelson and backup goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens.
For the second year in a row, Wisconsin’s flagship university tops the list of large schools providing volunteers to the Peace Corps, with 85 alumni currently volunteering worldwide.
David Muir, an accomplished journalist and anchor of “ABC World News Tonight,” will provide advice and insight to UW-Madison graduates during the spring commencement ceremony.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the growing list of colleges that now offer free tuition to certain students. Called “Bucky’s Tuition Promise,” the program will cover four years of tuition and fees for in-state students whose family’s annual household adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison investigative journalism class is examining the health of Wisconsin’s democracy and residents’ power to affect state policy at a time when major forces have changed the political landscape.
One expert on the cutting edge of coyote research is Dr. David Drake with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Urban Canid Project. UWUCP is shedding a light on many aspects of coyote behavior, and those findings, in turn, are illuminating how to create smarter coexistence strategies between humans and wild coyotes.
The cost of tuition can be a deciding factor on where students go to college, but a recent decision by University of Wisconsin-Madison officials plans to make it possible for any Wisconsin student to become a Badger.
In the wake of campus climate data suggesting many UW-Madison students feel marginalized or uncomfortable in classroom discussions, the School of Education has decided to take action.
As adults we have a lot of questions after Wednesday’s deadly school shooting in Florida, but children have their own concerns. Karyn Riddle is an associate professor at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communications where her research focuses on the effects of exposure to media violence.
Dorothy Farrar Edwards, a UW-Madison kinesiology professor who leads PROFS, a UW-Madison faculty organization, submitted written remarks to the committee calling the 4 percent increase a “much-needed boost” for UW-Madison employees but warned peer universities still pay professors and other university workers considerably more.
Foster children would not have to pay tuition at University of Wisconsin schools or state technical colleges under a bill approved by the state Assembly.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison knew the bald eagle population grew by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. They just didn’t know why.
The Wisconsin Assembly has unanimously approved a bill that would provide free tuition for some foster children at University of Wisconsin System schools and Wisconsin technical colleges.
Granato joined the New York Rangers after the Calgary games and went on to a 13-year playing career with three NHL clubs. He turned to coaching in 2002 and worked as an assistant or head coach with three NHL teams until taking over in 2016 as head men’s hockey coach at the University of Wisconsin, where he had a standout collegiate playing career.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison program, Bucky’s Tuition Promise, will cover four years of tuition and segregated fees for incoming Wisconsin resident students whose families make $56,000 or less per year. We talk with the school’s director of Financial Aid to learn more.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the growing list of colleges that now offer free tuition to certain students.
Seidenberg is a cognitive scientist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his latest book, Language at the Speed of Sight, he points out that the “science of reading” can be a difficult concept for educators to grasp. He says it requires some basic understanding of brain research and the “mechanics” of reading, or what is often referred to as phonics.
Although UW-Madison is one of her top choices, she knows her parents can’t afford the $10,533 in tuition each year.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has unveiled a plan to offer free tuition to students whose families make $56,000 or less a year.
If you’re a Wisconsin resident admitted as a new student to the University of Wisconsin-Madison next fall — and your family’s adjusted gross income is $56,000 or less — you’ve just been given a free ride.
New in-state University of Wisconsin-Madison students from low-to-moderate income families will get free tuition and fees for four years under a new program, university officials announced Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin Madison on Thursday announced a free tuition plan for many in-state students that will start in the fall, the latest development in the spread of free public college.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will now offer free tuition and fees for students from households that make less than $56,000 a year, The Associated Press reported.
UW-Madison officials say the university will cover tuition and fee costs for Wisconsin students from families with incomes below the state median, a move they say shows all state residents that an education at the state’s flagship campus is within reach.
As University of Wisconsin System Regents meet to discuss the merger of the System’s two- and four-year campuses, President Ray Cross faces new push-back from faculty for his handling of the merger — and what critics call his disdain for input from faculty, staff and students.
Another faculty backlash is brewing against University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross because Republican lawmakers got a heads-up about his far-reaching plans to restructure the two-year colleges while faculty, staff and students were kept in the dark.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members railed against UW System President Ray Cross on Tuesday for excluding them from the plan to restructure the University of Wisconsin System.
University of Wisconsin System officials are being admonished to make progress on long-identified weaknesses in the university’s information technology security, as recommended in a report by the Legislative Audit Bureau.
Exactly 169 years ago today, a group of Badgers attended UW-Madison’s first classes. Now, Feb. 5 — Founders’ Day — is celebrated by students and alumni around the world.
Change is afoot at University Research Park — at least, if the park’s leaders and tenants have their way — and it could urbanize the sprawling tech-transfer center into a place where you can buy a cup of coffee, grab lunch or play a game of racquetball.
University of Wisconsin campuses are updating or introducing new sexual harassment and sexual violence policies, following a mandate from the regents in December 2016 saying each campus needed its own, set guidelines.
Administrators in the UW-Madison Department of Sociology are struggling to rebuild trust as graduate students challenge steps officials say are being taken to respond to sexual harassment and improve climate in the department.
The University of Wisconsin System has released new details on dozens of complaints of sexual harassment.
At least 11 complaints of sexual misconduct against University of Wisconsin System employees since 2014 led to the loss of their jobs or were followed by their resignations, newly released records show.
Whispered warnings among women in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology Department, senior male faculty making promises about book co-authorship or shared research data while making sexual advances on graduate students, sexual misconduct by male Ph.D. candidates — all are included in a recently compiled rundown of sexual harassment incidents in higher education.
On Thursday, copies of Michigan State University’s campus newspaper sat in a stack atop the desk of Lorenzo Santavicca, the student-body president. He grabbed one and held it up. A teal banner under the nameplate read, in all caps: “Can you hear them now?”
Government money applied to things that we as a society think are important — from space travel to the internet — produces major results in every area, in the medical, mechanical, electric, and even retail space.To stay competitive in this global economy, we must value and support basic research. And that means allowing the “Ice Road Truckers of science” to pursue their curiosity in order to drive discovery.
Rebecca Blank is chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brad Schwartz is CEO of the biomedical Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison.
The program establishes a classroom to campus connection, pairing middle school teachers with two UW-Madison students who visit classrooms once a month from October through April. The UW students deliver instruction focused on college and career readiness.
Last month, researchers lobbed another salvo in the decades-long debate about the nature of these forms. They are indeed fossil life, and they date to 3.465 billion years ago, according to John Valley, a geochemist at the University of Wisconsin. If Valley and his team are right, the fossils imply that life diversified remarkably early in the planet’s tumultuous youth.
UW-Madison’s new meal plan for the 2018-’19 academic year sparked backlash throughout campus. The university’s plan, however, is similar to others across the Big Ten Conference — and more affordable, too.
Students receiving federal financial aid to attend area colleges and universities won’t be immediately impacted by the government shutdown, UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said.
UW-Madison is moving to give faculty and staff a 4 percent pay increase in the next year, the university announced Thursday.
Since the 1960s, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been studying how plants will grow in space. We talk with a Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has been leading a research team to study the effects of growing plants in a zero gravity environment.
Would you consider yourself middle class? Chances are, whether you’re wealthy, lower income, or actually somewhere in the middle, you still identify as middle class. There are plenty of reasons why that is–“middle class” might be the most used word in modern politics–but a new University of Wisconsin study posits that it could also be because ads are telling us we’re middle class.
UW-Madison students planning to get in cardio between classes next year will be looking for the Nick.
A new student recreation facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be known as the “Nick” when it opens next fall on the site of the former SERF.
