The University of Wisconsin System Regents on Thursday approved a budget that will freeze resident undergraduate tuition for a fifth straight year but increase student fees and housing costs on all campuses.
UW-Madison did not have to make the deep staff and program reductions other University of Wisconsin System institutions faced through years of state budget cuts, supporters of those campuses say.
Back when Howard Moore was growing up on Chicago’s West Side in the 1980s and early ’90s, he could play basketball with his friends at the playground until dusk.
We’re no strangers to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Badgerloop team, having spilled some ink about their impressive showing at last year’s inaugural Hyperloop competition at SpaceX headquarters in California. (We even profiled them in a video vignette which you can view here.)
Styer and Quilling have been accepted to the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) program of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, a nationally recognized initiative that prepares and supports students who intend to practice in rural Wisconsin and help improve the health of those communities.
The program was created due to the shortage of physicians in rural Wisconsin. While 29 percent of Wisconsin residents live in rural locations, only 13 percent of physicians in Wisconsin have rural practices.
University of Wisconsin System students wouldn’t face any tuition increases for another year but most would have to shell out more for fees and housing under a budget plan the Board of Regents is poised to vote on this week.
UW-Madison scientists, inspired by proteins found intact in centuries-old human bones, created a mineral coating that mimics bone and appears to keep proteins stable.
University of Wisconsin System officials are planning to give UW-Madison a smaller share of new state funding under an operating budget proposal released this week.
At least four schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have chosen a best seller written by a young conservative: J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which explores issues of social breakdown among working-class whites, such as drug use and child neglect.
The committee that chose “Hillbilly Elegy” had a “vigorous discussion” about it, said Sheila Stoeckel, director for teaching and learning programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries. “We’re picking books there are not easy answers for. If we picked a book that there was an easy answer for, it wouldn’t be as lively of a discussion or exploration.”
There is a little room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that is filled with the eyeballs of animals — everything from the duck-billed platypus to the two-toed sloth to the boa constrictor.
Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison want to kill a state budget proposal that would ban the university system’s Board of Regents from requiring the system president and campus chancellors and vice chancellors be academics themselves.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are putting the final touches on a high-tech metal pod designed to shoot a passenger through networks of pneumatic tubes at 270 mph.
Language quietly slipped into the proposed state budget would allow someone from outside academia to become the University of Wisconsin System’s next president or a campus chancellor, potentially moving politics and business interests squarely into future searches for top university leaders.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty want the state Legislature’s budget-writing committee to rework the leadership structure for the newly proposed Tommy Thompson Center, a conservative think tank on the campus.
A University of Wisconsin Board of Regents member says taxpayer money will not be tapped to cover debts of the financial troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation.
No state dollars will be used to bail out the beleaguered University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation, the UW System announced in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
A Republican bill toughening penalties for disruptive campus protests that passed the state Assembly last week likely won’t come up in the Senate until this fall.
The Supreme Court on Monday partially lifted the injunction on President Trump’s ban on entry for nationals of six Muslim-majority countries, allowing it to take effect except for in the cases of “foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”
MADISON — If organizers of the University of Wisconsin System’s first Wisconsin Idea Summit thought last week’s event focused on the dairy industry was going to solve all of the industry’s woes, then they probably went home from the summit disappointed.
The battle for free speech continues to wage on college campuses.
Lawmakers late Wednesday voted to crack down on University of Wisconsin System students who disrupt other people’s speeches and events, pitting one set of free speech concerns against another.
Conservative media commentator Ben Shapiro was just a few minutes into a lecture at the University of Wisconsin Madison last fall when more than a dozen student protesters rose from the audience and began chanting “shame!” and “safety!” in hopes of drowning him out.
University of Wisconsin students who repeatedly disrupt campus speakers or presentations could be suspended or expelled under a Republican-backed bill the state Assembly passed Wednesday.
As the Assembly takes up a bill Wednesday to require University of Wisconsin campuses to enforce free speech protections with the threat of expulsion, another debate is raging on the money behind conservative speakers and how well college students really understand the First Amendment.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican-backed bill that would call for punishment of Wisconsin college students who disrupt campus speakers or presentations was set to clear a major legislative hurdle Wednesday.
There are about 300 agriculture-related research projects going on at the Arlington Agricultural Research Facility, a part of the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
But only one of them – the dairy research facility, opened in 2008 – was a focus of Saturday’s event.
Every summer, about 60 graduate students with diverse backgrounds and interests come together at the UW-Madison School of Business for a week of intensive schooling about what it takes to start a tech-based company.
MADISON — A new policy governing the use of unmanned aerial devices at a Wisconsin university allows researchers and instructors to use the drones on campus for research or educational purposes.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are using oil that comes from a gland on chickens’ tails to improve survival at fish farms. The discovery could have global implications for the Atlantic salmon industry.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed switch to a self-insurance plan for state workers was rejected Thursday in a rare bipartisan vote by the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget-writing committee, a defeat for the governor who had lobbied hard to make the change.
Amid an ongoing stalemate over transportation and education funding, the Legislature’s budget committee voted unanimously Thursday to give state employees a 4 percent raise over the next two years.
The state’s retirement system was one of the things that brought me to Wisconsin.
Internet users may soon notice a boost in performance thanks to a team of UW-Madison researchers who published an atlas of its physical structure around the world.
“It’s always exciting to be here,” said Schroeder as she watched members of her team check the measurements on the westernmost pit. “This is the third consecutive summer on this project to discover and explore what daily life at Aztalan was like 900 to 1,000 years ago.”
If federal funding for indirect costs tied to research were cut by Congress, as proposed by President Donald Trump, the University of Wisconsin-Madison could lose tens of millions of dollars annually and be forced to narrow the breadth of its research enterprise, Chancellor Rebecca Blank warned in a blog post Tuesday.
Even as agricultural counties improve programs, students aren’t getting to the flagship university.
As more professors from University of Wisconsin system leave for other institutions, the UW Regents are calling on lawmakers to invest more funding into faculty pay raises and updating facilities slow the exodus.
After dedicating his ride at the 2016 Ride to Farm to the two men, Ann and Merle came up with the idea of creating a bicycle ride around Bloomer that focuses on farm safety.
Just over two years after the accident, on July 8, the Tour de Farm Safety Awareness Ride will visit five Chippewa County farms for presentations on the safety precautions taken on each of the farms.
Proceeds from the ride will go to the UW-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course’s Ram and Jeremy Seibel Scholarship fund and to participating FFA chapters. Jeremy was a graduate of the short course.
The chancellors of several UW campuses, along with System President Ray Cross, asked legislators during a meeting of the Board of Regents at UW-Milwaukee to increase funding for building maintenance and construction in the 2017-19 budget, and to provide $78 million to boost compensation for workers.
The UW Board of Regents chose John Behling to be its new president Friday.
Among others, Chinese pop singer Jason Chen, American Muslim comedian Azhar Usman, African-American motivational speaker Ty-Ron Douglas, publisher and former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
Lily’s Fund, which raises money for epilepsy research at UW-Madison, will be hosting Lily’s Luau in January for the 10th and final time.
The fairly common habit of talking aloud to yourself is what psychologists call external self-talk. And although self-talk is sometimes looked at as just an eccentric quirk, research has found that it can influence behavior and cognition. “The idea is, if you hear a word, does that help you see something?” said Gary Lupyan, a researcher and psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A few months ago, Patrick Colbeck, a Republican in Michigan’s State Senate, picked up George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. What he read sounded familiar: oppressive oversight, restricted speech, and twisted interpretations of reality. But the government isn’t creating this totalitarian atmosphere, he felt, colleges are.
A federal judge in Madison on Tuesday upheld a jury’s $234.3 million damages award against computer maker Apple, which in October 2015 lost a patent infringement lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, UW-Madison’s intellectual property arm.
A U.S. judge has rejected Apple Inc’s bid to overturn a jury’s $234 million award to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm for incorporating its microchip technology into some of its iPhones and iPads without permission.
The price to buy nothing has gone up over the last 10 years, and an exclusive group of donors is very interested in finding out what the next 10 will bring.
MADISON (WKOW) — Friends of a man who was killed while windsurfing on Lake Mendota last week say they still have a lot of questions about his death, but Wednesday night, they gathered to remember the life of Yu Chen.
A Madison man, hit and killed by a boat while windsurfing last week, was remembered at a vigil Wednesday.
With 168 patents issued last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison moved back into sixth place among 100 universities surveyed around the world last year, according to a news release from the school.
Critics of the bill object foremost to the Legislature’s incursion into such campus affairs as student discipline and speaker invitations and say it would stifle protest speech.
President Trump announced Tuesday that he will keep Francis S. Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health.
A popular UW-Madison outreach initiative will cut back programs that help disadvantaged students in the suburbs of Milwaukee and Madison prepare for college, while ramping up services for students within Wisconsin’s two largest cities, campus officials said Monday.
Scientists at UW-Madison have come forward with responses to the U.S.’s withdrawal.
NBC Nightly News takes a look at some of the best moments from this year’s commencement ceremonies across the country. UW-Madison is featured.
Jeremy Morris is a futuristic thinker. While some are heralding podcasts as a trendy new medium, Morris is worrying about what will become of them in the future when we may not use iPhones, iPods or MP3s. Morris, an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded PodcastRE, a project that aims to archive podcasts.
Assembly Republicans moved closer to creating tougher penalties for University of Wisconsin student protesters Tuesday, advancing a bill that would suspend or expel students who disrupt speakers.
Legislative critics say a controversial campus free speech bill advanced by an Assembly committee Tuesday intrudes on the University of Wisconsin System’s authority to run its campuses.
A Republican bill aimed to protect free speech by issuing penalties to students who disrupt speakers passed an Assembly committee on higher education Tuesday.
Assembly Republicans moved closer to creating tougher penalties for University of Wisconsin student protesters Tuesday, advancing a bill that would suspend or expel students who disrupt speakers.
