Student aid advocates didn’t find much to like in a House education appropriations bill released last week — lawmakers removed billions from the Pell Grant surplus while taking no significant steps to improve college access. But educators could at least find consolation in the fact that the committee didn’t follow through on the drastic cuts to many aid programs proposed in the White House budget in May.
What happens on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on a #UWSummer Day UW-Madison officials wanted to document it for everyone, so they deployed campus photographers, videographers and writers across campus Tuesday.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a big-idea powerhouse.
House Republicans issued a 2018 budget bill Tuesday afternoon that rejects several higher education cuts proposed by President Trump but upholds plans to pull billions of dollars in reserves out of the Pell Grant program for needy college students.
A controversial bill to ban University of Wisconsin resident doctors from learning how to perform abortions was debated at the Capitol Tuesday. It’s a measure opponents say would worsen the shortage of OB-GYNs in Wisconsin.
A bill that would block University of Wisconsin OB-GYN residents from learning to perform abortions got a public hearing Tuesday at the state Capitol, with abortion opponents and medical organizations lining up on opposite sides of the issue.
A Republican bill that would block UW-Madison faculty from training resident physicians in abortions would worsen a shortage of obstetrics/gynecological providers in the state, school officials say.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive a new, five-year round of funding for its energy research center that has produced 160 patents and spawned five start-up companies in its 10-year history.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican bill that would block University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty from training resident physicians in abortions would worsen a shortage of obstetrics/gynecological providers in the state, school officials say.
If you think scientists have it bad today, spare a thought for the early philosophers – some even got burnt for heresy. Philosopher Steven Nadler and graphic artist Ben Nadler talk us through their book, “Heretics!”
House Republicans issued a fiscal 2018 budget plan on Wednesday that rejects the Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate or sharply cut so-called indirect-cost payments to universities for medical research.
WASHINGTON — The letters have come in to her office by the hundreds, heartfelt missives from college students, mostly men, who had been accused of rape or sexual assault. Some had lost scholarships. Some had been expelled. A mother stumbled upon her son trying to take his own life, recalled Candice E. Jackson, the top civil rights official at the Department of Education.
The Department of Education will host a closed-door summit on sexual assault today, featuring giving sexual assault victims, due process advocates and campus leaders the chance to speak directly to Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research have taken the first step toward developing laboratory-made arteries that could eventually be used to help combat heart disease.
UW-Madison is one of the best colleges for the money, according to rankings released by Money Magazine.
In a step toward one of stem cell science’s chief goals, UW-Madison researchers have grown functional human artery cells that helped lab mice survive heart attacks.
A majority of Republicans and right-leaning independents think higher education has a negative effect on the country, according to a new study released by the Pew Research Center on Monday. The same study has found a consistent increase in distrust of colleges and universities since 2010, when negative perceptions among Republicans was measured at 32 percent. That number now stands at 58 percent.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday unanimously adopted a “guidepost” on free speech protections that does not impose the penalties some GOP lawmakers are demanding for students who disrupt controversial speakers.
John Behling, the new president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, said Friday that he wants institutions to recruit leaders from the private sector and otherwise “streamline” the process for hiring chancellors and other top administrators. In so doing, he might have shed light on why a state budget proposal includes language — opposed by faculty members — that would ban the regents from ever considering only academics as top administrators.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously approved a resolution at its meeting Friday affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The University of Wisconsin System regents plan to vote on a resolution affirming their commitment to free speech as legislators consider a bill that would punish UW students who disrupt campus speakers.
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.
