Two research teams — one with a potential vaccine for the Zika virus and the other with a new way of monitoring sedated patients — have won $10,000 each in an innovation competition organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
MADISON, Wis. — David Gilreath never planned on becoming a Wisconsin Badger. Instead, he arrived for a visit intent on reaffirming his commitment to Minnesota. The wide receiver prospect attended high school 12 miles from the Metrodome and hadn’t experienced a college game anywhere else.
The Wisconsin Energy Institute is buzzing with about 400 scientists, graduate students and staff.
Imagine seeing yourself on a billboard showcasing your achievements for a day. One local individual doesn’t have to dream up this scenario – she was featured on a billboard during the whole month of September.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is right: It’s time to reinvest in Wisconsin’s universities after a $250 million cut in the last state budget.
UW-Eau Claire leaders boasted about the university, the city and the university’s graduates Thursday as part of a discussion before the UW System Board of Regents.
University of Wisconsin System regents are poised to vote on a plan to raise in-state undergraduate tuition for the 2018-19 school year if Republicans lift their tuition freeze.
A new UW System Business Council is one of the outcomes from a Board of Regents meeting in Eau Claire.
MADISON, Wis. — Zigzagging through campus on the 15-minute walk to his 8 a.m. class in Nancy Nicholas Hall, a black backpack slung over one shoulder and sporting a red University of Wisconsin warm-up jacket, Tony Granato looks like an average college student.
A 48-year-old Milwaukee man exonerated by DNA evidence in a sexual assault case was released from prison on Wednesday after serving 24 years for a crime he did not commit.
A Milwaukee man is getting a new start to his life after spending 24 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
Andrew Strother is a poster boy for the great outdoors. An image of the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison junior is featured, larger than life, on a billboard facing northbound Interstate 94 traffic just north of the Highway E overpass, where he is shown tying a fishing lure to his line on the shores of a Kenosha County lake.
Wisconsin ranks second to last nationally in funding for higher education, according to one metric published by online news provider “Inside Higher Ed.”
After three years of an in-state tuition freeze, University of Wisconsin System officials are considering lifting the cap after the 2017-18 academic school year.
– University of Wisconsin System regents are set to consider a resolution this week calling for raising in-state tuition after next year.
A new report shows the University of Wisconsin System’s balances have shrunk.
La Crosse attorney and community leader Brent Smith is the local face of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In-state students at University of Wisconsin System institutions would see no tuition increase next year and a small increase tied to the cost of living for the 2018-19 school year under a proposal UW officials released this week.
The number of out-of-state and international students in UW-Madison’s freshman class did not skyrocket in the first year after the university lifted its cap on the percentage of new students who can come from outside Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Thongchai Winichakul just turned 59 this past Saturday, but the bloodiest moment of his life took place when he was a student 40 years ago. Now a successful scholar, the black hole remains even though he maintains that he has “dealt with that historical trauma” through a mechanism of rationale — and never vengefulness.
UW System students will have the chance to attend one of the world’s most innovative campuses, as the system ranked 13th in Reuters’ 2016 list of top 100 innovative universities.
Growing up in Appleton, Stephanie Harvey listened to her father. He told her that getting an education tells your employer you know how to learn. (Project 72 coverage.)
Rescue Divas has been selected to represent Ashland County as part of a new ad campaign launched by UW-Madison known as Project 72 with the slogan, “Boundless Together.”
Seven and a half hours of boredom, plus 30 minutes of terror. That’s how Dr. Michael Spierer, a Madison-based psychologist, describes the typical police officer’s shift. Eight hours of paperwork and petty crime, with the knowledge that a high-pressure and dangerous turn of events may be just around the corner. Chronic stress is inherent to the job, he says.
In the fast-changing world of science and technology, if you’re not innovating, you’re falling behind. UW System is No. 13.
UW-Madison officials are backing away from a plan to open an Amazon package pickup location in the Red Gym, saying Wednesday that they will find another place on campus to house the online retailer after facing criticism from students and others.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin has endured budget cuts for 10 of the past 12 years, and those cuts have taken their toll, says Rebecca M. Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which ranks 15th among public universities. The liberal-arts program in particular has endured faculty losses, and the school has been unable to invest in high-demand programs like computer science, engineering and nursing, she says. (Subscription required.)
An overflow crowd of more than 350 people turned out to watch the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the Marquee Theater in Union South Tuesday night and then listened to an analysis of the debate by some of the top political experts on the UW campus.
The College of Engineering is now home to a machine that could represent the future of advanced manufacturing.
Out-of-state students and those in UW-Madison’s professional schools could soon see another round of tuition increases after Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Monday she plans to ask the university’s governing board in the coming months to raise prices for those students.
Preliminary figures suggest the University of Wisconsin System could lose about 5,000 students this school year.
Preliminary fall enrollments are in for University of Wisconsin campuses and while many held steady or saw slight gains, the two-year colleges collectively took a 22.3% hit, UW-Stevens Point fell 6.8% and UW-Milwaukee lost 4.7%, compared with final enrollment numbers from last fall.
Cris Custer is a proud University of Wisconsin graduate, but also a dedicated nurse practitioner at Mile Bluff Clinic.
Winner: Anne Basting, 51, a professor of theater at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, recalled that when she wanted to write her doctoral dissertation about the social performance of aging, her advisers tried to talk her out of it. (Basting is a 1990 graduate of UW-Madison.)
The Middleton City Council on Tuesday approved a plan for a $9 million UW Pharmacy Enterprise Building on Deming Way.
Column by Jack Williams, a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: In the wake of a $250 million state budget cut and weakened protections for intellectual freedom, I’ve thought carefully about my family, my career, the University of Wisconsin, and whether I still felt a calling to serve Wisconsin and The Wisconsin Idea. It hasn’t been easy. It’s difficult to express my pride in being a part of the University of Wisconsin.
Carol May is being recognized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her contributions to health care in Sauk County. The recognition is part of the university’s new ad campaign intended to celebrate the work of Badger alumni across the state.
For more than 130 years, men and woman have been attending University of Wisconsin-Madison to take the Short Course at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. A series of lectures and hands-on classes, the Short Course is a 15-week program that gives young farmers an opportunity to further their careers and learn some of the essentials of agriculture from some of the top instructors in the country.
UW-Madison eliminated 420 positions and laid off 50 employees over the past year as it managed its share of a $250 million reduction in state higher education funding, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty, lawmakers and employees Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked 14th among all universities in the world in a count of how many venture capital-backed entrepreneurs it has spawned, according to a report by Pitchbook Data, a Seattle-based deal tracker.
A shortage of rural doctors that can practice obstetrics is causing UW Madison to change its program. No more doctors in training will be learning in smaller towns.
Fact-checking has flourished since 2007, when new projects like the Tampa Bay Times’ PolitiFact launched to fact-check American politics. In the years since, more news organizations have put attention and resources toward fact-checking, so that it’s now an established part of political campaign coverage.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is reporting a 10% increase in enrollment and $4 million boost in new revenue for its recently completed summer term, and it is planning to continue ramping up the number of courses next summer to help students stay on track for graduation and bring in more money for the university.
UW-Madison is ranked 10th out of all public colleges in the United States in the newest ranking released Monday by U.S. News and World Report.
Summer school enrollment at UW-Madison rose 10 percent this year, led by a 40 percent increase in enrollment in online courses, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Tuesday.
Summer school, the bane of high school kids everywhere, is one hot ticket at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison formally congratulated Chris Nguyen, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major, Monday morning at Engineering Hall for winning the grand prize in General Electric’s “Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition” competition.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked 10th among public institutions in U.S. News & World Report’s latest college rankings, according to a release from the university.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials hope providing workshop training for incoming students will help to improve racial climate on campus.
UW-Madison has been ranked 10th among public colleges by U.S. News and World Report, which released its latest rankings for 2017 Best Colleges.
With the rollout of UW-Madison’s new cultural competency program, Our Wisconsin, and other inclusion initiatives developing throughout the UW System, some state Republicans are lamenting the overemphasis of political correctness.
The University of Wisconsin has made the national Top Ten among public universities. That’s according to the annual rankings from US News and World Report released Tuesday.
A number of Wisconsin universities scored top 10 spots in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of top colleges released Tuesday.
Students would probably offer a multitude of answers if asked to name the best college in America. But U.S. News & World Report has delivered the same verdict for a string of Septembers. Princeton, the magazine just declared, is the top national university for the sixth straight year, Williams College the top liberal arts college for the 14th consecutive year, and the University of California at Berkeley the top public university for the 19th year in a row.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called her job a “blessing and a curse” while speaking to a packed theater on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus Thursday.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a crowd Thursday that the nation should do more to make sure people have adequate legal representation.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court has been both a blessing and a curse and reaching decisions is harder than she ever expected, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday during a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is launching a rural residency program in its Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The goal is to give new physicians a glimpse into what it’s like to provide care for women in rural Wisconsin and to address a shortage of OB-GYNs in rural areas.
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made the nation’s highest court seem much more human during her remarks Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fact-checking may have gone mainstream in recent years, but it’s still controversial. That’s according to Lucas Graves, a professor and former magazine journalist who wrote the newly released “Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism.”
