The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced a $99 million gift to UW-Madison to support faculty recruitment and retention, as well as to further opportunities for students during the current school year.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, commonly known as WARF, announced Thursday that its annual gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be $55.2 million for 2016-2017. Additional funding for research with partners, royalties and other grants brings the total investment to $99 million.
MADISON, Wis. — One woman told investigators that the college senior invited her this month to his apartment, where he raped her and choked her until her vision blurred.
An Edina High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison, student is charged with sexually assaulting five women in a criminal case that quickly expanded Thursday after a complaint was filed in one case last week.
A University of Wisconsin student has been charged with a string of sexual assaults involving four different women. Alec Cook, 20, has been the subject of reports from dozens of women, according to police, since the first woman raised the alarm bell.
Over 10,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been vaccinated at a special campus clinic over the past week against a type of meningococcal disease that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.
University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday that an astronaut who grew up in Milwaukee has been chosen as its December commencement speaker.
As the national news media descended Wednesday on the story of a now-suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting multiple fellow students, the young man’s attorneys issued a statement arguing that “the rapid-fire news cycle, combined with the viral nature of social media,” had resulted in a “modern-day character assassination.”
Thanks to a four-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the University of Wisconsin will increase the number of resident physicians in underserved rural areas in an effort to close the gap of health disparities.
As the state’s rural population ages, increasing its need for health care, Wisconsin is facing a shortage of physicians in rural areas that is projected to get much worse in coming decades.
To address it, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the state’s health systems are developing residency programs in rural areas — knowing that doctors are more likely to practice where they do their training.
A University of Wisconsin student was arrested this month on charges that he sexually assaulted a female student, prompting dozens of women to contact the police about encounters they said they had had with the man, according to the police and several news reports.
Some polls suggest that Hillary Clinton’s support among millennials may be surging, but there is a lot of anger and disappointment from that huge bloc of voters. In the latest installment of our “Red, White and You” series, NBC’s Ronan Farrow investigates whether efforts to court millennials’ votes will pay off.
Cobb, Wis. – Before Greg Gard knew he wanted to coach basketball, before he wore a badge and carried a gun, before he played baseball at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, before he showed hogs at the county fair, before he cleaned tractors and dried up motor oil, before he wiggled the television rabbit ears to catch Badgers games, he knew that he most wanted to be like someone else.
On Oct. 12, in Madison, Wis., a female student went to police and filed a complaint against a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook. She said she and Cook had originally contacted each other via Facebook and gotten together four or five times since then, always in public.
My grandmother, whom my family affectionately referred to as “Bay” because she was the youngest of her siblings, was one of the wisest people I’ve ever known—especially when you consider the fact that she only had an eighth-grade education. She would often tell me, “If you don’t stand for somethin’ you’ll fall for nothin’.”
For Keven Stonewall, being a teenager meant embarking on a scientific journey of questions and discoveries. It meant taking risks and not being afraid to stand out from his peers. And it meant working to find a cure for colon cancer at the tender age of 17.
After seven years of studying three-toed sloths, scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have made it official: the tree-dwelling animals are the slowest mammals on earth, metabolically speaking. “We expected them to have low metabolic rates, but we found them to have tremendously low energy needs,” says ecologist Jonathan Pauli.
As Shakespeare’s first folio of work from the year 1623 comes to Wisconsin, WPR talks with two celebrated interpreters of his work about what the plays of Shakespeare have meant to them in the course of their lives.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has long been considered to be among the nation’s top universities. But in recent years it has faced deep budget cuts from the state and a critical governor who led the effort to remove tenure rights from state statute. Only some of those provisions were subsequently placed in university regulations, and many faculty members believe the new system lacks sufficient rights for professors.
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.
