A University of Wisconsin-Madison swimmer with three school records under his belt last season will compete in the Rio Olympics. Matt Hutchins will swim the 400-meter freestyle and the 1500-meter freestyle.
Richard Keller tells students in his medical history and global health classes not to look for happy endings.
Students from high schools in rural Wisconsin are stepping into the shoes of UW Madison scientists for the week. They’re working hands-on with projects related to research projects that are currently going on at the university.
Public service researchers at UW-Madison will vie for $1.5 million from the foundation of former U.S. senator and UW-Madison graduate Herb Kohl.
Dr. Richie Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been meditating for more than 40 years, but it was the Dalai Lama himself who convinced him to dedicate his life to researching the effects of meditation on the brain.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation needs to explain to the public that it is not the patent troll it was made out to be in news reports about a whopping award in a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple last year, said WARF’s new managing director Erik Iverson.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will be providing about $5 million for 14 research and infrastructure projects at UW-Madison, the university announced on Tuesday.
While I suspect we will never fully take for granted the miracle of organ transplants, the life-saving operation is certainly viewed today as commonplace and increasingly successful.
François Ortalo-Magné, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, will end his tenure at UW-Madison in the summer of 2017 to assume his new role as dean of the London Business School.
W-Madison gaming pioneers Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire are headed to University of California-Irvine’s Informatics Department.
London Business School has appointed François Ortalo-Magné as its dean. He joins from Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, where he has been at the helm since 2011.
Madison — Dare Ogunbowale has been forced to modify his plan for life after the University of Wisconsin, a plan that was built meticulously over the course of several years.
A UW-Madison astrophysicist has been named winner of a prestigious award for her research in astrophysical plasma.
Iverson outlines vision as WARF hits ’inflection point’7/21/2016 Erik Iverson says he’s taking over the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation as the 91-year-old organization is hitting a major “inflection point.”
UW-Madison’s medical school became a victim of its own popularity this year, officials say.
UW-Madison is collecting donations for the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe after flooding in northern Wisconsin last week hit the band’s reservation particularly hard.
The University of Wisconsin’s Hancock Agricultural Research Station is celebrating 100 years of research, vegetables, farmer partnerships, education and innovation.
Serious about competition as a young boy in 1988, David O’Connor allowed himself a sly smile of contentment as his parents snapped a Polaroid portrait of the sixth-grader posing with his medals. Taking second-place in the individual competition, O’Connor helped his team from James W. Riley Elementary School in Arlington Heights win the “Future Problem Solving Bowl” state championship. His team advanced to the international competition, where they worked on a birth-defect problem, but didn’t win.
MADISON, Wis. — Of the hundreds of monkeys in the University of Wisconsin’s primate center, a few — including rhesus macaque 827577 — are now famous, at least among scientists tracking the Zika virus.
For budding scientists, the University of Wisconsin-Madison annual summer science camp is one of the best places to be on a sunny summer day – even though school is officially out.
UW-Madison added another high ranking to its dossier, and it wasn’t for an athletic achievement.
UW-Madison has maintained its standing among the world’s best universities, according to a Saudi Arabian firm that started ranking universities in 2012.
The Zika Virus has been a major concern among public health officials and world leaders in recent months, especially now that the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil are just a few short weeks away.
Interviewed: Lucas Graves, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison and author of the forthcoming book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism. He argues that Trump is actually pushing journalism into a new era, emboldening newsrooms to be more aggressive in calling him out. Below is our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity.
University of Wisconsin-Madison retained its No. 25 ranking in the world in the latest Center for World University Rankings.
A group from UW-Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication is in Ashland County working on a month long outreach program. They weren’t expecting their travels to take such a dramatic turn.
In response to last week’s series of fatal shootings, a department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison looked to give students and faculty space Monday to discuss the incidents.
UW-Madison’s Multicultural Student Center separated attendees by race to discuss a violent week of news that stirred debates about racism and law enforcement, prompting criticism from conservative news outlets that the arrangement amounted to segregation.
“How do we find a good career path for everyone and how do we attract more people into those high demand areas?” says Governor Scott Walker, after he spoke with local business leaders, Monday, at the Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Altoona.
UW-Madison has chosen the assistant director of an on-campus education research group to lead its office of community relations, the university announced Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education has merged WISCAPE, a think tank on post-secondary education policy, into its Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, officials announced Thursday.
Many of the tips UW-Madison officials give students to stay safe while they’re studying abroad probably sound familiar.
UWPD Chief Sue Riseling interviews with Neil Heinen looking back on 25 years in policing.
In Dane County, several initiatives and programs are underway that attempt to blunt the impact of generations of poverty on children and their parents.
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes, she’ll pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
Gov. Scott Walker said he’ll look at whether the University of Wisconsin System needs more money to make major repairs on buildings at various campuses.
Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of a U.S. college student whose body was found in Rome’s Tiber river this week, as police tried to establish if the teenager was murdered less than 24 hours after arriving in Italy for summer classes.
Rome police detained a homeless man on suspicion he pushed a 19-year-old American student into the Tiber River after a fight, as details emerged about Beau Solomon’s final hours in the thick of Rome’s summertime nightlife.
Italian police say they have arrested a homeless man in the death of UW-Madison student Beau Solomon, whose body was found Monday in Rome’s Tiber River.
ROME — A homeless man was detained on Tuesday in connection with the death of a 19-year-old student from Wisconsin who disappeared just hours after he landed in Rome, the Italian authorities said.
A homeless man was charged with murder Tuesday in connection with the death of U.S. college student Beau Solomon, who vanished just hours after arriving in the Italian capital last week.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez first crossed paths with Kevin Plank back in the late 1990s, just a few years after the latter had founded Under Armour.
A bacteria found in butterflies and bees can help prevent the spread of Zika virus, suggesting that mosquitoes could be infected with the bacteria and released into the wild to control Zika outbreaks, UW-Madison researchers said Friday.
UW Health and UnityPoint Health said Thursday that they had agreed to explore combining their operations in Madison.
New experiments have shown that one infection with Zika virus can provide immunity against subsequent exposure to the virus, a piece of good news published Tuesday as officials continue to wrestle with the mosquito-borne threat.
What universities produce the captains of industry and finance in America? Harvard is a given, but what about the University of Wisconsin?
The Zika Virus has been a major concern among public health officials and world leaders in recent months, especially now that the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil are just a few short weeks away.
New research on monkeys found some good news that could have implications for humans: One infection with the Zika virus protects against future infections.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that a single exposure to the Zika virus protected monkeys against a second bout of the infection. That natural immunity may help in work to develop a vaccine.
Monkeys infected with Zika virus are protected from future infection, and pregnancy dramatically prolongs infection in monkeys, findings that could help in fighting the virus in people, UW-Madison researchers said Tuesday.
Despite an increase in jobs, there was no reduction in poverty in Wisconsin between 2013 and 2014 under a broad measure developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison will not have to change its affirmative action policies after the Supreme Court last week rejected a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, officials said.
The cost in salary and research funding increases this year to keep University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty is nearing $16 million, says provost Sarah Mangelsdorf.
UW-Madison will not have to change its affirmative action policies after the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, officials said.
A UW-Madison virologist whose controversial work has sought to create more effective flu vaccines will receive a prestigious award from Japan’s scientific academy, officials announced Wednesday.
The nation’s colleges and universities have been on pins and needles waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether race can be a factor in their admissions policies.
Matthew Desmond had little to distinguish himself from other applicants when applying to Ph.D. programs in sociology. As he remembers it, only one acceptance letter arrived at his door — from UW-Madison.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions. Some parts of the decision in the case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, related to features unique to that university.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling announced her retirement Wednesday.
After 25 years of service to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW police Chief Sue Riseling will retire in August, the university said Wednesday.
