Data collected from sensors on a buoy in Lake Mendota map the ebb and flow of the algal blooms that each year turn the lake green with phytoplankton. A look at the patterns created over time shows a confluence of interconnected cycles driven by season, temperature, sunrise and sunset.
Cultural competency training could be in store for 1,000 new students at UW- Madison.
Laurent Heller was announced as UW-Madison’s vice chancellor for finance and administration Tuesday, according to a campus press release.
The head of financial planning and analysis at the University of California-Berkeley has been named the vice chancellor for finance and administration at UW-Madison.
Open Government 101 is now in session. UW System officials — including the Board of Regents — please be seated.
Madison police are recommending a criminal charge against an unidentified person who allegedly set up a fake Twitter account to defame a woman who was romantically involved with former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan.
Nearly 120 youth gathered at the recent University of Wisconsin-Madison for Badger Dairy Camp. This year’s camp attendance was an almost 30 percent increase from previous years, which usually totaled 85 to 95 youth.
About 13,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students took summer classes last year, and out of all those students, only 12 got scholarship money from the university to help cover their summer tuition. But those numbers are now changing.
The University of Wisconsin System will increase student fees and continue tapping controversial reserve funds under a $6.2 billion operating budget that UW’s governing Board of Regents approved Thursday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a $6.2 billion operating budget that hikes student services and housing fees without debate and only a smattering of questions Thursday, thanks to a series of private briefings.
In an effort to address racially charged incidents at UW-Madison that officials say may be driven by ignorance rather than malice, the university will require about 1,000 new students to receive cultural competency training this fall, and plans to make the training mandatory for all incoming students by next year.
Stories of social injustice filled student newspapers’ pages throughout the previous academic term. Incoming students will not only be made aware of these issues, but they will also be provided with tools to discuss them and similar topics in order to diminish occurrences of discrimination. The university will attempt to instill a sense of acceptance in new students before they even step on campus.
The remnants of this town, nestled along a shallow bend in the Crawfish River, have generated many other fantastic myths over time — myths that researchers like University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor Sissel Schroeder work to dispel.
The annual budget University of Wisconsin System officials withheld from the public this week on grounds it wasn’t completed had actually been finished and sent to members of the System’s governing board several days earlier.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System students will spend more on fees, housing and food this fall under a new annual budget that regents approved Thursday as they grapple with ways to raise money in the face of a tuition freeze and deep state cutbacks.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents have unanimously approved a 2016-17 totaling $6.2 billion.
The University of Wisconsin System regents have approved a new budget that raises students’ fees and charges them more for housing and food.
UW-Madison has been in the forefront of distance education, offering the world’s first correspondence course in 1891, and the leadership by the state’s flagship university continues to this day, with a three-day conference in August.
Lynx Biosciences, a business aiming to refine treatment decisions for multiple myeloma, took the life science prize at the Governor’s Business Plan Contest during the 14th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Madison.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is asking the Board of Regents to approve a $19,152,300 increase to the Wisconsin Grant-UW program over the next two years.
At a time when UW-Madison continues to face deep state cuts and legislative attacks on its mission and integrity, a group of prominent alumni, donors and supporters has formed a new, independent advocacy organization that will lobby state government on behalf of the internationally renowned research institution–and fund candidates for office.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are looking to give students an additional $12.7 million in financial aid over the next biennium.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross this week will urge the Board of Regents to seek a 33% biennial boost in need-based financial aid from the state to help resident students better afford to attend a public university in Wisconsin.
If you’re not familiar with Gwen Jorgensen, you will be soon. The two-time reigning ITU World Triathlon Champion, Jorgensen promises to become a household name during this summer’s Olympics, where she will be the heavy favorite to bring home the gold in Rio.
Gov. Walker’s claim is judged “half true.”
After hinting this week that the state’s public higher education systems could see more support in the next budget, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he’s considering tying any funding increases to performance.
Wisconsin’s public colleges and universities could see their funding increase in the next state budget based on how they do in certain performance measures, Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday.
Gov. Scott Walker hinted Wednesday that additional support may be heading to Wisconsin’s public higher education providers.
Politicians come and go. UW-Madison is here to stay — and so are the vast majority of its professors. That’s reassuring.
Gov. Scott Walker says a court order that directed his office to release records on proposed changes to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement has clarified what his administration must share with the public.
Since the announcement of the University of Wisconsin-Extension reorganization in February, counties across the state have begun to indicate they do not support the proposed changes in theory or monetarily.
Gov. Scott Walker has released 82 pages of records he wanted to keep secret after a judge ordered them to be made public.
Records released Friday by Gov. Scott Walker’s office in response to a judge’s order make clear he sought controversial changes in 2015 to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, known as the Wisconsin Idea.
On orders from a judge, Gov. Scott Walker on Friday released emails showing he wanted to simplify guiding principles for state universities last year as part of a sweeping higher education proposal that would have dropped the long-standing Wisconsin Idea from their mission statement.
Despite the budget cuts, weakened tenure protections and the general acrimony between state lawmakers and University of Wisconsin System staff, a UW-Madison professor is making the case for why faculty should stay at the school.
Amid budget cuts, weakened tenure protections, and a chilly atmosphere between UW faculty and staff and Governor Walker, some of the UW System’s faculty have been looking for jobs elsewhere or receiving offers from other universities. We hear from a professor and department chair who makes the case for staying at the UW.
Governor Scott Walker has released dozens of documents that detail staff discussions about changes to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, just hours after a judge ordered them to be made public.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will likely be the last campus this spring to hold a vote of no-confidence in the Board of Regents and UW System President Ray Cross.
Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still explains how budget cuts will continue to affect the University of Wisconsin System’s ability to contribute to economic growth in Wisconsin. Still says a bipartisan effort is necessary in order for both the state economy and UW System to thrive.
Amid budget cuts, weakened tenure protections, and a chilly atmosphere between UW faculty and staff and Governor Walker, some of the UW System’s faculty have been looking for jobs elsewhere or receiving offers from other universities. We hear from a professor and department chair who makes the case for staying at the UW.
Column by Gov. Walker: As the parent of a junior at UW-Madison, I want my son to have a great education for a reasonable price. As governor, I want that for every college student in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty by a split vote this week passed a resolution that included language of no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Close to 70 percent of UW-Eau Claire faculty, or 227 staff members, voted in favor of a resolution saying they have no confidence in UW-System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents.
Twenty years after UW-Madison scientist Jamie Thomson began work to isolate human embryonic stems, research has advanced so far that the field is now poised to boom and create Wisconsin companies that could rival Epic, the Verona-based electronic healthcare records company with more than 9,000 employees.
Twenty years after UW-Madison scientist Jamie Thomson began work to isolate human embryonic stems, research has advanced so far that the field is now poised to boom and create Wisconsin companies that could rival Epic, the Verona-based electronic healthcare records company with more than 9,000 employees.That was the optimistic forecast by three panelists who spoke Tuesday at a Wisconsin Innovation Network luncheon in Madison.
A powerful and inexpensive technique for rewriting snippets of DNA — known as CRISPR-Cas9 — has two research institutions locked in a bitter patent battle. On one side is UC Berkeley, where faculty first reported using the gene-editing technology in 2012, on the other, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where faculty won a special expedited patent for the technique in 2014.
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard has reeled in a key recruit for the 2016-’17 season.
Two UW-Madison students have created a new fitness tracker that’s quickly being adopted by local football coaches.
Votes of no confidence by faculty at several University of Wisconsin campuses were “a big mistake,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said earlier this month.
The development by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka follows research he did last year suggesting another way to improve flu shots: manufacturing them with dog or monkey cells instead of the current, lengthy process using chicken eggs.
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Department of Natural Resources researchers hope to place as many as 6,000 motion-activated trail cameras across the state. Photos will be uploaded to a crowd-sourcing website; viewers will be asked to view them and try to identify the animals in them. The project, dubbed Snapshot Wisconsin, should provide the best idea yet of the size of animal populations and their movements, said Phil Townsend, a UW-Madison forestry professor and one of the project leaders.
Democrats have spent recent weeks drawing attention to budget cuts that have led to reduced services and layoffs on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
Members of a fraternity that was suspended at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week for race discrimination told a campus investigator that they did not use the word “nigga” in a derogatory way, but as slang or a term of endearment, according to records released by campus officials.
Political storm clouds are forming over how much state aid the UW System will get in the next two-year budget. And, if Republicans keep control of the Legislature in November elections, those clouds could easily turn into a red-flag storm warning.
More than 100 proposals for how to improve campus climate poured in from students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after Chancellor Rebecca Blank called for an all-hands-on-deck approach this spring to curb hate and bias incidents.
Offering mandatory courses in cultural studies, improving campus housing security and formally addressing the larger community about bias incidents are a few of the ideas put forth for improving the climate on the UW-Madison campus, according to proposals released Thursday by university officials.
Department of Health Services officials announced Wednesday a Wisconsin resident has a confirmed case of Zika virus infection. DHS has been working on this issue with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local health departments, health care professionals, the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Entomology Department, according to the release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison has suspended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity through Nov. 1 after an investigation found chapter members repeatedly used racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs, and then ostracized a black member who told them to stop, according to documents released by the university.
The adversarial relationship between the University of Wisconsin and Gov. Scott Walker is perilous, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Tuesday.
Health officials are collaborating with the a state university after learning that a Wisconsin woman contracted the Zika virus.
