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.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling — the first woman and youngest person to lead a Big Ten university police force — will retire Aug. 7 after 25 years at the campus.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling will retire in August after being on the force for 25 years. Riseling plans to continue working, however, as head of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student living in university housing said she was caught off guard when contractors began removing asbestos from the property.
Public health officials ordered UW-Madison to address chipping and peeling lead paint at an on-campus apartment complex this spring after they discovered a child living in one of the buildings had suffered lead poisoning.
Ohio State University has hired its medical school dean from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after a two-year search.
University of Wisconsin officials presented the final draft of the 2015 UW Campus Master Plan, which aims to reduce UW’s environmental impact, at a public meeting Friday.
They are some of the most architecturally infamous buildings on the UW-Madison campus.
With strong business and engineering programs, as well as a reputation as one of the top state flagship universities in the country, it’s little surprise UW is one of three public colleges to break into this top 10 list.
State budget crunches and political turmoil have set off rumblings about a mass faculty exodus from public colleges in some states. High-profile defections stoke the rumors. But have professors really fled in droves?
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.
