The University of Wisconsin-Madison last semester doled out $726,436 in raises and $8 million in research support to retain 40 faculty members who brought outside job offers to the central administration, according to information obtained by the Journal Sentinel through an open records request.
Gard was named the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Monday evening, the school announced in a news release. The announcement came after the UW Board of Regents Executive Committee met at 5 p.m. and approved a five-year contract for Gard.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last semester doled out $726,436 in raises and $8 million in research support to retain 40 faculty members who brought outside job offers to the central administration, according to information obtained by the Journal Sentinel through an open records request.
The UW Board of Regents approved a new head coaching contract on Monday and Greg Gard was named the 16th head men’s basketball coach in the school’s history.
Retired University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan was cleared of allegations that he misused university resources, according to a statement from Chancellor Becky Blank Saturday.
UW-Madison investigated allegations last year that then-men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan misused university resources while having an affair with a woman, later clearing him of any wrongdoing, university officials said Saturday.
University of Wisconsin officials released a statement Saturday saying that former men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan did not misuse university funds during the course of an extramarital affair while he was coach. The statement also said UW did not force Ryan to resign over the affair.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan did not use any of the school’s money to fund an extramarital affair, a university investigation found.
University of Wisconsin officials, dazzled by the remarkable turnaround engineered by interim head coach Greg Gard and his staff, are preparing to offer Gard a long-term contract to oversee the men’s basketball program. Two sources close to the program agreed UW officials have been blown away by the work of Gard, who has compiled a record of 12-5 in the Big Ten and 13-5 overall since taking over in the wake of Bo Ryan’s retirement on Dec. 15.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse could be cutting up to 10 teaching positions before the fall. University officials will decide which positions to eliminate in the next month. UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said this is the first time the university will be eliminating teaching positions since last summer’s state budget cuts.
Next fall’s class of high school seniors will have a new way to apply to UW-Madison, now that the campus has joined more than 600 other colleges and universities on the nationwide Common Application. Students will still be able to apply to UW-Madison through the University of Wisconsin System’s application process, as they have in years past, said Steve Hahn, vice provost for the Division of Enrollment Management.
Raymond W. Cross has faced some serious tests in his two years as president of the University of Wisconsin system. Last year he had to defend his system against a proposed budget cut of $300 million. More recently he has dealt with faculty unrest as the system has struggled to come up with new tenure policies to replace faculty job protections that were stripped from state law.
An analysis of Census data by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Laboratory showed some troubling trends on poverty in the state.
Noted: Piefer was in the UW-Madison’s nuclear engineering Ph.D program, and after getting his degree, he developed the technology, he said, and forged a partnership with the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research on the UW campus.
The ways the health care market would be affected if the state were to switch to self-insurance for its workers was a topic in focus at a University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty forum Tuesday.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will visit Madison next month for a panel event on global-well being.
The event, titled “The World We Make,” is hosted by the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will take place on Wednesday, March 9th, at 1:30 p.m. in the Capitol Theater at the Overture Center for the Arts.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is raising the minimum wage for student employees and the pay rate for graduate assistants.
The school said in a news release Tuesday that the student hourly minimum wage is set to go up from $7.25 to $9 on Sept. 1. Graduate assistants will get a 2 percent pay increase July 1.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is raising the minimum wage for student employees and the pay rate for graduate assistants.
Some of the UW-Madison students who serve food in dining halls, staff the desks at campus libraries, work in research labs or lead class discussion sections will soon see bigger paychecks, campus officials announced Tuesday. Starting next fall, the minimum wage for student employees will increase from $7.25 to $9 per hour, the university said, while graduate assistants, whose work includes teaching and research, will see a 2 percent pay raise starting in July.
Researchers in the United States who have infected monkeys with Zika virus made their first data public last week. But instead of publishing them in a journal, they have released them online for anyone to view — and are updating their results day by day. The team is posting raw data on the amount of virus detected in the blood, saliva and urine of three Indian rhesus macaques, which they injected with Zika on 15 February. “This is the first time that our group has made data available in real time,” says David O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a leader of the project, whose scientists have dubbed themselves ZEST (the Zika experimental-science team). He hopes that releasing the data will help to speed up research into the nature of the virus that has spread across the Americas.
The selling of sociology’s next great hope began with a long talk between a literary agent and her potential client. Jill Kneerim was a veteran dealmaker known for helping Boston-area academics publish trade books. She’d done it for Stephen Greenblatt, shepherding the Harvard Shakespearean’s Will in the World (W.W. Norton) onto the bestseller list. She’d done it for Caroline Elkins, also of Harvard, whose history of colonialism in Kenya, Imperial Reckoning (Henry Holt and Company), won the Pulitzer Prize. Now here was Matthew Desmond, an urban ethnographer eager to fight poverty. Another Cambridge star paying a visit to her office near Boston’s North Station.
After an anti-abortion organization released videos portraying Planned Parenthood as callously haggling the price of aborted fetuses, legislators have attempted to restrict research using such material, while scientists have found their work limited and riskier. Interviews with Anita Bhattacharyya, Gail Robertson and Alta Charo.
An ambitious project to map the human brain by the National Institutes of Health has funded a four-year, $5 million statewide study to image the brains of people with epilepsy. Researchers at UW-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin have joined the NIH Human Connectome Project, a national library of medical imaging data being used to create maps of human brain connectivity.
UW’s Office of Academic Planning and Institutional Research each semester compiles a list of the 100 courses with the highest enrollment. The writer uses figures for the fall 2005 and fall 2015 semesters and the 54 courses that were ranked in both.
The No. 2 Badgers defeated Minnesota State-Mankato 8-1 to clinch the program’s fifth Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season title, their first since 2011-12, in front of 2,273 at LaBahn Arena.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team crushed Minnesota State, 8-1, at the LaBahn Arena in Madison to win its fifth regular-season WCHA title.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department expects to lose $3 million from the absence of a seventh home game during the Badgers’ upcoming 2016 football season and likely won’t receive a previously expected $1.5 million in state funds to assist with a new roof for the Kohl Center.
Like other colleges and universities across the country, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is attempting to prevent sexual assaults by stepping up educational programs and awareness campaigns.
UW-Madison has one of the world’s largest and oldest collections of fungus, but it wasn’t until a week ago that fungi collected by one of America’s most famous scientists was accidentally rediscovered in decades-old cabinets on campus. George Washington Carver, an African-American scientist and educator best known for his research on peanuts, also studied and collected microfungi, a type of fungus that does not form a mushroom.
A scientific breakthrough had the whole physics community on the edge of their seats Thursday morning, when National Science Foundation announced the observation of gravitational waves caused by a merger between two black holes. Interviewed: Sebastian Heinz and Peter Timbie
As the Zika virus continues to make headlines around the world, researchers here in Madison are working hard to find answers to questions surrounding the outbreak. Next Monday they are hoping to start their research on the virus’ effects.
“I’m excited about this in the same way a meteorologist would be excited about a hurricane,” said David O’Connor. He’s one of the professors heading the Zika virus study at UW, and there are many reasons why he is passionate about this study.
University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Extension — the division that provides practical programming to farmers, families and youth in rural and urban areas across the state — estimates it will need to cut 80 positions to cover an annual $3.6 million cut in state funding.
Researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory–or, LIGO–announced today that it has the first official detection of gravitational waves. This discovery helps solidify Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Interviewed: Sebastian Heinz, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison researchers plan next week to start monkey studies of Zika virus, which has caused an outbreak apparently linked to birth defects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
When folklorist Jim Leary was growing up in Rice Lake, Wis., in the 1950s and ’60s, old-time ethnic music was everywhere. You could dial up the local radio station, WJMC, and hear live broadcasts of Scandinavian music by the Eric Berg Band. The nearby ski lodge was a venue for Slovenian accordion music. Polka star Whoopee John was a frequent visitor from his home base a few hours away in New Ulm, Minn.
University Health Services announced Tuesday it is seeking funding for initiatives focused on gender-based violence prevention within Greek life and the campus community as whole.
Sarah Van Orman, UHS executive director, unveiled plans at a press conference to address 12 issues a UW task force identified to curb sexual assaults. Using new and existing programs, UHS aims to improve prevention strategies, increase bystander intervention and change the culture around gender-based violence, she said.
The new efforts UHS suggested would be implemented in the fall and cost University of Wisconsin $400,000, Van Orman said. UHS requested a $45 increase to student segregated fees Monday.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is the recipient of the nation’s first endowed chair focused on plant breeding for organic crops, representatives of Organic Valley and Clif Bar & Company said today at a ceremony at the State Capitol. The endowment will be funded in perpetuity with a $1 million gift from the companies and matched by a $1 million gift from UW graduates John and Tashia Morgridge.
In the wake of the AAU Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey that revealed one in four undergraduate females were sexually assaulted, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have developed a plan to address the issue. UW-Madison was one of 27 campuses that participated in the survey.
Shaun Marcott, an assistant professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a co-author of a new article in Nature Climate Change that tracks the grim long-term effects of climate change on sea level, UW-Madison News reports.
UW-Madison University Health Services will spend an extra $400,000 next academic year for additional staffing and new or expanded programs aimed at reducing student-reported rates of campus sexual violence.
A UW-Madison alumnus and current board member of the UW Foundation has been selected to serve as interim vice chancellor for finance and administration. Michael Lehman, a 1974 graduate of the School of Business, will start work on March 7, the university said on Tuesday.
Fresh produce isn’t usually on the menu for astronauts in space, but some University of Wisconsin-Madison botanists are working with NASA to get astronauts gardening.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison released a plan for addressing sexual violence Tuesday, a document that comes in the wake of a 2015 survey that found high rates of sexual assault at the school.
UW-Madison’s Jorge Osorio, Matthew Aliota and Jonathon Patz speak about the spread of Zika virus, funding issues in infectious disease research, the interdisciplinary nature of the work, and the role of climate and climate change in the global spread of the virus.
The outcome of a highly charged debate over changes in faculty tenure protections within the University of Wisconsin System is a matter of opinion.
Campus officials would have greater authority to fire professors under new tenure policies approved Friday by a committee of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
A controversial set of policies governing tenure at University of Wisconsin System schools that critics say threaten academic freedom were endorsed without debate Friday by a Board of Regents committee.
UW-Madison is digging into its pocketbook to keep other schools from stealing away faculty members.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the UW system Board of Regents the university has spent almost $8 million in the past six months to fight off outside offers.
She said 85 percent of faculty members who received offers have been retained.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison spent $8 million the last six months of 2015 fending off attempts to raid some of its most productive and accomplished faculty after international attention over state budget cuts and possible changes to tenure protections created faculty unrest.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank said she spent $8 million in six months protecting top faculty from poaching by other universities.
UW-Madison has spent at least $8 million since last summer to retain top professors after state legislators cut higher education funding and changed faculty tenure policies, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Thursday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials announced that former Badger and current Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson will be the 2016 spring commencement speaker. The announcement was made in a YouTube video that was posted Monday.
The University of Wisconsin says Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson will return to Madison this spring to give the school’s commencement address.
Former University of Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson will return to Camp Randall Stadium this spring to deliver the commencement address to UW-Madison’s class of 2016.The university announced Wilson will address the graduates at the May 14 ceremony in a video posted online Wednesday afternoon.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor John Hawks is part of a team that made one of the greatest fossil discoveries of the past half century.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin says Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson will return to Madison this spring to give the school’s commencement address.
County officials voiced concerns Tuesday about the impact of a $3.6 million cut in funding for county programs provided by the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension.
While budget cuts are occurring on campuses across the University of Wisconsin System this year, the system’s own annual report released Monday said its financial standing “remained relatively strong” as of June 30, the end of the last fiscal year. That’s just a snapshot in time, UW System officials said, and it does not account for $250 million in state budget cuts that will come into play between this fiscal year and next.
MADISON — The University of Wisconsin System’s net worth has increased.
Fire investigators are still looking into what caused a fire at the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus Thursday afternoon.
