Madison-based American Family Insurance on Thursday pledged $40 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the next 10 years, doubling its current support of academics, research, athletics and charitable activities.
American Family Insurance is doubling the amount of money it spends on advertising and donations at UW-Madison, pledging $4 million annually to the university for the next 10 years.
Nearly 700 University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members have signed a letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel arguing that a bill being considered by the Legislature to ban the use of fetal tissue and cells would not only close off avenues of hope for patients, it would send a message to biomedical scientists and the biotechnology industry “that Wisconsin is no place to do business.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to be considered one of the best schools in the world. Two new rankings add to that reputation.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the second best college in the Big Ten and the 24th best in the world, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
MADISON – One of the central issues in an ongoing heated legislative debate is whether modern medical research has moved beyond the need for using tissue from new abortions.
Antarctic scientists have confirmed the existence of cosmic neutrinos – ghostly particles that have traveled from the Milky Way and beyond. These particles carry messages from distant galaxies, and could potentially help solve several cosmic puzzles.
Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way.
The release of videos about Planned Parenthood is spurring state legislative efforts to ban or restrict use of fetal tissue for medical studies and treatments. (Subscription required.)
College students are increasingly staying away from buying textbooks as a way to keep their spending down as the sticker price for books continue to soar, along with other college costs. Textbook prices have climbed some 1,000 percent over the past four decades, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with some titles now costing $400 or even $500. But students have been spending less on course materials in each of the past few years, according to a survey of the National Association of College Stores. Students’ average annual spending on course materials dropped from $701 in 2007-2008 to $563 in 2014-15, according to the association.
(Smal) departments could soon be merged with similar-size programs or much larger departments — the victims, some say, of state budget cuts that are forcing the university to reduce administrative costs. Others note such mergers have happened before and reflect the normal ebb and flow of small academic programs. The mergers don’t mean the fields of study will disappear from UW-Madison. Officials are working to merge the departments of Scandinavian, German and Slavic studies, while history of science could join the larger Department of History.
In the last week, a state legislator in Wisconsin suggested that professors defending the use of fetal tissue in research should think about the work of the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Also in the last week, Ben Carson, formerly a professor at Johns Hopkins University known for his path-breaking research and now an anti-abortion candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, found himself questioned on his use of fetal tissue for research in 1992.
The bill, spearheaded by Reps. André Jacque, R-De Pere, and Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, and Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, would ban selling, donating and experimenting with fetal body parts resulting from abortions in Wisconsin.
A key Senate Republican told 27 News Wednesday that she cannot support the current version of an Assembly bill designed to ban the sale and use of aborted fetal tissue, because it would stop major medical research being conducted at UW-Madison.
Sen. Alberta Darling (R-RIver Hills) made those comments just one day after the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety held a public hearing on the bill.
Gov. Scott Walker isn’t saying whether he supports the current version of a bill in the Legislature that would ban research involving aborted fetal body parts. Walker was asked Wednesday about the measure, which drew opposition from University of Wisconsin and private researchers at a public hearing Tuesday.
UW-Madison, which says it gets fetal tissue for research from four licensed tissue banks, is reviewing whether the banks meet federal regulations and university requirements.
A bill to ban some research on aborted fetal tissues at Wisconsin universities could face challenges in federal courts, which have struck down similar laws around the nation for failing to spell out what’s a crime and whats not.
MADISON — Republican lawmakers sponsoring a bill to ban research on aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin — a proposal medical groups oppose — said Tuesday they were working on changes to protect work at the University of Wisconsin that uses existing cell lines.
Planned Parenthood and other groups could not profit from selling the tissue of aborted fetuses under a bill banning its sale and use, proponents of the measure told a state Assembly panel Tuesday.
Research in Wisconsin could still be conducted on tissue derived from fetuses aborted more than five years ago while the state would ban some current research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that uses more recently aborted tissue, under a proposal that came before lawmakers Tuesday.
Republicans in the state legislature want to ban research in Wisconsin, using tissue from aborted fetuses, legislation which opponents fear could damage the biomedical industry in the state.
Abortion opponents and medical researchers packed a public hearing Tuesday to testify on a bill banning the sale and use of aborted fetal tissue.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said a bill banning the use of fetal tissue would bring a halt to medical research on campus. The dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, the Wisconsin Medical Society, the Medical College of Wisconsin and a trade association representing biotech companies are all lobbying against the measure.
Wisconsin legislators have begun quietly and unofficially discussing how the state’s 42 public universities and colleges—the 26 UW System campuses and the 16 technical colleges—might be realigned to deal with dwindling state aid. If approved, any shift would be the biggest realignment of higher education since the UW System was stitched together in 1971 by merging state colleges, the Madison and Milwaukee campuses, and two-year centers.
A group of Republican legislators will meet this week to discuss the possibility of merging the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension, lawmakers said Monday.
All transfers of fetal tissue in Wisconsin could be banned, under a bill coming before lawmakers Tuesday that could affect medical research in the state.
A bill to ban the sale and use of aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin could halt important medical research, UW-Madison and biotech leaders say, but sponsors of the bill say such research could continue with other tissue.
In the late 1990s, Gail Robertson, a researcher studying irregular heartbeats at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered the reason for unexplained cardiac deaths occurring in some patients who had used approved drugs.
With Americans shouldering $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, and about eight million of them in default, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will propose major new spending by the federal government that would help undergraduates pay tuition at public colleges without needing loans.
Hillary Clinton will today unveil a massive plan to make higher education more affordable, student loan debt less burdensome and states accountable for supporting their public colleges. The plan — which would cost $350 billion over 10 years — is one that campaign officials say will be central to her candidacy for the presidency.
I’m not a University of Wisconsin alum, but I love to linger at Memorial Union Terrace on a sunny day or evening, facing pretty Lake Mendota. The Terrace is one of the most-loved outdoor destinations in Madison, but on Sept. 1 most of the area closes until next summer.
A unique agreement between the state’s flagship university, its public two-year colleges and a Madison technical college aims to increase the number of residents who hold at least an associate degree. The new “reverse transfer” agreement will allow students who transfer to the flagship before completing an associate degree to complete the requirements and pick up that degree while also working toward a bachelor’s degree.
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is not a particularly wealthy school.
Technology originally designed to study homes and heath with UW-Madison’s School of Nursing is now being used at crime scenes. Researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are hoping 3D scanning will make some of the most complicated crime investigations more efficient.
Jeanne Bristol and Kay Cronin remember their dad as a proud man who worked hard to get ahead. “He put himself through college in his 50s,” Kay says. “It was important to him.”
Wisconsin’s “cheeseheads” might someday have a wealth of local options to pair with the state’s most popular food. And they may have Nick Smith to thank for it.
They’re a culinary tradition in the Upper Midwest. Hometown restaurants serving hearty meals and a taste of nostalgia. Dine in any one of these unique Wisconsin establishments and enjoy a winsome journey that goes beyond the food. WPT serves up the supper club experience with a bit of history, culture, and cutting edge research that’s making sure time-tested favorites stay on a classic menu. The show interviews UW faculty.
This marching band has played plenty of winning games, but Monday’s performance celebrated the greatest victory of all.
When Ann Trachtenberg started chemotherapy at the University of Wisconsin’s Carbone Cancer Center about five months ago, she jokingly said a marching band should be on hand when she got through her final treatment.
Professor Bill Tracy got right to the point when asked for his thoughts on a controversy that arose this week involving statements from University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab on Twitter.
“It’s a mess,” said Tracy, a member of the steering committee for PROFS, an advocacy organization for UW-Madison professors.
UW-Madison professor Sara Goldrick-Rab’s tweets comparing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler and suggesting the governor and “many” state lawmakers are “fascists” are the kind of thing you’d expect to see in anonymous online comment sections and other gutters of the Internet.
So it’s a good thing her colleagues at the university are willing to stand up for a smarter, more civilized form of political discourse.
The state budget signed by Gov. Scott Walker last week envisions broad changes to how the University of Wisconsin System is run, experts say, allowing for a more corporate management structure that empowers chancellors while professors with fewer protections take a back seat.
It’s a model that has incensed faculty, drawing national attention to the UW System as legislators stripped tenure from state law, weakened shared governance and expanded justifications for laying off professors.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor says she now regrets how her views on academic freedom came across on Twitter. Sara Goldrick-Rab is under fire for encouraging prospective students to go elsewhere because she believes academic freedom is in jeopardy at Wisconsin.
A professor’s tweets to incoming students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have drawn the ire of the campus’s College Republicans as well as a prominent faculty group, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Traditional colleges are working hard to improve their outreach to service members before and after the application process. The U. of Wisconsin at Madison holds numerous orientation sessions for student veterans over the summer. “Our goal,” says John G. Bechtol, assistant dean of students, “is to remove their military affiliation as being any kind of burden.”
One of the prime examples of UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Idea, sharing knowledge in all parts of the state, will be on display starting this week, courtesy of the university’s Agricultural Research Station.
As he prepared to kick off his presidential campaign, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed the state budget Sunday after using his veto powers to excise grants for conservation groups and a provision that would have given payday lenders new authority.
Gov. Scott Walker signed the next two-year state budget on Sunday, just a day before he’s expected to announce his bid for the Republican nomination for president.
Gov. Scott Walker signed Wisconsin’s budget on Sunday afternoon, more than a week after the new budget year began and only hours before he was to announce his presidential campaign.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student president said his school is bearing too much of the UW-System’s $250 million budget cut, ultimately threatening the school’s core mission.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a nearly $6.2 billion budget Thursday in a voice vote.
MADISON, Wisconsin — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly passed the state budget with only two votes to spare early Thursday morning, sending the $73 billion spending plan on to Gov. Scott Walker four days before he was to officially launch his presidential campaign.
With just a few minutes to midnight, Senate Republicans passed the two-year $72.7 billion state budget Tuesday after voting to repeal salary minimums for workers on local government projects but abandon proposals that would have gutted the state’s open records law.
MADISON – The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate passed the $73 billion state budget just before midnight Tuesday, sending it to the Assembly after voting to repeal a prevailing wage law for local government projects, a move Democrats called an affront to the middle class.
A recent Gallup poll found that a mere 13 percent of us actually enjoy the time we spend on the job. And there’s a real cost to that, not just to our emotional state, but also to our health, experts say.
But we can turn all that around just by adopting some simple practices to make our work lives happier and, as an added bonus, our bodies healthier, experts say.
“There’s now overwhelming evidence to indicate that happier people are actually healthier,” Dr. Richard J. Davidson, a “positive psychologist,” professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as founder and chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, told TODAY. “I would say that anyone can learn to be happier at work.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The intersection of campus police investigations and college disciplinary investigations into sexual assault is still a confusing mix at many institutions, but Susan Riseling, the chief of police and associate vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has a few ideas about how make the relationship work.
WAUSAU – A Wausau physician’s in-depth study of Hmong health issues is one example of why a University of Wisconsin medical unit is changing its name this week.
The deal meant to resolve a month-long impasse over the state budget that Republican legislative leaders unveiled on Wednesday morning was anything but simple, and far from final.
University of Wisconsin Vice Chancellor of University Relations Vince Sweeney announced Tuesday he will be retiring in August. Sweeney was named to the vice chancellor position in June 2009 by then-Chancellor Biddy Martin after a national search, according to a release from the university.
With more voices joining the highly charged debate over tenure protections in the University of Wisconsin System, it has become increasingly clear that at least in education circles, what’s happening here is perceived as a bellwether for public universities across the country.
