UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says there is no proposal under discussion that would give her campus independence beyond that of the university system.
Before Gary Andersen goes on, he wants to make one thing clear. A part of his surprising departure from Wisconsin had to do with admission standards.
The universities would operate as a public authority, under an idea being discussed.
Takeaways from the “UW Voices” series will inform the implementation of the new campus diversity plan.
Gov. Scott Walker acknowledged Monday that his administration is considering granting more autonomy to the University of Wisconsin System.
It didn’t take long for some opponents to line up against a possible decoupling of the state’s universities from the state.
As he continues work on his proposed biennial budget, Governor Scott Walker says he’s still looking at possible plans for the future of the University of Wisconsin System and its flagship campus.
Scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison are reporting a breakthrough in using very small technology to extend the battery life of some electronic devices.
Undergraduates at UW-Madison who take out student loans graduated with an average of $27,711 in debt last year, up 4 percent from the year before, UW-Madison News reports. That remains below the national average of $28,400 in 2013, according to a report from the Office of Student Financial Aid.
Gov. Scott Walker is expected to paint a grim picture when he delivers his plan in a few weeks for balancing the state budget, which would stand in sharp contrast to his upbeat State of the State speech.
Margaret McFall-Ngai has dissected the relationship between a beautiful squid and its live-in bacteria — and found lessons for microbiome research on the way.
The UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Aid said in a news release on Tuesday the average student loan for students getting their undergraduate degrees in 2014 went from $26,625 the previous year to $27,711 in 2014, still below the 2013 national average of $28,400.
A laboratory designed to host classified cybersecurity research has been built at the University Research Park on the West Side. It comes after last year’s approval by the state Legislature of classified research at University of Wisconsin System labs.
For three years, Jeanette Johnson has been helping keep University of Wisconsin-Superior clean. Now, Johnson says she’s ready to make a clean break.
University of Wisconsin researchers are laying the groundwork to make it possible to “print” new transplant-ready organs, grown from cells cultured from a patient’s blood sample. This project, which merges research in biotechnology and nanotechnology, is under way today thanks to funding from the National Institutes of Health NIH.
Speaking to the Madison Rotary Club yesterday, Cross acknowledged the state is facing a tough budget and the university system shouldn’t be exempt as lawmakers manage scarce resources. But he said the university should be viewed as a partner and investment, rather than an expense.
The legislation also asks that UW-Madison’s Value-Added Research Center provide the new board a list of alternative tests “acceptable for statistical comparison” with the tests adopted by the superintendent. It also requires the research center to work with the board and DPI to review alternative tests proposed by schools, and asks that it equate the scores between the different tests. Brad Carl, associate director of the center, said while it’s possible to do that, the most accurate way to compare test takers is to have all students taking the same test on the same academic standards.
To attract interest in a class on conservation and hunting, it’s helpful to invoke the name of Aldo Leopold. To reach the largest audience, a free, online course has virtually unlimited potential. The University of Wisconsin in Madison will put those concepts to work later this month when it offers “The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold and Conservation.”
For over 100 years, UW-Madison researchers have conducted dirt, plant and agricultural tests for Wisconsin farmers at a laboratory on Mineral Point Road to further agricultural research in the state. But later this year, the Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory will be consolidated with a second lab in Marshfield.
Up and coming gaming companies with ties to UW-Madison are one way the university indirectly helps grow the local tech economy, UW-Madison News reports.
Barry Alvarez, Wisconsins full-time athletic director and two-time interim head coach, passed the baton to new head coach Paul Chryst in style Thursday.
When the Wisconsin Badgers return to the gridiron next season following their Outback Bowl appearance, an extra set of eyes will be watching out for their safety.
As 2014 comes to an end, let’s take a look at the year’s biggest outbreaks, pathogens, and technofix dramas.
RACINE — When Charles Ricchio II went on a field trip to a mechanical engineering lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in November 2013, the work he saw going on there was already familiar to him.
For the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all focus for the upcoming legislative session is on the state budget. The university doesn’t traditionally promote or oppose specific bills in the Legislature, said Charles Hoslet, associate vice chancellor of government and corporate affairs. “Ninety percent of what we’re interested in happens in the state budget,” Hoslet said.
Controversial reforms proposed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, for the University of Wisconsin — like monitoring professors’ workload and rethinking tenure — may not even be applicable at UW-Madison, says faculty advocacy group PROFS.
During this season of reflection, I am thankful for curious people of all ages. I am fortunate to be surrounded by students and scientists who are driven to uncover how things work in the natural world. There is no doubt that as we set out to explore the inner workings of microbes, plants and animals, we gain knowledge that we can apply in ways that will continue to change the world. But long before we get to the point where we apply knowledge, we have to wonder. I celebrate that sense of wonder.
A joint venture announced Tuesday by UW School of Medicine and Public Health and Swoop Search, an information technology in Madison, seeks to identify better tests and treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
The pair — Warren’s voice hoarse from doing so many interviews in the past few days — talked with the Cap Times about how they won, how they were portrayed on the show and how they hope their win inspires young women everywhere interested in math and science.
In Friday’s final episode of “The Amazing Race,” the team of “Sweet Scientists” from UW-Madison was first to the finish line, becoming the second team of Badgers to win the show’s $1 million prize.
(Jamie) Thomson, who first grew human embryonic stem cells in a lab in 1998 and co-discovered a way to reprogram mature cells to their embryonic state in 2007, is working with researchers across campus on … creating “tissue chips” — clusters of interacting cells that mimic specific organs, such as a model of a developing brain. Using stem cells, miniature scaffolds and sophisticated computer programs, they’re crafting prototypes that could someday replace animal testing for drugs and serve as screening tools for environmental toxins.
When he got the invitation to be the keynote speaker at UW-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony, Ben Deutsch said he initially thought it was one of his college friends pranking him.
“The Sweet Scientists” from the University of Wisconsin-Madison claimed a cool million dollars in the final of “The Amazing Race,” which aired Friday night on CBS-TV.
David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist who was named by UK Wired Magazine as one of 50 people who will change the world, is leaving his post as director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at UW-Madison.
Students going to UW-Madison are getting their money’s worth.
Yang Sao Xiong remembers the bizarre hissing sounds the most. He was 7 years old, a refugee with his family from Laos, when he arrived in California in 1987.
UW–Madison had already been a full-time resident for eight years when Madison incorporated as a city. But since that day in 1856, the two have been joined at the hip, inseparable entities essential to any definition of either.
Wisconsin hired Paul Chryst away from Pittsburgh to replace Gary Andersen, who had left for Oregon State, as coach, the university announced Wednesday. Chryst, 49, a former Wisconsin offensive coordinator, is returning to his hometown and alma mater. He went 19-19 in three seasons with the Panthers.
UW’s hiring Wednesday of Paul Chryst as the Badger football program’s next head coach involves financial and psychological impacts on the university beyond the athletics department.
(Chryst) was introduced as the 30th head coach in UW history, returning once again to the place he’s always called home.
Nearly 4,000 area students will have new diplomas from Madison-area colleges and universities by Sunday, when UW-Madison holds its winter commencement.
Paul Chryst, 49, returns to UW after three seasons as the head coach at Pittsburgh, where he compiled a 19-19 record. The announcement came as excitement to most, including current and former UW players, Pittsburgh players and fans. Here is some of their reaction.
Meet Wisconsin’s new head football coach and homecoming king: Paul Chryst.
MADISON, Wis. — It turns out you can go home again. At least that’s the case for Paul Chryst, the Madison native, three-time Badgers letterwinner and eight-year assistant coach at Wisconsin. On Wednesday night, Chryst returned to his roots when he was introduced as the 30th head coach in UW history.
Scientists at a two-day meeting held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., discussed whether some experiments with germs are so risky that the dangers aren’t worth the potential benefits. UW-Madison’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka took part and added to the conversation.
With 42 starts on his Wisconsin résumé, former offensive lineman John Moffitt understands as well as anyone what Paul Chryst brings to a football program.
Paul Chryst, who was born in Madison and was a player and coach at Wisconsin, appears to be hours away from being named the 30th head coach in the history of the program.
Wisconsin appears poised to pick Pittsburgh’s Paul Chryst as its next head coach.
Bri Blue illustrates why it’s such a challenge for school districts like Madison’s to hire a diverse staff. She was one of just four black students in the elementary education program in the UW-Madison School of Education, the most prestigious education program in the state, in the 2013-14 academic year.
A $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge to help build faculty at UW-Madison is among the year’s Top 10 largest philanthropic gifts, Wealth-X reports.
Cries for racial equality disrupted finals week preparation across UW-Madison as hundreds of people, mostly students, marched through campus Sunday evening in response to a string of high-profile police and civilian killings of unarmed black men.
The $150,000 Career Ready Internship grant is from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corp., a student loan provider, and will be administered by the L&S Center for Academic Excellence in the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science.
MADISON, Wis. — Maybe it really was as simple as a necessary lifestyle change for Gary Andersen when he bolted Wisconsin to coach Oregon State’s football program on Wednesday. Perhaps, as Badgers athletic director Barry Alvarez relayed, leaving was a family decision to return to his West Coast roots, that Andersen realized he was, in fact, not the right fit here in Madison.
Senior players asked Alvarez to coach them in the Outback Bowl against Auburn on Jan. 1 following the departure of Coach Gary Andersen.
A fixture on campus for more than 60 years, retired UW-Madison administrator and arts journalist Art Hove died Tuesday from a neuromuscular disorder. He was 80.
Wisconsin tailback Melvin Gordon isn’t expected to win the Heisman Trophy.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez wasted little time in identifying, pursuing and securing a head coach to replace Gary Andersen.
Former Wisconsin assistant and current Pittsburgh coach Paul Chryst is poised to become the Badgers’ new head coach, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday night, citing a source.
MADISON WKOW — As the community comes to terms with Badgers head coach Gary Andersen’s resignation, some are questioning why the last two head coaches didn’t stay at UW-Madison very long.
According to a report by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel beat writer Jeff Potrykus, Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez has put in motion, Paul Chryst’s return to Madison to replace Gary Andersen as Wisconsin’s new head football coach.
