The Wisconsin Badgers are in the driver’s seat and control their own destiny for a spot in the Big Ten title game and running back Melvin Gordon put himself in serious consideration for the Heisman Trophy.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a $100 million donation, the largest single contribution in the university’s history.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Saturday a $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the largest single contribution from individual donors in the flagship’s history.
Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge have given $100-million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, they announced Saturday.
Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge have given $100-million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, they announced Saturday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Saturday a $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the largest single contribution from individual donors in the flagship’s history.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank doesn’t have much patience for talk about any academic rivalries between UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee. “We have to get past this whole discussion about competition between these two cities,” she said during a panel discussion at the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, held Wednesday and Thursday at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin System’s regents are planning to approve in-state tuition rates for non-resident veterans and their families.
The day after last Tuesday’s election didn’t exactly inspire confidence for backers of the University of Wisconsin System and its request for a funding boost of $95 million in the next two-year cycle. Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, who’s co-chairman of the state’s budget committee, called the request a “tough sell. ”At the same news conference, Nygren’s colleague Robin Vos, R-Rochester, who’s speaker of the Assembly, said faculty should focus on research that would benefit the state’s economy, not the “ancient mating habits of whatever.” The remark was seen as condescending by many at UW-Madison, a research giant that brings $1.2 billion a year in federal funding to the state. The same day, a different effort got no headlines but could be significant: UW-Madison emailed all of its in-state alumni with a plea. “Right now, UW-Madison needs your voice more than ever,” the email said.
It may come as no surprise that state Republican leaders, in the flush of electoral victory, are targeting University of Wisconsin funding in the next legislative session. But the scorn for the university evident in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ post-election remarks struck some observers.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank arrived in July 2013 amid an uproar at the Capitol over hundreds of millions in cash balances carried over by the state’s public universities without full disclosure, including sizable tuition balances that amassed alongside annual tuition hikes during a recession.
ROCKFORD — SwedishAmerican CEO, Doctor Bill Gorski is confident a new partnership with the University of Wisconsin Health Center will enhance his hospital’s ability to treat patients.
SwedishAmerican Health System based in Rockford, Ill. and UW Health based in Madison, Wis., have signed a definitive agreement to merge the organizations and make SwedishAmerican an integral part of UW Health.
ROCKFORD — SwedishAmerican Health System and UW Health have signed a merger agreement.
John Karl Scholz, dean of the College of Letters & Science, is launching a large new program to improve career planning and job outcomes for students in his college, by far the largest at the university with more than 16,000 undergraduates in 39 departments.
UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka has once again halted controversial flu research, this time in response to a White House request that researchers stop such work during a federal review of the risks and benefits.
The co-chairman of the Legislature’s powerful finance committee doesn’t sound too optimistic that the University of Wisconsin System will get the additional $95 million it wants in the next state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker is touring the state’s technical colleges rather than speak at a meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Gov. Scott Walker won his third governor’s race in four years Tuesday, giving him a second term to overhaul state government with fellow Republicans — and setting the stage for a possible presidential run.
The broad story of this year’s elections was the Republican wave that tipped control of the Senate. What does it all mean for academe? Here’s what you need to know about the results.
With victories in several key Senate races last night, Republicans will take control of both chambers of Congress heading into the final two years of the Obama presidency — a balance of power that sets up a much-changed dynamic for federal higher education policy making in the coming months.
Of the 36 gubernatorial elections being decided on Tuesday, three have special resonance for people in higher education.In each case, a Republican governor took a hard line on higher-ed spending; in each case, that governor now finds himself in electoral peril. Two high-profile incumbents, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, are fighting for re-election in races that are considered tossups.
Tree and grass will take precedence over bricks and mortar in the new master plan for the UW-Madison campus. Work is starting on the 2015 campus master plan, updating the 2005 plan in a once-every-decade project to guide future development on the 936-acre main campus.
Campus police issued 29 underage drinking citations over the weekend. They transported 13 people to detox facilities and took numerous others to area hospitals because the Tellurian Detoxification Center was full by early Saturday evening, said Marc Lovicott, a spokesman for UW police.
Lèse-majesté isn’t a concept that many Americans can pronounce, much less explain, but it’s a significant part of what brought Yukti Mukdawijitra back to the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a refugee scholar seven years after he earned his Ph.D. in anthropology there.
Being homeless adds another layer of challenges on top of the rigors of academic work at UW-Madison.
MADISON — Employees, patients and visitors will no longer be able to purchase sugar-sweetened beverages at a Madison health care system as it moves to encourage healthier choices.
One could argue that sports is the biggest business at the UW-Madison these days, after looking at the new database of UW salaries from the Milwaukee Business Journal.
When Sara Goldrick-Rab first began delving into college affordability for her graduate school research 15 years ago, she recalls, people said she was making too big a deal out of it. “I was told as an academic to pick a more important topic,” said Goldrick-Rab, a professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. College affordability is a really big deal now.
Noted: • UW Health, including University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, and the American Family Childrens Hospital in Madison for pediatric patients.
UW Hospital and American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison are among four hospitals that would care for any Ebola patients in Wisconsin, though other hospitals might be added to the list, health officials said Tuesday.
The UW System Board of Regents on Monday approved the appointment of Cathy Sandeen.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has named Cathy Sandeen as the new chancellor of UW Colleges and the UW-Extension.
A Minocqua resident is the recipient of the University of Wisconsin- Madison Bascom Hill Society Scholarship. Each year, the Bascom Hill Society offers a full scholarship to a junior or senior who has a solid academic record, has demonstrated leadership capability and has made an outstanding volunteer contribution to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and/or his or her community.
Spring commencement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will return to Camp Randall Stadium.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Spring commencement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will return to Camp Randall Stadium.
The federal government last week announced it was taking the unusual step of temporarily stopping funds for certain types of studies involving influenza, SARS, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. The government asked all scientists involved in such work?called gain-of-function (GOF) research?to voluntarily halt their studies for a review of their potential risks and benefits. This looks like a case of misplaced priorities.
The spring commencement at UW-Madison?s Camp Randall Stadium in May went so well that the 2015 graduation ceremonies will return to the venerable football field.
U.S. researchers are worried that a temporary government ban on ?gain-of-function? experiments that boost the infectious properties of dangerous viruses may also cover less-extreme forms of the work that are crucial to protecting public health. At a public meeting of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) in Bethesda, Maryland, on 22 October, researchers complained that development of seasonal influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs might be hampered by the move.
Higher education: Walker takes pride in freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin System for two years and plans to do so again. That no doubt plays well with university students and their parents, but the fact is that such a continued freeze could hurt the system?s ability to attract and retain faculty. UW schools are a bargain, with average costs, and quality doesn?t come cheap.
Among the Republicans? priorities are “course correction” for the state Government Accountability Board, providing funding for free GED testing, expanding public school open enrollment and voucher school programs, increasing access to classes through a state-funded digital learning program for rural schools and extending a tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin system.
Many universities have begun to tighten restrictions on travel to the countries hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic, even for professors doing humanitarian work. But settling on a policy represents a delicate balance for administrators, especially at universities with graduate schools of public health and medicine.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund is suing the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents for release of notes made during oversight committee deliberations on controversial experiments with baby monkeys at UW-Madison.
Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the American College Health Association?s point man on Ebola, said the latter group strongly supports the CDC?s travel warnings. With study abroad, it?s easy, he said. Just cancel programs. But when researchers want to take their expertise into countries where the incidence of Ebola is skyrocketing, the solution isn?t so clear.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Yoshi Kawaoka was researching influenza viruses that were killing chickens in the mid-?90s when he picked up a new bestseller, “The Hot Zone.”
The federal government will temporarily stop funding any new studies that could make three high-risk infectious diseases even more dangerous. The government is asking all scientists involved in this research now to voluntarily halt their current studies.
Noted: ?Over all, colleges and universities are on the low end of risk,? said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist for the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s University Health Services and a clinical assistant professor of population health sciences. Roberts, who is also chair of the American College Health Association?s Emerging Public Health Threats and Emergency Response Coalition, noted that about 36,000 people have entered the U.S. in the last six months from the three African nations at the center of the outbreak ? Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone ? and only about 300 of them were college students.
Prompted by controversy over dangerous research and recent laboratory accidents, the White House announced Friday that it would temporarily halt all new funding for experiments that seek to study certain infectious agents by making them more dangerous.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Yoshi Kawaoka was researching influenza viruses that were killing chickens in the mid-?90s when he picked up a new bestseller, “The Hot Zone.”
Every time astronomers learn to exploit a new signal from space, knowledge of the universe dramatically deepens. Light, seen through telescopes, reveals that our galaxy is not alone. Microwaves hint at the Big Bang. X-rays suggest the tumult near black holes. Francis Halzen?s discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos shifts the paradigm again, potentially offering clues to the greatest remaining mysteries. What is dark matter? How did the universe begin? Is there a theory of everything? Yet Halzen, a University of Wisconsin physicist, focuses on the search itself: ?I love to learn. Just understanding things that you thought you could never understand, that is the great pleasure of doing physics.?
Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin at Madison who warned about the panicked overreactions on some campuses, has helped the American College Health Association update its own recommendations. He feels that travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone should be curtailed, not only because of the risks to those traveling, but also because of the possible legal and financial consequences for universities.
Singer Rosanne Cash and the founder of virtual reality firm Oculus are being honored with American Ingenuity Awards at the Smithsonian Institution, along with 8 other scientists and scholars for their groundbreaking work. Also awarded: Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist who created a giant particle detector to study cosmic neutrinos under the South Pole.
The College of Agricultural & Life Sciences at UW-Madison has received funding to hire a specialist who will help operators of wineries and cider companies with microbial, cleaning and sanitation issues.
Two UW-Madison initiatives will receive a total of $7.2 million from Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates to help disadvantaged students complete degrees and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
The search for answers about Ebola, just like the virus itself, have gone on for years.
Quoted: Still, there?s a big difference between a 40-bed community hospital and a 900-bed hospital like Texas Presbyterian or a big medical center affiliated with a university, said Dr. Dennis Maki, a University of Wisconsin-Madison infectious disease specialist and former head of hospital infection control.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police and federal officials are investigating a report of a drone at Saturday?s football game between the Badgers and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini at Camp Randall Stadium, WKOW-TV (Channel 27) in Madison reported Monday.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison initially monitored about 20 students from Nigeria when they arrived for the semester, but that country was removed from the travel warning, said Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services.
In a decision issued Thursday night, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin from implementing its Voter ID law for the Nov. 4 election.
News coverage of the Ebola outbreak this week entered a ?perfect storm? that spun the issue out of proportion, says UW-Madison professor of science communication Dietram A. Scheufele.
