The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Wisconsin?s voter ID law on Thursday evening, meaning that Wisconsin voters will not be required to bring any forms of identification to the polls on Nov. 4.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison Police Department issued an apology Wednesday after a list of safety tips posted to the department?s website was criticized for appearing to blame victims of campus crimes, particularly survivors of sexual assault.
The protest will start at 5:45 p.m. at 750 University Ave. Protesters will march from Chazen Art Museum to the Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall. The university?s public forum on the research will start at 7 p.m. at the Biotechnology Center in Room 1111.
Madison — UW-Madison?s Health Services says they are monitoring the Ebola situation very close. In recent months, they?ve even identified seven potentially at risk students who traveled to the affected region.
UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka has been awarded the 2014 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for his work in understanding and preventing pandemic influenza.
UW-Madison gets prominent mention as a school that says no to plastic.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka caused a global uproar by re-creating history?s deadliest flu virus. That might sound crazy. But when a real influenza pandemic strikes, you?re going to want him on your side.
UW-Madison should have a short list of diversity initiatives to complete over a year or two in place by early 2015, Chancellor Rebecca Blank told the Badger Herald last week.
Two years after a public outcry over high cash balances kept by the University of Wisconsin System and its campuses, a report released Monday indicates they are carrying about the same amount of money ? just being much clearer about its purpose.
Campuses across the University of Wisconsin System collectively held $175 million in reserve funds as of June that aren?t tied to specific programs or projects, a drop of $40 million from a year ago as schools tapped into those funds to cover expenses as called for by the state Legislature.
The Badger Herald and The Daily Cardinal last week interviewed University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Dean of Students Lori Berquam on a range of issues, from alcohol policy and sexual assault to tuition and diversity.
The University of Wisconsin System finished fiscal year 2013-14 with more than $973 million on hand, according to a report the system released Monday.
The state of Wisconsin is taking precautions against Ebola. Colleges are also on alert. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has identified 14 students who returned to campus from Nigeria, and officials said they?ve been monitored for Ebola and cleared as healthy.
They have been stepped on and ignored for millennia, but at the Wisconsin State Herbarium, lichens are loved. So well-liked, in fact, when herbarium director Ken Cameron had a chance to acquire a rare and valuable collection of 60,000 lichen specimens from a German collector recently, he snapped them up.
An effort is underway to update the land cover map for the State of Wisconsin. The Department of Natural Resources and cartographers at UW-Madison are teaming up to create the new map. Another goal is to help create better management of the deer population throughout the state.
If the deep cuts to the UW System in the state?s last budget are maintained, education programs at UW-Madison will be cut 4 percent across the board, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a meeting with student media Thursday.
About 800 fewer students are on campuses that make up the sprawling University of Wisconsin System this fall, a drop of about half a percentage point from last year, the System announced Wednesday. Among freshmen, the drop is more dramatic, at 2.2 percent.
Sexual assault can happen to anyone, be it a guy or a girl. Typically though, women are the targets. Around 1 in 5 college women will be sexually assault before they graduate. According to a report released by UW Madison on Wednesday there were 20 reported rape cases on campus in 2013.
A new University of Wisconsin System task force will examine campus policies in an effort to better address sexual violence and harassment.
Alfonso Morales has a long relationship with food. He grew up on a farm in New Mexico, then went on to study sociology in school, running a booth at the Maxwell Street Market in Chicago as part of his dissertation.
The University of Wisconsin System is creating a 21-member task force on sexual violence and harassment in an effort to better protect students from sexual violence and coordinate systemwide efforts at prevention and outreach.
A new University of Wisconsin System task force will examine campus policies in an effort to better address sexual violence and harassment.
After years of planning, UW-Madison is proposing a striking music performance building that would include a recital hall, rehearsal space and eventually a concert hall next to the Chazen Museum of Art on a now-vacant corner of University Avenue and Lake Street.
Universities have been expecting the rules since last year, and depending on how much research they do, evaluating what meets the criteria “can be a lot more work,” said Rebecca Moritz, manager of select-agent research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A bigger question, she said, is whether the policy expands beyond the current 15 targeted agents.
Residential resource company Livability recently released its annual list of the 100 best places to live in the US, looking at factors like access to schools, hospitals, and infrastructure; affordability and income; and how residents take advantage of those opportunities. Since Madison, Wisconsin topped Livability?s list, Business Insider took a closer look at 7 things that make Madison, a northern midwest city of 235,000, stand out from the rest.
The Obama administration is tightening oversight of high-stakes scientific research involving dangerous germs that could raise biosecurity concerns, imposing new safety rules on universities and other institutions where such work is done. Universities have been expecting the rules since last year, and depending on how much research they do, evaluating what meets the criteria “can be a lot more work,” said Rebecca Moritz, manager of select-agent research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Class of 2018 at UW-Madison could be huge, if incoming freshmen stay in school and graduate.
As of this week, University of Wisconsin-Madison students who lack the proper identification to vote in the Nov. 4 election can get a free ID card on campus that will allow them to vote.
Google Glass has officially entered the classroom in at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Professors are developing new ways to use the device after the school received a few pairs of the wearable technology more than a year before the public release.
Students at UW-Madison can pick up free voter ID cards starting Monday, as promised last week.
Climate change poses risks to human health just as pollution and lack of sanitation did a century ago, says a medical journal editorial that details the potential harmful health effects and the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “Evidence over the past 20 years indicates that climate change can be associated with adverse health outcomes,” Dr. Jonathan Patz of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his colleagues concluded.
MADISON?P.J. Liesch takes a vial or two with him when he goes for a walk outdoors.
A recipient of multiple teaching award nominations, University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor Hart Posen did not think he had much to learn about the craft.François Ortalo-Magné, however, thought differently. Ortalo-Magné, dean of UW?s School of Business, asked Posen ? “forced” is the way Posen puts it ? to participate in training workshops aimed at helping the school achieve the right outcomes.
The back-to-school party called for costumes, so Trent University students came as ghosts and witches, moving in and out of the redbrick rooming house at 283 W. King St. in Peterborough, Ontario, all night.
University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke highly of the university?s long-running research partnership with GE Healthcare during her first visit with the company?s top Milwaukee-area executives.
Wisconsin officials have until Tuesday to respond to a request that a federal appeals court reconsider its decision to reinstate a requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls.
UW-Madison students should be able to pick up the new cards beginning early next week, spokesman John Lucas said. The university recently launched a website to help students understand the new state voting regulations.
As the world becomes more complex in this age of technology and scientific discovery, academic powerhouses like UW?Madison are nurturing a new breed of basic research scientists who could change the way we treat, and maybe even cure, the diseases of our time. But basic research has a branding problem?it?s done quietly in labs on campus and without much attention or fanfare. Funding has slowed to a trickle in the last decade, and without it, the future doesn?t look as bright.
The 2014 QS World University Rankings survey named the University of Wisconsin-Madison first in the world for media and communications studies, according to a university release.
Among the 6,279 freshmen the University of Wisconsin-Madison ushered in this fall, the campus also welcomed a newcomer of a different variety in academic leader Sarah Mangelsdorf. The newly appointed provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs arrived in Madison months before the start of the 2014-?15 school year, after serving as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University since 2008.
UW-Madison ranked first in media and communications among 100 universities worldwide in the QS World University Rankings, which assess international reputation and draw, the Guardian reports from London.
Students at University of Wisconsin System campuses will be able to request free voter ID cards from their schools to meet new photo ID requirements at the polls, System spokesman John Diamond said Wednesday. At UW-Madison, the cards will be available for pickup starting early next week at Union South, spokesman John Lucas said.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Superior gives students IDs that meet those requirements, but other UW System schools? standard IDs do not include those features. UW-Madison plans to issue special IDs to students who ask for them that could be used for voting, but spokesman Greg Bump said the school is still in the planning stage and does not know when they will be available to students.
Madison ? It is perhaps the least understood school on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Despite being from Kansas, Dr. John Hawks had never seen storms like he experienced in South Africa.
?Bush meat?? I asked. The food in front of me smelled delicious, but the mention of bush meat in the stew evoked a twinge of fear. Could it be fruit bat? Chimpanzee? Both can harbor Ebola virus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students without an acceptable form of identification to vote this fall may soon have a new option.
?We want to enrich the public discourse around what science is and why it matters,? says Laura Heisler, director of programming for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. WARF produces the festival, now in its fourth year, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research.
DIY Science is just one of an array of programs at UW-Madison designed to inform the public about scientific research on campus. Roughly 375 academic staff members work in science outreach, which helps fulfill the Wisconsin Idea, UW-Madison?s guiding principle to share the university?s resources to improve the lives of state citizens.
Starting next fall, researchers at UW-Madison will have access to a bigger and deeper pool of data about people?s jobs, salaries, educational levels and other factors.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are also analyzing the decision and considering whether to begin issuing ID cards that could be used for voting. While some student IDs can be used for voting, the ones issued at UW-Madison and some other schools cannot.
When Rebecca Blank moved into her corner Bascom Hall office last summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor also stepped into a state political environment rife with ill feelings and mistrust that, in recent years, had washed over onto campus affairs.
Rebecca Blank has become an evangelist for her institution?s key role in Wisconsin?s economy during her short time as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A California biotech consulting firm that pledged to create at least 103 local jobs by 2017 will get a $1 million low-interest loan from the state to help it buy an under-used pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in University Research Park where it plans to make cancer-fighting and other types of drugs for other companies.
For decades, it has felt like Milwaukee and Madison are separated by much more than 80 miles of highway and fields. The divide between Wisconsin?s two biggest cities?economically, culturally, and psychologically?has at times felt impossible to bridge.
UW-Madison has finished building a backup website and changed some emergency communication practices in response to a power outage in June that darkened the university?s website and disabled nearly all electronic communication for a day.
You get the sense that Ray Cross, the new president of the University of Wisconsin System, can relate to one of the last scenes in the movie, ?All the President?s Men.?
Former UW defenseman and Miracle on Ice star Bob Suter died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 57.
The state faces a nearly $1.8 billion structural deficit heading into the next biennial budget cycle, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Monday.
UW-Madison is the 13th best public university in America, according to rankings released Tuesday. The annual America?s Best Colleges rankings from U.S. News and World Report also pegged UW-Madison as the 47th best college overall.
