The University of Wisconsin System cannot charge high school students taking courses offered in their schools for college credit, known as concurrent enrollment classes, the state?s attorney general says.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is returning to Coursera for seconds next year when it undertakes delivery of six new massive open online courses on the MOOC platform during 2015-2016. Whereas the institution?s original experiment involved four disparate classes, this time the theme will be relationships: among people, among communities and between humans and the natural world. The original four-course pilot drew 135,600 registrants from every state and 141 countries.
At 4PM ET, the German soccer team will face Brazil in The World Cup semi-finals. The Germans might not have made it. Just a few days ago, the team could have been stopped, not by their opponent France, but by a virus that caused seven of the team?s players to come down with flu-like symptoms.
A member of the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee says there?s a real danger the University of Wisconsin System will follow UW-Superior?s lead and privatize services and even faculty.
A major shift is underway in UW-Madison?s approach to pushing innovations from its campus into the private sector. With its new Discovery to Product Program, or D2P, UW-Madison will incubate about 10 projects until they?re fully prepared to become a startup or be licensed to others. Helping them with funding and mentoring, D2P will be a ?finishing school [for the projects], hopefully trying to get them dressed up and ready to go out the door,? said D2P Director John Biondi. D2P marks a much different approach to technology transfer from the university, actively seeking innovations across campus and commercializing them, said UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
The UW-Madison Influenza Research Institute says its work is both necessary and safe.
Madison ? Former Gov. Jim Doyle is teaching Harvard students this fall and may teach graduate students at Wisconsin?s flagship university next spring, his latest steps to ease back into public life.
According to articles in the UK press, Yoshi Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has “deliberately created a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system”. Some reports even allege the work recreates the deadly 1918 pandemic flu virus in a form that resists vaccines.
Mike McCarthy still hasn?t met his goal of raising $500,000 per year for UW?s American Family Children?s Hospital, but his fundraising efforts are paying off ? in far more than just dollars and cents.
There is no such thing as zero risk when it comes to the study of pathogenic agents such as influenza. But the research, which has been deemed a priority by both the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization, is critical to our ability to forecast, combat and potentially prevent the outbreak of deadly pandemic disease.
The state has hired seven firms to help it analyze whether to sell an array of state properties, including a former governor?s mansion, a workshop for the blind, a shuttered school for juvenile offenders and plants that supply heating and cooling to state facilities.
UW-Madison will add six free online classes starting in January, a follow-up to its initial rollout of four massive open online courses, or MOOCs, last school year. The new offerings, free to anyone with an Internet connection, will be led by 10 UW-Madison faculty and staff members joined by one faculty partner from the University of Colorado.
The Walker administration has released a list of state assets it might consider selling, including state-owned power plants throughout Wisconsin.
Six new massive open online courses, or MOOCS, on topics ranging from the relationship between climate change and public health to Shakespeare?s dramas will be offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting in 2015, the university announced Tuesday.
The online science magazine The Why Files from UW-Madison has been named one of the 25 best teaching and learning websites.
The University of Wisconsin system has a new president and in his four short months in the role, he is wasting no time to start implementing the plans he had before he was even hired.
UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka says he?s creating potentially deadly flu viruses to help prevent a pandemic, but a campus biosafety panel member says the research could cause more harm than good because the viruses could escape from the lab.
I strongly concur with the epidemiologists from Harvard and Yale who warned about the potential release of a possible virulent virus in the June 12 article about UW-Madison flu research.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently discovered that at least 75 workers there had been exposed to possible anthrax infection.
College students with military ties face numerous challenges. They must make the adjustment from active duty to campus life and try to navigate all the complexities of an updated GI Bill, which provides benefits to eligible veterans like assistance with tuition and living expenses. But now student veterans at UW-Madison have a new ally in the Veteran Services and Military Assistance Center, which opened May 15.
It?s taken close to two years to complete, but now the west wing of the Memorial Union is in its final stage of construction. The Memorial Union Terrace is home to beautiful views, live entertainment, and sometimes even a love connection. We asked, “what do you love most about the Terrace?” Jill Yeck responded, “I met him here on a blind date. It?s true!”
PLATTEVILLE ? The tornado that hit the University of Wisconsin-Platteville last week damaged at least four buildings and an athletic stadium, and the chancellor says repairs could cost more than $10 million.
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) system will get a performance upgrade as UW-Madison becomes one of the few institutions in the world to have an Intel Parallel Computing Center.
The timing, they say, was largely coincidental. But if the statement released Tuesday by the Big Ten ? and signed by all 14 of the league?s presidents and chancellors ? serves to back up the testimony given last week by Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany?
For the second time in a month, every university president belonging to an athletic conference has jointly issued a public letter calling for change within the N.C.A.A.
As recently as five years ago, the statement released by the Big Ten?s presidents and chancellors on Tuesday would have seemed radical. Now, it appears reactionary.
For Cathy Middlecamp, placing academic disciplines in the context of sustainability comes naturally.
Shortly after midnight two years ago, the University of Wisconsin-Superior?s new chancellor was alerted to a campuswide power outage and water in buildings.
There are a handful of moments on saxophonist Eric Dolphy?s seminal free jazz album Out to Lunch where the bassist lays down a series of upward-inflected glissandi, as if a question is being asked. He then answers with a descending line. Eventually the rest of the band come back in, providing the ultimate response to the query issued by the bass. The effect is downright Socratic; it?s almost as if the bassist is a music philosopher employing the classic Q&A format to encourage his pupil, the listener, to examine a particular musical problem from a particular angle.
Power was restored around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to the University of Wisconsin-Madisons DoIT data center, but the campus spent much of Wednesday without wireless Internet or email due to an early-morning electrical interruption.
A University of Wisconsin football player said he witnessed a recruit consume 4-5 shots in the time before he allegedly sexually assaulted a female student at a residence hall last December.
Three seasons ago, the Wisconsin football team wore two different uniform combinations: red tops at home and white tops on the road, always with a white helmet and white pants.
A $25 million grant will allow the UW-Madison College of Engineering to hire 25 new faculty members with the goals of creating a more interdisciplinary teaching approach and focusing on manufacturing advances to boost the nation?s economic competitiveness.
Many experts believe the once thriving manufacturing industry is starting to make a comeback in America. The state of Wisconsin is well known as a leader in manufacturing largely due to the successful College of Engineering on the UW-Madison campus. University officials are hoping that the biggest donation ever to the college will take that notoriety to the next level.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Engineering received its biggest donation in history Monday.
The College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is receiving $25 million to go towards a new research institute in its largest single gift ever.
A new trans-disciplinary research institute will be created within the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, allowing the college to hire 25 new faculty and pursue technological advances aimed at boosting the nations economic competitiveness, the university announced Monday.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison nurse has been arrested on suspicion of stealing morphine meant for patients ? an act she reportedly told hospital staff she had been doing since October.
The engineering of a flu virus similar to one that killed 40 million people in 1918 has some scientists sharply criticizing the work of University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who generated a virus that differed from its pandemic ancestor by only 3% of the amino acids that make up virus proteins.
As part of her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, a pianist named Yeaji Kim has come up with a complete 3D musical score that can be used by blind students.
At the University of Tennessee this year, some fraternity pledges had hot sauce poured on their genitals. At Emory in Atlanta, pledges were required to consume items ?not typical for eating? and to engage in fistfights. And at Wesleyan in Connecticut, a few months after the university reached a settlement with a woman who said she was raped at a fraternity house, another woman said that she was raped at a different fraternity house.
An international team of researchers led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist created a life-threatening virus in a high-containment lab in Madison nearly identical to the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic that killed a staggering 50 million people worldwide, according to an article published Wednesday in a major science journal.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, whose bird flu research sparked international controversy and a moratorium two years ago, has created another potentially deadly flu virus in his lab at University Research Park. Kawaoka used genes from several bird flu viruses to construct a virus similar to the 1918 pandemic flu virus that killed up to 50 million people worldwide. He tweaked the new virus so it spread efficiently in ferrets, an animal model for human flu.
An experimental compound being developed by a Madison company could help doctors better detect and treat many types of cancer, a new UW-Madison study says. The compound, which is thought not to accumulate in healthy cells, ?is essentially a cancer-homing agent to which we can attach many different payloads,? Dr. John Kuo, a UW-Madison brain surgeon and an author of the study, said.
A famous picture from the 1918 flu pandemic shows so many rows of bedridden soldiers that it looks like an optical illusion ? the double-mirror effect. It?s a jarring image to accompany jarring events that began in January 1918 and quickly subsumed the planet.
Scientists have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed an estimated 50m people in an experiment labelled as “crazy” by opponents.
As part of her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Yeaji Kim has come up with a complete 3-D musical score that can also be used by blind students. Kim was born blind and discovered Braille scores are incomplete.
The remains of a U.S. Army soldier killed during World War II are finally on their way home ? but not without a layover in the home state of a Middleton filmmaker who played a key role in solving the puzzle of the soldier?s whereabouts.
Experts have hit out at scientists who created a similar flu virus to one which killed 50 million people as part of an experiment.
The University of Wisconsin System appears to be prepared to extend the current tuition freeze, and rightly so.
Applicants who failed to get into UW-Madison are being recruited to channel their frustrations into a possible lawsuit, over admission policies.
WASHINGTON — Amid growing concern that outstanding student debt is hurting the economy, President Obama on Monday directed his administration to make an additional 5 million existing student loan borrowers eligible for the federal government?s most generous income-based repayment program.
Nestled on an isthmus that?s home to both buttoned-up politicians in the state Capitol and more liberal-leaning college students just a short walk away, Madison lives up to its endearing unofficial motto as ??77 square miles surrounded by reality.??
University of Wisconsin System students and their families won?t have to shell out any additional money for tuition next year, but they?ll face higher fees and room-and-board costs under a budget proposal system leaders approved Thursday.
The United States has a student debt problem. It?s a $1.2 trillion ? and growing ? problem, and its impact ripples far beyond the individuals paying back their loans. The burden of that debt on individual graduates and the U.S. economy has been the focus of legislation from both state and national Democrats, including a bill spearheaded by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
The extended tuition freeze would mark another significant departure from recent practice at the System. Prior to the tuition freeze mandated by the Republican-controlled state Legislature starting with the 2013-2014 school year, the System had hiked tuition at four-year campuses 5.5 percent annually in each of the previous six years, the maximum annual increase allowed by law. System spokesman John Diamond said Wednesday that tuition now is viewed as ?a revenue source of last resort.?
The university was recently ranked as the second-most influential U.S. university on Twitter, according to a report by Times Higher Education on a study conducted by internet marketing firm Coldlime, reports UW-Madison News.
Joshua Osborn, 14, lay in a coma at American Family Children?s Hospital in Madison, Wis. For weeks his brain had been swelling with fluid, and a battery of tests had failed to reveal the cause.
An expert on children and their perception of media says she believes two 12 year-old Waukesha girls accused of stabbing their friend when they say they did it to win the approval of Slenderman, a fictional character they believed to be real.
For the second year in a row, tuition will be frozen this fall for in-state undergraduates attending the University of Wisconsin. However, the proposed UW budget does include a 3.6 percent hike in students? segregated fees, plus an average 2.7 percent increase for room-and-board at the four-year campuses.
