University of Wisconsin System officials want Gov. Scott Walker to give them an additional $95 million in tax dollars in the next state budget to fund a new plan to create jobs, boost graduation numbers and deal with a tuition freeze.
The UW Board of Regents could decide today whether to ask for another $95 million in the next two-year state budget.
Plans by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to resume maternal deprivation experiments on monkeys has prompted renewed opposition on the Dane County Board.
Former investigative reporter Trish O?Kane wrote in The New York Times recently how focusing on the daily activities of sparrows helped her regain her footing after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans in 2005. … Today O?Kane is a doctoral candidate in environmental studies at the Gaylord Nelson Institute of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches basic ornithology.
A prominent UW-Madison scientist is studying the Ebola virus on campus.Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who is better known for flu research, is conducting two types of Ebola studies, said Rebecca Moritz, a campus biosafety manager.
The $53 million building, to be dedicated Saturday and open for classes next month, won?t only teach students differently. It will teach more of them, in an effort to help offset a projected shortage of nearly 23,500 nurses in Wisconsin by 2035.
UW Health plans to combine its hospital and doctor group into one organization to more easily form partnerships with other health care systems, the leader of the doctor group said Thursday.
Though local UW schools received fewer applications than last year, representatives of UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stout and UW-River Falls said those schools are on track to meet this year?s admissions goals.
To understand earthquakes, scientists have hatched an audacious plan ? go straight to the source.
UW-Madison is not the only university opting for shorter MOOCs after disappointing course completion rates, Inside Higher Ed reports.
The Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 will have the ability to implement some rules on their own, including a stipend for athletes that goes beyond currently allowed limits of tuition, room and board, books and fees.
University of Wisconsin-Madison says it received a record number of applications for its incoming freshman class, while most other UW System schools experienced a decline in applications.
Madison is less than two hours away from Milwaukee, but for some, the city seems a world away! The Wisconsin State Fair on Wednesday, August 6th celebrated ?UW-Madison Day.? The leaders of the state?s flagship university and the State Fair have developed the annual event in an effort to get the Dairy State to see red.
Shortfalls in state funding meant that more than 41,000 Wisconsin students did not receive need-based financial aid for which they were eligible, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau reports.
UW-Madison students will have access to the ?Shell? while other recreational sports facilities on campus are renovated, says Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for finance and administration.
Massive open online courses will return to the University of Wisconsin at Madison next year — or something that looks like them will, anyway. Having reviewed the results from its first round of MOOCs, the institution will offer new courses that are shorter, cover fewer topics and target Wisconsinites.
An armed suicidal woman who prompted several alerts, evacuations and a massive search effort Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is expecting its second-largest class of state-resident freshmen in nine years this fall.
A woman who led police on a day-long search through fields and woods on Madison?s West Side after causing a disturbance at a nearby clinic shot herself Tuesday afternoon as authorities closed in, UW-Madison police said.
Total applications for incoming freshmen increased by about 400 for Wisconsin residents from the previous year, the university announced Tuesday. In-state freshman enrollment is expected to hit about 3,700, down slightly from last year but still the second-highest it?s been since 2005. Total freshman enrollment won?t be released by the school until after classes begin.
Campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are searching Tuesday for a suicidal woman who is possibly armed.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a record number of freshman applications for this fall and accepted nearly three of every four Wisconsin residents who applied, the university announced Tuesday.
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The University of Wisconsin football program will no longer let freshman players serve as student hosts for recruits after an incident in December 2013 led to sexual assault charges.
By conventional education standards, UW-Madison?s first round of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, had an extremely rough start.
Craig Berridge, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is comfortable with the scrutiny given animal research on campus.
In his 21 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s veterinary school, Eric Sandgren has seen a lot of controversies. But the UW?s most prominent defender of animal research has never seen anything like this.
UW-Madison will not move forward with a controversial proposal to delay the traditional fall recruiting period for fraternities and sororities.
Keven Stonewall isn?t your average 19-year-old college student. Sure, he likes to hang out with his friends, loves music ? everything from Beethoven to Kanye West ? and is involved in campus activities. But he also might cure colon cancer one day.
CHICAGO ? University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen knows it is impossible for a high school recruit making a college visit to be under surveillance at all times.
New leadership for the Meriter Hospital medical system has helped quell a bitter feud with the rival UW Hospital network, leading to expanded and easier access to care, representatives of the local health care giants announced Friday.
If you can?t wait to communicate good news, you can pick up your smartphone and text or tweet it to the world. But bad news is different.
People ask me all the time how they can get their kids excited about math. That ought to be a softball for me, because I teach math for a living. I wake up excited about math.
Abused children tend to develop lifelong emotional and physical problems, and now UW-Madison scientists may have found a biological reason: Maltreatment appears to turn off a gene that regulates stress.
Data from Amazon Kindles suggests that that honor may go to Thomas Piketty?s ?Capital in the Twenty-First Century,? which reached No. 1 on the best-seller list this year. Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Piketty?s book seems to eclipse its rivals in losing readers: All five of the passages that readers on Kindle have highlighted most are in the first 26 pages of a tome that runs 685 pages.
PEOPLE ? its full name is another mouthful, Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence ? is dedicated to getting students on a path to college early by showcasing possibilities and providing support. ?PEOPLE is where the Wisconsin Idea happens,? says DeWalt, referring to the university?s mission of bringing its resources to the citizens of Wisconsin.
One line related to UW-Madison?s recently approved plan for diversity ? a line that is not actually in the plan ? has sparked outrage among some commenters online, outrage that the university argues is misplaced since the line in question is not even in the 53-page diversity plan.
The recently documented mistakes at federal laboratories involving anthrax, flu and smallpox have incited public outrage at the government?s handling of dangerous pathogens. But the episodes were just a tiny fraction of the hundreds that have occurred in recent years across a sprawling web of academic, commercial and government labs that operate without clear national standards or oversight, federal reports show.
Aaron Olver, who has led the city of Madison?s economic development office for the past three years, will be managing director of University Research Park (URP), starting Sept. 8.
MADISON (WITI) ? A bomb blast at Camp Randall Stadium at the University of Wisconsin sends hundreds of first responders, investigators and other emergency crews to the scene. Before you get alarmed, this was only a massive training exercise.
MADISON, Wis. ?Last year?s bombing at the Boston Marathon is still causing law enforcement to make changes in security at major events.
Laura Dunn was a college freshman living on the University of Wisconsin?s pastoral campus in Madison when she was raped. Her assailants, she said, were two males from the crew team. She filed a complaint with the school and law enforcement. No one was charged, no one was even suspended.
MADISON ? Former state Commerce Department Secretary Aaron Olver has been named managing director of the University of Wisconsin Research Park in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will simulate a terrorist bombing at Camp Randall Stadium early Thursday ? complete with explosive sound effects, billowing smoke and pretend victims ? to test its emergency preparedness plan involving everyone from police and fire squads to hospital emergency departments and the FBI.
We have a new invasive species in Wisconsin.It?s known as the Asian crazy worm and can reproduce without mating and is capable of wreaking havoc in the soil.The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Tuesday that the invasive worm, Amynthas agrestis, was discovered last fall at the UW Arboretum, a longtime refuge for Wisconsin plants and animals.
Activists working to put an end to sexual assault on campus want colleges to publicly release any surveys they conduct that gauge the scope of the problem at their schools.
In a long-running affirmative-action case, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the University of Texas at Austin?s consideration of race as one of many factors in admissions.
The mother of a UW-Madison student arrested in connection with an April hate crime against an African American family in Stoughton defends her son?s integrity.
ATLANTA ? Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spent much of Wednesday completing a report that would let the public see, in embarrassing detail, how the sloppy handling of anthrax by scientists at its headquarters here had potentially exposed dozens of employees to the deadly bacteria.
Authorities plan to simulate a bomb attack in or around Camp Randall stadium next week as part of the largest emergency-response simulation the state has ever seen.
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.
