When Rebecca Blank arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison last summer, she became chancellor of one of the largest academic research universities in the world, but one that has an uneven track record for commercializing that work.
New UW System president Ray Cross plans to visit campuses and communities statewide soon but his first stop will be to key lawmakers in Madison, he said at a Milwaukee press conference Friday morning.
The University of Wisconsin System didnt have to look far, after all, for its next president.
After a national search, the University of Wisconsin System chose a new president from inside, elevating Ray Cross to be the seventh person to lead the System in its history.
MADISON ? Ray Cross, the only internal candidate out of three finalists, was chosen Thursday to lead the University of Wisconsin System.
Robert King is out as a candidate for the job of president of the University of Wisconsin System, leaving Ray Cross and Peter Garland as the only known finalists.
The most unconventional and potentially controversial finalist for president of the University of Wisconsin System is out of the running, just one day before the Board of Regents was to announce its selection.
Robert King is out as a candidate for president of the University of Wisconsin System, leaving Ray Cross and Peter Garland as finalists, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Wednesday.
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System will meet Thursday to select and announce their next president, but now the question about diversity in the selection of candidates is being raised.
Kentucky?s Council on Postsecondary Education President Bob King will not be the next president of the University of Wisconsin System. King, who has led the CPE since 2009, has also been the Chancellor for the State University of New York (SUNY). King was also a state lawmaker in New York.
The wait to find out who the next University of Wisconsin System president will be is nearly over.
An expansion to the University of Wisconsin?s Rec Sports facilities at one point carried an option to build an 8-lane, 50-meter competition pool, but that option has been scrapped from the master plan moving forward due to lack of funding sources.
The finalists vying to become the University of Wisconsin System?s next president made their final hiring pitches to faculty Monday, pledging to try to repair the system?s tattered relationship with Republican lawmakers who hold the system?s state purse-strings.
The three finalists for University of Wisconsin System president visited Madison on Monday and sounded the same themes over and over: rebuilding trust, reaching out across the state to politicians and the public and opening their financial books in a more transparent way. In computer terms, they suggested a total System reboot.
Students at UW-Madison don?t have to go back to school until Jan. 21, but that doesn?t mean the campus is shut down.
Two issues shadow the process of choosing who will next lead the University of Wisconsin System ? a process that reaches its crescendo this week. The first is how partisan politics increasingly seeps into statewide decisions that until now were fairly apolitical. The second is the degree of openness in the selection process, and whether it helps or hurts.
The three finalists for the University of Wisconsin System president?s position are set to speak with the public through a series of video conferences.
As scientists get closer to using embryonic stem cells in new treatments for blindness, spinal cord injuries and heart disease, a U.S. legal debate could determine who profits from that research. Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group, wants an appeals court to invalidate a University of Wisconsin-Madison?s patent for stem cells derived from human embryos, saying it?s too similar to earlier research. The Santa Monica, California, group also says the U.S. Supreme Court?s June ruling limiting ownership rights of human genes should apply to stem cells, a potentially lucrative field for medical breakthroughs.
Three high-level academic executives in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Kentucky have emerged as finalists to become the UW System?s next president, system officials announced Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin System has announced three finalists in the search for its next president.
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents president, Michael Falbo, announced Thursday morning the names of the three finalists to be considered for the System?s top post.
A chancellor in the University of Wisconsin System and two outsiders who have managed public university systems in New York and Pennsylvania were named Thursday as finalists for the position of UW System president ? the CEO of a nearly $6 billion enterprise with 40,000 employees and 181,000 students.
The backlash against the American Studies Association?s resolution endorsing the boycott of Israeli universities continued unabated through the holiday vacation, with scores of American college presidents condemning the action and the president of the American Council on Education joining the chorus of critics. At the same time that presidents are denouncing the boycott for reasons related to academic freedom, some faculty and students who back the ASA action have pushed back against the presidential reproofs, in one case arguing in an op-ed that ?the greatest threat to academic freedom related to the boycott resolution has come from U.S. university presidents? themselves.
Once again, Wisconsin is heavily represented on the U.S. Olympic men?s and women?s hockey teams.
Robin Vos says he?s a big believer in transparency. If that?s true, he can prove it by rejecting an idea to rope off from public view a portion of the selection process for top positions in the University of Wisconsin System.
We?ll find out on Thursday who?s still in the running to become the next president of the University of Wisconsin System.
It?s been a high-profile year for Kevin Reilly, who will leave his job as president of the University of Wisconsin System on Dec. 31.
Looking back, Harold Scheub sees nothing in his urban northern Indiana boyhood that prepared him for a decade of tramping around the African continent, tape recorder in hand, gathering thousands of spoken stories.
Each year, great ideas emerge from Wisconsin?s research labs. Today, we highlight some of the most interesting. (Several are from UW-Madison.)
On a frigid, snowy morning last week, the UW-Madison campus is nearly deserted and Dean Soyeon Shim is using the rare silence in Nancy Nicholas Hall to do some thinking about a paper she?s planning to write. As might be expected for the building that houses the university?s interior architecture program, the space is bright, comfortable and exquisitely designed.
Juston Edwards has a practical if unusual approach when it comes to choosing which University of Wisconsin bowl games to attend: Skip the Rose Bowl, hit the Capital One Bowl.
Chloe Smith?s college coursework will include mastering machines known as the Reformer, Cadillac, Low Chair and High Barrel. There will be deep breathing, intense stretching, a lot of sweat and healthy dollops of both pain and pain relief.
It’s been a high-profile year for Kevin Reilly, who will leave his job as president of the University of Wisconsin System on Dec. 31.
Tuition experts with the University of Wisconsin System have studied fixed-rate programs, also known as cohort tuition, but there are no immediate implementation plans, System spokesman David Giroux said.
MADISON, Wis. -They were like family. Young men who went to war, they fought together, they spilled blood together, and some died together. When World War II ended most came home.
A partnership between Madison School Community Recreation and UW-Madison is engaging elementary students in science with the hope that they see it as fun.
Before addressing graduates on Sunday, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank congratulated the commencement crowd at the Kohl Center for simply showing up.
Quick, name one of the oldest?if not the oldest?university tech transfer institutions in the country. If your brain automatically took you to a spot in New England or sunny California, think again. It?s the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, which was founded nearly 90 years ago in 1925.
With University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez on hand, the Badgers Women?s volleyball team stunned #1 Texas in the Final Four Thursday, and became the first 12 seed to reach the championship match in the 33 year history of the event.
“It?s kind of like finding a needle in a haystack.”Jignesh Patel is sitting in a Madison café talking about big data. Between sips of coffee, the University of Wisconsin computer sciences professor uses the familiar expression to explain just what this buzzy tech phrase is all about before launching into a remarkable story about Madison?s connection to its past, present and future.
A committee screening University of Wisconsin System president hopefuls is set to hand over finalists? names to a selection committee this week.
When high school coaches across this state visit Wisconsin to watch practice every winter, the same sequence occurs: They see the Badgers pair up ? just two players and a ball ? and engage in the most rudimentary activity, monotonously passing and catching a basketball.
The WisTax study focused on the University of Wisconsin System. Among 2012 freshmen on the 13 UW-System campuses, about 18 percent were required to take remedial math and about 12 percent needed remedial English. Students who needed remedial math exceeded 40 percent at the Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Parkside and Superior campuses. Moving beyond the freshman year, the study examined retention rates. At the Madison, Eau Claire and La Crosse campuses, a combined 93 percent of new freshmen return for their second year. But at the other 10 campuses, a combined 80 percent return for a second year. However, that?s still higher than the national rate.
Even after three years of raises totaling more than $9 million, professors in the University of Wisconsin System still earn less than they could at comparable universities, according to a published report.
An internationally acclaimed stem cell researcher, a cartoonist and a fourth-grader walk into a building. What could sound like the setup to a joke is something else to staffers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery: just another day.
Wisconsin?s college savings plan, EdVest, is expanding its holiday marketing while banking on a law change to increase tax-deductible contributions and contributors.
Devinder Sandhu, an associate professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, gets a steady stream of job offers for at least $25,000 more in salary, and some of his peers are paid nearly double what he is.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison employee accused of embezzling more than $140,000 has been charged with felony theft.
Police have arrested a former university employee for felony theft for allegedly embezzling nearly $145,000 while working for UW SWAP in Verona, UW-Madison Police said Friday.
An accountant is accused of stealing more than $100,000 while working for a University of Wisconsin department.
A tuition surcharge for an undergraduate initiative allows University of Wisconsin to provide services that state and other funding cuts would have otherwise eliminated.
UW-Madison students will vote in March on a proposed $200 million in facilities improvements that could nearly quadruple the recreational sports line item on their segregated fees statements, from $36.78 per semester to $144.78.
Kiplinger?s Personal Finance has named the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the eighth best value among public universities, the magazine announced Wednesday.
UW-Madison is in the Top Ten again, not in sports but as one of the best values in higher education. Kiplinger?s Personal Finance annual survey of almost 600 four-year colleges and universities puts UW-Madison at No. 8, up five spots from the 2012 and 2011 rankings.
No two years are the same, and while insects are always around, some stand out as particularly interesting or surprising. Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist and head of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, said that when he assessed this year, he realized that while he exceeded the previous year in number of specimens submitted to the lab, 2013 ?didn?t seem that buggy.?
Members of the Wellesley College faculty reacted strongly when word spread that Peking University might fire Prof. Xia Yeliang, a critic of the Chinese government. Professor Xia, an economist, had visited Wellesley over the summer after the college signed a partnership agreement with Peking University.
UW-Madison students are usually above average in many areas, but are below average in one area that affects the pocketbook: student loans.
Four more Wisconsin universities have signed up to start offering certificates in the nascent flexible degree option program, designed to offer a more convenient route to a college degree for working adults and set to roll out with its first batch of five degree programs in January.
A treatment being studied at UW-Madison could change the prognosis. Ellie is among nine patients who have taken dopamine, a drug for Parkinson?s disease, to see if it improves their vision.
University of Wisconsin System officials hope to announce the finalists for the system president position later this month.
