With bold, newspaper ads topped by the question, “Are you DATING?,” UW-Madison researchers are recruiting study subjects to delve into the daily lives of young couples, and the potential impact of prescription drug use, and misuse, on their happiness.
The UW-Madison campus has a new landmark for graduation photos: Jim Dine?s sculpture ?Ancient Fishing,? a 1,500-pound, 6-foot-high work of bronze now outside the entrance to the Chazen Museum of Art.
Quoted: Joanne Cantor, a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who studied the effect of media on children, said stories such as Slenderman can have a greater effect because children can interact with the tale by viewing pictures, watching videos or posting their own versions of stories or comments.
Gary Miller will start as the new chancellor at UW-Green Bay in August, leaving the same job at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington amid an urgent plea from some on that campus to stay put.
In late April, the CBS program ?60 Minutes? aired an extraordinary report titled ?Saving the Children,? about Sir Nicholas Winton, a 104-year-old (now 105 ? his birthday was May 19) Englishman who in 1939 helped 669 children, mostly Jews, escape Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia through a program called Kindertransports. Renata Laxova was one of those kids. Laxova, 82, is an emeritus professor of genetics at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is bringing its personnel management system into the 21st century to remain competitive and efficient ? a tactic that HR consultants say is being replicated by other higher learning institutions across the nation.
Otto Puls didn?t wear his Yankees gear to Miller Park. How could he? The Brewers were his host, the night of May 9. Puls, 81, is assistant equipment manager for University of Wisconsin men?s basketball. He is also the official scorer at home games, a post he has held for 50 years. Puls is as much a Kohl Center fixture as Bucky Badger or Mike Leckrone. But make no mistake, he?s also a Yankees fan.
Noted: One such case is that of William J. Cronon, a pro-labor professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2011, during battles over the future of organized labor in that state, the Republican Party of Wisconsin requested copies of Cronon?s email correspondence containing various terms, including Gov. Scott Walker, who pursued legislation cracking down on unions.
Records from an investigation reveal a University of Wisconsin police captain was fired for taking thousands of inappropriate photos and videos.
Checks totaling nearly $1.1 million have been sent to 83 area nonprofits and to 25 project managers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
A UW-Madison Police Department captain took thousands of photos and videos of unsuspecting women over more than six years before he was fired in March, according to an internal investigation, and could face criminal charges.
Last month?s forum on race had just begun when moderator Keith Woods asked the eight panelists what really gets in the way of honest conversation about the racial divide in Madison. Everett Mitchell, with jarring honesty, set the tone for the rest of the evening. Mitchell, an African-American, is Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and pastor at Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church. At 37, he?s a dynamic leader with a growing record of selfless community service, one already too long to catalog quickly.
Noted: Tigers may signify strength and dominance, or suggest the hunt?all cues male daters might wish to convey, said Catalina Toma, assistant professor of communication science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose research focuses on self-presentation in online dating. A tiger snapshot from an exotic location may also signal that a person has the means to travel, Dr. Toma added.
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is proposing a one-year plan to cover tuition costs of high school students who take UW classes offered in their schools for college credit.
A Dane County judge denied a motion to suppress evidence from sexual assault exam in a sexual assault case against a University of Wisconsin football recruit.
Among northern muriqui monkeys in the Brazilian rainforest, both sexes are co-equals and there?s little conflict. Karen Strier started studying this species in 1982 after conducting field research on baboons, and she fully expected that higher-ranking monkeys would get better food, have more friends and family, and have more reproductive success. But she observed no spats over food, even though males hung out close to one another, and she was shocked to see that when a female was ready to mate, the males waited patiently in a line for their turn to copulate. No particular male got to go first, and a study of 22 youngsters showed that 13 different males had become fathers.
A task force established by the Environmental Protection Agency to curtail farmland pollution that flows into the Mississippi River said Wednesday it has reached an agreement to work with 12 universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the problem.
The author, a Virginia psychiatrist and member of Alliance for Animals, argues that “UW needs to at once ? and forever ? eliminate maternal deprivation from its research activities.”
In an effort to combat illiteracy in their area of Stockton, a community group is refurbishing old newspaper vending machines into kiosks that will let anyone borrow a book ? for free.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced Zoey Brooks, of Waupaca, has been chosen as the state?s 67th Alice in Dairyland.
In March, Indianhead Community Action Agency, Inc. (ICAA) offered eight students from UW-Madison an opportunity to experience the programs and services provided by ICAA, Inc. and to learn from the staff about how they strive to help clients to achieve self-sufficiency.
Thursday the Wisconsin men’s and women’s track and field teams headed to Purdue University for the Big Ten Championships. The Badgers will be led by first year program director Mick Byrne. Byrne inherited the men’s program from legendary Wisconsin coach Ed Nuttycombe who announced his retirement in June 2013.
The center consists of business offices and specially designed spaces for use by federal and state officials, employers, and other agencies to assist student veterans, active duty students and more. Campus officials say there are around 600 prior-service veterans and current military members enrolled during a typical semester.
Agrace, Wisconsin?s largest nonprofit community hospice and palliative care agency, is adding Michael Johnson and Everett Mitchell to its board, effective May 1, 2014.
As the college class of 2014 prepares to receive its diplomas, NPR took a look at the national mix of bachelor?s degrees awarded over four decades and graphed them.
Noted: He spent two years studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before he was accepted into the Naval Academy.
In Wisconsin, he will perhaps be remembered most for pushing to merge the University of Wisconsin in Madison with the state college system, a fierce battle that created today?s system of 13 four-year state colleges.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who conduct an annual study of poverty have found jobs and earnings are beginning to rise again as the Badger State recovers from the recession.
UW-Madison Consumer Science Professor Nancy Wong explains the appeal of “secret menu” items to customers and restaurants.
Noted: Also by Flad and also challenging, the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Biochemical Sciences Complex project involved the restoration and renovation of historic buildings, the demolition of an outdated lab facility and the design of a new research tower.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Tuesday students will receive a new competition swimming pool as part of the Recreational Sports Master Plan.
UW-Madison announced Tuesday it plans to build a $26 million competition swimming pool as part of the renovation of the Southeast Recreational Facility SERF on campus.
John Mulligan on Monday assumed the role of interim president and CEO for Minneapolis-based Target. He graduated from Eau Claire Regis High School in 1983 before earning a bachelor?s degree at UW-Madison and a master?s of business administration at the University of Minnesota. He was unavailable for comment Tuesday.
The Faculty Senate wrapped up the 2013-2014 school year Monday afternoon, voting to approve the creation of two different positions in the graduate school administrative offices as well as the framework of the new campus-wide Diversity Plan.
A ribbon cutting Monday for a one-of-a-kind lab on the UW campus.
n Wisconsin, campuses have become increasingly lonely for American Indians. In the last half-decade, other minority groups have seen an increase in enrollment. American Indians, meanwhile, have declined across the University of Wisconsin System four-year campuses, from 982 students in 2009-2010 to 743 students in the 2013-2014 school year. That?s a drop of 24 percent. At the flagship UW-Madison, their numbers have dropped by nearly half, from 206 to 112.
n Wisconsin, campuses have become increasingly lonely for American Indians. In the last half-decade, other minority groups have seen an increase in enrollment. American Indians, meanwhile, have declined across the University of Wisconsin System four-year campuses, from 982 students in 2009-2010 to 743 students in the 2013-2014 school year. That?s a drop of 24 percent. At the flagship UW-Madison, their numbers have dropped by nearly half, from 206 to 112.
Although critics claim affirmative action measures in college admissions give minority students an unfair advantage over their white counterparts, such policies have done little to change the complexion of the University of Wisconsin?s student body, which is 85 percent white.
The new University of Wisconsin-Madison personnel management system has encouraged further development of the Human Resources Design Project strategic plan, according to a university release.
Considering it?s the home of Wisconsin?s flagship state university, Dane County has the highest percentage of residents with at least a bachelor?s degree in the state, 45.8 percent.
With an eight-kilometer run beginning at Capitol Square, continuing down State Street, looping around Picnic Point then finishing on the 50-yard line at Camp Randall and a two-mile walk through campus, the 33rd annual Crazylegs Classic brought thousands of participants together to enjoy a Madison tradition.
Quoted: Economist Jason Fletcher, an associate professor of public policy at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has researched how additional sales taxes impact products like soda. He said these taxes do not necessarily correlate to less soda consumption or calorie intake.
Profile of former UW Opera director Karlos Moser, who will reunite his Hyperion Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra for a concert on May 19 to benefit the Karlos and Melinda Moser Opera Ticket Fund, which gets students into live operas for free.
Madison’s Pro Arte Quartet paid tribute to its Belgian roots by premiering a new work by Belgian composer Benoît Mernier. This composition, Quartet No. 3, was commissioned for the ensemble’s centennial celebration.
Ending a memorable 16-season career with University Opera, director William Farlow directed a charming rendition of Hector Berlioz’s comic opera Béatrice et Bénédict at the UW Music Hall on Friday, April 11. The 1862 opera, Berlioz’s last work, is based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing but features a pared-down plot and additional comedic sections.
Shank will be a visiting assistant professor of violin next fall, with a one-year appointment while a search for a full-time, tenured professor will continue. She replaces Felicia Moye, professor of violin, who has taken a position at McGill University in Montreal.
The University of Wisconsin System received approval from the Legislature?s employment relations committee to begin implementation of new personnel systems across the system Wednesday.
Protesters from 350Madison and the Fossil Free UW Coalition marched down State Street Tuesday to raise awareness about climate change and fossil use use, issues that have been drawn into focus by University of Wisconsin governance groups.
In just two years, high school students taking college entry exams will see some changes and school counselors in our area say that may help improve access for underrepresented populations.
Tyler McIntosh, 25, led Madison police in a high-speed car chase Monday afternoon in an attempt to escape an outstanding felony warrant.
Moser, an acclaimed UW-Madison emeritus music professor and opera conductor, has been standing the whole age thing on its head his entire life. He started on the piano at 4. He entered Princeton at 16. He began doing yoga at 70.
UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said that generally, adjunct positions at UW System schools require a bachelor?s degree. However, departments and deans can make exceptions, he said, and ?the university would most likely make that exception for non-degreed individuals with significant real-world accomplishments.? Given that UW System faculty and officials weren?t shy about signing the Walker recall petition, though, that still might be a tough nut for an aspiring Professor Walker to crack.
While diversity at University of Wisconsin is slowly increasing, numbers released by the Office of the Provost show this increase continues to be minimal from year to year.
Wisconsin’s dairy industry faces new challenges to its continued prosperity, from environmental pressures on the land and water that sustain it to consumer trends that compel product innovation. Fostering that kind of innovation is the goal of the TURBO project within the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research.
New feature on the regional dialect dictionary started by a UW?Madison prof.
Members of the Open Source Seed Initiative rallied on the UW-Madison campus Thursday, pledging to preserve plant diversity by keeping seeds from their cultivars patent-free and widely available.
A UW-Madison engineering professor is the recipient of the highest honor the U.S. government can bestow on science and engineering professionals.
Find the budgeted salary for any staff member of the University of Wisconsin.
The mix of loans greatly affects total payout, says Susan Fischer, UW-Madison financial aid director. While interest on federal student loans varies from the 3.8 to 6 percent this year to as much as 9 percent, private loans can carry interest rates of 15 to 18 percent, she says.
Spurred by campus irregularities regarding human-resource protocol, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly debated clearer language at a meeting Monday.
