Despite widespread skepticism about whether or not the digitalization of America?s dialogue can advance modern thought, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Dietram Scheufele said there are only three common behaviors that, if corrected, could transform the current state of polarizing disagreements online into beneficial conversations.
Buried a mile underneath the ice of Antarctica, the University of Wisconsin?s south pole particle detector, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, has discovered unprecedented amounts of energy beneath the surface and recently has attracted some national media attention in the science community.
In an effort to foster discourse between Badger fans and University of Wisconsin officials about game days, the Athletic Department is collaborating with the first Fan Advisory Council, set to have its first meeting Monday.
Bare trees and bundled up students means its finals season at the UW-Madison Law School.
Noted: Applicants from outside the department could include Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at UW-Madison and a former Madison police officer, who said he is considering seeking the chief?s job and is waiting to see the commission?s application materials before making a decision.
The Border Battle between Wisconsin and Minnesota is a rivalry game and a trophy game at that. It’s expected that emotions run high and sometimes boil over. Even after the game has ended.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
As debate about the monitoring of online activities continues in the public sphere, a review of the University of Wisconsin?s information system privacy policies found administrators can only access student email after a written request is approved.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature?s Audit Committee wants more information from the University of Wisconsin System before it will vote on its plan for how much money it will keep in reserves.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are exploring a partnership.
UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are exploring a partnership.
The Classified Staff Executive Committee will meet Thursday to begin drafting internal bylaws, continuing a process where classified staff will organize in a formal governance structure for the first time in the university?s history.
Noted: In the 1930s, she studied at the University of Wisconsin, where she took classes in art, writing and child psychology, exquisitely apt preparation for her future calling.
Noted: One of the first to do so, in the early 1970s, was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin named Pauline Boss. She was interested in the way that families cope with uncertainty. Whether it?s the sudden disappearance of a child or the slow erasure of a parent by dementia, the grief process is complicated by a disrupted narrative, because so much of grieving depends on the understanding and acceptance of what has happened.
In a Nov. 12 memo, Provost Paul DeLuca and Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell described the guidelines for a fund created to rectify salaries below national averages.
Most nights after coming home from daycare, 2-year-old Brennans favorite toy is a $350 iPad.
Forbes Magazine listed the MGE Innovation Center within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Park as a top hotbed for high tech startups Friday.
An audit of the University of Wisconsin System released Nov. 15 revealed that no documented plans exist for 40.7 percent of UW-Madison?s 2012 program revenue balances.
Just under $150 million of University of Wisconsin?s surplus was discovered to be without documentation in an audit report released Friday, triggering heightened public and legislative concern for UW?s spending accountability.
An armed robbery occurred at about 5:51 p.m. Wednesday night behind 700 Regent Street on the bike path, Madison Police Department Lt. Dan Olivas said.
A Madison man was robbed at knife-point around near West Washington Avenue and Regent Street in downtown Madison Wednesday evening.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced in a press release Tuesday it will partner with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to develop campus entrepreneurship and utilize collaboration to bring innovative ideas to fruition.
Madison residents could see a new transit center in the downtown area after a local company outlined its plan for a development that also would include student housing in a meeting Monday.
The Academic Staff Assembly met Monday to hear from Chancellor Rebecca Blank about the human resources plan and a fund used to give raises for academic staff.
With the future uncertain for a medical imaging center in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, all 60 center employees received layoff notices last month.
Noted: But Mr. Vidal?s bequest could be the culmination of a late-in-life relationship with Harvard. He believed his papers had not been treated with the respect they demanded at the University of Wisconsin, where they were previously held, Mr. Parini said.
According to a release, three people, two of them firefighters, were transported to UW Hospital overnight following a 2-alarm fire at 2302 University Avenue just before midnight Saturday.
Three people were injured and dozens were evacuated late Saturday night during an apartment fire on University Avenue, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school has laid off all 60 employees from a nationally recognized eye research center that had run up a deficit of $4.6 million.
Does UW-Madison have a snobby image to overcome before it can connect with parts of the greater Madison community?
A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a UW-Madison researcher?s documentary film on how exercise plays a role in combating multiple sclerosis has hit its funding target, and then some.
Noted: Started by two students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988, the free satirical weekly has made people laugh for a quarter-century with headlines such as this one from its latest edition: “Giant burrito to solve all of Area Man?s problems for 6 precious minutes.”
On Sept. 26, Mr. Piscitelli?s eighth grade geometry class took a field trip to the 2013 Wisconsin Science Festival. It was a day of fun and learning on the UW Madison campus.The Indian Mound Middle students got a taste of the college life, while exploring the Engineering Campus and visiting different buildings.
Plans to reconstruct the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall caused a rift between the State Street Design Committee and the Wisconsin Historical Society at a meeting Thursday.
A city committee finalized plans Thursday night for a project to redesign the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall, including a public art sculpture of a maple leaf.
Noted: From 1998 to 1999, Peterson worked as a law clerk for Judge David Deininger of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. He received a law degree in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin law school and was a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame.
Ozanne was born and raised in Madison, the son of two teachers. He helped lead Madison West to two state soccer titles and went on to play at UW-Madison, where he also attended law school.
Peterson is a 1998 graduate of the UW-Madison Law School … He received his bachelor?s and master?s degrees and Ph.D. from UW-Madison.
Stecker will sing the national anthem at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday prior to the Wisconsin-Brigham Young game. It figures to be her largest audience yet. Tuesday night, she?ll be back at the Kohl Center, doing the anthem before the Badgers play Florida.
Tracking the seasonal flu is an onerous task. To accomplish it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) compiles and analyzes reams of data, including virological surveillance from about 145 laboratories, information on outpatient visits from more than 2,900 healthcare providers, and mortality data from 122 cities.
Charlie Trotter, a chef whose flagship restaurant, Charlie Trotter?s, helped establish Chicago as a serious dining city, died on Tuesday. He was 54.
Noted: After Vollbrecht?s own self-written appeals received no response, an organization of law professors and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called the Innocence Project intervened on his behalf.
Noted: One of the sisters, Madelyne, is a UW-Madison junior.
With a culinary style he likened to improvisational jazz, Charlie Trotter changed the way Americans view fine dining, pushing himself, his staff, his food and even his diners to limits rarely seen in an American restaurant. Yet it was his reluctance to move beyond those limits that may have defined the last years of his life.
The University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate heard annual reports from the Committee on Access and Accommodation in Instruction as well as the Information Technology Committee and reviewed an amendment on UW-Madison Faculty Policies and Procedures at a meeting Monday.
Noted: During World War II, the University of Wisconsin shortened pre-med to two years. I was accepted to the program in 1947. I graduated four years later. Much of what I learned in my fourth year of medical school was of use to me in my medical practice.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin Madison sent out an alert to students in October, warning that the IT help desk had “received numerous reports” of the software.
Shawn Kelly, an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is gearing up to take over as the new Langdon neighborhood police officer next week and wants to communicate with students by using social media to help keep them safe.
The University of Wisconsin System granted funding to two proposals involving UW-Madison Friday as part of a systemwide program meant to encourage economic growth and a stronger workforce in the state.
While they will not vote on any policy changes, University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate will review the efforts of several committees to administer a campus-wide diversity survey and improve information technology services at a meeting Monday.
The University of Wisconsin campus experienced a minor theft, the second in recent weeks, on Bascom Hill Thursday.
It started as a magazine cover, then became a gift from a major corporation to a prestigious university. It brought together a famed American artist and a great college athlete, both dead too early. It had a name change, and, later, spent years away from view, presumed lost.
Babcock Hall Dairy Plant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison started producing two lactose-free ice cream options this fall, vanilla and hazelnut cafe, according to a news release.
With the cacophony of lecture hall sniffling here to stay on campus, University of Wisconsin scientists are one step closer to finding a cure to the common cold.
Wadsworth is one of several creative thinkers making use of the state?s historical records that provide a digital window into the past. UW-Madison student Kait Vosswinkel is documenting the “timeless” aspects of campus through a photo essay series called “Moving Forward. Looking Back,” using images from UW Digital Collections. And Megan Costello, a School of Library & Information Studies master?s candidate who is also the director of communications for the College of Letters and Science, and Vicki Tobias, an images and media archivist for the archives, used scrapbooks from the early 1900s to bring the stories of two alumnae to life on the UW Archives “Found in the University Archives!” Tumblr.
People who can?t tolerate dairy can now get a taste of one of UW-Madison?s most beloved products.
20 years ago, 70 people were taken to the hospital after a stampede at Camp Randall. A woman in the student section at the time says she still gets nervous when she sees crowds trying to rush the field.
When the Badgers play football at Camp Randall Stadium, over 80,000 fans pack the stadium, but 20 years ago the fan experience was shaken to the core.
A majority of University of Wisconsin-Madison students have never seen the Hagenah fountain in Library Mall turned on, nor have they been able to walk directly through the space on their way to Memorial Union, and it is unlikely that they will be able to see or do these things anytime soon.
