The Center for Healthy Minds has become its own administrative unit under the College of Letters & Science, and it moved this week from the Waisman Center to the newly-renovated Kennedy Dairy Building at 625 W. Washington Ave.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is now third in the nation for number of Ph.D.s awarded, according to 2015 data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), a federally funded project that has collected this data for nearly 60 years.
Memorial Union’s iconic der Rathskeller and new restaurants Carte, a made-to-order salad and sandwich shop, and Strada, an Italian eatery, will begin serving customers Jan. 17.
Services will be Sunday in Ohio for a University of Wisconsin–Madison student who was killed along with her father in a plane crash just before the new year. In addition, a scholarship fund has been set up in her name.
Royalties from the sale of licensed UW-Madison merchandise set a record in 2015-16, exceeding $4.4 million.
Michael Lenn will join UW-Madison as director of federal relations. Lenn brings more than 15 years of experience working on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to the role.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman is among the six people missing and feared lost after a private plane crashed in Lake Erie near Cleveland on Dec. 29.
Just more than 1,000 students will take part in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at the Kohl Center.
This Black Friday, buy happiness: Snag the best deals of the season while building on the prosocial values of the Thanksgiving celebration. Follow these tips from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Money, Relationship & Equality Initiative and its founder and director Christine Whelan to maximize your well-being and consume happily. Make it social. Who would you …
Four Wisconsin businesses with missions that merge entrepreneurship, social change and sustainable practices each received a $25,000 “Force for Positive Change Award” during a ceremony Friday, Nov. 18, at the Discovery Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Deshawn McKinney, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior majoring in English, has been named a Rhodes finalist. Over the weekend, McKinney and other finalists traveled to Chicago for interviews followed by recipients of the prestigious scholarship being named.
The Seed to Kitchen Initiative from the Department of Horticulture at UW-Madison brings together chefs, farmers and plant breeders to promote vegetable variety characteristics important to local food systems, such as flavor, fresh-market quality and agronomic performance on smaller-scale farms.
What: The first ever “Force for Positive Change” awards ceremony and event, with a slate of national speakers in addition to four Wisconsin-based organizations taking home $25,000. When: 1 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18. Where: Discovery Building, 330 N Orchard St, The “Force for Positive Change” event will showcase social entrepreneurship in for- and nonprofit organizations. …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been recognized as a top 25 university for campuses with the most students studying abroad and for the most international students on campus.
WisconsinEye will livestream a panel discussion on the 2016 presidential campaign featuring Washington Post political reporter David Weigel on Tuesday, Nov. 15. The panel discussion is sponsored by the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.
A search committee of faculty, staff, students and community members has selected four finalists for the position of University of Wisconsin-Madison chief of police.
UW-Madison Professor and Center for Humanities Director Sara Guyer starts this semester as the President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, founded in 1988 to link humanities organizations and scholars.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank shared the following statement to the Nov. 7 meeting of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate: “I am personally very sorry for the hurt that this incident and our response to it has caused. I have heard from students, faculty and community members who are dissatisfied with our response, and I understand why. A …
In the last four months, UW-Madison researchers have started to find zebra mussels congregating in large numbers all over Lake Mendota.
Election Day is Tuesday and UW-Madison has provided students with a variety of information and tools to help them succeed in voting.