On the heels of last week’s announcement by Kraft Heinz to close Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant, Mayor Paul Soglin reaffirmed his desire to help the plant’s soon-to-be laid off workers.
Students taking classes housed in Vilas Hall, including those in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, received an email Monday alerting them of “an incident of bias and racism” that occurred a few weeks ago in Vilas Hall.
A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience used rodents to find how stress chemicals alter the brain, and could change how post-traumatic stress disorder is treated.
A team of UW-Madison researchers has found a way to more easily identify brain cancer that could lead to earlier diagnoses and more effective treatment of the deadly disease.
State Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson announced Monday she will drop her legal challenge to regain the chief justice position.
The state Senate voted early Saturday morning to approve sweeping changes to the state’s election and campaign finance systems, ending weeks of uncertainty surrounding the bills’ fates.
After seven years of heated rhetoric from both conservatives and environmentalists, President Barack Obama officially announced Friday that he has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline.
A proposal that would require Madison Police Department officers to be outfitted with body cameras has sparked a discussion about police relations within the Madison community. A special committee that the Madison Common Council appointed and tasked with evaluating the benefits and setbacks of using the cameras has investigated the proposal since it was first presented.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank was elected to the Internet2 Board of Trustees this week, a panel made up of various university presidents, chief information officers, researchers and industry partners. The board aims to link academic institutions, federal agencies and laboratories together to form a technologically efficient service network, according to a UW-Madison release. The panel elected Blank for a three-year term, where she will help give fiscal recommendations with other members.
After weeks of negotiation, the state Senate is slated to meet Friday in extraordinary session in an attempt to advance legislation that would alter the state’s election system.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council began conversation Wednesday on its proposed internal budget for the 2017 fiscal year.
Students are looking for solutions to the disproportionate rate at which American Indian students are experiencing sexual assault at UW-Madison, following the university’s Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct.
Members of the UW-Madison community continued conversations surrounding diversity this week during the 17th annual Diversity Forum at Union South.
Students across the UW-Madison campus have juggled many different responsibilities in preparing for the Madison Marathon that will take place this Sunday.
Madison’s famed Oscar Mayer plant will close within the next one to two years, leading to the loss of nearly 1,200 jobs in Madison and the surrounding area.
The Joint Finance Committee approved Wednesday $350 million in state borrowing over the next two years in an effort to combat delays on road construction throughout the state.
Four Madison lawmakers announced Wednesday their bill to ban any possession or transfer of semiautomatic rifles in the state.
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