State representatives and senators held press conferences in Madison and Milwaukee Monday to call attention to the thousands of residents who will lose BadgerCare coverage April 1, according to a statement from Citizen Action of Wisconsin.
Twenty-five wooden desks sit in neat rows facing a blackboard covered in fragments of calculus equations, foreign words and declarations that “Erin was here,” all smeared and clouded by dust-saturated erasers. A clock hangs above the exit—a lagging reminder of the minutes remaining in class, while a teacher at the front drones to sleepy-eyed students.
In 2010, the University of Wisconsin-Madison set aside $1.5 million in supplemental student tuition charges to improve the quality and accessibility of academic and career advising for undergraduate students.
Expensive introductory textbooks? Check. A more refined wardrobe to impress potential new friends? Check. Self-conducted cost-benefit analysis of majors with their average post-graduate earnings to determine an academic path before struggling through a basic economics class? Probably not.
“The modern university doesn’t believe in a curriculum,” University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Richard Avramenko insists.
While Badger fans celebrated the men’s basketball NCAA overtime win Saturday across Madison, fans of the University of Arizona took to the streets for a different reason.
How tired do you feel right now? How many papers, work shifts and parties are pulling on your conscious, demanding your attention? How are you going to cope? Students and doctors question the largely unknown long-term effects of stimulant drugs and whether they are worth the risk.
When future Badgers and roommates-to-be Abigail Miller and Megan Baker first made plans to meet on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus Sunday, they did not anticipate joining a crowd of thousands in welcoming home the Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
With mere seconds left in the Badgers’ Elite Eight basketball game, anxious fans watched as the team beat No. 1 seed Arizona, opening the floodgates for a city-wide stampede of celebration.
State Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Wauwatosa, settled a year-long open records lawsuit with the Center for Media and Democracy Friday, according to a statement.
Construction work will cause road closures and lane reductions from March 31 to April 18 to install buried facilities on East Johnson Street at Butler, Hamilton and Livingston Streets.
With mere seconds left in the Badgers’ Elite Eight basketball game, anxious fans watched as the team beat No. 1 seed Arizona, opening the floodgates for a city-wide stampede of celebration.
Members of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Student Labor Action Coalition met with Chancellor Rebecca Blank Friday to discuss the enforcement of the Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh signed by the chancellor earlier this month.
Rep. Bill Kramer, R-Waukesha, was charged with two counts of sexual assault Friday.
Chef, author and sustainable food advocate Alice Waters spoke on the uncompromising cultural force of fast food as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Distinguished Lecture Series Thursday.
Following a multiple-day search, a 23-year-old Madison woman was reunited with her iPhone after it was lost or stolen Saturday morning at Genna’s Cocktail Lounge, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Advocacy groups representing over 100,000 Wisconsin veterans insisted the state Legislature amend a bill that will now affect thousands of veterans suffering from mesothelioma, according to Jason Johns, executive director of the Wisconsin Asbestos Victims Network.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Thursday that prohibits early absentee voting on weekends. He also used his veto powers to strike out a provision that would have restricted voting to 45 hours a week in Wisconsin.
Two Democratic Assembly members announced legislation Thursday that would protect low-income families who rely on food stamps.
A national research center led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor may help save the Defense Department millions of dollars on the logistics of shipping military equipment, according to a statement Wednesday.
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