New fund to foster UW business endeavors
By The Daily Cardinal | Feb. 13, 2014The University of Wisconsin System announced the creation of a fund that will help develop and distribute ideas created at UW campuses in a press release Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin System announced the creation of a fund that will help develop and distribute ideas created at UW campuses in a press release Thursday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Black Law Students Association and the Sports and Entertainment Law Society held a forum Wednesday to explore the ideas surrounding compensation for college athletes.
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss told University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members what he deemed “the greatest story of all time” Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems celebrated its 25th anniversary Wednesday evening with a panel discussion led by Odessa Piper, founder of Madison restaurant L’Etoile.
Madison city leaders are in the process of deciding if the city’s tax incremental funding will go toward funding the new Judge Doyle Square project or Madison’s School District.
University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Paul Hansen will be featured in Thursday’s Humanities Hackathon, an interactive monthly discussion series run by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Center of the Humanities, according to a WID statement.
Eager to address issues of racial disparity, community leaders anticipate the arrival of the 15th Annual White Privilege Conference, which will be held March 26-29 at the Monona Terrace Convention and Community Center.
The Associated Students of Madison voted unanimously at a meeting Wednesday to support legislation that would clarify student control of their segregated fees.
Madison Magazine awarded two University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professors the 2014 Best of Madison Business Award for their creation of the Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic, according to a university press release.
Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke responded to Gov. Scott Walker’s plans for the state’s projected $977 million surplus in a press conference Tuesday.
The Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee hosted a celebration of the “unity of identities” at Union South Tuesday.
The Eligibility Criteria Review Committee met Tuesday to continue discussing possible changes to group eligibility criteria.
Madison’s Affirmative Action Commission awarded funds to the Keen Independent Research firm to perform the group’s “Disparity Study” planned from the previous year.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Black Law Students Association and the Sports and Entertainment Law Society will host a joint panel discussion titled “Compensation for College Athletes” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Room 5240 of the Law Building.
Three finalists were named for the position of director of Discovery to Product, a new partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, according to a Tuesday university press release.
The Wisconsin state Assembly approved two bills Monday proposed by Gov. Scott Walker in the year’s first Assembly special session.
The Peace Corps named the University of Wisconsin-Madison the nation’s leading source of current Peace Corps volunteers, according to a Tuesday university press release.
The state Assembly approved an amendment to the state’s constitution Tuesday that would require 66 percent of voting members of both chambers to vote in favor of future tax bills in order to move them to the governor's desk.
A state representative questioned a Democratic bill that would allow students to refinance their student loans Tuesday, accusing the two lead authors of misrepresenting the legislation’s potential benefits.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Erin Luhmann discussed her experiences and newly gained insights after traveling abroad with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof at a lecture Monday.