A federal court jury in Madison supported a criminal complaint initially filed in 2014 by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Tuesday, finding Apple Inc. guilty of infringing on the foundation’s patent rights for a specialized microprocessor.
The Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council began discussion Wednesday on the organization’s operating budget for the 2016 fiscal year.
“You are beautiful.”
A UW-Madison alumna who became a “social entrepreneur” in India after a year abroad will deliver the winter commencement speech, according to a Wednesday university press release.
The UW Police Department issued a release Tuesday denouncing a recent proposed bill that would allow concealed carry on UW campus grounds and inside buildings, saying the change could put people at risk.
A U.S. Senator recently introduced a bill that would expand college students’ access to free, online textbooks to ease the rising cost of higher education.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced the winners of its annual Innovation Awards Tuesday, according to a university release.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association announced Monday it will honor four notable Badger alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award.
In light of the recent shootings at Umpqua Community College in Oregon and Northern Arizona University, UW-Madison Police Department Chief Susan Riseling informed students about the university’s preventative measures in a Monday email.
After an April 2015 earthquake tore through Nepal, killing more than 9,000 people and flattening entire villages, UW-Madison medical student Eric Moffet felt compelled to help.
UW-Madison administration recently met with Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell to clarify the current voter ID process for students. The university has offered a separate, free voter ID card for UW-Madison students since 2012, Executive Director of University Communications at UW-Madison John Lucas said in a Sunday email.
With art supplies scattered everywhere, a group of 16 young girls worked on four different art projects Friday as part of an attempt by the Gender and Women’s Studies Department to educate girls about media literacy, body image and empowerment.
More than 95 percent of Badgers returned to campus this fall after their freshman year at UW-Madison, an increase from the previous academic school year. The Office of Academic Planning and Institutional Research at UW-Madison released fall 2015 enrollment numbers, which showed the university had a freshman-sophomore year retention rate of 95.8 percent, an increase from 95.3 percent the previous year, according to a UW-Madison release. UW-Madison’s average time to degree is the lowest in university records at 4.13 years, decreased from last year’s data of 4.16 years. “These metrics are viewed as indicators of quality of the educational experience and represent a focus on student success by all of the faculty and staff who work with and teach undergraduates,” UW-Madison Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf said in the release.
They’re here. They’re not for dinner. Get used to it. Thanksgiving tidings have been spreading through the UW-Madison campus this week thanks to a few new avian visitors.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council met with University Health Services representatives during its meeting Wednesday to discuss survey results regarding drinking habits on campus compared to national averages.
It’s an overcast Sunday morning in Madison’s Brittingham Park. Out of the calm atmosphere comes a loud, “Brooms up!” Two hordes of college students charge each other at full speed with narrow PVC pipes between their legs. Dodgeballs whiz through the air. Juking out opponents left and right, one player throws a volleyball through a large hoop as his team celebrates their score.
Sneezing and sniffling classmates, germy doorknobs, public restrooms—it feels like getting sick is impossible to avoid. Each year, influenza affects the campus community and students miss significant amounts of class time and work. To limit the effects of the flu on the student population, University Health Services (UHS) offers a flu shot, free of charge, to every UW-Madison student through November 20.
The UW System and UW-Madison will present a proposal to the Board of Regents Thursday, that would to increase the nonresident student enrollment cap for the next four years.
UW-Madison researchers found a better way to detect and treat cancer by utilizing two markers instead of one to target a common brain cancer, according to a Wednesday university news release.
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