Freshman Julia Addis left the warmth of Redwood City, Calif., for UW-Madison because she wanted a different experience than she felt schools in her state offered.
Former UW-Madison Spanish professor Birute Ciplijauskaite won the 2015 Wednesday, a unanimous selection by the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board.
Gov. Scott Walker signed 49 bills into law Wednesday, including measures that loosen concealed carry gun laws and one bill that makes upskirting a felony.
Budget talks for the 2016 fiscal year entered their final stages at a Madison Common Council meeting Tuesday as city leaders and community members discussed new city proposals.
UW-Madison announced Tuesday it has made funds available for raises to recognize strong performance and support faculty and staff who are in high market demand.
The Student Leadership Program, a UW-Madison student organization that looks to help students develop key leadership skills, hopes to use its newly approved budget to recruit and maintain new members, according to the group’s financial coordinator Allison Amadon.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.4 million purchase for a downtown homeless resource center Friday.
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.
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