The U.S. News and World Report retracted the high national ranking of UW-Madison’s graduate engineering program after finding the school reported incorrect application and acceptance rates.
Scott Walker stars in new TV ad Scott Walker showed his support for Ted Cruz in his new TV ad released Thursday, encouraging voters to join him in voting for Cruz in the April 5 Wisconsin primaries.
Gov. Scott Walker officially signed four college affordability bills into law Monday, despite Democrats alleging the proposals don’t do enough. Two of the bills are concerned with technical college students.
UW-Madison has begun an investigation Tuesday into another reported incident of discrimination on campus, according to the university’s Director of News and Media Relations Meredith McGlone. A student found an explicitly racist letter that was slid under their door implying a threat to the student.
Despite concerns that recent changes in tenure could harm faculty research, UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine and Public Health Robert Golden said the university will remain a top research institution.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council met Wednesday to discuss changes within the Finance Committee, including grants for registered student organizations.
UW-Madison announced the renewal of its funding with the National Science Foundation to operate a telescope known as “IceCube” buried under ice in the South Pole, according to a university news release. The funding for IceCube will be $35 million over the next five years. IceCube is located at the NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and operates to detect high-energy cosmic neutrinos, the discovery of which has led to other scientific findings, according to the release.
UW-Madison will host Relay For Life at the Shell next week, with teams continuing the tradition of walking for 24 consecutive hours to raise money for cancer research. The activities at this year’s event will center on the theme “Cirque du Relay,” and will include dance performances, a hypnotist and a lip-sync battle.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin introduced Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to a crowd of more than 8,000 at Alliant Energy Center Saturday. But the two have a history that goes back to the 1970s when Soglin was the 51st mayor of Madison—he is currently the 57th—and before Sanders was even elected to public office. “I have known Bernie Sanders for 40 years,” Soglin said.
As the April 5 primary approaches, presidential candidates have been busy making their final appeals to voters in the Badger State.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., appeared in Madison Wednesday, holding a campaign rally at the downtown Orpheum Theater six days before the state’s primary election. Sanders was consistent in the talking points that have been evident throughout his campaign.
Findorff will close the 100 block of West Doty Street starting at 4 a.m. April 6 to assemble two tower cranes for the Anchorbank Development project. The closure, which goes from South Hamilton Street to Martin Luther King Jr.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders lead Wisconsin presidential primaries in a new Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday.
Photographer Sally Mann shared chapters from her award-winning memoir during her Distinguished Lecture Series talk Tuesday at Memorial Union. The novel, “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs,” received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2016.
The third congressional election for University Staff began Tuesday, according to a UW-Madison news release.
The Associated Students of Madison University Affairs Committee met Tuesday to discuss the possibility of UW-Madison adopting the learning management system Canvas as an alternative to the university's current systems, Desire2Learn and Moodle.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton followed her Monday, Supreme Court-focused speech by shopping on State Street with Ald.
JANESVILLE, Wis.-- Donald Trump supporters and protesters sparred prior to a Janesville rally where the divisive presidential candidate criticized Wisconsin Gov.
Gov. Scott Walker formally endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as the Republican presidential nominee Tuesday, a week before the critical Wisconsin primary April 5.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Tuesday a $2.25 million fund to address affordable housing is open to community members for application. The funding was established in The Affordable Housing Development fund, which allocates $2 million each year for four years to help the county combat unaffordable housing.
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