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SOUTH BEND, Ind. The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay mens soccer team fell 2-1 to the University of Notre Dame in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night.

MADISON University of Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan is taking his team to the Maui Invitational trying to figure out the same thing thats puzzling a lot of coaches: Just how good are we right now

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville community is responding to three different incidents in two residential halls that have targeted a group of minorities because of their race.

The University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley mens basketball team started its season off right with a 63-62 victory over the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield in the opening round of the UW-Fond du Lac Invitational at Fond du Lac on Friday.

At Madison, Jon Leuer scored 15 points as Wisconsin cruised to a win over Bemidji State in the Badgers first exhibition game on Wednesday.

By vbelknap In the more than 100-year history of the Wisconsin School of Business, fewer than 100 individuals have been chosen for its Distinguished Business Alumnus Award. This fall, four alumni were honored for their career achievements in career and contributions to community service, and the...

By vbelknap Agarwal is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in biochemical engineering and biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India in 2002, and a...

MILWAUKEE The University of Wisconsin cracked The Associated Press Top 25 this week and has a remaining schedule that sets up nicely for a strong finish.

By Gavin Baker(noreply@blogger.com) Some other news announced as part of Open Access Week: The Confederation of Open Access Repositories launched (as previously announced) and started signing up members, including JISC, eIFL, and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Also see Neil Jacobs' comments on JISC's...

By Gavin Baker(noreply@blogger.com) Some other news announced as part of Open Access Week: The Confederation of Open Access Repositories launched (as previously announced) and started signing up members, including JISC, eIFL, and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Also see Neil Jacobs' comments on JISC's...

Four advanced pieces of scientific laboratory equipment with a total value of approximately $1 million now are available for use by University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell and other researchers at several campus departments and centers due to a donation by the private nonprofit Wi...

He earned his B.A. in economics from the University of Manitoba in Canada and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. In 1990, he was awarded an honorary M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Wright will teach courses in both the Wisconsin School of Business and in the Economi...

The latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of U.S. undergraduate business programs places the Wisconsin School of Business 13th overall among business schools, the same as last year. Wisconsin ranks 7th among public institutions and 2nd among Big Ten business schools.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked ninth among public institutions in annual rankings released Aug. 20 in the U.S. News and World Report's 2010 edition of America's Best Colleges.

By Terry Devitt(trdevitt@wisc.edu) The University of Wisconsin-Madison's nearly $840 million research portfolio, one of the top three in the country, will become even larger as federal agencies begin to dole out new stimulus grants.

MADISON Four employees of a consulting firm billed more than $200,000 apiece in five months for work on a University of Wisconsin System information technology project, according to a review by The Associated Press.

By Ronald Bailey Less than two years ago, it looked like the ethical debate over human embryonic stem cells might be coming to an end. In November 2007, two research groups, one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and another at Kyoto University in Japan, announced that they had succeeded in directly r...

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By Peter Suber(noreply@blogger.com) Now, before I give you the results, I need to mention that the librarians I contacted all serve in public institutions (University of California, Berkeley; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; University of Calgary, Canada; and University of...

By Liz Beyler(lbkraak@wisc.edu) Overflowing Dumpsters could become a thing of the past this year when approximately 6,800 University of Wisconsin-Madison students move out of their university residence halls through May 17.

One of the world’s leading feminist theorists and family-law scholars, Fineman has encouraged colleagues, lawmakers and students to challenge the status quo. After earning a B.A. degree from Temple University and a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago, Fineman clerked for the Honor...

AP) - Tuition will go up $250 per year for the next four years for most University of Wisconsin-Madison students. The surcharges will rise by $250 and $750 each of the following three years until they are $1000 for Wisconsin residents and $3000 for ... UW Badger Herald

 Wisconsin MILWAUKEE -- The University of Wisconsin System's Board of Regents approved the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates on Friday. The plan is the first major initiative by UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, who replaced John Wiley as leader of the ...

 Netherlands Lindley Reilly, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Could rumen microbes strengthen the sustainability of the poultry, swine, and aquaculture industries worldwide? A review of the literature. Joanna Thornton, University College Dublin, ...

Webmaster Mark Anderson left the business school in April to accept a position with American Family Insurance in its Digital Marketing Group. Anderson had worked in the Marketing Services unit of the Wisconsin School of Business for almost seven years, working to build a consistent onl...

By Erica Perez of the Journal Sentinel A new policy brief from the higher education research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says Gov. ... Report finds Doyle’s Wisconsin Covenant may be un-kept promise New Richmond News

By Compiled by USCHO Staff OTTAWA, Ont. — James van Riemsdyk (Middletown, N.J./University of New Hampshire) scored a highlight-reel goal in overtime to lift the United States to a 3-2 win over the Czech Republic Sunday in the fifth-place game at the 2''9 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championsh...

University of Wisconsin and state health officials announce a record-breaking 39,000 calls to the states Tobacco Quit Line in 2008 and celebrated the Quit Line fielding 122,000 calls in its seven-year history. Smokers are encouraged to call 1-800-QUIT-NOW to get the support they need...

By Gen. JC Christian, Patriot(noreply@blogger.com) You were right to react as you did by rebuking Bucky Badger--he'd have been stoned in a more god-fearing society. But by focusing on the cake delivery, you ignored the real problem: the fact that Wisconsin chose such a wicked, wicked animal to serve as its mascot.

By rss@youtube.com (TheRussianTiger) John Doe from Soulbotics Krew was invited to do a special performance for the University of Wisconsin - Madison JUST BUSTA MOVE hip hop event. After the show he got down with us (Uniiq Funk) and we had a lot of fun. Here are some of the highligh clips. Enjoy!...

By Jon 1. Ohio University - 1,287 7. Michigan State University - 753 8. Howard University - 572 10. University of Wisconsin at Madison - 513 14. University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire - 473 17. Kent State University - 424 18. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - 400 24. Arizona State University - 336

By Ann Althouse(annalthouse@mac.com) The NYT shocks the world with a devasting exposé of our dissolute Wisconsin culture: The group, led by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, criticized the state as having lenient alcohol laws and assailed a mindset that accepts, even celebrates, getting dr...

Milan Hauner is a leading Czech historian whose area of expertise is World War II, Germany and Czech-German relations. He himself was born during the war, in 1940, to a Czech-German couple who were both deaf. In this edition of Panorama, Professor Hauner, who teaches at the University of Wi...

The University of Iowa is limiting the number of online courses and students that faculty can teach after it was learned that some professors received big bonuses for teaching up to three times their regular class load.In a copyright story, the Des Moines Sunday Register, is reporting th...

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Isabel Karpin, University of Sydney Law School Linda McClain, Boston University Feminist law efforts as social engineering. Darren Hutchinson, American University, Washington College of Law Feminism in the afterlife. Commentator: Dorothy Brown, Emory University School of Law

The Wisconsin School of Business hosted an economic debate between advisors for Barack Obama and John McCain’s presidential campaigns. The debate was moderated by Dean Michael Knetter. The event was covered by several news outlets including the Associated Press, WKOW-TV, WISC-TV, NB...

By Melissa Anderson(mkanderson@bus.wisc.edu) The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has one of the nation's top programs in entrepreneurship, according to a survey just published in the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.

Two weeks ago, a blog post on the National Review Online criticized Martin as a “self-indulged, theory-laden, post-modern scholar.” And after Wisconsin State Rep. Steve Nass circulated a link to the blog within the State House, state representatives have made public a debate over Marti...

By Ben Eisen and Emily Cohn While many Cornell students, faculty and staff have offered both praise for Provost Biddy Martin as she prepares to assume the position of University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor in September and lamentation in the wake of her absence at Cornell, the chancellor-elect has become t...

By moniqueleonard However, this is not surprising considering the University of Wisconsin System estimates the 2007-’08 school year at UW-Madison will cost $18,190 for Wisconsin residents. The sum is significantly higher for other students: $19,810 for Minnesota residents and $32,440 for out-of-st...

By Mike Millikin The other partners in the international project team are: DOE Joint Genome Institute USA, University of Bristol, USDA Research at University of Wisconsin, Southeast Missouri State University, Clark University, Sylvan Inc USA, Institut für Forstbotanik der Universität Göttingen...

By Peter Suber The number of libraries participating in the Google Book Search Library Project just got a whole lot bigger with today's addition of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). The CIC is a national consortium of 12 research universities, including University of Chicago, Unive...

By Mike Millikin The 17 teams participating in Challenge X include Michigan Technological University; Mississippi State University, The Ohio State University; Pennsylvania State University; Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, San Diego State University, Texas Tech University; University o...

Known for her work on gender issues, Nourse currently teaches criminal law and constitutional law as Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin.  She has published widely on these topics in a variety of prestigious journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Stanf...

By Ann Althouse Here's what happened at my law school last night, at an event I avoided: An emotionally charged group of hundreds of students, faculty and community members met Thursday night to address a University of Wisconsin professor’s statements about the Hmong community.

“The committee asked that the ban not be put into place until Coke could [be given the opportunity] to cooperate into bringing forward a group to investigate these allegations,” Arthur Tannenbaum, Chair of the University Senate’s Public Affairs Committee, said.

Beginning next year, professors at various United States universities, including the University of Wisconsin, will be able to give lectures in classrooms other than 400-plus-seat lecture halls as a result of the “Indo-U.S. Inter-University Collaborative Initiative in Higher Educa...

The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team threw a party Saturday, Bo Ryan-style. The party didn’t involve balloons or cake, but instead ball control and sharp-shooting. The team convincingly defeated in-state rival Marquette 77-63, delivering Ryan his 100th win as UW head coa...

For the first time this year, the University of Wisconsin will have the opportunity to play a highly anticipated matchup at home, when in-state rival Marquette (6-2) visits Madison Saturday afternoon. Indeed, it will not only be the first “big” home game of the season, but for some of Wisc...