University of Wisconsin Madison News

As thousands of University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates received diplomas over the weekend, economists said their job prospects were improved yet still uncertain.

Gov. Scott Walker's administration would gain broad authority to sell state property - including prisons, highways, heating plants and university dormitories - under a plan legislators will take up Tuesday.

With snow still lying on the Cairngorm plateau in Scotland, this year has started well for ptarmigans, mountain hares and blaeberry plants .

The debacle at the Internal Revenue Service reached Wisconsin last week when a Texas tea party group said that the IRS closely questioned its leaders about whether they were involved in verifying recall signatures in Wisconsin last year.

A 5,300-year-old man found sticking out of an Alpine glacier in 1991 possessed more genes in common with Neandertals than Europeans today do.

A brawl at Dave's Escape tavern in Big Flats sent one woman to the hospital and two others in jail, the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune reports .

Angela Schoepke, student teaching at Madison Memorial High, hopes to land a first-year teaching job.

Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction.

Penn State's Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses announced Friday that David Christiansen will be the new associate vice president for Commonwealth Campuses and senior associate dean for academic programs.

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to freeze student tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses for the next two years would mark the first two-year tuition freeze for the four-year campuses in the 42-year history of the UW System.

Triplets Stephanie, Kyle and Ashley Verhasselt, of Freedom, will receive their undergraduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in three separate commencement ceremonies.

Scientists at Oregon Health and Science University announced this week that they'd made a discovery 50 years in the making by using a cloning technique to create embryonic stem cells.

Palmyra-Eagle seniors were honored with more than $240,000 in scholarships Wednesday at their annual senior honors night.

The two top graduating seniors academically from Coleman High School are Mackenzie Meyer, valedictorian, and salutatorian is Montana Bischof.

College seniors are picking up their caps and gowns, going down bucket lists of last-minute photos they want to take as souvenirs, and preparing for spring graduation ceremonies this weekend at several public and private universities and colleges.

The Dalai Lama presents scarf to Rep. Thomas Weatherston after speaking to the Assembly at the state Capitol in Madison.

According to a recent op-ed on the Wall Street Journal , rising CO2 levels are the best thing to happen to the planet since the Big Bang.

The Muskego Lion's Club awarded to Muskego High School seniors Monday night with their Robert Kreuser and David Salentine scholarships.

Fancy seeing the sky in neutrino? Supermassive black holes and enormous stellar explosions may give up their secrets now that neutrinos from space can be detected.

In a new study from researchers at Texas Tech University, scientists have discovered that the structure of amber barely changes even after tens of millions of years.