University of Wisconsin Madison News

The University of Wisconsin System announced Friday it is ramping up its new competency-based Flexible Option degree program for working adults to learn skills in demand among Wisconsin employers.

With evidence growing that meditation can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body.

University of Wisconsin system president Kevin P. Reilly, right, chats with regent president Michael Falbo, left, and regent vice president Regina Millner, center, and other following a news conference in July announcing Reilly's departure at UW-Madison's Union South in Madison.

Growing up in Wisconsin Molly Segall would often see the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile drive up and down the highways and knew that would be a dream job for her.

The program is set to begin at UW-Milwaukee and the system's two-year schools next month.

Researchers found a partial skeleton -- including arm, hand, leg and foot fragments -- dated to 1.34 million years old and belonging to Paranthropus boisei at the Olduvai Gorge World Heritage fossil site in Tanzania.

Even though John Nichols watched the man's health deteriorate over the last few months, he said he was shocked to hear about Nelson Mandela's death.

The definition of a university event has been clarified to include any gathering, program or activity on school property, sponsored by the school or paid for with university money.

Nearly all of the images in our online collections are available for purchase as archival pigment prints or digital files and many may be licensed for reproduction .

Dr. Kerry Kretchmar, assistant professor of education at Carroll University, was invited to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, for a discussion about Teach for America and its impact on schools of education, school districts, teachers and students.

Two blasts of cold air will bring us colder than normal temperatures well into next week.

With evidence growing that meditation can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body.

University of Wisconsin Competitive Pay Increases 2013 :In an effort to retain top faculty and researchers, the University of Wisconsin System is allowed to grant salary increases to recognize competitive market factors, such as competing job offers or professors who become well-known and likely to be recruited elsewhere.

The observations, made by a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy professor Sebastian Heinz, reveal an astrophysical novelty of the Milky Way: a glowing nebula created when the star exploded and, inside of it, the collapsed core of the exploded star, a neutron star, still clinging to its former companion star.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen - a discovery that may lead to a better understanding of hormonal changes observed from before birth throughout the entire aging process.

Graphic ads depicting animal testing began appearing on Metro Transit buses Monday, a decision the transit agency said it is powerless to stop.

PETA has launched eight-week ad campaign featuring graphic images of animal testing on more than 130 Metro Transit buses in Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is recruiting for an academic neuropathologist in the tenure track.

MADISON RANK IN THE TOP TEN FOR PARTY SCHOOLS. 12 NEWS TERRY SATER TELLS US WHAT UW- MILWAUKEE IS DOING TO STAY OFF THE LIST.

There are an alarming number of people in Dane County who have a sexually transmitted infection and public health officials are hoping a new program will help prevent the spread of disease.