University of Wisconsin Madison News

Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion - the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior.

Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee largely signed off Tuesday on giving Gov.

A broad array of state properties, including prisons, university dormitories, power plants and highways, could be sold to private buyers without going through a public bidding process, under a provision approved by the Legislature's budget committee on Tuesday.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Police have arrested a 19-year-old student for allegedly setting fire to a bulletin board in a residence hall.

More seats are likely to be filled in La Crosse classrooms in the coming years. That's according to the findings of a researcher from UW-Madison who's projecting the next 10 years of enrollment for the district.

Replacing a single aspartate residue in this cyclic peptide with an alanine produces a potent inhibitor of quorum sensing in Staphylococcus aureus .

New research indicates that Lake Superior's warming water is probably already affecting its most abundant big fish: the cold water-loving siscowet lake trout.

A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition explains a technique that could help researchers get a good measurement of sugary beverage consumption - by analyzing a piece of hair or a blood sample.

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.