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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been awarded $2.4 million from the federal government to help develop a system for rapidly repairing military equipment damaged on the battlefield, including replacement parts made from lighter and stronger materials than the original parts...
...Yet Thomson’s recent breakthrough could allow scientists to sidestep these moral concerns through the isolation of stem cells in human skin cells. It is invigorating to know that these medical advancements will continue to take place at this university with the arrival of the WID and Morgridge Institute. It’s time for the whole campus to share my enthusiasm. This university is on the cusp of making huge strides as a research institution, and we as a student population remain relatively unaware or uneducated...
A federal district Judge ruled in favor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison last week, saying it had the right to both grant and deny funding to religious student organizations, the Daily Cardinal reports. The suit was originally brought by the Roman Catholic Foundation, a campus student group that was refused funding for some activities for the past two school years...
Carolyn "Biddy" Martin is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but that wasn't the only thing that convinced her to pursue the chancellor's job following John Wiley's decision to step down...
UW-Madison dropped half a letter grade in a sustainability ranking, according to the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card released last week, but university members said the school is not on the path to failure...According to GreenReportCard.org, only 15 schools received an “A” while 75 percent of colleges and universities earned grades in the “B” and “C” range...
In an effort to improve safety and awareness among college students, an innovative new website called UCrime.com is combining Google Maps and police incident reports to help students track crime at UW-Madison and other campuses across the country...
Recent surveys show UW-Eau Claire students have reduced risky behaviors related to alcohol use, a campus official says...
The health promotion and wellness program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has become the first such program to receive accreditation. Last week, the health promotion and wellness program was granted accreditation by the National Wellness Institute. The program has been around for decades and has offered a health promotion and wellness major for eight years...
University of Wisconsin-Parkside students are working with local residents to revitalize the city north of the Root River. Geography students are collecting data about the location of the area’s assets using GPS technology and the project’s facilitator, David Popoff, hopes to use the findings to inform residents of the area’s resources...
...The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has poured millions of dollars into establishing early-college high schools around the country, including two in Milwaukee, primarily aimed at students who traditionally have not gone into higher education...“The whole idea behind it is to increase the number of students who are prepared for college while they’re in high school,” said Mike Webb, an associate vice president at Boston-based Jobs for the Future, which oversees partnerships between colleges and about 160 high schools nationwide...
...Mayor Tom Barrett and a group of local philanthropists will be at the (elementary) school today to say they will pay for extra help for the children, both in and out of school, and will guarantee that the children will be able to pay for college, provided the kids and their families follow through and make it that far. It is the first Milwaukee effort of the I Have a Dream Foundation, an effort that grew out of a businessman's impulsive decision in 1981 to offer to pay for college when he spoke to a group of sixth-graders in New York's Harlem. I Have a Dream efforts are under way in 29 cities...
It's no secret that the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics represent a host of American jobs that go unfilled for a lack of trained, qualified workers. If that is ever to change, then education will need to lead the way, and a pre-engineering curriculum called Project Lead The Way appears poised to do so...