A recent assessment of the research impact of scientists at more than 4,000 universities ranked researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison the 20th-most influential in the world, UW officials announced Mnday. The ranking by the international information vendor Thomson Reuters relied on a technique known as “citation counts”...

The first wave of H1N1 vaccine allocations arrived in Wisconsin Monday as the number of University of Wisconsin students contacting University Health Services with influenza-like illnesses fell for the third straight week...

Intel said Monday it had settled a patent lawsuit with a research foundation that accused it of using a patented technology in its processor designs without permission. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation alleged that Intel used in many of its chips an invention of a circuit that executes instructions faster to boost performance...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's patenting arm has settled its infringement lawsuit against computer chip maker Intel Corp. involving technology used in a popular computer processor...

...Somewhat surprisingly, few faculty senators appeared to have a burning desire to openly discuss the pros and cons of unionizing. UW System faculty and academic staff were given the right to form unions under the state budget signed by Gov. Jim Doyle in late June. This provision doesn't mean unions must be formed -- simply that both faculty and staff at each UW System institution can vote to form bargaining units if they so choose...But instead of a heated or informative debate on the topic, only a handful of people spoke before the discussion quickly fizzled...

A UW-Madison student committee denied funding to conservative group Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow on Monday night for the second year in a row. The group, called CFACT, sued the university earlier this year, alleging that it didn't get funding because of its views on social and environmental issues...

Damon Williams, vice provost for diversity and climate, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's chief diversity officer, is always excited about the chance to talk about diversity.  And there won't be too many better opportunities to do that than at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's 2009 Diversity Forum, which will be held all day long at the UW-Madison Memorial Union on Oct. 8...

...October is domestic violence awareness month, and campus organizations such as University Health Services and Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment and the Offices of the Dean of Students have stepped up efforts to educate the student population in hopes of preventing future violence...

We will exchange our editorial outrage for wonderment today at the breaking news out of Madison that the University of Wisconsin deemed a professor's use of a state credit card to purchase a DVDs of television situation comedies as appropriate...

Tuition, online course fees, and campus area safety were themes in last week’s State of the Students address. The speech, delivered by UW-Milwaukee Student Association President Jay Burseth, was the first of its kind since Feb. 21, 2005, despite the fact that the SA Senate bylaws requires a State of the Students address each year...

...California's community-college system is by far the largest college system in the country, with nearly three million students. And transfer students from two-year colleges here play an unusually large role in the state system of higher education...For decades, regional transfer pipelines in San Jose, Sacramento, San Diego, Long Beach, and elsewhere have been central to the state's promise of upward mobility. But California's budget crisis has damaged those pipelines and exacerbated long-known problems with the transfer process, such as a poor statewide transfer rate and a confusing set of requirements...