Eight years after the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, more veterans are dropping their weapons and picking up their textbooks at college campuses nationwide. Despite its reputation as an anti-war campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has seen a significant increase in its student veteran population...

The University of Wisconsin Law School ranks eighth in the nation for most liberal students, according to the annual Princeton Review rankings released this week...

UW-Madison law students are some of the most liberal in the country, according to a ranking by the Princeton Review. They were ranked #8, based on student answers to a survey question about the political bent of the student body...

A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout has received grant money for medical research to be conducted on airborne fungus from the National Institute of Health as part of the federal stimulus plan. James Burritt, professor of biology, received $186,340 this year as part of a two-year grant that will eventually total over $300,000, according to UW-Stout spokesperson Doug Mell...

University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc philosophy professor V. Alan White received the University of Wisconsin Colleges and University of Wisconsin-Extension 2009 Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Achievement during a ceremony Thursday in Madison, for sharing his zeal for philosophy and teaching with students, according to a release...

...This time, the University of Wisconsin-Madison checked in at No. 61 (tied with University of Auckland) in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. That's a drop of six spots from last year, when UW-Madison was ranked 55th...

According to the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, the University of Wisconsin received a “B” in overall on-campus sustainability and environmental impact...

Question: Is it possibly true a conservative student group could have been denied funds from University of Wisconsin-Madison student fees because of objections to its political viewpoints? Oh, surely not...

UW-Madison researchers violated state law when 26 sheep died in experiments on decompression sickness, but Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard won't prosecute the university because the infraction is relatively minor, he wrote in an opinion...

As the first shipment of swine flu vaccine began arriving in Wisconsin this week, UW-Madison officials are anxious to receive them. Doctor Sarah Van Orman, Executive Director of University Health Services, says they have designated 32,000 people within the targeted group...

Mental health care received small funding boosts throughout the UW System in 2009, though every university still fell short of recommended staffing ratios. In 2006, the average ratio nationwide was one counselor per 1,698 students, according to the National Survey of Counseling Center Directors. The same survey found 83 percent of counseling directors had grown concerned about the effects of substandard mental health care, especially regarding student suicides and campus violence...

Homecoming at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point might mostly be for the students and alumni, but there is a focused effort to get the community more involved this year...

Of the $1,000 to $2,500 possible differential tuition increase per student over the next four years, 40 percent of the total Blugold Commitment revenue would be allocated for financial aid. The aid would "hold harmless" those students who demonstrate financial need, said director of financial aid Kathleen Sahlhoff. Senior Matt Ludvigson, who does not qualify for financial aid, said he doesn't think need-based aid should be a component of the Blugold Commitment...

The Council Oak isn't the only tree threatened by the new Davies Center. In 1970, UW-Eau Claire planted four crabapple trees in memory of four students slain at Kent State University in a peaceful protest of the Vietnam War. Executive Director of Communications Mike Rindo said the trees would be removed for construction of the new student center. After construction, however, the area would be converted back into green space...

Regardless of how creative an organization gets with cutting its staff's pay, the end result is still the same - renewed interest in collective bargaining for wages. Governor Doyle found a creative way to cut state workers' pay - requiring mandatory furloughs. Yes, all state employees, including those who work for the UW System, will have to take 16 days off over the next two years. And yes, they are also not working during those days. But it still amounts to an involuntary reduction in how much all faculty and staff get to take home. Can UW schools afford for the state to regard educators in the same light as a clerical worker in a DNR office?...

Changes have been made to Chapter 17. One of the most significant changes is universities in the UW System are allowed to punish students for off-campus offenses. The changes took effect on Sept. 1. Reactions to the changes have been varied throughout the state. While some students claim to be infuriated at the thought of being punished by their university for off-campus offenses, supporters of the changes feel that it will make campuses safer...

To fill holes in its budget the state has taken more than $1.7 million from UW-Whitewater clubs, organizations, schools and departments...The bulk of the cuts were taken from university entities, but some of the hardest hit will be student organizations...

...The news of Lawrence’s first Nobel Prize winner shook up students in all academic disciplines at Lawrence, but none more than those like Hall who are passionate about the hard sciences...

Many miles and years removed from the competitive dinner-table debates of his childhood in Milwaukee and Wauwatosa, Yale chemist Thomas A. Steitz awoke at 5:20 Wednesday morning to the sound of a ringing phone, long distance from Sweden. Steitz, the caller said, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry...But it was not until he went to Lawrence College, now known as Lawrence University, that he discovered chemistry, which seemed the perfect match for his natural curiosity...

The University of Minnesota regents will discuss the financial challenges facing the institution and get an update on the current enrollment figures during workshop meetings today. President Robert Bruininks is on the agenda to present the report of a special task force charged with creating a financial roadmap for the system. It assumes state funding won't keep up with the university's costs...

Fall enrollment is up nearly 2 percent at the University of Minnesota this fall, rising from 66,312 last year to 67,364 this year...

Momentum is building in Congress for legislation, HR 2382, that could lower the fees that colleges pay when their students use credit cards to pay for tuition or books...