A civil trial attorney from Eau Claire will be the newest member of the UW Board of Regents. Gov. Jim Doyle announced the appointment of Edmund Manydeeds today and reappointed current Regent Mark Bradley. Both appointments will expire May 1, 2017...

Gov. Jim Doyle appointed Edmund Manydeeds III to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents Thursday...Manydeeds said his two main goals for the term are to continue the incorporation of minority students into the UW System, as well as help continue the system’s top-notch standing...

UW-Whitewater will play a bigger role in helping Wisconsin businesses grow and thrive in the global marketplace. The university’s Global Business Resource Center and the state Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Development on Wednesday announced plans to collaborate in helping companies in southeastern Wisconsin expand their markets outside of the United States...UW-Whitewater Chancellor Richard Telfer said the university has the resources to help local and regional businesses get connected with the international community...

Students gathered to protest the high cost of tuition at the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee on Thursday. Their protest was much quieter than the violent outbreak that happened during a demonstration last week...Thursday, many of the students gathered again to continue protesting the high cost of tuition and also to protest the campus police department's response to the incident...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos E. Santiago said the school will review police behavior during a protest last week after meeting with student leaders Thursday. Santiago said he also will hold a university-wide forum on tuition and education expenses after a series of meetings and rallys on campus, criticizing university budgets and tuition hikes in recent years...

A press conference was held today by UW-Milwaukee administrators following a meeting between UWM administrators and four students to discuss education rights concerns and last week’s protest. UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago said that UWM has agreed to form a panel to discuss financial concerns of college students, and that UWM supports an independent investigation of police action at the March 4 education rights protest. Santiago will be a part of the panel to discussion tuition and other costs of higher education...

The power to unionize may soon be in the hands of faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Superior campuses. The universities’ faculties would be the first in the UW System to unionize...

A federal grand jury has indicted a University of Wisconsin Hospital pharmacist with falsifying prescriptions so he could obtain thousands of methadone tables. Fifty-eight-year-old Joseph A. Theisen of Madison faces 25 counts of fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs. He faces up to four years in federal prison on each count...

A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher whose innovations have been licensed to medical imaging companies around the world, and a Neenah company that helps entrepreneurial concerns develop product prototypes, will receive awards from the MIT Club of Wisconsin Friday. Chuck Mistretta, a medical physics professor, developed technologies that gave doctors a better way to look at coronary arteries, dramatically changing the way they used MRI machines and driving many other innovations, said Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the technology transfer agent for UW-Madison...

Barry Alvarez of the University of Wisconsin is one of seven coaching candidates on this year's College Football Hall of Fame ballot, which was released Thursday...

Six University of Wisconsin-Superior student journalists reporting for KUWS-FM 91.3 have earned collegiate radio news awards from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association...

The Wisconsin Students Public Interest Research Group held an event on East Campus Mall Thursday, advocating student support for a federal bill that may increase financial aid opportunities for students. According to Rashi Mangalick, a junior at UW-Madison and organizer of the WISPIRG event, passing the bill, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, would increase potential student aid by $87 billion...

Visiting Quincy Bluff and Wetland Area in Adams County provides a rare opportunity to experience one of Wisconsin's globally imperiled ecosystems: the oak-pine barrens...Before starting the restoration process, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point professor Alan Haney and a crew of graduate students cataloged the diverse assemblage of trees, shrubs, grasses and wildflowers growing on the landscape. His vision at that time was that students and faculty would return periodically to chronicle changes occurring as a result of management...

Elizabeth Menzel isn't one for following crowds. "I love what I do," said Menzel, who is studying family medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a first-year resident at the UW-Fox Valley Family Medicine Residency Program in Appleton...Even with the increased spotlight on wellness during the national health care debate, medical students are pursuing more financially lucrative areas of specialization, including orthopedic and cardiac care...

It's only fitting for America's Dairyland: Madison is hoping to create an ice cream flavor to woo Google Fiber...UW-Madison's Babcock Dairy created a test batch of a Google Fiber ice cream that has a vanilla base, M&M candies and granola, said manager Sara Brummel. The M&Ms mimic the multi-colored Google logo and the granola provides the fiber...

Democrats scrambled to salvage legislation to overhaul the student-loan industry Thursday amid warnings from the Obama administration that failure would cause steep cuts in federal grants to low-income students...

Democratic Congressional leaders struck a tentative agreement on Thursday that breathes new life into President Obama's proposed overhaul of federal student loan programs. The deal would bundle the bill into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation, which would allow for both measures to be passed by the Senate on a simple majority vote. Without the deal, the student loan bill would have been unlikely to pass because it lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster...

If the late Pat Tillman is remembered for his selflessness, then it seems fitting that the foundation created in the professional football star-turned-soldier's name would ask the same of the veterans it serves. Now partnered with eight universities across the country, the Pat Tillman Foundation's Tillman Military Scholars program offers funding to veterans who demonstrate a record of service to their communities and pledge to continue those activities...