The Wisconsin Senate has unanimously confirmed two of Gov. Scott Walker's nominees to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. Former state auditor Jan Mueller and former Republican Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow will join the 18-member Board of Regents...

I question the recent reversal of the decision to appoint a student from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville to the Board of Regents  simply because he signed a petition to recall Gov. Scott Walker. This was the student's right under the state Constitution to participate in that particular act of democracy...

Researchers have long argued that a heralded spinal treatment sold by the nation’s largest device maker, Medtronic, was no better than an older one and possibly more risky...Many of the Infuse reports were written by researchers who received millions of dollars over the years in consulting fees and other payments from Medtronic, including Dr. Thomas A. Zdeblick of the University of Wisconsin and Dr. J. Kenneth Burkus, a spine surgeon in Georgia...

A UW-Madison spine surgeon omitted a sterility risk in a report about a controversial bone substitute but emphasized a surgical benefit, even though both factors were not statistically significant, a new review says. The report co-authored by Dr. Tom Zdeblick, involving a substance linked to a device that earned him millions, is among several journal articles that "misrepresented the effectiveness and harms" of the substance, according to a review of data released by manufacturer Medtronic...

Three of 11 National Teach Ag Ambassadors for the 2013-14 academic year are from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. These future agriculture teachers will spend the next year promoting the agriculture education profession...

...The song marked the start of the eighth year of Camp Lloyd at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where children who experienced the loss of a loved one participate in a variety of summer camp activities...

Former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh baseball coach Tom Lechnir's contract was not renewed after this past season and he is appealing this based on issues regarding the funding and construction of the new Alumni Baseball Complex...

UW-Marshfield's Continuing Education program is hosting an event this week for grade-schoolers. Students are allowed to pick three classes of their choice... (video clip)

The Wisconsin Partnership Program, which funds the Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families in four Wisconsin communities, will establish a new regional program office to support efforts to implement community plans to reduce infant mortality. The Partnership Program, based at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has selected the Center for Urban Population Health to support the implementation of the projects aimed at eliminating the racial disparity in birth outcomes in Beloit, Kenosha, Milwaukee and Racine. Established in 2001, the center is jointly supported by the School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Milwaukee and Aurora Health Care...

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Athletics has earned two Jostens/National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators (NADIIIAA) Community Service Awards for projects/activities conducted during the 2011-12 school year, NADIIIAA recently announced.

The University of Wisconsin-River Falls will join more than 700 other college campuses across the United States when it becomes a tobacco-free campus next month...

In his lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hongrui Jiang has designed a new kind of solar panel that incorporates energy storage right in the panel. The idea is to combine two technologies --  production of energy from sunlight and energy storage -- into one...

..."Molecular markers haven't had much impact on potato breeding thus far, but I think that's going to change soon thanks to a new technology called genomic selection," says Jeff Endelman, who joins the University of Wisconsin-Madison's horticulture department on July 1 to head the potato breeding program...

Ed Nuttycombe's favorite memory from 30 years as men's track and field coach at the University of Wisconsin just so happens to be the ideal metaphor for his amazing career...

The University of Wisconsin-Extension Swine Team, Wisconsin Pork Association and the Pork Checkoff are inviting pork producers and industry professionals from across the state to the Badger Swine Symposium...

Three Sheboygan Police Department officers recently received master's degrees in public administration from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh after completing projects that benefited the department...

It's no secret or surprise that outgoing Winona State University vice president for university advancement Jim Schmidt is passionate about the university and the region...Schmidt will leave WSU in the coming weeks to become the next chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire...

...The study by researchers at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found that pharmaceutical waste containing anti-depressants dumped into freshwater sources has changed the behavior of fishes...

...(Chad) Lewis, who has earned bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, is neither a believer nor nonbeliever of the stories he tells...

In addition to lesson plans, books and other classroom supplies, Lisa Coen learned that a good pair of boots comes in handy when teaching at UW-Eau Claire's Children's Nature Academy...

Recently, the Joint Finance Committee included a provision in its 2013-15 state budget bill that would forbid the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from occupying its current offices on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and prohibit UW faculty from doing any work related to the center as part of its job requirements. As a recent UW graduate who has worked with the center for a class project, I believe this squanders opportunities for young journalists...

The name of the game at UW-Stout right now is first place. A group of stout students won a national first place award for video game design. The students and professors just returned from the Entertainment Software Association E3 conference in Los Angeles, the largest video game convention in the country...

Samantha Singer joins the University Advancement and University of Wisconsin-Superior Foundation as the annual giving officer...

The Summer Arts and Crafts Festival featuring nearly 200 artisants and crafters returns to the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus, 900 Wood Road, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 22...

UW's Bucky logo is proving popular among state gun advocacy groups, but the University of Wisconsin isn't so hot on the idea...

...UW-Madison human ecology professor Julie Poehlmann is working with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to launch the initial distribution of the kits to prisons, jails and community organizations throughout Wisconsin in July...

A recent contribution by the UW-Stout Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Student Chapter of $100, matched by the John Leon Abrams (JLA) Memorial Committee, increased the Endowed Memorial Scholarship fund to over $50,000...

The question has preoccupied and confounded Wisconsin's political and civic leaders for years: Why does Wisconsin have such a slow-growth economy? A well-documented but decidedly unflattering answer emerges in a new 611-page report that methodically dissects the state's economy. Wisconsin, it says, is powered mainly by manufacturing industries that often date back more than a century. The state lags in innovation and technology, and a disproportionate share of its working-age population never got past high school...

Employer demand for technicians skilled in the newest energy-efficient heating and cooling technologies is prompting Chippewa Valley Technical College to budget $1.3 million toward training facilities...

After years of deep budget cuts, several states are poised to boost higher education funding this year, often in exchange for a promise by public colleges and universities to freeze tuition...Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, requested a funding increase for the University of Wisconsin system, then changed his mind after learning the system had built up hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves. His proposal, approved by a key legislative committee, would cut public universities' budgets and freeze tuition for two years...

About 20 percent of all American jobs are now in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, with half of those open to workers who don't have a four-year college degree, according to a new analysis by the Brookings Institution...

...N.Y.U. has already attracted attention for the multimillion-dollar loans it extends to some top executives and professors buying homes in New York City, a practice it has defended as necessary to attract talent to one of the most expensive cities on earth...Universities in similar circumstances, like Columbia and Stanford, also have helped professors and executives with home loans. Aid for vacation properties, however, is all but unheard-of in higher education, several experts in university pay packages say...

The vast majority of the 1,430 education programs that prepare the nation's K-12 teachers are mediocre, according to a first-ever ranking that immediately touched off a firestorm. Released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based advocacy group, the rankings are part of a $5 million project funded by major U.S. foundations. Education secretaries in 21 states have endorsed the report, but some universities and education experts quickly assailed the review as incomplete and inaccurate...

Colleges of education are "an industry of mediocrity" that churns out unprepared teachers to work in the nation's elementary and secondary schools, according to a highly anticipated report...