A judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging a University of Wisconsin System effort to expand broadband capabilities in rural areas...

The decision today by Dane County Circuit Court Judge Peter Anderson to allow broadband internet expansion to continue in four areas of Wisconsin is "good news for the Wisconsin economy," said project coordinator Maria Alvarez-Stroud...

A Dane County judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit to stop the University of Wisconsin System's federally funded broadband projects in four Wisconsin communities...

A Dane County judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a project that would expand high speed internet access through underserved areas of Wisconsin. The public-private project, known as Building Community Capacity through Broadband, is led by the University of Wisconsin-Extension...

Eighteen-year-old Xinyi Wang's bus rolled up to Memorial Union on an August night. After a 14-hour plane ride from her home in Eastern China, then a 3-hour bus trip from Chicago, she stepped onto the UW-Madison campus for the first time. She plans to spend at least the next four years here...

Twenty University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc students were inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society on Nov. 3. Officers conducted the ceremony following a speech by John Wright, associate professor of communication/theater arts and associate dean...

(Q&A with Phil Rynish,UW-Eau Claire Student Senate president). At the most recent Student Senate meeting, you brought up ongoing discussions to develop a smoking plan for the UW-Eau Claire campus. can you catch us up on where those discussions sit right now?...

A day of workshops devoted to math and science captivated dozens of girls Saturday at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley...The outing known as GEMS — Girls in Engineering, Mathematics and Science — drew about 140 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls to UWFV for an event also hosted by the Affinity Health System and UW Extension for Outagamie County...

It's been a good year for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cinematheque, and also for its first director of programming, Jim Healy...

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay received notice from a state agency that it violated state policy by rehiring its top finance official shortly after his retirement, the school announced Friday evening. In an email to faculty and staff, UW-Green Bay Chancellor Thomas K. Harden said the school's chief officer, Tom Maki, was notified of the ruling by the Department of Employee Trust Funds. "I respectfully but strongly disagree with these findings," Harden said in the email. "It is our intention to file an appeal and pursue due process in the resolution of this case"...

A state regulatory board has notified UWGB employee Tom Maki, that his retirement and rehiring by the university violated the department's "double dipping" policy...

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chief business officer Tom Maki's retirement and subsequent rehiring, which allowed him to collect a salary of about $131,000 a year and annual retirement benefits of $40,000 to $77,000, was not compliant with state policy, the agency responsible for oversight has ruled...

Class sizes will grow and scheduling options will shrink next semester at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County. To save about $100,000, UWMC leaders have cut 30 sections of classes for the semester that begins in January from across the college's course offerings. By and large, the number of courses will remain the same, but students will have fewer scheduling options in taking those courses, said UWMC Campus Dean Keith Montgomery...

A state agency concluded that the circumstances surrounding the retirement and re-hiring of a University of Wisconsin-Green Bay official did not conform to state policy...

A feud between UW Health and Meriter Health Services has escalated into a court battle, with UW's doctor group filing a lawsuit Friday against Meriter over Meriter's decision to stop providing doctors to oversee patients at night who are treated during the day by UW doctors...

Pioneering biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who won the Nobel Prize for research he conducted in the 1960s while at UW-Madison, died Wednesday in Concord, Mass. He was 89...

H. Gobind Khorana, who rose from poverty in rural India to become one of the world’s foremost biochemists and who shared the Nobel Prize for helping unravel how genetic information in a cell is used to make proteins vital for human life, died Nov. 9 at a rehabilitation facility in Concord, Mass...Dr. Khorana, then at the University of Wisconsin, shared the 1968 Nobel in physiology or medicine with Robert W. Holley of Cornell University and Marshall W. Nirenberg of the National Institutes of Health...

Har Gobind Khorana, who rose from poverty in a small village in the Punjab to become one of the giants of modern biology, winning the Nobel Prize in 1968 for work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that helped unravel the genetic code and explain how proteins are made, died Wednesday in Concord, Mass. He was 89...

A color guard service was part of the Veterans Day event at University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital on Friday. Veterans and employees were honored for their service including U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Diaz and Sgt. Javier Font, as well as U.S. Coast Guard PTC Matt Volden...

We've all read about polls showing people remain nervous about the direction of the economy as the unemployment rate stays stubbornly high. UW-Madison psychology professor Carol Ryff is heading a project devised to uncover a much more in-depth understanding about how the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression is affecting people's lives...

...An increase in the number of families in poverty within the past decade calls for more volunteers needed than ever before. Fortunately, there is a campus organization to help with this as well as a group in downtown La Crosse...

Under pressure from the city, many downtown bars repealed their controversial ID policies that required patrons to provide valid driver's licenses or passports to enter...

UW-Madison representatives met Friday to discuss the future of the "Wisconsin Idea" as well as the relationships between the university and state and local communities...

Don't be fooled by the name e-Chug. In fact, it's the opposite of a college hazing ritual. The University of Wisconsin-Stout is requiring freshmen to take e-Chug – a confidential online survey designed to gauge the drinking habits or nondrinking habits of students who are entering the university...

Wyatt Hrudka, 22, took delivery last week of 170 bicycles made for him by a Chinese manufacturer. Now, the challenge is to sell them all. "Customers want a reliable bike that they don't have to tune gears," said the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse senior and Lincoln High School graduate of the fixed-gear two-wheelers available in a variety of color patterns...

They're here, they're hungry and they need haircuts. The explosive growth in the number of Chinese students at UW-Madison has created boom times for Chinese-owned businesses near campus...

When Rocco Landesman was an English major at UW-Madison in the late 1960s, he starred in Shakespeare's "Richard II" and worked as the fine arts editor for the Daily Cardinal.  On Tuesday, he'll return to Madison — now as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts...

LaMarr Billups, a former Madison community leader and special assistant to two UW-Madison chancellors, died Friday at his home in Falls Church, Va., after a short illness. He was 59. At UW-Madison, Billups was director of community relations from 1996 to 2007. He served as a special assistant during UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward's first term and during the tenure of former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley...

UW-Madison faculty discussed ways to improve programs for first-year and transfer students at the annual First-Year Conference Friday. Dr. Jennifer Keup, director of the National Resource Center for First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, said universities nationwide should integrate learning communities, diversity training and undergraduate research into their curriculum...

In an era when machines are making manufacturing and other tasks increasingly more efficient and cost-effective by reducing manpower, it's more important than ever for students to understand the equipment they’ll be using in the future...The 60 students came from five universities — the University of Wyoming, Casper College Campus, Wayne State University, Fort Hays State University, the University of Wisconsin at Stout and the University of Arkansas — and competed with each other in problem-solving, manufacturing, transportation, robotics and teaching exercises...

"North Passage" combines the talents of four friends from the west coast: Kevin Pontuti (director) and his wife Mimi French (producer), Jay Collins (composer) and his wife Charis Collins (writer). Kevin and Mimi hail from Los Angeles. They and their daughter moved to Menomonie when Kevin accepted a teaching position with UW Stout's Art Department...

Newly proposed federal labor regulations that would limit the work teenagers perform on farms would deter many youth from pursuing careers in agriculture, area teacher say... 

A Wausau Daily Herald open records requests revealed news last week that was not necessarily encouraging to those who, like us, hope the California-based W Solar will choose Wausau as its home...But to the list of institutions that have a stake in bringing jobs here we'd add local school districts and the University of Wisconsin Marathon County, the Wausau/Central Wisconsin Convention and Visitors Bureau, Main Street Wausau and, frankly, just about every local business that relies on local customers or pays local taxes...

Goodbye, city park, hello, college green. As city officials around the country move to disband Occupy Wall Street encampments amid growing concerns over health and public safety, protesters have begun to erect more tents on college campuses...

...The Penn State scandal has ended the reign of the university's patriarch and longtime football coach, Joe Paterno, amid national expressions of shock. But the case is also emblematic of a parallel judicial universe that exists at many of the country's colleges and universities. On most of these campuses, law enforcement is the responsibility of sworn police officers who report to university authorities, not to the public. With full-fledged arrest powers, such campus police forces have enormous discretion in deciding whether to refer cases directly to district attorneys or to leave them to the quiet handling of in-house disciplinary proceedings...

Two years ago, in an effort to attract more veterans to Columbia, Curtis Rodgers, a dean of admissions, began recruiting at military bases. Almost immediately he noticed differences between the Marines and the typical 18-year-old Ivy League applicant...

While the turmoil at Penn State has been the academic equivalent of a Category 5 storm, it will probably not have much long-term impact on the university, experts say...

...It is time to put collegiate sports back into a normative focus. As the NCAA struggles to reinvent itself, it should take a hard look at what happens to the focus of campuses -- from trustees, presidents, alumni and students -- when schools earn $60+ million a year because of what happens on a football field or basketball court. Yes, education involves the mind and the body, but the torso has become grotesquely out of proportion...

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California State University students could see tuition rise 9% next fall unless the state boosts funding to cover enrollment growth, urgent maintenance, student services and other costs, officials said Wednesday...

The number of international students enrolling in American colleges and universities grew at a faster clip in 2010 than a year earlier, reaching an all-time high of 723,277. But the growth was heavily reliant on two countries: China and Saudi Arabia, according to data released this week by the Institute of International Education...

...Some 270,600 Americans studied overseas for academic credit, a nearly 4 percent jump over the previous year and a return, after that brief downturn, to a trajectory of growth. The number of American students going abroad has more than tripled over the past two decades...

...As global competition for international students intensifies, reacting swiftly to news coverage as well as to actual changes in government policy has become an essential part of successful international-recruitment. Perceptions, even when flawed, can quickly affect reality, and for leading destination countries, that can translate into lost revenue...

...But as the supercommittee nears its November 23 deadline for taking action, much of that sounds like wishful thinking. Instead, advocates of robust federal spending in areas that include Pell Grants and scientific research are bracing for bad news...

David Willetts is of two minds. As minister for higher education in Britain, he presides over an extremely contentious restructuring of the country's system for funding universities, including the decision to allow tuition fees to increase three-fold next year. But he is also the author of "The Pinch," a provocative, and at times passionate, account of "how the baby boomers" -- Mr. Willetts was born in 1956 -- "took their children's future and why they should give it back"...