R. Aileen Yingst is seriously devoted to her science -- and her football. When reached by telephone at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday morning, the Wisconsin-based scientist had slept for just five or six hours in the last two days since the landing of Mars rover Curiosity...Yingst is among the investigators of the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, one of 17 cameras on the rover...For Yingst, the director of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Curiosity mission is a decidedly better experience than her first brush with Mars 13 years ago...

The University of Wisconsin-Superior's Jim Dan Hill Library has reopened Tuesday, after the building's lower level and thousands of books were destroyed following June's massive floods. The library was among the worst hit of campus buildings, acquiring eight feet of water on its lower level...

The University of Wisconsin System has awarded a three-year grant of nearly $650,000 to create an early-warning system to identify students at risk of academic failure. UW-Platteville and UW-Richland Center will partner with UW-Madison in the study...

UW-Eau Claire received a campus visit, from the DNR. It will be working on little Niagara Creek, which runs through the lower portion of campus...Restoration work began Monday with the DNR already removing shrubs and invasive species along both sides...

Skepticism is essential to science, and to a strong public understanding of science. But when does healthy skepticism veer into irrational denialism? This question was the subject of a workshop held at the University of Wisconsin last spring...

A movement pushing a boycott against a Milwaukee pizza maker embroiled in a bitter organized labor fight is putting pressure on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to join the cause, according to a letter obtained by Wisconsin Reporter. But the demand that a publicly funded institution boycott a private industry again raises questions of appropriate higher education involvement in labor-management battles...

A resource center to help non-traditional students and military veterans successfully navigate their way through college opens this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Superior...

Four UW-Madison professors will receive a $1 million dollar grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study genome production, according to a release from the university Wednesday...

Emily Graham has spent much of the summer around the St. Louis River estuary, collecting soil samples, talking to local experts and laying the foundation to research how mercury gets into fish...

Melissa Magnuson-Cannady does something not many Americans can do. She literally walks in the footsteps of her ancestors every day as an employee of the National Park Service at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum...Magnuson-Cannady, a student in the University of Wisconsin-Stout online M.S. education program, works in the same building where they first set foot in America...

Roughly one in four Americans -- 28 percent -- believes that focusing on creating more or better jobs would be the best way to improve the economy, according to a recent Gallop poll...The industry and targeted population specialists collaborate in cross-functioning teams to provide a connection between employers and jobseekers. Part of this effort will be eliminating barriers to employment, including knowledge, education, skills, perceptions and misconceptions...

...Ten years ago, the state Legislature considered a bill to raise the state minimum wage. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, certainly no bastion of conservative thought, reported that the wage increase would cost the university system $5.2 million, which would "result in approximately 768,500 fewer hours of employment in the UW System for students and limited-term employees." Clearly, it was their younger workers who would have been hurt...

During the M.B.A. gold rush of the past three decades, the Yale School of Management accomplished the unthinkable. As the number of prospective business-school candidates shot up to more than 750,000 a year and tuition payments cleared $100,000, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago and other schools hired star faculty members, built gleaming buildings, established themselves as global brands and brought in tens (and sometimes hundreds) of millions in profits to their universities each year. Meanwhile, Yale somehow lost money...

Surveys reveal that the public believes a college education is essential but too expensive. People feel squeezed between the cost and the necessity. At the same time, public colleges complain that they are being squeezed by declining state support and increasing pressure to educate larger numbers of less-prepared students...

The U.S. Department of Education wants to ensure that more American students have the skills to compete in a global workplace, and not just build up "deep, deep expertise" among a smaller group of graduates in foreign languages or cultures, the agency's top official for international education says...