November 18–22 marks International Education Week, a time when we celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange. UW–Madison has much to be proud of, not just this week, but because of the many ways… Read More
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Investing in graduate students at UW
The following is a guest blog by Laurent Heller (Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration) and Norman Drinkwater (Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education) You may have read recently that a group of graduate… Read More
Launching the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute
As you may know, last year I appointed a working group made up of campus and industry leaders and alumni with deep technology industry experience and asked them to make recommendations on how our campus… Read More
Honoring our veterans
A guest post from Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf in honor of Veterans Day. Past and present members of the U.S. Armed Forces have shaped the heritage of this university, and embody the Wisconsin Idea by influencing… Read More
Chancellor Blank column: Wisconsin and the future of undergraduate education
Chancellor Blank’s column on the future of undergraduate education appeared in Sunday’s Wisconsin State Journal. Public education has been one of our greatest success stories as a nation. Our country pioneered in making public elementary… Read More
Message to UW Cooperative Extension faculty and staff
Today, the UW System Board of Regents approved a plan to restructure UW Colleges and UW Cooperative Extension. As part of the plan, UW Cooperative Extension will be integrated into UW-Madison. Chancellor Blank sent the… Read More
Welcoming Laurent Heller to the UW-Madison community
I am happy to announce that we have hired Laurent Heller as our new vice chancellor for finance and administration. Laurent is currently the assistant vice chancellor, financial planning and analysis at the University of… Read More
Chancellor Blank statement regarding Regents’ vote on tenure policies
“Maintaining a tenure policy as strong as our peer institutions across the country is essential to continuing to attract and retain top faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The broad System-wide policy adopted by the… Read More
Pay increases coming for student employees, graduate assistants
The contributions of the more than 10,000 student employees and 5,300 graduate assistants at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are vital to what we do, and we should do what we can to compensate them for… Read More
New e-newsletter highlights partnerships across state
As many of you know, recently I have been visiting some of Wisconsin’s major industries and drawing the linkages between what businesses and researchers accomplish together. To build on those efforts, today we launch the… Read More