With a big contribution from a private donor, the University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to build a $225 million school of computer, data and information sciences in downtown Madison.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison has hired a former Foxconn Technology Group official to lead its efforts to build and expand partnerships with companies looking to engage with school.

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Gov. Tony Evers took the unusual step Friday of ordering workers to remove all concrete slabs hanging over the entrances and exits of the University of Wisconsin System headquarters building, days after two slabs had fallen off the facade and crashed to the sidewalk outside the building's main doors.

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The Wisconsin State Building Commission is planning to meet on Wednesday to take up Gov. Tony Evers' proposed capital budget, which calls for setting aside $2.4 billion for a new engineering building at UW-Madison, a state office building in Milwaukee and various other projects.

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The Wisconsin badger statue that has served as a touchstone for so many Capitol building visitors that they've rubbed the finish off his nose could be headed to another den soon.

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State officials this week inked a $65.7 million contract with JP Cullen, of Janesville, to build a new gymnasium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison decided Monday to eliminate spring break next semester in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving all classes online and quarantining students in two of its largest dorms as it deals with rising cases of COVID-19.

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Interim University of Wisconsin System President Tommy Thompson said Tuesday that he'll ask Gov. Tony Evers to include a nearly $100 million boost for the system in the next state budget as the coronavirus pandemic bleeds revenue from campuses.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received less than 1% of the money Foxconn Technology Group pledged to it two years ago. In August 2018, Foxconn committed $100 million to the university to help fund an engineering building and for company-related research. But Foxconn critics say the Taiwanese technology company has failed to live up to that pledge, giving the university $700,000 in the first of a five-year agreement and no money over the past year.

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