Earlier this week the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department witnessed someone driving 93 mph on Campus Drive – where the speed limit is 35 mph.
This comes after an officer took it upon themself to keep track of different speeds witnessed on the road, that has been a known problem in the past.
“For us it’s all about safety, it’s not about finding an opportunity to give somebody a citation” said UW Police Department Executive Director of Communications, Marc Lovicott.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is asking for the public’s help in solving the 58-year-old murder of freshman Christine “Chris” Rothschild, who was found stabbed to death on campus next to Sterling Hall on May 26, 1968. She was only 18.
When Julian Walters was playing professional basketball in Europe, he thought he had the next decade of his life planned out. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and his career abruptly came to a halt.
“You have this idea in your head of how your life is going to go,” he said. “I wasn’t quite ready to not play basketball yet.”
University of Wisconsin Interim Director of Athletics Marcus Sedberry announced Thursday that 12 standout athletes and staff members will be inducted into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2026.
Sedberry revealed the class inside Victory Hall at Camp Randall Stadium. The group will be inducted during Hall of Fame weekend on Sept. 18-19, and will be honored at Camp Randall during Wisconsin football’s game vs. Eastern Michigan on Sept. 19 (11:30 a.m. CT).
Speaking Thursday morning to a meeting of downtown business leaders, UW-Madison interim athletic director Marcus Sedberry said he anticipates the new director will be named before the Badgers football season begins in September.
“My estimation is before football season, there will be some type of announcement of who the next athletic director will be,” Sedberry said at a Downtown Madison Inc. breakfast event held at the Edgewater Hotel.
Requests to remove or restrict access to books in schools have hit record highs both across the country and in Wisconsin.
In May, Wisconsin upheld the Menomonee Falls School District’s finding that the 2024 removal of a children’s book that depicted multiple family structures, including ones with LGBTQ+ couples, did not count as discrimination.
The median home cost in Wisconsin’s two biggest metro areas is at least five times the median household income in those communities, among the highest in the Midwest.
The Center for Black Excellence and Culture (The Center) announced Thursday that it has been awarded a two-year, $247,000 grant from the New York-based Dana Foundation to launch a groundbreaking civic science research initiative.
