Pay raises for Wisconsin state employees that were initially authorized in the budget Gov. Tony Evers signed in July are still awaiting legislative approval, meaning state workers haven’t received the 4% pay bump that was due to activate this summer.
UW-Platteville and UW-Parkside are the latest UW System schools to announce spending cuts and furloughs to combat deficits.
A Republican state lawmaker says legislators cannot know if the University of Wisconsin-Madison is following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action in admissions because the school won’t publicly disclose how they choose students. His comments came during a public hearing for a GOP bill that would guarantee college admission for highly ranked students.
The Wisconsin Homecoming Committee has planned plenty of events to celebrate Sept. 30-Oct. 7, including a concert with rapper Armani White.
Budget cuts, skyrocketing rents and fights over free speech and belonging loom as fall classes begin.
The woman was walking home from a friend’s house when investigators maintain Brandon Thompson, 26, attacked her on West Wilson Street near Bedford Street.
The man accused of sexually and physically assaulting a UW-Madison student over the weekend was formally charged and given a $1 million cash bond Thursday.
A criminal complaint filed Thursday in Dane County provides a clearer timeline in what prosecutors called “one of the most horrific sexual assaults in recent memory.”
During the hearing and in the complaint, prosecutors described the extent of the victim’s injuries. The complaint states, as of Thursday, she had been diagnosed with a Grade Two Traumatic Brain Injury and an MRI shows a brain bleed. Initially after the attack, the victim was placed in a medically induced coma and she still has trouble staying awake, the District Attorney’s Office continued.
The suspect was identified and arrested using video, witness statements and biological evidence, MPD confirmed.
The man charged in a brutal and random rape of a UW-Madison student last weekend told police that he “saw red” before the attack and remembered hitting the woman repeatedly but could not be sure that he sexually assaulted her, according to a criminal complaint.
A Dane County, Wisconsin, judge ordered Brandon A. Thompson held on $1 million bail Thursday after a brutal attack left a University of Wisconsin-Madison student hospitalized with life-threatening injuries early Sunday morning.
Richard Davis, the legendary jazz bassist and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus who lived here since 1977, died Wednesday at 93, according to media reports.
As a bassist, Richard Davis enriched the sound not only of jazz recordings by Eric Dolphy, Elvin Jones and Sarah Vaughan, but also of rock and pop albums by Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, to name a few.
As a professor for nearly four decades at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he shaped many young musicians, sharing Black history and cultural experience while teaching the finer points of improvising music.
At a minimum, UW should implement such training. It isn’t costly, takes little time or resources and could help prevent such tragedies as witnessed here.
Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, previously told USA TODAY that even if Biden’s age has not affected his ability to do the job, “some members of the public may nonetheless believe he is not mentally sharp enough or that he lacks the necessary physical stamina.”
Parts of the yield curve started inverting in July 2022, yet the economy is still humming along. It’s too early to start calling the bond market a liar, said Menzie Chinn, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Richard Davis, the internationally renowned jazz bassist who taught at the University of Wisconsin for more than 40 years, has passed away at the age of 93, his daughter Persia Davis confirmed. He died Wednesday afternoon after two years in hospice care.
Davis’ daughter Persia confirmed her father’s death Thursday on both a memorial page and to Madison 365; Davis taught at the University of Wisconsin for over 40 years, but spent the last two years in hospice care. “We appreciate all the love and support the community has shown him over the years,” Persia Davis added.
Davis’ daughter Persia confirmed her father’s death Thursday on both a memorial page and to Madison 365; Davis taught at the University of Wisconsin for over 40 years, but spent the last two years in hospice care. “We appreciate all the love and support the community has shown him over the years,” Persia Davis added.
Later, Jordan graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, where he was a two-time wrestling champion of the National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA.
More than 50 years after a bombing at the University of Wisconsin left one student dead, the FBI has released age-progressed photos of the suspect in its quest for more tips from the public.
