A University of Wisconsin- Madison junior says she was harassed by Alec Cook for a year after they met in class last fall. Cook was arrested on October 24 on charges of sexual assault.
Officers arrested 25 people and ejected 69 people from Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday night’s football game, according to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department.
While UW-Madison is famous across the country for its annual Halloween celebration starting the weekend before Halloween, what gets most overlooked are the after-effects on the campus. When googling “who picks up trash on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?” the results give links to the City of Madison Streets & Recycling Department. But these hardworking men and women can’t be solely counted upon to clean up after the students.
Indigenous students at UW-Madison are assisting protesters at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota by raising funds and donating items such as lanterns, sleeping bags and firewood.
Lisa Hansen’s daughter, a 19-year-old freshman at UW-Madison, had a sore throat and was achy and tired when she went home to the Milwaukee area the first weekend in October.
Matthew Desmond’s work studying poverty as part of his Ph.D. program at UW-Madison led him to move into some of the poorest neighborhoods in Milwaukee. There, he meticulously researched the book chosen for the 2016-2017 Go Big Read, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.”
Last fall, UW-Madison officials released the results of a survey that found more than 1 in 4 responding women said they experienced unwanted sexual contact during their time at the university.
The First Folio is coming to Madison, one of the last stops in a yearlong tour designed to exhibit a copy of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays in every U.S. state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The precious and historic volume, laid open to the page bearing Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” speech, will be on display from Thursday to Dec.11 at the UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art.
The University of Wisconsin says it asked a fan wearing what appeared to be a President Barack Obama mask and a noose around his neck to remove the offensive parts of the costume during the school’s football game Saturday against Nebraska.
A man attended Saturday’s UW-Madison football game at Camp Randall Stadium in a President Barack Obama mask while wearing a prison jumpsuit and a noose around his neck.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will hold an event on the UW-Madison campus at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday at the Gordon Dining & Events Center, 770 W. Dayton St.
A group of UW Madison students are spreading their message of sexual assault prevention through the popular app Snapchat.
A liver transplant patient at UW Hospital is the first in the country to receive a liver preserved at body temperature instead of in a cold solution, in a study comparing the two methods.
ESPN’s College GameDay was a big presence on UW-Madison’s Bascom Hill earlier this month, with semi-trailers lined up along Observatory Drive as early as Thursday to set up for the pre-game show on Saturday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was cited after a fire in a residence hall early Friday morning, according to a news release from the Madison fire department.
Two fans in the football stands at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Saturday wore costumes and a noose to suggest a lynching. One fan dressed as Donald Trump and the other had costumes depicting President Obama and Hillary Clinton. The first fan, using a fake noose, pretended to lynch Obama.
The University of Wisconsin fell to host Michigan 4-2 on penalty kicks in the first round of the Big Ten Conference women’s soccer tournament Sunday in Ann Arbor.
It was a banner day for the University of Wisconsin men’s cross country team at the Big Ten Conference championship on Sunday in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
Late last night, UW-Madison released a statement regarding the offensive costume that was seen at Camp Randall. A football game attendee was seen wearing a mask of President Obama’s face with a noose around his neck.
It doesn’t seem like a stretch to say that relations are strained between the University of Wisconsin System and Republicans in the state Capitol. Gov. Scott Walker has proposed extending a tuition freeze for a fifth and sixth year in the 2017-19 biennial budget, a freeze which System administrators say jeopardizes higher education in the state. Walker and his counterparts in the GOP majority in the Legislature would likely reply by inquiring about the status of the System’s cash reserves, which stood at $648 million in the spring of 2013.
Declining levels of state funding pose a potentially fatal threat for public higher education, Louisiana State University President F. King Alexander told a group of faculty, students and researchers Friday.
Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, met with University of Wisconsin students Thursday to discuss the impact budget cuts have had on their college experience and how to move forward in a listening session.
Former students, colleagues, family and friends remembered University of Wisconsin journalism professor James L. Baughman as an academic who loved learning, inspired academic pursuit in others and was a consistent friend in a celebration of his work and life at the Wisconsin Historical Society Thursday evening.
Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus will be closed from Monday through Sunday, Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, so paving work can be completed in the stretch of street fronting Memorial Union.
Halloween and State Street have had a long, often uneasy relationship.
Epic Systems Corp. founder and CEO Judy Faulkner is in line for more recognition from UW-Madison.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced a $99 million gift to UW-Madison to support faculty recruitment and retention, as well as to further opportunities for students during the current school year.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, commonly known as WARF, announced Thursday that its annual gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be $55.2 million for 2016-2017. Additional funding for research with partners, royalties and other grants brings the total investment to $99 million.
With 10 years’ experience taming the Halloween beast on State Street — and each year since 2006 more peaceful than the last — the toughest task facing Madison police and city planners at Saturday’s Freakfest may be managing swarms of football fans, as nationally ranked and undefeated Nebraska takes on UW at Camp Randall Stadium.
Campus groups focused on helping victims of sexual assault are looking at the attention from the Alec Cook case as a way to start conversations about assault on campus.
UW officials said the student is currently being treated at a local hospital, and efforts are underway to contact individuals who may have been in close contact with them. A free vaccine is also available for undergraduate students.
A Dane County Judge set a $200,000 cash bail for Alec Cook on Thursday afternoon in a Dane County courtroom. According to the updated criminal complaint, Cook faces 15 counts including second, third and fourth degree sexual assault, strangulation and suffocation, and false imprisonment.
UW-Madison’s student government is the only shared governance group that has not yet endorsed the campus’s upcoming institutional diversity statement, which seeks to affirm the university’s commitment to diversity efforts.
The Saturday night closest to Halloween brings Freakfest to the streets of Madison. This annual event is the heart of Madison’s Halloween celebration.
A new musical feat has been accomplished at UW Madison, and it is ready for you to see this weekend.
Stein was scheduled to address supporters Thursday afternoon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union theater.
University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst will make $2.7 million in the 2016 season.
The study’s findings, recommendations and future steps will be the focus of a panel discussion from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Festival Room of Memorial Union. The talk is hosted by the UW-Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Tenant Resource Center.
The UW-Madison Black Graduate and Professional Student Association will host a college fair on Thursday to showcase historically black colleges and universities for students.
Over 10,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been vaccinated at a special campus clinic over the past week against a type of meningococcal disease that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday its December commencement speaker is one of only 24 people to have gone to the moon and back.
Noted: Jonathan Martin, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison: “I have found no studies that suggest anything other than the climate of ancient Greece and Rome were the same as they are now.”
Noted: “[Clinton] is not on the air much here because she doesn’t have to be,” says Mike Wagner, a UW-Madison professor of journalism and political science. “She’s winning without airing ads.”
Thanks to a four-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the University of Wisconsin will increase the number of resident physicians in underserved rural areas in an effort to close the gap of health disparities.
In order to combat the divisive political resentment separating Milwaukee and Madison from the rest of the “outstate” this election season, Wisconsin needs more respectful communication between its rural and urban populations, according to Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
Amy Mihm with UW Health Pediatric Fitness joined NBC15’s John Stofflet to talk about how to help your kids get enough sleep.
With a non-existent state fund for repairs, the University of Wisconsin will have a harder time keeping campus functional in the coming years.
Candidates and surrogates from both the presidential and senate races came to Madison Tuesday in the hopes of inspiring students to get politically involved in the remaining two weeks before the November elections.
Before Greg Gard knew he wanted to coach basketball, before he wore a badge and carried a gun, before he played baseball at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, before he showed hogs at the county fair, before he cleaned tractors and dried up motor oil, before he wiggled the television rabbit ears to catch Badgers games, he knew that he most wanted to be like someone else.
UW-Madison students and faculty are gradually transitioning to a single learning management system — a computer application that allows students and instructors to communicate about course materials, assignments and grades — from the three now used on campus.
An anticipated court appearance Tuesday for Alec Cook, who was expected to be charged with 30 criminal counts related to the alleged sexual assaults of four women, was postponed so that the Dane County District Attorney’s office could complete a criminal complaint.
A few weeks ago, Wisconsin Badger basketball star Nigel Hayes stood outside ESPN’s pregame College Game Day football broadcast with a sign that read, “BROKE COLLEGE ATHLETE: ANYTHING HELPS.” Within minutes, Hayes was being hailed for “speaking out” against the “injustice” suffered by
Noted: The TPP agreement expands American access to dairy markets in several key Asian countries, including Japan, Vietnam and Malaysia, and provides new but limited access into Canada, according to Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at UW-Madison. “In some countries where we’d have the opportunity to sell, we would also have to open our borders,” Stephenson said. “Dairy is a major focus for all the players.”
In 2015, campus officials conducted a survey of students that showed of the sexual assault victims on campus, only 26.1% of women and 5% of men, reported their crimes to police or a campus official. “They’re scared nothing will happen if they do,” University Health Services manager Carmen Juniper Neimeko explains.This number comes as no surprise to advocates, who say a majority of victims end up telling a close friend of family member. Survey results show that’s the case on UW-Madison campus around 83% of the time. “We’re really empowering friends and family to take a significant role in using non-judgmental language and guidance for the victims in their life,” Juniper Neimeko says.
UW-Madison’s University Relations announced its next director of state relations Tuesday.
Court records show dozens of women have come forward with information on suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook, since Cook was charged last week in connection with what authorities say was the Oct. 12 sexual assault of a fellow student.
Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies at UW-Madison, talks about new screen-time guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Former Dean of the UW-Madison College of Engineering, Paul Peercy, passed away Thursday at age 75.
Gerald worked for the University of Wisconsin as a custodian for 24 years, retiring in 1999.
It will be a chance to meet amazing historical figures like Maya Angelou, Frida Kahlo, and Frederick Douglass while also supporting a great cause on Thursday at the University Club in downtown Madison as the Odyssey Project will host its 2nd annual “Night of the Living Humanities” fundraiser.
