The Madison Police Department will start a three-year pilot program called the “Madison Addiction Recovery Initiative” after recently securing a $700,000 Smart Policing grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials’ deal to put an Amazon pick-up point in a historic campus building that houses organizations that serve minority and marginalized students was not only politically problematic, it apparently violated university policies as well.
UW-Madison officials are backing away from a plan to open an Amazon package pickup location in the Red Gym, saying Wednesday that they will find another place on campus to house the online retailer after facing criticism from students and others.
University of Wisconsin football assistant coaches could get a more equal share of postseason bonus pay under changes recommended for approval Wednesday by an Athletic Board committee.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have backtracked on a plan to put an Amazon package pickup location in a historic campus building after backlash from students, faculty and Madison business owners.
The UW is considering signing a contract with Amazon to have a pick up center on campus, but the proposed location is causing major concern.
A group of psychology researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison discovered a breakthrough with those who have blindness to motion. In the journal published Wednesday, Madison psychology Professor Bas Rokers says blind motion comes from a failure inside the brain, and not the eyes
University Health Services held a clinic on Bascom Hill Tuesday, offering free flu shots to UW-Madison students.
Letter to the editor: The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation believes the contract negotiated with Amazon by the UW Board of Regents to allow a package pick-up center in the Historic Red Gym is an inappropriate use within this prized national historic landmark.
In a move Gov. Scott Walker says would give more student loan borrowers the ability to refinance their loans, UW Credit Union will expand its membership eligibility to include any current or former college students who currently live in Wisconsin.
Twenty-nine former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey players started the season in training camps with NHL teams last week.
In an effort to combat rising student debt in the state, Gov. Scott Walker announced University of Wisconsin Credit Union will expand its membership eligibility to all Wisconsin residents who have previously attended college anywhere in the U.S. or abroad.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced in a State of the University speech to the UW-Madison Faculty Senate Monday that she is asking the Board of Regents to raise tuition for out-of-state and professional students.
UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Laurent Heller addressed the Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee Tuesday about their concerns regarding the upcoming Amazon pickup point in the Red Gym.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is cutting back the hours students can work, and some students say that will make it harder for them to stay in school.
Students at UW-Madison are stuck in the epicenter of Wisconsin’s disastrous political discourse. Nowhere in the nation, it seems, is the debate over education as prevalent as it is a few blocks away at our state Capitol.
An overflow crowd of more than 350 people turned out to watch the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the Marquee Theater in Union South Tuesday night and then listened to an analysis of the debate by some of the top political experts on the UW campus.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the eligibility of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment allowing them access to funding from student segregated fees Monday.
The College of Engineering is now home to a machine that could represent the future of advanced manufacturing.
A top UW-Madison administrator will meet Tuesday with student government representatives on a controversial plan to contract with Amazon for a package pick-up point in the Red Gym.
Letter to the editor: The article on the proliferation of luxury high-rises aimed at UW students was in depth, informative, and thoroughly dispiriting. Setting aside the soul-crushing banality of their architecture, these buildings symbolize perfectly the elitist agenda of UW administrators.
Schuster worked at the UW-Madison School of Medicine as an instructional specialist in the school’s pioneering distance education program. Subsequently, Bob transferred to the UW School of Nursing, where he developed the Simonds Center for Instruction and Research, assumed responsibility for computerizing the school, and served as a technology spokesman for the school. As a last project, he served the University in 2004 as a member of the design team for the Medical School’s new instructional center.
Dr. David Canon believes a big reason for that is because liberal Democrats who didn’t vote for Clinton in the spring primary, are still reluctant to support her now.
A UW-Madison student is one of the college delegates from across the country to team up and submit questions for consideration for Monday’s first debate between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Big Ten Conference coaches see improvement for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team this season, but not much.
UW-Madison Dean of Students Emerita Mary Rouse sent a letter Sunday to Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Laurent Heller to offer her perspective on the university’s deal with Amazon to use space in the Red Gym.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank gave a State of the University address to the UW-Madison Faculty Senate Monday, which explained how the university will try to increase tuition for out-of-state students and continue to freeze tuition for in-state students.
Out-of-state students and those in UW-Madison’s professional schools could soon see another round of tuition increases after Chancellor Rebecca Blank told faculty Monday she plans to ask the university’s governing board in the coming months to raise prices for those students.
UW-Madison is cutting the work week of its student employees to no more than 29 hours to conform to requirements of the Affordable Care Act, a move some student workers say will make it harder for them to stay in school.
She was employed in the Work Study Department at UW-Madison for over 40 years.
The mission creep of the technical college system has expanded to the point that now Nicolet College out of Rhinelander has Nicolet College students in the Southwest Tech College district out of Fennimore.
The University of Wisconsin jumped back into the top 10 of the Associated Press poll after the Badgers’ 30-6 win at eighth-ranked Michigan State on Saturday.
Preliminary fall enrollments are in for University of Wisconsin campuses and while many held steady or saw slight gains, the two-year colleges collectively took a 22.3% hit, UW-Stevens Point fell 6.8% and UW-Milwaukee lost 4.7%, compared with final enrollment numbers from last fall.
On Sunday morning, a simple ceremony will be held at the Madison gravesite of an obscure man who was a visionary pioneer at the University of Wisconsin.
UW-Madison basketball star Nigel Hayes is using his standing as an athlete to continue the conversation about incidents like the police shootings in Tulsa and Charlotte.
Senior Russell Sandvold won the individual title to lead the University of Wisconsin men’s cross country team to victory in the Badger Classic on Friday at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course.
With UW-Madison at its epicenter, the UW System appears to be sinking deeper into the intellectual morass known as political correctness.
Former UW-Madison professor Sara Goldrick-Rab returned to the area Friday to present findings from her recently published book, “Paying the Price.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Jacquelyn Moss will be listening closely to the first debate Monday night between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The stick hit the puck and the puck glided across the ice. As the blades on his skates did the same, Vaughn Kottler, a now junior at UW-Madison but an incoming high school junior at the time, scurried around the hockey rink at tryouts. Little did he know what was about to hit him.
The whining and bleating factions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison haven’t lost a step judging by the kerfuffle they’re stirring up over the renting of some space at the old Red Gym.
Donald Trump is a master in the use of traditional news outlets and social media, said Chris Wells, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison sophomore Skylar Witte was crowned Miss Wisconsin USA 2017 earlier this month after competing against 41 other women for the title.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council voted Wednesday to pass new legislation that would call for the university to move the location of a brick-and-mortar Amazon venue to an alternate location, away from current plans to house it at the Red Gym.
The Faculty Scholars Program has awarded Jue “Jade” Wang, associate professor of bacteriology at the UW-Madison, with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar.
After five months of analyzing the state of retail on the one-mile downtown stretch, Tangible Consulting Services, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm, released its preliminary results of the downtown area’s current market to the Downtown Coordinating Committee Thursday evening.
An attorney reported to the the University of Wisconsin’s Athletic Department’s Equity, Diversity and Student Welfare Committee that the university is, as far as he is aware, in alignment with the Big Ten standards Thursday.
Wisconsin basketball star Nigel Hayes took to Twitter Wednesday night to take a strong stand against racism in the wake of a week of police-involved deadly shootings.
University of Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez will receive the American Heart Association’s Paul “Bear” Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization announced on Thursday.
The Student Council of the Associated Students of Madison is asking Chancellor Rebecca Blank to reject a proposed contract to permit an Amazon pick-up point in the Red Gym.
Voters trying to discover what’s true in the political landscape can have a difficult time of it, especially this year, said UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Mike Wagner.
Bob worked at the UW Madison Department of Chemistry as a machinist, retiring in 1984, and able to claim that a spring he built went up in the space shuttle.
The Associated Students of Madison passed legislation Wednesday evening calling for Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Laurent Heller, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, to find an alternative location on campus for the Amazon Pickup Point.
Three of University of Wisconsin’s top political and media experts covered the potential implications social media is playing in the current election in an ever-more divided electorate during a panel Tuesday evening.
University of Wisconsin graduate Katherine Keuhn embeds texts in cloth with her hand-sewing that receive an added dimension both physically and in the gravitas of the words.
Anne Basting, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee theater professor who responds to the challenges of aging and dementia with creative engagement, is one of this year’s winners of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, commonly known as a “genius” grant.
Letter to the editor: I am an out-of-state student studying conservation biology at UW, and I have seen firsthand the pride Wisconsinites have in this great state, especially on campus and in Madison.
Six months after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced the appointment of a student loan debt specialist for the state, a website is expected to launch soon with resources for current and future student loan borrowers.
Before an audience of students, faculty and members of the UW-Madison community, Lisa Graves, executive director of Center for Media and Democracy, spoke Tuesday about the corruption of what the UW System considers a great pride: the Wisconsin Idea.
Madison’s reputation as a party campus filled with hard-drinking students has long served as a draw for incoming freshmen, and such was the case for now-senior Carter Kofman.
