University of Wisconsin alumni love their university. But their affection leads them to very different conclusions on Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to slash state funding and award the university greater autonomy to carve out savings in operating costs.
UW 31-3 is the top seed in the West regional and will begin play on Friday at 8:20 p.m. vs. Coastal Carolina 24-9 at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. TBS will air the game.
Madison police are investigating reported shots fired outside of JD’s Restaurant near the UW-Madison campus early Sunday morning.
Jim Dast’s life has been books, but the other day, he found himself talking numbers. It couldn’t be helped. Dast was trying to quantify his work over the past decade managing the biannual book sale of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, the largest used-book sale in Wisconsin.
If you’re looking for the instant when members of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team saw their season go from cruel to macabre, it might have been Saturday night.
Might I suggest that thousands of dollars could be saved by not funding research by UW-Madison emeritus professor of psychology Charles Snowden.
rom 1963-64, he was invited to teach Hausa at UCLA, and then in 1966, he was hired by the African Languages and Literature Department of UW-Madison. … At UW-Madison, Neil taught Hausa, Fufulde, and Arabic language and literature.
An art historian, he retired in 2007 as Emeritus Curator of Visual Resources at the UW Madison Department of History.
For many students of color on campus in particular, the shooting feels close to home. At the same time, the event has sparked many to recommit to work for racial justice in the community.
Chancellors at the University of Wisconsin’s Eau Claire and Whitewater campuses are making cost-cutting plans to deal with a proposed $300 million reduction in state funding for the UW System, even though the Legislature has yet to consider the cuts included in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
Video segment about Wheelhouse Studios on the UW campus letting people use art to react to the police shooting of Tony Robinson.
In a move that could portend cost-cutting in higher education statewide, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Chancellor James Schmidt announced Thursday that voluntary separation incentives will be offered to about 325 eligible faculty and staff — including faculty with tenure.
The Dean of Students Office invited UW-Madison students to give feedback on proposed changes to the UW System’s policy on sexual assault and other misconduct Thursday.
University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves emailed a letter to season ticket holders Thursday apologizing for something one of his assistants said last week.
The head of the Assembly said Thursday that he was backing off support for giving the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy because university leaders don’t appear willing to make dramatic changes in areas such as tenure and shared governance.
UW professor David Bordwell and the UW Cinematheque invited Pewaukee native and UW alum David Koepp to Madison to screen three of his films, during which he discussed his inspiration and challenges throughout his career.
A lawmaker on Thursday unveiled bills that would direct Wisconsin circuit court judges to consider combat-related post-traumatic stress when sentencing veterans and require the University of Wisconsin and technical college systems to accept credits earned through military training.
A national group representing university professors is opposing Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to give the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy from state oversight and laws.
Column about the community center by Megan Stefkovich, a freshman majoring in biology.
A survey conducted at University of Wisconsin shows while the number of diverse characters and stories in children’s books increased from 2013-2o14, the overall number of books with diverse content has fallen since 2001.
On Monday, Hetzler and his experimental band Sinister Resonance … will perform at High Noon Saloon. On Wednesday, Hetzler, an associate professor of trombone at UW-Madison, also will lead a benefit concert intended to raise morale and money for Brittany Sperberg, an outstanding university student whose music studies have been sidelined by a severe and yet-to-be diagnosed illness. On Friday and Saturday, Hetzler will be performing in more free concerts, this time with his fellow members of the UW Brass Quintet.
A UW-Madison mental health researcher plans to start a controversial monkey study by June without one of the most contentious parts: removing newborn monkeys from their mothers.
Noted: Karen Walsh and her husband, Dr. Jim Berbee, $10 million to the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to increase the size of the UW Hospital emergency facility from 34 treatment areas to 50. Dr. Berbee, a Madison native, founded Berbee Information Networks Corp., went on to medical school and now works in emergency medicine in Madison and rural Wisconsin. Walsh, a UW-Madison graduate, spent 23 years with the university.
“If you don’t believe anything needs changing, then why are we giving you an authority,” said Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, the Assembly Speaker. “I don’t understand the System’s rationale to say, ‘Give us all this authority to do things differently and to save money,’ but then they basically said, ‘We’re not going to do anything differently.’”
The Dane County sheriff and the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition debated the ethics behind the renovations to the Dane County Jail Thursday on UW-Madison’s campus.
The campus community explained their concerns about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget cuts to the UW System at a forum Thursday at Van Vleck Hall.
Letter to the editor from Rep. Dana Wachs, D-Eau Claire, the ranking democratic member on the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities.
Sheriff Dave Mahoney defended the need for renovations to the Dane County Jail, calling the current facilities “dangerous,” in a debate that about 330 community members attended Thursday on UW-Madison’s campus.
Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to shift control of the University of Wisconsin System away from the state and onto a public authority controlled by the Board of Regents met turbulence Thursday, with a top Republican lawmaker saying he’s now skeptical and a national faculty association calling it “a radical assault” on the statewide system.
ssembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’d like to see a smaller cut to the University of Wisconsin System’s budget and less autonomy for the system.
Sen. Fred Risser and Reps. Therese Berceau, Chris Taylor and Lisa Subeck will hold a session from 4-7 p.m. Thursday in Room B130 of Van Vleck Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
The question hung in the air Wednesday as lights dimmed in the Overture Center’s Promenade Hall on the first night of performances for the ninth annual Line Breaks Festival. The answer presented by performers – students in the UW-Madison’s First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community – evolved over the course of the evening.
The university is ranked 38th in the world when it comes to reputation, according to British website Times Higher Education.
Lou began a career with UW-Madison in 1946 where she served as a dietician at Elizabeth Waters Residence Hall on the UW Madison Campus until 1954.
Michael Lihrman fancies himself as a showman, which might seem strange given the degree to which he toils in anonymity. Lihrman is a record-setting, world-class performer with the University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team whose legend seems to grow with every performance. He added another chapter last month when he broke his own NCAA record and won a second straight Big Ten Conference indoor title with a throw of 83 feet, 11¼ inches.
The festival takes place from April 9 through April 16 at several UW-Madison locations, including Union South and the UW-Cinematheque, as well as the Capitol Theater and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
There have been rallies, vigils and community meetings in the wake of last week’s shooting death of Tony Robinson in Madison. Now, there will be an organized space for response through song, dance and poetry.
The Associated Students of Madison said Tuesday that its requests to speak at University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meetings have been denied because the regents have been “too busy.”
Addressing “ratchetness” and respectability, Dr. Brittney Cooper spoke on racial justice and self-expression to illustrate the challenges black people face as part of the Black Lives Matter lecture series Tuesday.
Police discovered over a thousand bicycles, and confiscated 600 of them with identifiable serial numbers. The bikes are now sitting in a storage unit, owned by UW Police.
The searches took place across two counties and include a Muscoda bike shop, an apartment in the Town of Madison, a storage unit in the City of Madison, and a farm in the Town of Windsor.
While cats may not like human music, a University of Wisconsin study shows they don’t want to paws music created specifically for them.
With nearly 600 bicycles sitting in storage, UW-Madison police are hoping that people who have had bikes stolen from them anywhere in Dane County will come forward and reclaim them.
In Tuesday’s installment of the spring Black Lives Matter Speaker Series, black feminist scholar Brittney Cooper challenged the idea of respectability in a talk to UW-Madison students and community members.
Q&A promoting First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community
upcoming performance at the Line Breaks Festival.
After a 10-month-long investigation, the UW-Madison Police Department is seeking charges against two men for stealing hundreds of bicycles around the Madison area, Chief Susan Riseling said at a news conference Tuesday.
A UW-Madison psychology researcher has teamed with a composer to create music that moves the feline soul — in a way that human tunes perhaps never could.
Established in early 2013, several of HealthMyne’s cofounders are serial entrepreneurs, well-known in Madison. Thomas “Rock” Mackie is director of medical engineering at the UW-Madison’s Morgridge Institute for Research. He was a cofounder of TomoTherapy, whose radiation machines are used to treat cancer and are now part of California-based Accuray.
Though the UW System’s proposed autonomy measures would mean removing state mandates for minority scholarship funding, both university and UW System officials said those scholarships will be unaffected.
Kaminsky added another honor to a remarkable second half of his career with the Badgers on Monday when he was named the Big Ten Conference Player of the Year.
Noted: Koepp, a Pewaukee native and UW-Madison graduate, has become the go-to writer for a series of wildly successful blockbusters, including “Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Spider-Man” and the upcoming adaptation of Dan Brown’s “Inferno” starring Tom Hanks.
Noted: A UW-Madison study identified the problems associated with unsupervised children during after-school hours.
Students from throughout Madison left school and took their rage, sorrow and demands to the city’s power centers on Monday, rocking the state Capitol rotunda with chants of “Justice for Tony” then demanding a meeting with Mayor Paul Soglin and Police Chief Mike Koval while massed outside the City-County Building.
Some 1,500 protesters, many of them students from Madison high schools and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, filled the Capitol rotunda Monday to protest the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer, sending the iconic chant “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” echoing through the statehouse.
Sam graduated from Tomah High School in 1967 and worked at UW Hospital as a health unit coordinator and also served as president for the UW Union Local 1942.
William R. Harris, an African-American hotel doorman, sat down for a meal on Feb. 25, 1917, in the newly remodeled Boston Cafe at 207 State St. in Madison.
There is much more to the story, but Youlo’s long ago dream has come true. He will finish his medical residency in orthopedic surgery at the UW Hospital and Clinics in June.
Brandi Grayson, a leader of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, told Madison.com about 300 to 400 UW-Madison students are planning to march from campus to the Capitol, and students from all of Madison’s public high schools and Sun Prairie High School are also invited to come down to the Capitol to join in the protest.
Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at UW-Madison, said the “anti-vaxxer” movement has a long history in the U.S., stretching back 200 years.
Hansen, of Madison, is an emeritus professor of economics at UW-Madison.
