The mayor’s ideas include an ad-hoc committee composed of people now serving on relevant committees such as the Plan Commission and Downtown Coordinating Committee plus representatives of the UW-Madison community, property owners, existing retailers and other businesses, and people who don’t go to State Street or the Square.
The UW-Madison Police Department said it might be a simple, obvious thing to do, but students can forget to lock doors and secure belongings with all the other stuff going on.
Professor Hemant Shah was a longtime admirer of Tom Mulhern’s work in the Wisconsin State Journal, and it’s clear to the director of the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication that he wasn’t alone.
The 6-foot-2 sophomore setter already has taken her place among the top players in the program’s history, and her resume continues to grow … This season she’s led the Badgers to their first Big Ten title since 2001, earning conference player of the year and setter of the year honors.
High poverty levels reported in census tracts near the UW-Madison campus — more than 80 percent in some areas in the latest estimates — likely contribute to the higher-than-average level of poverty for Dane County young adults.
After having one of the best seasons for a running back in college football history, it was no surprise when Gordon was named a Heisman Trophy finalist along with Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota and Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper.
I am proud of the way our students handled themselves. I am proud that they took a stand for what they believe, and that they did so with dignity and grace. They clearly displayed the values this university holds dear.
My point is that, in all probability, there is a ceiling on how far these two most visible UW programs can go, that actually winning a national title in either football or basketball in the knowable future is unlikely.
The seven senior members of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team stood alone on the court at the UW Field House, embraced, shared some tears and waved to the fans. And then they rejoined the rest of their teammates, ready to move on to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.
William Jones, a UW-Madison history professor, cited comments Walker made to Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks, a prominent GOP donor, in January 2011. Hendricks had asked Walker whether lawmakers could make Wisconsin a “completely red state” and “become a right-to-work state.” Walker replied that the “first step” was public employee unions, “because you use divide and conquer.” “I think it’s clear that he supports this type of thing,” Jones said.
It’s been 20 months since Henry Mackaman, a 21-year-old UW-Madison student, died from meningitis. His mother, Meredith Leigh, is still disappointed over his care, which she claims was inadequate. But she hopes a vaccine recently approved for the type of meningitis Mackaman had could prevent other deaths.
The suspect got back in the car and it was last seen heading west toward the UW-Madison Memorial Union.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross said it’s time for a fresh look at how the statewide system does business, calling for an array of measures that would cut costs and could affect campus life.
About 400 Christmas trees were packed into the pavilion Friday morning for the UW Forestry Club’s annual Christmas tree sale.
A new UW-Madison performance center planned for the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue will be named in honor of alumnus George Hamel and his wife, Pamela Hamel.
Dee Ann began her career at the UW-Madison Radiation Safety Department.
The program, Shop with a Cop, now in its 14th year, is a partnership between the police departments of Madison, Monona, town of Madison, UW-Madison, Middleton, Oregon and Waunakee along with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.
If you think it’s hard for you to flush the University of Wisconsin’s embarrassing defeat in the Big Ten Conference Championship football game out of your system, imagine what it’s like for the team.
Jensen performs with the Johannes Wallmann Quintet, featuring UW-Madison music professors Wallmann on piano and Les Thimmig on saxophone, Nick Moran on bass and Keith Lienert on drums; 8 p.m., Morphy Recital Hall in the UW Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St.; free.
If the Badgers get past Ohio State in the Big Ten Conference championship game Saturday in Indianapolis, they are virtually guaranteed of a berth in one of the College Football Playoff bowl games … If UW loses to Ohio State, that’s where the picture gets a bit fuzzy.
Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison chancellor, echoed those concerns at a November Board of Regents meeting, calling the proposed creation of new programs “really foolish.” UW-Madison, the flagship, has by far the largest engineering program, followed by UW-Platteville, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Stevens Point. The chancellors at River Falls, Eau Claire and Stout — along the Interstate 94 corridor — proposed the Northwest Wisconsin Engineering Consortium in response, they said, to growing demand from business owners for more engineers in the region.
“Who Gets Kissed?” is the name of a new organic sweet corn developed by the UW-Madison and a nonprofit called the Organic Seed Alliance.
After the Badgers beat Minnesota last week, many students had one day to decide to buy tickets for the game before they went on sale, prompting a mad dash to make travel plans to Indianapolis. Associate Athletic Director Justin Doherty said Thursday that about 9,000 of the 10,000 tickets allotted to UW-Madison by the conference have been sold, and all 2,000 tickets of those available at a lower rate to
Announcement of the decision Wednesday not to indict Pantaleo led to protests in New York and cities across the country, including a silent vigil outside the Kohl Center during the Wisconsin basketball game.
Arnold worked as a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison for over 40 years.
The upper deck of the Field House, currently not in use, needs a couple hundred thousand dollars in investment to open. Why not fill the Field House for a championship UW program? Why not have the optional capacity to fill the Field House for any sports event?
The Badgers 28-2 enter their NCAA tournament opener tonight ranked No. 2 in the AVCA coaches poll and seeded No. 4 overall, the highest in the program’s 17 NCAA appearances. That’s a big step up from a year ago when the Badgers entered the tournament under the radar as the No. 12 seed and went on a surprising run to the championship match, knocking off top-ranked Texas in the national semifinals.
A hotline could soon be in place to report waste, fraud or abuse by University of Wisconsin System employees or schools, separate from an existing hotline run by the state audit bureau.
Although he served as a student member of the UW Board of Regents back in 1989, he has had the UW-Madison in the cross hairs because some in the administration crossed him. His latest threat is to have the Republican-led Legislature micromanage how many hours professors spend in the classroom — and worse, make sure the UW’s huge research function is geared to helping the state’s economy, rather than focusing on “ancient mating habits of whatever.” It shows how ignorant Vos and all too many of his colleagues are about the UW-Madison and its internationally renowned research, which has found cures for diseases, revolutionized farming and the production of food, educated students who have gone out to lead the business world, is on the cutting edge of stem cell development and is a leader in countless other scientific and technology areas — benefits for not only Wisconsin’s economy, but the world.
A new anti-bullying policy at UW-Madison, the genesis for which was reported Monday by the Capital Times, is getting good reviews, according to a new post in Inside Higher Ed.
The ESPN flagship news-and-highlights show will originate from the Kohl Center after No. 2 Wisconsin’s men’s basketball game against No. 4 Duke.
The UW-Madison Police Department is asking fans to think twice before shelling out a large amount of cash for a ticket since you might be buying a counterfeit ticket that won’t get you a seat at the game.
A former University of Wisconsin football player and his twin brother were arrested Wednesday for allegedly committing five armed robberies in Madison and Middleton over a nearly two-week period last month.
If the syllabus is any indication, Lynda Barry’s class at UW-Madison, The Unthinkable Mind, must be fantastic.
Tipoff for this one is set for 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Kohl Center, and the game will be televised by ESPN.
Richard Brown, a physician and addictions specialist at UW-Madison, said he’s not aware of any sober bus regulations, but it does “raise an especially interesting set of ethical and legal questions if alcohol establishments are sponsoring the services.”
UW-Madison is among the college campuses explored by the Chronicle for Higher Education for a special report, “Alcohol’s Hold on Campus.”
He worked at UW Hospital, Madison, in maintenance for 27 years, retiring in 2000.
Stanley Kutler has written “Nixon’s the One” with Harry Shearer, now on YouTube, and the play, “I, Nixon.” He has written widely on Vietnam and is a UW-Madison professor emeritus.
A leading researcher on the interface between science communications and politics is Dietram Scheufele of the UW-Madison’s Department of Life Sciences Communication. In a recent paper for the National Academy of Sciences, Scheufele said the “knowledge deficit model” of science communications misses the boat.
As a lifelong Badgers fan, I knew (Pat) O’Dea as an Australian who showed up on the Madison campus in the late 1890s and proceeded to astonish the nation with his kicking exploits on the football field. He could punt the ball 110 yards, and in 1898, O’Dea made a 62-yard field goal against Northwestern. He drop kicked it.
Most recently he worked for 20 years at UW-Madison as a carpenter on campus and at family housing, which he enjoyed.
What’s more painful – getting a deep-tissue massage, or finding out that you can’t trust a professional wrestler? The UW #SweetScientists team of Amy DeJong and Maya Warren got to experience both traumas during Friday’s episode of CBS’ “The Amazing Race,” and still managed to survive and make the Final Four for the globe-trotting reality competition show.
UW beat the Golden Gophers 34-24 to advance to next Saturday’s Big Ten Championship game against No. 7 Ohio State.
During the Badgers’ storybook win over the Minnesota Gophers to retain Paul Bunyan’s Axe, UW-Madison police issued 34 citations to fans in attendance, 10 of which were given to UW students, according to a UW-Madison Police Department report.
Other stations set for removal this week include UW-Madison Memorial Union, Lake and Langdon streets, Hawthorne Court and State Street on Tuesday … B Cycle stations will return in March.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team received the No. 4 overall seed in the NCAA tournament — the highest seed in program history — as the field for this year’s tourney was announced Sunday night.
Derogatory remarks. Unwarranted physical contact. Sabotage of a colleague’s work. Use of threats or retaliation in the exercise of authority. Sounds like seriously bad behavior in the workplace, especially for faculty at Wisconsin’s flagship university. But Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology, says she has heard of many incidents fitting one or all of those behaviors at UW-Madison.
Kyle Costigan, a fifth-year senior guard from Muskego High School, is set to play his final home game Saturday when the Badgers face rival Minnesota. But he isn’t sure his mother will make it this time. Sandy Costigan is struggling in her battle with kidney cancer.
. In 1962 he began his career at UW-Madison as a faculty member in the math department. During the 1960s Howard moved his family to New York to work at the Rockefeller Institute. He returned to UW-Madison in 1968 and retired in 1995.
Beyond politics, Wisconsin should feel blessed by generosity. UW-Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge just announced a $100 million gift to the university to attract and keep top professors and researchers. That’s on top of hundreds of millions more in past gifts by the couple for UW buildings, research and System-wide student grants.
UW-Madison paid full professors an average of $109,300 — 25 percent below the median among 11 comparable schools around the nation.
Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison, said it’s unlikely retailers that open on Thanksgiving will retreat due to competition. But sales are about the same, regardless if a store is open or closed on the holiday, he said.
Neil Damron, a political science and economics major from Syracuse, New York, was a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship, and Rachel Dvorak, a biochemistry major from Rice Lake, was a finalist for the Marshall scholarship.
UW-Madison has started a national search for a new vice-provost for diversity and chief diversity officer.
The flight lasted just minutes and sparked a federal investigation. But a month and a half later, University of Wisconsin police still don’t know who flew a drone over Camp Randall Stadium during a Wisconsin Badgers football game against Illinois.
Jim left the Department of Labor to join the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1969, where he served as Professor of Law and Industrial Relations, until his retirement in 1993. Early in his tenure, he originated the William H. Hastie Teaching Fellowship program. In 1991, he was named Nathan P. Feinsinger Professor of Labor Law.
It’s no secret that Saturday will likely be Melvin Gordon’s last game at Camp Randall Stadium … UW coach Gary Andersen isn’t one to make assumptions, though, and Gordon will not be honored alongside the seniors before the Badgers take on rival Minnesota on Saturday.
Instead of the axe being kept behind the bench of the current caretaker during the game, it will appear for the ceremonial coin toss and then vanish until the game is over. Instead of players from the winning team gathering up the axe and using it to feign the act of chopping down both goal posts, the axe will be made available to the winners in the end zone closest to their locker room.
(Wis. Taxpayer’s Alliance’s) Berry also addressed the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents earlier this month along with Department of Workforce Development secretary Reggie Newson … The two talked about the role of education in Wisconsin’s economic outlook and Newson noted the growing need for more bachelor’s degree-holders in Wisconsin. “The university shouldn’t be figuring out how to fill today’s jobs but how to spawn tomorrow’s quirky thinkers who innovate, who will sometimes succeed and sometimes fail,” Berry told the board.
