When the page turned and the latest tale about University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team came to a mournful end, the focus shifted to the future.
Hundreds of gleeful fans poured out of State Street bars Saturday night as soon as the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team?s nailbiter over Arizona was official, the crowd eventually growing to the thousands as fans celebrated the Badgers? return to the NCAA tournament Final Four for the first time since 2000.
Even under the new maps, three congressional districts currently held by Republicans ? the 1st, 7th and 9th ? still remain competitive, said University of Wisconsin political science professor David Canon who studies redistricting.
University of Wisconsin senior Cameron Warne sat in class early Tuesday morning and had a bright idea he decided to share with his two buddies, Isaac Wienkes and Brett Johnsen.
Noted: The event is held at four venues on campus.
Coming off a Saturday night of inadequate sleep, with voices still hoarse from screaming at their televisions, University of Wisconsin men?s basketball fans welcomed home their favorite team at a loud Kohl Center rally Sunday afternoon, the day after the squad played its way into the school?s first NCAA Final Four since 2000.
Final Four tickets won?t officially be available until Monday for UW-Madison students. But the frenzied maneuvering to secure them began not long after the final buzzer sounded in Saturday night?s Badgers? 64-63 overtime win over Arizona in the NCAA men?s basketball tournament West regional in Anaheim, Calif.
Around the country Thursday, coaches and administrators pondered the potential ramifications of the stunning decision by the National Labor Relations Board, which ruled the Northwestern football team ? up to now, referred to by the NCAA as student-athletes ? are actually university employees in everything but name. Therefore, they should be able to bargain collectively for their fair share of an industry worth billions.
A new state audit is questioning the handling of about $520,000 in federal aid received by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the state Department of Public Instruction.
The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse says a new report that ranks his school first in the country for alcohol arrests should send a message to students about the school?s tough stance against alcohol.
The U.S. military could save millions of dollars in transport and logistics costs when equipment returns from Afghanistan, based on a plan developed by a center headquartered at UW-Madison.
Truth is, says UW professor emeritus Andrew Reschovsky, Burke?s plan is long on feel-good lingo and short on substance.
Some Badgers fans left State Street Brats on Thursday night skipping, others with their arms thrust into the air in victory. They exited into a light rain still cheering or hugging, many going home or to another bar to continue the celebration.
There are certain givens for a team as it wends its way through the NCAA men?s basketball tournament.
No matter what happens to the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team over the next three weeks, it will go down as one of the most important teams in program history.
But UW-Madison political science professor emeritus Dennis Dresang argued that Republicans prioritizing local control is a fallacy dating back to “day two” of the party ? that is, the iteration following the abolition of slavery. From that point in the party?s history, Dresang said, it has been dominated by moneyed interests as opposed to those espousing small government philosophy.
Concrete work and a crane being dismantled will require two blocks of Downtown streets to be closed.
Former presidential candidate and Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr. has been chosen as the speaker at UW-Madison?s combined commencement.
Phillips was honored Wednesday morning with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association. She was the keynote speaker for “A Nation Still Under Construction,” a UW program observing the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, UW-Madison researchers who developed the tool found.
Photo caption: State workers wash windows at Helen C. White Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison students from a variety of cultures and backgrounds have taken to the blogging website Tumblr to share these and other insensitive comments they?ve heard on campus or near it. The project, “I Too, Am UW-Madison,” comes with inspiration from a similar campaign by African-American students at Harvard.
She returned to Wisconsin to be near family and friends, and spent 30 years working at the University Hospital, serving in various roles in nursing administration.
A UW-Madison police captain was fired after an internal investigation revealed he used department equipment to take hundreds of inappropriate photos of department employees and members of the public.
Thomas Brown made a significant impact at running back in the 2005 Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla.
A former UW-Madison student and rocket maker was charged Tuesday with possessing an explosive compound that was found by police after an apartment maintenance crew discovered usual lab equipment in a closet.
A program to turn UW-Madison discoveries into commercial companies, created just four months ago, already has more than five dozen prospects to consider.
In college, Scott Flanagan figured he?d end up coaching a basketball team through a March Madness tournament run each year. Instead, he now finds himself running a college, after being named the next president of Edgewood College on Tuesday as his old team, the University of Wisconsin, prepares for its Sweet 16 appearance in the NCAA tournament.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell is expected to be named the next president of Marquette University on Wednesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
In Madison, Araceli Alonso opened the envelope. Alonso, a native of Spain, is an associate faculty member of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, and a senior lecturer in Gender and Women?s Studies.
UW-Madison graduate and civil rights pioneer Vel Phillips will be honored during a daylong celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Right Acts on Wednesday. Attendance is open and the event will be live-streamed online.
UW announced on Monday that the Board of Regents approved a new compensation package for Andersen, adding an additional $300,000 to his annual salary.
Noted: As for other professional development opportunities for Madison schools staff, district spokeswoman Rachel Strauch-Nelson said the board is set to consider a partnership with UW-Madison?s School of Education. Gloria Ladson-Billings ? a black education professor who was on the board of the proposed Urban League school ? would be the ?lead? in that effort, Strauch-Nelson said, ?so that we can ensure that issues of equity and diversity are the center of all of our core professional development as a district.?
Steven Swanson is the new dean of the UW-Madison pharmacy school, the university announced Friday.
Gov. Scott Walker on Friday named three people to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and one to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
After moving back to Wisconsin, she worked as an administrative director in the Electrical Engineering Department at UW-Madison until her retirement.
The couple stayed in Washington, D.C., until 1965, upon which time Al joined the faculty at the UW-Madison School of Business. His daughter, Michele, was born shortly after this, in 1969. Throughout his 33 year career at UW-Madison, Al was the chair of the Management Department, founded The Bolz Center for Arts Administration, and launched the weekend Executive MBA Program as director.
World-class computer science and electrical engineering schools at the UW-Madison and other colleges are a part of that picture, as well as the availability of former Epic and Sonic Foundry employees who leave and wind up working for young companies.
As UW-Madison students packed up to go home for winter break in December, the crime analysts at the Madison Police Department?s Downtown offices knew what was coming next: A wave of burglary reports as students returned to campus in January, finding their apartments broken into and valuables stolen.
The gathering draws ridicule and outrage from some, especially political conservatives, who question the need for it and the amount of tax money helping to stage it. Among the two dozen co-hosts of this year?s conference are Madison Area Technical College, UW-Madison and the city of Madison?s Department of Civil Rights. Most co-hosts are paying a fee between $500 and $3,000, according to organizers, although UW-Madison is kicking in $5,000.
Toma is an associate professor of communication science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies how people relate to each other online, using Facebook, Twitter, OK Cupid and Match.com to analyze what we share, alter, inflate and lie about when we can?t be seen face to face.
To reach the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005, the University of Wisconsin men?s basketball team will have to beat Baylor.
The joyous bus ride home was punctuated by messages of congratulations, which is what one would expect for members of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team late Saturday night.
Larry Shapiro isn?t interested in arguing over whether there is a God or not. But if you ground your belief in God on a belief in miracles, then the UW-Madison philosophy professor has a problem.
Wisconsin?s largest used book sale is coming this week to UW-Madison.
Three University of Wisconsin wrestlers continued their push through the championship bracket and three more are still alive in the consolation rounds after their performances in Session II of the 2014 NCAA wrestling championships at the Chesapeake Energy Arena on Thursday night in Oklahoma City.
Noted: The story’s subject is a cousin of Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney.
It?s too early to be talking about restructuring ethnic studies programs at UW-Madison, but greater collaboration could broaden and update scholarship, says professor Craig Werner, chairman of the Department of Afro-American studies.
A team from The Associated Press has won the 2014 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for a story that revealed the CIA ties of an American who vanished in Iran.
The students, most from Milwaukee or Racine, visited with legislators to lobby for support of a bill introduced by state Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, D-Milwaukee, to offer in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses to permanent legal residents of the United States who graduated from Wisconsin high schools and have lived in the state for at least three years.
The University of Wisconsin System named five finalists for the position of vice president for university relations, including the president of a Milwaukee real estate group who is closely allied with Gov. Scott Walker.
UW-Madison has been fined more than $35,000 by a federal agency for seven violations of federal animal research treatment standards, the university announced Monday.
Maury joined the UW-Madison Department of Agricultural Journalism faculty, where he was radio farm director and professor. After earning his Ph.D. at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., he returned to UW-Madison as a full professor in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Six members of the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team were honored Monday when the Big Ten Conference unveiled its inaugural all-league squad.
A prized University of Wisconsin football recruit was charged Monday with third-degree sexual assault for allegedly raping a woman in her dorm room on the UW-Madison campus in December.
In-state tuition for undocumented students became available here in 2009, after years of organizing by immigrant youth. Unfortunately, in 2011 it was repealed by Governor Walker, who effectively shut the door to higher education for undocumented students (called “Dreamers”) in the state. It has been three years since then, and we believe it?s time this door is blown wide open again.
Next month, the UW-Madison Writers? Institute will celebrate its 25th year of bringing together aspiring and established writers, along with agents, editors and others connected to the business of trying to write well and get paid for it, for two or three days of instruction and elbow rubbing.
Numerous scoring opportunities had come and gone in recent games for the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey team.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will require all of its licensees that source, produce or purchase goods in Bangladesh to sign and comply with the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh for the production of UW goods.
[S]he was employed by the UW-Madison (Department of Urban and Regional Planning), and UW Extension Center for Community Economic Development/Rural Sociology.
