After seeing several large development projects in the area ? including a six-story apartment from the Mullins Group on the 2500 block next to Lombardino?s, a four-story apartment on the 2300 block at the former site of the Ivy Inn and the UW-Madisons massive new $100 million Wisconsin Energy Institute ? the neighborhood initiated a planning process to offer its own vision for the area.
Deborah Blum has a piece of jewelry to die for. The UW professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author shows off a turquoise ring. Twist it, and a secret compartment reveals itself, perfect for concealing a cyanide capsule or other poison.
In January, the state of Wisconsin launched a new website with a searchable database that lets the public see what state government spends on goods, services and other operating costs.
Giancarlo Tello paid $14,000 more than other New Jersey high school graduates to attend Rutgers University, the state?s flagship public college. Why the difference? Tello spent much of his childhood in the U.S. without legal permission after his parents moved from Peru when he was 6.
For several years now, UW students from the Wisconsin Union Directorate?s Film Committee have been heading to Sundance to see the latest movies. And they?ve had a place to stay, thanks to an alumna of the university and WUD.
At Thursday?s hearing, Byron Lichstein, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, asked Huber to throw out the couple?s jail sentence. The judge denied the motion.
Sue?s life achievements include serving as a member of the Mayor?s Commission on Human Rights in the 1950?s; taking flying lessons; being an active leader of several Madison Jewish women?s organizations; working for a number of years as a staff member of Beth El Temple before going to work for the billing department of the UW Hospital Department of Surgery for 26 years.
Three weeks after picking a new president, the University of Wisconsin System on Thursday evening released the names of two other leading candidates for the job: former top UW administrator David Wilson and former Republican Congressman Mark Green.
Academy Award-winning film director Oliver Stone headlines a stellar group of speakers this spring in the Distinguished Lecture Series on the UW-Madison campus.
Swedenborg and Ronning are members of two teams from UW-Madison that have been chosen to make presentations in regional competitions in March for the Hult Prize, a contest that draws more than 10,000 applicants from over 150 countries.
It?s not like Cynthia Snyder needed another ceramic bowl. By her count, she and her husband already have 20 bowls from their previous trips to the annual Souper Bowl. But that didn?t deter them from coming again to Souper Bowl XVIII ? that?s 18 for the Roman numeral challenged ? the annual fundraiser for the UW-Madison chapter of Habitat for Humanity held Saturday at Madison West High School.
Silatronix got its start when two University of Wisconsin professors, both considered experts in their fields, happened to run into each other one day in 2007.
I disagree with the Jan. 27 letter to the editor objecting to the UW-Madison Student-Athlete Performance Center.
We enjoyed the Jan. 26 State Journal article describing the Memorial Union?s current renovation. The Union, as the article states, is an iconic campus landmark. It has been the second living room and favorite playground to generations of students, graduates and Madisonians.
UW-Madison has been named one of the best values in higher education for the second time in three months.
Wisconsin is inching forward to provide a unique solution to its roughly 753,000 graduates who come out of college with a degree and thousands of dollars in student loan debt.
A home invasion Downtown Sunday night prompted UW-Madison police to issue an alert to students living in the area, but no one was injured and the alert was lifted later.
Student members of the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are urging universities to provide low-cost “open” alternatives to textbooks, citing the high cost of current options.
At its Jan. 8 meeting the Madison Area Technical College District Board, the governing body connecting the college with the community, decided to arm its campus officers with tasers. This is a serious matter that should be discussed more broadly in the community.
Last year, when the tuition freeze was announced by Gov. Scott Walker in La Crosse, like most students, I was excited. … But diving deeper into the numbers, students have to take this freeze with a grain of salt.
McFarland High School honored Rhodes Scholar Drew Birrenkott and kicked off its new ?Life of a Spartan? club in a combined ceremony, hoping he would inspire current students … Birrenkott plans to graduate from UW-Madison in May and then spend at least two years studying at Oxford University in England. The scholarship ? he?s the first McFarland graduate to win one ? is valued at about $50,000 a year.
For Anna Zeide, graduate school doesn?t happen only on UW-Madison?s campus. A part-time job brings her to the Madison Children?s Museum on the Capitol Square, and projects there take her to neighborhoods in other parts of the city in what is known as ?the real world,? a place the university is encouraging more scholars in the humanities to explore.
Do less snow, warmer temperatures and more rain in winter sound pretty good right now?That?s the possible weather scenario Wisconsin and the Great Lakes states could see in the latter part of the 21st century, according to researcher Michael Notaro at UW-Madison.
Three existing UW-Madison buildings that would violate height restrictions in the expanded zone ? Van Hise Hall, the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science Building, and the Engineering Research Building ? would be grandfathered under the proposal.
The new formula still uses the achievement and achievement gap score categories. But it would use a method of calculating student growth developed at UW-Madison, known as ?value-added,? which seeks to evaluate school performance while accounting for student demographics.
Ashland?s Andrew Pearson, from Sixth Street Market, was among 21 people who were awarded the distinction of a Master Meat Crafter on Jan. 17 at UW-Madison.
The chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is bringing his 40-year career in higher education to an end.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board on Friday approved contract extensions for the fall sports coaches.
The annual State of the State address delivered by Gov. Scott Walker was given amid news that the Wisconsin state budget, like those in many other states, is projected to run a surplus. But for too many hardworking Wisconsin family budgets, there?s not the same good news ? and the $1.2 trillion student loan debt crisis is the reason for hundreds of thousands of us.
Lake Superior State University?s Board of Trustees has confirmed University of Wisconsin official Thomas Pleger as the northern Michigan school?s next president. Pleger is campus executive officer and dean of the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County.
“A low-wage job supplemented with food stamps is becoming more common for the working poor,” said Timothy Smeeding, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in income inequality. “Many of the U.S. jobs now being created are low- or minimum-wage _ part-time or in areas such as retail or fast food _ which means food stamp use will stay high for some time, even after unemployment improves.”
An educator instrumental in widening the scope and success of research and graduate programs at UW-Madison is returning to the classroom.
A social media campaign aimed at sharing the realities of the minority experience on a Big Ten campus is attracting national attention, and has spurred the University of Michigan administration to act.
Jadin said the UW-Madison is driving much of the local life sciences sector?s advance. He said the university is No. 4 nationwide in federal research funds.
?Research suggests that supply-side economics ? where a tax cut actually generates more revenue ? doesn?t really hold true,? said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
Groundbreaking local research is providing new insights into being young and transgender.
About three-quarters of the way through a$52 million renovation of UW-Madison?s Memorial Union, green construction practices and attention to historic detail are contributing to a sustainable restoration that could preserve the iconic campus landmark for another 100 years, university and project leaders said.
Mindy?s death comes as initiatives across the community ? from new policies at Madison schools to groundbreaking research at UW-Madison ? are rapidly improving the landscape for transgender youth.
The UW-Madison-based percussion ensemble is breaking ground by reviving rarely performed works, commissioning new music and even inventing its own instruments.
He worked for the UW for 17 years and then went to work for UW Hospital for 14 years, and retired in February, 2000.
Wisconsin farmers earned an estimated $3.75 billion last year, their second most profitable ever, thanks in large part to strong dairy and livestock sales, University of Wisconsin economists reported Wednesday.
The report is a key ingredient to the Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum on Wednesday at UW-Madison.
That drop in annual memberships came in spite of a $45 discount offered to UW-Madison students, staff and faculty. The docking stations on the UW campus are the busiest in the city, Madison B-cycle said.
She was assistant to the Director of Clinical Affairs (at UW Hospital) and in that capacity coordinated house staff affairs and credentialing and organizational affairs of the medical staff.
. Leta spent many years working as a secretary for the University of Wisconsin, most recently in the Chemistry Department.
When Jessie Vetter left the University of Wisconsin women?s hockey program in 2009, it looked as though the standout goaltender?s record for career victories may stand for a long time to come.
The sight of Mike Eaves changing a diaper, rubbing the back of a sleepy toddler and dancing with preschoolers might shock those who don?t really know the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey coach.
For example, the University of Wisconsin Health Partners medical center in Watertown has implemented a health transition program. Patients are seen by transitions staff while still in the hospital, and receive follow-up calls or visits after they?re released. The report said that the hospital saw its readmission rate drop by 7 percent.
Edie moved to Madison and began working at the Memorial Library in 1987, where she was a senior academic librarian with the library technology group at the Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin?s finances are more than $900 million stronger through mid-2015 than previously expected, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Extension?s interim provost will take over as chancellor on an interim basis, replacing the current chancellor who?s been named to head the entire UW System.
When Madison Vaccines Inc. (MVI) announced this week it has raised $8 million in financing, it marked the official debut of the UW-Madison spinoff.
The future of energy could be drastically changed by some research going on at UW-Madison. A team of more than eight researchers has discovered a possible breakthrough in biomass fuel.
?Wisconsin has the regrettable distinction of ranking among the worst states in the nation in terms of racial equality,? begins the report by COWS, a nonprofit think tank based at UW-Madison.
Darlene eventually worked as a lab technician at the Veterinary Science Department of UW-Madison for nine years before she retired.
The UW-Madison employee who died Thursday after she was hit by a truck backing up on Mendota Court has been identified as Edith M. Dixon, 62, of Madison.
In one program for aspiring Wisconsin criminologists at an Indianapolis-based online college, 16 students started classes in 2012. A year later, just one was still enrolled. A program for would-be Wisconsin chefs hosted by a Minnesota online college began with 34 students. A year later, it had dwindled to a class of four.
It was December 2009 when Heidi Allstop, then a UW-Madison graduate student in psychology and business, needed someone to talk to about the stresses of student life and figured other students probably did, too.
Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, reintroduced a bill this month to remove the prayer exception. That would help clarify that the state won?t permit parents to let children die through faith healing, said Alta Charo, a UW-Madison bioethicist.
Goodbye, president Reilly. Hello, professor Reilly.
