If you want to find one of the greatest college towns in the world, look no farther than Bascom Hill and Camp Randall Stadium.
BBC calls Madison one of the five greatest college towns in the world
Madison.com
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Wisconsin crowdfunding bill opens early stage investing to average citizens
Capital Times
?This bill reforms government for the 21st century by providing a market-driven solution in helping startups raise the capital they need to grow and create jobs,? said Walker during the bill signing ceremony at University Research Park.
Panel wants more details on UW reserve plan
Madison.com
The Legislature?s Audit Committee wants more information from the University of Wisconsin System before it will vote on its plan for how much money it will keep in reserves.
Barness, Lewis Abraham M.D.
Madison.com
He continued his work as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine from 1988 to 1992 and then returned to USF until his retirement in 2007. He continued to serve as Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at USF and UW until his death.
Toxic blue-green algae caused by lack of nitrogen, UW researchers say
Madison.com
Why does some blue-green algae found in lakes and streams turn toxic? It?s because of a lack of nitrogen, according to a study by researchers at the UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute.
Theresa Duello: Change in UWs unwelcoming atmosphere unlikely
Capital Times
Dear Editor: In Pat Schneiders recent story “Unwelcome: UW-Madison has work to do in building a comfortable workplace for minority faculty,” it states that faculty can bring allegations of discriminatory activity to the Office for Equity and Diversity.
Andy Baggot: Think UW’s got a BCS gripe? If Auburn beats Alabama, chaos could ensue
Most everyone around here is fixated on the lower end of the Bowl Championship Series standings, which is understandable given how the University of Wisconsin football team has been sentenced ? quite unjustly ? to languish there week after week.
UW’s Flexible Option gives credit for what you can show you know
Capital Times
Learned a lot on the job but don?t have a college degree to show for it? If you can show what you know, you might be able to get academic credit for knowledge and skills picked up outside the classroom with the new UW Flexible Option program.
On Campus: Targeted raises will go to UW-Madison employees under new plan
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison will give another round of targeted pay raises to some faculty and staff, the second such effort following an initial rollout of pay bumps in 2012.
Admission opens for UW flex degrees
Madison.com
University of Wisconsin officials launched their new online flexible degree program Monday, promising the initiative will help adults get college degrees and find better jobs faster.
Stay tuned to CWD research
Wisconsin State Journal
A second study, reported by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, also is troubling for the passive strategy. UW-Madison research, yet to be published, found that prions ? the infectious, deformed proteins that cause CWD ? can be taken up by plants. The findings suggest crops and garden plants pose a previously unknown risk for exposure to CWD among deer.
Report: Much of UW 2012 reserves committed
Madison.com
University of Wisconsin System officials planned to spend a large chunk of their 2012 reserves on several items including scholarships, construction projects and staff salaries, according to a state report released Friday.
Suspend student section if chant doesn’t stop — Keith R. Nelson
Wisconsin State Journal
As a Badger football season ticket owner, I have heard the obscene chant game after game for years — regardless of what university leaders do to try to stop it.
Treat chanting students like other offensive fans — Dave Edgerton
Wisconsin State Journal
One solution I haven?t heard discussed regarding the chant at UW football games is the most obvious and probably the most effective one.
Tech and Biotech: MERLIN Mentors celebrate milestone; and University Research Park earns national praise
Wisconsin State Journal
With backing from UW-Madison, Terry Sivesind and Toni Sikes created MERLIN (Madison Entrepreneur Resource, Learning and Innovation Network) Mentors.
Inside Wisconsin: Tom Still
Wisconsin State Journal
Part of the global effort to predict storm behavior is being conducted through the UW-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. With support from NOAA, university scientists will work with data from NOAA satellites, current and future. The team will collaborate to improve satellite-based products that monitor weather and climate while enhancing sensors planned for future spacecraft.
16 arrests, 40 ejections at UW football game : Wsj
Wisconsin State Journal
MADISON ? UW-Madison police made 16 arrests, issued 16 citations and ejected 40 people during the Badgers? 51-3 rout of Indiana on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
‘Undocumented’ fund balances at UW-Madison held to help cover research costs
Capital Times
More than three-quarters of the $142 million in UW System fund balances for which state auditors say they could not document a spending plan is on the books for UW-Madison.
On Campus: Targeted raises will go to UW-Madison employees under new plan
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison will give another round of targeted pay raises to some faculty and staff, the second such effort following an initial rollout of pay bumps in 2012.
Q&A: Badger Herald editor discusses rape culture, alternative storytelling and what students read
Capital Times
As editor-in-chief of the Badger Herald, one of the largest independent student newspapers in the country, Katherine Krueger has a unique perspective on the future of journalism in the digital age. Last year the Herald, which had long been the larger and wealthier of the two UW-Madison campus newspapers, decided it could no longer continue to print a daily broadsheet newspaper.
Community members say they sometimes feel at home at UW-Madison, and sometimes not
Capital Times
How does UW-Madison make you feel? UW officials asked that question of some 25 community members, faculty and staff ? many of them African-American ? who gathered Wednesday evening for the second of four scheduled community listening sessions on diversity and inclusion at the university.
New MATC public comment rules draw furious reaction, censorship claims
Wisconsin State Journal
New rules that restrict public comments on personnel and contracts before the Madison Area Technical College district board have drawn a furious response from some college staffers and a former board member who say they unfairly limit free speech at the publicly funded college.
Badgers football: Offensive lineman Chris Gill is living a dream at UW
Madison.com
Chris Gill has managed to cram a lifetime of hopes and dreams into seven or eight plays this season for the University of Wisconsin football team.
Swoboda, Marian Jean Schuelke
Madison.com
In 1972, she was hired by UW President Weaver to provide leadership for improving and expanding educational and employment opportunities for women, minorities and people with disabilities. Marian was highly motivated by the goals she believed in, and one of these was equity. Many of her publications on women?s issues went national and international and she traveled to foreign countries to introduce the achievements made on the University of Wisconsin campuses. She was a member of the teaching faculty of the UW-Madison and Whitewater, lecturing on women?s studies.
Richter outlines UW athletic success during talk at Community Expo
Former UW-Madison athletic director and hall of fame member Pat Richter was the keynote speaker at last Thursday evening?s Community Expo.
Affordable Care Act ‘teach-in’ scheduled for Monday
Wisconsin State Journal
An Affordable Care Act ?teach-in? Monday at UW School of Medicine and Public Health will be simulcast to more than 20 UW System campuses, technical colleges and private schools.
New partnership to help entrepreneurs on UW campus
Madison.com
A new partnership focusing on entrepreneurship has been launched on the UW-Madison campus.
Urban League hoping for bigger crowd at second UW-Madison session on diversity
Capital Times
Kaleem Caire has been pushing to get a good turnout for UW-Madison?s second community meeting on diversity and inclusion, to be held Wednesday at the headquarters of the Urban League of Greater Madison, where Caire is president and CEO.
Unwelcome: UW-Madison has work to do in building a comfortable workplace for minority faculty
Capital Times
Michael Ramsey-Musolf recalls a time that his colleagues in the UW-Madison physics department, entertaining seminar visitors, walked past his door on the way out to dinner without inviting him to join them.
On Campus: Fit to be flexed? UW flex option rollout starts today with online survey, youtube video
Wisconsin State Journal
Are you fit to be flexed? Let the University of Wisconsin help you find out.
Plain Talk: A fond remembrance of the colorful Portage Plumber
Capital Times
The Fall edition of the Badger Insider, one of the slick publications produced by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, has a great story about one of Badger football?s all-time legends, the Portage Plumber.
UW-Madison ranked 6th in number of students studying abroad
Madison.com
Over 2,000 UW-Madison students studied abroad in the 2011-2012 academic year, ranking it sixth among peer universities and colleges in the U.S.
School Spotlight: UW-Madison Classics Society spurs interest among younger students
Wisconsin State Journal
Members of the Classics Society at UW-Madison grew up loving mythological stories and hope to instill that appreciation among elementary students.
Stiles, Margaret “Peg” Gunderson
Madison.com
Peg thrived on involvement and was, among other things, past president of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology Alumni Board, the Monroe Jaycettes and Church Women United in Green County. She was a docent at the Elvehjem Museum of Art and a member of the UW Choral Union, Memorial Union Building Association and Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for the Arts.
UW produces a visual look at migration from county to county
Capital Times
The U.S. Census Bureau tracks how people move from county to county in each decennial report, but a UW-Madison laboratory has taken that to a visual level.
Gene Farley, father of family medicine and champion of social justice, dies at 86
Wisconsin State Journal
Farley was an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and served as chair of the Department of Family Medicine from 1982 until 1992.
Game day citations and ejections center on alcohol
Madison.com
University Police released their statistics on arrests at the Badgers vs. Brigham Young University, including twenty three arrests, fourteen of them students.
UW students represent their school well — Schofer Nichols
Wisconsin State Journal
We recently returned to Ohio to attend the Ohio State vs. Wisconsin football game. When we arrived at the motel, we discovered our room was surrounded by UW-Madison students, who may have been shocked to see grey-haired OSU fans in their midst.
Stucker, Darren Michael
Madison.com
Darren came to the UW-Madison as an undergraduate where he earned a bachelor?s degree in political science, a master?s degree in education, concentrating on educating culturally diverse populations, and doctorate in interdisciplinary media education, concentrating on uses of video for social change. Despite sojourns in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., he always returned to Madison. His award winning documentaries include Stalemate Kapuchea; Strategic Trust: The Making of Nuclear Free Palau; and Healing: The Human Factor.
Is elitist image preventing UW-Madison from connecting with minority communities?
Capital Times
Does UW-Madison have a snobby image to overcome before it can connect with parts of the greater Madison community?
UW-Madison eye research center lays off entire staff amid $4.6 million deficit
Wisconsin State Journal
The UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health has laid off all 60 employees from a nationally known eye research center after learning the center had run up a deficit of $4.6 million.
Olson, Dr. Ronald W.
Madison.com
Ron was in private practice for 13 years before joining the UW medical faculty, specializing in maternal-fetal medicine.
Chris Rickert: Tolerate Camp Randall chant or offer more than ?concern? and half measures
Wisconsin State Journal
When it comes to the unimaginative four-word, two-profanity chant common to the student section during UW-Madison football games, I can?t help but think: So what else is new?
Indian mascots, football injuries are real offenders — Sharon Kennelly
Wisconsin State Journal
In my wildest dreams I cannot imagine being offended by harmless, boisterous, crude-but-entertaining chants at football games.
Blank, Alvarez correct about students and chant — Terry Jones
Wisconsin State Journal
The comments by UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez in Thursday?s guest column, “We?re concerned about profane chant, too,” were spot on.
Model the behavior you want to see — Robert Erb
Wisconsin State Journal
We can fix the UW student chant dilemma, but it will take everyone?s help.
Madison documentary film Kickstarter campaign beats the odds, hits funding goal
Capital Times
A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a UW-Madison researcher?s documentary film on how exercise plays a role in combating multiple sclerosis has hit its funding target, and then some.
Madison apartment fire injures 3, displaces dozens
Wisconsin State Journal
A fire at a three-story apartment building on Madison?s Near West Side late Saturday night injured three people and displaced dozens of residents, many of them UW-Madison students.
North Dakota, Wisconsin to renew hockey rivalry
Madison.com
The University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin are renewing their decades-long hockey rivalry.
Badgers football: UW fans challenged by BYU to a ‘Like War’ on Facebook
Madison.com
When Gary Andersen was the football coach at Utah State, the Aggies played BYU every year in the battle for the “Old Wagon Wheel.”
Badgers men’s basketball: Under spotlight, Sam Dekker eyes improvement
Madison.com
he one-on-one games were intense and sometimes left Sam Dekker in tears.
Greg Hyer named interim director of University Research Park
Madison.com
University Research Park associate director Greg Hyer has been named interim director of the West Side business complex, following the retirement of Mark Bugher.
Dane County DA Ismael Ozanne to run for state attorney general
Wisconsin State Journal
Ozanne was born and raised in Madison, the son of two teachers. He helped lead Madison West to two state soccer titles and went on to play at UW-Madison, where he also attended law school.
Obama nominates Madison lawyer for federal bench
Wisconsin State Journal
Peterson is a 1998 graduate of the UW-Madison Law School … He received his bachelor?s and master?s degrees and Ph.D. from UW-Madison.
Doug Moe: Skylar Stecker’s triumphant return
Wisconsin State Journal
Stecker will sing the national anthem at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday prior to the Wisconsin-Brigham Young game. It figures to be her largest audience yet. Tuesday night, she?ll be back at the Kohl Center, doing the anthem before the Badgers play Florida.
Block of W. Dayton St. to close on Monday
The Madison Traffic Engineering and Parking Division said in a news release the 400 block of the street, between North Bassett Street and North Broom Street, will be closed from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. each weekday for almost two weeks.
Despite taking plea deal, man insists innocence in brutal 1987 murder
Madison.com
Noted: After Vollbrecht?s own self-written appeals received no response, an organization of law professors and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called the Innocence Project intervened on his behalf.
Baldwin urges caution on milk program changes
Madison.com
Mark Stephenson, a dairy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said farmers have an incentive to shift milk to beverage production if it is consistently valued more than making cheese.
Rebecca Blank and Barry Alvarez: We’re concerned about profane chant, too
Wisconsin State Journal
We are justifiably proud of the student population at UW-Madison. Students at our state?s flagship university come from all over the world and represent UW-Madison with intellect, curiosity, enthusiasm and an enterprising spirit that leads them to leadership positions after they graduate. Most of the time we have no trouble highlighting all that is great about UW?Madison: world-class faculty and research; a beautiful campus with remarkable facilities; nationally competitive athletics teams; a wonderful city in which to live. Occasionally, however, the spotlight shines on something of which we?re not so proud.
Sisters’ HPV vaccine injury claim heads to federal court
Wisconsin State Journal
Noted: One of the sisters, Madelyne, is a UW-Madison junior.