Those who live near Madison Area Technical College spoke out, sometimes angrily, at a public meeting Thursday to gauge support for an $18 million sports complex to be built partly in a wooded area near the college?s Truax campus.
Enhanced safety measures have been in place on the UW-Madison campus following the death of an employee in April when a loading dock lift fell on the employee.
An intoxicated UW-student who was texting as she crossed University Avenue was injured after she was struck by a car that did not stop early Thursday morning, Madison police said.
GenCell USA moved into its 1,000-square-foot suite at University Research Park?s Innovation Center a few months ago, Roeven said
Bicyclists on the UW-Madison campus who don?t have the proper lights on their bikes at night will be stopped by police and issued…lights?
Not that the University of Wisconsin students need a reason to party, but UW-Madison was named the No. 2 party school in the country, according to Playboy magazine.
Later, Lynne was a program assistant for 17 years in the UW Department of Environmental Studies (now the Nelson Institute), where she throve in the busy academic atmosphere of faculty and students.
A rash of thefts and robberies Downtown and on the Near West Side around the UW-Madison and Edgewood College campuses has prompted police to work together to stop the crimes and catch the criminals.
The excuse is sitting there, right in front of him, waiting to be plucked like a ripe piece of fruit. But University of Wisconsin sophomore quarterback Joel Stave wants no part of it, no matter how tantalizing it might look.
Moise and the film?s producers, Jason Schumacher, Will Blomker and Mason Hill, are all University of Wisconsin-Madison grads who made short films during their time in the city. Now living in New York, they decided to make their first feature on familiar turf.
She worked at the UW-Madison for 29 years, where she made many friends.
UW-Madison economist Steven Deller says the changing points of reference leaves the average citizen confused about what to believe. ?When the Philly Fed?s indicators had Wisconsin consistently at the bottom they ignored it,? he says in an email. ?Now that Wisconsin is finally starting to catch up a little bit, they are all over it.?
A popular recreational sports facility next to Camp Randall Stadium is closed indefinitely after a water pipe ruptured on Sunday.
This is a story about four women. It spans more than 100 years, but the setting?s a little trickier to pin down. It could be said it takes place on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but it might be more accurate to say it leapt from the worn pages of century-old scrapbooks to a boundless network of social media connections.
In last week?s column, we addressed the controversy over the ?Capitol badger,? who bears a striking resemblance to UW-Madison?s Bucky Badger, and his recent appearances at the Solidarity Singalong at the Capitol.
A 3-acre lakeside park with picnic spots, gardens, broad grassy plazas and an outdoor classroom-in-the-round will sprout by 2015 in a patch of UW-Madison land now occupied by a parking lot, officials with the school?s alumni association announced Friday.
Of course, water tech isn?t confined to the Milwaukee area. Water research programs exist at UW-Madison, with its Sea Grant Institute and Center for Limnology, and UW campuses in Stevens Point, Superior and Whitewater.
Work in very dangerous situations. Put in long hours ? 12 to 20 at a stretch ? with a limited number of breaks. Facilitate and manage all aspects of threat assessment. Those lines are taken from a job description for the director of threat intervention services, a new position at UW-Madison.
Gretchen Lundstrom was walking into the student union at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, having just finished a history class, when another student, David Minge, saw her and blurted the news. ?Kennedy has been shot!? … Eventually, of course, life went on. David Minge ran successfully for Congress in Minnesota. Gretchen Lundstrom married a Madison native, Dan Farwell, became Gretchen Farwell and enjoyed a long career as a librarian at UW-Madison.
Stephanie Salazar Kann, internship coordinator for UW-Madison?s College of Letters and Sciences, said that a lot of companies are watching and waiting to see the full impact of Fox Searchlight.
Police at UW-Madison Police made 26 arrests, issued 27 citations and ejected 64 people during the Badgers? 41-10 victory over Purdue.
Although Stephanie O?Neal didn?t blow a whistle to start the action, no one got to grab a plant until 10:30 a.m. ? sharp. Until then, members of the Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society could only scope out future additions to their gardens at the organization?s annual plant exchange held under blue skies and in an idyllic setting at the Allen Centennial Gardens at UW-Madison on Sunday.
UW-Madison researchers provides an in-depth guide to the wide world of Wisconsin fish from minnows ? there are 11 types listed ? to muskies.
Recently, 30 volunteers helped to clear invasive species and plant native trees at Picnic Point on the UW-Madison campus during a day helping the Clean Lakes Alliance.
A shooting incident that prompted a lockdown Wednesday at UW-Madison and the Downtown Madison Area Technical College facility started as a drug deal that turned into a robbery followed by a foot chase that ended after one of the robbers fired a shot at his pursuers, Madison police said Thursday.
The University of Minnesota is trying to head off problems with high risk drinking by requiring freshmen to take an alcohol education class.
The giant cafeteria on the UW-Madison campus that took up residence in the old Gordon Commons, or ?Pop?s,? is something to behold.
A woman described by police as “college-age” was robbed of her purse and cell phone at gunpoint early Friday on the Near West Side, according to a news release from Madison police.
Off stage, UW-Madison senior and computer engineering major Eric Dahl ? Silo?s alter ego ? has the young, hip look of a college student.
UW-Madison?s online course to teach students about the dangers of high-risk drinking hasn?t come a moment too soon.
Three weeks before the grand opening of his company?s new, $120 million biotech manufacturing facility, Promega Corp. chief executive Bill Linton said he?s starting to think about what the Fitchburg company ? founded in 1978 ? will be doing on its 100th anniversary.
It took a certain amount of cheek for Madison Area Technical College instructor David Peterson to suggest the college?s new welcome center shouldn?t be named after his former boss, ex-president
It?s hard to believe that WIBA radio personality “Peter B” has been gone from Madison for going on 25 years.
Madison police detained two suspects after a shot was fired following a robbery Wednesday night Downtown. No injuries were reported but the incident caused a major disturbance as multiple police departments searched for the suspects on the UW-Madison campus as well as the Downtown Madison Area Technical College facility.
Seven women at UW-Madison are being honored with the Outstanding Women of Color award for their work in social justice, service, research and community building.
Four residences on Langdon Street, were hit by burglars during the weekend, with money and electronics the targeted items.
Betty worked for a number of years as the cook at several sorority houses at UW Madison.
If you cook the bacon, they will come. That?s what a team of food science researchers at UW-Madison learned Tuesday, when their bacon tasting drew more samplers in a matter of hours than similar events usually draw in days.
?There need to be women who are championing change through political policy as well as those who are pioneering change within the roles they have taken in the workplace,? said Pat Alea, a strategic planning consultant who co-founded the Women?s Executive Leadership Summit at UW-Madison?s business school. ?Every woman, in my opinion, should address issues of fairness and equity in whatever way she can, and it?s critically important to the sanity of all of us that we not pretend inequity is ?not a problem? for us.?
UW-Madison education experts also noted the limitations of the report cards, particularly that accountability scores correlate strongly with the percentage of low-income students in a school or district. ?This report card is limited in it can only use the data we have and we don?t have perfect data to do really good value-added assessments,? said Julie Underwood, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education. ?Just saying to a district you have a lot of high-needs students is not very useful.?
University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen said during the Big Ten Conference football coaches? teleconference he is ?moving forward,? following the controversial ending to the game at Arizona State on Saturday night.
It is the fervent hope of University of Wisconsin senior defensive end Ethan Hemer that all of the heartache he has experienced over four seasons will amount to something.
Brad Carl, researcher and associate director at UW-Madison?s Value-Added Research Center says the attention the scores attract alone make them important … Julie Underwood, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, says the report cards were developed by state officials and legislators with the assistance of education experts as an alternative to No Child Left Behind.
The burglary, in the 100 block of Lathrop Street, was the fourth reported to police in the Downtown/Near West Side/UW-Madison campus area in recent weeks.
He pointed out that Barhorst?s nine-year term as president was relatively short. Her predecessor, Beverly Simone, served 14 years and has no prominent display of her name on campus. The name of David Ward, who retired as chancellor at UW-Madison the same time as Barhorst and had a 30-year faculty career plus two stints as chancellor at the university, is similarly not found on campus.
Kelly Sheffield had a tough act to follow Monday. The University of Wisconsin volleyball coach was next up at the athletic department?s weekly news conference, taking the microphone from Gary Andersen after UW?s first-year football coach had spent nearly a half-hour fielding questions about the officiating debacle that likely cost the Badgers a victory Saturday night at Arizona State.
Barry Alvarez was still steaming on Monday, two days after the University of Wisconsin football team?s controversial 32-30 loss to Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz.
University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen and his players were looking for two things Monday in the wake of the controversial ending to the 32-30 loss at Arizona State on Saturday night: accountability and closure.
Puffy badger is no Bucky … Speaking of singers, OTC was surprised earlier this week when we stood looking over the Capitol rotunda during a noontime Solidarity Singalong and saw a funny looking ?Bucky Badger? had joined the singers, holding a sign that read, ?Let Freedom Sing.?
Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus of public affairs and political science and founding director of the UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs, said he would be surprised if her controversial argument held up in court.
A lieutenant with the police force for the University of Wisconsin?s Madison campus is the new chief of public safety at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Concerned about increasing pressure for development, a group of UW-Madison students is asking the city to consider creating a local historic district in the Langdon neighborhood near campus.
Founded in 2008 based on UW-Madison research, NeuWave?s minimally invasive Certus 140 thermal ablation system attacks cancerous lung, liver or kidney tumors with microwave energy.
There?s nothing new or even unexpected about the love-hate relationship between religion and science.
UW-Madison officials weren?t thrilled to see someone in a Bucky Badger costume appear in pictures from the Solidarity Sing Along last week.
Spatula&Barcode is actually UW-Madison profs Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson, whose legendary Madison food parties and collaborations in the kitchen have led to some deliciously strange and enlightening international encounters.
“It is a bit of a trend,” says Jerry O?Brien, executive director of the Center for Retailing Excellence at UW-Madison. “The concept really is that malls are becoming more of a place to go for an experience rather than just to have the transaction of shopping.”
When it was over, or at least when the officials said it was over, the University of Wisconsin football players lingered on the field at Sun Devil Stadium.
Susan Nitzke, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of nutritional sciences, similarly dismisses the notion of a hard-and-fast figure for daily water intake.
A Dane County judge upheld a $250,000 malpractice cap against UW-Madison doctors but urged the state Supreme Court to take the case, saying the cap set in 1979 is equal to $72,000 today.
