The end section of the L-shaped dock at the Memorial Union on Lake Mendota collapsed around 2:30 p.m. Monday, sending about 60-80 students and members of the public into the water, according to the Madison Fire Department.
Amid an ongoing investigation, Madison police are knocking on doors in the area of the attack and asking anyone with footage of the area between 2 and 4 a.m. to come forward. A command center has been set up to gather information, conduct interviews and gather evidence. No arrests have been made.
The incident happened shortly after 2:30 p.m. after a portion of a metal pier just east of the stage of the popular UW-Madison venue collapsed, sending several people into Lake Mendota.
Dr. James Conway, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at UW Health, said concern about outbreaks grows when vaccination rates drop below 90%. That’s because no vaccine is 100% effective, and some people can’t get vaccines.
UW-Madison police reported that 14 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and six people were arrested during Saturday’s game between the Badgers and Buffalo.
Officers were dispatched to the area between West Wilson Street and Bedford Street at 3:18 a.m., where they found a woman with “severe signs of physical trauma,” following an apparent violent attack, Chief Shon Barnes said in a press conference Sunday.
She worked for UW Madison for many years, including in the History of Medicine Department and as the administrative assistant to the dean of the School of Education. She retired in 1999.
The FBI released two age-progressed photos of Leo Frederick Burt, who is a suspect in the Aug. 24, 1970, bombing that, at the time, was the largest act of domestic terrorism on U.S. soil. A 33-year-old researcher died in the blast and subsequent fire, and four more people were injured.
A new membership system is being offered to Badger fans to receive new benefits in supporting their team. The Camp Randall Club allows fans to pick from five levels of membership ranked by stars. The One Star level begins at $250 and features benefits like access to the Luke Fickell Radio Show, a t-shirt and a discount on Badger merch.
New rankings from Washington Monthly place the University if Wisconsin-Madison as the second best public university in the nation. The university also ranked 11th overall.
Aug. 31 is National Overdose Awareness Day, and in recognition, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced 13 new Nalox-ZONE boxes were installed on campus. The boxes offer students resources to reverse an opioid overdose. Naloxone, also called Narcan, is found in all of the boxes and is a medication that can save someone from an overdose until they can get to a hospital, UW explained.
Nicholas Hitchon, the University of Wisconsin engineering professor who appeared in the acclaimed “Up” series of British documentary movies, died from complications of throat cancer at age 65.
It’s going to be hot for the University of Wisconsin football season opener at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, and the athletic department is trying to help keep fans cool.
The large skull sculpture that had been in front of The Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus for nine years was moved inside the museum Thursday because of concerns for its preservation. Kirstin Pires, the museum’s spokesperson, said there were many reasons behind the move, including the wishes of the artist, 88-year-old Jim Dine.
With temperatures expected to reach the low-90s on Saturday, Wisconsin Athletics will hand out a limited supply of free bucket hats and encourage spectators to take precautions in order to remain cool.
Change will be evident for Badgers fans coming to Camp Randall Stadium starting Saturday. Head coach Luke Fickell is in his first season at the helm and he and his staff have been working diligently to mesh new faces with returning stars as everyone adjusts to new schemes on both offense and defense.
As students prepare to head back to classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they will find 13 more Opioid Overdose Reversal Boxes across campus. “Narcan saved my life way more times than I could count,” Kaeden Watford said.
“Tax cuts do not drive economic growth,” said Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in public finance and economics. “Just from the simplest perspective, states that have the lowest taxes should be doing the best and they’re not. States that tend to be doing better economically tend to have higher taxes.”
The Home-Based Hospital Care program currently allows up to four adult patients to receive hospital care and equipment — everything from oxygen tanks and intravenous pumps to multiple in-person visits by medical staff daily — from home. Patients will also receive smart devices that will allow them to call medical staff at any time, just like a call button in a hospital bed.
Thousands of new Badgers are settling into their new homes on campus as the fall semester nears.Students began moving into the university’s 21 residence halls in earnest Wednesday, with move-in continuing on Thursday and Friday.
Many us of are familiar with the phrases ’Hey, Alexa!’ or ’Hey, Siri!’ But how familiar are the voice activated systems with your own voice? Digital security engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have found these speaker identification systems can be easily fooled.
Though the program only serves four patients at a time, it may expand to help more than 300 patients a year by 2024.
With fentanyl being one of the top killers in Wisconsin, UW-Madison is taking a step to keep its community safe.
The University of Wisconsin and cranberries might seem like an odd pairing, but the two have close ties. Cranberries mean big bucks for Wisconsin farmers and help put the Badger state on the map.
Allison Jonjak, a cranberry specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is at the forefront of an innovative approach to crop expertise. While her current role may seem an obvious fit for Wisconsin, which produces approximately 60% of cranberries in the nation, such specialized positions are a relatively new development.
Over 8,800 students from around the globe are making the big move to UW Madison this week and University Housing has been preparing for the arrival of students living in on-campus housing for weeks. “Move in day is always really exciting,” Director of Marketing & Communications for University Housing at UW Madison Brendon Dybdahl said.
Not only is it the beginning of the season for Bucky, but also the beginning of the Luke Fickell era in Madison. Fickell was hired away from Cincinnati by UW on November 27th of 2022.
UW-Milwaukee’s Washington County campus shouldn’t merge with the nearby technical college in West Bend, but the university can make some changes to make the satellite campus viable, a university-based task force recommended last week.
He worked for the Pet Milk Company in New Glarus until its closing in 1962, in construction for a short time, and finally for UW Madison Administrative Data Processing until his retirement, where he was a manager of student service analysts and programmers responsible for the design, development and maintenance of student data programs and systems.
Accuray makes radiotherapy machines for cancer treatment, including the image-guided TomoTherapy, developed from research by Thomas “Rock” Mackie, a now-retired UW-Madison medical physicist.
In memory of my dear Pac-12 and the fans left behind.
During a round of golf last winter in Florida, former Wisconsin athletic director Pat Richter was on the first tee when his playing partner Mark Dantonio handed him the cellphone.
Through a new program at UW Health and a growing number of health systems around the country, some adult patients are receiving hospital-level care at home.
Accuray makes radiotherapy machines for cancer treatment, including the image-guided TomoTherapy, developed from research by Thomas “Rock” Mackie, a now-retired UW-Madison medical physicist.
He worked for the Pet Milk Company in New Glarus until its closing in 1962, in construction for a short time, and finally for UW Madison Administrative Data Processing until his retirement, where he was a manager of student service analysts and programmers responsible for the design, development and maintenance of student data programs and systems.
His proudest moments were constructing a low-cost filmless radiographic system that can perform all the functions required of a field hospital during his years in Department of Medical Physics at UW-Madison with his good friend Dr. Melvin P. Siedband.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will now see more overdose rescue boxes in buildings on campus, in the university’s effort to prevent opioid and fentanyl overdoses.
Indian Dalit theater practitioner Sri Vamsi Matta will be the inaugural academic year-long Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence for 2023-24 in exciting news announced by the University of Wisconsin Madison. UW-Madison Division of the Arts along with the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures will also welcome Vamsi as an educator and visual artist coming from Bengaluru, India.
Badger fans are gearing up for the first football game of the season. Camp Randall is expected to be close to its capacity on Saturday, at 76,000 fans.
It provides conditional admission to the doctoral program for high school seniors who want to become a pharmacist and who are admitted to a four-year UW System university.
“What we haven’t had before is a study that looks at individuals much younger and not nearly at the intensity level of professional sports,” UW Health Chief Quality Officer Dr. Jeff Pothof said.
Prior to voting on items for the museum, the commission unanimously passed other items that would create more housing and make a big change to the UW-Madison campus.
Under a demolition permit passed by the commission, an auto repair shop at 1233 Regent St. would be razed to build a $13 million, five-story, lower-cost housing project proposed by the Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp. The redevelopment would have 50 units and 1,500 square feet of commercial space.
After being told that they had paid in full, recent graduates of the UW-Oshkosh executive master’s in business administration program received surprise bills nearing $8,000 after the university claims it undercharged them as a result of billing mistakes.
Its the most wonderful time of the year–for parents who can finally turn that bedroom into an at home yoga studio.
Fred joined the Agricultural Engineering faculty of Michigan State in 1956. He became an Assistant Dean at MSU in 1966, before coming to the University of Wisconsin in 1967 as Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Engineering. While at Madison, Fred worked with his colleagues to gain professional accreditation for the Agricultural Engineering Department. He especially enjoyed teaching classes and mentoring his graduate students from all over the world.
That same year, Dr. Ramirez joined the Department of Neurosurgery at UW Hospital and made many contributions. He was an outstanding teacher and mentor for both medical students and residents.
Without any increase in state funding, the System is projected to reach a $60.1 million structural deficit by the end of 2023-24, according to System President Jay Rothman.
Madison-area hospital systems UW Health and SSM Health did not respond to about their procedures for fentanyl screenings.
On July 31, the day Paul Reubens died, Jim Healy began trying to book “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” to show at the UW Cinematheque.
UW-Madison offers a certificate program in game design, and other colleges such as UW-Stout, UW-Whitewater and Madison Area Technical College have started game design or development programs.
After moving to Madison, Myra worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Information Technology until retirement.
Twenty-one dorms, 9,000 students, four days–UW Madison students are heading back to campus with Sunday marking the first day of move-in. “The classes are going to be fun, meeting people is going to be fun. The most thing I’m excited for is the meal plan,” Freshman Kiyem Obuseh said. “I got to be honest free food–I mean you are paying for it but it’s still unlimited buffet every single day.”
UW-Madison students met with state Sen. Kelda Roys on Tuesday, Aug. 22, to talk about state-wide issues affecting the university, including DEI initiatives, campus speech and voting.
Wisconsin said its final farewells Thursday to Ada Deer, the trailblazing member of the Menominee Tribe who went on to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
When will UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin explain to the public, alumni, faculty, staff and students how the latest expansion of what was formerly known as the Big Ten Conference will further the educational mission of the UW-Madison campus?
Professor of electrical and computer engineering Kassem Fawaz and doctoral student Shimaa Ahmed have developed a mathematical model that could allow almost anyone to imitate the resonance of another person’s voice with a simple tube. As long as a person could nail down the frequency of a voice with a PVC pipe that, based on the algorithm, had the correct width and length, they could trick the security technology 60% of the time.
Funds awarded to the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will be used to improve the health outcomes of mothers and infants, UW Health said Thursday.
Among many accomplishments, Deer was the first member of the Menominee Tribe to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, first Native American to receive a master’s in social work from Columbia University, and the first woman to chair the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin.
“The data from these field campaigns acts like a decoder ring” for the satellite instrument, said Tracey Holloway, a professor of energy analysis and policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies air quality but is not involved in this project.
In 1987, the FDA mandated that milk sold in the US must get heat treated, John Lucey, PhD, the director of the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells SELF. That means that the products you see on grocery store shelves have been pasteurized, so they’re less likely to get you sick, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
