A 20-year-old UW-Madison student was arrested Monday in connection with a sexual assault that occurred Downtown last week, according to Madison police.
A UW-Madison student was charged Wednesday with four counts of second-degree sexual assault arising from an incident last week in which another student told police she was raped.
Noted: In 2004, Ripley — a former UW basketball player — was part of the original group of five that opened Lucky’s at 1421 Regent St., when they bought the Oakcrest Tavern out of bankruptcy. In 2010, Ripley bought his partners out. He left the old location in August and two of his former partners now run SconnieBar at the former location.
UW-Madison journalism professor Mike Wagner said the GOP re-definition of “elite” goes all the way back to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. Today, talk radio and other conservative outlets have also done such a good job assigning negative connotations to “liberal” that a lot of liberals now prefer to be called “progressives,” he said.
Noted: Presented by the Union Directorate and UW Arts Institute, the show is part of “Shakespeare in Wisconsin,” a year-long series of events to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The statewide celebration will culminate with the arrival Nov. 3 of an original edition of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays. The precious volume, from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is on national tour and will be exhibited at the Chazen Museum of Art through Dec. 11.
A UW-Madison student charged this week with the sexual assault of a student turned himself in Thursday night for allegedly sexually assaulting another student, after the woman saw news accounts of his initial arrest and came forward with her story.
Quoted: Carrie Laboski, a soil scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed that digesters don’t remove phosphorus, nitrogen and other nutrients. Instead, a separate system also needs to be in place that splits out solids and liquids in manure, allowing farmers to manage their waste stream and keep excess nutrients from being applied to the soil.
Noted: I’m a UW grad, so I’m a contributor to the UW-Madison Foundation. We also contribute to Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, where my father received outstanding care. As a company, we are involved with United Way and United Performing Arts Fund along with many other organizations through our Zilber Family Foundation.
University of Wisconsin-Madison sent out a campus-wide text alert Thursday reminding undergraduates that it’s the first day to get free immunizations against a type of meningococcal disease that most haven’t been vaccinated against, and that led to the hospitalization of two students a couple weeks ago.
Three UW-Madison undergraduates have attempted to uncover through research that standardized testing exemplifies systematic racism and makes it challenging for young black students to attend college.
The University Committee discussed a number of topics ranging from the Westboro Baptist Church visiting campus to faculty childhood care at its meeting Monday.
UW-Madison released a campus climate survey to students Monday that will assess the experiences of people with various backgrounds and identities.
In an attempt to keep faculty members from leaving, University of Wisconsin administration invested nearly $23.6 million to fund retention offers in the 2015-16 academic year.
The hundreds of students graduating from University of Wisconsin’s College of Engineering this spring comprise the first cohort to experience much of their engineering education through what are known as “flipped classrooms.”
University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science is reviewing its ethnic studies requirement, which experts say could improve campus climate and create a more challenging experience for students.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team forward Nigel Hayes joined the crowd of students at ESPN’s College GameDay Saturday to protest the lack of pay for athletes and to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County.
UW-Madison is recommending that students be vaccinated against a rare form of meningitis following the hospitalization of two students last week, university officials said Friday.
UW-Madison spent $23.6 million in the latest fiscal year to keep about 200 faculty members on campus after other universities ramped up their efforts to recruit professors away in the wake of budget cuts and controversial changes to tenure policies, officials said Friday.
Kenny Dichter was a sociology major when he attended UW-Madison in the 1980s, a “low-SAT, low-GPA guy,” as he describes himself.
Noted: A Quidditch tournament, which drew hundreds of spectators last year, will also be held, according to Chris Noble, president of the UW-Madison Quidditch Club.
A photo gallery featuring all of the best signs from ESPN’s College GameDay show in Madison.
Yes, Rece Davis confirmed, it is as much fun on the ESPN “College GameDay” set as it looks on TV.
The College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy made its way to Madison this week as part of its national tour.
The University of Wisconsin’s “Jump Around” tradition in a primetime game against Ohio State on Oct. 15, 2016.
Back when I was a freshman at UW-Madison in the fall of 1988, one of the fraternities pulled one of those stupid stunts where white people dress up in blackface. In this case, there was a “slave auction” and skits parodying the likes of Oprah Winfrey.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a retired political science professor at UW-Madison’s La Follette School for Public Affairs, said what’s unusual about this election cycle is having a governor that is not popular with the majority of residents and is considered a lame duck.
The University of Wisconsin football team once again didn’t fall far in the polls after a loss.
Noted: Blue Sky Science is a collaboration of the Wisconsin State Journal and the Morgridge Institute for Research.
Noted: Steve Morton, who grew up in the University Heights neighborhood, got his doctorate in chemistry at UW-Madison shortly after his parents purchased the property. He said he then moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he taught at Otterbein University before he returned to Madison to work with various scientific projects at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. He stayed there until he retired.
Though the “Goldberg Variations” by J.S. Bach have been interpreted in countless ways through the centuries, no one has heard the iconic work as it will be performed in Madison on Oct. 28.
UW-Madison students can start getting free vaccinations on Thursday against the rare form of meningitis that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.
Quoted: UW-Madison political scientist David Canon said polls may be boosting donors’ appetites to get involved in the race. In addition to the Marquette poll, two other recent polls showed Feingold leading by 3 percentage points and Johnson up by 5, respectively. Together, they depict a tighter race than did a string of past polls that showed Feingold leading, often by comfortable margins.
In an effort to gauge how comfortable people from different racial, religious, political and other backgrounds feel on campus, UW-Madison is launching a survey of its student body that officials say could inform changes meant to improve the university’s climate.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is urging all undergraduates to get vaccinated against a rare form of meningitis that put two students in the hospital last week.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says it spent nearly $24 million in its latest fiscal year to persuade about 200 faculty members not to leave after other universities ramped up their efforts to lure professors away in the wake of budget cuts and tenure changes.
Two teams, one game, and thousands of fans counting down the minutes until kick-off tomorrow night.
Badger fans have been anticipating the Wisconsin and Ohio State game that kicked off on Saturday.
UW basketball star Nigel Hayes is using his status to send a strong message about compensation for college athletes, while helping kids in our area.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says it spent nearly $24 million in its latest fiscal year to persuade about 200 faculty members not to leave after other universities ramped up their efforts to lure professors away in the wake of budget cuts and tenure changes.
While the University of Wisconsin football team will play six games this season at Camp Randall Stadium the 7 p.m. kickoff against second-ranked Ohio State brings with it both energy and a challenge.
Campus health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending that UW-Madison undergraduate students become vaccinated against meningococcal disease serogroup B.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last academic year spent $23.5 million to counter job offers and hang on to a growing number of faculty who had opportunities to leave, and most of that money came from federal funding that supports research overhead and the university’s private research foundation, according to university officials and a report released Friday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday issued a rare recommendation that all undergraduates get immunized against a type of potentially deadly meningococcal disease that put two students in the hospital a week ago and announced it will set up a special clinic starting Thursday to offer the expensive vaccine to students at no charge.
Amy Caulum, a clinical nutritionist with UW Health Pediatric Fitness Clinic, joins NBC15 to talk about healthy fall snacks for adults and kids alike.
Officials from ESPN are working on the final touches to their College Game Day stage, getting ready to put UW-Madison on the national stage for the Badgers vs. Ohio State game Saturday.
Officials at UW-Madison are closely watching that forecast for Saturday night.
Fight Colorectal Cancer and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center are working together to train survivors and caregivers to advocate for further research. The Colorectal Cancer Research Academy has drawn survivors and caregivers from across the country for two days of training.
Presenting to a room of about 500 students at the fourth annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase Thursday evening, four prolific entrepreneurs, all University of Wisconsin graduates themselves, touted the qualities that make for successful endeavors in entrepreneurship.
UW-Madison’s College of Letters & Science Career Initiative program received approval last Friday to move into the third floor of the University Bookstore.
Noted: Canon is a professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at UW–Madison. Susan Yackee is a professor of public affairs and director of the Board of Visitors of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
Noted: EatStreet’s funding round follows the company raising $15 million in December and brings to more than $40 million the total amount of outside capital Madison-based EatStreet has raised since it was founded in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. The company will use the money for general corporate purposes, according to the filing.
Two research teams — one with a potential vaccine for the Zika virus and the other with a new way of monitoring sedated patients — have won $10,000 each in an innovation competition organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
The Wisconsin Energy Institute is buzzing with about 400 scientists, graduate students and staff.It boasts the University of Wisconsin System’s largest grant, $265 million over a decade. But, its sunsets next year, and the Energy Institute is at a pivotal point, both in leadership and funding.
The University of Wisconsin Bias Response Team released a report Wednesday that found students reported nearly three times more campus bias incidents in the first half of 2016 than in the last half of 2015.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department will institute some added restrictions surrounding Bascom Hill in preparation for ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday.
Fifty-two-year-old Witte Residence Hall will receive a $47 million renovation, after approval Wednesday from the State Building Commission.
The number of hate and bias incidents reported on campus has increased from 18 in Fall 2015 to 66 in the spring, according to university officials.
Governor Scott Walker announced Wednesday a renovation project for Witte Residence Hall on UW-Madison’s campus has been approved.
Quoted: “There’s a great study published, actually by a set of Physical Therapy students in a very small journal where they looked at moms pushing a stroller and they looked at them and compared that to jogging and they found that you get the same cardiovascular benefits from actually pushing the stroller as you do with light jogging,” said Dr. Liz Chumanov, with the UW Health Sports Rehabilitation Clinic.
