Former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells is accused of overseeing the illegal transfer of more than $11 million in university funds to support five Oshkosh-area building projects.
A study being conducted by the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is looking into whether video games on a smart phone can help smokers quit.
Suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook asks a judge to dismiss several criminal charges against him, including stalking and a sexual assault count.
The University of Wisconsin Madison Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity was placed on suspension Tuesday, by the student-led Committee on Student Organizations.
University of Wisconsin-Madison disciplinary documents allege a fraternity was suspended for providing alcohol to minors and teaching members a song glorifying sexual assault.
The Sigma Chi fraternity at University of Wisconsin-Madison has been suspended from all university activities until March 1 because minors were served alcohol at a chapter function in October, the university announced Tuesday.
UW-Madison professor Hart Posen joined Steve Ketelaar on Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News to discuss the future of retail. How did brick-and-morter stores do compared to online during Black Friday and holiday shopping? What will malls look like in the next few years?
Quoted: That has the advantage of allowing the U.S. Senate to pass a repeal measure without needing a filibuster-proof majority of 60 votes. But it also has the downside of being unable to necessarily pass all the elements that are likely needed in a replacement plan, said Donna Friedsam, director of Health policy programs at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Quoted: “At the moment, he looks like a very individualized figure in history,” said political scientist Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hillary Clinton “couldn’t mobilize the Obama coalition because it’s an Obama coalition.”
Noted: So much has been donated recently, including all of the memorabilia from UW-Madison’s School of Nursing, that the museum is doubling its exhibit space this year. Architects are working on plans to turn adjacent offices into another room of the museum which will be used to expand displays on Florence Nightingale, World War II nurses, local nursing schools that have closed and public health nurses.
In April of last year, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student filed a unique complaint with the campus’ “Hate Response Team.” He charged that a new Harry Potter mural on campus represented “white power,” “man power,” “cis power,” “able power” and “class power.”
The UW-Madison Police Department announced on Wednesday the passing of police horse Vegas.
Quoted: “Fit your favorite foods into your diet so you don’t end up feeling deprived and saying I’m done with this,” said Julie Andrews, dietitian and chef at UW Health.
On her third day as the newly inducted police chief of the UW-Madison Police Department, Kristen Roman spent part of her afternoon inducting three new officers to the police force.
UW-Madison Police Department’s police horse, Vegas, died Tuesday after more than one year of suffering from Degenerative Suspensory Ligament Disease.
Quoted: UW-Madison Journalism Professor Mike Wagner told 27 News politicians have always challenged the press, but feels the type of attack from President-Elect Trump is certainly new for an entire of generation of reporters used to covering the likes of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – all of whom were generally cordial with the media.
A long-serving campus police horse was euthanized Tuesday after suffering from a painful disease, officials said. The University of Wisconsin-Madison police said Vegas, who served with the department’s mounted patrol for 12 years, was suffering from suspensory ligament disease, an incurable ailment that affects the horse’s ability to use his hind legs, causing a lot of pain.
As Chief Kristen Roman swore in three new police officers, it was symbolic of a new beginning for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department. The three officers join the department the same week Chief Roman assumed the leadership role.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin and use taxpayer funds to pay for it is shaking up normal political alliances with some Democrats supporting it while skeptical fellow Republicans worry it could put the state on a path toward socialist Bernie Sanders’ free college tuition plan.
Not even a month into 2017, and we have seen yet another outburst from Republican state Sen. Steve Nass, whose career is notable not for any significant policy accomplishment but for making news with his personal crusade of attacking the University of Wisconsin at any and every opportunity.
The University of Wisconsin System will get more state money in the next budget but it will be tied to performance, Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday.
Wisconsin’s players and coaches can soon turn their attention to the 2017 football season – if they haven’t already done so.UW finished No. 9 in both the Amway coaches poll and in the final Associated Press poll. Both polls were released Tuesday, after Clemson’s 35-31 victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff title game in Tampa, Fla.
Services for a UW-Madison freshman nursing student who died in a plane crash along with her father in December will be held on Sunday, with a scholarship established in her name at the nursing school.
Madison Police Department responded to an act of aggravated battery Friday that occurred at the intersection of University Avenue and Hawthorne Court near the UW-Madison campus.
Noted: Hart E. Posen, an expert on business strategy from the Wisconsin School of Business, talks about the closing of The Limited and the future of retail.
Wisconsin will have new starting left tackle in 2017.
As archaeologists excavating a cemetery near Troy, the fabled city from Homer’s Iliad, carefully removed the skeleton of a woman buried eight centuries ago, they noticed two chalk-like strawberry-sized nodules near her ribs.
Last summer, more than 800 bicyclists took on The Ride. The event raised more than 150 thousand dollars for cancer research and this week that money will be put to use on the research initiatives of 6 special recipients.
Police are asking for the community’s help to find a person of interest in a theft case.The UW-Madison Police Department (UWPD) said during the Badger football game vs. Minnesota on November 26, the department was contacted by a fan who believed he was pickpocketed sometime during the game while on a concession stand run. The fan notice his wallet was missing from his pocket, and he immediately called police. The fan’s credit card was used at a local mall shortly after the theft.
Senior standouts both on and off the court for the Wisconsin men’s basketball program, Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig were each announced this week as candidates for the 2017 Senior CLASS Award, which recognizes notable achievements in community, classroom, character and competition.
Noted: We reach the end of the musical month on Jan. 29 with the third Schubertiade performance, presented by Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes of the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. These recreations of the evenings that the composer and his friends enjoyed are built around a theme in the composer’s life and music. This year’s motif is “Circle of Friends,” and soprano Emily Birsan will be featured along with other stellar soloists. Yours truly made it to this event last year, and the memories remain fresh nearly a year later. The event starts at 3 p.m. in Mills Hall. .
A football fan was had his wallet stolen while at a Badgers game in November, and police are looking for help identifying a man in a surveillance image.
The top-ranked Wisconsin hockey team was scheduled to play Lindenwood on Saturday at 3pm, but the game was cancelled due to a carbon monoxide leak at Lindenwood Ice Arena.
The Columbus Dispatch reported a service is scheduled Sunday at a church in Delaware, Ohio, to celebrate the lives of 50-year-old Brian Casey and 19-year-old University of Wisconsin nursing student Megan Casey.
Noted: The Urban League and the King Coalition and the UW will collaborate on Youth Service Day on Monday that will happen on the UW campus at the Institutes for Discovery.
Quoted: “There’s no question there’s an income disparity, and probably in no case does more than half of that [79-cents-on-the-dollar] gap go away when you control for other factors,” says Barry Gerhart, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “The question is, what causes that? That’s harder to answer.”
Noted: Walker also called on the Legislature to hold a special session on several bills to fight addiction by: Allowing the University of Wisconsin System to charter an addiction recovery high school that would combine traditional classes with treatment for substance abuse.
A journey with noted University of Wisconsin-Madison botanist Hugh Iltis usually took much longer than normal because he frequently pulled the car over to show passengers a plant he noticed on the side of the road.
Turning up the heat on the long-smoldering relationship between state lawmakers and the University of Wisconsin System, leading Republicans are threatening to pull any hope of more state funding unless a new course at UW-Madison called “The Problem of Whiteness” is canceled.
UW-Madison professor Hart E. Posen talks to News 3 This Morning about the naming of a new CEO for Wisconsin company Lands’ End.
Noted: We know that, as human beings, we compare ourselves to other people constantly—whether we’re aware of it or not. Research by Liad Weiss, assistant professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business, and Gita Venkataramani Johar of the Columbia Business School showed that we also compare ourselves to the inanimate objects that surround us, and whether or not we own these things can dictate how they make us feel about ourselves.
Wisconsin legislators have come out strongly against a UW-Madison class called “The Problem of Whiteness,” suggesting it may impact the university’s upcoming budget if administrators don’t take action.
Noted: “You have teachers coming up to you saying, ‘Don’t go into the profession because you’re limiting your potential,’” said Briana Schwabenbauer, 22, who is studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to be a teacher. “You’re looking at them, like, ‘What?’”
Quoted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor who was on hand for the vote said that once again in 2016, the Electoral College meetings playing out across the country have made history.”I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this in decades,” Professor Barry Burden said. “To have crowds outside protesting, a full room to watch the event, a lot of interest, a lot of opposition, frankly, to what was happening. Nothing like this before.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is responding to criticism over an African cultural studies course being offered next semester.
At universities, not every player gets a scholarships. The ones who don’t are called walk-ons. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, walk-on players have been incredibly successful. One example is J.J. Watt.
In the midst of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, a new course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could stir up controversy.
Quoted: While the vote ended any potential controversy surrounding the Electoral College for 2016, UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden – who sat in on the historic vote – believes the nationwide concern over it long-term isn’t going away.”I suspect this will lead to an ongoing conversation about whether to reform the Electoral College or maybe to do away with it,” said Burden.
For some college graduates, commencement is a right of passage.
In the midst of below-zero temperatures, UW-Madison recognized more than 1,000 graduates at the mid-year commencement ceremony at the Kohl Center Sunday.
Gov. Scott Walker is looking for University of Wisconsin System students who want to serve on the System’s governing Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team remained at No. 14 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll, which was released Monday morning.
Weighing a 10 percent increase in turnout for University of Wisconsin home football games in 2016 compared to the previous season has to take into account some key factors.
Quoted: The choice of Griffith shows that even though the Lands’ End board cut ties with Marchionni, it plans to keep moving fashion forward, said Hart Posen, a UW-Madison associate professor in the School of Business.
Suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook, charged with many counts of sexual assault reported by 10 different women, will be released Friday from Dane County Jail, according to university officials.
A day after University of Wisconsin student Alec Cook received six new criminal charges, he posted a reduced $100,000 cash bail.
As the semester comes to a close, the University of Wisconsin Police Department has named Kristen Roman as the new police chief.
Noted: Julia Sherman is the coordinator of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Noted: Prof. Anuj Desai serves on the claims commission ruling on the Pan Am pilots’ case.
Noted: In fact, when the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, the giant Canada goose received serious consideration for listing, said Stan Temple, Beers-Bascom professor in conservation and professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
