The arrest and eventual conviction of Dominic Cizauskas, a touted linebacker prospect who sexually assaulted a University of Wisconsin student during his official visit in December, sparked questions about how UW officials handle on-campus visits involving football recruits.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is seeking help to solve a case of graffiti sprayed on one of the fire pits at the popular Picnic Point on the shores of Lake Mendota.
When a student nicknamed Cookie took his life in 2009, his name and picture were left out of the yearbook at Milwaukee?s High School of the Arts.
Nakila Robinson, an accomplished spoken word poet and recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died suddenly last week.
Raising teens can be a challenge, and a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and graduate student are recruiting participants for a study exploring the role of wisdom in parenting and raising teens.
Home watering his trees that border a golf course in Madison, Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen recently entertained an unexpected visitor:Quarterback Joel Stave, who was in the middle of his round when he saw his coach doing yard work.
Imbed Biosciences Inc. has received a federal research grant of $1.5 million to continue developing biologic dressings that could be used to prevent wound infections and promote cell growth and healing.
Protein Foundry LLC, a start-up formed by four Medical College of Wisconsin scientists, may be the first in a string of spinoffs to be incubated at the school under a new program aimed at helping move more companies out the door.
Noted: IceCube is designed to detect neutrinos ? ghostly subatomic particles with no electric charge and minuscule mass. Wisconsin universities are heavily involved in the experiment ? the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a lead institution on the project, and UW-River Falls has played a key role in the research as well.
Ald. Scott Resnick plans to run for mayor of Madison, a source close to the common council member told the Capital Times.Resnick, 27, is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who has represented the student-dominated 8th District for three years. He told the Capital Times Thursday he would have a final decision by next week.
University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks 25th among the best universities in the world in a new list released this week by the Center for World University Rankings.
Stu Jackson, who coached Wisconsin basketball to two post-season appearances from 1992 to 1994, has been named the Big East?s senior associate commissioner for men?s basketball.
Noted: UW-Madison students tend to be more predisposed to starting companies than their counterparts at other big universities, said Jeff Carter, co-founder of Hyde Park Angels, a Chicago angel investing group.
We have a new invasive species in Wisconsin.It?s known as the Asian crazy worm and can reproduce without mating and is capable of wreaking havoc in the soil.The University of Wisconsin-Madison said Tuesday that the invasive worm, Amynthas agrestis, was discovered last fall at the UW Arboretum, a longtime refuge for Wisconsin plants and animals.
Cranberries are blooming this month in Wisconsin ? each delicate blossom awaiting a visit from a bee to pollinate it before the plants can produce their famously tart, red berries.
Noted: The new film “Abnormal” digs into the history of the racial dynamic that still both unites and divides New Orleans, nine years after Hurricane Katrina. But Alvarez ? who attended Washington High School ? is no tourist. After studying film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he spent a decade working at a video collective in New Orleans.
Jordan Taylor is still chasing his basketball dream.The former University of Wisconsin point guard has faced his share of challenges since his college days ended in 2012, including undergoing hip surgery in February.
The state Department of Public Instruction ? and not the University of Wisconsin System ? should determine how much school districts pay for high school students to take UW System courses through a dual enrollment program, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in an opinion released Thursday.
Noted:Perennial nominee Mark Samels, a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, was nominated as executive producer of “JFK: American Experience,” and “The Amish: Shunned.” Samels has 16 previous nominations and has won five times.
Noted: Haupt is a University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing and management graduate who directed regional operations and sales for The Onion. Bartlett also worked for The Onion, was assistant general manager of the Mallards baseball team in Madison, and most recently was a national account executive at Adams Outdoor Advertising.
Former Wisconsin and Kansas offensive lineman Brad Thorson declared in a blog post on the Fourth of July that he is gay.
A fisherman is credited with rescuing an intoxicated man trying to swim across Lake Mendota.University of Wisconsin-Madison police say firefighters, paramedics and divers responded to the lake near the Porter boathouse about 7 p.m. Monday on a report of a man in the water calling for help.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child?s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion.
Noted: Christensen has had ownership roles in seven clinics across the state and in Michigan and has practiced in many others. Christensen was a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for decades and taught students to perform abortions in his clinic in Madison. He said the medical community, though not always inclusive, accepted and appreciated his practice.
As anyone who has been online since Tuesday knows, Team USA goalie Tim Howard can save Bambi, Blockbuster Video and singer Taylor Swift from Kanye West. He?s even been dubbed the Secretary of Defense.
Noted: David Wallinga, M.D., is director of Healthy Food Action, a network of 15,000 health professionals trying to make health the future of food and farming. Gerald Ryan, M.D., is medical director of University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It?s only fitting that a college town would host an annual demonstration of the science of fireworks on the Fourth of July.University of Wisconsin-Madison chemist and stage master Bassam Shakhashiri has entertained and enlightened the public for decades at standing-room-only demonstrations, which are free and do not require tickets.
The state has hired seven firms to help it analyze whether to sell an array of state properties, including a former governor?s mansion, a workshop for the blind, a shuttered school for juvenile offenders and plants that supply heating and cooling to state facilities.
Six new massive open online courses, or MOOCS, on topics ranging from the relationship between climate change and public health to Shakespeare?s dramas will be offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting in 2015, the university announced Tuesday.
Quoted: Some of the growth in hot spot locations has been fueled by more people working in nontraditional settings, including freelance contractors who hang out at coffee shops with a laptop computer and mobile phone as their office tools.If you can work like that, it might as well be in a place with good coffee and food, said Barry Orton, a telecommunications professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About half of all young adults are struggling to achieve financial security in their transition from college to adulthood and are continuing to rely on family for financial support, despite being employed full-time, according to the latest report from a longitudinal study.
Noted: A former DRS Power executive, Alan Perlstein, is the executive director of the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium, a nonprofit group that includes energy, power and control companies and research institutions such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Marquette University.
Noted: O?Brien is an academic, an epidemiologist with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Menzie Chinn, a professor of Public Affairs and Economics at UW-Madison, recently looked into whether Governor Walker?s pro-business policies spurred employment growth. As we all remember, Walker claimed that his tax cuts and his dismantling of public sector unions would lead to an employment boom for Wisconsin. But as Chinn?s data shows, Walker?s policies have done nothing to improve job growth. The rate of growth when Walker took office in 2011 was 1.3%, and now after three years of his policies being in effect, the rate is still at 1.3% and weaker than the country?s growth as a whole.
Noted: Meanwhile, start-up ventures have arisen to provide online-ordering software – among them EatStreet Inc., a rapidly growing Madison company. Launched by three UW-Madison students, EatStreet has raised $8.65 million from outside investors, and recently increased the number of restaurants using its system to 10,000.
The South American electric eel and hundreds of other electric fish evolved in six distinct lines over a period of 400 million years, developing an electric organ from what had once been muscle and providing a fascinating laboratory for the study of evolution.
Noted: Cohen studied business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then went to the University of Pittsburgh for a masters degree in business.
Many University of Wisconsin-Madison students don?t want to leave campus in the summer because there?s so much free, fun stuff to do around town.
Quoted: “If we look at what you can buy on the Internet today vs. what was available even five years ago, it?s a night and day difference,” said Jeff Sindelar, a professor in the Meat Science & Muscle Biology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a certified barbecue contest judge. “Today, you can buy any ingredients, essentially, that a small, medium or large meat processor can buy, just in much smaller quantities.
Quoted: “To get a tornado, you need just the right conditions,” said Steven Ackerman, director of the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Once again, University of Wisconsin-Madison food science students are finalists in a national collegiate food product development competition. Two teams will compete for top honors and cash prizes at the Institute of Food Technologists annual meeting and food expo Saturday through Monday in New Orleans.
Power was restored around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to the University of Wisconsin-Madisons DoIT data center, but the campus spent much of Wednesday without wireless Internet or email due to an early-morning electrical interruption.
A new trans-disciplinary research institute will be created within the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, allowing the college to hire 25 new faculty and pursue technological advances aimed at boosting the nations economic competitiveness, the university announced Monday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said a bomb squad was sent to a university building shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday after a beeping sound was heard coming from a trash can outside the building.
Noted: While the mascot part of the business generates about 10% of revenue for Olympus, Adam has a special place in his heart for it. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate in marketing and accounting, Adam said he was a Bucky Badger mascot for four years of college.
Noted: Possible investors cited by sources include former Bucks star Junior Bridgeman, a successful businessman in the fast-food franchise business; Ted Kellner, a prominent benefactor to University of Wisconsin-Madison sports who runs a Milwaukee-based investment business; and Jon Hammes of the Hammes Co.
Madworks at Campus, a summer accelerator program that is being launched at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Friday it has chosen 11 start-ups to participate from a field of nearly 70 companies.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison nurse has been arrested on suspicion of stealing morphine meant for patients ? an act she reportedly told hospital staff she had been doing since October.
An international team of researchers led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist created a life-threatening virus in a high-containment lab in Madison nearly identical to the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic that killed a staggering 50 million people worldwide, according to an article published Wednesday in a major science journal.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they have found a group of agents that can seek out and find dozens of kinds of solid tumors, a finding that may lead to new treatments.
Noted: Researchers are just beginning to recruit volunteers. One of the locations is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; others are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Northwestern University and Rush University Medical Center, both in Chicago.
Noted: Kathie, 53, is an author and owner and founder of AllWriters? Workplace & Workshop, a writing studio that offers online and in-person classes. A longtime resident of Waukesha and the mother of three grown children from a previous marriage, Kathie graduated from Waukesha North High School in 1979 and UW-Madison.
Noted: 23. Visit the Babcock Hall Dairy Store on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Arrange a tour or just stop in for the signature orange custard chocolate chip ice cream or another flavor…or purchase cheeses made on site. If you?re there at lunchtime, try the Bucky Melt sandwich: Salami, Wisconsin-style havarti, pickles and onions on lightly buttered white bread.
The University of Wisconsin System will have 3.3% of its overall budget ? less than $200 million ? in true cash reserves a year from now to cover any unexpected expenses or shortfalls at its 26 campuses, UW System President Ray Cross said Thursday as the Board of Regents unanimously approved the system budget.
Noted: Herzog, grandson of Milwaukee Sentinel columnist Buck Herzog, is a graduate of Brookfield East High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also produced “Killing Lincoln,” based on the book by Bill OReilly.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin and Health First Wisconsin should have participated in that effort, the four wrote.
Noted: Donald Moynihan is a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.
Noted: Among her co-founders at Elucent are two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors who also have worked with NeuWave, which already has gone to market with a cancer-fighting treatment that uses microwave energy to destroy tumor cells.
Noted: It all began with Peter, who earned a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore.
Facing ongoing scrutiny of cash balances in tuition and other accounts not involving state or federal money, the University of Wisconsin System is poised to spend down about $112 million ? roughly 15% ? of those amounts through its 2014-?15 budget.
