Three late-night campus bus services will have different routes and stop times by next semester, ultimately resulting in less frequent service to the Lakeshore residence hall area, Madison Metro announced late last week.
Some members of the state Legislature?s budget committee say that splitting the Madison campus from the University of Wisconsin System is unlikely to happen.
The Department of Regulation and Licensing (DRL) and the Medical Examining Board (MEB) have opened investigations involving eight individuals who allegedly wrote medical excuses for individuals attending rallies at the Capitol in February.
State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, proposed an alternative to the New Badger Partnership Tuesday that would delay any decisions from being made until after the biennial budget passed.
The Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing and the Medical Examining Board have opened investigations involving eight people who allegedly wrote medical excuses for people attending rallies at the state Capitol in February.
When most students think of Langdon Street, safety is rarely the first word that comes to mind, but one Madison Police Department officer?s entire job is making sure students can walk and play in the area free from harm.
As uncertainty surrounding Chancellor Biddy Martin?s proposed Badger Partnership continues to grow, members of the university?s administration and University of Wisconsin Foundation leadership have already begun making provisions to use many of the university?s proposed flexibilities to increase fundraising earnings for UW.
With tensions wearing thin in the dispute over the New Badger Partnership, one legislator proposed delaying consideration of the plan until after the passage of the budget bill.
While differing opinions bombard the state concerning the New Badger Partnership, some UW-Madison students have formed a group to show their support for the proposed change to the UW system.
A lead member of the state?s powerful Joint Finance Committee said Sunday he thought the governor?s plan to allow the University of Wisconsin to spin off from other state schools is a complicated issue that may require more than one budget cycle to decide.
Members of the University of Wisconsin community weighed bioethical issues in a wrap-up event for the campus-wide Go Big Read program during a panel titled ?Who Owns My Body and Where is It Now??
After nearly two years of construction, $95 million in construction costs and the input of thousands of students, the University of Wisconsin finally has its new Union South.
Gov. Scott Walker testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Thursday to discuss the policies he has put in place at the state level since he took office in January.
Students, members of the community and James Cameron fans were on hand to witness the debut of a new robot designed by University of Wisconsin students at the biannual Engineering Expo.
Plans for the Mifflin Street Block Party have been significantly scaled back following an announcement from the Madison Police Department that its officers would not enforce attendees only being allowed to drink alcoholic beverages bought at the event.
The governor spent more than three hours Thursday fielding questions from members of the federal House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the actions he took during his first months in office to deal with the state?s budget troubles.
It?s here. Today the 21st century incarnation of Union South opens its doors and invites students, faculty and alumni to check out all it has to offer.
Madison city officials addressed the street use complications that could come with the Mifflin Street Block Party taking place the same day as the annual Crazylegs Classic Race on April 30.
A city commission delayed action on an entertainment and street use permit for the Mifflin Street Block Party Wednesday, asking the event?s new sponsors to further explain and finalize details for the party?s schedule and set-up plan.
The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates granted $4 million to 19 projects Tuesday in its third and final round of funding. The funding includes grants for faculty, student service and academic support projects.
City officials said student representation on Madison?s City Council could become more consolidated if redistricting efforts extend a student-heavy district further west.
Two years and $16 million later, University of Wisconsin officials announced the final round of Madison Initiative for Undergraduates funding decisions Tuesday.
Three weeks after Lisa Stone was let go from her position as Wisconsin women?s basketball head coach, Barry Alvarez and the UW Athletic Department announced they have hired Stanford assistant coach Bobbie Kelsey as the program?s new leader.
The future of UW-Madison?s authority model grows hazier as Chancellor Biddy Martin finds her brainchild gridlocked between UW System officials and the Wisconsin state Legislature. As evidenced by her e-mail sent to UW-Madison students last Thursday, Martin?s attempts to implement the New Badger Partnership?a plan to increase UW-Madison?s flexibility through the establishment of a public authority model that would break the university from the UW System?are growing increasingly desperate. Although Martin earned the support of Gov. Scott Walker in his proposed biennial budget, the idea of Wisconsin?s most prestigious and economically viable research institution stripping away from the UW System has sister universities and the Board of Regents disconcerted.
The UW-Madison Community and Regional Food Systems Program, which aims to alleviate food insecurity in U.S. cities, received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Monday.
An 18-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in the 300 block of West Dayton Street early Sunday morning.
A new era is officially underway in Madison as University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez introduced Bobbie Kelsey as the sixth women?s basketball head coach in school history at the Kohl Center Monday.
The expansion project for new athletic practice facilities at the Kohl Center will now include new luxury seating area, a measure that is hoped to bring in revenue for the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department.
A Madison Police Department report said police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted, punched and choked an 18-year-old woman on the 300 block of West Dayton Street Sunday evening.
Chancellor Biddy Martin presented a compromise between the New Badger Partnership and the Board of Regents? Wisconsin Idea Partnership that would provide the UW System more flexibilities while maintaining public authority status for UW-Madison.
Both chambers of the Legislature, which met with all the members present for the first time in almost two months Tuesday, passed the fiscal components of Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair bill.
Less than one month after explaining technical and public health aspects of Japan?s nuclear crisis to UW-Madison students on campus, UW-Madison Engineering Professor Michael Corradini has been asked to testify to a U.S. House subcommittee that specializes in the state of U.S. nuclear plants and safety practices.
After University of Wisconsin System representatives expressed support for a new plan to keep the Madison campus within the System, the UW-Madison chancellor proposed an addition to the budget bill that would provide administrative flexibilities to all campuses while maintaining the public authority status for the campus.
Thousands of union supporters gathered at the Capitol Monday to continue Martin Luther King Jr.?s 1968 fight against racism and poverty in Madison in 2011.
In response to the GOP?s open record request for professor William Cronon?s e-mails, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution supporting academic freedom.
The University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistants? Association held a brief gathering atop Bascom Hill Monday featuring two campus unions and Rev. Jesse Jackson before marching down State Street to the Capitol building where a rally commemorated Martin Luther King Jr.?s death and his fight for workers? rights.
University of Wisconsin researchers are one step closer to the ability to treat individuals with genetic disorders using their own reprogrammed cells ? a finding that carries potential applications in gene therapy treatments for diabetes, cystic fibrosis and other illnesses.
After University of Wisconsin officials complied with an open records request from the Republican Party of Wisconsin, members of the campus community weighed in on the perceived threat to academic freedom.
Members of the University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate weighed a new approach to funding for the university under the public authority model and approved a resolution in support of academic freedom during a meeting Monday.
UW-Madison released some of Professor William Cronon?s e-mail records to the Republican Party of Wisconsin Friday following the open records request the group filed March 17.
After listening to testimony from several witnesses Friday, Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi decided to keep the temporary restraining order on the budget repair law.
A Dane County judge said the temporary restraining order prohibiting publication of the bill limiting collective bargaining rights for public employees would stay in place, despite the continued absence of the Republican defendants.
Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi amended her temporary restraining order Thursday morning, declaring Gov. Scott
Considering the immense amount of opposition Gov. Scott Walker has faced regarding his controversial collective bargaining rights bill, it should come as no surprise that enacting the bill into law would be an equally torturous journey. That is exactly what is happening.
Academic freedom is the hallmark of any great university. Especially in times of societal turmoil and uncertainty, the work of researchers and professors is tantamount to understanding and forward progress.
The University of Wisconsin Law School?s Moot Court team continues to draw national acclaim for the university after several top finishes in national competitions.
University of Wisconsin System officials provided new details of their proposal to gain flexibilities as a united entity in a Joint Finance Committee meeting Thursday, a plan the Madison chancellor has said could pose a risk to the excellence of the system?s flagship campus.
The Department of Administration agreed to cease implementation of the governor?s union bill Thursday after a Dane County circuit court judge declared in an amended order the bill?s publication did not make it a law.
Eleven members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty were named recipients of the Kellett Award Tuesday.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi blocked any further implementation of Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair law for a second time Tuesday after her previous ruling was, as she said, “misunderstood or ignored.”
The Joint Finance Committee began hearings on Gov. Scott Walker?s biennial budget Tuesday by listening to testimony from heads of agencies on how the budget affects them and what changes they recommend.
A Dane County Circuit Court judge Tuesday reinforced her previous order prohibiting the publication of the governor?s bill that would curtail collective bargaining rights for public unions and said those who continue to implement the law could face sanctions.
Members of the University of Wisconsin student government said Monday they are deliberating the best procedure to appoint a student representative to the new governing board for the period after the campus becomes a public authority.
UW-Madison School of Education Dean Julie Underwood, School of Nursing Dean Katharyn May and Dean of Students Lori Berquam hosted an open forum Monday to discuss the New Badger Partnership, at which they shared their opinions on the partnership and answered questions from the community.
The Design Committee for the Memorial Union Reconstruction met Monday to approve designs and make recommendations to the team of two architectural firms selected for the project.
History is a powerful thing ? just ask University of Wisconsin professor Bill Cronon. One of our own history professors, he recently received an open records request from the Republican Party for applying a bit of history to the current debates raging within Wisconsin.
Adding to the confusion around its publication Friday, the state?s Department of Justice said Monday morning the budget repair bill is in fact law and asked that the current court cases be dismissed, prompting a critical response from the Dane County district attorney later in the evening.
To further expand the Wisconsin Idea and construct new tools for research and development in the education field, University of Wisconsin officials announced Monday a new institution that will allow university faculty and graduate students opportunities to provide greater resources for students.
In a public forum Monday, the University of Wisconsin dean of students and several deans of individual schools said university operation is hampered by a human resources structure that does not fit a world-class institution.
As in every other state budget cycle, University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly will appear this week before the Joint Finance Committee to defend state funding for the system. During more typical times, most of Reilly?s angst would be focused on the $250 million in cuts proposed in Gov. Scott Walker?s 2011-13 biennial budget, half of which will be absorbed by UW-Madison.
