Professor William Cronon, one of the University of Wisconsin?s most eminent scholars, has recently authored several reasoned and thoughtful articles about the historical and contemporary context of the state?s on-going and extraordinary political turmoil.
A 19-year-old Madison man was left with broken bones after police said a fight broke out early Friday morning on Langdon Street over the “Teach Me How to Bucky” music video.
Members of the Madison community gathered at the Orpheum Theatre Saturday afternoon for “Talking Peace Corps,” a celebration of the organization that included a lecture by Peace Corps Director and UW-Madison alumnus Aaron Williams.
Police are investigating the apparent homicide of a 23-year-old man they believe occurred Sunday morning on South Park Street.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin filed an open records request to obtain UW-Madison history professor William Cronon?s e-mails, sparking a debate over academic freedom.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps and the University of Wisconsin?s historically strong tradition of providing volunteers to serve abroad, the organization?s national leaders and UW alumni spoke about their personal experiences on campus Saturday.
After a University of Wisconsin professor posted a blog article calling for further investigation of a conservative advocacy organization, the Republican Party of Wisconsin filed an open records request for his university emails, a move some say poses a threat to faculty members? academic freedom in research.
After the referral of a controversial bill to the state Supreme Court, experts said the upcoming Supreme Court election would intensify partisan battles that have the potential to politically charge the fundamentally non-partisan branch of government.
Faculty at a Madison area college ratified contract amendments cutting pay increases to prevent layoffs despite concerns on how the new contracts could negatively affect students.
A financial dispute about the popular ?Teach Me How to Bucky? video resulted in a fight early Friday morning, a Madison Police report said.
The Legislative Reference Bureau published Gov. Scott Walker?s controversial budget repair bill online Friday afternoon, prompting discussions as to whether the publication meant the bill had become law.
Madison Police Department officials are investigating the apparent homicide of a 23-year-old Madison man who was stabbed to death a few blocks off the University of Wisconsin campus early Sunday morning.
Chancellor Biddy Martin just can?t catch a break when it comes to the New Badger Partnership. After she attracted support from major student leaders across campus, Martin was left with the daunting task of capturing the heart of one of Wisconsin?s most intransigent politicians to date?Gov. Scott Walker. Fortunately for Martin, the idea of the partnership was established even before Walker came to office. And to Martin?s delight, Walker released a 2011- ?13 biennial budget containing all the statutory language needed to grant UW-Madison more autonomy under?much to the UW System?s surprise and dismay?a public authority model.
Mike Lawler from the Wisconsin Story Project and Troy Reeves from UW-Madison Oral History Program presented Thursday on their collaborative effort to document stories from the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing tragedy.
Budget cuts are flying around mercilessly these days. Madison is facing a 13-percent budget cut in Scott Walker?s proposed budget bill and needs to find ways to absorb those costs without just passing them on to students. Public authority status, included in the budget, is one proposal aiming to do just that, but Chancellor Biddy Martin is looking for other cost-reductions as well. This week, the administration announced a contract with Huron Consulting Group to look for ways to improve efficiency on campus and save the university money.
A Wisconsin appeals court referred the controversial ruling blocking publication of the collective bargaining bill to the state?s Supreme Court Thursday, whose decision to hear the case could be impacted by the upcoming judicial elections.
In an effort to cut departmental costs, UW-Madison has signed a contract with Huron Consulting group to examine the university?s financial productivity.
Chancellors from 13 UW System schools sent a letter Wednesday to state legislators asking for support on the Wisconsin Idea Partnership in the 2011-?13 biennial budget.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison know their school can hold its own as a first-class public research institution rivaled by only a few dozen universities across the world. But our state?s current budget debates forecast spending cuts that could slash into the core of what makes the campus great.
Following closely on the heels on the Board of Regents? endorsement of a plan for greater autonomy for all University of Wisconsin campuses, 13 UW System chancellors signed a letter submitted to the state Legislature urging policymakers to consider the Wisconsin Idea Partnership and to retain the system as a unified body.
University of Wisconsin officials have hired the Huron Consulting Group to ensure campus operations are working at maximum efficiency and to help restructure UW?s human resources system should the campus become a public authority.
UW-Madison Limnologist Stephen Carpenter will receive $150,000 and a crystal sculpture from the King of Sweden in recognition of winning the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize.
Three UW-Madison science professors explained technical and public health aspects of Japan?s current nuclear crisis resulting from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that recently devastated the country as part of a panel at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Tuesday.
As this fall?s freshman admissions season continues, the numbers are out and UW-Madison has seen a large increase in applications. At approximately 28,000 applications, this is a 12-percent rise compared to last year?s 25,522 applications.
While members of the international community have voiced major concerns about the potential health effects of radiation released in the nuclear crisis in Japan, University of Wisconsin experts said lasting health effects for citizens remain unlikely in a panel held Tuesday.
The Joint Southeast Campus Committee heard new ideas Monday for the planned expansion of the St. Paul?s Catholic Center.
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed an appeal Monday to lift the temporary restraining order a Dane County judge placed on Gov. Scott Walker?s budget repair bill.
Wisconsin?s attorney general filed an appeal Monday against a Dane County judge?s ruling that effectively halted publication of the governor?s collective bargaining law.
After initial concern over the height and proximity of a 14-story building planned for Library Mall, designers for St. Paul?s University Catholic Center presented a revised plan Monday that significantly scales back the height.
UW System leaders praised the Legislative Building Commission after it passed Gov. Scott Walker?s capital budget proposal, which included a new UW-Madison School of Nursing building.
UW-Madison received a record number of freshman applications this year, totaling over 28,000.
According to the school?s admissions website, that figure represents a 12 percent increase in applications from last year.
Regular-season conference champions, conference playoff champions, winners of 37 games, a team led by the nation?s most valuable player and now, after one of their best games of the season, national champions.
Erie, P.A. ? Four national championships in six years. It doesn?t get much better than that.
The Wisconsin women?s hockey team claimed the Western Collegiate Hockey Association conference trophy and playoff trophy, and now it completes the trifecta: bringing the National Championship trophy back to Madison after beating Boston University 4-1 Sunday afternoon.
The State Building Commission approved the governor?s capital budget recommendations las Wednesday, which detail public building construction and maintenance funding to generate economic activity and jobs.
In a move to provide all University of Wisconsin System campuses with new flexibilities to help combat extensive cuts in state funding, the Board of Regents endorsed a proposal that would retain the Madison campus as a member of the system in a meeting March 10.
In another demonstration of the University of Wisconsin?s increased visibility and positive recognition over the past year, a record number of prospective Badgers submitted freshman admission applications.
In the wake of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami off the coast of Japan that caused thousands of casualties and left many civilians without food, water or basic shelter, 14 University of Wisconsin students abroad in the country will return home following the suspension of all study abroad programs.
After four weeks of unprecedented legislative maneuvers, protesters sleeping inside and outside the Capitol building and thousands of donated pizza slices from around the world, the bill that would limit collective bargaining rights for public employees was signed by the governor March 11, causing protests to gain momentum.
A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the state?s new collective bargaining law from taking effect, raising the possibility that the Legislature may have to vote again to pass the bill.
Two Democratic lawmakers boycotted a meeting chaired by Gov. Scott Walker Wednesday after they arrived to find it had been closed to roughly a dozen members of the public.
In response to the governor?s proposal to break the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from the rest of the System campuses, the Board of Regents unveiled a plan to seek similar flexibilities for all UW institutions at a meeting Thursday.
In a move that shocked opponents and threw the Capitol into chaos, Senate Republicans pushed through a stripped-down version of the governor?s contentious budget repair bill Wednesday in an 18-1 vote.
State Senate Republicans removed all fiscal items from the budget repair bill, avoiding the need for a quorum, and passed limits on collective bargaining Wednesday, sparking massive protests and raising questions of constitutionality.
A lawsuit against Sigma Chi?s UW-Madison and national chapters, filed by a UW-Madison student who claims she was raped at the fraternity house in October 2008, has been closed, according to Milwaukee County Judge Timothy Dugan.
More than 7,000 students, educators and parents will meet on the UW-Madison campus for the 27th annual National Science Olympiad Tournament May 18-21.
The University of Wisconsin will host the National Science Olympiad Tournament for the first time in May 2011, a prestigious competition which will draw participants from across the U.S. to the campus? newest facilities.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to try the University of Wisconsin?s appeal after a previous ruling required funding for a Catholic student organization?s religious activities, a decision that essentially ends the university?s appeals process.
Chancellor Biddy Martin took questions about the New Badger Partnership from faculty members at Mondays Faculty Senate meeting.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday it will not hear UW-Madisons appeal of a lower court decision that found denying funding to the Catholic student group Badger Catholic violates the First Amendment.
MADISON, Wis. AP ? Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday that he will issue layoff notices to 1,500 state workers on Friday if his proposal forcing them to pay more for benefits and taking away nearly all their collective bargaining rights isn?t passed by then.
Chancellor Biddy Martin and Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell answered questions about how a proposed public authority model and major budget cuts would affect UW-Madison faculty and students at a forum Wednesday.
In the wake of the governor?s budget announcement, protesters at the Capitol continue to voice discontent with strict limitations on public access to the building as University of Wisconsin students rallied in opposition to the proposed ?marriage? between the university and the state on Wednesday.
After the governor?s budget proposal outlined extensive budget cuts in higher education, the University of Wisconsin chancellor clarified the details of a public authority status and said the university must remain a contender among international institutions in a public forum Wednesday.
Gov. Scott Walker?s budget proposal calls for major changes to the UW System and drastic funding cuts to higher education.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has selected Dr. Elizabeth Petty as the new senior associate dean for academic affairs, the university announced Tuesday.
While some are optimistic, others remain hesitant about substantial changes to the UW System proposed in Gov. Scott Walker?s 2011-?13 budget. In an effort to combat the budget deficit, Walker proposed a plan to remove UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee from the UW System, in addition to cutting $250 million in state aid from the system, $125 million of which will be directly from UW-Madison.
In front of a joint session of the legislature Tuesday, Gov. Scott Walker presented his 2011-13 budget, which reduces Wisconsins projected shortfall of $3.6 billion to $250 million.
Boaters and anglers around Wisconsin are more aware of the potentially detrimental effects of invasive species spreading between Wisconsin waterways and are actively taking preventative measures to stop their spread, a new survey said.
Gov. Scott Walker introduced a budget Tuesday which contained serious cuts to state and local programs he said are tough but necessary to balance the projected $3.6 billion deficit.
After the governor unveiled funding reductions for higher education and plans to establish the Madison campus as a public authority, the chancellor said University of Wisconsin officials will use the new flexibilities to combat ?painful? budget cuts.
