Six presidents, six University of Wisconsin chancellors and one presidential visit later, a downtown Madison fixture closed up shop Tuesday afternoon after 31 years weathering a constantly changing Madison landscape.
Governor-Elect Scott Walker urged the Democratic Assembly Caucus to practice bipartisanship to solve the problems facing the state Tuesday.
As if one was not appalling enough, this Sunday the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater had its second alleged hate crime on its campus this semester.
The Madison Landmarks Commission discussed how the proposed plans for the St. Paul Catholic Student Center and Residential College could potentially affect Pres House, a 103-year-old campus Presbyterian chapel and Madison historic landmark.
Now that we?ve all calmed down from last week?s election, it?s time to look at what a Republican-led House of Representatives will mean for the country. They?ve talked about repealing the health care bill, extending the Bush tax cuts and, of course, making sure Obama is only in office for one term. We?ll have to wait and see whether they actually do any of these things, but the most concerning promise they?ve made isn?t one of these. It?s the promise to cut funding to science research.
A group of University of Wisconsin engineers have teamed with Wisconsin-based Trek Bicycle Corp. to aid in the development of the company?s latest bicycle products, gloves to help alleviate cyclist?s palsy.
It?s a typical day at the University of Wisconsin?s College Library. You?re sitting in the second floor reading room, minding your own business and harmlessly browsing Facebook. Suddenly, a post by you shows up in your news feed, a post you didn?t write.
In an attempt to make a fourteen-story building appear more subtle, designers for St. Paul?s Catholic Center introduced their plans to the city?s Landmarks Commission for advice and direction in development of a proposed new building.
UW-Madison faculty and students assembled at the Bascom Hill Telepresence Classroom in the Education building to unveil a video-conferencing device new to the university Friday.
Results from the National Survey of Student Engagement found student veterans say they receive little support from college campuses upon returning to school after serving in the military.
The University of Wisconsin System has fallen under the scrutiny of free speech groups for a policy that limits free speech on the UW System campuses.
Four men living on the 500 block of West Mifflin were robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning.
Students wearing yellow reflective vests armed with flashlights will hit the streets in the Langdon area Thursday night as part of the first Langdon Street Neighborhood Watch in recent memory.
Wisconsin citizens may see a change in politics as usual and a renewed focus on economic policy after broad Republican victories in Tuesday?s elections.
Four University of Wisconsin students became victims of an armed robbery while sitting on their Mifflin Street porch early Wednesday morning.
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, a center funded partially by the Dalai Lama, held its grand opening at the Waisman Center Monday.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin is visiting China for a second time this year to promote collaboration between the university and China with a new focus on economic development.
While most students were still recovering from Freakfest Sunday morning, one University of Wisconsin student had to deal with a different issue.
The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate adopted framework Monday that will keep faculty, staff and administration privy to the progress of the outside consultation firm UW may hire to examine its efficiency.
UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Dean Molly Jahn will step down Jan 1., according to the university.
Starting in September 2011, students will be able to earn their Legal Institutions degree from UW-Madison with one semester in Madison and the remaining semesters in Shanghai.
Just a few years ago, the most common Halloween garb on State Street for Madison?s traditional celebration was not Lady Gaga or a political candidate, but instead a line of police officers decked out in riot gear.
A public visitation for UW-Madison senior Dylan Ellefson will be held Oct. 29 at the Cress Funeral Home in Sun Prairie from 5-8 p.m.
Approximately 40 advocates against sexual assault and domestic violence marched down State Street to the Capitol Wednesday to participate in the “Take Back the Night” event hosted by the Campus Women?s Center.
?Take back the night, the time is near! We will not be controlled by fear!? chanted about 50 students and community members as they marched up State Street toward the Capitol Wednesday night.
UW-Madison Alumnus Alvin Lane and his wife have bestowed their $30 million collection of 20th century sculpture to the university?s Chazen Museum of Art, according to museum officials.
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery held a preview Tuesday to explain the creator?s goals and showcase the new building?s facilities before the grand opening Dec. 2.
After a rigorous dance workshop with UW undergraduate and student teacher Ella Rosewood, an elementary school class was asked how the movement had made them feel. ?Fun!? was the most common response. Amid these typical third grade descriptions, though, one girl spoke at great length and detail of how exactly it had felt for her to dance. After the lesson ended, the teacher approached Rosewood. ?You know that girl who said all of that stuff?? she said. ?That was the third time I?ve heard her speak all year.?
The author of the University of Wisconsin?s second book in the Go Big Read series spoke to an audience at the Kohl Center Monday night about how she came across the topic and the true story of the family in the novel.
The aging Catholic Student Center on Library Mall will become a large high-rise learning community in the future if Madison officials approve a plan to rehabilitate the facility.
In the wake of a University of Wisconsin student?s death Sunday, friends and family are mourning the loss as new information about the accident comes to light.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin met with the Chancellor?s Panel of Student Leaders for the first time Oct. 20 to hear the concerns of 20 students.
UW-Madison Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Damon Williams was awarded the W.E.B. DuBois Community Advocacy Award.
The Princeton Review ranked the University of Wisconsin?s law and business schools among the nation?s best, with UW?s business school praised for its facilities and graduate entrepreneurial program.
Rogers Memorial Hospital will be opening a mental health facility today in Madison, becoming the city?s only daytime hospitalization program for adults with eating disorders and mental health issues.
A University of Wisconsin senior was killed in a car accident on his way to work Sunday afternoon on Madison?s near east side.
Recent acts of discrimination and assault against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in the University of Wisconsin System have caused university officials and student to react, inspiring anti-bullying rallies and debates about freedom of speech.
Academy Award-winning documentarian and 1969 UW-Madison alum Errol Morris spoke Thursday at a Humanities Without Boundaries Event as part of the university?s Year of the Arts.
City officials remain confident Madison will become the test city for Google?s approaching ultra high-speed Internet experiment.
City officials responded to growing concerns of an invasive species outbreak by presenting several possible response plans Thursday night that would impact the city?s ash tree population.
Renowned filmmaker and writer Errol Morris shared his career inspirations and experiences on the Wisconsin Union Theatre stage Thursday night as part of the Memorial Union Directorate?s Distinguished Lecture Series.
Happy cows do indeed come from Wisconsin thanks to a recent web site created by two University of Wisconsin researchers.
This isn?t 2008.
The authors of a recently released survey by Harvard University?s Institute of Politics report that over the past 11 months there has been a drop-off in college-age voters? enthusiasm for politics — a flip-flop from the trend leading up to the 2008 elections, when the youth vote helped carry Barack Obama to the presidenc
The Urban Design Commission granted final approval for plans for a new UW Athletics Ice Hockey and Swimming Facility on the UW-Madison campus Wednesday.
Chancellor Biddy Martin focused on the economic factors of her proposal in the final installment of her three-part “New Badger Partnership” discussion forum at the Waisman Center Wednesday.
Approximately 100 people attended a vigil on Library Mall Wednesday night in honor of LGBTQ students across the country who have been affected by bullying. The event was co-hosted by the LGBT Campus Center and the UW Housing Diversity Squad.
During my brief stint as a tour guide for this university, I was told, often to the point of saturation, that it was my responsibility to present the best conceivable face of Madison. I don?t know if I came remotely close to fitting that rather daunting bill, but I do recall the expectation went well beyond a pleasant disposition. It was essential to present the many pitfalls of the state?s flagship ? and there are many ? in such a fashion that our visitors did not go home intent on taking their business elsewhere.
The city of Madison Urban Design Committee approved a plan to build a new hockey rink and swimming facility next to the Kohl Center Wednesday.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin received a five-year, $2.93 million grant to conduct further and more in-depth research on what effects alterations in environment, nearby species and climate changes have on Wisconsin plants.
In the wake of the recent suicides and assaults on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens and students across the country, University of Wisconsin campus organizations banded together to stop the silence Wednesday night.
Chancellor Biddy Martin held the second of three forums on the Badger Partnership Tuesday to further inform the UW-Madison community of the proposed business model.
According to a report by the University Committee, UW-Madison researcher Michele Basso?s right to due process was violated when her primate research lab was temporarily shut down last year.
It goes by several names; Four Loko, a black out in a can or an alcopop, but no matter what students at a New Jersey college call the energy drink alcohol hybrid, they can no longer drink them on campus after the college president banned them.
Christmas came early for a computer science lab at the University of Wisconsin thanks to a multimillion dollar investment from software mogul Microsoft Corporation, UW officials announced Tuesday.
As students here at UW-Madison, we recognize and appreciate the value of an education. Some of us may plan to use our degree to start a career, others to continue our studies. Yet what we gain from our experience at UW isn?t just measured in midterms and homework. One of the best opportunities we have as students-one that will add countless value to our education-is the opportunity to study abroad.
The state filed an amicus brief Monday in the federal court case seeking to stop federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, Gov. Jim Doyle announced in a statement. The brief will seek to dissuade the court from hearing the case.
Approximately 100 people attended a discussion with Chancellor Biddy Martin about her Badger Partnership proposal Monday at the first of three forum sessions about the new business model.
She unknowingly boosted medicine into the 20th century, becoming a martyr for science. And for decades, the heroine?s identity was as much a mystery to the public as her unwitting scientific contributions were to her own family.
The first in a series of forums about University of Wisconsin Chancellor Biddy Martin?s proposed Badger Partnership provided faculty, staff and students with a venue to ask questions and receive answers directly from the chancellor Monday.
Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and UW-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala led the School of Nursing?s 11th Annual Littlefield Leadership Lecture at the Union Theater Friday.
