Having compassion isn’t something you should do just for the benefit of others – it’s a vital part of your own physical and mental well-being, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, told a sold-out audience of 12,000 fans and followers Friday at the Kohl Center.
Under gray skies and cool temperatures, a good natured crowd celebrated “Cinco de Mifflin” at the 39th annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
At least a half-dozen homemade T-shirts riffed on the cross-cultural theme created by the coincidence of this year’s block party with the Mexican holiday, including a blue one that dubbed the day “Cinco de Drunko.”
To the flock of schoolkids chattering their way through the Chazen Museum of Art, checking out the exotic-insects- as-art exhibition or the display of 19th-century paintings might be just another field trip.
But to ardent devotees of the arts, such visits – at any age – also present an opportunity, a chance to crack open a window to the expansive and enriching world that comes with an appreciation for the arts.
A settlement was reached in the UW Roman Catholic Foundation federal lawsuit against the UW System Board of Regents and four UW-Madison administrators Thursday.
The Sierra Club officially filed a lawsuit against the UW-Madison Wednesday, alleging the universityâ??s Charter Street Power Plant has continually violated the Clean Air Act.
UW-Madison students and Mifflin Street residents are primarily worried about alcohol and noise violations Saturday at the 38th annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
Nobel Peace Prize winner â??His Holinessâ? Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, will give a public talk at 2:30 p.m. in the Kohl Center in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 9,000 UW-Madison students, faculty and community members.
A University of Wisconsin law student was allegedly mugged early Thursday afternoon walking on West Gilman Street toward State Street.
Former University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett said Thursday he will travel to Morocco in an attempt to find and interview a man accused of hijacking an airplane and flying it into the World Trade Center.
he University of Wisconsin announced Thursday that Broadway, television and film actor André De Shields will speak at spring commencement.
he University of Wisconsin law student who first started the outrage regarding a professorâ??s comments about the Hmong community will be honored with an award May 18.
For years John Stocco has taken the ball under center. He has thrown tens of thousands of passes and taken several punishing hits. But somehow he has gotten up to take another snap.
An environmental watchdog group filed a lawsuit Thursday against the University of Wisconsin, citing violations of pollution standards with the campusâ?? coal plant.
The University of Wisconsin announced Thursday it reached a settlement with the UW Roman Catholic Foundation over a discrimination lawsuit filed in November over the groupâ??s funding.
Madison Police Department officials say they are ready to regulate Saturdayâ??s 38th annual Mifflin Street Block Party and are prepared to make upward of 500 arrests.
On Oct. 18, 1967, more than 500 UW-Madison students staged a sit-in in Ingraham Hall because they were disgusted that the Dow Chemical Companyâ??the main producer of a chemical liquid used in warfareâ??was recruiting on campus.
Badger fans went on quite a rollercoaster ride these past two weeks. First, there was the e-mail problem with football tickets, and then the announcement of a new distribution policy for basketball and hockey tickets.
Shortly after a federal judge ordered the University of Wisconsin to hand over the names of 53 UW System students targeted as habitual illegal music downloaders, the Recording Industry Association of America cracked down on more campuses Wednesday.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision could make it more difficult for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to defend existing stem cell patents that are now being challenged by two national groups and patent experts.
Following the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech, Gov. Jim Doyle recently signed an executive order creating the Governorâ??s Task Force on Campus Safety. The goal is to ensure campus security and preparedness in emergency situations on all Wisconsin college campuses.
You will be ticketed if you break the clearly-defined rules of the Mifflin Street Block Party.
That was the message echoed by representatives from the Madison Police and Fire Departments Wednesday night at a meeting meant to allow Mifflin residents and police to voice concerns to one another about Saturdayâ??s party.
After the tragic events that occurred at Virginia Tech last month, Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle announced plans Wednesday to form a task force aimed at developing safety practices for all Wisconsin colleges.
Testifying before a state legislative committee Wednesday, University of Wisconsin System officials said that a multimillion-dollar software project derailed last year due to insufficient planning, nonstandard business practices and poor communication.
A United States Supreme Court decision Monday may have a negative impact on a pending case against three of the University of Wisconsinâ??s embryonic stem cell patents.
The Dalai Lama arrived in Madison Wednesday afternoon to start his three-day visit, and tomorrow he will give a sold-out talk to University of Wisconsin students and community members at the Kohl Center.
A congressional committee sent letters Wednesday to the University of Wisconsin and 19 other universities identified as having received the highest number of illegal-downloading infringement notices for the purpose of gathering information.
It is not every day that college students discuss their house parties for the upcoming weekend with police officers before they even occur.
Itâ??s a bright Monday morning in the town of Dunn, warm but windy. The sun shimmers on the surface of Lake Kegonsa in the distance and on the hoods of a stream of cars being parked along the shoulder of Schneider Road.
After hearing outcry and criticism from students regarding football season tickets, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department responded Wednesday by arranging a lottery that will offer between 100 and 300 additional tickets.
Citing studies showing gaps in health care for Wisconsin’s farmers, a group that has looked at the state’s rural life for the last two years is calling for a summit on access to affordable health care.
Geshe Lhundub Sopa, the abbot at the Deer Park Buddhist Center outside Oregon, remembers when Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, first visited Madison in the late 1970s.
UW-Madison is on the short list for a major federal grant to study new strategies for generating biofuels.
The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to invest $125 million over five years at each of two or possibly three new bioenergy research centers, starting as early as this year.
Camped out in a bright red tent Sunday at 3 p.m. until Tuesday at 3 p.m., a group from every single UW Athletics sport team took turns â??practicingâ? on Library Mallâ??jogging, doing crunches or walking around collecting moneyâ??for a cause.
The Recording Industry Association of Americaâ??s lawsuits against UW System students require university employees to devote time and money to processing complaints without reimbursement from the RIAA, according to Brian Rust, UW-Madison Department of Information Technology communications director.
The e-mail sent to UW-Madison students informing them of the April 21 date of football ticket sales missed many studentsâ?? inboxes because of the large size of the universityâ??s student listserv, according to the athletic department.
The Madison Police Department held a meeting Monday night to relay downtown crime statistics to the public and further review the $100,000 Safety Initiative.
We are writing on behalf of the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board (WASB) in order to thank the thousands of students who participated in last weekâ??s All-Campus Party (ACP).
In an attempt to continue the University of Wisconsinâ??s efforts to reduce energy consumption, residence halls competed this month to conserve the most electricity and the winner was announced Monday.
Traditional walls are tumbling down at universities across the country because of a new policy allowing students to choose their roommates with no questions asked â?? including the gender.
Two Madison residents charged with stealing property from University of Wisconsin students in February and March of this year made their initial court appearances Monday.
Badger athletes from all 23 varsity sports, cheerleading and dance, had a kink thrown into their practice schedules this week with the 48-hour marathon practice for charity on Library Mall.
March 2007 has seen an increase in aggravated battery, sexual assault and retail theft when compared to March 2006, according to new crime statistics released Monday night at a Madison Police Department community briefing.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials will visit Dane County today to review a possible site in the town of Dunn for a federal animal disease research facility.
It would seem there are few connections between the glow of a computer screen and the rough-and-tumble flow of a river down its course.
But The Nature Conservancy and business giant IBM are collaborating on a computer-driven project — using science from UW-Madison — that may help protect the world’s great rivers.
Don Hedberg, retired co-owner of Lab Safety Supply Co., has made a $2 million gift that will name UW-Madison’s new HealthEmotions Research Institute building.
The last thing America needs is to be increasing the number of guns in the hands of civilians.
The first-ever Wiscontrepreneur Challenge provided students $10 each to buy materials from a university second-hand store and allotted them 100 hours to turn those scraps into marketable inventions. Twelve teams entered the competition, creating a range of innovations that include a hand-cranking portable power generator and a designer belt-buckle made out of an old cassette tape.
South Korean student groups at UW-Madison have canceled an upcoming cultural event in
response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
Two key lawmakers are asking Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration to explain his sweeping, and so far largely undisclosed, plan to help more students achieve a higher education.
The value of a University of Wisconsin education â?? for students and for the state â?? is huge.
Consider this year’s six distinguished UW-Madison alumni award winners, what they’ve achieved and what they’ve given back:
Joshua Steinberg knows what he’s going to do when he graduates from UW-Madison in May with a bachelor’s degree in communication arts. He’s going to take a nice, relaxing summer vacation – without having to worry about looking for a job.
CHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT, Owner/landscape designer, C & J Natural Landscaping: I graduated from the UW-Madison Business School with degrees in management, human resources and marketing. I knew I wanted to start my own business, so I purposely avoided interviews my senior year.
Today, Regulation and Licensing Secretary Celia Jackson and about 200 midwives are expected to gather at Ebling Library Health Sciences Learning Center at UW Hospital to celebrate; Gov. Jim Doyle has declared May 5 “International Midwives’ Day” in Wisconsin.
When Karen Carlson was young, she and her friends used to “push a few limits” by driving out to the country, parking their cars next to each other and turning their radios to the same stations.
The 1980s.
It’s when Steve Weinswig walked the halls of Memorial High School and later the campus of UW-Madison all without an iPod, cell phone or laptop computer.
Last Tuesday, students learned that football tickets for the 2007 season were sold out. Although not surprising in itself, as Camp Randall is routinely sold out, the real shock came to many students because they did not even know they were on sale.
Estimated at a cost of $1.3 million a year, a meager amount in comparison to the billions of dollars that make up the entirety of the budget, the addition of UW System domestic partner benefits to the Wisconsin biennial budget was unjustly denied last week by the Joint Finance Committee.
Saturdayâ??s 26th annual Crazylegs Classic run/walk attracted a record-breaking 14,997 runners and walkers to Madison, including city celebrities Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and UW football head coach Bret Bielema.
A UW-Madison student was arrested by Madison police early Sunday morning and is suspected to have burglarized multiple houses on the 100 block of Langdon Street.
After last weekâ??s football ticket sale notification debacle, many Badger fans are again disgruntled with the Wisconsin Athletic Ticket Office.
