UW-Madison real estate professor Morris Davis lives a secret life. He’s an international rock star. That secret will be out next Thursday when his group, The Contractions, plays the King Club and he takes the stage with his bass performing classic rock hits.
An analysis this week showed how state agencies have fouled up more than $100 million worth of projects intended to improve their computerized data systems.
The result has been millions in cost overruns and, in some cases, service to the public that is worse than it was before.
Tears were shed as students, parents and teachers mourned Mondayâ??s Virginia Tech shooting at a memorial vigil held Wednesday night in Bascom Hall.
â??Our purpose tonight is to send messages of support and healing to our fellow colleagues and students at Virginia Tech University, and also to recognize how we can contribute to our own healing process,â? said UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam.
UW System President Kevin Reilly announced Wednesday that in light of the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling will lead a committee to review security procedures at all UW System campuses, according to the Associated Press.
UW System spokesperson David Giroux told the AP the committee will perform an in-depth analysis and incorporate any lessons learned after the deadly shootings Monday at Virginia Tech.
As the University of Wisconsin System attempts to have its proposal for $775 million in building projects approved by the stateâ??s budget committee, the UW System may face a rare opposition to its requests for new building construction. According to The Badger Herald, Republicans within the Legislature may try to block some of the more controversial building projects on the UW campus, such as the construction of a new Union South. Some of the projects, like Union South, will receive little or no funds from the state and will be funded by raising segregated fees and private donations. Some members of the State Assembly, however, may block some of the building projects so that segregated fees do not rise and make UW even more expensive for the average Wisconsin family, many of whom struggle to pay the $17,280 in total costs to send their son or daughter to UW for a year.
When a tragic incident occurs in this country as horrific and devastating as the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, we are often left with nothing more than questions. For those who have lost a friend, family member or colleague, these questions are usually the type of life-altering, existential ponderings that have neither simple nor speedy answers.
As more and more details have surfaced from Blacksburg, we have seen an increased demand for answers to these questions.
Proposed building projects across the University of Wisconsin System received criticism from the stateâ??s budget committee Wednesday, with some legislators calling for more renovation and less construction.
The projects, including six at UW-Madison, were first approved by the State Building Commission and must be approved by the Joint Finance Committee for inclusion into the stateâ??s operating budget.
University of Wisconsin students and faculty joined with Madison community members Wednesday night at Bascom Hall to share thoughts and shed tears as they remembered the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam stressed campus unity and extended a message of support to â??our friends and colleaguesâ? after the tragedy, offering advice and support personnel to help contribute to the healing process.
Ten UW-Madison faculty members were recognized for their teaching accomplishments Tuesday, receiving awards from the 2007 Distinguished Teaching Awards program.
UW-Madison reacted Tuesday to what is now being called the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, as a professor expounded on being on Virginia Techâ??s campus as tragedy struck, and UW-Madison police and administrators detailed emergency preparedness methods.
If you continue to charge low rent, you will eventually become low rent. Those were the words posted on my column a few weeks ago, and they couldnâ??t have been more accurate.
Today, the Wisconsin Legislative Joint Finance Committee will pore over hundreds of millions of dollars in University of Wisconsin building plans in an informational briefing. They will begin the process of determining which of the proposed campus building projects receive the stateâ??s approval.
As graduate student tuition continues to rise at the University of Wisconsin, students and teachers alike discussed their current predicament over an increasingly expensive graduate education Tuesday.
Information Technology projects across Wisconsin are producing high-cost delays because of organization and oversight problems, according to a report Tuesday by a nonpartisan legislative agency.
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh received nearly $10,000 this year from a student loan company after placing them on the universityâ??s list of preferred lenders, according to a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Tuesday.
A University of Wisconsin envoy of three faculty members and five students who were on the scene of the Virginia Tech shooting returned to Madison Tuesday safe and secure, but with heavy hearts.
In light of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin Assistant Police Chief Dale Burke said Tuesday the university is reviewing its campus emergency plans and will try to learn from Mondayâ??s tragedy.
Sharon Pero, the UW-Madison administrator in charge of managing the UW-Madison timetable and other key features on the PeopleSoft Student Center system, died suddenly at her home over the weekend at the age of 58.
Madison bartenders are doing less coughing and wheezing since the July 2005 city smoking ban came into effect, according to the findings of a recent respiratory health study by UW-Madison researchers.
A new fiber optic network will allow University of Wisconsin researchers to access information up to 20,000 times faster and one million times greater than the capacity of a typical home broadband connection, the Division of Information Technology announced Monday.
More than 100 high school and dozens of middle school students took part in a diversity program Monday to become better acquainted with the University of Wisconsin campus.
A University of Wisconsin alumnus and longtime contributor gave UW libraries nearly $1 million to benefit Friends of the UW-Madison Library initiatives in an endowment announced Monday.
In less than one month, Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle will allow eighth graders across Wisconsin to officially pledge good grades to a program that has not yet been approved by the state Legislature.
After the Virginia Tech campus was thrown into terror and chaos Monday, University of Wisconsin officials were left scrambling to contact five graduate students and three faculty members that were on the Virginia Tech campus.
For parents of students away at college, the news Monday that 32 students were gunned down at Virginia Tech hit hard.
It’s not like we don’t already have enough things to fret about: Are they eating properly? Studying? In love? Depressed?
And why don’t they ever call?
I’m sure cell phones were ringing all over the UW- Madison campus, and others, as the news spread about the Virginia Tech shootings. On the students’ phones, the word “Mom” lit up.
Five UW-Madison engineering graduate students and three faculty members were heading home from Virginia Tech after spending part of Monday in a building adjacent to where the United States’ deadliest school shooting spree took place.
The group was attending a routine conference when a gunman opened fire in the adjacent Norris Hall.
In a voice trembling with emotion, a Hmong graduate of the Madison School District returned his diploma on Monday night to protest a School Board member’s proposal to reconsider a decision to name a new school after a Hmong military leader.
Johnny Ly, who graduated from West High School in 2003 and now majors in political science at UW-Madison, was angered that board member Carol Carstensen earlier in the day said in an e-mail that the board needs to examine claims that Gen. Vang Pao ordered summary executions and was involved in drug trafficking.
f youâ??ve had a general chemistry class at the UW-Madison, you probably know â??Jim the demo guy.â?
Jim Maynard, 43, has been working as a lecture demonstrator in the UW Chemistry department since 2001.
The UW System Board of Regents approved a $250,000 salary increase for menâ??s basketball coach Bo Ryan at a meeting Friday, making his total projected salary for next year $1.25 million.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted Friday at UW-Oshkosh to give Learfield Communications, Inc., exclusive marketing rights to all Badger sports until 2019.
The recent thrust to quantify the value of a college education has sparked heated debate across campuses nationwide and has caused some government officials to consider requiring graduates to take a college exit exam.
University of Wisconsin System officials will make their case for $775 million in proposed building projects before the state Legislatureâ??s budget committee this Wednesday.
he University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a $250,000 amendment to the salary of menâ??s basketball coach Bo Ryan at their meeting Friday in Oshkosh, bringing his total salary for the 2007-08 year to $1.25 million.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a differential tuition plan for undergraduate business students at their meeting Friday, which will require students enrolled in the Business School to pay more tuition per semester than others.
Tim Sell sees potential every time he comes to work. He hopes a group of UW-Madison students taking part in a unique entrepreneurial program next week will have similar visions.
Sell, the marketing supervisor for the UW-Madison’s Surplus With A Purpose (SWAP) Shop, is anxious for the participants in the first Wiscontrepreneur Challenge to walk the aisles of the shop at 2102 Wright St.
An unprecedented season in terms of victories and achievements has yielded a handsome pay increase for University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan.
Consider the words of UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber, who warned that the anti-oath allows officials to “come perilously close to saying (that) in their duties they will ignore the law or alter the law when it conflicts with their personal principles.
UW-Madison’s Center for Real Estate will be renamed this month to honor real estate education pioneer James A. Graaskamp.
The April 25-26 event will be at the university’s Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave. The Center for Real Estate is in the Fluno Center.
Michael Quieto has been a well-known leader for the UW-Madison teaching assistants union.
Stem cells get the publicity, but the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s cash cow continues to be vitamin D.
The bone-enhancing nutrient used in fortified milk and several drugs brings in about two- thirds of the money at WARF, UW-Madison’s tech transfer arm.
At one point in the play “Home,” life has been so tough on protagonist Cephus Miles that he ends up homeless, sweeping bars in New York for a little spare change.
Patrick Sims – the UW assistant professor of theater and actor who’ll portray Cephus in Madison Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of “Home” – knows that guy. He knows that bar-sweeper: smelly, unkempt, down on his luck, looking for work, seeking hope.
Brad Brown, educational and psychology professor at UW-Madison, said inappropriate teen conduct during dances is not new.
With the flood of on-campus sexual assaults this academic year, UW-Madison students have more than a right to be concerned. Equally concerning is the confusion. Since most situations require students to walk home alone at night, they are left wondering how they can protect themselves.
Environmental experts and activists met at Chamberlain Hall Thursday to discuss how Wisconsin can combat local global warming concerns.
The UW System Board of Regents came one step closer to officially passing the UW-Madison School of Business differential-tuition proposal when it approved the policy in committee at its Thursday meeting at UW-Oshkosh.
While it is admirable that some people at UW-Madison are moving to make clean, renewable energy a larger source of power, more steps need to be taken to accomplish this goal.
As I listened to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper explain why he was dismissing the charges against the three Duke University LaCrosse players, I couldnâ??t help but draw parallels to what has transpired on this campus in terms of how I have been treated by Chancellor Wiley and his Executive Assistant Casey Nagy, Provosts Peter Spear and Patrick Farrell.
University of Wisconsin students and Madison residents will rally volunteers for local shelters and food banks tomorrow as part of the 23rd annual national Hunger Cleanup.
Updating students, faculty and community members on congressional progress on global warming, Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., paid a visit to the University of Wisconsin campus Thursday night and heard concerns from UW experts and concerned citizens.
A University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents committee approved the UW-Madison Business School differential tuition program Thursday, setting it up for a vote by the full board today.
A Madison alderman formally filed a complaint with the Madison Ethics Board earlier this week, alleging a limited-term city clerk employee forged state campaign finance documents.
The UW Board of Regents is expected to approve a tuition hike this week for all UW-Madison undergraduate students majoring in business or enrolled in the Certificate in Business program.
Q: How many animals have gone extinct due to human causes?
Adikan Wiering
Grade 6
Sennett Middle School
A: Stanley Temple, a professor of wildlife ecology at UW-Madison, says 83 mammals, 151 birds, 22 reptiles, 35 amphibians and 93 fish have definitely gone extinct since 1500.
Remember that movie ticket you meant to buy in advance for the Wisconsin Film Festival? Somebody might have beaten you to it.
Dozens of the 182 films scheduled for the four-day festival, which begins tonight, are already sold out.
The nation’s largest student loan provider will stop offering perks to college employees as part of a settlement announced Wednesday in a probe of the student loan industry.
The season also will be marked by the March 2008 world premiere of “Concerto for Cello and Oud” by Joel Hoffman, performed by Israeli cellist Uri Vardi, a UW-Madison music professor, and Palestinian oud player Taiseer Elias.
President Bush is again promising to veto a bipartisan bill easing limits on promising embryonic stem-cell research.
Bush contended this week the bill “crosses a moral line.” But an increasing majority of Americans — including virtually two-thirds of the U.S. Senate — strongly disagrees.
The last time I had been in the clinic was for my Hepatitis-B vaccine. I screamed so loudly I scared the kids in the waiting room. Now, six years later, the same nauseating feelings of pre-shot anxiety were rising in my throat.
Gov. Jim Doyle, along with nine other governors, sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Wednesday, urging them to vote to alleviate President Bushâ??s limitations on embryonic stem cell research.
Two days ago, La Crosse County joined a small contingency of Wisconsin localities, including Dane County, that provide full domestic partner benefits to its employees.
