A 40-year-old Madison man accused of “upskirting” women secretly recorded more than 300 victims, according to a criminal complaint.
Steven J. Johanowicz is charged with four counts of capturing an image of nudity without consent and invasion of privacy-surveillance device.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’s optimistic the chamber will vote on a bill outlawing research on tissue taken from aborted fetuses.
Videos of more than 300 woman were found in an investigation of a Madison man accused of taking upskirt videos around downtown Madison. The stores around the University of Wisconsin campus are where police believe Steven Johanowicz, who has worked in downtown Madison for nearly 16 years, snapped the photos of most of his victims.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council met with UW-Madison administration during its meeting Wednesday to examine results of the recently published campus climate survey.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam and University Health Services Executive Director Sarah Van Orman informed the council of the survey’s key results and gave recommendations for using those findings to address sexual assault and sexual misconduct on campus.
The survey, conducted by the Association of American Universities last spring, aimed to assess the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses nationwide, as well as ask for students’ perceptions of campus climate and knowledge of campus resources for these issues.
The start of the 2015-16 Wisconsin men’s hockey season is less than three weeks away, and now the television schedule and start times are set.
The Badgers’ television schedule includes 10 regular-season games that will air on either BTN, ESPNU, ESPNEWS or American Sports Network (ASN), with four more slated for CN900, which is available in Michigan. In addition, the Big Ten tournament, which takes place March 17-19 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, will also air on BTN.
UW’s first television appearance is slated for Nov. 20 against Denver at the Kohl Center on ASN. That contest will begin at 7:30 p.m. CT.
While many mothers says they’d do anything for their child, it couldn’t be more true for one who’s balancing grad school, working full time, a wife, and a mother of two.
Alysia Hanson is a trauma nurse at UW-Hospital.
(Video) Julie Andrews from the UW Health Learning Kitchen visits News 3 at Noon to share apple recipes.
Wisconsin legislators are set to hold another public hearing on a bill that would outlaw research on tissue taken from aborted fetuses.
The Senate’s health committee was scheduled to hold a hearing on the Republican-authored measure Tuesday morning in the state Capitol. The Assembly’s criminal justice already has held a hearing and approved the bill, clearing the way for a full vote that chamber but it’s unclear how much support the proposal has among Senate Republicans, who are concerned the measure’s effect on research.
The authors of a bill that would outlaw research on tissue from fetuses aborted are trying to persuade the state Senate’s health committee to approve the proposal.
Sen. Duey Stroebel and Rep. Andre Jacque, both Republicans, told the committee during a public hearing Tuesday that the bill will stop atrocities and aborted children should be treated like humans, not specimens.
A UW-Madison student faces a felony false imprisonment charge, and misdemeanor charges in connection with a sexual encounter with another student Sept. 13.
18-year old Charles Wolf was released on a signature bond after a Monday appearance in Dane County court.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department received a report of a sexual assault at a fraternity house off campus Saturday.
Officials said the sexual assault reportedly happened early Saturday morning, and bystanders intervened to stop the situation.
The sexual assault was reported to a Campus Security Authority, and not to law enforcement, which means there is no active criminal investigation, police said.
UW-Madison police are looking to help victims of sexual assault feel more comfortable about coming forward to report it. It’s part of a campaign called “Tell Us,” and for the second year, police are using various forms of media to let the campus community know they’re here to help.
A video on YouTube shows members of the UW-Madison police force. They are all saying things like “Tell us” and “We are here to help. The video is meant for victims of sexual assault.
Quoted: Don Stanley, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin’s life sciences communication department, says the fad is a testament to the fast-paced times.
“[It] allows people to make a mistake, and then the next week, everybody’s right back in it, at the same starting line,” Stanley said. “That obviously has been very appealing to people.”
Millions of people have logged on and signed up so far this season – at least one site expects to dole out $2 billion over the fall, according to Stanley.
“That’s astounding when you think about it,” he says. “It’s unbelievable the scale of revenue that’s involved in these one-week leagues.”
More than one in every four undergraduate women (27.6 percent) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report being a victim of sexual assault, according to a new survey released Monday morning by the Association of American Universities (AAU). That’s a higher rate than the 23.1 percent of female undergraduates who reported being victims in the survey conducted by 27 universities nationwide.
The data comes from a questionnaire that was sent by email to UW students in April and May. Roughly 22 percent of the undergraduate population answered the questions in the survey. It also found that of those students who were sexually assaulted, only 26.1 percent reported the incident to authorities.
An 18-year-old was arrested Friday in connection with a sexual assault on campus last weekend. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said Charles W. Wolf was taken into custody on suspicion of fourth-degree sexual assault and false imprisonment. Police said a woman reported she was sexually assaulted during the early morning hours Saturday at a UW-Madison residence hall. Police said the woman and the attacker were acquaintances.
Noted: Dr. Sarah Nehls, a cornea specialist and ophthalmologist at UW Heath, performed the delicate procedure to remove the hook. “In this case, you can’t just pull the fish hook back out backward, because that would create more destruction of tissue,” Nehls said.
“Eye protection is a key issue,” Nehls said. “So wear sun glasses when you’re fishing. They would provide protection to the surface of the eye.”
Crews were investigating a report of smoke in a campus building Saturday, an official said. Dane County dispatch said Madison firefighters responded to a report of smoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences building at 1210 W. Dayton St. at 11:42 a.m.
Division fire chief Ron Schwenn told News 3 there was a fire in the ventilation duct two floors below ground. He said the fire was in an air-handling unit for a computer system; the motor caught fire.
About a block away from Camp Randall on a Badger game day, Schwenn admits, is a particularly bad place for a fire to start.
The “Companion” app lets you select a contact from your phone, choose your destination and your friend can watch in real time to make sure you get home. NOTED: UW police warn students shouldn’t rely on technology alone. “These are all really good things. They are smart safety tools but we need to make sure people are also being aware of their personal safety and not just using this as a security blanket,” UW Police Department spokesman Marc Lovicott said.
University of Wisconsin College of Engineering announced Thursday, Sept. 17, a $22 million commitment from the Grainger Foundation for engineering undergraduates.
One of the places where Madison makes a singular contribution to a better world is through the work of the Combat Blindness Foundation, founded by UW Opthamologist Dr. Suresh Chandra. The Foundation is a world leader restoring eyesight to people in developing countries. It is an extraordinary organization doing extraordinary work.
Noted: “If I’m seeing a patient in the clinic and I know that influenza is hitting in the schools around, I’m much more likely to be thinking of it and treating the patient appropriately,” said Dr. Jon Temte, a professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Temte directed the $1.5 million study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study is looking at students in the Oregon School District and working to accurately diagnose influenza cases among students.
VIDEO: UW political science professor Ken Mayer talks about how Scott Walker stacked up against the otehr 10 candidates on Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate.
Two separate sexual assaults were reported last weekend on the University of Wisconsin campus.
UW police said both assaults were in residence halls during the early morning hours of Sept. 12 and were reported to police on Sunday and Monday.
Police said that in both cases, the people involved knew one another.
Noted: “Well, money is obviously essential at this point in the campaign,” said Professor David Canon, a political science expert from UW-Madison.
Canon told 27 News Walker can weather his falling poll numbers for quite awhile, but not without financial support.
“You want to be able to be able to fund your campaign staff in as many of these early states as you can,” explained Canon. “If you have to start cutting back and put all your eggs into Iowa, then that’s a pretty tough position to be in.”
With median earnings for alumni at $51,000, the U.S. Department of Educations’s new, interactive scorecard ranks the University of Wisconsin at No. 7 in the Big Ten.
The data on median salaries of university alumni comes from information the Obama administration gathered to demonstrate earnings of alumni after graduating from universities. It measures the salaries of alumni who are 10 years into their career.
UW-Madison and the City of Madison will join more than 20 other city-university partnerships as beneficiaries of a $1 million grant to launch a program coordinating efforts of research and funding between academic institutions and their communities.
The White House announced the MetroLab Network, funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in a statement Monday along with other “Smart Cities” initiatives.
University of Wisconsin professor emeritus Stan Temple helps Mark Koehn and Susan Siman spot visitors in the backyard on Live at Five.
VIDEO: Sarah Bolser with Joggin for the Noggin talks about their event this weekend in Madison that will benefit the UW Carbone Cancer Center’s Brain Cancer Research Program.
The Badgers men’s basketball team has landed a verbal commitment from one of the top recruits in the state. Kobe King from La Crosse announced his verbal commitment on Twitter.
Madison West junior Terrell Carey is drawing interest from programs around the country including Purdue and Wyoming, but it was a recent visit to Wisconsin that had him smiling.
“It’s a real nice feeling knowing that you’re right down the street. You have the UW talk to you, knowing that you’re just so close to coaching staff.”
Carey isn’t the only local player on the Badgers’ radar. Madison Memorial’s Jake Ferguson, the grandson of Barry Alvarez, is also among those receiving interest. Paul Chryst’s new staff is making sure no stone is left unturned in the state.
UW Biological Anthropologist Carolina Vansickle talks to News 3 This Morning avout the UW’s involvement in the discovery of a new species of human ancestor in South Africa.
Noted: Ballering says an offer to sell the property came up somewhat suddenly, adding that he is not sure if there will be an effort made to buy space on the UW-Madison campus for a new Steep & Brew location. Their Steep & Brew cafe on Odana Road will remain open and multiple locations across the UW campus will still carry Steep & Brew products.
University of Wisconsin’s School of Education is stepping in to reverse ballooning student-teacher ratio and a steep decline of educators in the state.
According to a Wisconsin Budget Project report, nearly 3,000 public school teachers left their jobs within the past nine years in the state. Meanwhile, student recruitment continues to rise, resulting in a student-to-teacher ratio that is growing faster than the national average, said Tamarine Cornelius, an analyst at the Wisconsin Budget Project.
In a climate where fake IDs are readily available to college students, all that stands between underage students and the bars on a busy Friday night are the bouncers.
Grant Hattenhauer, a bouncer at Chaser’s, turns away between 50 and 60 fake IDs every night.
Wisconsin Badgers junior forward Nigel Hayes has been named a pre-season first team All-American by The Sporting News. Hayes started all 40 games on the Badgers’ 2015 Big Ten champion and Final Four team, ranking third on the squad in scoring (12.4 ppg) and second in rebounds (6.2 rpg).
[Neil Heinen op-ed] The UW Madison’s Big Read program is meant to be a shared experience on campus of reading a selected book together. This year, five thousand students who attended Chancellor Becky Blank’s Convocation prior to the start of classes each received a copy of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. It’s the seventh year of the common book program.
Dr. Patrick McBride, a UW Hospital cardiologist, and Dr. Luke Bradbury, a UW Hospital neurologist, talk about new recommendations for low-dose aspirin on Live at Five.
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took around four years to produce. He believes it could make the Internet more resilient to accidents, disasters, or intentional attacks.
While thousands of people filled Camp Randall for kickoff Saturday morning, police dog Odin and his handler Sgt. Brent Plisch’s work began hours earlier, running security sweeps on the venue to ensure spectators’ safety.
Odin, a Czech-born German Shepherd trained in obedience, human trafficking and explosive detection, has been with UW-Madison Police Department since 2010. He is part of the three-dog K9 Unit that performs approximately 175 deployments every year on campus, from securing venues before events and responding to bomb threats to performing dignitary protection for high-profile guests such as the president and Dalai Lama.
The UW Board of Regents will not yet make a formal statement about a fetal tissue research ban circulating in the Legislature. Members of the board said Friday that they do have concerns about the measure that would make it a felony to do research on fetal tissue derived after January 1, 2015.
Noted: [Alex] Hummel says reductions were the result of changes that had been underway before lawmakers cut $250 million from the UW System in the new state budget. But he says eliminating the positions will help the system cope as it absorbs the budget cuts.
The University of Wisconsin has fallen from No. 2 to No.8 in the most recent party school ranking from Playboy Magazine.
Noted: “Francis is interested in coming to the United States to confirm he’s standing alongside American Catholics, but at the same time I do think that this visit is intended to push the envelope a bit when it comes to a series of issues that are, again, issues that unite Catholics and non-Catholics,” says Giuliana Chamedes, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who focuses on the Catholic religion.
Noted: “You have to try to engage the public, and by going to Iowa, an early presidential state where he’ll get more attention, the President is bringing more attention to this issue,” said Mike Wagner, a professor of journalism and political science at UW-Madison.
Wagner said the issue isn’t terribly controversial, and thus we might see Obama and a Republican-controlled congress work together in coming up with some changes to FAFSA.
“Most people want to try to send their kids to college and lots of people need student loans to do it, or at least under the current system they do,” Wagner said. “So this is a way for Republicans and Democrats to work together for something that benefits people who vote for both sides.”
The scurrilous attacks on Planned Parenthood — based on hidden-camera videos falsely purporting to show that it illegally sells fetal issue — have turned into attacks on fetal tissue research in Congress and in several state legislatures.Various bills now threaten to curtail or eliminate research that has already benefited millions of Americans and is poised to benefit many more.
Police say 40-year-old Steven J. Johanowicz of Madison was arrested on a tentative charge of Invasion or Privacy.
They say his arrest is part of an ongoing investigation that’s being conducted by the Madison Police Department and UW-Madison Police Department.
UW Police shot a man with a stun gun, after some bizarre behavior in the campus area.
Officials say it all started around 2:20 p.m. Thursday, when Madison Police was called about a man throwing punches near State Street and North Park Street. The man allegedly tried to hit the person twice who was calling 911. Both Madison, and UW Police sent officers to the area.
One of the last, large, vacant lots in Madison is now the site of the city’s newest development.
Union Corners, between East Washington Avenue and Winnebago Street at Milwaukee Street, will be home to a UW Health clinic, among other things.
The UW Marching Band performed on Wake Up Wisconsin under the direction of its legendary director, Mike Leckrone.
The group was part of WKOW’s live Badger Bash show ahead of Wisconsin’s first home game of the 2015 season against Miami University (Ohio). Bucky Badger helped get things going as well as only Bucky can!
Madison police said 40-year-old Steven J. Johanowicz was arrested Thursday morning on a tentative charge of invasion of privacy.
The arrest is part of an ongoing investigation between the Madison and UW-Madison police departments, according to a news release.
Every once in a while research and advancement of knowledge at the University of Wisconsin can leave one in awe. It has again this week with the announcement of the UW-led discovery of fossils being described as a new species of human.
A man who reportedly attacked two people on the University of Wisconsin campus Thursday was arrested after being hit with a Taser for not cooperating with police, according to a release. Police responded to the Education Sciences Building at 1025 W. Johnson St. around 2:45 p.m. for a report of a battery, according to the release.
“This transformation is going to be quite a difference for this area in particular,” Dr. Peter Newcomer with UW Health said.
Newcomer was one of many to help break ground on the Union Corners Clinic, a facility at the center of the new multi-use development on Winnebago Street. The new clinic will replace the East Towne Clinic, offering services in urgent care, primary care and OBGYN.
Noted: At Associated Students of Madison’s first meeting, University of Wisconsin Police Department’s Sue Riseling laid the department’s evolving strategies for longtime campus safety issues including alcohol overconsumption, same-sex sexual assault prevention and body cameras.
Noted: The program differs greatly from many others, as it works with children and families to educate them. It covers issues such as hygiene before evaluating children’s conditions and starting noninvasive methods like biofeedback, Patrick McKenna, a professor of urology at UW and head of pediatric urology at UW’s American Family Children’s Hospital said.
Noted: The GWS Department will be reflecting on its 40-year history and contemplating its future at a campus-wide conference Oct. 23 and 24, when students will be able to hear lectures and join discussions with prominent educators in the field.
UW-Madison Police Department Chief Susan Riesling addressed issues of campus sexual assault at the semester’s first Associated Students of Madison Student Council meeting Wednesday.
Riesling reiterated the prevalence of assault both on campus and nationwide, noting UW-Madison had 164 sexual assaults reported to campus police last year. She pointed out this number is higher than most universities, but speculated it could be a result of the university’s concerted effort to encourage reporting.
A Wisconsin state Assembly committee has passed a Republican-backed bill opposed by the University of Wisconsin that would prohibit research using tissue obtained from aborted fetuses.
Wednesday’s vote makes the bill available for a vote by the full Assembly as soon as later this month. It’s unclear whether the measure has enough support to pass the Senate, where Republican Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has not commented on its chances.
Buried deep inside a cave in South Africa, researchers have discovered the remains of what scientists are calling mankind’s closest ‘cousin.’ University of Wisconsin researchers are part of an international team investigating the discovery of homo naledi fossils.
“We have a new species of Homo, with all of its interesting characteristics,” John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison paleoanthropologist said.
UW-Madison Police are investigating “dozens” of reports from faculty members saying they’ve seen fraudulent charges come in on their debit or credit cards.
UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott said it’s believed all of the victims used their cards at the businesses in a building at 333 E. Campus Mall.
