Two Wisconsin state legislators visited with the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee Monday to discuss ongoing collaboration between student and state government leaders.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students who were at the Boston Marathon Monday are confirmed safe after two powerful explosions near the finish line left over 100 injured and three people dead, according to local authorities.
In light of recent uncertainty surrounding the event, city officials emphasized the Mifflin Street Block Party is not ?cancelled,? as was delineated in a letter from police officials to residents, but will be treated similarly to last year?s block party.
The University of Wisconsin?s partnership with Kazakhstan to establish a humanities and social science program in the country has drawn criticism the project contradicts the core values of the ?Wisconsin Idea? by partnering with a country ruled by a dictatorial regime.
The father of UW-Madison student Henry Mackaman tells 27 News he questions a Madison hospital?s decision to release his son days before Mackaman died from meningitis.
Henry Mackaman, the UW-Madison student who died last week after contracting bacterial meningitis, could be awarded a posthumous degree, university officials said Monday.Mackaman had enough credits to graduate this spring with an economics major but planned to return next school year to complete a double-major in English
University of Wisconsin police have just a few days before the annual Football Spring Game, and two weeks before thousands of runners converge on Madison for the 5K Crazylegs, to look at plans and security to prevent or respond to an incident like the Boston Marathon explosions.
UW-Madison admitted 51 percent of freshman applicants for fall 2013, down 3.55 percentage points: College applicant pools are growing larger, and colleges are becoming more selective, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison
This week the Associated Students of Madison will host a series of events for Diversity Week to promote awareness and discussion of diversity on campus.
While certain students reacted with vigilantism and anger to the news Friday that Madison Police Department canceled Mifflin Street block party, many responded with confusion over what it actually means and how it will change this year?s block party experience.
Last Thursday, the Madison Police Department began a public information campaign that was doomed from the start. The campaign began with a letter to Mifflin Street residents, which, in its first paragraph, stated in bold letters, ?There will be no Mifflin Street Block Party on or around Saturday, May 4th in 2013.? The letter cited ?widespread public safety issues? as the reason for this crackdown.
If nothing else, the additions of Maryland and Rutgers forced the Big Ten Conference to reconsider its fabricated division alignments and nonsensical division names in football.
The University of Wisconsin and the City of Madison are slated to begin construction on a redevelopment of the 700 and 800 block of State Street and Library Mall at the end of 2013.
Revelry Festival organizers and student government leaders began to show their alarm last weekend after Madison officials announced last week there would be no Mifflin Street Block Party for the second consecutive year,
Business student organizations across campus gathered Sunday to pick up litter in their community.
Three years in a row, after clearing brush at a camp near Richland Center, Carl Houtman developed body aches, joint pain and a fever.He took antibiotics for Lyme disease and the symptoms went away.
Every seven years, Nick Hitchon becomes a movie star.Every seven years, director Michael Apted and his camera crew show up to film another installment of the long running ?Up? documentary series. The series, which began with ?7 Up,? follows a group of British children through their lives, checking in with a new film every seven years.
The city of Madison is calling off the annual spring event known as the Mifflin Street Block Party, citing safety issues.
Renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall will be the keynote speaker at the 2013 Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference Monday.
The Madison Police Department said at a neighborhood meeting Thursday it will implement new no-tolerance law enforcement policies for the Mifflin Street Block Party in its effort to regulate the block party.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Henry Mackaman died Thursday as a result of meningococcal disease, according to Dean of Students Lori Berquam.
Mayor Paul Soglin released his appointments Wednesday for the city committees Madison?s alders will sit on for the next two years.
In an effort to end the Mifflin Street Block Party for the foreseeable future, the city of Madison will no longer permit or sanction this year?s event on May 4, police told residents at a neighborhood meeting Wednesday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student has died after contracting a devastating and rare strain of bacterial meningitis. 21-year-old Henry Mackaman was a Senior Economics and English double-major at UW.
A UW-Madison student from St. Paul, Minn., has died after contracting bacterial meningitis, according to a UW-Madison statement Thursday.
Adult film star James Deen will be the keynote speaker of the Sexual Health Fest at UW-Madison on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Sterling Hall.”Deen is coming to campus to discuss the role of pornography in modern sex education,” according to a news release from Sex Out Loud, a student organization whose services include sexual health counseling and advising and sex education.
A University of Wisconsin student hospitalized with meningococcal disease has died, according to multiple sources.
President Barack Obama officially released his version of the federal budget Wednesday, which included various proposals aimed at keeping higher education affordable across the country, drawing mixed responses from Wisconsin politicians.
Two teenagers almost hit a pedestrian when they crashed their cars into the Redwing Marsh of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum Tuesday, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department press release.
Laura Dunn was working for Teach For America in New Orleans when she received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education. She immediately skipped to the last page, and what she read left her devastated.
While a report released Wednesday by the University of Wisconsin System documents reported sexual assault cases in 2012, Dean of Students Lori Berquam said the data portrays only a fraction of the issue.
A group of about 20 University of Wisconsin students traveled to the Wisconsin Dells Wednesday to advocate for increased funding for state higher education and the implementation of a tuition cap in front of the state?s budget committee.
Two representatives announced proposed legislation to extend some rights of American citizens to undocumented individuals, a measure that could have significant implications for students looking to attend college.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison spokesman had no updates Thursday morning on the condition of a student hospitalized with meningococcal disease.The university cited the student?s medical privacy rights by not releasing additional details, UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said Thursday.
UW-Madison has confirmed that a student has been hospitalized with meningococcal disease. Additional details are not immediately available out of respect for the medical privacy of the student and the students family.
Dear Editor: The letter from Gerard Schultz regarding avian influenza studies at UW-Madison asks important questions. In short, is the work done safely and securely? The answer is yes, of course. Otherwise, we would not be doing it.
Town of Madison police are hoping a new $5,000 reward will persuade people to come forward with additional information needed to arrest and prosecute a suspect in the 1986 convenience store slaying of UW-Madison student Andrew Nehmer.
Sharon Dunwoody, a professor who specializes in science communication at University of Wisconsin?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has won the Hilldale Award for professors in social science.
The thunderstorms and rain showers that University of Wisconsin students trudged through Tuesday, amid the expected weather for the rest of the week, set a fitting background for Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness Week that will start next week.
A $220 million UW Health facility going up on Madison?s Far East Side won?t be just a hospital, UW Hospital CEO Donna Katen-Bahensky said.”This is a health care campus,” she said Tuesday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the project, on 42 acres by the American Center business park.
A bill to ban the sale or use of aborted fetal tissue for research in Wisconsin would ensure scientific integrity, said a lawmaker who plans to reintroduce the measure after it failed two years ago.But UW-Madison and biotech officials said the bill would hamper important research, including studies on cancer, influenza and diabetes.
UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka plans to study the new bird flu virus that has caused a human outbreak in China.Kawaoka, who researches many kinds of influenza viruses, plans to study the H7N9 virus that has killed at least seven people in China, UW-Madison spokesman Terry Devitt said Tuesday.
UW researcher awaiting access to study new Chinese bird flu strain:
Marc Fink has played his oboe in remote Alaskan villages where the touring musicians spent the night in sleeping bags on the floor of the gymnasium in which, hours earlier, they had performed.
The UW Carbone Cancer Center joined the Stand Up to Cancer Pediatric Dream Team on Sunday.
Town of Madison Police Chief Scott T. Gregory has announced the department, in coordination with the Department of Justice (DOJ) ? Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), will hold a news conference Wednesday regarding the 1986 unsolved armed robbery and homicide of University of Wisconsin-Madison student Andrew M. Nehmer.
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The U.S. Under Secretary of Education will visit campus Tuesday for a discussion on higher education in Wisconsin.
The Student Regent Campaign, a student-led initiative within this year?s Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee, could be signed into state law this legislative session.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Music Department will hold another vote to determine whether it will join a proposed College of the Arts.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board presented its annual report and budget for the 2011-12 academic year Monday at the UW Faculty Senate meeting.
The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch from Tuesday afternoon to Friday morning this week for parts of east central, southeast and south central Wisconsin, including Dane County.
The Madison Police Department detailed their plans to discourage the Mifflin Street Block Party and their investigation into a series of vandalism cases at a Bassett Street Neighborhood meeting Monday.
Two years after a law passed restricting collective bargaining rights for many public employee unions, union membership has plunged in two major organized labor delegations, and 93 percent fewer workers received raises.
Stem cell researchers will gather in Fitchburg on Wednesday for the eighth annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium, with this year?s meeting centering on cell-based therapy for heart and vascular disease.
A top official in the U.S. Education department who came to the job with significant experience in community colleges will talk Tuesday at UW-Madison about the future of higher education.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously confirmed Rebecca Blank as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday, according to a university press release.
The University of Wisconsin System regents focused on alternative learning methods in their meeting Friday, hearing an update on the flexible option degree program and online courses.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will have access to a $14.5 million grant for cancer research.
The public got a look inside UW-Madisons medical learning facilities to see just how students are taught to help people and animals who are sick.
