n the first round of pay increases for Wisconsin state employees since union contracts were invalidated, supervisors delivered an average 6.52 percent boost to 2,757 workers, roughly one in 14 of those eligible.
Take a look at the stories from around our area and world that are making news today.
Six-year-old Mina Highsmith brought Totoro, a stuffed magical creature from a Japanese animation film, with her on Sunday to the UW School of Veterinary Medicine.
SHOREWOOD HILLS – George E. P. “Pel” Box, age 93, died on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at home.
Michigan State University says the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $125 million to the East Lansing school and to the University of Wisconsin to continue their work on advanced biofuels.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and across the nation students will engage in events to spread awareness and discuss the prevention of sexual assault.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor James Thomson received the McEwen Award for Innovation, an award given for ground-breaking stem cell research Thursday for his research in the area.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents delved deeper into the details of Gov. Scott Walker?s biennial budget Thursday, emphasizing how his proposal would keep tuition down while helping to grow Wisconsin?s workforce if passed in its current form.
Madison?s alcohol policy coordinator delivered his annual review of the controversial Alcohol License Density Ordinance to a city board Thursday afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin Systems Board of Regents will meet on Friday to consider if Rebecca Blank will be the next chancellor of UW-Madison.
UW-Madison announced that it has begun its search for the right person to head the university?s legal team.A 14-member search and screen committee has been chosen to identify and select candidates for the position of vice chancellor for legal affairs, the top legal position in the school?s administration.
f a research center could be compared to a baseball player, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at UW-Madison is an All-Star.The center, started in 2007, has been given a new five-year contract from the U.S. Department of Energy, paying the center $25 million a year.
Dear Editor: Well, Madison, are your children safe? A research program at the UW-Madison may place them all in danger in the event of a viral release. Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka has been performing bird flu experiments there, beside the cows and ice cream, that could cause a global pandemic. There would be only a short interval to quarantine an outbreak, and Madison, do you have a plan for that? Has the state inspected this operation for safety? Is there sufficient security to stop a terrorist break-in?
Basketball and hockey fans can pay to rent seat cushions starting next season at the Kohl Center, and football season ticket holders at Camp Randall Stadium can expect to pay more for the popular seat backs at Camp Randall under terms of a new contract with the company that provides them.
UW-Madison has begun its search for the right person to head the university?s legal team.A 14-member search and screen committee has been chosen to identify and select candidates for the position of vice chancellor for legal affairs, the top legal position in the school?s administration.
Grothman wants regents to reject Blank: Sen. Glenn Grothman is calling on the UW Board of Regents to reject the appointment of Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank to the chancellor post for UW-Madison.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Sangtae Kim received a prestigious South Korean award Wednesday for his research work in the fields of science, engineering and math.
Residential burglaries in Madison more than doubled during the week of spring break compared to the previous two weeks in March, according to a Madison Police Department news release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members expressed concern Wednesday to U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., that the sequester, a series of automatic federal spending cuts that recently took effect, could have a devastating impact on research programs.
Organizers for the upcoming Revelry music and arts festival received final approval Wednesday to close a portion of Randall Avenue between Union South and Engineering Mall from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. May 4 for the event.
Laura Dunn was a focused student when she was a UW-Madison freshman in 2004. A member of the crew team and ?very religious,? she rarely drank and planned to remain a virgin until she married her then-boyfriend of four years.
UW-Madison engineering professor Sangtae Kim has been honored by his native South Korea for his accomplishments in engineering research.
The beginning of April marks the kickoff of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about recognizing, preventing and taking action against sexual assault.
Journalists from near and far will gather in Madison on Friday to talk about the ethics of current journalism models that include a growing number of nontraditional news sources, some funded by corporations or political groups.
Local bar and tavern owners learned about alcohol law and policy at a training session hosted by city officials Wednesday night.
Members of University of Wisconsin?s student government unanimously passed a proposed Tenant Bill of Rights that allows the Associated Students of Madison to endorse landlords that abide by certain standards deemed to improve the living situation of students.
?Politics can be a brutal business with beautiful outcomes,? says Dave Cieslewicz.That?s one of the lessons the former Madison mayor hopes to get across in the political science course he is currently teaching as an adjunct professor at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin Center of Journalism Ethics will honor Milwaukee Journal Sentinel health and science reporter Mark Johnson with the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics at a conference Friday. The Badger Herald spoke with Johnson about the award and his experiences in journalism.
A convicted burglar tells 27 News he is hiding no information on an accomplice, even though records show DNA from the man?s burglary, matches DNA from the April 2, 2008 killing of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann.
Some of the best thinking from the University of Wisconsin system is about to go on display at the Capitol.
Spiral galaxies have long been the subject of astronomers? research as no definitive conclusion has been made over what actually causes them. Now, however, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have helped solve this mystery, stating that they?ve proven that the spiral arms are persistent, long-lived, and self-perpetuating.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison program is now offering an online option for a Consumer Health Advocacy Certificate, beginning in Spring 2013.
Potential federal budget cuts in research funding has been a hot-button issue for public institutions across the nation and although a recent report said cuts will have a limited impact on universities, campus officials are not yet certain how the cut will affect research at the University of Wisconsin.
Heads of each University of Wisconsin System school, the UW System president and two Board of Regents leaders expressed support for the state budget?s funding and flexibility for the system Monday.
The cost of new teacher-evaluation systems is likely to vary based on how states and districts choose to establish student-growth measures for all teachers, according to an analysis from a researcher at the Value-Added Research Center, a research evaluation firm and contractor located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Five years later, countless leads have still led to no answer for the friends and family of Brittany Zimmermann, the University of Wisconsin student who was murdered in her home.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW-Extension will host UW Colleges Day at the state capitol Thursday after the previously scheduled date was canceled due to bad weather.UW Colleges Day will present UW-Madison research to Wisconsin legislators and the public since people outside the university typically do not get the chance to see its research, according to a university release.
University of Wisconsin System leaders sent a letter to the Wisconsin State Legislature Monday asking legislators to support funding for Wisconsin?s universities as set out in Gov. Scott Walker?s biennial budget proposal.
Dear Editor: It appears that Rep. Duey Stoebel, R-Saukville, is becoming the apprentice to Rep. Steve Nass with Stroebel?s recent charge that UW professors become department chairs in the last years of work to boost their pensions. He also laments the large number of overtime hours he thinks people work.
Reaction has been decidedly mixed to the news that the UW-Madison will be putting in a new moving sidewalk on Bascom Hill, nicknamed “The Bascavator,” to eliminate the need to trudge up and down the hill.
It?s wrong to profit from wrecking the planet.? So says Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. Climate change has become, front and center, a moral issue: Will human society turn away from burning fossil fuels in time to prevent catastrophic changes to the Earth?s climate, human society and the ecosystem? What kind of world will we leave for future generations?
Student honors: Emily Belknap, a graduate student in the UW-Madison Department of Art, has been named winner of the 2013 Chazen Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student. An exhibition of her work, ?Backyard Dilemmas: Constructed Landscapes by Emily Belknap,? will be on view at the Chazen Museum of Art through May 12 in the Oscar F. and Louise Greiner Mayer Gallery of the Elvehjem Building. Belknap is a painter and sculptor.
An atmospheric river is a term used to describe a relatively narrow region in the atmosphere that transports water vapor outside of the tropics northward. They are typically a few thousand miles long and 100 miles wide. There can be three to five of these ?rivers? at any time covering the hemisphere.
Of all the places around the world University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Management instructor Ted Halbach has travelled to judge dairy cows, he sees Madison as the best place to be a dairy scientist.
Dr. Rebecca Blank says when she becomes the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, she plans to spend her first year getting to know key leaders throughout campus, the State Capitol and the UW System. Let?s hope she also takes time to cultivate the next generation of leaders: the students who are currently enrolled at UW. The best way to do that is to correct a mistake made by her predecessor, Interim Chancellor David Ward, and allow students to decide how to spend the segregated fees they pay to support student activities and services.
?It?s wrong to profit from wrecking the planet.? So says Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. Climate change has become, front and center, a moral issue: Will human society turn away from burning fossil fuels in time to prevent catastrophic changes to the Earth?s climate, human society and the ecosystem? What kind of world will we leave for future generations?
Five years after UW-Madison junior Brittany Zimmermann was brutally slain in a case that shook the community and the 911 center that mishandled a call from her cellphone, Jean Zimmermann and her family are still waiting.
Bob Teague, who joined WNBC-TV in New York in 1963 as one of the city?s first black television journalists and went on to work as a reporter, anchorman and producer for more than three decades, died on Thursday in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 84.
The wealth gap in America keeps widening.
Rep. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, wants to make changes to the state pension system so that payments are based on an employee?s highest five years of salary rather than three.
The Dane County District Attorney did not charge Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell for disorderly conduct following the actor?s disruption at a February University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting.
WHITEWATER ? Rep. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater), chairman of the Assembly?s colleges and universities committee, says policies supported by Rebecca Blank, the acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce who was recently named the new chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will increase tuition and leave fewer undergraduate spots at the university open for Wisconsin students.
Most students see spring break as a chance to get away from doing work, maybe apply some sunscreen or at least try to find somewhere to have fun that requires sunscreen. UW-Madison students Alex Kowalsky and Josh Lieberthal, founders of AJ&Beyond, however, are not most students.Instead of hightailing it out of Madison this week, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication seniors are offering up their digital and social media expertise for the week, and they are doing it to help their school.
The layers left on local lakes are great if youre into ice fishing, but a daily taunt to those hoping to kiss winter conditions goodbye. “Pretty good for April, or almost April,” said angler Steve Garloff, describing the ice thickness while ice fishing on Monona Bay.
A team of five students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison La Follette School won first place for strategies they proposed to combat childhood obesity in a national public affairs competition in Washington, D.C., last weekend.
A UW-Madison police captain who used a state database to find a woman he saw at a grocery store was suspended for two days without pay but is now back on the job, a department official said.
Dear Reader: High blood pressure is the No. 1 reason for doctor?s visits in America. More than 50 million people in the U.S. and more than 1 billion people in the world are diagnosed with high blood pressure.
A UW-Madison police officer is accused of using a law enforcement search tool to track down a woman?s name and address for personal use.
Actor James Cromwell has pleaded no contest to disrupting a University of Wisconsin-Madison Board of Regents meeting last month to rail about cat experiments on campus.
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