At a press conference Thursday, Soglin said the proposal is needed because the city’s posture of compassion with no rules toward the homeless and drifters leads to behavior problems including violence, drunkenness, drug use and trading sex for drugs. The problems are interfering with the use of public space and straining emergency and other resources, Soglin said.
This week Adele C. Brumfield celebrated her 5th year anniversary as Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment at UW-Madison.
Nearly 600 bikes, or at least their frames, that were seized in March as having possibly been stolen remain in the hands of UW-Madison police after they were able to identify only a few as having been stolen.
Math knowledge is a better predictor of academic success than literacy, but high quality early instruction is key, says UW-Madison professor Beth Graue.
This marching band has played plenty of winning games, but Monday’s performance celebrated the greatest victory of all.
Features high tech camps happening here on campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison for the second year in a row ranked 25th in the world in the new Center for World University Rankings.
The executive committee for the UW-Madison Faculty Senate Monday tried to put to rest rumors that it was going to seek to have a professor fired over controversial tweets about Gov. Scott Walker and the worth of a UW degree after legislative Republican laws weakened faculty influence.
The UW-Madison faculty governing group has admonished a controversial UW professor who has taken to Twitter, vociferously speaking out against the effects Gov. Scott Walker’s administration is having on the university.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, and affordable college advocate, is now taking heat after a series of tweets she sent to incoming freshmen about changes to the System under the new state budget.
It started off like a fairly typical campus political spat: liberal professor criticizes conservative politician; conservative campus group criticizes liberal professor, who in turn criticizes the conservative group. Much of the criticism on both sides is through social media. And, as has been the case in several recent campus controversies, the professor is a sociologist and one who has never been accused of holding back on her views.
A professor’s tweets to incoming students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have drawn the ire of the campus’s College Republicans as well as a prominent faculty group, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
An outspoken University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is under fire for finding future Badgers on Twitter and allegedly harassing them — as well as for comparing Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler.
Traditional colleges are working hard to improve their outreach to service members before and after the application process. The U. of Wisconsin at Madison holds numerous orientation sessions for student veterans over the summer. “Our goal,” says John G. Bechtol, assistant dean of students, “is to remove their military affiliation as being any kind of burden.”
Matthew Court was killed while biking to daily swim team practice. His father, Ricardo Court, is director of undergraduate studies for the political science department at UW-Madison. His wife and Matthew’s mother, Kristin Phillips-Court, is an associate professor of French and Italian at the university.
Madison Police are investigating an attempted sexual assault on a bike path near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, according to a crime warning posted on the campus police department’s Facebook page.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Haley Denise Laundrie did not capture the Miss USA title Sunday evening, but she was proud to announce Lake Mills as her beloved hometown during the traditional parade of states while appearing on national television.
Jefferson County’s only Miss Wisconsin-USA winner, Haley Denise Laundrie did not capture the Miss USA title Sunday evening, but she was proud to announce Lake Mills as her beloved hometown during the traditional parade of states and appear on national television.
With the technology boom over the past decade, more teachers across the nation are taking a digital approach to their lesson plans. At this week’s 11th annual gaming conference hosted by the UW’s Games+Learning+Society department, participants were able to take a look at how games are used as a teaching tool.
BATON ROUGE, La. — The eyes of Lake Mills — and the rest of Jefferson County for that matter — will be on Haley Denise Laundrie this Sunday evening as she competes for the 2015 Miss USA crown — and the chance to compete in the Miss Universe pageant.
The reigning Miss Wisconsin-USA 2015, Haley Denise Laundrie will compete in the 2015 Miss USA pageant Sunday.
The UW-Madison Police Department is investigating a theft incident involving stolen chairs from the Memorial Union Terrace.
This week, the UWPD was notified that 16 chairs disappeared sometime between June 11 and June 13, according to a release from the UWPD. Each chair is worth approximately $250, making the total loss $4,000.
University of Wisconsin police said someone took 16 of the iconic chairs from Memorial Union Terrace. UW police said the chairs were taken between June 11 and June 13. Each chair is worth $250, making for total loss of $4,000.
Sixteen of the yellow, orange and green metal chairs were stolen over a three-day period last month. Thefts of Terrace chairs are nothing new, but police called attention Wednesday to the chairs that were taken between June 11 and 13, saying the total value of the stolen seats was about $4,000.
UW-Madison police are still searching for the man they say made a fake emergency call on the 4th of July and reported an armed man inside the Helen C. White Library on campus.
They say it may be part of a national problem, “swatting.” The FBI defines “swatting” as, “making a hoax call to 911 to draw a response from law enforcement, usually a SWAT team.”
Special camps coordinated by UW-Extension’s 4-H Youth Development program help military kids connect. “I like the sense of camaraderie with the other military families,” said Madelynn Newmann, 12, a seventh-grader from Whitewater. Madelynn was attending the weekend-long Wisconsin Military Kids University camp last month on the UW-Madison campus with her sister, Leah, her mother, Dana, and her father, Cory, who is serving in the Wisconsin Army National Guard.
Video of announcement with AD Barry Alvarez, UW mens’s basketball coach Bo Ryan, Bucks head coach Jason Kidd and others.
UW-Madison police are treating as a hoax a threat called in to the Dane County 911 center Saturday night that caused the evacuation of a campus library and the cancellation of a July 4 UW Band concert on the Memorial Union Terrace.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police gave the all clear around Memorial Union and the Helen C. White building Saturday night after investigators say they could not find an armed suspect in the area.
Parts of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus were evacuated Saturday night after reports of a possible gunman at the Helen C. White library. But after a 3 1/2-hour search, no one with a weapon was located and activities resumed as normal.
Campus Police Lt. Aaron Chapin said buildings in the area were emptied including a popular Memorial Union terrace where students and others were sitting outside waiting for a University of Wisconsin band concert, which was cancelled as a result. After a methodical search throughout the building, no one was found and police let activity continue in the area at 10:30 p.m.
Madison Police were looking for a man who allegedly entered a UW-Madison student’s apartment early Sunday morning and attempted to sexually assault her.
During a presentation about the role of the Clery Act and Title IX in sex crime investigations, Susan Riseling, chief of police and associate vice chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said the Clery Act was a “cluster.” Riseling said McCaskill would like to see the Clery Act repealed or at least stripped down to simply requiring colleges to provide timely information and warnings about ongoing crimes. “That information is what might prevent someone else from becoming a victim, and timely warnings are really the point of Clery,” Riseling said. “Some of the best news I’ve heard was Sen. McCaskill saying ‘maybe we’d better throw out Clery.’ ”
Sweeney spent the bulk of his UW career — nearly 18 years — in the athletic department, developing communications, branding and fundraising programs, university spokesman John Lucas said.
Sweeney, 64, said his new consulting firm, Sweeney & Associates LLC, will provide strategic communications counsel and other public relations services to executives and others in leadership positions.
Madison attorney and recently retired U.W. Law School Professor Ralph Cagle marched into office as the State Bar of Wisconsin’s 60th president last night in the presence of friends, family, colleagues, and former State Bar presidents.
Noted: For Madison, though, the flamingo became an iconic symbol of the city in 1978, when UW-Madison students planted 1,008 of the birds on Bascom Hill to greet students on the first day of classes. The prank was the handiwork of the Pail & Shovel Party, which had won re-election to head the Wisconsin Students Association. The pranksters included Jim Mallon, who later went on to be one of the creators of the cult television hit “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”
Ab and Nancy Nicholas pledged $50 million to the foundation for undergraduate and athletic scholarships and graduate fellowships for University of Wisconsin at Madison students. The university will have to match the donation from other donors to receive the money.
Interview with Lattis,manager and outreach specialist for the Washburn Observatory, as well as co-founder of the UW Space Place, about the Washburn Observatory closure and the public’s interest in astronomy. Te observatory closed unexpectedly in May 2014, when the National Register of Historic Places site encountered some unforeseen structural problems.
This year instead of houses, the buildings featured in the group’s annual tour are landmarks of the UW-Madison campus. Part of the reason is to throw a spotlight on a campus threatened with budget cuts, said Historic Madison board member and program chairman Barbara Essock. Saturday’s self-guided tour: University Club, Wisconsin Historical Society, Music Hall, Bascom Hall, Carillon Tower, Washburn Observatory, Science Hall, Memorial Union and the Armory and Gymnasium, more commonly known as the Red Gym.
The designation has various benefits, including qualifying for grants and for rehabilitation income tax credits.
Story detailing some of the ideas submitted to the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration’s site suggesting cost savings and efficiencies.
Grant County’s district attorney may be asked to lodge criminal charges in a UW Police bike theft ring case, after Dane County’s district attorney declined to take action.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently announced a $50 million gift from alumni couple Albert and Nancy Nicholas to support scholarships and fellowships at the school. The gift is actually a challenge gift, and will be used to “match, on a one-to-one basis, gifts that support undergraduate and athletic scholarships and graduate fellowships”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received its largest student-aimed gift from individual donors in its history this week: a $50 million donation from Albert “Ab” and Nancy Nicholas, the school’s foundation announced Friday.
For nearly 50 years, Mary Rouse has been employed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, first in the admissions office, then in the Dean of Students, which she led from 1987-2000, and then as director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service. She has worked for the past 10 years as a community liaison with the center.
The UW Foundation announced on Friday that the Nicholas family committed $50 million this week for scholarships to undergraduates, student-athletes and graduate students. The gift is the second-largest household gift in UW-Madison’s history, second only to the $100 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge in December to help build faculty at the university.
Lily Mank never had to stop to smell the roses. She was most likely planting them.“Just look at my name,” said the 2015 University of Wisconsin graduate who specializes in therapeutic garden designs. “It was only natural that I gravitated towards nature.”
Noted: Fellow academy recruit Kristin Collins is a second generation police officer. She has already been hired by the University of Wisconsin-Madison police department, but still has 10-weeks left in her academy training. Growing up in a law enforcement family Collins welcomes the increased public scrutiny and says officers need to embrace this new reality.
“Say hey, this is what the job is, there are no walls up right now. This is what we’re doing. This is what we’re trained to do and you’re more than welcome to see how I perform my duties,” Collins says.
The city Plan Commission on Monday night approved a 12-story project proposed by developer Core Campus with 11,740 square feet of commercial and flex space, 367 apartments, and parking for 152 cars, 66 mopeds and 408 bicycles at 510 University Ave.
Two UW-Madison professors serving as interim associate vice chancellors in the Office of Research and Graduate Education have been named to the post. Norman Drinkwater and Jan Greenberg were selected as the permanent associate vice chancellors following the university’s search process.
A search will resume Sunday morning for a man who reportedly jumped into Lake Mendota from a sailboat near the Union Terrace on Saturday and didn’t surface, authorities said.
Authorities are searching an area of Lake Mendota near Memorial Union for a man who reportedly fell into the water. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office told News 3 crews were called to the lake about 6 p.m. on Saturday.
Madison authorities are searching for a man who is feared to have drowned in Lake Mendota on Saturday.
Carol Kopp, Oconto County Jail administrator, will graduate June 5 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Law Enforcement Command College, a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
On May 27, the Capital Times published a column by 13 students representing the Associated Students of Madison, “UW cops Tweetalong shows disregard for students realities.” Below, Susan Riseling, associate vice chancellor and chief of UW-Madison Police, responds to the students.
The Evjue Foundation has donated more than $44 million to UW-Madison and area nonprofit organizations since 1989. Heres a look at the grants in that time, updated with more than $1.4 million distributed in June 2015.
The Capital Times’ charitable arm, The Evjue Foundation, announced Wednesday that its directors have approved more than $1.4 million in grants to 86 area nonprofits plus funding for 27 programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Craig Jansen, a lieutenant with the Manitowoc Police Department, will graduate June 5 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Law Enforcement Command College, a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Two central Wisconsin police lieutenants will graduate June 5 from a University of Wisconsin course designed to help law enforcement officers become better leaders and managers.
