Steven J. Johanowicz, 40, of Madison, was arrested Thursday morning on a tentative invasion of privacy charge, according to police spokesman Joel DeSpain. Johanowicz is a UW-Madison employee, listed as a staff member at the Chazen Museum of Art.
UW police used a Taser Thursday on a 47-year-old man who they say has a long history of violence and aggression, especially towards law enforcement, and may have been having a mental health crisis.
I moved to Madison in the fall of 2001. I was an 18-year-old freshman who was excited to go to class, ready to make new friends and worried about fitting in with Madison’s alcohol-heavy culture. I adapted to the alcohol culture really fast.
Audio interview: In today’s Wisconsin Life, we’ll hear about a couple who started a second career after losing their jobs…they got into the ice cream business. And we’ll learn about the programs offered at UW-Madison for adult learners looking to continue their education.
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 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.
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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is investigating multiple reports of credit card fraud over the last two days. UWPD has taken numerous calls regarding credit card fraud from UW employees, officials said. All of the reports happened in the area of 333 East Campus Mall, according to a release.
UW-Madison police said on Wednesday the cases are occurring near 333 East Campus Mall, which is on the west side of the Lucky Apartments building and houses several stores and restaurants on the ground floor.
Two universities in Wisconsin are among the best colleges in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Surrounded by water, University of Wisconsin students swim, kayak, canoe and sail as part of their culture.
The added recreation, however, can sometimes come with added dangers.
UW-Madison is one of approximately 1,700 public and private U.S. colleges and universities where low-income undergraduate and graduate students borrow money from their schools through the Federal Perkins Loan.
However, this option may soon expire. Without congressional approval to reauthorize the Federal Perkins Loan, the program will end September 30 of this year.
UW-Madison Director of the Office of Student Financial Aid Susan Fischer said she is not sure exactly why the loan is facing cancellation, but said she believes the funds could be funneled toward the national debt.
Carly Eichhorst, director of student financial services at Augsburg College in Minnesota, and Kirk Yats, director of scholarships and financial aid at Central Michigan University, are the two finalists, the university said on Tuesday. Each candidate will talk about current issues and priorities in financial aid in their public presentations, Yats on Tuesday, Sept. 15, and Eichhorst on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 2:30 p.m. in the Gordon Dining and Event Center on campus.
The federal government must do more to help students with the cost of college, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold told UW-Madison students Friday.
A record-shattering gift to help recruit and retain world-class faculty has grown to be worth a quarter-billion dollars thanks to urgent and strong support from alumni, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is poised to announce Tuesday.
The largest-ever gift to UW-Madison has turned out bigger than expected.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison fundraising drive that began last fall with a $100 million pledge has generated a quarter of a billion dollars, university officials announced Tuesday.
Facing what is sure to be a difficult retention season, given this year’s battles over the future of higher education funding and tenure in Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin at Madison is today announcing the results of a massive donation-matching campaign aimed at recognizing top faculty members with endowed chairs.
The annual struggle to find a seat in chemistry classes at three University of Wisconsin campuses will get a little easier due to building projects in Madison, Stevens Point and La Crosse.
Editors’ note: In March 2014, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison approved a $223 million referendum to overhaul the campus recreation facilities, badly in need of improvement. Since then, the recreation program has been busy planning, fundraising, vetting architects and much more. As the project progresses, Alex Peirce, UW-Madison Rec Sports Coordinator of Marketing and Communications, will be offering an inside look at the process of coordinating such a monumental planning effort.
Maintenance will face the chopping block before academics as University of Wisconsin administrators work to make up for a $300 million slash in state funding over the next two years.
As classes began Wednesday, more than 2,000 undergraduate students filed into crowded lecture sections of Chemistry 103, one of the largest courses at UW-Madison. Making classes like these feel smaller is the goal of a new campus-wide initiative aimed at enriching student learning.
A new semester has officially kicked off at UW-Madison, but it comes with a major closure. The Memorial Union Terrace is in the midst of a major renovation project and officially closed on Monday.
It’s the first day of September and with temperatures in the mid-80s, campus feels like an oven. Freshmen lawlessly stream across the intersections, heading to the Chancellor’s Convocation at the Kohl Center. About 7,000 students were invited to the welcoming ceremony.
A couple who worked their way through the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s are donating $10 million to their alma mater for need-based scholarships and endowed faculty positions in the schools of education and business to help future students get a similar education.
Called “Don’t be that guy,” the UW-Madison police campaign includes hundreds of posters in dorms and other campus buildings, as well as ads on scores of Metro Transit buses, emphasizing the importance of consent and telling men alcohol isn’t an excuse for sexual assault.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students are back in class, but they won’t be able to unwind at the Memorial Union Terrace: The iconic lakeside spot is set to close Tuesday for renovations.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is launching a sexual assault awareness campaign targeting potential perpetrators.
The campaign is aimed at young men and reminds them that sexual assault is not OK, no matter how much they have had to drink.
The city of Madison just got a bit busier as thousands of students moved into the dorms on the UW campus on Sunday.
Sunday was the second of three scheduled move-in days on campus. Mostly freshmen moved into the dorms, but one returning student says he’s both excited and anxious to be back for the school year.
Football season brings thousands of Badger fans to the Memorial Union Terrace every year, but this fall Wisconsin students, alumni and visitors will have to find a new place to enjoy their postgame beer. Most of Memorial Union will close for the year Tuesday, with certain areas–like the new west wing–staying open in the interim.
No one can blame Ty Majeski for taking a well-deserved mini-vacation from racing this weekend at his family’s cottage up north.
The UW-Madison Environment, Health and Safety Department, in partnership with University Housing and the Madison Fire Department, will host the first-ever Campus Fire Safety Month on the UW campus in September.
The official start to the new school year at UW-Madison is Wednesday, when classes begin.For first year and transfer students, however, the year will get off with a bang on Tuesday at the Kohl Center, for the annual Chancellor’s Convocation, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin – Madison committed to local purchasing in the late 1990s. The university’s dining halls have partnered with approximately 40 local growers and food distributors to serve meals to the 7000 undergraduates living in its residential housing.
Several downtown streets will be closed starting Thursday for more than 7,400 students moving into university residence halls, according to a release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The big move-in days are Thursday, Sunday and Monday, officials said. Traffic around all residence halls will be very heavy on those days. Students can move in any time after 8 a.m. on their assigned day.
By this time next week, much of the Memorial Union will be closed, nearly all of the Terrace fenced off, its brightly colored sunburst chairs packed away until next summer.
Students are heading back to the UW-Madison campus this week. A number of streets will be closed to accommodate the more than 7,400 students moving in. The big move-in days are Thursday, Aug. 27, Sunday, Aug. 30, and Monday, Aug. 31.
The big move-in days will be this coming Thursday, Sunday and Monday, according to UW-Madison. Traffic around all residence halls will be extremely heavy on those days, the university said in a press release. Students can begin moving in on those days any time after 8 a.m. on their assigned day.
Two hours after successfully escaping police custody, police say 21-year-old Sean M. Riemanapp decided he needed a ride.
The heart of the Memorial Union at University of Wisconsin-Madison — including the Union Terrace with its sunburst yellow, orange and green metal chairs — will close Sept. 1 for the last phase of a $52 million face-lift that aims to preserve its historic integrity and beloved spaces.
A Dodgeville man arrested for drunken driving escaped from police, only to later ask an officer in a marked squad car for a ride home, landing him in jail, UW-Madison Police said.
This year’s Athletic Department budget includes an additional $2 million that can be distributed to athletes to pay for expenses such as transportation, school supplies and cellphones — costs universities had previously been barred from funding. The changes mean full-scholarship Badger athletes will get an additional $3,800 to $5,200 per year from the university, associate athletic director Justin Doherty said.
Several downtown streets will be closed Saturday morning for the Madison Mini-Marathon. The race winds from Langdon Street to the Capitol, through the UW Arboretum, and back to the UW campus.
Prospective Badgers will soon have to pay a little more to apply to UW-Madison.
In its nearly 170-year history, a lot has changed inside UW Madison’s residential halls.
The study of 166 UW-Madison students found that, on average, students who did not drink lived nearly a half-mile further from the nearest alcohol outlet than drinkers, and that more than double the number of alcohol outlets were within a half-mile of where drinkers lived compared to nondrinkers.
Organizers of UW-Madison’s drive to reduce waste during the busy mid-August move-out believe the project collected more than 100,000 pounds worth of donated items last weekend.
It’s move in weekend for many UW-Madison students, and that means downtown is a sea of moving trucks and discarded furniture.
The project lands center stage in Madison on Aug. 30, with a full day of performances and lecture/demonstrations. Audiences can experience — for free — little-performed works just being brought to light, ranging from early 20th-century chamber music to a cabaret act written by four young Czech Jews in the Terezin ghetto. Shows will take place in UW-Madison’s Mills Hall, the First Unitarian Society Meeting House and at Overture Center.
College students are increasingly staying away from buying textbooks as a way to keep their spending down as the sticker price for books continue to soar, along with other college costs. Textbook prices have climbed some 1,000 percent over the past four decades, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with some titles now costing $400 or even $500. But students have been spending less on course materials in each of the past few years, according to a survey of the National Association of College Stores. Students’ average annual spending on course materials dropped from $701 in 2007-2008 to $563 in 2014-15, according to the association.
An online subscription to the Journal of Coordination Chemistry costs more than $12,000 a year. Multiply that by the hundreds of similarly expensive scholarly journals UW-Madison libraries subscribe to, and their budget disappears quite quickly.
Campuses across the University of Wisconsin system are grappling with budget shortfalls after the state’s legislature approved $125 million in cuts to system’s budget earlier this year.
UW Police officials say Dane County’s district attorney declined to criminally charge a suspect in a campus sexual assault, when the victim balked at the possibility of a trial.
20-year old UW student Kenneth Plaisted was arrested in February on the tentative charge of second degree sexual assault, in connection with what authorities said was an October 2014 assault of a student. Plaisted left school in the wake of his arrest.
Pieces of the pedestrian bridge between Vilas Hall and the Humanities Building over University Avenue fall to the ground as a crew works on demolishing the bridge.
The new, 313-unit Hub Madison complex at State, Frances and Gilman streets opened last week for early move-ins. But Aug. 14 and 15 are the traditional moving days in downtown Madison as leases expire, so the apartment’s managers have an elaborate plan in place to get through the crush of those days.
A research team led by a UW-Madison professor has received $2.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve solar power technology and make the alternative energy source more competitive with fossil fuels. Also: UW Police, Athletics join Snapchat.
Most people can’t imagine what it would be like to live in Africa, let alone interact with exotic animals every day. UW Madison student and zoology major Austin Ronan did just that during his semester abroad in Cape Town, South Africa. The culture shock, he said, was enormous.
Q & A with associate professor in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health David Vanness.
A portion of University Avenue will be closed this week so crews can remove a pedestrian bridge, according to a release.
