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.
A man missing from a university medical facility was found late Saturday night, campus police said.
Column from Downs, professor of political science, law and journalism: “With increasing frequency, especially on college campuses, speakers presenting unpopular views — or views unpopular with a vocal minority of the audience — are being disrupted or ‘shouted down’ until they leave the stage. This has happened at UW-Madison, where I am a professor, and at many other universities.”
Police are looking for a 55-year-old man who walked away from a university medical facility in Madison Friday morning.
In a salute to the graduates embarking on the next chapter of their lives, here are some of the best pieces of advice handed to the class of 2015. UW-Madison is briefly featured.
A town of Madison man and a Muscoda man were facing charges of possession of stolen property, but UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott told News 3 Wednesday afternoon that the DA’s office rejected the case, citing lack of evidence.
Two monthslong construction projects will hamper traffic and parking near the Wisconsin Union Theater beginning this week, officials said. Wisconsin Union Theater spokeswoman Esty Dinur said the construction of an underground loading dock at Memorial Union and a city of Madison Langdon Street utility project will close UW-Madison’s Parking Lot 1 beginning Tuesday. Parking Lot 1 is off Langdon Street and adjacent to Memorial Union.
As America’s Dairyland, Wisconsin expectedly tops most lists related to bovine byproducts: No. 1 in cheese production, No. 2 in milk production, more master cheesemakers than any other state. Prairie du Sac even hosts the worlds largest cow chip festival.
At $209 a pound, the cheese won’t be a wish every food lover will be able to fulfill. Yet, it’s something that will benefit the state. Cheese makers Tony and Julie Hook are donating $40,000 from the cheese sale — half its revenue — to the Center for Dairy Research and Babcock Hall building project underway on the UW-Madison campus.
Tony and Julie Hook are giving $40,000 from the cheese sale to the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: At the School of Business at University of Wisconsin—Madison, MBA students choose a specialization, such as arts administration or real estate. They can immediately dive into classes that are of interest to them, says Blair Sanford, assistant dean for the full-time MBA program at the school.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison stripped Chi Phi of its formal status as a student group for “hazing” pledges – humiliating or abusive initiation rituals – that included making new members wear hoods during a period of isolation and refusing them food.
Watch the most memorable moments, both witty and wise, from college commencement ceremonies this year. Katie Couric is featured.
Multmedia feature of notable commencement speeches, including Katie Couric.
Featured: Katie Couric. “But don’t wait forever to find your bliss, or you may find yourself at 30 living in your parents’ basement eating microwave popcorn and binge-watching reruns of “The OC.” And while it might be nice to have your mom or dad make your favorite casserole or do your laundry, don’t wait too long to get going. As Einstein said, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” …
Chippewa Falls (WQOW) – The Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip with 35 UW-Madison student leaders rolled into the Chippewa Valley Friday to learn from successful entrepreneurs.
On any college campus you’re bound to see students munching or sipping on something during class, but in Professor Bradley’s Sensory Evaluation course, it’s required. “You don’t really sit down at home and try eight different types of the same ice cream or the same milk,” said Eleanor Miller, a Junior majoring in Food Science at UW – Madison. “Um, so it helps me a little bit with knowing you know, what I like and what I don’t like in the store.”
A group of UW-Madison student leaders [the Wisconsin Experience Bus Tour] is touring Wisconsin this month to learn more about the state’s culture. Friday, their bus rolled into the Chippewa Valley in northwestern Wisconsin for a stop in Chippewa Falls.
The Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that a detective took a report Friday of a man with an accent who called a UW student and claimed to be a representative of the Sheriff’s Office. The student said her caller ID showed the Sheriff’s Office reception number, which can be done by a method called “spoofing.”
Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus will be closed beginning Tuesday so restoration work on the Memorial Union can continue.
Tbe game against Alabama on Sept. 5 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will kick off at 7 p.m. on ABC (Ch. 27 in Madison).
Brett Favre’s Legends Game on July 19 at the Wisconsin Badgers’ home turf will feature former Packers Mark Chmura and Andre Rison and NFL players Donovan McNabb and Wisconsin great Ron Dayne in a flag football game between Packers old-timers and former gridiron greats from all over the league. Tickets, which go on sale June 3, will range from $34 to $55, with part of the proceeds going to the Favre 4 Hope Foundation. Tickets will also be sold in a family four pack for $112, which includes four tickets for seating in the $34 price level. Current UW-Madison students will be able to purchase two tickets at $13 each, also seating in the $34 price level.
Back in February, our Academic Series featured an interview with distinguished radio scholar Michele Hilmes. The interview touched on a variety of issues in Radio Studies, including the lost critical history of radio and the transnational production on sound media.
Nursing is an increasingly technology-driven field, so it’s only fitting that the student nurses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing now have a state-of-the-art facility to call home.
The Internet continues to reshape entire industries. Few know this better than journalists like Katie Couric, who has recently shifted from reporting news on television to reporting news online. In her speech to graduates at the University of Wisconson Madison, she talked about the importance of taking risks and failing gracefully.
A University of Wisconsin student will get his stolen $700 bicycle back after police were able to track it by using the bike’s serial number.
Coverage of the commencement ceremony.
Video of the keynote address from Saturday’s commencement.
Roundup of commencement social media.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison held its spring commencement ceremony Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Article about Karen Brown, 63, a Ph.D. student in cognitive ethology, who is challenging UW-Madison’s policy on handicapped parking.
Katie Couric had some uplifting words of advice to give graduating students of the University of Wisconsin-Madison during her commencement speech on Saturday morning.
When Nitia Johnson and her boyfriend moved to Madison, she didn’t know a soul. But she knew she wanted a better life.
Two UW-Madison students who stayed up late Thursday night studying for final exams got a wake up call when they went to bed: A stranger had entered their apartment and stole a laptop computer right before their eyes.
Madison College, UW-Madison, and Edgewood College will all hold their commencements this weekend. Three colleges, and over 8000 graduates. Madison has a lot of people entering the workforce this weekend.
Two UW-Madison students told police they walked in on an intruder in their living room early Friday morning, according to a release from the Madison Police Department.
Students stream into Steenbock Library at the UW-Madison during midterm exams week, but they aren’t here to cram for tests.
After being closed for three months of renovation, the 72-room hotel at 601 Langdon St., known the last 12 years as Campus Inn, is scheduled to reopen Thursday as Graduate Madison.
Close to two dozen UW-Madison faculty members have been awarded with research and distinguished achievement professorships supported by the William F. Vilas estate.
Douglass Henderson owns the DODDS-Europe records for two track and field jumping events. The distances are 23 feet, 8 inches in the long jump and 48 feet, 11.75 inches in the triple jump.
Noted: About a dozen people from all faiths gathered Tuesday night for a vigil at the Presbyterian church on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Church officials let people post their thoughts on a wall inside the church. Pastors leading the vigil said they wanted to send the message that we are one community looking toward healing and hope.
The University of Wisconsin and Madison College are offering students resources for reacting to a decision to not charge Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny in the shooting death of Tony Robinson.
The annual mass migration of students leaving campus comes to a head on Saturday, the same day graduation ceremonies will be held at Camp Randall Stadium.
Bochsler, the chief of pathology at UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, has been named the new director of the facility and will assume the duties July 6.
Several dozen people gathered for an evening vigil at Pres House campus ministry on the UW-Madison campus. The vigil started with music and candlelight outside before students slowly filed into the sanctuary.
A print and online magazine produced by students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named Best Student Magazine in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists.
It didn’t seem right that a high-voltage power line would cut a 150-foot swath through an Amish settlement that expressly rejects the use of electricity.
