What’s more painful – getting a deep-tissue massage, or finding out that you can’t trust a professional wrestler? The UW #SweetScientists team of Amy DeJong and Maya Warren got to experience both traumas during Friday’s episode of CBS’ “The Amazing Race,” and still managed to survive and make the Final Four for the globe-trotting reality competition show.
During the Badgers’ storybook win over the Minnesota Gophers to retain Paul Bunyan’s Axe, UW-Madison police issued 34 citations to fans in attendance, 10 of which were given to UW students, according to a UW-Madison Police Department report.
Other stations set for removal this week include UW-Madison Memorial Union, Lake and Langdon streets, Hawthorne Court and State Street on Tuesday … B Cycle stations will return in March.
Derogatory remarks. Unwarranted physical contact. Sabotage of a colleague’s work. Use of threats or retaliation in the exercise of authority. Sounds like seriously bad behavior in the workplace, especially for faculty at Wisconsin’s flagship university. But Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology, says she has heard of many incidents fitting one or all of those behaviors at UW-Madison.
Protesters rallied in Madison and around the state Tuesday demanding reforms to the Dane County’s criminal justice system following a grand jurys decision not to indict the officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August.
Neil Damron, a political science and economics major from Syracuse, New York, was a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship, and Rachel Dvorak, a biochemistry major from Rice Lake, was a finalist for the Marshall scholarship.
UW-Madison has started a national search for a new vice-provost for diversity and chief diversity officer.
The flight lasted just minutes and sparked a federal investigation. But a month and a half later, University of Wisconsin police still don’t know who flew a drone over Camp Randall Stadium during a Wisconsin Badgers football game against Illinois.
The booster-seat education program was developed by UW-Madison nursing students as their clinical project for the health department.
Concerns over handling of sexual assault reports at UW-Madison prompted students and faculty to join a national day of action last month demanding better practices in responding to reports of sexual assault on campus, the Daily Cardinal reported. … UW-Madison is considering changes to its procedures for investigating reports of sexual assault on campus, the Cardinal reported.
UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College will be closed Thursday and Friday, while Madison Edgewood College will end classes at noon on Wednesday for a 4 1/2-day holiday.
Four UW-Madison professors have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS, the university announced on Monday.
The increase would raise rates from $1.15 to $1.20 per ride and would affect pass programs for University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, UW Hospital employees, UW Associated Students of Madison, Madison College, Edgewood College, Dane County employees, City of Madison employees, St. Mary’s Hospital and Meriter Hospital.
Four students at University of Wisconsin have come together to combat hunger and food insecurity by establishing a chapter of a national non-profit organization called Campus Kitchens.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a reported sexual assault on campus Saturday night, according to a release.
There is no doubt that supporting student debt reform is good politics for Rep. Pocan, whose congressional district is anchored in Madison and features the state’s flagship public university. But it is also a smart for progressives in Wisconsin and nationally, with 40 million Americans, including nearly 1 million Wisconsinites, directly affected by student loan debt that now exceeds $1.2 trillion.
UW-Madison police are currently investigating a reported sexual assault outside of a campus academic building Saturday night, according to a UW-Madison Police Department report.
TRENTON – You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things to the next level? She seems to be throwing all the right signals.
Noted: The Badger Herald, one of the student papers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had some fun collecting some of the many tweets Walker has sent out about — ham.
Before there was “Jump Around,” there was “You’ve Said It All.”
Students at University of Wisconsin-Madison are trying to open an on-campus food pantry to assist students forced to choose between buying food and paying the rent.
Five more criminal charges were filed Thursday against a former UW-Madison student who allegedly tried to extort three women for sex using ads on Craigslist in which he pretended to be a woman.
“Madison has a tremendous venue for athletics, tremendous venues for the arts,” says David Nelson, a UW professor emeritus of biology. But aside from a few small UW departmental museums, “There really isn’t a place to go and hear and see about the history of science in Wisconsin.”
Noted: It’s kind of what the campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were thinking when they e-mailed what they thought were helpful safety tips such as, “If you present yourself as easy prey, then expect to attract some wolves.”
The donation of $100 million to support development of UW-Madison faculty was big, blazon-it-on-the-Camp-Randall-scoreboard news. But its long-term impact will be even bigger, say University of Wisconsin-Madison deans.
Interactive page showing enrollment by high school.
For several decades, Sapoznik has worked to unearth klezmer music, archive it, and bring it to the public. For those efforts, Sapoznik — director of UW-Madison’s Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture — was named one of the Jewish Daily Forward’s “2014 Forward 50.”
Madison is a national symbol of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender inclusivity, according to a recent report by the Human Rights Campaign. However, for LGBT activists in the city, there is still work to be done.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has to feed lots of people. On average, some 14,500 meals are served in the dormitory dining halls alone, every day.
Noted: A spokesman for the University of Wisconsin-Madison tells TheDC that Gruber was paid $4,990 for his speech there in Oct. 2013. The school also paid $1,126.90 for travel and lodging for Gruber. The spokesman said that the money came from a private endowment and not the school itself.
Best-selling author Bill Bryson kept audience members laughing while discussing his books at the Memorial Union Tuesday as part of the University of Wisconsin’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
I spent three days at the University of Wisconsin Madisons Center for Dairy Research tasting cheese — at least 80 different kinds.
Noted: Imani and Smith held one another in an emotional embrace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School on Tuesday — a reunion brokered by the law schools Restorative Justice Project.
More than 100 applicants who were denied admission to Wisconsins flagship public university have contacted a legal group that sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina Monday over affirmative action practices, the groups director said Tuesday.
The mansion may be sold by the Wisconsin Department of Administration, but officials have been vague about what they’re considering. The potential sale has some fretting about the landmark’s future.
The “Jeopardy!” run for Hollander Mark Japinga is over — he went into Final Jeopardy in third place, bet it all and lost.
Doug Jorenby, clinical services director at UW-Madison’s Tobacco Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, told the State Journal in September that “it’s a no-brainer” that switching from regular cigarettes to e-cigarettes reduces harm to the user. But the science on secondhand vapor isn’t clear, he said.
Those who attended Wisconsin’s win over Nebraska on Saturday may have missed the fun unfolding on Twitter involving the UW-Madison police department, a well-known college football parody account and whether polar bears are allowed in Camp Randall Stadium.
For the eighth consecutive year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked among the top 10 U.S. universities and colleges in the number of students who study abroad in the latest annual Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange released Monday.
After a record-breaking weekend, Chancellor Rebecca Blank expressed excitement over both Melvin Gordon’s performance Saturday and the announcement of a $100 million donation to the university.
The UW Band is used to marching to the same beat. On Saturday, they were in sync to support a different cause.
The members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team couldn’t go anywhere the past month or so without seeing or hearing the hype.
As Melvin Gordon and the Badgers secured their victory over conference-rival Nebraska Saturday afternoon amid snow showers, the UW-Madison Police Department doled out 33 citations to fans in attendance, according to a UWPD report.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates have given the school $100 million, the largest gift from individual donors in the school’s history.
Leslie Bellaistalked about some of the artifacts related to the August 24, 1970 bombing at Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus.?The bombers targeted the building because it housed the Army Mathematics Research Center, which conducted research for the military during the Vietnam War.?The blast killed researcher Robert Fassnacht and wounded several others.
Betting only $1,103 in Final Jeopardy caused Holland native Mark Japinga to lose his strong lead — and the game.
Susan Riseling talked about her book, A View from the Interior: Policing the Protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol, in which she discusses the collective bargaining protests in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2011. She is the Chief of Police at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and explained her role during the protests.
Philanthropists John and Tashia Morgridge have given $100-million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, they announced Saturday.
In an effort to improve financial transparency, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank released a simplified breakdown of the university’s $2.9 billion budget this week.
The University of Wisconsin’s College of Letters and Sciences has developed a new initiative to help students find an answer to the time old question of, “what the hell are you going to do with a degree in [insert humanities major here]?”
Diversity is good for business, which makes it an imperative for U.S. business schools, say Wisconsin School of Business administrators.
The young adults who make up the Wisconsin Singers — a show group that travels the state, entertaining audiences with high-energy singing, dancing and polished showmanship — all have full-time commitments as UW-Madison students. Their majors range from education to bioengineering.
Noted: Several years ago, Vijay Dixit’s 19-year old daughter, Shreya Dixit, was the victim of a distracted driving crash while riding as a passenger on her way home from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vijay Dixit said the driver wasn’t texting, but that his family’s loss is a reminder of how distracted driving can take many forms.
A new study, conducted by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, is shedding more light on the many ways students across the country are struggling financially to pay the high price tag on education.
The University of Wisconsin has a lot to be proud of – but there is one dark spot. Even as one of the nation’s top schools, with one of the best athletic departments in the Big Ten and nationally recognized professors, diversity issues on campus remain the elephant in the room that no one seems to want to focus on.
UW-Madison senior Zach Wood declared Wednesday he is running for the open District 8 aldermanic position in an effort to bring a student perspective to city politics.
Don’t get mired in the enormity of trying to calculate how to make reparations to African-Americans for past centuries of slavery, Jim Crow segregation and discrimination, says a prominent UW-Madison professor. Instead, says Richard Davis, renowned bassist and professor of music, take the opportunity to make amends for the segregation and discrimination that marks American life today.
Pursuing a diverse, collaborative future was the focus of UW-Madison’s 16th annual campus Diversity Forum, held Nov. 10 and 11.
In honor of Veterans Day, groups at University of Wisconsin came together Tuesday to participate in events including a flag raising ceremony at Camp Randall and the annual roll call on Bascom Hill.
Holland High School graduate Mark Japinga will be back on the popular game show “Jeopardy!” on Friday, Nov. 14, for the show’s Tournament of Champions.
