Category: Campus life

Seely left the State Journal in 2013 after 34 years to teach journalism at UW-Madison and to work part-time at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

Plus: DeLuca retiring after four decades

Articles by Professor W. Lee Hansen at the Pope Center site and by John Leo here at Minding the Campus attracted wide attention last week by deploring a suggestion in a diversity report at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that called for, among other things, the ?proportional participation? of underrepresented racial/ethnic groups ?in the distribution of grades.? Here two UW professors, Donald A. Downs, a frequent contributor to Minding the Campus, and David Canon, disagree with the Hansen-Leo assessment, and Professor Hansen replies.

Word had begun to circulate that the College Barber Shop will close when its current lease expires at the end of August. Ryan Osborn, whose family has owned the building for decades, gave Cobb the word late last week.

The Hoofer Sailing Club is celebrating 75 years this weekend. The group, which meets down at U.W. Madison?s Memorial Union, has been around since 1939.

Liu Baicheng, an 81-year-old professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University, is happy to recall his 1978 arrival in New York, an occasion that opened the floodgates to 35 years of booming academic exchange between China and the United States.

Deborah K. Fitzgerald, the Kenan Sahin Dean of MIT?s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), has announced that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Blum will join MIT in 2015 as the director of Knight Science Journalism at MIT, a fellowship program that enables world-class journalists to spend a year at MIT studying everything from science, technology, and engineering to history of science, literature, policy, and political science.

University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks 25th among the best universities in the world in a new list released this week by the Center for World University Rankings.

Hanover, N.H. ? As a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, the one thing Laura Dunn knew about staying safe was to not walk alone at night. So when she wanted to go from one party to another, she asked two men on her crew team to escort her. Instead, they took her to an apartment one block off campus and raped her, she recounted Tuesday at the Dartmouth Summit on Sexual Assault.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s La Follette School of Public Affairs has placed fourth worldwide for its academic research, according to a new comprehensive higher education ranking.

The tiny library started out innocently enough. Built outside a church in Lincoln, Neb., it was one of about 25 free, barely-bigger-than-a-birdhouse-size book dispensaries that have sprung up in this Great Plains city. But that was before public officials said this particular library was a public hazard that violated a city ordinance. The city?s verdict: get rid of the library or we?ll do it for you.

Sexual assaults are going unreported on college campuses across the country, and a new study shows not enough students are educated about the seriousness of the incidents.

A fisherman is credited with rescuing an intoxicated man trying to swim across Lake Mendota.University of Wisconsin-Madison police say firefighters, paramedics and divers responded to the lake near the Porter boathouse about 7 p.m. Monday on a report of a man in the water calling for help.

Many homes in the Greenbush neighborhood south of UW-Madison have long been carved into student housing, and some have deteriorated and become harder to rent due to competition from new apartment buildings rising closer to campus.

Noted: Two of those players, Mr. Childers and Jeremy Weiss, have distinguished themselves as Ultimate Frisbee?s statistical gurus. Mr. Weiss, 29, is a medical student pursuing a Ph.D. in machine learning at the University of Wisconsin. In his spare time, he moonlights as a broadcaster for a professional Ultimate Frisbee team.

A fisherman pulled an allegedly drunken young man in distress from Lake Mendota on Monday night, saving him from harm, UW-Madison police reported. He had set out to swim across the lake but fell far short of the goal, ending up clinging to a buoy and calling for help.

Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, assistant professor Chris Wells is one member of a faculty team launching the journalism school?s first foray into a course dedicated specifically to computational approaches to communication, with an upper-level data journalism class first offered for fall 2014.

It?s only fitting that a college town would host an annual demonstration of the science of fireworks on the Fourth of July.University of Wisconsin-Madison chemist and stage master Bassam Shakhashiri has entertained and enlightened the public for decades at standing-room-only demonstrations, which are free and do not require tickets.

Noted: Almost every school with a strong agricultural dairy program sells ice cream. Loyalties run deep for Dairy Bar at the University of Connecticut, Babcock Hall at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (named after the inventor of the first reliable butterfat content milk test) and Berkey Creamery at Penn State, which has operated since 1896.

Some fans came to the Memorial Union Thursday morning sporting the Stars and Stripes on their bandanas, scarves, shorts and socks. Others donned shirts emblazoned with the American flag and Declaration of Independence, or a bald eagle and bolts of lightning.

The week after finals, a group of incoming student leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison travelled the state by bus to learn more about connecting both to each other and Wisconsin?s communities.

UW-Platteville’s emergency response plan was vital when disaster hit. UWPD played a role in its creation.

Four mini-cars will be tooling around UW-Madison for the next year, fueled by electricity and available for short-term checkout by anyone with a university ID, including faculty, staff and students. The university is one of four campuses nationally and the only one in the Midwest to host the cars.

Back in 1964, a British TV company filmed a group of 7-year-olds basically being 7, for a half hour special called 7 Up. Then, every seven years, filmmaker Michael Apted went back and made another film about the group: 14 Up, 21 Up, and most recently, 56 Up. One of those kids was Nick Hitchon, and ? spoiler alert for 63 Up ? he is now a professor at the University of Wisconsin.