The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that former University of Wisconsin System student Jeff Decker?s protests over fees clearly crossed the line into harassment but an injunction banning him from UW property or contacting UW personnel is too vague and must be rewritten.
Green is a former student manager for the football team who died last year.
Police have widened the search for former UW-Madison professor Stephen Nelsen, reported missing Wednesday afternoon. Nelsen, 74, suffers from dementia, and has no cellphone, money or food.
MADISON (WITI) ? A bomb blast at Camp Randall Stadium at the University of Wisconsin sends hundreds of first responders, investigators and other emergency crews to the scene. Before you get alarmed, this was only a massive training exercise.
MADISON, Wis. ?Last year?s bombing at the Boston Marathon is still causing law enforcement to make changes in security at major events.
The concourse of Cam Randall will be a much different scene than fans are used to seeing Thursday as emergency crews simulate a terrorist attack.
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.
Laura Dunn was a college freshman living on the University of Wisconsin?s pastoral campus in Madison when she was raped. Her assailants, she said, were two males from the crew team. She filed a complaint with the school and law enforcement. No one was charged, no one was even suspended.
A foreign worm with a huge appetite has burrowed into the soil of the UW Arboretum, making scientists nervous about how the worm could affect the state?s forests.
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 mother of a UW-Madison student arrested in connection with an April hate crime against an African American family in Stoughton defends her son?s integrity.
Authorities plan to simulate a bomb attack in or around Camp Randall stadium next week as part of the largest emergency-response simulation the state has ever seen.
A week from today, more than 400 people will be responding to a planned fake bombing at Camp Randall Stadium. The event, “Operation Wisconsin Dawn,” will be the largest and most sophisticated emergency response exercise in Wisconsins history.
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.
SiriusXM is hosting the 2nd annual College Sports Nation Tradition Tournament, and the University of Wisconsin?s Jump Around is up against Ohio State in the championship.
By March, our landscape is brown. Our moods are gray. Things start to change when signs of spring emerge. In Madison, chief among them is the metal sunburst chairs reassuming their position on the Union Terrace at UW-Madison in late April.
The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District is working on becoming more energy independent by transforming table scraps from UW?Madison into an energy resource.
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.
The online science magazine The Why Files from UW-Madison has been named one of the 25 best teaching and learning websites.
CUNA Mutual Group has promised more than $1 million to a new program aimed at training and keeping new teachers developed by the Madison School District and the UW-Madison School of Education. When the Madison School Board approved the partnership in March, the university?s School of Education said it would commit $452,000 worth of faculty and staff time and program materials, while the district would commit $498,000 worth of district staff time for the project.
UW-Madison named Steven Smith as the new Secretary of the Faculty Friday. Smith previously served as the associate director of the Global Studies program, and will take over his new position beginning July 7.
UW athletic officials said approximately $40,000 was raised with proceeds from the inaugural event earmarked for the UW Burn Center, one of 45 in the nation verified by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons. Also on Geoffrion?s list was setting the event on course to becoming an annual deal. Time will tell, but first impressions were excellent.
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.
College students with military ties face numerous challenges. They must make the adjustment from active duty to campus life and try to navigate all the complexities of an updated GI Bill, which provides benefits to eligible veterans like assistance with tuition and living expenses. But now student veterans at UW-Madison have a new ally in the Veteran Services and Military Assistance Center, which opened May 15.
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.
It?s taken close to two years to complete, but now the west wing of the Memorial Union is in its final stage of construction. The Memorial Union Terrace is home to beautiful views, live entertainment, and sometimes even a love connection. We asked, “what do you love most about the Terrace?” Jill Yeck responded, “I met him here on a blind date. It?s true!”
All the proceeds from the game will be given to the UW Health Burn Center. Blake told 27 News he got to know Dr. Lee Faucher during his time in at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Faucher suggested a game to help out the burn center and Blake said he wanted to make it happen.
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Like many UW students, Jordan Ebert found himself in Dallas this March, cheering on the Wisconsin Badgers for their Final Four match-up with the Kentucky Wildcats, adding to a list of memorable moments in his young undergraduate career.
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.
UW-Madison?s Memorial Union theater has reopened after its first major renovations in decades.
At its first summer meeting of the 21st session Saturday, ASM representatives unanimously approved legislation asserting the group among fellow University of Wisconsin shared governance bodies.
The public can get an inside look Saturday night at the restored Shannon Hall ? formerly known as Union Theater ? at UW-Madison?s Memorial Union.
A former University of Wisconsin football recruit was found guilty of third-degree sexual assault Wednesday. Dominic Cizauskas, a former Mukwonago High School football star, was on his official recruiting visit to the Madison campus on Dec. 13-15 when the assault occurred.
The violation of UW-Madison’s recruiting policies came out when sophomore linebacker Leon Jacobs testified in the sexual assault trial of former recruit Dominic D. Cizauskas. Jacobs told jurors his job as the student host of Cizauskas was to “show him a good time.”
Many University of Wisconsin-Madison students don?t want to leave campus in the summer because there?s so much free, fun stuff to do around town.
Information technology staff at UW-Madison on Thursday were still putting together what happened to cause a 20-hour digital blackout on campus that left most students, faculty and staff without email, internet access or voice mail.
The professor emerita reflects on a barrier-breaking career at the UW Law School.
Everyone knows about the problem of rising tuition. Now, a new battle is shaping up at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over associated fees.
Everyone knows about the problem of rising tuition. Now, a new battle is shaping up at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over associated fees.
Once again, University of Wisconsin-Madison food science students are finalists in a national collegiate food product development competition. Two teams will compete for top honors and cash prizes at the Institute of Food Technologists annual meeting and food expo Saturday through Monday in New Orleans.
The university said by news release that Steven Cramer, associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering, is the new vice provost for teaching and learning, and Michael Bernard-Donals, professor of English and former chair of the University Committee, is the new vice provost for faculty and staff.
A Dane County jury found a former University of Wisconsin football recruit guilty Wednesday night of raping a woman in her dorm room in December while he was on a recruiting visit to the campus.
It was throwback Wednesday at UW-Madison. No emails to read. No voicemails to hear. No websites to check.
Shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday, a battery in the campus? Dayton Street data center ?blew,? causing many of the university?s tech services to be unavailable.
Undergraduate student season tickets for University of Wisconsin football games sold out Monday. It took all of 55 minutes for the 14,000 tickets in sections K, L, M, N, O and P to be gobbled up, according to the Badgers football Twitter account.
Many experts believe the once thriving manufacturing industry is starting to make a comeback in America. The state of Wisconsin is well known as a leader in manufacturing largely due to the successful College of Engineering on the UW-Madison campus. University officials are hoping that the biggest donation ever to the college will take that notoriety to the next level.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Engineering received its biggest donation in history Monday.
UW-Madison Police on Saturday morning shut down Highland Avenue for about 30 minutes while a report of a beeping device in a trash can was investigated.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said a bomb squad was sent to a university building shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday after a beeping sound was heard coming from a trash can outside the building.
The answer: Ivory Coast. The other 31 countries in the tournament had at least one student at UW in the spring semester that wrapped up last month. That includes undergraduates as well as graduate, professional and special students.
