A traffic ticket issued to the tow truck driver who made a deadly left turn into the path of a bicyclist on Mineral Point Rd. in Madison carries a $1,311 fine, the largest imposed in the death of a bicyclist in recent years.
A tuition surcharge for an undergraduate initiative allows University of Wisconsin to provide services that state and other funding cuts would have otherwise eliminated.
The 18 Bangor High School students in Ryan Strunz? English 4 class recently got to experience something few people do as they traveled to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to meet and talk with an author who won the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature.
UW-Madison students will vote in March on a proposed $200 million in facilities improvements that could nearly quadruple the recreational sports line item on their segregated fees statements, from $36.78 per semester to $144.78.
The student health center at UW-Madison says it has seen a large increase in the number of students diagnosed with pneumonia over the last month.
Members of the Wellesley College faculty reacted strongly when word spread that Peking University might fire Prof. Xia Yeliang, a critic of the Chinese government. Professor Xia, an economist, had visited Wellesley over the summer after the college signed a partnership agreement with Peking University.
Two charges against a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher have been dismissed after a plea of no contest to a third charge of disorderly conduct, according to state court records.
As President Barack Obama praised Nelson Mandela as a ?great liberator? at a massive memorial service in Johannesburg Tuesday, members of the UW-Madison campus community with ties to the Nobel Prize winning statesman shared their reflections with Inside UW.
Two charges against a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher have been dismissed after a plea of no contest to a third charge of disorderly conduct, according to state court records.
A former student has been arrested for venturing onto the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus in violation of a restraining order that court records indicate has been overturned.
The stately, historic building at the bottom of Bascom Hill on State Street has been home to The University Club since 1907.
Funny how some of the most important moments in life go by in the blink of an eye.That?s how University of Wisconsin-Madison fifth-year senior Drew Birrenkott felt about the process of applying for, and eventually receiving, a Rhodes Scholarship earlier this month.
Artificial Intelligence is defined as the ability for a machine such as a computer to perform functions analogous to learning and decision making. This past summer undergraduates Anjali Narayan-Chen and Liqi Xu taught the computer how to play Angry Birds. Angry birds is a popular game where using a slingshot, the player shoots wingless birds to kill pigs. And like other games, there are several levels of difficulty, different sizes and colors of birds, and different obstacles. With each game, new birds and special abilities can be activated by the player.
Each semester, a number of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison visit the Dean of Students Office to talk about withdrawing from the term for reasons related to mental health or substance abuse.
A sexual assault survey students will receive in their inboxes over winter break will launch the next step in a campaign aiming to improve how the campus perceives and prevents sexual violence.
UCSD?s first ever Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Linda S. Greene will leave La Jolla and return to teaching in Wisconsin, effective Dec. 31, 2013. Greene, who began her tenure on Jan. 1 of this year, will return to teaching as the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian today.
Critics have often suggested that UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee do not have the resources to retain top talent and are losing professors to other universities. The UW-System Board of Regents is meeting Thursday to address the issue. Former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley weighs in on the school?s ability to compete.
Throughout his life, Nelson Mandela achieved more than any one man could ever be expected to accomplish. From leading a nation out of apartheid to persistently advocating for peace and forgiveness, to serving 27 years in prison for his beliefs, he left behind a legacy that can never be matched.
A new policy first rolled out in March concerning alcohol at UW-Madison events will take effect next year and apply a uniform set of standards to university events on and off campus, the university announced Thursday.
This week?s dense fog isn?t just affecting the airlines. The pilots who transport victims of bad crashes also can?t take off.
The University of Wisconsin Madison has new rules regarding when alcohol can be served at campus events.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison senior will attend graduate school in London next year, after winning a competitive scholarship.
A $700 painting that was stolen from Union South two weeks ago has been recovered, University of Wisconsin Police Department spokesperson Marc Lovicott said.
Data from the University of Wisconsin System showed more than 1,000 faculty members left the state?s high education system between 2011 and 2013, a trend some have attributed to lower pay in the system than at peer institutions.
What better way to show an interior designer the exact color you want than by allegedly stealing a painting?
A new book that details the extensive and toxic party culture at the Princeton Review?s Top Party Schools blames not just the students who explain away drunken behavior as “stuff that happens, ” but also administrators who fail to do anything significant about it.
A 72-year-old woman was cited for misdemeanor theft for taking a painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Union South and said she took the painting only to show her interior designer color ideas, police said Tuesday.
Nothing like this has ever happened on HGTV. A Madison woman has admitted to stealing a student artwork from Union South on the University of Wisconsin campus, so she could show it to her interior designer.
After speaking with Adele Brumfield for a few minutes, one would swear that Brumfield, the director of UW Admissions, was born and raised in Madison, had been a Badger all her lifeand bled Badger red even though she grew up in Milwaukee, graduated from Marquette University and worked in admissions at the University of Chicago before coming to Madison. She is bursting at the seams with enthusiasm for UW-Madison.
At the end of a long novel lies a special trip to UW-Madison for 11 Osseo-Fairchild High School seniors who will have an opportunity to meet the 2006 Nobel Prize-winning author who penned the book they have studied for the past three months.
Police arrested a University of Wisconsin student in connection with the sexual assault of a woman at the Kohl Center Saturday.
Its not every day you hear about an art theft in Madison, but police said an expensive piece of artwork was stolen from University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Union South last Wednesday, valued at $700.
UW-Madison police have released a surveillance photo of a woman suspected of stealing a painting valued at $700 from Union South.
The final design for the reconstruction of the west end of State Street at UW-Madison?s Library Mall will be introduced to the public at a public meeting Dec. 5.
The scheme wasn?t as elaborate as The Thomas Crown Affair, but the result ? a stolen piece of art ? was the same.
MADISON – At the University of Wisconsin, campus police officers have reported finding students passed out naked in bushes. Some of the students have been covered in their feces. Police said blood alcohol levels are so high students ended up in the emergency room.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Drew Birrenkott is the recipient of the 2014 Rhodes Scholarship and will be invited to spend two or three years of study, all-expenses paid, at Oxford University in England.
In an effort to foster discourse between Badger fans and University of Wisconsin officials about game days, the Athletic Department is collaborating with the first Fan Advisory Council, set to have its first meeting Monday.
Two college students from Wisconsin are among this year?s group of 32 Rhodes Scholars from the United States.
Bare trees and bundled up students means its finals season at the UW-Madison Law School.
A small electrical fire in a UW-Madison hall early Friday afternoon created large amounts of smoke, forcing an evacuation and a large response from the Madison Fire Department. There were no injuries.
Rachel Gross emerges from a classroom to face the crush of students charging through the corridors. The labyrinthine hallways and riot-proof walls make the UW Humanities Building feel like a medieval fortress under siege during class change. Gross has just a few minutes to herself before her next skirmish — with a room of 13 undergraduates.
For a few brief moments on Thursday afternoon, Wayne Valliere was communing with his ancestors.
If you want to find one of the greatest college towns in the world, look no farther than Bascom Hill and Camp Randall Stadium.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
As debate about the monitoring of online activities continues in the public sphere, a review of the University of Wisconsin?s information system privacy policies found administrators can only access student email after a written request is approved.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
Madison, WisconsinWith its downtown on a narrow isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, and the college campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison spread along the lakeshore, Madison is perhaps one of the loveliest college towns in the US Midwest.
Jason Furman, President Obama?s chief economist and head of the Council of Economic Advisors, spoke about the outlook for fiscal policy in an event sponsored by the Department of Economics at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System began accepting applications Monday for the Flexible Option Degree Program, a service that will help adult students receive college credit in nontraditional ways.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a statewide, multicampus forum Monday discussing insurance options for young people under the Affordable Care Act.
A new report shows record numbers of international students studied in Wisconsin and around the country last year.
MADISON ? UW-Madison police made 16 arrests, issued 16 citations and ejected 40 people during the Badgers? 51-3 rout of Indiana on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
As editor-in-chief of the Badger Herald, one of the largest independent student newspapers in the country, Katherine Krueger has a unique perspective on the future of journalism in the digital age. Last year the Herald, which had long been the larger and wealthier of the two UW-Madison campus newspapers, decided it could no longer continue to print a daily broadsheet newspaper.
When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Cal Melberg attended a bone marrow registry drive at his girlfriend?s request, he had no idea he would soon be making a donation that could hopefully save a woman?s life.
Despite how ridiculously expensive tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gets, one thing I will not gripe about paying is the student segregated fee that all UW-Madison students pay equally regardless of residency, year or school. UW-Madison?s segregated fees are taxes that are tacked onto our semester tuition that add a little over $1,000 to our overall tuition and fees annually.
An audit of the University of Wisconsin System released Nov. 15 revealed that no documented plans exist for 40.7 percent of UW-Madison?s 2012 program revenue balances.
Following an apartment fire last week in the Casa Blanca Apartment building on University Avenue that displaced 50 University of Wisconsin students, the Dean of Students office is raising awareness about a ?crisis fund.?
A man in camouflage who alarmed Madison neighbors when he walked down a street with an uncased shotgun Saturday morning turned out to be a hunter thwarted by city parking.
