STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) ? One year after a student drowned in a river after a night of drinking, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is considering banning alcohol consumption in the dorms, even for students of legal drinking age.
MADISON (WKOW) — University police arrest a man for stealing bicycles on campus. Officers arrested Ryan J. Loughrin, of Madison, in connection with bicycle thefts from campus. Loughrin admitted to investigators that he stole bikes from campus, focusing mainly on those that were secured with cable locks. Loughrin then sold the bicycles on Craigslist.
As a grand kickoff to the University of Wisconsin?s Ethics Week festivities, the commissioner of Major League Baseball presented UW students with a lecture on ethics and integrity in the workplace.
In wake of the semester?s second student suicide last Wednesday, student government officials met with the dean of students to highlight campus initiatives on mental health and other issues.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be the first school in the UW System to offer a so-called flexible degree, in which students will be able to earn college credit for knowledge already gained through work or life experience.
If you?re looking for a fresh, live Christmas tree and want to help education as well, head on down to the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion this weekend. The Forestry Club is having its 39th annual Christmas tree sale on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with proceeds from the sale used to support educational opportunities in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.
American Disability Research scholar Kim Nielsen visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday to discuss the history and repercussions of disabilities in the U.S., as part of an event put on by UW-Madison Disability Studies. Nielsen, author of ?A Disability History of the United States,? is a professor in the department of disability studies at the University of Toledo. Her research is one of the first scholarly attempts to examine the history of disabilities dating back to the period prior to European arrival.
Starting next fall, working adults will be able to earn degrees online, at their own pace, in nursing, diagnostic imaging and information technology from UW-Milwaukee. They?re the first degrees offered under a new University of Wisconsin System effort, announced with Gov. Scott Walker in June, to make college more accessible and affordable to state residents.
America needs more workers with expertise in science and math. America needs more entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to start businesses and create jobs here. And that?s why America needs Congress to pass the bipartisan Startup Act 2.0 bill ? with or without a larger package of immigration reforms. The proposal would provide more visas to foreign students who graduate from American universities with advanced degrees in science, math, technology and engineering.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students could see screens that show real-time bus arrival times in university housing and dining locations as early as next semester, according to Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee member Ryan Prestil. Prestil said the project, which is a collaboration between ASM?s Legislative Affairs and University Affairs committees and UW Transportation Services, is an attempt to increase safety as well as convenience by allowing students to wait for buses indoors.
University of Washington President Michael Young has terminated its ties to Adidas, responding to a student-generated protest over $1.8 million in severance pay owed to laid-off workers at a factor in Indonesia that made apparel for Adidas.
One of Madison?s most storied Camp Randall-area watering holes is facing the wrecking ball. Plans are in the works to demolish the Stadium Bar at 1419 Monroe St. and replace it with a six-story mixed-used student apartment complex. The tavern operated for decades as Jingles Stadium Bar before being sold by owner Bill ?Jingles? O?Brien in 1999 for $200,000. O?Brien died in 2010 at age 86. A public meeting on the proposed project is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. at Union South.
Memorial High School senior Sohil Shah is at an academic level above most of his peers. Sohil, 17, who takes classes and conducts research at UW-Madison, also is more advanced than many college students. Findings from his nanoscience research project were published in the prestigious Journal of Materials Chemistry ? a feat that could be expected of third-year doctorate students, said Robert Hamers, chemistry professor at UW-Madison and Sohil?s mentor.
The Daily Cardinal, a student-owned and operated newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recognized as the best four-year daily tabloid at this year?s National College Media Convention.
The number of student veterans in the University of Wisconsin System has doubled since 2005, and is expected to continue to increase. While UW-Milwaukee is home to the most student veterans receiving GI benefits in the state, educating more than double the number enrolled at UW-Madison, all UW schools are involved. This has caused the UW System Board of Regents to give the situation more attention than before.
….The Wall Street Journal this past week called the SWIB purchase the most expensive college campus housing purchase on record. It also referenced the American Campus Communities Inc.?s $165 million purchase of an Austin, Texas, student housing property known as ?The Block.? The presence of UW-Madison has led to similar ? though not as large ? high-end complexes for millennial college students here, like Grand Central and Lucky Apartments. Vicki Hearing, spokeswoman for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, says the pension fund purchased the dormitory in large part because of its value as a rental property.
I want to take some time today and move away from the routine talk-about-something-that-happened-over-the-weekend column and discuss an issue on campus I believe is very important. This issue has the potential to affect everyone on campus, but for the most part has largely stayed out of discussing among students and faculty.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. ?Bud? Selig will give the keynote address for Ethics Week to Wisconsin School of Business students and faculty Tuesday, focusing on ethics and professionalism in the business world. The 1956 UW-Madison alumnus has served as the MLB Commissioner since 1988 and will discuss his efforts to build ethical principles within the Milwaukee Brewers organization and MLB?s headquarters.
A regional labor relations board?s decision that Palermo?s did not violate workers? rights in firing a group of employees will likely not change student labor activists? approach to the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ties with the pizza company, one activist said Sunday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are conducting an ongoing investigation from Nov. 20, when a man approached a UW-Madison student at Memorial Library and demanded her cell phone and other items in the library?s study carrels. In what police are calling a strong armed robbery, the student gave her items to the suspect when he approached her at 10:04 a.m., according to UWPD spokesperson Lt. Mark Silbernagel. She was not harmed during the incident.
A higher number of students from around the world, especially from China and India, have enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the past five years, as the school continues to gain international recognition. But such trends are not unique to UW-Madison, as indicated by the 2012 Open Doors Report, which documented trends in international education exchange with an emphasis on international students studying in the U.S. over the past year.
Quoted: Assistant Dean and Director of International Student Services Laurie Cox and Vice Provost for the Division of Enrollment Management Joanne Berg.
On Monday, November 19, 2012 Charlie passed away peacefully at a place he loved. He was born on June 6, 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, the first child of James Giesen and Mary Klink. He was joined three years later by his twin brothers, Nick and Jamie. In 1992, the family relocated to Middleton where Charlie attended the Middleton Public Schools. Next, he attended University of Iowa and then came back to Madison to attend University of Wisconsin. He was working at CapTel helping the deaf communicate by telephone and attending classes at UW at the time of his death.
MILWAUKEE ? The longtime tuition reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and Wisconsin is stoking a cross-border rivalry as the two states compete for a declining number of top collegeprospects.
When William Minter was a graduate student at UW-Madison in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was active in a group pushing the university to sever connections with companies doing business in South Africa, then under Apartheid.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is seeking information about Nov. 20 robbery in Memorial Library.
The recently finished Union South was designated a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold building, an award given out by the U.S. Green Building Council to buildings whose construction, design and operation meet high environmentally-sustainable standards.
University of Wisconsin?s student government brainstormed solutions to the issue of entertainment accessibility for students under the legal drinking age with the hope of ultimately providing safer nightlife options.
UW is now invested in climate change. Our professors? well-deserved pensions are paid partially from the revenues of the fossil fuel industry. Accordingly, any positive activism we do surrounding climate change, sustainability or environmentalism must be accompanied by a crucial push for divestment or else we?re simply betting against ourselves. We just opened an Office of Sustainability. We have a wide variety of departments, classes and programs which highlight the dangers and moral hazards of climate change. As an institution, we must put our money where our mouth is.
The Wisconsin Union announced Monday that Union South was awarded a LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council for its use of sustainable energies. LEED is one of the nation?s leading environmentally-friendly building programs, which allows projects to earn points to satisfy green building requirements. The number of points the project earns determines its level of LEED certification.
A car hit a University of Wisconsin-Madison student while she was biking near East Campus Mall and West Johnson Street on her way to class Monday morning, leaving her hospitalized with a fractured back. UW-Madison junior Stephanie Castillo, who is a reporter at The Daily Cardinal, said she was at the south end of West Johnson Street crossing toward East Campus Mall at approximately 9:45 a.m. when a car struck her.
The University of Wisconsin student government?s decision to fund a secular student group Thursday caused a stir among the national media.
As Madison Metro begins to enforce the existing student ID policy, many have observed a smooth transition into full implementation. According to Metro Madison Bus Driver Frances Craig, the policies, which are intended to eliminate fraudulent use of the unlimited bus pass by prohibiting students from selling their bus passes to non-students, have been successful.
The last home game of the Wisconsin Badgers football season drew tens of thousands of fans to Camp Randall.
According to a University of Wisconsin statement, the university?s La Bahn Arena, a recently-finished hockey and swimming facility, was the first of many campus buildings that will be equipped with new IP security cameras under an initiative by the UW Police Department to enhance security on campus.
Closing the University of Wisconsin?s Shared Governance Week of Action, a panel of representatives from the UW System and student government convened Thursday to address issues about tuition and fees, prompting debate about the future of the UW System.
UW-Madison?s vampire lore expert Tomislav Longinovic attributes the sometimes graphic creatures? foothold in popular culture to people becoming more accustomed to violence through war and what?s seen daily in the news. “As we accept more evil, the image of the vampire becomes more acceptable,” said Longinovic, who teaches “The Vampire in Literature and Film. “Plus, people want an escape. The rise of ?Twilight Saga? … really comes at a time when I think there?s a youth withdraw from reality,” Longinovic said. “It provides a nice imaginary niche … a psychological solace.”
An atheist group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could receive almost $70,000 in student fees for programming costs, an apparent first for the college and student atheist groups nationwide.
?Support creativity and invention at the junior and collegiate levels,? Ronning said. ?It gets (students) to go out and pursue ideas they think could work.? Ronning, 21, of Lincolnwood, credits a robust education and access to high-tech resources at Niles West High School for giving him ?a leg up? on the art of inventing. Now a junior studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ronning created a synthetic hand controlled by a series of pulleys that is replicable with 3D printing.
An atheist student group at a university in Wisconsin will likely be getting an estimated $67,000 from its funding board, making it the largest sum any atheist student group in the United States has ever received.
The Shared Governance Week of Action, a series of events and discussions organized by a committee of Associated Students of Madison, continued into its third day Wednesday with a forum addressing issues of educational innovation.
University of Wisconsin Interim Chancellor David Ward issued a statement regarding the ongoing labor disagreement over the university?s ties with Palermo?s Pizza, saying UW does not currently have any plans to take action.
The student government voted unanimously to create a Student Ad Hoc Committee to advise a university committee on diversity issues in a meeting Wednesday.
Funding has been approved for an atheist organization at the UW-Madison. A committee at UW-Madison made the decision. Student fees will go towards funding it.
Wednesday?s Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Week of Action forum facilitated a discussion between students and campus leaders on academic issues such as advising and Educational Innovation. The forum?s panel featured Wren Singer, campus advising director; Chris Olsen, Interim Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning; and Elaine Klein, Assistant Dean for Academic Planning in the College of Letters and Sciences.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison committee has approved using student fees to fund an atheist organization.
A UW-Madison committee has approved using student fees to fund an atheist organization. Chris Calvey is president of the group, Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics. Calvey says it?s about time secular students got the support they deserve. The university?s Student Services Finance Committee recently approved about $67,000 to fund the group in the next academic year.
University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders will evaluate a request by a university committee to put Palermo Villa Inc. on notice unless it meets certain demands regarding a labor dispute involving the Milwaukee pizza manufacturer.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse has received a $50,000 grant to help incoming students who need remedial math courses.
A University of Wisconsin building was evacuated yesterday morning in response to a suspected gas leak.
A University of Wisconsin committee is in the process of re-evaluating the university?s contract with Palermo Pizza as investigations of Milwaukee food company?s alleged labor violations continue.
In continuation of the Shared Governance Week of Action, University of Wisconsin?s student government hosted a Transportation Forum, in effort to both educate the community as well as gain feedback for the future of campus transportation.
To prevent pedestrians from jaywalking, members of the Madison Police Department Traffic Enforcement Safety Team were positioned on the corner of Park St. and Johnson St. on Tuesday to educate pedestrians on correct procedures for crossing busy intersections. Madison Metro brought the issue of jaywalking to the team?s attention after becoming frustrated with pedestrians bringing traffic to a standstill, according to MPD TEST Sgt. Eric Tripke.
Ken Goldstein, a UW-Madison political science professor who now heads Kantar Media/CMAG, which tracks political ads, cites their pivotal role in Wisconsin?s U.S. Senate race. He calls the fact that Democrat Tammy Baldwin ?had the airwaves to herself for over a month? after the primary, which depleted Republican Tommy Thompson?s cash reserves, ?decisive in her impressive victory.? As for the presidential race, Goldstein says, ?Advertising matters at the margin, and in many battleground states, the margin mattered.? And that makes the impact of all those commercials anything but marginal.
Incoming UW System students lagging in math skills got a big boost with the announcement of a new online course that has the potential to get more students to graduate in less time and at lower cost. A $50,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be used at UW-La Crosse to develop a new “massive open online course,” or MOOC, that will give students the chance to improve their math skills without having to take remedial high school level courses in college. The MOOC will be free of charge and available to everyone.
The Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee met Monday night to consider future projects on campus and updates on existing projects.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center is set to kick off its trans* awareness campaign later this week at the University of Wisconsin.
Associated Students of Madison hosted an open forum regarding issues of campus diversity Monday night.
Streakers have long galloped across college campuses in the altogether, making it difficult for successive generations of crazies to outdo their predecessors. Originality can be hard to find. Enter UW-Stout, where a brave young buck last week put a new twist on the old tradition.
Although there was no coordination between the Obama campaign and the get-out-the-vote efforts undertaken by advocacy groups like Citizen Action of Wisconsin, similarly targeted efforts were under way by the campaign. In fact, they?d never ceased since President Barack Obama was inaugurated nearly four years ago, says Gillian Morris, a campaign spokeswoman. College-age students were ?absolutely? targeted by the Obama camp, she says. Efforts were undertaken to get college students to vote early. Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and UW-Madison students, for example, camped out at voting locations the night before Oct. 22, the first day residents could vote early in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was named among the top 10 universities in the nation Monday for the number of students studying abroad for 2010-?11 academic year, according to the 2012 Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange.
