Thirty University of Wisconsin-Madison College Republicans traveled to Marquette and joined hundreds of enthusiastic supporters to hear Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speak at Marquette University Thursday. The visit is the latest in a recent influx of campaign activity in Wisconsin and underscores the importance of the state in November?s presidential election.
Vegan students feel welcome in Madison. That?s according to Hannah West, a music education student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. West, 22, is involved in several groups working to bring more vegan choices to the UW campus and area restaurants, but says Madison is already ahead of the curve when it comes to vegan dining.
A Madison design committee unanimously approved varying phases of several student housing developments set to be constructed near the University of Wisconsin campus.
A recent study by Kaplan Test Prep found notable differences regarding the importance law school rankings have for prospective law school students in deciding where to apply for graduate school.
University of Wisconsin Law School students launched a new clinic Wednesday to help immigrants at risk of deportation navigate through the complicated legal proceedings surrounding deportation hearings. The Immigrant Justice Clinic is the result of several years of work by the Latino Law Students Association with immigrant detainees at the Dodge County Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Juneau, Wisconsin. According to third year law student and LLSA President Kathryn Finley, it quickly became evident the detainees had few options for much needed legal assistance due to a lack of Wisconsin attorneys willing to defend them.
On Wednesday, Coursera announced it has partnered with 17 new colleges to offer these massive open online courses, or MOOCs. To date, UW-Madison has not gotten involved with this new trend, and Provost Paul DeLuca reiterated to me on Wednesday afternoon that the university has no immediate plans to jump on the MOOCs bandwagon.
Mayor Soglin got into a heated debate during the City Council meeting with a University of Wisconsin-Madison student representative who supported allowing taxis to cruise from 7 p.m. until 4 a.m. ?Students need to get home, perhaps they?re under a variety of situations,? David Gardner said. ?Having a very visible option at one in the morning, when there isn?t a bus running, but there is a cab driving down State Street, is absolute common sense.?
A national healthcare association reaccredited the University of Wisconsin?s University Health Services after the program proved to meet countrywide care standards.
City officials and University of Wisconsin-Madison student representatives plan to collaborate in arranging an alternative late-night transportation service to SAFEcab, a nighttime cab service recently eliminated from the university budget.Although the Student Services Finance Committee voted in April to reinstate funding for SAFEcab, UW-Madison Transportation Services said they would no longer manage the nighttime cab program, leading to its discontinuation.
A 225-year-old document brought together a panel of University of Wisconsin political science professors yesterday, as they commemorated Constitution Day with a dialogue on constitutional issues in present-day politics.
The program will pair students at the community centers with UW-Madison and Edgewood College scientists and teachers to do hands-on science during after-school programs in neighborhood community centers around the city. The centers include Bridge Lake Point, East Madison, Goodman, Kennedy Heights, Lussier and Vera Court. Shaheen Sutterwala, with the UW-Madison Institute for Biology Education, said students will focus this semester on the science of water.
Student leaders are encouraging University of Wisconsin-Madison students to attend Tuesday?s Madison City Council meeting to support legislation allowing late night taxicab use on State Street, which they say would increase campus safety. The city?s Transit and Parking Commission drafted new legislation in a meeting last Thursday that would allow cabs to drive the city?s most energetic street between the hours of 7 p.m. and 4 a.m. looking for hailing patrons.
A preliminary hearing is set for the three men accused of assaulting Wisconsin running back Montee Ball.
The Madison Police Department is hoping to reach college students by stepping up its presence on Twitter.
Three UW-Madison students were charged Monday with substantial battery for allegedly attacking Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball last month as he walked Downtown with friends. But a witness to the attack told investigators that a suspect said Ball ?jumped? him the week before, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
Three UW-Madison students have been charged in the attack on Badgers running back Montee Ball. A criminal complaint is shedding new light on the attack, which took place in Madison in August.
Three UW-Madison students were charged Monday with substantial battery for allegedly attacking Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball as he walked Downtown with friends. Substantial battery is a felony that carries a penalty of up to 3 1/2 years of combined prison and extended supervision.
Students for Barack Obama hosted White House staffer Kal Penn at the Memorial Union last Friday to discuss ways students can be involved in the upcoming election and to the importance of youth involvement.
The University of Wisconsin environmental studies program was singled out by U.S. News and World Report as one of the ?new college majors with a future.?
With Madison the site of another college football game day, the Madison Police Department crashed a total of 26 parties this past weekend.
According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police, the number of people ejected from Saturday nights Badger game doubled compared to the first home game.
In Professor Nancy Rose Marshall?s seminar on Victorian art last spring, the homework assignment was truly hands-on: Put together a show of splendid British watercolors for the Chazen Museum of Art. But first, discover just how difficult watercolor painting can be.
“Our attempts to do watercolor really gave us insights into the skills these artists had,” said Caitlin Silberman, one of Marshall?s students who took part in a watercolor-painting lesson from an artist as part of the course.
As students at UW-Madison, time spent on State Street is a large part of the Badger Experience. Students working, living, and enjoying themselves on State will carry those experiences with them for the rest of their lives. This past summer, students? safety and enjoyment of State Street was severely threatened.
Madison police shut down 24 illegal house parties Saturday and heavily monitored popular student tailgating areas such as Breese Terrace and Regent, Langdon and Spring Streets. At the Badgers football game, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department arrested 28 students and ejected 49, which is an increase from a similar night game last year. UWPD arrested 18 students and ejected 39 from a 2011 game against University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Members of the Mifflin Neighborhood Association agreed Thursday that University of Wisconsin-Madison students and administration should play a bigger role in planning the 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party. ?The students should have some input,? association Chair Larry Warman said at a meeting. ?Last year, students felt that Mayor Paul Soglin made some decisions without their input, and it may have caused some ill-will.?
Earlier this week, the University of Wisconsin?s Office of Child Care and Family Recourses announced it will be making some changes regarding the care of mildly ill children and the provider of care and services.
Following the Year of the Wisconsin Idea, the university has declared the 2012-2013 academic year to be the ?Year of Innovation.?
With fewer routes and longer wait times, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students said changes to campus bus routes are ?inconvenient.? As of Aug. 26, routes 80, 81 and 85 changed due to a budget deficit of $1 million and campus area construction, specifically near the Memorial Union, according to UW-Madison Transportation Services. Student Services Finance Committee Vice Chair Joe Vanden Avond said eliminating route 85 and merging it with the ?super? route 80 is the biggest change.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison students chosen to help appoint the next UW-Madison chancellor said Thursday they plan to represent and involve all students throughout the process of selecting a new campus leader. UW-Madison junior Cody Ostenson and graduate and professional student Jason Chiang were appointed to the Chancellor Search and Screen Committee by the Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee Wednesday.
On Friday, September 14th at 6:45 pm DNC Convention speaker Kal Penn will speak with students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
EAU CLAIRE ? Playing to a younger audience, Vice President Joe Biden stressed differences Thursday between the presidential campaigns on education, college debt and entitlement programs more in doubt for future generations. The education emphasis during a stop at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire figures into the campaign?s newfound urgency to protect a state the Democratic ticket of Biden and Barack Obama won with ease in 2008. Younger voters were a key part of their victory.
University Health Services hopes to soon be better equipped to address suicide prevention on campus after receiving a several thousand dollar national grant earmarked for prevention efforts.
In the most recent incident in a series of crimes in the downtown and campus area, two men were beaten early Sunday morning after attempting to aid a woman who was being assaulted, according to Madison Police.
University Health Services was awarded a grant that provides more than $100,000 in funding for three straight years to help prevent suicides on the UW-Madison campus. The three-year Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant of $306,000 comes from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the university announced.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and downtown residents may need to look for an alternative concert venue as the iconic Orpheum Theatre faces the possibility of closing its doors.Co-owners Henry Doane and Eric Fleming need to pay Monona State Bank a loan balance of $1.1 million to continue operating their restaurant, bar and theatre, located at 216 State St.
Wisconsin would pay for all public high school juniors to take the ACT college admissions test starting in two years as part of a $7 million budget initiative State Superintendent Tony Evers announced Wednesday. The proposal also includes administering three other tests offered by ACT to measure college and career readiness in high school.
Earlier this year, Interim Chancellor David Ward chose a combination of art and science for this year?s Go Big Read program in effort to promote innovation in the classroom and the community.
The charges against those arrested in connection with the Aug. 1 Montee Ball attack have been put on hold due to a shortage of information on the case.
The parents of murdered University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann announced a newly-named ?Brittany Run? in remembrance of the 2008 killing of their 21-year-old daughter.
A UW-Madison student said when two men, who appeared to be homeless, approached and asked him and his girlfriend “for a buck” he gladly gave them one early Monday morning.
The tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001 devastated a nation and resulted in the shipment of thousands of U.S. soldiers to the Middle East, a region where Islam and Arab cultures dominate. While U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq has created controversy over the past decade, it also sparked great interest among University of Wisconsin-Madison students. Since Sept.11 and the nation?s declaration of war against terrorism, student enrollment in Middle East Studies and Arabic language programs increased dramatically, from 35 students in 2000 to approximately 145 in 2009, according to Professor of African Languages and Literature Dustin Cowell.
Halloween weekend is about six weeks away, and artists Mac Miller and Big Gigantic have been selected to headline this year?s Freakfest on Oct. 27.
Last month, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a proposal for renovations and expansions to UW-Madison?s Chemistry Building and chemistry facilities at two other UW System schools to better serve students.
Recent issues with the University of Wisconsin?s software platform for Learn@UW have made for a difficult transition into the fall semester for students and professors using the site which can include readings, course information and other tools for courses at UW.
A 5K run/walk honoring a University of Wisconsin student murder on campus will be getting a new name and a new location this year.
A man who told police he didn?t want to walk anymore was arrested Friday after allegedly stealing a $900 bicycle off the bike owner?s front porch. Craig Greengrass, 46, no permanent address, was tentatively charged with theft of moveable property, according to a news release from the Madison Police Department. The theft was reported at 3:54 p.m. Friday by a 20-year-old UW-Madison student, living in the 100 block of West Doty Street.
Residents in the State-Langdon Neighborhood heard a proposal Monday for a new student apartment complex, which would require the demolition of three buildings. Developers Jeff and Chris Houden presented a proposal to deconstruct 145 Iota Court and 619 and 625 Henry St. to make way for a new eight story student apartment building. They also plan to add two stories to the Cliff Dwellers building at 140 Iota Court and construct a pedestrian walkway near the complex.
Future University of Wisconsin-Madison students may have an easier time registering for introductory chemistry courses and be able to conduct more experiments in new lab facilities if building project plans receive additional funding from the UW System. The UW System Board of Regents approved the 2013-15 Biennial Capital Budget in their August meeting, but it remains subject to further approval by Gov. Scott Walker and the state legislature.
Charges expected to be filed Monday against three UW-Madison students arrested for an attack last month on Badgers running back Montee Ball were delayed for a week, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said. Ozanne told a court commissioner he did not receive all the police reports.
With the release of a UW Alumni study, questions may have been put to rest about whether the state of Wisconsin can keep the graduates of its flagship university.
Potential entrepreneurs, inventors and tinkerers will gather in Madison the weekend of Sept. 22-23 for Build Madison, a community ?create-a-thon.?
“The cool thing about this event is: there isn?t really a focus,? said Sector67 founder Chris Meyer. He said Build Madison is being publicized on the UW-Madison campus in hopes of interesting more students in entrepreneurship.
A technological glitch is confounding information technology experts and causing major headaches for some students and professors across the UW System as the 2012-13 academic year gets under way. The problem lies within the university?s online learning and course management system, which is provided by the company Desire2Learn and managed by UW-Madison?s Division of Information Technology (DoIT). According to this university update posted Friday at noon: ?DoIT technologists continue to work daily with experts from Desire2Learn (D2L) and Microsoft to address the issue of slow application response. We?re keenly aware of the problem and regret the impact on the UW educational community.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is attempting to increase awareness and prevent sexual assault violence on campus with a new online program that all first-year students are expected to complete. University Health Services and the Division of Student Life at UW-Madison helped produce the “Tonight” program based on UW student and staff input as well as statistics about sexual assault on campus.
?I think young voters are very hungry for new ideas and solutions to address long-term problems,? said Jeff Snow, chairman of the College Republicans at UW-Madison. ?Our main objective is asking students if their future is brighter than it was $5 trillion ago?? He?s referring the ballooning federal deficit, which along with bleak employment prospects for young people are the issues Republicans plan to stress in their outreach to young voters. College Republicans will be trumpeting those messages on campuses across the state starting this week, he said, joining a coordinated effort in Wisconsin that started with a prime-time appeal to young voters by Janesville Republican and vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan at last month?s Republican National Convention.
The Student Services Finance Committee hosted a direct services demonstration night Thursday to give campus organizations the opportunity to display the services they provide to the student body.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced a new First Wave full-tuition scholarship Thursday named for hip-hop artist MC Lyte. The $100,000 scholarship was created by a partnership between UW-Madison?s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives, which includes First Wave, and the Hip Hop Sisters Foundation, an organization created by MC Lyte.
With construction to the Memorial Union already in full swing, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are finding the renovation an inconvenience, but said it was worth it in the long run.
With the price of textbooks increasing, the University of Wisconsin is teaming up with other colleges and institutions to explore and assess the usefulness of digital learning tools like e-textbooks.
As students return to campus, they will find the west wing of Memorial Union closed for construction, a project which has impacted many of the building?s historic paintings and murals.
UW-Madison students cross the street wherever they please, blithely ignoring the traffic. Gaggles of them moseying down State Street can be hard to get around. And, inadvertently, their very fresh-faced existence can make the rest of us feel horribly, horribly old. But there?s one incontestably good thing about the students coming back in the fall; they bring a lot of great movies with them.
