Balance. This is the key to Colin Tucker?s pursuit of a pro snowboarding career while working toward an undergraduate degree in legal studies from UW-Madison. Balance is essential to his competition results but also to chasing twin ambitions ? one academic, the other sporting ? at the same time.
A major construction project on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is causing a major headache for transportation officials.
A 20-year-old economics major at the University of Colorado in Boulder came up with a unique stunt to illustrate just how much it costs to attend college these days. He paid his $14,310 tuition using $1 bills.
Nic Ramos jammed the 33 pounds of cash into a duffel bag and handed it over to the CU business office last Friday, according to a report by the ABC affiliate in Denver.
Health officials say a 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student died of bacterial meningitis. The university and the Dane County Coronor?s office believe he had a form of meningitis known as meningococcal disease, a rare and serious bacterial infection that can quickly cause grave illness or death.
UW-Madison likes to trumpet the fact it?s one of the top research institutions on the planet — and has been for the past two decades. This past fall, the university announced its annual research expenditures topped $1 billion for the first time.For a range of reasons, this is good news for the university, the city and state.
But is it possible places like UW-Madison are focusing too much attention on research — and not enough on educating students?
In the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, a new bus line stop is unloading some mixed reaction. Greyhound Express will be making stops on Langdon Street, in front of the Memorial Union on campus, starting Monday. At least four other bus lines currently use the street to pick up and drop off passengers, many of whom are students.
“Bike Baiting,” a new and affordable initiative at Winthrop University, is staving off campus bike thefts and leading to arrests. Winthrop looked to the University of Wisconsin-Madison when creating its program.The UW-Madison Police Department began its program in May 2008. More than 100 bicycle thefts were reported on campus from January 2007 to May 2008, and only one arrest was made during that time, according to information on its website.
Being almost maniacal fans of ?80s films, The A.V. Club has often thought how cool it must have been to be a student at UW-Madison in 1986 while the wonderful cult comedy Back To School was being filmed. Just imagine being at a house party when Rodney Dangerfield and Sam Kinison walked in, or hanging out by a hotel pool with Robert Downey Jr. and ultimate ?80s villain, William Zabka. Madison alum and filmmaker Alex Melli was there, and he was kind enough to e-mail us some cool stories about the month when Back To School took over UW 25 years ago, about which he wrote, ?Overall, I think it did plant/nurture the filmmaking seed in myself.?
Nearly half of the nations undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges dont make academics a priority, a new report shows. Instructors tend to be more focused on their own faculty research than teaching younger students, who in turn are more tuned in to their social lives.
Tommy Kuehn seemed to shine in everything he did. Golf. Norwegian dance. School. Cheerleading for the Badgers at UW-Madison, where he was a student. Kuehn, 24, died of suspected bacterial meningitis at St. Mary?s Hospital on Thursday night. But those who knew him say he?s affected more people in his short life than many decades older. “That young man touched more lives than anyone could if they lived to a ripe old age,” said Theresa Johnson, who worked with Kuehn at the Coachman?s Golf Resort pro shop in Edgerton for 9 years.
Steffi Greiner and Petra Amann know nothing about Monday?s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration ? they arrived last week as Austrian exchange students at UW-Madison and watched from a third-floor balcony. “We know about his famous speech,” Greiner said of King, “and we want to learn more.”
It?s only 15 minutes into the session, but already every counseling table is full, and more people are waiting. There?s a constant murmur of conversation coming from the three tables, quiet but intense, and punctuated now and then by a louder question, a long sigh or a rueful laugh. Supervising attorney Sarah Orr is explaining options to the middle-aged couple at her table, with a UW-Madison second-year law student by her side. Held Jan. 6, this session of the Foreclosure Answer Clinic was the first offered in the new year, and the 13th since the free program started in July. It was created by the Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Taskforce and its legal partners in response to a rising number of homeowners facing foreclosure suits without lawyers ? about 85 percent are unrepresented in court, program sponsors said.
A 24-year-old UW-Madison student died of suspected bacterial meningitis at St. Mary?s Hospital on Thursday night, according to the university and the Dane County Coroner?s Office. Officials did not release the student?s name, but friends identified him as Thomas Kuehn, a sociable student who was on the spirit squad and wanted to go to medical school.
UW-Madison students can begin registering online Tuesday to take part in the Badger Volunteers program, which sends students to help out at schools, community centers, food banks and more. The program involves more than 400 students.
The funeral for Anna Rose Shoemaker, 20, of Hudson will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, at Faith Community Church, 777 Carmichael Road.
The portraits of Anna Shoemaker and her good friend Elizabeth Burns that emerge from the 2008 Hudson High School yearbook are of two smart, talented, well-liked girls ? full of life and with bright futures.
Friends and family are holding a memorial today, for the UW-student who died Thursday.
A man who died from meningitis at a Madison hospital on Thursday was identified as 24-year-old Stoughton native Tommy Kuehn, a University of Wisconsin graduate, according to Madison and Dane County public health officials.
As diversity programs at University of Wisconsin campuses continue to strengthen, school officials are looking ahead to the new semester.
UW-Madison students and other Downtown dwellers will be able to catch the Greyhound bus from campus, starting Monday. The Greyhound Express stop is moving from Kelley?s Market at 636 W. Washingto
Anna Shoemaker, 20, of Hudson died Thursday at about 1 p.m. at a Duluth hospital as a result of injuries suffered in an accident near Ashland early Wednesday morning.
A Hudson, Wis., woman has died in an accident in Bayfield County.Anna Shoemaker, 20, died today as a result of injuries she sustained in a car-semi accident Wednesday morning.
UW-Madison junior Anna Shoemaker died Thursday afternoon due to injuries caused by a car-semi crash Wednesday morning.
Balance. This is the key to Colin Tucker?s pursuit of a pro snowboarding career while working toward an undergraduate degree in legal studies from UW-Madison. Balance is essential to his competition results but also to chasing twin ambitions ? one academic, the other sporting ? at the same time.
When city or UW-Madison police identify people with mental health problems, officers work to connect them with needed services in the hope of preventing incidents like Saturday?s shooting rampage that killed six people and injured 14, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson, Ariz.
….UW-Madison Lt. Pete Ystenes said dealing with people who have mental health issues and whom police believe could become a danger to others is challenging. For students, the university has resources available to provide assistance. But when it comes to non-students, unless a person has committed a crime or is clearly a danger to themselves or others, there is little police can do if someone?s behavior is abnormal, Ystenes said.
It?s winter break. And that must mean it?s college rankings season. Here?s where UW-Madison ranked in three recent surveys. Best Value: UW-Madison was ranked the ninth best value among public universities, according to business magazine Kiplinger?s Personal Finance. CEO Production: UW-Madison ranked fourth among universities in producing chief executive officers of major corporations, according to a study from U.S. News & World Report. It awarded 17 degrees to Fortune 500 CEOs. Brand Equity: When it comes to Internet buzz, UW-Madison is tops.
Madison College students returned to campus Monday for the start of the spring semester. School officials said they?re welcoming more students. They said the West Campus, on South Gammon Road, has seen an increase of more than 700 students. Nearly 70 percent of students are in the program that guarantees transfer to a University of Wisconsin school.
In movies, the full moon has the power to transform humans into frothing, howling werewolves. But while the likes of Lon Chaney Jr., ?Teen Wolf? and ?Twilight?s? Team Jacob might own the night onscreen, here in Madison every full moon belongs to a hoard of bicyclists.
Since September 2007, the Madison FBC ?Full moon Bike Club? being the more family-friendly of the acronym?s dual meanings has taken to the streets for a late-night ride on the evening of each full moon.
To University of Wisconsin women?s hockey fan Evie Zadzilka, 4, the three most important things at a game are, in order: Bucky Badger, high-fiving the players, and eating hot pretzels. Evie was one of about 200 children who turned out Sunday morning for the UW women?s hockey team?s first Outdoor Hockey Meet and Greet at the Vilas Park skating rink.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student was seriously burned in an attack in Puerto Rico that killed five family members. Police in Florida, Puerto Rico say 24-year-old Patricia Sanchez Vazquez suffered burns New Year?s Day. Authorities say the student?s uncle set fire to a room with a blowtorch during a family gathering.
MADISON (WKOW) — The Badgers RB John Clay has decided to turn pro, according a JSOnline.com report. JSOnline.com says, according to a source, the fourth-year junior has decided to skip his final season of eligibility and enter the 2011 National Football League draft.
Patrick Johnson and Craig Smith could be the poster boys for a mature, responsible, important development within the University of Wisconsin men?s hockey team. The 13th-ranked Badgers are breaking important new ground when it comes to taking penalties this season and Johnson, the senior left winger, and Smith, the sophomore center and assistant captain, stand out in that regard.
A UW-Madison graduate student from Puerto Rico is being treated for serious burns after an attack on New Year?s Day in which five family members died and three were injured when the woman?s uncle allegedly set fire to a room with a blowtorch during a family gathering. Patricia Sanchez Vazquez, 24, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Bacteriology, suffered burns during the attack in Florida, Puerto Rico. Bacteriology department chair Richard Gourse said Thursday that Sanchez Vazquez continues to improve at a Puerto Rico hospital. Her father also is recovering, but Sanchez Vazquez?s mother remains in an induced coma, Gourse said.
Sixty-two Washington-area high school seniors were awarded more than $8 million in full-tuition scholarships to attend top colleges.
The institutions these excellent students will attend in the fall are Bucknell University, Grinnell College, Lafayette College, Pepperdine University, Sewanee: The University of the South and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There is no denying his connection to the Madison community and football teammates aren?t the only ones sad to see J.J. Watt go. He?s a fan favorite and his decision to go pro and leave the University of Wisconsin is one fans are already struggling with because of what he does both on and off the field.
University of Wisconsin Badgers defensive end J.J. Watt is leaving school early to enter the NFL draft.
Since Jesus Sanchez was attacked in Puerto Rico, friends, co-workers and strangers have offered support, both to his family and that of his fiancée, who was transported to a Miami hospital Tuesday.
A Seattle woman is fighting for her life and four people are dead after an unhinged man set his family on fire using gasoline and a torch at a Puerto Rico dinner party.
Taylor Wurtz has put the rest of the Big Ten Conference on notice ? she?s not just a one-dimensional player anymore.Two games into the conference season the University of Wisconsin sophomore guard has quickly undermined the notion that she?s just a rebounder.
Noted: UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are the other four-year System schools that don?t have a freshman residency requirement, although UW-Milwaukee recently has discussed adding one. Preliminary discussions have taken place at UWGB, Gray said.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student suffered serious burns in a blowtorch attack in Puerto Rico.
You?ve seen the ?For Sale? sign lingering in front of a neighborhood house longer than those signs once did. But did you notice the darkened house where no one seems ever to be around? Or the duplex down the street that?s not kept up the way it used to be?
What?s the story on these properties? If you?re like a lot of your Dane County neighbors, you?re not sure. But if the properties were foreclosed on, they could be costing you.
Mark Woulf, a member of the city?s Alcohol License Review Committee, was named the city?s alcohol policy coordinator Tuesday by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. Woulf, a graduate of UW-Madison, will take the position that is jointly funded by the city and the university to address alcohol-related problems on campus and in the community, according to a statement from Cieslewicz?s office. He will start Monday. As a student, Woulf served on the university?s Alcohol and Other Drug Task Force and has represented the UW-Madison student government as a voting member on the ALRC since January 2010. Woulf has degrees in political science and sociology.
Two Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball fans were attacked and injured early Wednesday morning following the Wisconsin Badgers victory over the Gophers at the Kohl Center Tuesday night, Madison police reported. A Badger fan was arrested for allegedly attacking the Gopher fans, in a case of “friendly banter” between rival fans going awry.
JANESVILLE ? On Tuesday, 19 local residents left for Pasadena, Calif.
Downtown Madison is quiet during the campus? winter break, but even more quiet this year than usual.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band has been practicing for the Rose Bowl since early December, and the band held its final practice in Madison on Monday before heading out to California. The UW-Madison band will be performing in the annual Rose Bowl Parade, at the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, Calif., and also at other venues during the week leading up to Saturday?s game.
“For bands, it may be one of the premier events in the world as far as bowl games are concerned,” said Mike Leckrone, director of the UW-Madison marching band.
LOS ANGELES – A couple of times a semester, University of Wisconsin junior defensive end J.J. Watt returns to Pewaukee to visit the schools he used to attend. It?s not unusual for a college athlete to go back to his high school and visit his former coaches or speak to the athletes. But Watt goes beyond that.
Watt likes to visit former teachers and quietly slip into the back of classrooms, to see how long he goes unnoticed, although it?s not as easy lately with his rocketing fame.
Sixty-eight trombones, 111 trumpets, 23 tubas, and three Bucky Badger costumes will hurtle across the skies today in a Boeing 747, bound for California.
The Badgers are already in Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl. But the crucial supporting players depart from Dane County Regional Airport Tuesday: the UW Marching Band, the spirit squad, and, of course, Bucky.
The sign on the classroom wall prohibits the use of handheld communication devices, yet on this December morning all 28 students in Lori Hunt?s algebra II class are texting on their cell phones. But these Middleton High School students are not a defiant bunch of teens.
With Hunt?s blessing, they?re using their cell phones to text answers to math problems. Every answer appears, anonymously, on a wall-mounted, interactive, electronic whiteboard all students can see.
At first glance, the following is surprising. Roman Catholic colleges are enrolling a higher percentage of Muslim students than the typical four-year institution, the Washington Post recently reported.
The newspaper uses figures from UCLA?s Higher Education Research Institute and notes some of these Catholic colleges have been “astonished and sometimes befuddled” by the spike in Muslim students in recent years.
A sitting president visits the UW-Madison campus for the first time in 60 years, Chancellor Biddy Martin proposes a new business model to help sustain Wisconsin?s flagship institution during a period of dwindling state support, and the football Badgers are heading to the Rose Bowl for the first time in more than a decade.Before ringing in the New Year, Campus Connection takes a look back at some 2010 highlights.
When Mike Stassi, the longtime football coach at Monona Grove High School, decided to relocate the hot tub at his house one day last summer, he put in a call to Gabe Carimi, a former player of his who is now a standout left tackle at the University of Wisconsin. Carimi showed up with two of his fellow Badgers linemen, John Moffitt and Peter Konz, and the three proceeded to move the tub the same way they shove around their gridiron opponents. No sweat. They then wolfed down three extra-large pizzas in minutes.
?These guys are like a different breed of humans,? Stassi marvels. ?They?re just giant beings.?
Thousands of Badgers fans will get pumped up for the Rose Bowl at the Santa Monica Pier. That?s the location of the pre-game Rose Bowl pep rally on Thursday, Dec. 30, the UW Athletic Department announced today. The free event will begin at 3 p.m., pacific time. It will feature the football team, coach Bret Bielema, the UW Marching Band, spirit squad, and more.
Flood victims recovering from Tropical Storm Hermine got some help Monday from the Austin Disaster Relief Network. The group is giving assistance to homeowners who have no other place to turn.
A group of college students from the University of Wisconsin is even pitching in over Christmas break.
?A lot of people ask why couldn’t you help in Wisconsin, and there are things there. But this is the need and we had the ability so we wanted to come,? said University of Wisconsin volunteer Aaron Preston.
As we told you Sunday night, illegal prescription drug use, is on the rise at Wisconsin College Campuses.
As most students rush to learn and review course material for finals, University of Wisconsin winter 2010 graduates have finally earned the right to whisper their deepest aspirations in Abe Lincoln?s ear atop Bascom Hill.
Two of the three young men who burglarized a Madison bar in 2008 said detectives told them forensic evidence shows there was a fourth burglar who also was involved in the killing of a UW-Madison student three months earlier. But in separate interviews this week at the Racine Youthful Correctional Institution, Spencer L. Hutchins and Darrielle L. Banks said they know nothing about the strangulation and stabbing death of Brittany Zimmermann. They also denied a fourth burglar was involved in the bar break-in.
Last school year, two UW-Madison journalism students walked into a campus library with a mission: See how fast they could score some Adderall, a popular prescription ?smart drug? that users say improves their ability to study. They were good to go in 56 seconds. All it took was a tap on the shoulder of one woman, a stranger at a table of students studying in silence. Asked if she knew where someone could buy some Adderall, the woman offered to call her friend downstairs, who was selling it. Experts say such easy access and casual acceptance is increasingly common on campuses, including UW-Madison, where students coping with academic demands are turning to illicit use of Adderall and other stimulants.
Last school year, two University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students walked into a campus library with a mission: See how quickly they could score some Adderall, a popular prescription ?smart drug? that users say improves their ability to study.
