Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two men, one armed with a handgun, stole marijuana and a safe from a downtown house in a home invasion on Thursday night, Madison police reported. The incident was reported at 11:10 p.m. at a residence in the 200 block of Langdon Street, police said.

The ideas are grabby, even if they never make it to the marketplace: a pedal-powered lawnmower, a snorkel device that allows the user to remain underwater for up to five minutes, a wheelchair suitable for ice and snow, and powered windows for someone with disabilities.

Those were some of the projects judged Wednesday in the third annual Engineering, Mechanics and Aeronautics design competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lyle Knudson has decorated the walls inside his Marrowstone Island home with framed photographs of family, places, fruit trees (he is an arborist) and from his World War II service.

The nine participants, a mixture of athletes and coaches whose resumes are packed with Olympic medals and world championships, didn?t play a single snap, run a single race or swim a single lap for the Badgers this fall. Instead, they took part in a rigorous academic and cultural immersion program aimed at preparing them to become international leaders in athletics, while also developing their English-speaking skills.

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, will speak at UW-Madison?s graduation on Sunday at the Kohl Center. Kaptur is a UW-Madison alumna and the senior woman in the 112th Congress.

While the holiday season signals the appearance of a wide range of activities meant to give back to the community, few can claim they spent 43 years donning a red Santa suit to greet children in the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.

In the newest installment of the ongoing saga between the University of Wisconsin and a Catholic student group, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents filed a request with the United States Supreme Court to appeal funds allocated to the UW student organization for religious activities.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students are using their ingenuity to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes on Wednesday. Their unique inventions will appear during the Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics Fall Design Competition. Some examples include a pedal-powered riding lawn mower, a green garbage disposal and an attachment for wheelchairs that increases traction in slick conditions.

Madison police believe there may be a connection between the unsolved homicide of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann and an early morning break-in at a University Avenue tavern months later involving three Madison teenagers with gang ties, the State Journal has learned. Assistant City Attorney Roger Allen confirmed there is a “possible connection” between Zimmermann?s April 2, 2008, strangulation and stabbing death in her Downtown apartment and the July 9, 2008, break-in at the Blue Moon Bar and Grill, 2535 University Ave.

Katie Muratore, a 20-year-old biology major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wore a calf-length overcoat with a fur-lined hood and hid her face behind a thick scarf as she hurried along a walkway between the campus and state Capitol. She usually takes the bus to class, but everyone else had the same idea Monday and she couldn?t find any room.”It?s like sardines on the bus today,” Muratore said.

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students are using their ingenuity to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes on Wednesday.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether UW-Madison must pay for student activities involving prayer, worship and proselytizing.

The owner of a Madison business broken into in the summer of 2008 told WKOW 27 News a police detective recently followed up on the crime, but said nothing about a possible link to the 2008 homicide of UW student Brittany Zimmermann.

In the newest installment of the ongoing saga between the University of Wisconsin and a Catholic student group, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents filed a request with the United States Supreme Court to appeal funds allocated to the UW student organization for religious activities.

A University of Wisconsin alumus who played a pivotal role in the construction of a World War II Memorial will address UW graduates at both ceremonies on Sunday, Dec. 19, UW officials announced Friday.

Students and community members gathered to celebrate the success of one University of Wisconsin department?s college-bound technology education academy, which dramatically increases students? success after college and teaches essential study skills.