Despite Madisonâ??s environmentally friendly reputation, citizens rarely address or even acknowledge storm water runoff and management. As a highly concentrated urban area in close proximity to several bodies of water, sediment runoff and organic matter pollution go straight to our lakes during heavy rainfall.
As graduation approaches and the economy continues to weaken, entering a weakening job market is a daunting task for soon-to-be University of Wisconsin graduates.
Nearly 2,000 University of Wisconsin students received need-based financial aid this fall from the Fund For Wisconsin Scholars, announced the UW System Board of Regents Thursday.
Hmong activists said Thursday they look to President Barack Obama to fight Thailand’s forced deportations of Hmong refugees to a hostile homeland.
“We put our faith and hope in President Obama to help provide for our people. We must act now before it is too late,” said Pa Shoua Vang, the daughter of refugees, a UW-Madison student and a 19-year-old Elk Mound, Wis., resident.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin said the university will end its relationship with Russell Athletic, a UW licensee that makes fleece wear with the university’s logo.
The contract will terminate in March when the current license agreement expires. The contract generated nearly $40,000 in revenue for UW-Madison in 2007-08.
“We are withdrawing our contract from Russell,” Martin said during a break in a UW System Board of Regents meeting on campus Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin System gave more than $1.7 million in need-based financial aid to students last semester thanks to a scholarship donation.
Nearly 2,000 students received the aid from the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars. Roughly the same amount in aid will go to about the same number of students in the current semester.
The fund was created with a $175 million gift from UW-Madison graduates John and Tashia Morgridge.
UW-Madison officials said a half dozen engineering school graduates either had accepted job offers rescinded, or delayed for months, by national firms.
College of Engineering career services director John Archambault told 27 News the firms involved provided payments akin to severance to compensate students, but students were left to scramble to adjust career plans.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System gave more than $1.7 million in need-based financial aid to students last semester thanks to a scholarship donation.
A small but growing percentage of high school students have passed at least one college-level course before they graduate, but participation and pass rates among some minority groups remain disproportionately low, a report says.
Naveen Duraisamy’s future seemed enviable: Despite a down economy, the engineering student had a job offer from a Fortune 500 company, where he’d start after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Then, days before his Dec. 21 commencement, the international student got an e-mail from his future employer: Caterpillar Inc. had rescinded the job offer, citing uncertain economic times.
With his student visa about to expire, Duraisamy quickly enrolled in classes so he could stay in the country. He began the job search from scratch.
Sara Wilcox was a freshman at Wausau West High School when she saw the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band perform there in 2001.
“I saw how much fun they were. It looked like they really enjoyed performing,” said Wilcox, now a senior majoring in legal studies at UW-Madison. “I knew that was what I wanted to do.”
Mariah Dunham’s career at the University of Wisconsin is over.
Badgers women’s basketball coach Lisa Stone has dismissed the junior forward from the team, she announced Wednesday afternoon in a statement.
The University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute will offer $50,000 in prizes to students who produce ideas to reduce the impact of climate change through a new competition called the Climate Leadership Challenge.
Downtown residents and Madison City Council members found themselves facing a difficult decision Tuesday night when asked to approve a proposed apartment complex adjacent to the Acacia fraternity, ultimately shooting down the proposal.
By the slimmest of margins, Madison’s City Council voted Tuesday night against a downtown project that partnered a fraternity house with a local developer.
The development paired historic renovation developer the Alexander Co. with the Acacia House, 222 W. Langdon St., in order to bring much-needed improvements to the historic building. The plan involved turning the house into a combined fraternity and apartment building and adding an 18-unit apartment building behind the historic building on a gravel parking lot.
Students dressed to impress for this years Spring Career Expo.
With 115 companies including Geico, General Electric and Epic, it was a buffet of jobs and these potential grads are hungry.
“Be confident, go in and talk to people. Hopefully my confidence will reflect how the conversation goes,” says UW student Sunchit Mulmuley.
It’s hard to find any good news on the job front and hundreds of graduating college seniors are doing their best to stay optimistic.
Tuesday night at the UW sponsored job fair it was hard to do.
Some students say they feel a little bit cursed, like they’re graduating at the worst possible time.
It has them reaching for anything they can get.
From construction to factory work and even retail the jobs keep disappearing.
The state of Wisconsin will see a drastic increase in nursing shortages if the University of Wisconsin and other nursing programs around the state do not increase their number of graduates, UW nursing officials said Monday.
When I was growing up, I would hear stories about Madison and the University of Wisconsin from my mother as we were driving past the campus. Sheâ??d point out what had changed, like where a Rennebohmâ??s soda counter had been or that the Medical Sciences Center used to be Madison General Hospital. Among these stories were the classics; how the Sterling Hall bombing was planned in a dark booth at the Nitty Gritty, how 1,000 pink flamingos dotted Bascom Hill, and how the Statue of Liberty was erected on the frozen surface of Lake Mendota.
I’m working with a group of people in Hoofers to bring back the original Statue of Liberty — a stunt pulled off by the pranksters in the UWâ??s Pail and Shovel party. Our plan is to return it to the ice of Lake Mendota in front of the Memorial Union for Valentineâ??s Day weekend (and possibly longer) during the Hoofers Winter Carnival, a tradition itself stretching back to at least the 1930s.
The Lake Mendota Statue of Liberty will make its return to University of Wisconsinâ??s Hoofers Winter Carnival this month after a 13-year hiatus from campus.
The cold, long winter has at least one good thing going for it: It might mean the return of the Statue of Liberty to Lake Mendota.
The Hoofers, the UW-Madison’s outdoor recreation club, is hoping to bring back the iconic faux statue as part of its Winter Carnival Feb. 16-21.
Winter in Madison gives artists a new set of materials: snow, ice and freezing temperatures. In a creation that is beautiful (and, it appears, functional), first year MFA artist Hongtao Zhou has created furniture and domestic items, “rising” out of Lake Mendota. It’s located in front of the Memorial Union.
Guess what world-renowned university on the shores of Lake Mendota celebrates the big 1-6-0 on Thursday?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, of course.
The state’s flagship institution of higher learning is 160 years old on Feb. 5, the first day of class held on that day in 1849.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student government, Associated Students of Madison, is attempting to create a more professional image, and in doing so, engage more students. ASM recently created a press office, a new Web site, and a new logo.
Celeste Lewis is in a pickle that could prove costly, all because of something she did mostly in high school, when it seemed like everybody else was doing it.
The UW-Madison junior said that back home in Chicago, she started using file sharing software to illegally download music. She said she did it briefly as a freshman in college until her conscience told her that downloading music for free was wrong.
The downturn in the economy is driving up the number of students who are returning to community and technical colleges for a second year. A survey by ACT found 54% of students returned for a second year nationwide.
And as NBC 15’s Michelle Riell reports, not only is MATC above the national trend, it’s seen a dramatic jump in enrollment at a very untraditional time.
It’s still early in the admissions cycle â?? but not too early for colleges to be worried about yield.
Projecting yield, the percentage of admitted students who enroll, is a perennial concern for admissions deans. Their anxiety has only grown as technology and millennials’ habits make it harder to anticipate the whims of 17-year-olds. In many ways, it looks like that trend will continue this year.
The 43rd annual Super Bowl may be Sunday in Tampa, but the 13th annual Souper Bowl, a tasty celebration for a good cause, was held Saturday in Madison.
The fundraiser is the biggest one of the year for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Its goal is to help build change in Madison.
The gymnasium at Madison West High School, the site of the Souper Bowl, looked like a pep rally before a big game Saturday. But unlike the Super Bowl, there are no losers at the Souper Bowl, because every ceramic bowl filled helps to continue a building project.
The UW-Madison subcommittee on Sexual Assault and Dating Violence hosted UW-Madison faculty and students Thursday for a workshop on the dangers of stalking.
Campus safety officials informed an audience Thursday the age group experiencing the highest rates of stalking victimization are individuals aged 18-24, the general age group of the population located on the University of Wisconsin campus.
The trend of homegrown Wisconsin residents staying in the state for their entire adult lives is being replaced by a new phenomenon among University of Wisconsin graduates.
The scenarios are downright frightening — stalkers lurking around the corner, watching your every move, following every step. It usually starts small — with an unwanted e-mail or a hang-up call — then gets worse.
“Then they branch out into multiple contacts where they’re following the victim, they’re consistently e-mailing and texting all hours of the night,” said Detective CarolAnn Glassmaker, UW Police Department.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an economic stimulus bill Wednesday, part of which would increase funding for the Hope Tax Credit, making nearly 4 million low- to middle-income students eligible for a tax break.
Call them crazy for buying a bankrupt retail store amid the toughest economy in a generation. But the owners of Campus Sport Sportswear think the concept of selling sweats, T-shirts and hats to college kids remains a sound business model.
Local businessman Mark Dunbar and two partners have purchased the leases of former Steve & Barry’s stores, one in Madison and one in East Lansing, Mich. They now operate as Campus Street Sportswear.
It’s a common scenario: Students pick a major they’re excited about (or, at least, do reasonably well) in music or dance or drama. They go to school for four or five years, then graduate with a degree in cello performance/acting/painting/dance.
Great. Then what?
Enter the Arts Enterprise Symposium, running this weekend (Jan. 30-Feb. 1) at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus.
Bascom Hill is the beating heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, its tree-lined east face surrounded by historic schools and structures, and crowned by the weather-beaten statue of Abraham Lincoln gazing out upon the city. Along with a fearsome reputation among campus commuters tasked with conquering its heights, the hill has also long served as a canvas for students engaging in anti-war protests, pink flamingo hijinks, and now, a snowball battle royale.
Students and faculty were evacuated from Helen C. White after a staff member smelled smoke in the English department Tuesday morning.
The Acacia Fraternity house, a stately three-story Tudor revival built in 1927 at 222 Langdon St., is badly in need of expensive repairs.
To pay for the redevelopment, the fraternity has formed a joint venture with the Alexander Company that calls for a new five-story apartment with 18 units to be built in a gravel parking lot fronting Lake Lawn Place.
But plans by the developer to renovate the historic frat house on the UW-Madison campus, and squeeze an upscale apartment building behind it, remain up in the air.
A national survey by standardized testing group ACT is showing a decline in the number of freshmen who return for their second year of college. A bright spot is two-year public schools, whose retention rates have increased.
The survey found 66 percent of freshmen returned to the same school as sophomores, in the 2007-2008 academic year. That’s down from 68 percent the previous year, and is the lowest percentage since 1989.
Researchers say not all students dropped out. Some may have transferred or taken time off. And they speculate the down economy may be a factor. (Third item.)
Representatives and participants of national and international service programs shared experiences and answered UW-Madison student questions during an informational panel Monday.
A recently published study by ACT shows the national average of college freshmen returning to the same institution for their sophomore year has fallen to its lowest percentage in 25 years.
Last semester, a man dressed as a FedEx employee burst into Kristopher Olds’ geography class, announcing he had a package for a student in the 70-person class.
It turned out he was no delivery man, but a marketer for the energy drink Red Bull â?? and the box was full of the product. Red Bull promoters hit up at least three classes across campus in a guerilla marketing campaign.
Although that scheme was unusually bold, college students are a prime target for such marketing techniques, experts say.
At UW-Madison, such solicitations are prohibited, unless the vendors get special permission from the university.
Surveillance cameras could capture ugly behavior near and inside Madison bars if a Downtown coalition’s ideas move forward.
The effort, begun last year and involving perhaps the broadest coalition ever to confront crime and violence Downtown â?? and the perception of it â?? includes Downtown Madison Inc., the city, UW-Madison, bar owners, police, the business community, neighborhood leaders and others.
There were no records broken nor many snowballs assembled in what was supposed to be a massive snowball fight on a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon at Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
An estimated 700 students — most underdressed despite bone-chilling temperatures hovering in the single digits — hurled snow chunks at each other for nearly 30 minutes. The cold temps made it difficult to form actual snowballs, but that didn’t stop the students from engaging in battle.
Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam. The quest for money that begins for students and parents every January has taken on new urgency in 2009 amid fears that loans and grants will be scarcer than in the past due to the recession.
Henry Weiner is a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior studying this semester in Prague, Czech Republic. Nate Juergens is a Macalester College sophomore studying this month in Rome, Italy.
On orders from their father (me) and mother (my spouse, Ann Juergens) they wrote emails about what they saw and felt an ocean away on Tuesday during Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Can $400,000 buy UW-Madison a better campus radio station?
Former chancellor John Wiley thought so. Last year he earmarked an unrestricted grant to help WSUM move from its former location in the Towers on State Street. The station’s posh new studio is inside the newly constructed University Square multipurpose monolith.
The invitations have been sent through Facebook. The rules are set. Police and medical responders are ready to go.
When a whistle blows Saturday afternoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison students will begin pelting each other with snowballs in a fight they hope will go down in history.
The snowballs flew in barrage after barrage at UW-Madison, but Saturdayâ??s fight fell far short of the record that organizers hoped to achieve.
After two teams at the UW-Madison campus battled back and forth for about 45 minutes, organizer Mike Basak acknowledged the turnout was nowhere near the record for a snowball fight.
The snowballs were flying on the UW-Madison campus Saturday, but it probably won’t result in a world record.
Nonetheless, it was an amazing site to see on Bascom Hill. A UW student used a page on the social networking site Facebook to recruit students for the snowball fight of all snowball fights. He wanted to break the current record of most participants.
The students came prepared and excited. “I first heard about it in class, then the Facebook thing started, and you know, I loved watching that thing grow from the first few days from 200 to several thousand,” said student Jacob Sager.
A group of UW-Madison students braved the cold on Saturday to send a message to President Barack Obama.
They urged the newly inaugurated President to not forget his promise for change at the “Hold Change Accountable” rally outside of Library Mall.
While President Obama is promoting his economic stimulus package, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students are promoting the idea that Obama needs to live up to his many campaign promises.
Students gathered in downtown Madison Saturday for a peaceful rally calling on President Obama, Wisconsin state legislators, and new UW chancellor Biddy Martin, to fulfill their promises and bring necessary change directly into young people’s lives.
UW senior Alex Kalfayan wasn’t initially planning on joining the rally.
The head of Wisconsin’s private colleges would like to put three student financial aid funds into just one pot.
Rolf Wegenke, Ph.D., President of Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU), says there’s a financial aid disparity between colleges within our state.
Although he believes the UW System, the technical schools and the private colleges need more financial aid overall for their students, Wegenke (pronounce) says the UW fund gets a much greater percentage, by a ratio of 10-1.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Violence Against Women granted UW-Madison $300,000 Thursday to help prevent domestic violence on campus. Other partners from within the university and around the Dane County area will work with the university to help prevent not only domestic violence, but sexual assault and stalking as well.
Madison landlord Dave Wood recently proposed a campaign directed toward UW-Madison students that seeks to increase safety education in student housing.
A notice posted on the UW-Madison Law School website Tuesday seeking interns for the re-election campaign of Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson is drawing criticism from one lawmaker.
As the Wisconsin State Supreme Court race draws nearer, a new controversy has emerged regarding current Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamsonâ??s use of the University of Wisconsinâ??s Law Schoolâ??s Career and Student Service newsletter.
Memorial Union employees submitted a letter to Union administration Thursday afternoon asking that a policy banning non-University of Wisconsin students from being employed as Union building managers be reconsidered.
The former Republican chair of the Assembly committee overseeing higher education blasted state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson’s election campaign Thursday for posting a solicitation for campaign workers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Web site.
“It appears that the chief justice’s campaign is using her influence and office to solicit campaign workers through the UW-Madison Law School,” said Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, in a press release. “The description of these internships is clearly unseemly, unethical and possibly illegal.”
And in short order, the liberal group One Wisconsin Now said Nass ought to look at his own Internet posting at UW-Whitewater for an internship in his own office and another internship opportunity sent to UW-Madison students last summer by the Republican Party of Wisconsin. Nass’ name is listed on the site among a host of politicians from both political parties who offer internships, according to the UW-Whitewater Web site.
Despite significant strains on the state budget, higher education leaders in Wisconsin say it’s critical that college remains affordable and accessible to students as the nation grinds its way through the recession.
Rolf Wegenke, president of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, said it’s critical to keep investing money in our students.
