Jolene Anderson expects to spend her third summer competing at an international level.
The senior-to-be with the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team was selected as a finalist Sunday for the U21 World Championship team that will take part in the World Championships June 29 to July 8 in Moscow. The current 14-member roster will be trimmed to 12 players after practice resumes June 12 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Futons are strapped to cartops. Old, stained carpets are tossed in the trash. Football game ticket stubs and textbooks are stuffed into boxes.
It’s move-out time at UW-Madison’s residence halls, a process that’s done with surprising efficiency.
MADISON, Wis. — Parents of students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon be able to keep better tabs on the experiences their sons or daughters are having.
A special parent program will launch in June that includes a Web site, a parent newsletter and special notices for any emergencies on campus. UW officials said the move is to help keep parents informed as they’re becoming increasingly involved in their children’s education, WISC-TV reported.
MADISON, Wis. — One of the University of Wisconsin’s oldest graduates to earn a bachelor’s degree this year had to overcome some life-changing obstacles to walk with his fellow students.
Mike Hinrichs, 40, lost his vision in 1999 to diabetes.
“When I went blind over 8 years ago, I never had any idea how far I’d be able to make it,” said Hinrichs.
MADISON, Wis. — The inaugural class of the PEOPLE Program graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday.
PEOPLE — Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity for Learning Excellence — is designed to give minority students a jumpstart on college. The students apply for the program in either middle school or high school.
One of the students who graduated this weekend is Mohammed Farhoud. He said the program has given him a chance to pursue his passion: designing 3-D models.
MADISON, Wis. — It was a happy weekend on the UW Madison campus as thousands earned degrees.
Graduates are entering one of the best job markets in years, and many at the UW are taking full advantage.
“I’m starting work on June 4 at Epic Systems in Verona and I’m very excited about it,” said industrial engineering graduate Andrew Forecki.
Forecki is joining a group that’s increasingly in demand.
“I think it’s been a very good job market for engineers at least, most of my engineering friends have really good jobs lined up,” said Forecki.
A Madison man is presumed drowned after he was swept out to sea more than a week ago during a trip to South Africa.
Rescuers had been searching for 52-year-old Sasha Sternberg since he disappeared May 10th.
The Kohl Center was packed with proud parents and students for a graduation ceremony at UW Madison.
About 5,000 students will receive degrees from UW.
The inaugural Tong Biomedical Engineering Design Award competition for students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison yielded devices designed for the use of radiologists, audiologists and those treating sports-related injuries.
All of the devices were designed by UW-Madison biomedical engineering students. The competition earlier this month at UW-Madison involved nearly 150 biomedical engineering students. First-place awards were given to teams from the sophomore, junior and senior classes.
A new corporate emphasis on a “triple bottom line” is leading to new and varied jobs for University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, a trend that is expected to grow rapidly.
“The traditional bottom line is that a company has to perform well financially, but now that company has to have a good environmental performance and a good social responsibility record as well,” said Dan Anderson, a professor in the UW School of Business who also teaches at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Some UW-Madison law students are questioning a decision by administrators to end the Legal Defense Program, in which students gain experience working as public defenders on criminal cases under the supervision of an attorney.
“The program offers so much of a diverse experience. I was able to handle every aspect of the criminal litigation process from the initial appearance in court all the way through sentencing,” said Nicole Weir, who is graduating this month. “No other program offers that independence.”
Opinions vary on whether it’s good that college students today are much more connected to their parents.
But questions of independence and maturity aside, the trend toward what some call “helicopter parents” for their hovering tendency has been demonstrated by national studies. In fact, a survey by College Parents of America this year showed that 30 percent of college students communicate with their parents once a day and 73 percent do so two or three times per week, by phone or e-mail.
So University of Wisconsin-Madison officials decided to get into the act — with improved communication efforts and support services for parents.
MILWAUKEE — Ryan Lipscomb lived to tell how it felt to have a truck run over his head. “Really strange,” he said.
Lipscomb, 26 of Seattle, suffered a concussion but was otherwise unhurt. He was shaken up, especially after he saw his mangled helmet.
Lipscomb, a graduate student in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was riding down a bike path in Madison on Friday afternoon. As he approached an intersection, he said, he noticed the oncoming delivery truck preparing to make a right turn in front of him.
BERKELEY, Calif. – A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997. That’s when he was the lone black student enrolled in the incoming law school class at the University of California, Berkeley, following the end of affirmative action admissions.
He didn’t read them. That box doesn’t hold pleasant memories.
“I felt bad for myself at the time because of my situation, but worse for the people who were denied admission,” said Brooks.
Congressional leaders have sent letters to 19 major university presidents warning them to step up efforts to curb illegal Internet file sharing or Congress “will be forced to act.”
“The fact that copyright piracy is not unique to college and university campuses is not an excuse for higher education officials to fail to take reasonable steps neither to eliminate such activity nor to appropriately sanction such conduct when discovered,” said a letter addressed to Purdue University president Martin Jischke May 1, 2007.
Purdue is among the top universities with the most illegal Internet downloading activity in the United States, according to surveys cited in the letter.
“It worked perfectly. Without the helmet, I wouldn’t be here,” Ryan Lipscomb says.
His helmet’s almost crushed, but a local bicyclist says it saved his life during a hit and run crash on Madison’s East Side.
This week is Bike to Work Week. A local graduate student is a living example of why you should wear a helmet on your next commute. This young man says he always wears a helmet. He was on his way home to study when the crash happened. On Monday, he took his test, after putting his head to the test in a hit and run crash.
MADISON, Wis. — A UW graduate student is thankful to be alive after being involved in a hit-and-run while biking on Friday.
Ryan Lipscomb said he was biking along the bike path along Eastwood Drive near Division Street around 3 p.m. on Friday when he was hit by a delivery truck.
“The delivery truck was in the right lane and turned right,” said Lipscomb. I slammed on my brakes. I was probably to that first cross mark on the crosswalk.”
“You know I was laying there in the street for a second and I thought to myself, ‘Man this could have been a lot worse, you know,’ said Lipscomb. “Then I felt the truck run over my head.”
(UNDATED) As thousands of college graduates try to enter the labor force this summer, it may help some candidates to have a background in environmental sustainability.
Home Depot is one of the companies that says itâ??s now taking a long view of the environment and following some sustainable policies and practices. Unless the corporations are engaging in false environmental image- making, known as â??greenwashing,â? the switch could be good news for college grads with experience in energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture and certain other fields.
Tom Eggert teaches classes on business and sustainability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says the green building movement is another area seeking educated workers. This is not something coming from the industry itself, he says, but rather comes from the people who are having these buildings built or deciding to go in a way that would be aligned with being energy efficient or aligned with indoor air quality. (Final item.)
The end of the runway stretching the length of the Great Hall in the Memorial Union will be just the beginning of many journeys for students in the University of Wisconsin’s textile and apparel design program in the School of Human Ecology.
And becoming true professionals, they’ll show no sign of all the sleepless nights of preparation that lead up to the annual Textile and Apparel Student Association (TASA) Spring Fashion Show on Sunday.
It was a routine day in Iraq for Jake Wood.
And routine means dealing with the daily strife that includes sniper fire, searching for buried explosive devices and crushing boredom.
Wood is a former University of Wisconsin football player, an offensive lineman from Bettendorf, Iowa, and a lance corporal in the U.S. Marines, stationed near Fallujah. He’s in charge of a squad of 12 men.
MADISON, Wis. — The 42-year history of one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s most historic dormitory halls will come to an end next week.
Students will vacate Ogg Hall for the last time after finals are finished next week. The building is set to be demolished over the summer, WISC-TV reported.
Many students said that they’re wondering what the legacy of Ogg Hall will be.
The 42-year old building will be gone by fall, but it’s name will live on in the new dorm built just a block away.
Even in its final year. Ogg’s reputation didn’t stop students from requesting to live in the dorm that couldn’t be saved.
Ogg opened in 1965. It went up pretty quick because of increased enrollment at the UW in the 60s.
But 40 years later, the towers became too expensive to renovate. The inside reflects that.
A security review triggered by the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech will focus on how University of Wisconsin campuses can intervene with troubled students to prevent violence, officials said Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A security review triggered by the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech will focus on how University of Wisconsin campuses can intervene with troubled students to prevent violence, officials said Thursday.
Among the problems already discovered is a shortage of mental health counselors to treat students, said University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling, who is leading the review.
â??At this point what I can safely say is that we do not meet the national average for staffing in our counseling centers,â? she said. â??This is a problem thatâ??s growing and we know it. Unfortunately, weâ??re not sure right now the system has the resources to meet what we are currently seeing.â?
Eighth grade students have begun siging up for the Wisconsin Covenant program, which guarantees a middle schooler college admission in the state, if the teen finishes high school, maintains a “B” average and has good conduct, and takes college prepatory courses. Proponents said it could mean an increase in the number of students entering college in Wisconsin in the future.
But beyond college admission, questions remain over what students will get, in exchange for their guarantee of good grades and clean living.
Over a thousand students gathered on college campus statewide Thursday to sign the agreement. Governor Jim Doyle says the Wisconsin Covenant guarantees them enrollment at a UW campus or technical college, if they meet certain requirements after high school.
Ask the mother of any bride, or any bride for that matter, and they will tell you it’s never too early to begin to plan the party and never a mistake to hire the best party planner available.
I owe the high quality of my UW-Madison undergraduate degree to a long list of outstanding professors who not only taught facts but who sparked intellectual curiosity and academic growth in their students.
Summer is a prime time for crime.
Madison Police Department spokesperson Mike Hanson said Madison sees an increase in crime and service calls during the summer months because people spend more time outside, especially downtown.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and the city of Madison called last Halloweenâ??s lack of tear gas, violence and uncontrollable crowds a great â??success,â? and hopes to maintain these standards for celebrations in the future.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will meet today and discuss approval for two new degree programs â?? including a doctor of physical therapy at UW-Madison.
Several representatives from a number of different climate-friendly student groups participated in a rally on Library Mall Wednesday that culminated in a disappointing march to Chancellor John Wileyâ??s office.
The University of Wisconsin System Commission on University Security met Wednesday to discuss its plans to address campus safety and emergency preparedness.
A Madison-based production company will help the city plan and manage the entertainment and ticketing system at the 2007 State Street Halloween celebration, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced Wednesday.
It’s a 15-foot by 15-foot cinder block cell, but it’s their cell and they’re sad to leave.
It’s a 15-foot by 15-foot cinder block cell, but it’s their cell and they’re sad to leave.
Max Thao and Ryan Cotant are the last UW-Madison freshmen to begin their college lives as residents of Room 809 in the West Tower of Ogg Hall.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduate who said he posted threatening messages on Facebook.com as a joke has apologized to the campus community and members of UWM’s student government who were the target of the hoax.
The City of Madison is getting ready for this year’s Halloween event.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz has hired Frank Productions to help with the bash. It will again feature live entertainment and a ticketing system
With finals just around the corner, a University of Wisconsin professor and researcher specializing in psychiatry discussed some of the mysteries surrounding sleep â?? and also its importance â?? on campus Tuesday.
A University of Wisconsin System committee traveled to UW-Milwaukee Monday to hear public feedback on whether the Board of Regents should amend its student nonacademic misconduct policies.
A young attorney who has served as Madison’s bar czar for the past two years will join an attorney who moonlights with a salsa band, a civil servant who has served three mayors and a former Kerry-Edwards campaign staffer as Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s assistants.
Cieslewicz lauded Joel Plant as one of the key players in the development of last year’s successful Halloween celebration and predicts Plant “will bring that consensus-building approach to a wide range of issues in our office.”
The 29-year-old Plant has been the city’s alcohol policy coordinator since 2005.
(MADISON) The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been making the case for how the state can help the institution attract and keep top-notch faculty. Now, some are hoping to broaden the focus on recruitment and retention to the people who help the professors.
Graduate students do everything from teach in the classroom to help out in the lab as research and project assistants. Judith Kornblatt says theyâ??re part of the backbone at UW-Madison, which has more grad students than any other UW campus, and where she works as an associate dean of the graduate school. She says if one were to stop a faculty member on campus and ask whatâ??s really important to them, many would say graduate students. Also, she says if the same question were asked of an undergraduate, theyâ??d likely point to their teaching assistants in various courses.
With caps and gowns in sight, graduates of the University of Wisconsinâ??s senior class will look to find their place in the professional working world.
As some students prepare to leave Madison next week after finals, construction crews are getting ready to tear up large portions of the University of Wisconsin campus for several projects.
MADISON — Kyle Everson found himself smack dab in the middle of paradise during his spring break from the University of Wisconsin-Madison last month.
On March 30, the 20-year-old Monroe native and nine fellow students packed themselves and their camping gear into two minivans. They drove 22 hours to Georgia and took a boat ride to Cumberland Island, the largest of the Peach State’s barrier islands and the group’s Alternative Breaks destination. They returned April 8.
Thousands of eighth graders can sign up for the Wisconsin Covenant program this week but is there money to pay for it?
Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton says the goal is to enroll all 75-thousand eighth graders but she has no idea how many will actually sign up.
And that’s what’s frustrating republicans on the Joint Finance Committee who are demanding more information before they vote to put it in the budget.
Memorial Library will extend its days of 24-hour finals hours to include the three days before finals week this semester, according to Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Gestina Sewell.
Although Memorial Library usually stays open 24 hours during finals week, Sewell said, some students want to begin studying before finals week into the late hours of the night.
The Mifflin Street Block Party was a resounding success by nearly all accounts.
The University of Wisconsin is drawing the curtain on yet another eventful academic year. Faculty, students and staff have earned recognition for their work, and our sports teams collectively lead the nation.
After the tragic events that occurred at Virginia Tech, creative writing professors have begun to examine how they will handle students whose stories pose alarming questions.
Religious centers on campuses nationwide are seeing an increase in student involvement and interest in religious activities in the past few years.
At least seven high-profile professors who are leaving the political science department have some University of Wisconsin officials worried about a growing trend across campus.
The number of arrests at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party increased by more than 100 people since last year, although the Madison Police Department estimates fewer people to have attended the event.
Under gray skies and cool temperatures, a good natured crowd celebrated “Cinco de Mifflin” at the 39th annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
At least a half-dozen homemade T-shirts riffed on the cross-cultural theme created by the coincidence of this year’s block party with the Mexican holiday, including a blue one that dubbed the day “Cinco de Drunko.”
Madison: A discrimination lawsuit between the UW and a student group is settled. The U-W Roman Catholic Foundation will receive more than $253,000 in student fees next year.
Last fall the UW Roman Catholic Foundation filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin. The UW had revoked their status as a registered student group, because only 3 out of 12 RCF board members were students, and because the RCF discriminated against other students by requiring members to be Catholic.
Arrests were up and the crowd size was down at the Mifflin Street Block Party on Saturday, compared to the revelry last year. In their final release at 9:15 p.m., the Madison Police Department reported a total of 366 arrests, with nearly every person cited for a city alcohol ordinance violation and subsequently released. By comparison, some 265 persons were arrested at the party in 2006.
Madison: More than 10,000 people showed up to the annual Mifflin Street Block Party, and police made more than 350 arrests, most for alcohol related violations.
In the past, if you threw a house party for the Mifflin Street Block Party you could expect to make a little money from selling cups to your guests.
But in recent years Madison Police have cracked down on illegal house parties, handing out fines of more than $10,000 to the hosts.
In a case closely watched in higher education, the University of Wisconsin-Madison agreed Thursday to award more than $250,000 in student fees next year to a Catholic group to settle its religious discrimination lawsuit.
Both the university and the UW Roman Catholic Foundation praised the agreement, which settles a federal lawsuit filed after the university refused to recognize the group despite a campus presence dating to the 1880s.
A settlement was reached in the UW Roman Catholic Foundation federal lawsuit against the UW System Board of Regents and four UW-Madison administrators Thursday.
UW-Madison students and Mifflin Street residents are primarily worried about alcohol and noise violations Saturday at the 38th annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
Nobel Peace Prize winner â??His Holinessâ? Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, will give a public talk at 2:30 p.m. in the Kohl Center in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 9,000 UW-Madison students, faculty and community members.
