With nearly 600 bicycles sitting in storage, UW-Madison police are hoping that people who have had bikes stolen from them anywhere in Dane County will come forward and reclaim them.
In Tuesday’s installment of the spring Black Lives Matter Speaker Series, black feminist scholar Brittney Cooper challenged the idea of respectability in a talk to UW-Madison students and community members.
After a 10-month-long investigation, the UW-Madison Police Department is seeking charges against two men for stealing hundreds of bicycles around the Madison area, Chief Susan Riseling said at a news conference Tuesday.
Following the success of the Year of Water and the Year of the Lakes, Monona Mayor Bob Miller on Monday declared 2015 as the Year of the Bike in the city. The vision began, Miller said, when he met with Maggie Grabow from the Global Health Institute at University of Wiscosnin-Madison. Grabow has done an extensive amount of research on the benefits of biking.
Noted: A UW-Madison study identified the problems associated with unsupervised children during after-school hours.
More than a thousand protesters packed into the Capitol rotunda Monday morning to protest the death of Tony Robinson, the unarmed teen shot and killed by a Madison police officer last Friday.
A rally on the campus of the University of Wisconsin took place Monday before students marched to the state capitol, and the demonstrations and actions remained calm and peaceful, with no reported arrests or other issues.
More than 100 UW students have signed up to stage a walk-out this morning from classes after an unarmed teenager was shot by a police officer Friday.
At a gathering hosted by the Multicultural Student Center Saturday, more than 50 UW-Madison community members sat in a circle with bowed heads, sharing a moment of silence for Tony Robinson.
Brandi Grayson, a leader of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, told Madison.com about 300 to 400 UW-Madison students are planning to march from campus to the Capitol, and students from all of Madison’s public high schools and Sun Prairie High School are also invited to come down to the Capitol to join in the protest.
A first-of-its-kind UW-Madison study has dug deep into the lives of transgender high school students in Wisconsin, finding both hopeful signs and dire circumstances.
Career Corner is a monthly column written by staff members of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies.
UW-Madison police this week seized nearly 600 bicycles — many believed to have been stolen — from four locations around Madison and in Muscoda, the culmination of an investigation that started in May with a letter from a prison inmate, according to search warrants filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
Wausau East High School received a special musical visit Sunday afternoon.
Hundreds of Wausau Badger fans welcome the U-W Madison Varsity Band, as they put on a high-energy show Sunday in the Wausau East High School gym.
UW Police Department engaged in a 20-minute high-speed chase Thursday at 2:20 a.m., resulting in the arrest of a Madison man, according to a UWPD press release.
The last year’s outrage over police brutality and racism that has led to the national Black Lives Matter Movement is not a recent development, but part of a long history of inequality in the justice system, according to Madison musician and historian Simon Balto.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said an officer responded to a report of a truck swerving and running stoplights at 2:20 a.m. The officer spotted the truck at Monroe Street and Woodrow Street and attempted to stop the driver.
The first time for the long-planned, but new, Wisconsin Public TV door-to-door campaign, at the same time as their usual membership drive, comes as Governor Walker, who himself has appeared on Sesame Street, proposes cutting the state agency and the UW System — that partner to run public broadcasting — by millions.
According to the UW-Madison Police Department, a UWPD officer was responding to a report of a truck swerving and running stoplights at approximately 2:20 a.m. The driver would not stop and took officers on a chase that lasted more than 20 minutes. At times, the driver reached speeds that exceed 100 miles per hour.
Noted: UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott says, “These are really neat toys, they’re great pieces of technology, but at a cost to a certain extent. We worry about the people on the ground and what damage it could do.”
WAUSAU — The University of Wisconsin Varsity Band is bringing its rousing, high-energy show to central Wisconsin on Sunday, and 2014 Stevens Point Area Senior High graduate Caitlyn Emrick, a freshman tuba player with the band, is excited to perform near her hometown.
Madison has become a hub for creative entrepreneurs for a variety of reasons, such as a relatively low cost of living compared to big cities; the university, which attracts creative people; and resources for young families. “Artists have always been entrepreneurial in their nature,” agreed Sarah Marty, who teaches an arts entrepreneurship class, launched in 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s very rare that an artist has been able to just exist and someone else takes care of figuring out their audience … who’s going to buy what they’re doing.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison report says that the demand for organic produce and meat is outpacing the supply in Wisconsin.
To WOECF Graduate Project Assistant David Lassen, the fellowship is a way to make the Wisconsin Idea manifest locally for communities around the state. “There’s a lot of folks that are interested in this idea of taking the university to the state,” Lassen said. “I think there are a lot of people who are anxious to actually do it but don’t know how.”
Quoted: Joshua Morrill, senior evaluator in DoiT’s Academic Technology; Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute.
Quoted: “People want to see Christ, and hopefully, as a priest, I can bring him to them,” said Jablonski, 33, who grew up in Appleton and graduated from UW-Madison. “Its a beautiful, wonderful, joyful life.”
While campus transportation trends appear to reflect an environmentally and tech conscious student body, challenges remain to support the public transportation options students rely on to efficiently get around campus.
Sixty-nine alumni are currently in the Peace Corps, ranking second in the nation in number of graduates carrying on President John F. Kennedy’s mission to recruit Americans to do good around the globe.
1. Madison, Wisconsin. Home to the University of Wisconsin and 11 highly ranked hospitals, Madison rolls out the red carpet for seniors. The city, which is 150 miles from the cultural hub of Chicago, boasts high employment growth and a low crime rate, along with abundant recreational and fitness facilities, YMCAs, libraries, museums and movie theaters.
A similar effort is being undertaken by Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, who with County Board approval has assembled a committee of representatives from the Sheriff’s Office, the County Board and the District Attorney’s Office, a UW professor and community members to identify potential problems and offer solutions before implementing a body camera program.
The UW-Madison has long wanted to have a permanent, physical presence in south Madison, a neighborhood that has experienced more than its fair share of struggles and outside assumptions.
Last month, I was on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at a talk on race. The facilitator began by apologizing for being a white man. I went quiet
The UW South Madison Partnership is open for business.
Laura Wyatt promotes urban outdoors as administrative program manager of UW-Madison’s Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
David Drake, an associate professor of forest and wildlife ecology and a UW Extension wildlife specialist, is leading a research team that is humanely trapping and tracking foxes and coyotes who are making the campus their home.
Between today and 2020, Wisconsin will have approximately 75,000 job openings that require educational credentials beyond the bachelor’s degree. These include 12,000 jobs in science, technology, engineering and math, plus 22,000 jobs in managerial and professional office work, according to a Georgetown University study.
Column by April McHugh, a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Report on panel discussion about the satirical French newspaper.
The Madison metro area ranked first in the nation for having the highest percentage of graduates in STEM fields.
Artists tend to be masters at multitasking and “can’t afford to be ivory tower,” according to flute professor Stephanie Jutt, the moderator of “Arts in Madison: An Economic Engine,” co-sponsored by the Advocacy Consortium for Entrepreneurs and the Arts Institute. Also quoted: Ben Reiser, coordinator of the Wisconsin Film Festival; Paula Panczenko, director of Tandem Press; Kurt Squire, professor of education and vice president of research at the UW Learning Games Network; Christopher Taylor, professor of piano.
In an effort to further research in veterinary medicine, the University of Wisconsin is looking to expand a newly created animal shelter medicine program with a newly acquired $1.3 million in funds.
In an effort to inspire further dialogue about injustice in America, the selection committee for UW-Madison’s common-reading program is seeking book suggestions that address the theme of inequality.
The season’s first MOOC brings together the DNR, UW-Madison, the Aldo Leopold Foundation and thousands of students via the Internet. The end of class get-together features venison stew. “What an opportunity to sort of marry this digital free content to face-to-face engagement around the state,” said EI spokeswoman Lika Balenovich.
Noted: A trio of prominent local African-Americans describes the subtle slights, how they don their racial ‘armor’ and offer advice to white Madisonians. Included: Everett Mitchell, director of community relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team and Bucky Badger skate and sign autographs during Groove & Glide event at Vilas Park on Sunday. The event by Madison Parks is hosted at different outdoor ice rinks around town.
Takeaways from the “UW Voices” series will inform the implementation of the new campus diversity plan.
Noted: Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor of curriculum and instruction, spoke from her experience in teaching and education research, noting that some things haven’t changed since the time portrayed in the movie “Selma.”
“We have young people in particular in the state of Wisconsin, black children who can’t read,” she said. “That’s a fundamental issue for me; it’s what I’ve devoted my entire life’s work to.”
“According to UW-Madison sociology professor Pam Oliver’s research, racial disparities occur throughout the criminal justice process.”
Karma Chávez, an associate professor in the university’s department of communication arts, hosted a lively debate Thursday on whether body cameras can help prevent police violence.
