“Sadly, I am not surprised by the findings of this report,” says Erika Marín-Spiotta, a biogeochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who is leading a US$1.1-million US initiative to develop strategies to address sexual harassment in science settings.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student was burned when her clothing caught fire while she was cooking in a dormitory kitchen.
The state paid at least $541,000 in settlements in the last decade in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct, including sexual assault or harassment, by UW-Madison employees, according to public records released Monday.
Undergraduate female students lodged seven sexual harassment complaints against University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, academic staffers and graduate students over the past decade, including one that resulted in a firing.
Chancellor Blank says complaints and investigations will probably increase as university cracks down.
A UW-Madison student suffered burns Sunday afternoon when her shirt caught fire while she was boiling water in a dormitory kitchen.
Students looking to report sexual assault to the university may soon have another option: an online software advocates says will serve as an accessible, inclusive way of connecting survivors with the resources on campus.
If you’ve logged on to Twitter lately, you may have noticed that the University of Wisconsin Police Department’s logo is now teal. This is just a small step in UW-Madison’s effort to increase dialogue about sexual violence on campus during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
In an effort to increase transparency regarding the prevention of sexual assault and the steps taken by UW-Madison after a case is reported, Associated Students of Madison hosted a panel of staff members involved in the processes Wednesday night.
“Every single Badger has a role” in the prevention and understanding of sexual assault, Samantha Johnson of UHS said.
Wisconsin taxpayers have paid nearly $800,000 over the past decade to settle a dozen claims of sexual harassment and one more related case, newly released records show.
Another settlement involved a University of Wisconsin-Madison heating plant employee who said that she faced unwanted sexual advances from the facility’s superintendent and was forced to share a locker room with male co-workers, according to the documents. UW-Madison agreed to pay her $250,000 in 2008.
Wisconsin taxpayers have paid at least $735,500 since 2007 to resolve at least 12 complaints of sexual harassment, newly released records show.
A 22-year-old UW-Madison student was struck by a car early Sunday morning, with the driver telling police he didn’t see the man in the street.
A UW-Madison student was hit by a car while crossing Langdon Street around 1 a.m. on Sunday, March 25th.
Campbell, 30, was placed in the Deferred Prosecution Program by the Dane County District Attorney’s Office in February 2017 after pleading guilty to battery for choking a fellow UW Hoofers sailor in September 2016. In an essay he wrote for the program, he bemoaned the publicity his arrest had garnered, the “depressing” time he spent in the Dane County Jail, the loss of a job he loved and the money he would have received from it, and the fact that he was now banned from UW-Madison property, according to a search warrant filed Wednesday in Dane County Circuit Court.
Government officials, authority figures and community members gathered Wednesday night to explore solutions to various safety issues facing University of Wisconsin students.
JEFFERSON — An internationally known expert on pediatric child abuse testified on Wednesday — day three of a trial in Jefferson County Circuit Court — that injuries sustained by a 4-month-old Lake Mills boy appear to have been intentionally inflicted by his day care provider.
Coleman Chung, accused of attacking two women last fall in separate UW campus-area incidents, including one in which a woman was struck with an ax and ordered into the trunk of a car, was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting a third woman after she passed out at a campus dining hall, and recording the assault on video.
UW Hospital confirms the person at the center of an abuse investigation at Meriter Hospital previously worked at UW Hospital.
Coleman Chung has been in custody since attacking two other women on campus earlier this year.
Coleman Chung was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting a woman who passed out at a UW-Madison dining hall on Sept. 29 and recording the incident on video.
In his column on Sunday, “Killers on campus,” Michael Arntfield tries to tie a series of unsolved murders of young women at UW-Madison to the student protests against the war in Vietnam. His thesis — that three serial killers were able to operate because “the white noise of activism and political agitation … obfuscate(d) their presence” is reprehensible and ludicrous.
Police officers arrested a UW-Madison student Friday on State Street for creating disturbances, as he experienced what appeared to be a mental health or substance abuse crisis.
UW Police secured the scene and the Fire Department assigned a Safety Officer to observe all of the operations and make sure that no people were injured during the rescue.
A UW-Madison student who was possibly suffering from a mental health or substance abuse crisis was restrained and arrested on tentative charges of trespassing and resisting or obstructing an officer Friday morning on State Street near the university’s campus, police said.
UW-Madison officials said they are confident in the security measures put in place in dorms, after a shooting on Central Michigan University’s campus that killed two people Friday.
Under the president’s plan, teachers would get paid more to go through the training necessary to carry a gun in school.
Galioto allegedly pushed the UW Madison student into Rome’s Tiber River, where he drowned. Solomon was in Rome for a five-week course at John Cabot University and disappeared at around 01:00 on July 1, 2016.
On Wednesday, the day before he turned 22, former University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook went before a judge in Dane County criminal court and put an end to a major case of campus serial rape, pleading guilty to sexually assaulting three female classmates, and suffocating or stalking two others.
A driver who was drunk and on drugs when he struck and killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A Madison man whose careening SUV jumped a curb and struck and killed a UW-Madison student from China, only minutes after she last communicated by social media with her mother in Beijing, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.
A driver who was drunk and on drugs when he struck and killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A 33-year-old man was sentenced in Dane County court Thursday in connection with a drunken-driving-related death of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last year.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of a series of sexual assaults pleaded guilty to five felony charges Wednesday in Dane County Court. Under the plea agreement, 21-year-old Alec Cook will also have to register as a sex offender.
A former student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has pleaded guilty to five felonies stemming from a string of alleged assaults around campus.
An expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison business student accused of sexually preying on 11 women pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges involving five of them, closing the book on a high-profile case that shook the state’s flagship campus and drew national attention in fall 2016.
Nearly half of all undergraduate Native American women on the UW-Madison campus have experienced sexual assault, according to a 2015 campus survey on the issue.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook pleaded guilty Wednesday to five felonies, including three counts of third-degree sexual assault, nearly bringing to a close a sprawling case that had been set for seven trials involving 11 alleged victims that were to have happened over the next several months.
Alec Cook, the former University of Wisconsin-Madison student facing charges including, among others, sexual assault, harassment, and stalking at least 10 women, will plead guilty and avoid trial that was scheduled to start early next week.
In the wake of the school shooting that killed 17 high school students in Parkland, FL, safety is one again a main concern at schools across the country.
A former student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is accused of sexually assaulting and stalking female students is expected to plead guilty Wednesday.
Remaining charges can still be taken into account in sentencing.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook, accused of sexual assault, stalking and other offenses mostly involving female UW students, will plead guilty on Wednesday to five criminal charges, one of his lawyers said Monday, days ahead of the first of seven anticipated trials against Cook that was to begin next week.
MADISON, Wis. – A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student facing sexual assault, stalking and strangulation charges will plead guilty to five counts ahead of a jury trial scheduled for next week, according to one of his attorneys.
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections’ supervision of Montee Ball following his conviction for domestic violence was called an abject failure by a Dane County judge who denied its request for a hearing to extend the probation of the former University of Wisconsin and NFL running back.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook is set to begin his first of seven trials on Feb. 26 in Jefferson County. Cook faces a total of 21 charges, six of which will be covered in the first trial.
A swastika and the homosexual slur “FAG” were discovered written in the snow between Botany Gardens and Chamberlin Hall early Tuesday morning.
In an effort to help staff and faculty deal with intimidating behavior on campus, University of Wisconsin announced the creation of a “Hostile and Intimidating Behavior” website to address workplace bullying.
Nearly 100 formal complaints of sexual misconduct have been made against University of Wisconsin System faculty since 2014, a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed.
The first trial for a former UW-Madison student accused of multiple sexual assaults starts later this month in Jefferson County.
Alec Cook will be tried in Jefferson County, court officials said Monday. Cook is the expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison student whose alleged serial sexual assaults attracted such intense publicity that a pair of Dane County Circuit judges ruled he might not get a fair trial in Madison.
Burglaries at two residence halls on the UW-Madison campus on Sunday were committed by non-students who came into the halls by following student residents, police say.
Those universities that publicly proclaimed they would maintain the previous sexual assault guidelines include schools that have dealt with high-profile cases in recent years, including Stanford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On a fall night in 2016, a young woman left the library at University of Wisconsin-Madison and walked home, joined by a fellow student she’d recently met.
A former UW-Madison employee stole more than $100,000 from the Division of University Housing, UW officials said Thursday.
The UW System Regents took UW-Madison administrators to task Thursday for a lack of controls that allowed a former Division of University Housing employee to allegedly defraud the university of an estimated $115,000 in property and cash.
Representative for Sen. Tammy Baldwin also attended Tuesday meeting.
In a Saturday morning incident, Madison Police Department officers pulled a man to safety from a sixth floor balcony they believed he was prepared to jump from.
Madison Area Technical College received 39 reports of sexual harassment — 15 of stalking and 20 of sexual assault — in the past decade, according to information provided by college officials.
