UW-Madison has been working to ensure the safety of the thousands of students who study abroad each year, campus officials said following the death of sophomore Beau Solomon in Rome last week.
Study abroad programs such as the one UW-Madison student Beau Solomon had arrived in Rome to attend before he was killed over the weekend don’t disclose to parents or prospective students how often their participants are injured or die, according to an advocate for greater oversight of the programs.
Mike Honer was about to drive to work at Culver’s here Monday when his parents stopped him to tell him that a body found in a Rome river was presumed to be his good friend and former River Valley High School classmate Beau Solomon.
The recent death of Beau Solomon has sparked fear in some planning to study abroad. As a result, campuses throughout the UW System are preparing students to travel abroad, while reiterating the importance of safety
The suspected murder of UW-Madison study abroad student Beau Solomon in Rome follows the suspicious death of a University of Iowa student a year ago.
For many students studying abroad is the experience of a lifetime. But being out of the states in a new country with different cultures and language barriers can also present its challenges. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has around 24 students currently studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, this summer. UW-Madison started sending students to JCU in 2012.
He was the luckiest kid in the world.That’s how the family of Beau Solomon felt just over a decade ago, when the young boy from Spring Green got to meet legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre through the Make-A-Wish program.
Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of a U.S. college student whose body was found in Rome’s Tiber river this week, as police tried to establish if the teenager was murdered less than 24 hours after arriving in Italy for summer classes.
Rome police detained a homeless man on suspicion he pushed a 19-year-old American student into the Tiber River after a fight, as details emerged about Beau Solomon’s final hours in the thick of Rome’s summertime nightlife.
About 200 people gathered at the football stadium at River Valley High School in Spring Green for a candlelight vigil to remember Beau Solomon.
Italian police say they have arrested a homeless man in the death of UW-Madison student Beau Solomon, whose body was found Monday in Rome’s Tiber River.
Police at UW-Madison are investigating a strong-arm robbery that occurred on campus early Friday morning.
The body of an American teenager was found in Rome on Monday, after a four-day search for the student who went missing hours after arriving in Italy to attend a summer school program.
ROME — A homeless man was detained on Tuesday in connection with the death of a 19-year-old student from Wisconsin who disappeared just hours after he landed in Rome, the Italian authorities said.
A homeless man was charged with murder Tuesday in connection with the death of U.S. college student Beau Solomon, who vanished just hours after arriving in the Italian capital last week.
Police at UW-Madison are investigating a strong-arm robbery that occurred on campus early Friday morning.
Noted: Crimes committed in Wisconsin have landed six men plus Minor on the most wanted list. Four were added the same day, Sept. 4, 1970, for the bombing of the Army research center at Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that killed a researcher, Robert Fassnacht.
The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) announces it has hired Susan Riseling as its new executive director. She will assume the position effective, Aug. 8.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling announced her retirement Wednesday.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling — the first woman and youngest person to lead a Big Ten university police force — will retire Aug. 7 after 25 years at the campus.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling will retire in August after being on the force for 25 years. Riseling plans to continue working, however, as head of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
Court records show investigators are now focusing on one UW-Madison student in connection with two, separate sex assaults at his campus apartment.
Authorities say two UW-Madison roommates are under investigation for separate sex assaults.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials and police are updating their active shooter tactics in response to the massacre in Orlando over the weekend.
A UW-Madison student was arrested Wednesday for an alleged sexual assault Downtown that was reported early Sunday morning.
Madison Police Department arrested UW-Madison student Nathan J. Friar June 8 for second-degree sexual assault and strangulation of a 21-year-old female.
The University of Wisconsin System is under fire following a series of alleged campus sexual assaults.
Two men who were sought by UW-Madison police after vandalism was discovered at a construction site at the Memorial Union were charged Monday with four misdemeanors each.
Ten ducklings were rescued from a storm drain Monday morning.
According to the UW-Madison Police Department, the ducklings were stuck in a strom drain at Park Street and Observatory Drive.
UW-Madison students marched on campus this week to demand better action by police to prevent sexual assault.
Dozens marched on the UW-Madison campus Tuesday night, to speak out against recent sexual assaults.
They walked from Bascom Hill to Memorial Union, chanting.
Student Claire Van Valkenburg organized the march.
The Dane County district attorney says a University of Wisconsin-Madison student won’t be charged for a series of political graffiti messages spray-painted on campus buildings. Instead, the 21-year-old senior will enter a restorative court in Madison.
A UW-Madison student who could have faced a dozen criminal counts for a series of political graffiti messages spray-painted on campus buildings won’t be charged, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Tuesday.
A competency hearing was ordered for a Madison man after he was charged Tuesday with tagging buildings and electrical boxes in the Downtown and UW-Madison campus areas with symbols representative of white supremacist groups.
Three men have been arrested in connection with a string of graffiti incidents that have taken place over the past few weeks.
(Video) The Mifflin Street Block Party is known for chaotic house parties, binge drinking and drawing large crowds of college students ready to celebrate the end of the school year. Madison police are preparing for the weekend event and offered safety reminders to revelers. Eden Checkol reports.
A Madison man faces charges from Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison police departments in connection with a weeks-long graffiti spree in central Madison, officials said.
One of three men arrested for allegedly spraying white supremacist symbols near the UW-Madison campus will be charged with hate crimes.
I hope all the protesters of the handling of the Denzel McDonald situation take the time to read the April 22 State Journal editorial, “Cop camera brings clarity to controversy.”
Since a violent 2011 block party on Mifflin Street spurred Madison officials to crack down on the unsanctioned event, police costs have declined.
Police are asking for the community’s help to identify two men who they believe damaged property inside the Memorial Union early Tuesday morning.
The UW-Madison Police Department is looking for two men who damaged property inside the Memorial Union early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
Noted: Riendeau previously worked at UW-Madison, but was fired, and is currently banned from campus.
Records in connection to the revocation of Riendeau’s probation from a past, criminal case, show he sent emails to a state worker evaluating his bid to try to regain his job, that included threats against the university. “I can assure the Commission that as soon as my unemployment runs out, I will be running amok on campus,” Riendeau wrote in July 2013.
Police shared three surveillance video images and asked the public’s help identifying the two men pictured suspected in a property damage incident Tuesday.
Late Monday night at approximately 10:38 p.m., three men vandalized two parking signs at a sorority house on Langdon Street with anti-Semitic symbols, according to an email sent to members of the UW-Madison chapter Kappa Alpha Theta.
This instance comes only a few days after two other cases of anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on university buildings, including the west-end wall of the University Bookstore and Engineering Mall.
The Madison Fire Department says a garbage truck fire that broke out at a parking lot Monday on Lake Street caused $5,000 in damages to the Advanced Disposal truck.
Firefighters respond to a garbage truck fire on Lake Street Monday morning.
Since 1969, students have taken to the streets for the biggest block party of the year. This year, police have a plan to keep everyone safe this year on Mifflin Street.
Madison’s police chief says he wants the annual Mifflin Street Block Party to be a thing of the past.
Firefighters put out a large trash fire after a garbage truck driver dumped trash that had caught fire in the back of his truck in a parking lot in downtown Madison Monday, according to a release.
Despite a recent stretch of toned-down, relatively tame celebrations, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is worried that this year’s Mifflin Street block party on Saturday may be a bad one, and increased police presence is planned as alternative programming put on by UW-Madison to divert attention from the spring party shrinks.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party will likely see an increase in police presence, coinciding with a scaled back music festival sponsored by the Wisconsin Union. Koval said the police department will continue efforts to downsize and eventually eliminate the event, saying the unsanctioned block party has “all the earmarks of a very real public safety concern.”
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is worried that this year’s Mifflin Street block party may be a bad one.
An investigation into a reported sexual assault near the Madison’s Memorial Union doesn’t support the victim’s claim, police said.
Investigators looking into the reported April 8 incident used 44 minutes of surveillance video to track the alleged victim’s movement from a Downtown bar to a location where she was found by police and found no evidence an assault took place, the department said Friday.
University of Wisconsin students, staff and faculty are holding a walkout protest Thursday in reaction to recent hate crimes on campus and the controversial arrest of a student.
Kaleem Caire wrote an open letter with his wife, Lisa Peyton-Caire, both of whom are alumni of UW-Madison; Caire is the former head of the Urban League of Greater Madison. They said they’ve watched with growing concern the response of campus leaders to racially charged incidents and believe the incidents should be handled much differently.
UW-Madison police issued two alerts Wednesday night about 20 minutes apart, one for an assault and the other for a fight, with the two incidents not related to each other.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students marched through campus Thursday, chanting “education, not incarceration,” to protest the arrest of a student for his alleged role in spraypainting graffiti art around campus.
University Wisconsin Madison Police sent out a crime alert warning people to avoid Memorial Union in response to two reports of a man grabbing women on campus.
