It was a big night for TV with Wisconsin ties at Sunday?s 65th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.”Modern Family,” created by Steve Levitan, who went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, won the Emmy again for best comedy series ? for the fourth straight year.
The man in the floppy hat and khaki vest was on his knees, pounding two small, brass-plated bricks into the wet sidewalk. One bore the name Arvid Harnack, the other of Mr. Harnack?s wife, Mildred Fish-Harnack ? the only American civilian to be executed on the direct order of Adolf Hitler.
When U.S. Army Reserve Captain Jane Renee “JR” Lund of Madison began her six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan in April, she knew what would make it the most challenging.
A shooting incident that prompted a lockdown Wednesday at UW-Madison and the Downtown Madison Area Technical College facility started as a drug deal that turned into a robbery followed by a foot chase that ended after one of the robbers fired a shot at his pursuers, Madison police said Thursday.
University of Wisconsin officials say its system through which it alerts students of emergencies worked on Wednesday night, September 18th, when officials sent out a mass emergency message to students after shots were fired near campus. Students say they appreciated the alert, and officials say it worked so well, the program will likely be expanded.
Five minutes after Dane County?s 911 dispatch fielded a call about a shot fired on Langdon Street by the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday, thousands of students received the same urgent message on their phones.
MADISON ? University of Wisconsin-Madison students were told to stay indoors on Wednesday night after a report of a shot fired near campus.
It has always been a challenge to describe the Waisman Center on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have issued an “all-clear” after gunfire near campus prompted a lock-down.
The robbery that led to a lockdown at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was not random, Madison police said Thursday.
Madison police detained two suspects after a shot was fired following a robbery Wednesday night Downtown. No injuries were reported but the incident caused a major disturbance as multiple police departments searched for the suspects on the UW-Madison campus as well as the Downtown Madison Area Technical College facility.
School shooters almost always telegraph their violent plans ahead of time, a tendency that could help authorities prevent assaults as long as those close to the person plotting an attack come forward in time, panelists said Tuesday at a summit for the nation?s attorneys general.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling says she has studied thousands of shootings that have taken place in the United States over the last 20 years. She?s still waiting for more details about the man who shot 12 people at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard this week before police killed him, but Riseling says mass shooters have a pattern.
There?s nothing new or even unexpected about the love-hate relationship between religion and science.
UW-Madison is warning of a Bucky Badger impostor.
Republican legislative leaders are suggesting that University of Wisconsin faculty have too much say in policies related to finances and personnel, according to a report in The Daily Cardinal.
New University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank already knows about Wisconsin?s political and fiscal landscape. As an economist and an experienced college administrator, she understands the finances of higher education.
The new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is promoting her campus as a partner, as opposed to a competitor, with other universities and communities across the state.
A fake Bucky Badger was spotted this week in the Capitol rotunda holding a sign that said: “Let Freedom Sing.”
The new University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor is making the rounds to four-year college campuses ? including Green Bay?s ? in her first weeks in the top job.
It?s that time of year again, when college recruiters swarm high schools across the country, touting their latest college rankings to woo the best and brightest prospective students. At the same time, critics line up to tell high school students and parents why they should ignore the rankings.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has the best real estate education program in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report.
UW Madison is ranked 41st — same as a year ago — in an overall review of 270 doctoral universities.
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are bracing for a full-out attack on shared governance after a Republican legislative leader called for empowering campus chancellors to ?truly be the chief executive officers.?
UW-Madison has maintained its high standing among the nation?s 270 doctoral universities, tying for 41st overall once again.
A new Legislature-mandated policy to set guidelines on how much cash reserves each state campus can carry forward met significant resistance at a Friday meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
The University of Wisconsin System budgeted $1.63 billion in salaries for the 2012-13 academic year, a 1 percent, $16.3 million increase over the previous year, according to a State Journal analysis of System data.
A meeting between the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and state legislators last week to find common ground in the wake of recent disputes over cash reserves. But discussions during the meeting about rethinking shared governance had some faculty feeling like they were left holding the bag for administrators? actions ? and that their decision-making authority within the system was under threat.
Under a new policy being discussed by the Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System campuses would be required to carry over between 10% and 15% of their unrestricted cash balances each year to maintain a healthy financial cushion.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The University of Wisconsin System?s next leader faces a complex financial world marked by dwindling government dollars and questions about whether a college degree is worth the cost, outgoing system President Kevin Reilly told a pair of search committees Friday.
State lawmakers and University of Wisconsin System administrators came together Thursday at an event meant to repair strained relationships following last April?s discovery of the system?s $650 million in reserves.
Madison ? The University of Wisconsin System invited state legislators to a summit on the UW-Madison campus Thursday to begin rebuilding trust and credibility with lawmakers, and to improve communication in the wake of a blow-up over the UW amassing sizable cash balances without lawmakers? knowledge.
Madison ? University of Wisconsin System officials hope to avoid future dust-ups with the Legislature over how much cash the system and its campuses carry forward from year to year through a new procedure that promises full disclosure of budget details previously not shared.
Following state budget negotiations in the spring that were variously described as ?a few bumps in the road? by Sen. Sheila Harsdorf to ?a big blowup? by Sen. Alberta Darling, lawmakers and state university officials spent Thursday afternoon talking out their problems in surprisingly blunt terms.
MADISON ? The Wisconsin Assembly?s top Republican told University of Wisconsin System regents Thursday to decide whether their job is to promote the system or protect taxpayers during a conference designed to rebuild the system?s relationship with legislators.
While new UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank seems genuinely thrilled to be back on a college campus after five years in Washington DC, it seems clear to us her perspective on her new job extends well beyond Bascom Hall and environs.
Wisconsin Badgers fans can expect “a substantially larger number of vendors in the stands” at this Saturday?s game, a UW-Madison athletic department spokesman said in an email late Tuesday. It?s not yet clear where the new vendors will come from or how they?ll be trained.
UW-Madison has hired a former Capitol Hill staffer and university administrator as interim director of federal relations, a job vacant since the July retirement of longtime director Rhonda Norsetter.
From his sun-drenched perch in the top row of Section KK in the upper deck of Camp Randall Stadium, Jeff Tracy kept one eye on the action on the field between the University of Wisconsin Badgers and their opening game opponents from UMass, and one eye on the lookout for a vendor bringing some liquid refreshment.
I had to be on the UW-Madison campus today and it was all wonderful congestion. Cars and trucks were lined up to unload stuff into the dorms. Packs of new students and parents were being led around by perky upper classman in red shirts, pointing out where to go for pizza, books and school supplies. (No mention of bars that I could overhear.) It was hot and humid amid hazy sunshine just as it should be.
Calling herself a “fellow newbie,” UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank told thousands of freshman and transfer students at a convocation Friday to leave their comfort zone as they enter college by embracing the diversity of their classmates, taking classes that intrigue them even if they?re not required and asking for help when things get rough.
For over nine years, José Madera has been working with the Academic Advancement Program (AAP), a campus-wide academic support program deeply committed to the retention of all students and enrichment of their academic experience at UW-Madison.
The city of Madison has proclaimed Friday to be John ?Vietnam? Nguyen Day, which marks the one-year anniversary of the death of the 19-year-old UW-Madison student and Chicago-raised hip-hop artist who drowned in Lake Mendota.
If you haven?t already flipped the channel by the time halftime programming starts during college football games, you may have noticed that the schools playing usually get a 30-second spot in which they can promote their institution.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will host a conference next week aimed at improving university relations with state lawmakers, which frayed publicly during the recent state budget discussions.
Navigating streets around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus could take a bit more patience Wednesday and Thursday.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank sat down Monday with The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald and answered questions on a range of student issues. (Interview transcription)
In a meeting with campus press Monday in her recently unpacked office atop Bascom Hill, new University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank stressed the importance of building relationships with the campus community and legislators, upholding responsibility to the state and utilizing new revenue streams.
Hector DeLuca, Rock Mackie and Richard Davidson have the kind of academic credentials admired by their academic colleagues at UW-Madison and far beyond.
Preliminary autopsy results showed that Richard de la Cruz, a 20-year-old UW-Madison student, died of an accidental drowning, according to Barry Irmen, director of operations for the medical examiner?s office.
In announcing the system, the president lauded specific programs throughout the country for cutting students? time to graduation and introducing innovative ways to deliver classes, including the flexible degree option being rolled out this year by the University of Wisconsin System to help adult students earn degrees with a ?show what you know? competency-based approach.
Authorities say a 20-year-old man who drowned while swimming in Lake Mendota was a new student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Divers in Dane County have recovered the body of a missing swimmer from Lake Mendota.
After touring Milwaukee last week, new UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank spent this week reaching out to various groups in Madison. Below are comments from her Monday conversation with the State Journal at her Bascom Hall office, which still contains many unopened bankers boxes as she tries to get things arranged after moving with her husband and daughter from the Washington, D.C., area.
A leaked early version of a major forthcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations-affiliated panel of scientists that is often cited as the world?s top authority on global warming, is grabbing headlines this week. [Includes comment from Jim Kossin, one of the report’s authors and research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]
Rebecca Blank jokes that if she really sought the biggest public relations boost possible for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she would have stayed longer in her old job.
News3?s Michelle Li interviewed UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank Tuesday. Michelle asked Blank questions submitted by viewers.
For the third straight year, UW-Madison is ranked 19th among the world?s universities.
Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison?s new chancellor and the former U.S. commerce secretary, says one of her top priorities is ensuring UW remains central to the state?s economic growth.
An interview this week with Chris Meyer, who as a UW-Madison student developed the idea for the collaborative makerspace Sector67 ? now targeted for a proposed major start-up hub in Madison ? has me thinking about the university?s role in innovation.
