The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a new chancellor – and he?s a good one. The UW Board of Regents confirmed this week the appointment of Michael Lovell, who had been the interim chancellor, to the permanent post. Lovell, who came to UWM as dean of the campus? engineering school in 2008, has a deep background in university research.
When Michael Lovell was named chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee April 14, the loudest cheers came from the business community.
The University of Wisconsin Madison Cycling Club has volunteer slots left to fill for the USA Cycling Collegiate National Championships Friday through Sunday.
Michael Lovell will earn an annual salary of $330,203 as the next chancellor of UW-Milwaukee. The UW Board of Regents confirmed his appointment at a special meeting Tuesday and set his salary. Lovell, former dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, has been serving as interim chancellor since October 2010.
Michael Lovell will earn an annual salary of $330,203 as the next chancellor of UW-Milwaukee.The UW Board of Regents confirmed his appointment at a special meeting Tuesday and set his salary.
In what began with quiet disagreement and evolved into polarized debate, the Faculty Senate voted to support public authority status for the University of Wisconsin Monday after representatives emphasized the necessity for the body to take a definitive stance on the proposal.
Peace never comes entirely for parents who have lost kids to drunk drivers. But it has been particularly elusive for Dan and Pam James in recent days. Lori Kasten, the woman who took Katie James’ life and severely injured two of her cousins in a head-on crash in 1996 not long after that poem was written, initially received nine years for drinking at least three times as much as she should have and then getting behind the wheel. Kasten was arrested last week on allegations of driving drunk yet again. UW-Madison police say she got her vehicle stuck on a curb in a UW parking lot, and they?ve asked the district attorney to charge her, at a minimum, with third-offense drunk driving.
Rajib Mitra?s lawyer said Monday that if Mitra had intended to kill himself in the Dane County Jail, he showed no signs of it during a meeting to talk about Mitra?s appeal just hours before Mitra committed suicide on Friday.
….Mitra was a 24-year-old UW-Madison graduate student in 2003 when he was charged in U.S. District Court in Madison with jamming Madison police radios. At the same time, he was dating a 16-year-old girl whom he had met in an Internet chat room.
When Mitra’s computer and radios were seized as part of the radio jamming investigation, police found that portions of the computer’s hard drive had been heavily encrypted, keeping police from discovering their contents until 2009.
John and Tashia Morgridge similarly were big into philanthropy long before the Giving Pledge. John Morgridge, a billionaire, became chief executive of Cisco Systems in 1988, took it public in 1990, and later served as the company?s chairman. He and his wife Tashia have been giving away bits of their wealth for 25 years, as this Cap Times article points out. During a panel discussion about the Giving Pledge at the Global Philanthropy Forum on April 14, Tashia Morgridge explained, ?We?d already been giving away a lot of our wealth and intended to give away a lot of it.? Much of the Morgridges? giving has gone to educational institutions in Wisconsin and to environmental conservation.
Please forgive me if this seems hurried. I?m writing it at my publicly funded place of employment, during work hours, and I?m worried that I might be accused of malfeasance, since it?s my fiduciary responsibility to keep such communications of a nonpersonal nature. But both Peter Wood and Peter Lake miss the point in “Whose E-Mail Is It, Anyway?” (The Chronicle, April 3).
Welcome to the autonomy discussion Madison College. Thanks for advancing the conversation President Bettsey Barhorst. And welcome to the new world of higher education Wisconsin.
Our state?s drunken driving scourge continues to rumble and veer at alarming speed across Wisconsin, destroying innocent lives. Consider the latest harrowing headlines, including news that Lori Kasten, 45, of Madison, faces her third DUI offense after UW-Madison Police reported Saturday they found her revving her vehicle?s engine to try to free it from a curb it was stuck on in a campus parking lot. In 1996, Kasten crashed into a car and killed one of its passengers, 11-year-old Katie James of Madison.
UW-Madison police arrested 45-year-old Lori Kasten of Madison, for a third offense OWI early Saturday morning.
A Madison woman who was previously convicted of killing a girl in a drunken-driving crash has been arrested on new allegations of driving while intoxicated. The police department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says 45-year-old Lori J. Kasten was arrested Saturday.
A drunken driver who killed a girl in a crash in 1996, then had her probation revoked for driving drunk again in 2006 after she was released from prison, has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk yet again, authorities reported. Lori Kasten, 45, of Madison, was arrested early Saturday morning after UW police received a report of a vehicle stuck on a curb in a UW parking lot with the driver revving the engine in an attempt to free the vehicle, according to a news release from UW police.
Lori Kasten, 45, of Madison, was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of third-offense OWI, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department.
You can?t see the Shack from the road. It sits hidden amid pine and hardwood on a winding path that leads to the sandy shore of the Wisconsin River. You may be disappointed when you do see it.
The Shack isn?t much to look at – just an old reformed chicken coop that a University of Wisconsin professor and his brood cleaned up years ago and made into a weekend haunt. But, of course, the Shack has a deeper meaning for those of us concerned about the land. It?s a metaphor for the simple yet powerful ethic that conservationist Aldo Leopold came to understand and then express so clearly.
Three days. One open-source game engine, teed up for mobile devices.
Campuses have always had their boldface names: professors who?ve logged time in a White House cabinet, opined on ?PBS NewsHour? or written Pulitzer Prize-winning best sellers. To this venerated lot we can add the academic blogger. A remarkable variety of scholars have achieved blogosphere fame, particularly those devoted to subjects related to the public sphere ? politics, economics, legal affairs. Law school bloggers are practically their own category.
?I think a lot of us have a desire to catch the issue of the day and put a personal stamp on it, and we?re in a good position to do so,? says Ann Alt house, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School and whose eponymous blog (tagline: Don?t you love Althouse?) is often one of Technorati?s Top 25.
“Call your state legislator and tell them not to take any money from #UNH,? wrote the Twitter user @PrezHuddleston on Friday. ?One phone call can make a difference think Safe Rides.”
Mike Lovell, a rising academic star who was lured to run the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee?s engineering department in 2008, has been tapped to become the university?s next chancellor.
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A search committee is recommending that the interim chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee take over the job permanently.
Michael Lovell is in line to become the next chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Lovell is the former dean of UW-Milwaukee?s College of Engineering and Applied Science who has served as interim chancellor since October.
If you want some exercise before delving into chocolate bunnies, consider participating in the Second Annual Spring Sprint for the Arb at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 16, starting at the UW Arboretum Visitor Center, 1207 Seminole Hwy.
An 18-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in the 300 block of West Dayton Street early Sunday morning.
A Madison Police Department report said police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted, punched and choked an 18-year-old woman on the 300 block of West Dayton Street Sunday evening.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said it is investigating a sexual assault/strangulation that occurred last year.
Women from throughout the state will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this Friday evening (April 8) and Saturday (April 9) for La Mujer Latina Conference.
This is the 15th conference designed to celebrate the accomplishments of Latinas and to discuss and raise awareness about a wide variety of issues, ranging from education, family politics, leadership, immigration, the arts, health care and the media.
Anyone interested in learning more about the history of academic freedom in the University of Wisconsin System should check out this document. The six-page report outlines the various laws, institutional rules or policies, and Board of Regents history on this topic.
Newly released documents show the urgency and breadth of the FBI?s effort to quickly identify and apprehend those responsible for the deadly bombing of Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus in 1970. The files were released to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act following the death last year of one of the bombers, Dwight Armstrong.
?Consider dangerous,? the memo warned. ?Case is to receive continuing attention even through holiday weekend approaching.? The urgent FBI memo was issued on Sept. 4, 1970, just days after four men bombed UW-Madison?s Sterling Hall, the worst incident of domestic terrorism at the time. That same day, the FBI put the men ? Karl and Dwight Armstrong, Leo Burt and David Fine ? on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Offering insight into the FBI?s response after the bombing, the agency released more than 600 pages of documents from Dwight Armstrong?s FBI file in response to records requests from the State Journal and other news organizations. Armstrong died last summer, making his FBI file public record.
In August 2010, Ron Kraemer accepted the position of vice president for information technologies and chief information officer (CIO) at the University of Notre Dame, following a 14-year career at the University of Wisconsin, most recently as its CIO and vice provost for information technology.
Patricia Wells is living a food lover?s dream, writing cookbooks and running her own French cooking school. But it?s a dream the Milwaukee native never imagined.
As a child, she aspired to be a journalist. A graduate of Pius XI High School, she worked as a Milwaukee Journal “copy girl” and studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were followed by stints at The Washington Post and The New York Times.
WHITEWATER, Wis. — As part of a green initiative, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Instructional, Communications and Information Technology (iCIT) Department has launched a new recycling program to reduce technology “e-waste.”
The campus-wide program called TREE, which is short for “Technology Repurposing and Electronics E-cycling,” is designed to properly handle e-waste. E-waste is a term for electronic products, such as computers, printers and cell phones that are nearing the end of their useful life.
In response to the GOP?s open record request for professor William Cronon?s e-mails, the Faculty Senate passed a resolution supporting academic freedom.
Madison police are stepping up efforts this month to combat vehicle break-ins downtown, since April appears to be prime time for thieves hitting parked cars. The initiative, Project 403, started on April 1.
The dean of the business school at Truman State University in Missouri has been recommended to be chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The University of Wisconsin System announced Friday that Renee Wachter had been selected by a search committee to serve as chancellor of the Superior campus.
Luna the labradoodle took an unexpected and very chilly dip in Lake Mendota on Tuesday after falling through what?s left of the ice, before being pulled to safety by the Madison Fire Department lake rescue team. The rescue happened just before noon on Tuesday near Picnic Point on the UW-Madison campus, according to Eric Dahl, spokesman for the fire department.
Minnesota should buy Wisconsin and its intellectual wealth. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker already is selling Wisconsin to the Kochs but for much less than what Minnesota could offer. Think of the equity Wisconsin has: its people, its property, its ideas and the marketplace size it controls; Wisconsin has enormous wealth. Seriously, our state of Minnesota should go head-hunting right now for the talent at the University of Wisconsin.
William Cronon asserts that Gov. Scott Walker, elected by a comfortable margin last year by the Wisconsinites Mr. Cronon deems as wise and progressive, is not Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Except that he makes the comparison twice.
Members of the Madison community gathered at the Orpheum Theatre Saturday afternoon for “Talking Peace Corps,” a celebration of the organization that included a lecture by Peace Corps Director and UW-Madison alumnus Aaron Williams.
Police are investigating the apparent homicide of a 23-year-old man they believe occurred Sunday morning on South Park Street.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps and the University of Wisconsin?s historically strong tradition of providing volunteers to serve abroad, the organization?s national leaders and UW alumni spoke about their personal experiences on campus Saturday.
Madison Police Department officials are investigating the apparent homicide of a 23-year-old Madison man who was stabbed to death a few blocks off the University of Wisconsin campus early Sunday morning.
One block of North Lake Street on the UW-Madison campus will be closed to through traffic on Tuesday and Wednesday due to construction.
Twin brothers were arrested Friday after a Langdon Street fight that was apparently tied to the popular dance video “Teach Me How to Bucky.” Steven and Andrew Schecher, 21-year-old twins from Madison, were both accused of battery after an incident early Friday morning in which one man was knocked unconscious, the Madison Police Department reported.
Tuesday, a federal judge tossed out the proposed settlement in the lawsuit over Google?s vast book-digitization project.
In an effort to cut departmental costs, UW-Madison has signed a contract with Huron Consulting group to examine the university?s financial productivity.
Following closely on the heels on the Board of Regents? endorsement of a plan for greater autonomy for all University of Wisconsin campuses, 13 UW System chancellors signed a letter submitted to the state Legislature urging policymakers to consider the Wisconsin Idea Partnership and to retain the system as a unified body.
University of Wisconsin officials have hired the Huron Consulting Group to ensure campus operations are working at maximum efficiency and to help restructure UW?s human resources system should the campus become a public authority.
Thomas Beaumont, a veteran chronicler of presidential politics and the Iowa Caucuses, has been named Des Moines Correspondent for The Associated Press. Beaumont graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1989 and earned a master?s degree in journalism from the school in 1993.
Campus and near west side motorists should expect traffic delays from Thursday through Saturday thanks to the closing of a one-block stretch of Old University Avenue. The Madison Traffic Engineering and Parking Division said a construction company is erecting a tower crane in the 1500 block of Old University Avenue near Breese Terrace, forcing the closure of the eastbound traffic lanes and the westbound left turn lane onto Breese Terrace.
Noted: “Also in the Governor?s budget is a plan to privatize the University of Wisconsin Madison. People who work at UW Eau Claire told me they think this is a very bad idea. ?We are afraid Madison will become unaffordable for average Western Wisconsin students,? the man said. ?And the Governor will use this plan to make the rest of the UW campuses far inferior; starving us of resources and making it harder to attract good faculty and students.?
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a professor of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Two UW-Madison graduates are among the four New York Times journalists released by the Libyan government Monday, according to the Times. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats and crossed safely into Tunisia, according to the Times, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict. The UW-Madison alumni are Anthony Shadid, Beirut bureau chief for the Times, and Lynsey Addario, a photographer.
The Libyan government freed four New York Times journalists on Monday, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and rebel forces in the eastern city of Ajdabiya. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats and crossed safely into Tunisia in the late afternoon, from where they provided a harrowing account of their captivity.
View a chart of Scott Walker’s influence on board appointments.
Amongst the many cuts in Governor Walker?s budget is one clearly good idea: the New Badger Partnership, converting UW-Madison to a public authority.
Four New York Times journalists who were reported missing while covering the Libya conflict have been found, the newspaper said Friday. The Times reported on its website that the four were captured by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and will be released Friday. The journalists include UW-Madison graduates Anthony Shadid and photographer Lynsey Addario.
TRIPOLI, Libya ? The Libyan government released four New York Times journalists on Monday, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and rebel forces in the eastern city of Ajdabiya. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats.
Like many Western journalists, the four had entered the rebel-controlled eastern region of Libya over the Egyptian border without visas to cover the insurrection against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. They were detained by forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi in Ajdabiya.
