Category: UW-Madison Related

Madison police said they have arrested a 35-year-old homeless man suspected of grabbing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student while she was walking down State Street Sunday night.

Noted: The recipients of the largest payments from the companies were the University of Illinois Alumni Association ($3,272,457), the Penn State Alumni Association ($2,835,000), the University of Notre Dame ($1,860,000), the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association ($1,652,449) and the Golden Key International Honour Society ($1,540,442).

With a little more than a week to go before Election Day, neither candidate for Governor has given a complete picture of what he?d cut to balance the state budget.The next two year budget deficit is at least $2.5 billion, but experts say it?s probably closer to $3-billion. In other words, it?s $1.5-billion in the first year alone.

City officials responded to growing concerns of an invasive species outbreak by presenting several possible response plans Thursday night that would impact the city?s ash tree population. 

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin received a five-year, $2.93 million grant to conduct further and more in-depth research on what effects alterations in environment, nearby species and climate changes have on Wisconsin plants.

Pavement work on Regent Street, including at the busy intersection with Park Street, could make for slow going on Friday and Saturday. Crews will be working on Regent Street on Friday and at the intersection of Regent Street and Park Street on Saturday, making repairs to deteriorated pavement and utility patches that have failed.

There?s no Wisconsin Badgers football game at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, which is a reason the work was scheduled for this weekend.

Proving that our childhood years spent with crayola firmly in hand haven?t gone to waste, new research from University of Wisconsin-Madison uses a scanning probe microscope to draw and erase conducting nanowires. The researchers put three-atom-thick layers of lanthanum-aluminum-oxide on top of strontium-titanium-oxide, which then forms an “electron gas” between the layers. The tip of the microscope is then used to turn the gas layer conductive, allowing the team to draw, and erase, nanowire lines in order to create delicate nano-scale circuits.

Thieves in downtown Madison apparently have decided parking meters are an easy source of cash. More than 20 parking meters in the downtown area have been broken into during the past week, with thieves damaging the lock boxes to gain access to the money inside. Streets with damaged meters include Henry, West Johnson, Langdon, Winnebago, Russell, and East Main.

“Breaking into the meters likely creates a good amount of noise,” said Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain. “Anyone who hears or sees suspicious activity around parking meters should call 911.”

A Cross Plains teen who “figured he?d found the pot of gold” when he learned his employer was cultivating marijuana in his Madison home will serve a year and a day in federal prison for his role in the operation. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on Monday also sentenced Zachary A. Czerkas, 19, to four years of supervision after his release. In August, Curtis J. Faustich, 23, a former UW-Madison horticulture major, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for what was a sophisticated marijuana growing operation.

Andrew A. ?Sandy? Wilcox may not be a household name in Madison. But you won?t find many people who have had as big of an impact on our city and its great university than the retiring president of UW Foundation. Wilcox deserves sincere thanks for his hard work and tremendous success over the last 22 years. The foundation, which raises, invests and distributes money to help UW-Madison, had assets of $190 million when Wilcox took over in 1988. Since then, that figure has grown to $2.3 billion. Gifts have totaled nearly $3 billion during Wilcox?s tenure, with more than $2 billion distributed.

Expanding a center of excellence for next-generation computing technologies, Microsoft Corp. today unveiled a $3.5 million upgrade to its database research lab near the campus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and UW-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala led the School of Nursing?s 11th Annual Littlefield Leadership Lecture at the Union Theater Friday.

MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin wants to hear from the public on the Badger Partnership.

UW-Eau Claire Information Studies Department head Tom Hilton will be reprimanded for sending an offensive e-mail to two students in late September.

Officials at the University of Wisconsin submitted a breakdown of further costs for reimbursement relating to President Barack Obama?s visit Sept. 28, UW officials announced Thursday.

A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire used an e-mail about a campus film festival on homosexual culture as a platform for incendiary, bigoted remarks.

Putting on a presidential rally is thirsty work. UW-Madison is billing the Democratic National Committee for the following for President Barack Obama?s rally on Library Mall last month: $990 for portable toilets, $1,273 for bottled water, $632 for parking. University spokesman John Lucas said those charges are in addition to the $10,500 the university has already charged the DNC.

The Hillel Foundation commemorated the opening of an exhibit about Mildred Fish-Harnack, a UW-Madison aluma who was the only American civilian executed under Nazi rule during World War II, Wednesday.

UW-Madison administrators and students gathered at the Porter Boathouse Wednesday evening to honor UW Foundation President Andrew “Sandy” Wilcox.

Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Stout are disciplining 10 hockey players following the death of a fellow student injured near campus last month. Two players charged in the death have been kicked off the team. Eight other players are suspended for this season but can be reinstated next season.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? The Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, refused to say Tuesday whether he favors a ban on embryonic stem cell research ? even though he previously told an anti-abortion group he does.

UW-Madison gives out about $2 million in mandatory student fees each year to student organizations, but a student leader says the method for doling out the funds is broken. Matthew Manes said he plans to unveil an overhaul to the system this week. Manes is chairman of the Student Services Finance Committee, the student-run committee that decides which organizations will get the money, known as segregated fees.

The UW Board of Regents met Friday to discuss the collaboration efforts in northeast Wisconsin between colleges in the region and the business community, among other UW matters.

The University of Wisconsin-River Falls will be spending more than $90,000 to create two emergency shelters on campus, thanks in part to a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Madison firefighters kept a diesel fuel spill from flowing into Lake Mendota.

Motorists could have some jockeying to do Friday afternoon and evening in downtown Madison, since several streets will be closed for the UW-Madison Homecoming parade.

Builders are using these golden fall days to restore an octogenarian stone wall, created as part of a national public works project in the 1920s in front of a Near West Side landmark. It?s not a job for sissies.

Quoted: UW-Madison professor of music and homeowner John Stowe

Madison firefighters prevented diesel fuel from getting to Lake Mendota Thursday night after the fuel leaked into a storm sewer and then into a creek that empties into the lake. The spill was reported at 4:58 p.m. Thursday at the Walnut Street Heating Plant, 505 Walnut St., according to a report from the fire department.

An unknown amount of diesel fuel leaked when a fuel truck was pumping the fuel into a tank at the heating plant, which provides steam and chilled water to buildings on the UW-Madison campus.

Dane County has agreed to pay $118,000 to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and three other media outlets to settle a legal battle over records in the case of a murdered University of Wisconsin-Madison student.

The amount owed took more than a year to determine and will cover attorney fees for the outlets, which sought the release of 911 tapes and other records in the case of Brittany Zimmermann, 21. A Dane County judge ruled last year in favor of the media groups in their suit, and most of the records were released.

Four Wisconsin media outlets have reached a financial settlement with Dane County in a lawsuit about the release of 911 calls in the slaying of a student. The outlets successfully sought the release of 911 tapes and other records in the case of Brittany Zimmermann, the 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was found stabbed in her Madison apartment on April 2, 2008. The 911 calls became important components of the investigation after county officials said a 911 dispatcher mishandled Zimmermann?s minute-long call.

Letter by Michael L. Rothschild, emeritus professor, UW-Madison School of Business.

In this episode, we hear from Romaine Quinn, 20, a second-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Barron County, about going between campus and city hall, where he serves as mayor.

A recent sexual assault incident on the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse campus is on the minds of many students.

A female student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater was punched in the face last week in what police are calling a hate crime.

Emma Vasseur said she hears the question all the time: ?How did you get that gig??After all, it?s not every UW-Madison student who goes directly from graduation into a job touring with one of the world?s biggest folk music icons.

UW-Madison police are investigating a break-in to the outdoor rentals office at Memorial Union, with the suspect possibly suffering a laceration from the broken window. The break-in and burglary happened sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning, according to the police report.

How do you explain to your insurance adjuster that the dent in the side of your car was caused by a kicking horse? That?s what several car owners are dealing with, including UW-Madison assistant men?s hockey coach Gary Shuchuk, after two University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department horses got loose, kicked and jumped over vehicles at the Kohl Center before being corraled while heading out to West Dayton Street.

The horses were tied up behind the Kohl Center on Tuesday afternoon at about 2:45 p.m., munching on hay while their police officer mounts took a break. The detail was part of the security force in place for President Obama?s visit to Madison and the UW-Madison campus.

In a speech that focused heavily on voters who supported him in 2008, President Barack Obama urged students at UW-Madison to return to the polls again this November to keep fighting for change.

Would it be all right if the Leader of the Free World stopped by your campus for a little while? He wants to surround himself with hordes of enthusiastic young people, toss out a few oratorical gems ? as you know, he?s got the gift ? and reinvigorate his anxious political party. The Secret Service has the usual security concerns, of course, but we?ll pay for any inconvenience. Interested?

Facing the potential for historic losses in midterm elections,President Obama sought tonight to light a fire under his party?ssupporters at a rally in front of thousands of college students inMadison, Wisconsin.

President Barack Obama swooped into this college town Tuesday evening, hoping to rekindle the youth vote that helped propel him to the White House for the benefit of Democrats in next month?s mid-term elections.

A block of Spring Street could stay closed until the end of the year as a result of a construction project in the area, according to Madison traffic officials.

Signs and posters are among the rather lengthy list of items not allowed at President Barack Obama?s rally on Library Mall Tuesday, which is sponsored by the Democratic National Committee. This bothered local marijuana activist and 2012 U.S. Senate candidate Ben Masel, who said it infringes on his right to speak freely in a public space.

It?s not a security issue. The Secret Service does not prohibit signs, just poles and sticks attached to the sign, said John Hirt, resident agent in charge of Secret Service for Wisconsin.

Dear Editor: Spend $3 million to save money at UW-Madison? Before bringing in yet another outsider who does not understand the massive UW machine, why not instead look internally for free?

One block of Spring Street on the UW-Madison campus will be shut down starting Monday and possibly lasting through the end of the year.

Madison police are searching for a suspect after an early morning robbery at the Open Pantry on Regent Street.

UW-Madison officials announced more details about President Barack Obama?s Democratic National Committee political rally on campus Tuesday.

Underground utility work will force the closing of the northbound lane of Charter Street between West Dayton and West Johnson Streets, beginning on Monday, Sept. 27. The Madison Traffic Engineering and Parking Divisions said the repair project will take 2-3 weeks.

Starting on Monday, September 27th, part of North Charter Street will be closed for underground utility repair work. The closure will last up to three weeks.

President Barack Obama will speak at Library Mall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus during his visit Tuesday, said Democratic National Committee spokesman Derrick Plummer.

The state deficit for the 2011-?13 budget could reach $3.1 billion – $370 million more than previously forecast, according to an economist?s prediction. Andrew Reschovsky of the University of Wisconsin-Madison arrived at the projection by building on the work of the Legislature?s budget shop. [Sixth item.]

President Barack Obama?s rally will be outside in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday.

University of Wisconsin officials confirmed Tuesday President Barack Obama will visit campus next week for a rally.

President Barack Obama will be coming to the University of Wisconsin campus during his visit to Madison next week. An official with the Democratic National Committee said Tuesday that more details of the Sept. 28 rally, including the exact location, will be released soon.

Dear Editor: You are cordially invited to ?A Century of Challenges? at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, at UW-Madison in Room 180 of Science Hall, 550 N. Park St. As a lead organizer for this event, I believe it will offer insights vital for our survival and well-being. Not only did speaker Nicole Foss predict the financial meltdown well before it happened, she correctly explained WHY it would occur.

The Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium is the new name for an energy research consortium that started last year in the Milwaukee area. It now has a statewide focus that includes the University of Wisconsin-Madison and aims to make the state a center of excellence for energy, power and controls. Read more about that here.

The Madison World Music Festival is a three-day festival that takes place Thursday and Friday at the UW Memorial Union Terrace and Saturday at the Willy Street Fair, brings together musicians from Mexico, Romania, Kenya, Mali, Kyrgyzstan, Corsica and many more.

The Dog Jog, in its 27th year, benefits area humane organizations, including those in the UW-Madison?s School of Veterinary Medicine spay-neuter program for shelter pets.

Once a year students, faculty, attorneys, historians and others gather at the University of Wisconsin Law School to celebrate the distinguished career of Bob Kastenmeier at a lecture named after our former congressman, statesman, and scholar. Bob was no ordinary member of Congress ? he was never part of the Washington elite. He was too busy fighting for civil rights, women?s rights and peace during his 32 years representing Wisconsin.

….This year the Kastenmeier Lecture is honored to welcome New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. Herbert, a gifted journalist, chose the title: ?Afghanistan: What are we fighting for??

Members of a UW-Madison union plan to picket outside the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 1300 University Ave., Monday morning. The employees — members of Local 171, Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24 — will be protesting the privatization of food service work at the new research facility, which is scheduled to open in December.