A Dane County judge granted a motion Wednesday allowing a portion of the digital recording of the 911 call of the Brittany Zimmermann murder to be used by the counsel of the Zimmermann estate in their wrongful death lawsuit
President Barack Obama highlighted the importance of making Americaâ??s education system more competitive on a global scale as he spoke to a crowd of children, local officials, parents and others at a south-side middle school Wednesday.
Jim Fleming has soothed us with the classics, read to us and informed us. Now he is retiring.
Fleming, who started at Wisconsin Public Radio in 1968 while a student at UW-Madison, has announced that his last show as host of “Morning Classics” will be Dec. 3.
President Barack Obama will visit a Madison middle school today to speak about his proposals for improvement of education in the nation.
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges and the UW-Extension is a finalist to become president of Morgan State University in Baltimore.
University of Wisconsin farm researchers are teaming up with a regional food bank to fight hunger in the state.At the UW experimental garden in Madison, the motto is â??Where Good Ideas Grow.â? Judy Reith-Rozelle supervises the garden, where a variety of fruits and vegetables are grown for research. Reith-Rozelle says giving the crops away to the needy may be their best idea yet, as they always have extra produce and donating it means itâ??s not left in the field to rot. (Fourth item.)
At the invitation from UW-Madison Real Estate Program, the Hammes Co. will join in a public discussion this week of its revised plans for a $93 million redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel.
In what would continue a building boom around UW-Madison, a developer is proposing to demolish two houses for a $6 million, eight-story apartment building in the Langdon Street National Register District. Developer Patrick Corcoran is seeking to demolish two two-story, wood-frame houses at 617 and 619 Mendota Court for a 40,000-square-foot building that would have 33 rental units and a total of 103 bedrooms.
Federal stimulus money created or saved more than 10,000 jobs in Wisconsin, President Barack Obamaâ??s administration reported Friday. The report showed that in total $2.4 billion had been awarded and $733 million had been received in Wisconsin. The state reported spending about $680 million in stimulus money through the end of September. The UW System spent about $5.2 million.
Madison attorney William Conley was nominated Thursday by President Barack Obama to succeed the retiring U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb on the federal bench. Conley received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Some minority students at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls said they may not go to school on Monday after a written threat was discovered in a library bathroom.
President Barack Obama will visit Madison Nov. 4, according to a statement released by the White House Tuesday.
The White House announced Tuesday President Barack Obama will visit Madison Nov. 4, exactly a year after his election to the nationâ??s highest office.
Philanthropist Michael Cudahyâ??s financial support has vanished and some faculty are skeptical, but the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee remains committed to creating a science research facility and business park in Wauwatosa.
University of Wisconsin-Madison say 40 computers have been hacked, possibly exposing personal information of nearly 3,000 people.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said that 40 computers have been hacked, possibly exposing personal information of nearly 3,000 people.UW-Madison authorities sent a letter Oct. 12 to faculty, staff and students affected, apologizing and promising new security tools.
Lawrence Halprin, the Bay Area landscape architect who pushed the design of Americaâ??s urban spaces in new directions over a career that spanned 60 years, died Sunday of natural causes. He was 93, and a 1941 graduate of UW-Madison.
Think you’ve got the stomach for competitive eating? Here’s your chance to find out.
The Association of Independent Competitive Eaters comes to Madison next year to crown someone king or queen of the mall food court.
MADISON (WKOW) — Madison Police are investigating a sexual assault that happened on University Avenue around 7:00 p.m. Wednesday evening.
Several concerned citizens called 911 to report hearing a woman screaming. A short time later, the victim, a 21-year-old Madison woman, called police to report what happened.
She told officers she was walking along the 2000 block of University Ave. when a stranger approached her from behind, lifted her skirt and touched her inappropriately.
Despite membersâ?? near certainty that a proposed new Downtown bar and gaming center would see its share of underage drinkers, Madisonâ??s Alcohol License Review Committee voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of the project, which more than one member singled out as one of the best applications the committee had ever seen.
The developer of a hotel near Camp Randall stadium told 27 News he expects to open in February 2010, months after his original target date to accept guests.
“We tried to do a sixteen month process in ten months,” developer Bob Sieger told 27 News in a telephone interview from Minneapolis.
The University of Wisconsin-Superior is unique in many respects and is planning its future as an institution of higher education with some of those unique characteristics in mind, the UW Regents were told last week.
The UW System Board of Regents is facing a lawsuit from a downtown Madison bar.
Brothers Bar and Grill filed the suit Tuesday, claiming the Board is unfairly condemning their property on University Avenue.
Noted: The Neighborhood Indicators Project went online today after years of negotiation between government agencies over how to protect individual privacy and technical work by the UW-Madison Applied Population Lab.
Raising questions about the extent of the universityâ??s power to seize private property, the owners of a campus-area tavern are suing to stop the UW Board of Regents from condemning their bar.
This September a team of UW-Madison staff unveiled a new process to reduce the time it takes to eliminate former employees from accessing information technology systems, but the new process still takes longer than many others used throughout the University of Wisconsin System. Â
The problem with textbooks is that they offer little accommodation to professors who disagree over how and in what order material should be taught, says M. Ryan Haley, an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkoshâ??s College of Business. On the other hand, Haley says, professorsâ?? ability to cut and paste electronic textbooks according to their own preferences can result in uneven development of students across a single program and foil the expectations of those teaching advanced courses.
Tom Olson has been selected as the new chief investment officer for the University of Wisconsin Foundation, succeeding David Erickson, the foundation said Tuesday.
A nationally known economist and author said students need better advice on choosing a college during a presentation Friday afternoon for the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Anyone holding out any hope for justice, fairness or creating sound policy in Wisconsin should pay attention to the pre-game activities at Saturdayâ??s Badger Homecoming game. People will observe the only bar exam that graduating UW-Madison law students will ever have to take to practice law in Wisconsin.
There’s a celebration on the Isthmus this weekend: all in the name of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
It’s homecoming week for UW-Madison, and the culmination of a week’s worth of events started Friday evening with the homecoming parade.
UW-Madison received $75.5 million out of $83.1 million awarded to the UW System by grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin System was awarded nearly $83 million in stimulus funds, with University of Wisconsin commanding the majority of that money, receiving $75.5 million for its 236 projects.
Happy birthday “On, Wisconsin!” UW-Madisonâ??s fight song is turning 100. The UW Marching Band will commemorate the occasion with a special half-time show at Saturdayâ??s Homecoming game.
After more than two decades of studying the interplay between education and economics and seven years as president of Minnesotaâ??s Macalester College, Michael McPherson knows a lot about higher education. But his latest book generated eye-openers for him and his co-authors.
Noted: Much of the development before 1966 doesnâ??t match with current zoning rules. UW-Madison, for example, is in a residential district that allows colleges with a special permit. The draft code includes new districts such as campus institutional, airport, traditional (meaning older) residential and suburban residential to better reflect the existing character or plans. The new districts will let owners do more building projects as a matter of right that currently would need special permission. That means the owner of an older home likely could add an open front porch without special permission.
The part time teachers union was trying to get their message out by protesting outside of MATC’s open house for it’s new west side campus.
They are claiming they have poor job security and that the wage gap between full time and part time teachers continues to grow larger.
Students in three majors at the University of Wisconsin-Stout will have the option of finishing their degrees in three years instead of the typical four.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation announced Tom Olson as the new chief investment officer Tuesday, who will be responsible for overseeing the allocation of over $2 billion in assets.
I am struck by District Attorney Brian Blanchardâ??s apparent unequal treatment of unnamed researchers at the UW-Madison – even though he acknowledges their illegal killing of animals by “decompression” for decades – and Jorge Iglesias, whom Blanchard has charged with 13 felonies for staging cockfights.
When Michael Vick violated the law by mistreating and killing dogs, he was fined and served prison time. When UW-Madison was exposed for violating Wisconsin law by killing 26 sheep by means of decompression, the judicial system refused to fine or prosecute.
Metro buses will be detouring off of Lake Street and part of State Street on Friday because of the University of Wisconsin-Madison homecoming parade.
The detours will run from 3:30 p.m. through 7:30 p.m. Friday.
University of Wisconsin System regents are considering plans to build a rehabilitation center for injured wildlife in Oconomowoc.A proposal in front of the regents would allow the Wildlife In Need Center, a nonprofit group, to build the facility on land owned by UW-Waukesha.
UW-Madison scientists plan to build a plasma dynamo to explore magnetic fields.
To be constructed over three years, with the help of $2.4 million in stimulus funding from the National Science Foundation, UW-Madisonâ??s Plasma Dynamo Facility will allow scientists to explore the self-generation of magnetic fields.
The first of its kind in the world, the facility will be located in Sterling Hall, and it will contain the same kind of plasmas observed in space.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a “B” on the College Sustainability Report Card 2010, which is to be released Wednesday by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. The report card includes data, profiles and grades for 332 schools.
“Surprising the skeptics, most schools we surveyed did not let financial reversals undermine their green commitments,” Mark Orlowski, executive director of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, said in a press release. “New financial realities encouraged saving money by adopting environmentally friendly innovations.”
State legislators grilled UW System officials this morning during a hearing on the progress of an $81 million payroll system, asking how the System will prevent cost overruns and calling for the removal of top administrators if the project fails.”Will you get fired if this project does not work?” asked Phil Montgomery, R-Green Bay, to Tom Anderes, UW System senior vice president for administrative and fiscal affairs.
A couple notes, quotes and observations from Monday nightâ??s University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate meeting — the first such gathering of the 2009-10 academic year at Bascom Hall.
Somewhat surprisingly, few faculty senators appeared to have a burning desire to openly discuss the pros and cons of unionizing.
UW System faculty and academic staff were given the right to form unions under the state budget signed by Gov. Jim Doyle in late June. This provision doesnâ??t mean unions must be formed — simply that both faculty and staff at each UW System institution can vote to form bargaining units if they so choose.
A Madison area icon closed for good this weekend as the cityâ??s only Greyhound Bus station is moving eastward.The last bus out of the old Badger Bus Depot left on Sunday night at 7:15 p.m., with the door closed and locked at the old building. The buildingâ??s new location will have some riders traveling further to get where theyâ??re going.
We will exchange our editorial outrage for wonderment today at the breaking news out of Madison that the University of Wisconsin deemed a professorâ??s use of a state credit card to purchase a DVDs of television situation comedies as appropriate.
Wisconsinâ??s first doses of the H1N1 vaccine are starting to show up.Local health departments and medical facilities across Wisconsin began receiving their first shipments of the vaccine on Monday. The early doses are being used to vaccinate health care professionals and those who care for sick individuals at high risk for the H1N1 flu virus.
Disappointment rocked Madison Friday after the morning announcement Chicago would not be the site of the 2016 Olympic games.
Sara Radulovicâ??s blonde hair falls in her face as she peers at the image coming to life on the table in front of her. She gently uses a brown, colored pencil to shade in the forehead of a portrait of Moses, a Ugandan orphan who lost both parents to AIDS.
The program is the brainchild of Ben Schumaker, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was inspired to start the Memory Project while volunteering in Guatemala in 2003.
It came as no great surprise that President Obama turned to former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler as his choice to serve as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Butler is uniquely qualified to replace Judge John Shabazz. While others who applied had significant legal skills and important areas of specialization in the law, Butler brings remarkably broad experience to a courthouse that has not seen the appointment of a new federal judge in 28 years.
A family business co-owned by UW board of regents member Jeffrey Bartell is listed as one Dane Countyâ??s top ten property tax delinquents.
The decision from Copenhagen left Chicago speechless. Madison was equally muted.
“I was hoping for the thrill of victory, instead we got the agony of defeat,” said Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz after the International Olympic Committee on Friday morning eliminated Chicago’s bid from consideration to host the 2016 summer games. Rio de Janeiro eventually won.
Wisconsin officials didnâ??t have to wait long for the International Olympic Committeeâ??s decision Friday when Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Q: Iâ??ve worked on campus for more than four years now and never once have seen the left-turn signal go on for the people turning on to University Avenue from Lake Street. The street gets blocked up during the evening commute. Why have the left-turn signal if it is never lit?
A Madison native was named Friday to a high Defense Department post as chief adviser for procuring equipment that protects U.S. forces from roadside bombs that have killed scores of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Brian Detter was sworn in by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus as the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for expeditionary warfare.
The weekend of Nov. 9-11, 2007, was a great time to be a Badger. On that Friday, the University of Wisconsin menâ??s hockey team opened a home series with rival North Dakota, while the nationally ranked UW volleyball team welcomed Michigan. On Saturday, Bucky hosted the football Wolverines, and Sunday brought the menâ??s basketball regular-season home opener. It was a perfect storm of scheduling that challenged Justin Doherty, who handled the athletic departmentâ??s day-to-day communications at the time, to somehow capture it all. His idea: dispatch a single staffer armed only with a camera, a computer and the capacity to seek out a good time.
The race for the 2016 Olympics has came down to just Rio de Janeiro and Madrid, with the International Olympic Committee eliminating Chicago in a stunning first round of voting.
