Concerns over a massive outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus has Dane County leaders preparing for the worst.
You can tell it’s almost flu season at Home Health United: packets for immunizations are stacking up. They run more than 1,000 mobile flu immunization clinics. This year, there will be double the vaccinations.
Ideally, about 50 new academic staff positions would be crated through a significant tuition increase at UW-Eau Claire so more students could graduate in four years, Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich said after Tuesday’s State of the University address.
In addition to those teaching positions, he said advisers and other support staff also should be hired.
MADISON â?? Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler along with Madison attorneys William Conley and David Jones have been recommended for a federal judgeship. U.S. Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold forwarded the names of the finalists to President Barack Obama on Friday to replace U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb, who is taking senior status.
(Butler is Justice in Residence and a lecturer at the UW Law School. He and Conley are alumni of the school.)
Answers for a man suffering from amnesia in Seattle might be hidden in Madison.
Picture waking up: and not knowing who you are. That’s what happened to a man in Seattle two weeks ago.
Family members have since told the Seattle Times they believe he’s 53-year-old Edward Lighthart.
Noted: John Lucas, a spokesman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that Edward Lighthart graduated in 1984 with a bachelorâ??s degree in French. Before that, he had attended the University of Arizona and Pima County Community College, both in Tucson. He also attended the Culinary Institute of America.
Madison police want your help to find a bank robbery suspect.
The man is suspected of robbing the UW Credit Union on State Street Thursday afternoon. The man showed the teller a note and said he had a weapon, but didn’t show one.
Here’s a mystery with a UW-Madison connection. This man with amnesia can’t remember his name, but claims he attended UW-Madison many years ago.
When the Seattle Times contacted the State Journal this week looking for help on the story, we checked records and paged through archived newspapers from the mid-1980s, but found no record of him or his Wisconsin wife Tina, who he remembers dying.
According to this press release, attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the University of Wisconsin-Madison on behalf of a student group.
This organization is arguing that the group Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow on the UW-Madison campus was denied access to student fees because of the viewpoints it expresses.
Hereâ??s a mystery with a UW-Madison connection.
This man with amnesia canâ??t remember his name, but claims he attended UW-Madison many years ago.
When the Seattle Times contacted the State Journal this week looking for help on the story, we checked records and paged through archived newspapers from the mid-1980s, but found no record of him or his Wisconsin wife Tina, who he remembers dying.Update: A Seattle Times reader identified the man as Edward Lighthart, an English teacher he knew in China. Iâ??m checking to see if the UW-Madison connection holds up.
Wisconsin is launching an electronic transcript initiative that will allow high school and college students in the state to use Docufide, a secure transcript service, for a discount. The project is being sponsored by a group of higher education organizations, including the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Wisconsin Technical College System, the Department of Public Instruction, and Midwestern Higher Education Compact. So far, 13 schools have asked to be pilot schools to try the service.
Waukesha-based businessman Scott Acker admits he was warned about trying to get quick approval from the city of Madison for a giant new restaurant and sports bar inside University Square.”Now I know what everybody meant,” says Acker, who is pursuing a $4 million, three-floor development inside the mixed-use complex at the corner of West Johnson and Lake streets. It would include the Badger Hall of Fame Grill, a restaurant, banquet hall and bar with a 900-person capacity.
Madison Metro buses will be returning Monday to three streets that have been under construction this summer.
Routes 4, 6 and 29 will return to regular service on lower State Street and Lake Street, while Routes 4 and 44 will resume regular service on Mills Street between University Avenue and Erin Street. Route 13 will resume regular service on Lake Street and Mills Street.
UW-Madison will be able to move ahead with a nearly $53 million addition and renovation to the School of Human Ecology following approval from a state committee Wednesday.
The project consists of renovation of the existing building, 1300 Linden Drive, and a 100,000 square-foot expansion to the west that includes an underground parking garage.
Fifty state workers who handle vehicle registrations and titles are being offered overtime to help reduce a work backlog days after all state Division of Motor Vehicles offices were closed Friday for a furlough day.
But the DMV unit in question is still paying less overtime this summer â?? about $8,000 instead of the $17,000 paid last summer â?? said Chris Klein, the No. 3 official at the state Department of Transportation. Klein said the backlog accumulated before the furlough.
Motorists expecting to use Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will have to wait at least another week and possibly longer for roadwork to end.
The project is one of many on or near the campus that has tied up traffic and given headaches to motorists for the bulk of the summer.
Observatory Drive has been closed between North Park Street and Charter Street and the westbound lane was supposed to reopen today (Monday, Aug. 10), and the eastbound lane on Wednesday, but now it won’t happen until next week, according to university officials.
When Mike Knetter took the helm of the UW-Madison School of Business in July 2002, the nation was still reeling from the technology bust of 2000-01 as well as from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
But within several years, Knetter managed to wrangle major contributions to the Business School, restructure its MBA program and raise its standing significantly among influential magazine polls.
Motorists using Randall Avenue should look for an alternate route Friday night into Saturday morning as a construction company removes a tower crane, officials warned.
The 300 block of North Randall Avenue south of University Avenue will be closed beginning at 6 p.m. Friday (today).
The Waisman Center on the UW Madison campus is one of the premier facilities in the world for advancing knowledge about human development, developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases. Its mission of research, training, service and outreach put it squarely in the lives of doctors, students, scientists and especially families with a person with a developmental disability. Despite its profound impact on the quality of life for so many, it remains for most folks an underappreciated resource in this community. And that?s why we so love the annual Films in the Field.
A man suffered head injuries after falling 30 to 40 feet on the UW-Madison campus on Thursday night.
The UW-Madison Police Department and the Madison Fire Department responded to the Wendt Library around 11:30 p.m. for a report that a man had fallen.
The Kollege Klub, a popular campus bar, will close its doors for 30 days this winter.
Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee suspended the bar’s license on Thursday.
The Downtown bar Kollege Klub would close for 30 days in December and January under an agreement reached Thursday by the barâ??s management and the city attorneyâ??s office in response to a police complaint listing multiple fights and other incidents at the bar in 2007 and 2008.
Police say a man fell 30 to 40 feet in a construction zone on the UW campus overnight.
It happened on the north side of Wendt Library.
Investigators say it appears the 24-year-old was trying to enter a construction site just north of the building when he fell. He was taken to the hospital with head injuries.
A popular bar near the University of Wisconsin-Madison that police unsuccessfully tried to penalize this year for a series of fights and underage drinking incidents likely will still face sanctions.
Madison police have filed a new complaint against the Kollege Klub, 529 N. Lake St., leveling the same charges it did in May when it tried to block its annual liquor license renewal.
Police agreed to withdraw that complaint after learning the city had negotiated a deal with the bar owners to place conditions on their license.
MADISON, Wis. — If you’re a woman and you just don’t get football, University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema can help.
Bielema plans to host an event called Football 101 for Women on Thursday at Camp Randall Stadium. The event is a breast-cancer fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
A University of Wisconsin chancellor says three groups of educators in the state were not treated equally when budget cuts were doled out.
UW-Stout Chancellor Charles Sorensen says itâ??s time someone spoke out against the pay cuts and furloughs imposed on the UW system when higher education plays a big role in the stateâ??s future economic growth. He says someone has to say whatâ??s really good for the UW system is competitive salaries for faculty.
The Chancellor points to technical school teachers and K-12 teachers who are not facing the same salary cuts. He says his concern is that educators are being treated differently, that tech school faculty members are getting raises while UW faculty have taken pay cuts. (Third item.)
A 31-year-old Milwaukee woman was mugged early Saturday morning while walking back to her hotel in downtown Madison, police said.
The incident took place about 2:20 a.m. in the 20 block of Langdon Street.
One of the lasting questions of World War II is, when faced with unimaginable evil all around them, what did ordinary people do?
The consensus generally says that, in Nazi Germany, they did nothing. But a new book about resistance efforts by ordinary citizens of Berlin prior to World War II not only shows that some people tried, but that some who did so had strong Wisconsin ties.
Madison police are looking for two men who allegedly pushed a woman to the ground, displayed a knife and took her purse, identification and cell phone.
The incident occurred at the corner of Spring and Charter streets near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus around midnight Friday, the Madison Police Department reported.
UW-Madison Police and Madison Area Crimestoppers need your help in solving a theft at Grainger Hall on the 900 block of University Avenue.
Police say the incident happened July 17, between 12:30 a.m. and 5 a.m.
The chairs were secured by chain locks but were broken. A small number of chairs were recovered nearby. Sixty-five chairs are still missing. Officials say its at an expense of about $17,000.
Same-sex couples in Wisconsin can begin registering for the state’s new domestic partner benefits registry on Monday.
Experts said that they expect thousands of couples will register in the first year alone.
The registry grants rights to receive survivorship and inheritance rights the ability to visit an ailing partner in a hospital and take family medical leave. These partnerships only provide 43 of those more than 200 rights held by married couples, WISC-TV reported.
MADISON (WKOW) — UW-Madison professor emeritus of computer science David DeWitt is being honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
DeWitt was named the recipient of the 2009 Emanuel R. Piore Award this month. The IEEE cited DeWitt’s work in developing database architecture and his role in building one of the world’s foremost academic database research groups.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison reported that, to date, it has received 90 awards totaling more than $26.5 million in stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Funded projects range from stem cell research to Antarctic weather stations and bioenergy projects, and more could be on the way.
According to Kim Moreland, director of UW-Madison’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, the flow of stimulus money to UW is probably going to increase as more national agencies continue the process of vetting proposals.
New prez affects Discovery Institute: Upon the completion of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery in December 2010, UW-Madison will take over the “public” Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, while the private, non-profit side, the Morgridge Institute for Research, will share the building.
Students registering for fall classes this summer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will see a 30% increase in the number of online classes, but the convenience comes with a price: as much as $275 per course on top of regular tuition.
Currently 14 of the 18 members of the UW Board of Regents are selected by the governor. The other members consist of two student representatives, the state Superintendent of Public Instruction and a representative of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
A bill by an Eau Claire representative would require that seven of the 14 members picked by the governor come from separate geographic regions of the state. The requirement would take effect in 2015.
The number of burglaries in Madison so far this year is well below the number for the same period in 2008, Madison police reported Wednesday.
Data released by Madison Police Chief Noble Wray show a 53 percent decline in the number of burglaries â?? from 1,059 burglaries in the first six months of 2008 to 497 burglaries since January of this year.
Entrepreneur magazine lists Madison, Wisconsin as one of the Top Ten best places to be an entrepreneur in its’ August issue. The writer, Jason Daley referred to Madison as “The Diversifer” for moving beyond the cities traditional base of state government, UW-Madison, and agriculture. The article points out that Madison has expanded to grow businesses in the biotech, healthcare, and software industries.
Just when you think driving on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus couldn’t get any worse, it will.
The newest headache for motorists starts Thursday, when the westbound on-ramp from Highland Avenue onto Campus Drive/University Avenue is shut down for about three weeks.
To the Editor:
Tom Wolfe says that now is the time to send humans to Mars and beyond, and rejects sending robots in our place because they have such a tiny fraction of our brainpower.
Heâ??s got it the wrong way around. The dangers of space travel will make it prohibitively expensive until we can build spacecraft with brains as good as ours. We will have artificial brains superior to ours sometime during this century, and their incredible productivity and skills will make space travel affordable.
Ambitious human space travel should wait for smart robots.
Bill Hibbard
Stoughton, Wis., July 19, 2009
The writer is an emeritus senior scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin.
A 19-year-old Madison woman doing her laundry was startled last week when she saw a man outside videotaping her.
The incident happened about 11 p.m. July 15 in the 100 block of West Gilman Street.
Just when you think driving on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus couldn’t get any worse, it will.
The newest headache for motorists starts Thursday, when the westbound on-ramp from Highland Avenue onto Campus Drive/University Avenue is shut down for about three weeks.
Madison city officials are cracking down on crowd control at some downtown bars and restaurants.
The Madison fire marshal said that the new effort is all about increasing public safety in public places, but the initiative is limited to a series of bars.
Some of the 12 establishments, like Johnny O’s and Madison Avenue on University Avenue and the Kollege Club off State Street, have already been under the microscope by police for various problems. Others, including like the Nitty Gritty on Frances Street, haven’t had alcohol license issues.
Sixty-four red and white Terrace-style chairs were stolen from a courtyard outside UW-Madisonâ??s Grainger Hall Thursday night, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
Grainger Hall is on the 900 block of W. Johnson Street and home to the business school.
Someone stole 64 red and white Terrace-style chairs from UW-Madisonâ??s Grainger Hall Thursday night, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.
The City of Madison Fire Department is releasing more details about a gas leak Thursday afternoon that forced the evacuation of a few buildings.
Firefighters were called to the UW campus around 12:35 p.m. for a report of a natural gas leak on the corner of Johnson and Mills Streets.
They evacuated three buildings, including the Chemistry and Education Science buildings and one residential building.
A July 14 article in the Wisconsin State Journal explained that the UW Hospital’s managing oncology pharmacist had left the pharmacy in January and may face criminal charges.
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He made a very difficult situation as simple and pleasant as he could.
The Madison Fire Department said a natural gas leak in downtown Madison prompted authorities to close roads and temporarily evacuate some buildings Thursday.
Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth said the gas leak occurred at 12:35 p.m. in the area of Johnson and Mills streets on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A white male on a moped was struck by an oncoming car at the corner of Park St and Dayton St at approximately 7:31 p.m. Thursday.
The victim was taken away by paramedics. It is unclear if he is a student. Madison Police Department Sgt. Galen Wiering said the moped user was not wearing a helmet when struck, but said his injuries did not appear to be life-threatening. Wiering said the victim has been identified but did not disclose the personâ??s name.
UW-Madison officials say providing the large amounts of money asked for by the state may not have an immediate impact on students, as most of this money will come from reserve funds.
According to Darrell Bazzell, UW-Madison vice chancellor, the state asked for a total of $2.2 million from UW-Madison for financial aid after Gov. Jim Doyle signed the 2009-â??10 state budget.
MADISON, Wis. — Four employees of a consulting firm billed more than $200,000 apiece in five months for work on a University of Wisconsin System information technology project.
Another 10 employees of Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group charged $100,000 or more for services on the project to install a new payroll system.
After more than three hours of discussion, Madisonâ??s Alcohol License Review Committee late Wednesday delayed for a month a recommendation on whether to issue a liquor license to a controversial proposal for a 900-capacity restaurant and banquet facility in the heart of Downtown.
The lives of a couple who were divorcing after almost 32 years of marriage ended in a murder-suicide Tuesday in McFarland and Madison.
Police believe Robert J. Beaulieu, 61, of 1126 Moorland Road, shot himself Tuesday at his Madison apartment after killing his wife, Shereen C. Beaulieu, 51, with one shot to the head at her McFarland apartment. The couple filed for divorce June 19 after several years of separation.
Shereen C. Beaulieu had been working in administrative support of research grants at the UW-Madison Graduate School since January 2007.
NBC-15 learned tonight that Shereen was a UW-Madison employee as a Grant Contract Specialist, helping faculty members submit applications for funding.
Her boss says Shereen was described as a generally happy person who will be missed.
“We sent home a number of people because they were so upset and needed a place that was quiet and begin to deal with this,” said Kim Moreland, Shereen’s co-worker. “But you don’t replace her. I think that we all believe that she had tremendous potential and that she would be in this department working with us for a long time.”
The Dane County coroner has ruled the deaths of a separated couple in McFarland and in Madison Tuesday evening were an apparent murder-suicide.
Preliminary autopsy findings indicate 51-year-old Shereen C. Beaulieu died from a gunshot wound, and her husband, 61-year-old Robert J. Beaulieu died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
UW-Madison officials said Shereen Beaulieu was a well liked staff member and grants specialist with a university graduate program. “She was a model employee whose personal impact and professional contributions to this office are already missed,” manager Stephanie Gray of Research and Sponsored programs said.
The Dane County coroner has ruled the deaths of a separated couple in McFarland and in Madison Tuesday evening a murder-suicide.
Preliminary autopsy findings indicate 51-year-old Shereen C. Beaulieu died from a gunshot wound, and her husband, 61-year-old Robert J. Beaulieu, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
….UW-Madison records list the woman as an employee with the university’s graduate school program.
President Obama on Tuesday announced his intention to nominate former Peace Corps volunteer Aaron Williams to run the federal agency.
Mr. Williams, who speaks fluent Spanish, graduated from Chicago State University and has a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin.
The kind of shaky handheld footage that is a hallmark of home movies has become popular with Hollywood directors in recent years. But new software means that handheld cameras need no longer give wobbly results.
Computer scientists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and software giant Adobe have developed a technique that mixes 3D reconstruction with optical illusion to turn distinctive wobble of handheld camera footage into the smooth glide of a Hollywood tracking shot.
An autistic 15-year-old boy was helped from Lake Mendota near the 3400 block of Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood Hills this morning by Dane County Sheriffâ??s Marine and Trail Deputies and UW-Madison Lifesaving.
Since Sunday eight beaches in Madison have closed because of potentially toxic blue-green algae. The latest beach, the Memorial Union. Blue-green algae isn’t uncommon this time of year. But, it’s a problem public health officials are running into more frequently.
“It looks like you might die jumping in there if you swallowed some of that,” Erik Macaulay was taking one last trip around Lake Mendota before he headed back to Salt Lake City Monday afternoon.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research employee charged with possession of child pornography appeared in Dane County Circuit Court Friday.
The court entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Sidney Gullens, 40.
Gullens was charged in May with two counts of possession of child pornography.
