The Madison Fire Department’s Hazardous Incident Team contained a chemical spill inside a pharmaceutical company building Monday afternoon in University Research Park on the city’s West Side, but two people were injured and taken to UW Hospital.
An autopsy Sunday failed to provide a reason for the death of Jonathan J. Krenzelok, 29, of Madison, who died Saturday evening on a porch at 144 Breese Terrace.
Dane County Coroner John Stanley said preliminary findings from the autopsy “confirm that physical trauma was not the cause of death,” in the case. Further medical studies are pending, Stanley said.
Krenzelok helped a friend move into the house, part of the Triangle fraternity on Friday, and was drinking with friends Friday night. He was found dead on the porch of the house at about 5 p.m. Saturday.
The case remains under investigation by the Madison Police Department and the Dane County Coroner’s Office.
Materials which have the remarkable ability to assemble themselves spontaneously into microscopic structures are promising to make possible higher-capacity computer hard disc drives at lower cost. The new fabrication method comes as manufacturers reach the limits of hard disc miniaturisation using traditional manufacturing techniques and look to so-called “patterned media” – regular arrays of magnetic material on the disc surface – as the way ahead.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Hitachi scientists have combined the conventional way of creating microelectronic devices – lithography – with these unusual materials, called block co-polymers.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities are investigating after a man was found dead on a porch Saturday after a night of drinking.
The house is near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The man was discovered at a house attached to the Triangle Fraternity house, located across the street from Camp Randall Stadium.
A person who lives there called 911 about 5 p.m. Saturday after finding the man on the porch, not breathing.
Do you suppose that Rep. Steve Nass and the other university bashers in the Legislature were paying attention a few days ago when Jon Foley, one of the stars on the UW-Madison campus, announced he is leaving for Minnesota?
….The 40-year-old professor made it clear that it was an opportunity he couldn’t refuse. But he also made it clear that the constant stream of bickering and budget cuts aimed at the UW by some of our state legislators played a role in his decision.
La Crosse native Amy Bechtum will be the first director of the Office of the Wisconsin Covenant, Gov. Jim Doyle announced today.
Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley will simultaneously play up to 25 other people Friday at the UW Memorial Union.
Up to a dozen playing places remain available for UW-Madison students, faculty and staff on a first-come, first-served basis. The event is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
Ashley is a world-renowned chess player and the only African-American international grandmaster of chess. The Asset Builders of America are sponsoring Ashley’s visit to Madison as part of a weekend-long conference about financial education.
UW-Madison’s new pedestrian-bicycle path parallel to Campus Drive is impressive for a variety of reasons, none more striking than the array of solar-powered light fixtures installed by Madison Gas & Electric.
Extending from University Bay Drive to a series of sidewalks near the barns on Linden Drive, the 10-foot-wide asphalt ribbon links the university’s agriculture campus to the southeast fringes of Shorewood Hills by way of the VA and UW hospitals. Along the way, peds and cyclists encounter an at-grade crossing of Highland Avenue, and traverses Walnut Street via a new bridge, with a staircase on one side of Walnut and a ramp on the other providing access between the street and the new path.
Trek Bicycles annual sales meeting at Monona Terrace could cause some traffic tieups Thursday and Saturday evenings downtown to accommodate two bike rides, but the Metro bus system doesn’t expect to have to detour buses because of heavy bicycle traffic.
Bicycle rides are planned from Monona Terrace to the UW Union Terrace at 6 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, but the bicyclists will most likely delay bus service rather than force Metro to detour buses away from the Capitol Loop/State Street routes, according to a Metro spokesman.
A 19-year-old Fitchburg man was pistol whipped and robbed early Saturday morning by a group of seven or eight men who attacked him on Regent Street.
Madison police said the victim reported the attack about 10 a.m. Saturday but it happened about 2 a.m., in the 100 block of Regent Street.
MADISON, Wis. — Madison prides itself on the miles of bike paths that wind through the city and now one section of path is even “greener” than the others.
A portion of a bike path on the University of Wisconsin campus is becoming easier and brighter to get around — while going green in the process.
MADISON, Wis. — A 359-unit apartment project in University Square officially celebrated its opening Wednesday with the installation of a 500-ton elephant from India named “Lucky.”
That’s the same name of the luxury apartment building owned by developer Steve Brown, who just struck a settlement agreement with the City of Madison over a dispute regarding access for disabled persons involving hundreds of regular use apartments.
A tipsy driver who told police “I must have taken a wrong turn” drove off the end of Lake Street and into Lake Mendota early Wednesday morning, but was able to swim to safety because his car window was rolled down, police said.
Jeremiah J. Hoefle, 20, Waunakee, was arrested and tentatively charged with operating while intoxicated, reckless driving and being an underaged person consuming alcohol, following the incident that happened about 1:47 a.m.
The city of Madison is a cultural hotbed. Housed in these â??77 square miles surrounded by realityâ? are more than 500 restaurants, a plethora of music venues, myriad street performers, a little more than a dozen active theaters and a handful of art galleries. With this vast array of destinations and eateries, itâ??s easy to feel overwhelmed. But fear not, weâ??ve compiled a list of must-do activities that will quickly acquaint you with the city. So tear this page out â?? keep it with you â?? and experience everything the city of Madison has to offer.
John Wiley’s fundraising acumen is legendary.
During one seven-month stretch of 2004, the UW-Madison chancellor logged 20,000 miles to secure gifts from a range of alumni and other donors for student financial aid, campus buildings, new programs and faculty recruiting. By May 2005, the university had reached its goal of raising $1.5 billion in private donations — 18 months ahead of schedule.
Yet every year, Tandem Press can count on Wiley to step away from his post atop Bascom Hill to make metal wine racks for the press’s annual wine auction fundraiser.
“I think from the first time I encountered John, it was very apparent that he was a Renaissance man,” said Paula Panczenko, executive director of Tandem Press, a self-supporting printmaking studio affiliated with UW-Madison’s Department of Art. “He is an amazing supporter of the arts on campus.”
UW-Madison is losing another of its bright lights.
Jon Foley, founder and director of the UW-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, or SAGE, has accepted an offer from the University of Minnesota to become the director of a new system-wide environmental institute.
In what could be the start of rapid growth at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, officials Tuesday signed an agreement bringing a new UW-Oshkosh bachelor’s degree to the two-year campus.
UW-Madison researchers will try to better understand how human embryonic stem cells perform their scientific magic through an $8.9 million federal grant announced Monday.
According to a news release from the Madison Police Department:
Early Sunday morning Madison Police received reports that a man had been grabbing the buttocks of young women on State and Langdon Streets. One victim said she was actually “grabbed” twice by the suspect. The first assault happened as she and a group of friends were walking on State Street around 3:00 a.m.
The second assault occurred twenty minutes later as she and a female friend were walking on Langdon Street.
A faculty union is suing UW-Platteville over the way its chancellor wants to award merit pay increases.
The case could help decide how a new $10 million fund is awarded across the University of Wisconsin System. Lawmakers created the fund last year to help recruit and retain faculty members and researchers, whose salaries are lagging behind those at rival schools.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Friday that the state should stop using coal to fuel heating and cooling plants in Madison, following the release of a major study with the same recommendation.
When the feature film “Side Effects” debuted in 2005, writer-director Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau became a voice articulating problems in the pharmaceutical industry in this country. These days, her voice is being heard on a slew of other topics, too.
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MADISON, Wis. — A man was arrested and accused of robbing a Madison bank on Thursday morning in which police said he claimed that he had a bomb.
The incident occurred at the Badger Campus Credit Union on Spring Street when the man apparently entered the bank and demanded money, according to Madison police
Biddy Martin, the new chancellor for the University of Wisconsin, will have a refurbished, more energy-efficient place to call home.
A $2.4 million renovation of Olin House, the traditional residence of UW-Madison chancellors, was recently completed.
“The functionality of Olin House had badly deteriorated over time, and some of its infrastructure dated to 1911 and was failing,” said retiring UW Chancellor John D. Wiley in a University Communications news release.
In addition to being the primary residence for the chancellor, the home is also used for between 35 and 70 fundraising, community and alumni events each year.
Call it extreme home makeover, university edition.
For the past 10 months, the official residence of the UW-Madison chancellor has undergone a major renovation to rework the plumbing, heating and air conditioning, wiring and other interior updates.
To the Editor:
Is reading the nutrition information on a bag of potato chips â??readingâ?? What about the box score for a Yankees game or closed captions on a TV program?
People have always been able to read in different media and circumstances. Whatâ??s important is the personâ??s purpose in reading, not the medium itself.
Are you looking for specific information, following a historical narrative or savoring the language in a Jane Austen novel?
Thereâ??s very little reading that can be done in one medium (the Internet) but not in the other (traditional print). The rest is all convenience.
Itâ??s harder on the Internet to stumble on those small interesting stories in the back of a newspaper, but itâ??s easier to find specific facts. Thereâ??s no single answer to which is better, but itâ??s all good.
Mark Seidenberg
Madison, Wis., July 29, 2008
The writer is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin.
By most accounts, the economy’s immediate forecast is mostly cloudy — if not gloomy.
It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to assume that such a climate would cause many a sleepless night for Sandy Wilcox, president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation — a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation that is the official fundraising organization for UW-Madison. After all, few envision a scenario in which the state is suddenly going to start funding a higher percentage of UW-Madison’s $2.3 billion budget — making the work of the UW Foundation increasingly more important to the university’s financial well-being.
Bill Barker’s sure-handed guidance of the panels plotting the future of the city’s east side Central Park site and the former Garver Feed Mill at Olbrich Botanical Gardens over the past couple of years won respect from both colleagues on the panels and advocates who came before them. A geology researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Barker, 52, is Georgia-born and reared, and said his experiences moving with his family from one Appalachian cotton mill town to another as his father climbed the corporate ladder taught him that “everybody’s got something to recommend them.”
By the very telling measure of TV advertising, four Great Lakes states – Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania – have emerged as the hottest regional battleground in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Despite the talk of an “expanded map” in ’08, those four states accounted for half the overall television spending – and two-thirds of the Republican TV spending – since early June, according to new data compiled by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WASHINGTON â?? Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama have run more than 100,000 advertisements so far in their general election advertising, a tally that is well beyond anything seen at this point in a presidential campaign, according to an analysis by the Advertising Project of the University of Wisconsin.
Following a call for impeachment at a congressional hearing Friday, two town meetings are set Monday and Tuesday night in Madison and Milwaukee to discuss the possibility of the removal of President Bush and Vice President Cheney from office.
The town meetings will feature Vietnam war veteran Robert Bowman, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who is on a national speaking tour advocating impeachment.
The Madison “Take Back America” town meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday in Van Vleck Hall on Bascom Hill on the UW-Madison campus.
MADISON, Wis. — Charlene M. Aitkin of Chicago, Ill, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison and 10 years probation for identity theft.
A joint investigation between the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department found that between January 2006 and September 2007, Aitkin and at least three other individuals stole purses and wallets from buildings on the both campuses.
Madison is one of America’s healthiest hometowns for seniors, according to the nation’s largest circulation magazine.
AARP The Magazine has named Madison the third healthiest city in America for older Americans, right behind Ann Arbor, Michigan and Honolulu, Hawaii.
….The article, written by Sarah Mahoney and Brad Edmondson, praised the city for embracing retirement issues and gives a lot of credit to the University of Wisconsin as a major reason why people choose to retire to Madison.
Scanner Dan, the Piccolo Guy, the Circle of Death. Mention these terms around most Madisonians, and you’ll get a knowing look, maybe hear the story of that one time Scanner Dan accosted them on State Street or the time they nearly crashed their vehicle trying to change lanes on the Circle of Death.
But if you’re not from Madison, you’re probably wondering what the heck they’re talking about.
That’s where CityDictionary.com comes in.
A thin, troubled college dropout confessed to killing Joel Marino, 31, for “no reason” during a robbery, according to court testimony Friday.
Adam Peterson, 20, a Minnesota man who briefly attended UW-Madison, told both police and his parents that Marino was a stranger to him, police said.
During a court hearing Friday, a recording of Adam Peterson was played in which he confessed to his father he stabbed Madison’s Joel Marino in January.
“I just stabbed him out of nowhere,” Peterson told his father, Melvin Peterson in a phone conversation taped at a Minnesota jail.
Madison dropped 36 places on this year’s top 100 list compiled by Money Magazine.
Madison again has made Money Magazine’s top 100 places to live, and for the second straight time, you won’t find it in the top 10 or even top 50.
A state appeals court dealt a setback to animal rights activists’ plans to build a museum protesting animal research in a warehouse that separates two University of Wisconsin primate labs. The court ruled business owner Roger Charly could back out of a $675,000 deal with activists from the Primate Freedom Project and instead sell the property to the university for $1 million.
A few years ago, Lynette Jandl found that racism had gotten into her, and it was Richard Davis who helped get it out.
Jandl attended Davis’ Institutes for the Healing of Racism Inc., which the renowned Madison bass player runs out of his West Shore Drive home.
“Everyone who goes feels profoundly changed,” Jandl told a crowd of about 100 at the Diversity Picnic held by the Madison Department of Civil Rights Thursday at the Warner Park Shelter on Northport Drive.
Davis won the 13th annual Rev. James C. Wright Human Rights Award, presented by Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz.
….Davis, a professor of European classical and jazz bass, jazz history and combo improvisation at UW-Madison, came to the UW in 1977 after spending 23 years in New York City establishing himself as one of the world’s premier bass players.
The nonprofit Illinois corporation that was paid the bulk of a $694,000 federal grant now being investigated at the University of Louisville was dissolved a year before the U of L deal was struck, the Illinois secretary of state’s office verified yesterday.
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Also yesterday, U of L provided documents showing that the man listed as director of the Illinois center — Thomas D. Schroeder — was on the university’s payroll from Jan. 1, 2005, until this past April.
Schroeder was paid $2,400 a month as a research assistant to Robert Felner, former dean of U of L’s College of Education and Human Development, who managed the grant, according to the documents.
MADISON, Wis. — The Madison Department of Civil Rights celebrated Richard Davis at its annual picnic on Thursday.
Davis was awarded the James C. Wright Human Rights Award. Write is a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
He’s also a bass player, and has recorded with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand and Miles Davis, WISC-TV reported.
The Dane County Board could consider an ordinance requiring companies doing business with the county to offer domestic partner benefits to their employees.
Under the proposal, businesses that have contracts with Dane County would have to make the same benefits that are offered for spouses of employees available to domestic partners. County Executive Kathleen Falk says it’s an issue of fairness for all workers. She says the proposal is just another basic requirement companies will need to meet, if they want to work for the County.
Companies that want to do business with Dane County would have to offer benefits to their employees ‘ domestic partners under a proposal being introduced Thursday.
The proposal also would create a countywide domestic-partner registry through the County Clerk ‘s office, similar to what Madison has offered since 1990. Dane would be the first county in the state to create a registry and the first municipality to tie its contracts to domestic-partner benefits.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin officials are asking the city council to approve a plan that would put 63 new bus shelters around the campus.
The idea behind the new shelters is to tie together the outdoor areas of the university with the UW brand, WISC-TV reported.
“They don’t lend any sort of sense of campus to our university,” said UW transportation planner Rob Kennedy. “What we’re trying to do is take all of our furniture such as our benches and make sure it says Univ. of Wis. to people when they come onto the campus and we’re going to do that with our shelters now.”
People who take the bus to and from UW-Madison may soon have a more stylish wait.
UW-Madison wants to build 63 new bus shelters on campus at a cost of about $10,000 a piece by 2012 in order to lend a “campus-like character” to the bus stops.
Anyone under the age of 21 looking to buy alcohol in downtown Madison could soon find it a little tougher to pass off a fake ID.
To combat underage drinking, the University of Wisconsin-Madison used donated funds to buy hand-held scanners â?? at $1,000 each â?? and give them at no cost to seven liquor stores and one grocery store. The businesses, in turn, agreed to use the gadgets to swipe customersâ?? IDs to instantly determine whether they are of age or using a fake.
The Dalai Lama, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for advocating nonviolence, has often found time to speak at UW-Madison, which gave him an honorary degree in 1998. He has taken an interest in some of its programs, including research into the effects of meditation on health.
Joe Elder, a UW-Madison professor who is an expert on Asia, said Sopa’s hiring made the university a pioneer in the field of Buddhist studies and facilitated its unique relationship with the Dalai Lama.
A $694,000 project grant managed by former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner is part of a criminal investigation into whether federal funds were mishandled.
Documents obtained from U of L in an open-records request show that the grant’s purpose was to create a center that would be a “unique collaborative effort” with the Kentucky Education Department and Jefferson County Public Schools, among others, and would help schools meet testing goals of the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Dear Editor:
There’s a madness in Madison.
At one time, in-state students attending the state universities paid only one third of the cost. Now they’re charged for more than half of the instructional budget. (The governor and Legislature recently decided that veterans were to get free tuition. However, since this was an underfunded mandate, the Board of Regents had to come up with the money by raising tuition for all the other students!)
The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Employment Relations rescinded University of Wisconsin faculty raises while approving substantial increases for professional state employees.
(Gruberg is a professor emeritus of political science at UW-Oshkosh)
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Provost and Vice Chancellor Lane Earns will likely be UW-Parksideâ??s interim chancellor while the school conducts a second search for a leader.
UW System President Kevin Reilly says Earns will start leading the school in Kenosha in late August if approved by the Board of Regents.
MADISON (WKOW) — Like other inmates in the Dane County jail on suicide watch, Joel Marino’s alleged killer, Adam Peterson, spends 23 hours a day alone in a cell.
Peterson’s attorney is concerned about the former UW-Madison student’s jail situation.
In addition to the isolation, Peterson’s attorney, assistant state public defender Dennis Burke says Peterson is denied almost all visitors.
MADISON, Wis. — Seven downtown liquor stores and one grocery store are working with the University of Wisconsin in a pilot project to fight underage drinking.
Electronic identification scanners have been donated by the UW to help clerks check to make sure customers are of legal age to buy alcohol or tobacco, WISC-TV reported.
By swiping a driver’s license or state ID, the clerk can get immediate feedback on whether it’s authentic.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced Wednesday that he will recommend Lane Earns as the interim chancellor for UW-Parkside. Earns has spent 21 years at UW-Oshkosh in a range of leadership positions.
University of Louisville Dean Robert Felner was hired in June to be UW-Parkside’s next chancellor, but then resigned the appointment after his lawyer disclosed he is at the center of an investigation into whether $500,000 in federal grant money was mishandled.
What are we to make of the recent recruiting problems in southeastern Wisconsin? The obvious lesson is that people werenâ??t doing what they ought. Fortunately there are easy solutions.
Until the U.S. attorney in Kentucky a couple of weeks ago announced a criminal probe, no one would have found a solid problem with Robert Felner, former chancellor-apparent for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Yet there were apparently clues to disenchantment with him which the local search committee knew of but didnâ??t think enough of to pass on to people at the UW System in Madison, clues which a system spokesman said would have been useful at least for further investigation.
A citizen’s tip played a crucial role in leading investigators to Adam Peterson, the man charged in the murder of Madison’s Joel Marino.
Right after Marino’s January stabbing, police officials distributed a photo of a white, UW stocking cap allegedly worn by a “person of interest,” and said the person of interest may be in his twenties.
Madison, Wis. – GWC Technologies, a manufacturer of scientific instruments for researchers, has signed an agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for an exclusive license to a new technology for protein analysis – which some believe to be the next field of endeavor for biotechnology.
Since 1939, sailing enthusiasts have tooled around Madison lakes with the Hoofers sailing club. In that time, the club has grown to be the second-largest inland sailing club in the country.
See Amiri Baraka, “the Godfather of Spoken Word,” speak at the Wisconsin Union Theater (800 Langdon St.) at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 7. The free “lit-hop” lecture/performance kicks off the 3rd Annual Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Educator’s Institute, running on the UW-Madison campus until July 11.
Alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison are invited to two events during Farm Technology Days in Brown County. Former students and friends of the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences are invited to the Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association’s annual Picnic on July 16. That will be held between 3:30-7:30 p.m. at Wayside Dairy Farm near Greenleaf. The picnic costs $10 per person. No reservations are necessary.
Adam Peterson gave Madison police an incriminating statement when they contacted him at his mother’s Minnesota home June 26, causing them to arrest him in the slaying of Joel Marino.
