MADISON, Wis. – The State Building Commission approved plans Wednesday for a $150 million project to build twin research institutes on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
There is now a guaranteed graduation path from MATC to UW Madison.
The University of Wisconsin and the Madison Area Technical College have formalized a transfer contract.
Chancellor Wiley questioned the entire $147,000 budget proposal of the UW Roman Catholic Foundation last week. It is only the second time in 13 years the chancellor has returned budgets to ASM for reconsideration.
student finance committee decided to fill the budget requests of six student organizations, in response to a letter from UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley asking the committee to review the budgets Monday night.
After an overwhelmingly negative faculty reaction, a proposed disciplinary process set forth by a UW System Board of Regents committee will move forward with some changes.
A special Board of Regents committee met yesterday to further discussions regarding the controversial disciplinary process slated for revision.
Four days after asking the Associated Students of Madison to reconsider its proposed 2006-07 segregated fee budget, Chancellor John Wiley got his answer Monday.
MADISON ââ?¬â? A private research institute planned on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will allow researchers to move quickly to tackle scientific problems and give them space to turn their ideas into companies, university officials say.
Wisconsin takes pride in its University of Wisconsin System being unafraid to carve a job for itself in improving the state. That’s why the Growth Agenda introduced by UW System President Kevin Reilly has “impressive” written all across it.
APPLETON ââ?¬â? A construction company giant will be honored at the May 12 commencement ceremonies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever be considered for an honorary degree,” said Oscar C. Boldt, chairman of the Oscar J. Boldt Construction Co. in Appleton.
MADISON, Wis. – A private research institute planned on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will allow researchers to move quickly to tackle scientific problems and give them space to turn their ideas into companies, officials sa
An appeals panel this morning repudiated a sexual harassment reprimand against Paul Barrows, saying the University of Wisconsin-Madison administration failed to provide just cause for its discipline.
The committee voted 5-0 that Peter Spear, who retired as provost in October, failed to meet all seven tests of just cause in punishing the former vice chancellor for student affairs. The tests included whether there was a fair investigation, whether the university offered proof of offense, and whether the penalty was reasonable.
The Associated Students of Madison�s Conference Committee met Thursday night to discuss a letter sent by UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley listing student organizations whose budgets need to be reviewed because they have a religious affiliation or use segregated fees to pay rent for facilities.
More than a month after receiving a $27 million budget proposal to fund various student organizations and services, Chancellor John Wiley returned the proposal to the Associated Students of Madison with numerous recommended changes.
The testimony from the Paul Barrows hearing Tuesday should have been attributed to Paula Gates, not Cynthia Hasz. The Cardinal regrets the error.
State Rep. Frank Lasee says he has submitted more than 50 questions to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau about the Taxpayer Protection Amendment approved by the Assembly Ways and Means Committee on a 7-6 vote Wednesday. Although we disagree with Lasee over whether the state needs such an amendment in the first place – he thinks the state does; we remain unconvinced – we think he’s exactly right to raise the questions.
As to the amendment on the table now, even supporters should shy away. As Lasee argues, it is too complex, too long and currently lacks sufficient input from the public and legislators. Every one of Lasee’s questions deserves an answer from the fiscal bureau. That will take time. But it is time that needs to be taken lest we risk amending the constitution in a way that will harm rather than help citizens.
A constitutional amendment that would limit state and local government limped out of a state Assembly committee Wednesday, although it was unclear whether it would pass the full Legislature and eventually go to voters.
“We need our own Jerry Frautschi. We need our own Morgridges,” Adam Smith, director of development for Porchlight Inc. said today.
Smith was invoking the brand of generosity that brought millions from Frautschi and his wife, Pleasant Rowland, for the development of the Overture Center for the Arts, and provided seed money for the newly planned Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery from UW-Madison alums John and Tashia Morgridge.
Smith was talking about the infusion of new funding that will be needed to fulfill an ambitious plan to end homelessness in Dane County by 2015.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison attorney told an appeals panel that the university has a solid case against Paul Barrows.
Nancy Lynch implored the Academic Staff Appeals Committee to uphold former Provost Peter Spear’s September reprimand of Barrows for sexual harassment against two women, which Barrows is appealing. Lynch also said Spear was right to require Barrows to swap 92 hours of sick time for vacation time.The committee heard closing arguments on Tuesday afternoon.
The five-member panel is expected to announce its decision on Friday and back it up with a written statement in May.
As a city with a reputation of holding large protests, it was no surprise Monday�s rally against federal illegal immigration legislation assembled more than 10,000 people in downtown Madison.
The state legislature continues to cast a pretty wide net in its effort to wreak havoc on state institutions. Whether it?s the propensity to micromanage or simply to appeal to the shortsighted tax freeze minority, elected officials seem blind to the impact on schools and colleges among other things. And that includes tech schools.
The University of Wisconsin has responded to public outcry and wisely reversed its decision to close its fertility clinic.
The UW-System Board of Regents approved plans to create two substantial research centers Friday. At the regents monthly meeting, held at UW-Green Bay, the Board approved a measure to allow UW-Madison to exchange land with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and to allow WARF to construct the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Morgridge Institute for Research. The facilities, collectively known as the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, were announced March 3. John and Tashia Morgridge provided a $50 million donation for the proposed Morgridge Institute.
More than one year after being charged with intent to perpetrate a child sex crime, the UW System Board of Regents dismissed UW-Madison professor Lewis Keith Cohen Friday.
According to a Board statement, the unanimous vote immediately dismissed Cohen from his tenured position in the comparative literature department, closing the last of three recent felony cases among UW-Madison faculty.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to dismiss UW-Madison professor Lewis Keith Cohen from his tenured position in the comparative literature department.
The UW Board of Regents on Friday fired a professor convicted of sending naked pictures of himself to a detective posing as a 14-year-old boy.
Another UW-Madison professor convicted of stalking a former girlfriend last year agreed to resign this week rather than fight to try to save his job, the school said Friday.
University of Wisconsin System regents on Friday fired a professor convicted of sending naked pictures of himself to a detective posing as a 14-year-old boy. (Last item in Regional Briefs)
University of Wisconsin System regents on Friday fired a professor convicted of sending naked pictures of himself to a detective posing as a 14-year-old boy.
Another UW-Madison professor convicted of stalking a former girlfriend last year agreed to resign this week rather than fight to try to save his job, the school said Friday.
Kenji Ohmi is still missing after he first disappeared Jan. 28, over two months ago. Madison Police Department Information Officer Mike Hanson alleged all leads given for the investigation have been cold.
The city of Madison will kick off its weekend-long sesquicentennial celebration today, commemorating 150 years of history and progress at the state capital.
Madison begins a long celebration of its sesquicentennial today, and we are delighted to join in the festivities.
Indeed, we would like to suggest a motto for this 150th anniversary party: Vive le difference!
The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate passed a motion Monday recommending any change to university policy regarding the suspension of faculty members without pay be limited to those who have been ââ?¬Å?charged with a felony in a criminal proceeding.ââ?¬Â
Dear Editor: So the defenders of Paul Barrows’ message to all who are appalled by his years of unprofessional conduct and ability to milk the system at every turn is this: “Get off poor Paul because he is black.” Message received. Racism is acceptable in certain situations. Wake up! Your arguments are the definition of fascism.
Steve O’Neill, Madison
The man beaten during a scuffle near a University of Wisconsin-Madison parking ramp last week was well-known Madison restaurateur Nick Schiavo, according to statements made Monday in court.
Schiavo and others were at Ian’s Pizza late Wednesday night and as they left a confrontation erupted near UW ramp 46, across from the Nitty Gritty bar, in which Jason Hall, 19, allegedly fired rounds from a sawed-off shotgun.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison, $1.655-billion as of March 3 (increase of $3-million in the last month); the goal was $1.5-billion by 2007.
Blasts from a sawed-off shotgun resounded in a parking lot near Witte Hall early Thursday morning, jolting residents awake and prompting University Police to rush to the scene.
A Madison man has been arrested for allegedly firing a shotgun in a university area parking garage early Thursday and beating another man over the head.
Jason W. Hall, 19, was jailed on felony charges of possession of a shot-barrel shotgun and first-degree reckless endangerment, as well as misdemeanor battery.
“We’re under the impression that it’s just a verbal altercation that escalated,” said Lt. Johnnie Diamante of the UW Police Department.
Jennifer Lord, who has worked in a variety of programs to help prepare young people for college, is the new director of the South Madison Health and Family Center-Harambee.
….Lord has directed pre-college and youth programs at the University of Wisconsin, Beloit College and the Briggs Community YWCA in Olympia, Wash. She has also worked as a research assistant at the UW Medical School Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine.
MADISON, Wis. — Former University of Wisconsin Badgers star running back Booker Stanley appeared in court on Thursday and learned that he will stand trial on sexual assault charges.
Something has gone very wrong with the United States patent system.
Americans think of the granting of patents as a benevolent process that lets inventors enjoy the fruits of their hard work and innovations. But times have changed. The definition of what is patentable has slowly evolved to include business practices and broad ideas. The fact that the Smucker’s company went to court over patents on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches might have provoked chuckles. But it became a symbol of a system gone awry.
As the post-spring break chatter of drunken hook-ups, worm-chased tequila shots and bead-grabbing shenanigans works its way through campus, we�ve been privileged to hear many a rumor over the past several days. However, one particularly far-fetched token of humbuggery has caused us to do a double take.
The Madison Plan Commission unanimously passed a proposal to completely demolish and renovate University Square Monday evening.
The UW makes its case against landmark status for the Rennebohm building…
If the UW is forced to integrate the former Rennebohm pharmacy building into it’s new research facility in the heart of campus…. it would force the university to have a smaller facility.
All universities gain and lose talented faculty and staff. But UW-Madison is losing more than its share of academic stars and having a tougher time attracting others.
Scientists say it’s not a matter of if, but when. And when pandemic flu hits ââ?¬â?? an event that could, at the least, keep large sections of the population from working, shut down travel and public institutions and cause infrastructure outages ââ?¬â?? information technology may be called on to ease the burden of coordinating both public efforts and business.
The Games + Learning + Society conference is being held in town due to the role UW-Madison plays as a vital center of research into the confluence of education and gaming.
The co-sponsor of a proposed constitutional amendment designed to hold down state taxes said Friday that lawmakers can’t be trusted to make tough spending decisions on their own and that fewer public services will help the state’s economy.
“I’ve yet to see the Legislature take a hard vote on anything,” said Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, adding that “the press” contributes to the problem by not holding lawmakers accountable.
In other business, the board:
Approved a new policy giving resident assistants at University of Wisconsin campuses the freedom to hold Bible studies or any other kind of meeting in their dormrooms, to the same extent as other students, provided they don’t use their positions to “pressure, coerce or inappropriately influence” other students to attend or participate.
The University of Wisconsin System has met a majority of benchmarks that were established under the orders of former Gov. Tommy Thompson but has fallen short in enrolling non-traditional students, retaining freshmen and sending students abroad, according to a report that will be reviewed by the system’s Board of Regents on Thursday.
In response to a possible security threat, the Division of Information Technology has forced a system administrator to shut down a worldwide academic hacking challenge.
A six-story building with dozens of condominiums, rental space for offices and retail space for entrepreneurs may soon appear across from Camp Randall.
Inviting hackers to infiltrate a computer on the University of Wisconsin network might leave a Department of Information Technology employee subject to disciplinary action.
The University of Wisconsin did not take kindly to a systems engineer using its network for a public Mac security test
A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into trouble with university administrators.
Mustafa Gokcek isn’t about to deny the obvious.
Thanks mostly to the policies of the Bush administration, the great rift between the Muslim and Western worlds clearly has widened in the last year, acknowledges the 29-year-old Turkish native and UW-Madison grad student.
And there’s no better proof, he says, than the tens of thousands of angry protesters who greeted the president on his recent trip to India and Pakistan. But as worrisome as that may be, Gokcek says it also proves the increasing need for events like the second annual International Conference on Islam, “Dialogue vs. Conflict: Islam in the Age of Globalization,” which will take place March 24-25 at the University of Wisconsin’s Pyle Center.
A new “hack my Mac” challenge has shown that Apple’s Mac OS X might not be such a pushover after all, after the challenger’s Mac Mini survived a sustained barrage of attacks for the duration of the contest.
The military has a right to recruit on college campuses and at law schools nationwide, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, despite the Pentagon’s policy of excluding openly gay men and women from its ranks.
A new Mac OS X hacker competition has been launched at the University of Wisconsin.
Stanley Kutler, the UW-Madison emeritus professor famed for his groundbreaking research into the Watergate scandal, has agreed to plead no contest to a criminal disorderly conduct charge stemming from an April 2005 incident in which he allegedly threatened to blow up a health insurance facility.
A man suspected in the attack and sexual assault of a woman Friday was arrested early Sunday.
Police stopped Steven Lopez-Ruiz, 24, on State Street at about 3 a.m. after an officer noted he matched the description of a man who attacked the 19-year-old woman. The suspect was in jail today on tentative charges of second-degree sexual assault, robbery and violating his parole.
