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The cost to police for the Mifflin Street Block Party fell for the second straight year in 2014, authorities said, with a total price tag of just over $94,000.
Noted: Gary Sandefur, dean of letters and science and professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been appointed as provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Oklahoma State University.
Noted: Jordan has no degrees or diplomas from the University of Wisconsin-Madison or the London School of Economics (LSE), the two institutions cited on his CV.
Teresa Adams, a UW-Madison professor of civil and environmental engineering, recently finished a three-year stint on a U.S. Department of Transportation committee that advises the secretary of transportation on ?intelligent transportation systems,? a broad field of inquiry that includes driverless cars.
The medical examiner said Wednesday morning that the woman who shot herself in a wooded area on Madison?s west side Tuesday has died.
A bank robber is on the loose and police want to catch him. Authorities say around 6 p.m. a man wearing a red University of Wisconsin baseball cap walked into the U.S. Bank inside the Schnucks on Big Bend in Twin Oaks.
?It leaves us with kind of a hollow feeling when we can?t help somebody, when we can?t get them the medical help, psychiatric help that they need,? University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling said.
UW-Madison Police said S. Jean Gibson died at a local hospital from her injuries.
A woman shot herself on Madison?s west side Tuesday afternoon six hours after police put out an alert for residents to avoid the area.
The three candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin?s attorney general debated at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Tuesday.
For the past three years, we have been members of a new student Trout Unlimited organization on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne and state Rep. Jon Richards of Milwaukee are scheduled to meet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s law school on Tuesday (at noon).
At UW-Madison, there are 21 full-time staff in the University Communications office, according to news and media relations director John Lucas, although they perform duties in addition to media relations, such as ?creating news stories about campus for internal and external audiences. ?I think there are generally more outreach roles on campus than there were a decade ago,? he said.
A Wisconsin family has made it their mission to fight cancer through the power of music. Its why they started the Gray Matters Music Jam, which is now in its third year. The annual event features live music and a silent auction to raise money for the UW-Carbone Cancer Center. The Semmanns are using their personal story to touch the lives of others who are dealing with cancer.
Along with trying to attract more minority students, colleges and universities are working to keep those students on campus and to motivate them to pursue graduate degrees and careers as professors and administrators. Right in the middle of those efforts at UW-Madison is Marla Delgado-Guerrero, 32, a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the School of Education, studying ?psychological, social, and cultural factors that influence academic persistence for marginalized communities in higher education.?
When Vinnie Ferguson died last month in New York, at 76, his obituary, and the news stories prompted by his past prominence as a boxer, all mentioned the NCAA boxing championship Ferguson won in Madison in April 1956. Ferguson won the individual title at 156 pounds, and the Badgers also won the team championship, their eighth and final title.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found more specific barriers for abuse survivors working to achieve financial independence, particularly when it comes to opening a new bank account. Current laws make it more difficult for consumers to close co-held accounts on their own, for example. And financial institutions often require proof of address or other requisites that may make it more difficult for survivors living in shelters or elsewhere.
UW- Madison police officials call last weeks disaster drill at Camp Randall Stadium a big success.
On Thursday police found a 74-year-old former UW-Madison professor missing since Wednesday.
Ald. Scott Resnick plans to run for mayor of Madison, a source close to the common council member told the Capital Times.Resnick, 27, is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who has represented the student-dominated 8th District for three years. He told the Capital Times Thursday he would have a final decision by next week.
Police have widened the search for former UW-Madison professor Stephen Nelsen, reported missing Wednesday afternoon. Nelsen, 74, suffers from dementia, and has no cellphone, money or food.
The Center for World University Rankings has ranked the University of Wisconsin as the 25th-best university in the world.
The concourse of Cam Randall will be a much different scene than fans are used to seeing Thursday as emergency crews simulate a terrorist attack.
Wisconsin?s newest invasive species, the Asian crazy worm, has been found for the first time on the University of Wisconsin campus, according to a release.
A foreign worm with a huge appetite has burrowed into the soil of the UW Arboretum, making scientists nervous about how the worm could affect the state?s forests.
A group led by a University of Wisconsin researcher has made a discovery that could lead to making human blood out of stem cells.
Noted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor, Rick Brooks, liked the idea, and, working with Bol they built a website with blueprints and instructions for people to build their own Little Free Library. Average cost is $75.
Officials say the blood donation program, which has been operating since early 2007, helps the vet school hospital avoid shipping costs of ordering blood, but also provides a way for the school to connect with the community. It also serves as an important teaching tool and as a backup to other area clinics.
A week from today, more than 400 people will be responding to a planned fake bombing at Camp Randall Stadium. The event, “Operation Wisconsin Dawn,” will be the largest and most sophisticated emergency response exercise in Wisconsins history.
More controversial will be the possible sale of 32 heating and cooling plants, an idea that was previously debated and dropped. One of the plants is UW-Madison?s Charter Street facility. Is selling the plants and contracting for their operation a good deal for taxpayers in the long run? That will require more convincing.
Noted: Haupt is a University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing and management graduate who directed regional operations and sales for The Onion. Bartlett also worked for The Onion, was assistant general manager of the Mallards baseball team in Madison, and most recently was a national account executive at Adams Outdoor Advertising.
Veteran publisher Vince O?Hern has sold Isthmus Publishing Co. to Jeff Haupt, Craig Bartlett and Mark Tauscher. O?Hern and his wife, associate publisher, Linda Baldwin, will retire from the media company.
Noted: Among those showing significant increases from 2008 to 2012 were University of Central Florida, with 66 percent growth; University of Wisconsin-Madison, with 30 percent growth; Arizona State University, with 24 percent growth; University of Nevada, Reno, up 100 percent; and Florida A&M University, up 168 percent.
By March, our landscape is brown. Our moods are gray. Things start to change when signs of spring emerge. In Madison, chief among them is the metal sunburst chairs reassuming their position on the Union Terrace at UW-Madison in late April.
The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District is working on becoming more energy independent by transforming table scraps from UW?Madison into an energy resource.
They both save lives, but do so in very different ways. From the moment an accident happens, firefighters and emergency responders are on scene helping victims in the field. Meanwhile, emergency room physicians are waiting at the hospital for patients to arrive.
CUNA Mutual Group has promised more than $1 million to a new program aimed at training and keeping new teachers developed by the Madison School District and the UW-Madison School of Education. When the Madison School Board approved the partnership in March, the university?s School of Education said it would commit $452,000 worth of faculty and staff time and program materials, while the district would commit $498,000 worth of district staff time for the project.
UW-Madison named Steven Smith as the new Secretary of the Faculty Friday. Smith previously served as the associate director of the Global Studies program, and will take over his new position beginning July 7.
In an attempt to fortify recruiting efforts in the Midwest, University of Wisconsin football coach Gary Andersen is looking to work multiple summer camps at sites outside Madison starting in 2015. Andersen would prefer to have prospects participate in his instructional camps at Camp Randall, but that?s not always feasible. As such he?s looking to hook up with a small college or two that will put him and his assistants in front of potential recruits in Minnesota and, perhaps, Illinois.
And UW-Madison?s Sara Goldrick-Rab is at the center of media skepticism about the coffee giant?s tuition reimbursement offer for classes taken online from Arizona State University.
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Participants Wednesday will include University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor William P. Jones, Alder Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Centro Hispano executive director Karen Menendez Coller, and Gee.
Wisconsin?s summer could be cooler than normal this year, according to a Wisconsin meteorologist, leaving it in uncertain territory when it comes to severe weather.
Ben Miller, a former assistant to retired Sen. Herb Kohl, will be University of Wisconsin-Madison?s lobbyist in Washington, D.C., UW-Madison News reports.
A former University of Wisconsin football recruit was found guilty of third-degree sexual assault Wednesday. Dominic Cizauskas, a former Mukwonago High School football star, was on his official recruiting visit to the Madison campus on Dec. 13-15 when the assault occurred.
The violation of UW-Madison’s recruiting policies came out when sophomore linebacker Leon Jacobs testified in the sexual assault trial of former recruit Dominic D. Cizauskas. Jacobs told jurors his job as the student host of Cizauskas was to “show him a good time.”
Finishing second in the Big Ten for average attendance last season, UW trailed only Indiana (17,359) who claimed the top spot. The Badgers have now ranked first or second in the league in home attendance for 12 straight seasons. UW has finished first in the conference in the category nine of the last 12 season.
Many experts believe the once thriving manufacturing industry is starting to make a comeback in America. The state of Wisconsin is well known as a leader in manufacturing largely due to the successful College of Engineering on the UW-Madison campus. University officials are hoping that the biggest donation ever to the college will take that notoriety to the next level.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Engineering received its biggest donation in history Monday.
UW-Madison and Oscar Mayer/Kraft Foods are hosting the international conference, which brings together the commercial, academic and governmental segments of the industry. This year?s event celebrates the 50th anniversary of AMSA, which was founded at UW-Madison.
The writer believes that “Madison media remain silent while the public is indoctrinated by UW with deceptive promises of breakthroughs for human diseases and false claims that medical progress requires using animals.”
The answer: Ivory Coast. The other 31 countries in the tournament had at least one student at UW in the spring semester that wrapped up last month. That includes undergraduates as well as graduate, professional and special students.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, whose bird flu research sparked international controversy and a moratorium two years ago, has created another potentially deadly flu virus in his lab at University Research Park. Kawaoka used genes from several bird flu viruses to construct a virus similar to the 1918 pandemic flu virus that killed up to 50 million people worldwide. He tweaked the new virus so it spread efficiently in ferrets, an animal model for human flu.
An experimental compound being developed by a Madison company could help doctors better detect and treat many types of cancer, a new UW-Madison study says. The compound, which is thought not to accumulate in healthy cells, ?is essentially a cancer-homing agent to which we can attach many different payloads,? Dr. John Kuo, a UW-Madison brain surgeon and an author of the study, said.
Eleven young companies will participate in a new, 10-week business accelerator program in Madison. Madworks at Campus was developed by the UW-Madison Law School?s Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, with help from University Research Park and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
The accelerator took a cue from D2P, the UW?s Discovery to Product program aimed at moving lab discoveries toward commercialization.
Years from now, when a roll call is made of the most impactful performers in UW men?s track and cross country history, Ahmed?s name will probably be read early. Ahmed is a senior who will compete in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters in the NCAA Outdoor Championships that begin today.
17 cellists are at UW-Madison from points across the country for the two-week National Summer Cello Institute. Their route to better cello playing involves a lot of time away from the instrument, working their bodies in a modified basic training for musicians. The institute is run by cello professor Uri Vardi.
In year two in the program, some things don’t need to be spelled out — like striving to be in better shape than the opposing team every Saturday. This is a much different team than the senior-dominated squad of a year ago. UW had 16 seniors and 25 juniors on its spring roster.
Jordan Ellenberg?s ?How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking? is a miscellaneous romp through the world of quantitative reasoning.
