Madison Common Council gathered Tuesday evening to approve the redesign of the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and authorize a $60,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for alcohol enforcement in 2014.
Noted: The division also worked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in connection with the construction of the Kohl Center and was named the owner?s representative for the new $975 million Minnesota Vikings football stadium in Minneapolis.
Kiplinger Magazine ranked the University of Wisconsin eighth out of 100 schools in its 2014 ranking of Best Values in Public Colleges this year, focusing on the university?s academic quality in relation to costs and financial aid.
Scientists are reporting new findings about the relationship between evaporation, precipitation and changing water levels in the Great Lakes.
The University of Wisconsin-Extension?s interim provost will take over as chancellor on an interim basis, replacing the current chancellor who?s been named to head the entire UW System.
It was December 2009 when Heidi Allstop, then a UW-Madison graduate student in psychology and business, needed someone to talk to about the stresses of student life and figured other students probably did, too.
When Dr. Katherine O?Rourke started her residency at UW Hospital, one of her first patients was an uninsured woman in her early 50s. The woman, who had advanced cervical cancer, died within weeks.
The University of Wisconsin will be part of a national plan to make sure all children have the chance at a higher education.
Madison police officials say a UW delivery truck?s back-up alarms were sounding, before the truck?s fatal collision with a UW staff member on Mendota Court near the Memorial Union.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank was one of 100 college presidents at the White House Thursday taking part in a forum on costs and accessibility.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced (Hazel) Symonette, a program development and assessment specialist at UW-Madison, will receive the award at the 29th annual City-County Martin Luther King Jr. Observance on Monday.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has persuaded the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Madison to remove Gideon Bibles from its 137 guest rooms.
Hazardous materials handlers and firefighters responded to Mentor Biologics in University Research Park Thursday evening where chlorine dioxide had spilled.
A candidate for chancellor of Louisiana State University of Alexandria says her experience at a university with similar challenges and student population has prepared her for this new opportunity.
Flight problems at Chicago O?Hare forced more than thirty UW-Madison students to scrap their participation in a long-planned medical mission to Honduras.
The future of competitive swimming on the UW-Madison campus is unknown, as students prepare to vote on a referendum project that threatens the WIAA state meet and UW events.
Noted: He received a law degree in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin law school and was a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame. He received a doctorate in 1986, a master?s degree in 1984, and a bachelor?s degree in 1979, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.1
To Matthew Newcomb, a veteran of UW-Madison?s South Pole-based Ice Cube observatory, it will be a reminder of the warmer times he spent at the bottom of the world.
Harvey K. Littleton, an artist who helped found the so-called studio glass movement in the United States, developing and teaching do-it-yourself techniques that freed glassblowing from the cumbersome protocols of factory production and made molten glass almost as easy to work with in the studio as wet clay, died on Dec. 13 in Spruce Pine, N.C. He was 91.
The ordeal came as Dr. Nick Haun worked long shifts as an internal medicine resident at Meriter, UW Hospital and Madison?s Veterans Hospital. He?ll be chief resident next year, imparting lessons to less experienced doctors.
Temperatures in the low 70s greeted the University of Wisconsin football team as it landed in Orlando on Christmas Day to begin preparations for the Capital One Bowl on New Year?s Day against South Carolina. (Look at Badger football trip via Storify.)
UW-Madison?s medical school has awarded $3.65 million to 16 communities for projects designed to improve the health of the citizenry.
A partnership between Madison School Community Recreation and UW-Madison is engaging elementary students in science with the hope that they see it as fun.
Despite the winter storm thousands of friends and family members made it to this year?s UW Winter commencement ceremony to cheer on the graduating class.
Slippery conditions and long, slow drives were all too common stories at this years University of Wisconsin – Madison winter graduation ceremony.
Princeton University is letting students receive a meningitis vaccine not approved in the U.S., following an outbreak of a meningococcal bacteria strain that killed a UW-Madison student this year.
Five groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker?s administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.
Hoping to make a point about “ridiculous” religious displays on public property, the Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics at UW-Madison (AHA) added their own display Monday to the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda.
Police have arrested a former university employee for felony theft for allegedly embezzling nearly $145,000 while working for UW SWAP in Verona, UW-Madison Police said Friday.
An accountant is accused of stealing more than $100,000 while working for a University of Wisconsin department.
While some wonder if millennials can even survive in the real world, Steven Olikara, president of the Millennial Action Project (MAP), believes that millennials are actually the best-equipped to overcome the current polarization in Washington, and spur positive social change worldwide.
A UW-Madison investigation of the program over the last four years shows participation in AVID/TOPS is correlated with higher attendance rates and grade-point averages and other measures of academic success.
During the height of the crackdown on the so-called Solidarity Singers over the summer, I ran into longtime state Sen. Fred Risser, who for the past several days had watched the Capitol Police arrest dozens of people, handcuff them and haul them off to jail.
Former Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a member of the 2013 class Tuesday at the National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner in New York City.
A former student has been arrested for venturing onto the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in violation of a restraining over court records indicate has been overturned.
Former UW Badger Ron Dayne is being honored at the National Football Foundation?s 56th Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
The stately, historic building at the bottom of Bascom Hill on State Street has been home to The University Club since 1907.
The 11th annual David Busta Basketball Tournament and Silent Auction once again proved successful as the benefit attracted many families, friends and community members to the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School Saturday, Nov. 30.
City residents got a chance to voice their opinions regarding the final design for Library Mall and the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street, including potential colored lights on the leaf sculpture and the location of food cart vendors, at a public meeting Thursday.
Noted: This year Cain was assigned to oversee cleanups of two of the four largest manure spills in the last 15 years ? at the biodigester site near Waunakee last month and at UW-Madison?s Arlington Agricultural Research Station in February.
Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at UW-Madison, said this week that he plans to apply, citing the department?s ?long, sustained history of both professionalism and progressivism.?
A new report says two out of every three people who graduate from a Wisconsin college do so with student-loan debt, saddling the state with a dubious No. 8 national ranking.
Noted: Wisconsin?s richest 1% enjoyed a boost of $168,773 in 2012 dollars from 1996 to 2010, according to the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The bottom 40%? They saw their real income fall by $2,407.
Throughout his life, Nelson Mandela achieved more than any one man could ever be expected to accomplish. From leading a nation out of apartheid to persistently advocating for peace and forgiveness, to serving 27 years in prison for his beliefs, he left behind a legacy that can never be matched.
The University of Wisconsin Madison has new rules regarding when alcohol can be served at campus events.
A $700 painting that was stolen from Union South two weeks ago has been recovered, University of Wisconsin Police Department spokesperson Marc Lovicott said.
Data from the University of Wisconsin System showed more than 1,000 faculty members left the state?s high education system between 2011 and 2013, a trend some have attributed to lower pay in the system than at peer institutions.
What better way to show an interior designer the exact color you want than by allegedly stealing a painting?
At 7 p.m., Tuesday, Wisconsin Environment, Family Farm Defenders, UW-Madison?s Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, the Madison Information Shop and the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project will host ?When a factory farm comes to town: The environmental and social costs of factory farming in Wisconsin.?
According to Department of Natural Resources records, a pipeline breach in February at the UW-Madison?s Arlington agricultural research station in the town of Leeds in Columbia County also released 300,000 gallons of manure.
Noted: Niall Horan wearing a Badgers shirt.
Noted: At the news conference Monday, Dr. Douglas W. Laube, an obstetrician at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, described the care Ms. Means received as ?basic neglect.?
Lingran Kong was a freshman at UW-Madison during the 2011 occupation of the state Capitol over Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker?s measure eliminating public workers? collective bargaining rights. She soon found herself locked down for three days and three nights there, at the heart of a political uprising that helped usher in a resurgence of labor activism across the country.
Filmmaker and UW-Madison graduate Jill Soloway, who was just in Madison two weeks ago presenting her first film ?Afternoon Delight,? was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award on Tuesday.
The $417,000 announced today is in addition to grants announced in the spring that totaled $1,080,000 to community causes and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Laura Dresser has a passion for economic justice. Dresser is a labor economist and associate director of the UW-Madison?s Center on Wisconsin Strategy, also known as COWS, a nonprofit ?think-and-do? tank, as it calls itself, that highlights social and economic equality issues.
In 2008, my story about TV personality and UW-Madison instructor Patty Loew?s presentation on the Native American view of Thanksgiving drew the ire of Limbaugh, who read the story over the air as an example of how liberals in Madison must hate America.
Its not every day you hear about an art theft in Madison, but police said an expensive piece of artwork was stolen from University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Union South last Wednesday, valued at $700.
The program, in place at six community centers throughout Madison including Vera Court, was developed by UW-Madison and Edgewood College and funded by a $330,000 grant from the Madison Community Foundation.
