Wittwer worked as the DOT?s budget director in the 1980s and also as chief of staff to the secretary. For the past 13 years, he has worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Center, and has served as the center?s director.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to offer a day of Paralympic sports and activities this weekend.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have constructed a three-dimensional model of the rhinovirus C pathogen, which will help increase the likelihood drugs can be designed to effectively prevent colds, according to a news release.
Following the presence of flamingos, penis-shaped objects sprung up on Bascom Hill last week. Similarly cheeky flyers have also graced campus buildings and caught students? attentions.
There?s trouble again at Palermo?s, the frozen pizza maker and UW-Madison Athletic Department sponsor and licensee whose labor practices fueled a sit-in at the UW-Madison chancellor?s office last spring.
?From the day we arrived, we said everything that happens to us is an adventure, it?s not a hardship,? said Adams, an emeritus professor of sociology at UW-Madison. ?We used that phraseology over and over again.?
All my life up until college I attended private, Catholic schools. And subsequently, relatively similar students have surrounded me all my academic life ? students from affluent families with similar beliefs and of similar ethnicity. This is not to say I do not appreciate the life lessons and values a religious education has to offer, but the system certainly has drawbacks. Growing up, the majority of people around me considered themselves good Catholic citizens, believed abortion, homosexuality and contraception are serious sins and, of course, preferred that sweet and sour mix of Bud Light and twangy, unnecessarily nationalistic country music.
A bratwurst placed suggestively between two ketchup cups. Two cupcakes nestled side by side. These decorations, among others, adorned UW-Madison?s Bascom Hill on Oct. 18 ? giving a sly wink to the parts of the human anatomy they resembled.
Most people who commute by bicycle probably relish the fact that they don?t have to worry about the hassle of parking a car.But increasingly, Laura Schmidli is having trouble finding a place to stow her bike. Schmidli, a librarian who works at Wendt Commons next to Union South, recently documented her search for bike parking in a video she sent to UW Transportation Services.
City officials said there will be no major procedural changes to Freakfest policing this year, and Frank Productions thanked students for their unprecedented role in organizing this year?s annual State Street Halloween bash at a press conference Wednesday.
It?s back: Badgers graduating in spring 2014 will be walking across the stage in a single ceremony at Camp Randall.
A recently-appointed member of a bipartisan budget committee, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin visited the University of Wisconsin campus Tuesday to meet with professors and researchers affected by funding issues created from budget crises.
It?s back: Badgers graduating in spring 2014 will be walking across the stage in a single ceremony at Camp Randall.
Beginning in the spring of 2014, UW-Madison will hold a single commencement ceremony for undergraduates at Camp Randall.
University of Wisconsin commencement ceremonies will be combined into one large ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium next spring, according to UW officials.
In a University of Wisconsin diversity forum event, participants emphasized the need to increase participation from underrepresented student populations in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
Whalen, a UW-Madison employee, was not ticketed for the crash, according to municipal court records, although police recommended in January that she be cited for failure to control speed.
A GPS-enabled asthma inhaler, an online music marketplace and locally crafted and crowd-sourced beer are the products of new Madison companies that could fuel the city?s future. The people behind these innovative ideas, along with 50 others, are being recognized this week in Madison Magazine?s November issue as well as at a series of public events and festivities taking place on Thursday, Oct. 24.
The 2013 Diversity Forum kicked off Monday with two keynote speeches in addition to 10 concurrent sessions aiming to improve diversity issues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Next week?s 15th annual campus-wide diversity forum will create a venue for students to provide input on the University of Wisconsin?s next diversity plan.
Stem cell researchers at the University of Wisconsin?s Waisman Center hope their ongoing work will eventually allow them to move into human clinical trials to treat degenerative illnesses such Parkinson?s disease and Down syndrome.
Nothing says the University of Wisconsin and Madison like … a maple leaf?
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan signed a check for $66,130 to be donated toward Coaches vs. Cancer at his Shooting Down Cancer event Thursday.
Recently, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank called for an increase in out-of-state tuition at UW. Blank has said the university is underselling its product to students who live outside of Wisconsin.
In 1979 the Pail and Shovel Party planted more than 1,000 fake pink flamingos on Bascom Hill in celebration of winning re-election to head the Wisconsin Student Organization, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society website. Today, the University of Wisconsin revisits the decades old prank in a new way with the first annual ?Fill the Hill? campaign.
Wisconsin artist Jill Sebastian?s proposed design for a “memorable and iconographic” sculpture to anchor the State Street Library Mall has been in the works for the better part of this year.
The city, UW-Madison and MSA Professional Services of Madison have been working for months on the future of the blocks and Library Mall, the area that connects State Street with East Campus Mall, Bascom Hill and the Memorial Union.
Attorneys with the Criminal Appeals Project of the University of Wisconsin Law School argued in December that Forbes? conviction should be overturned or that he should get a new trial, saying in part that Forbes was not able to present a full defense.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank is looking to improve the university?s national rankings by raising faculty compensation and increasing the visibility of faculty research, she said in a blog post Tuesday.
Howard Bremer, one of the founders of Modern Technology Transfer at University of Wisconsin and a prestigious alumnus at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, died late last week.
University of Wisconsin business students are helping people ?fetch? their groceries and receive automatic savings with the creation of a new smartphone application.
In 1979 the Pail and Shovel Party planted more than 1,000 fake pink flamingos on Bascom Hill in celebration of winning re-election to head the Wisconsin Student Organization, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society website. Today, the University of Wisconsin revisits the decades old prank in a new way with the first annual ?Fill the Hill? campaign.
Research to treat colon cancer is turning towards tailoring treatments to individual patients, according to a doctor at the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
A team of UW-Madison researchers may be one step closer to finding better ways to combat concussions and they?re doing it by studying the brains of fruit flies.
UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez has been chosen to be part of the College Football Selection Committee.
The salary ranges of certain University of Wisconsin System officials will be adjusted due to two policies the Board of Regents approved Friday.
While Badgers celebrated Homecoming Saturday afternoon, campus and city police officers met with members of the Langdon Street neighborhood as part of a regularly scheduled patrol on game days.
However, Rezin is adding Hyreds, developed at UW-Madison, which average 400 to 500 barrels per acre.
Newell ran student housing at UW-Madison and now has a residence hall named for him.
The full Board of Regents approved a resolution in a closed session Thursday to increase the salaries of chancellors at 10 of the 14 UW institutions.
After system officials expressed concern over salaries at competing universities, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a new policy to increase the salary ranges for top System administrators and campus leaders.
A proposal that would mean higher pay scales for top University of Wisconsin System employees faces one final hurdle.
A city committee overseeing the redesign of State Street met Wednesday to discuss the reconstruction of the 700 and 800 blocks, as well as ways to enrich the ?Library Mall experience.?
Chancellor Rebecca Blank outlined ideas to move the university forward in a speech Wednesday that launched the Fall 2013 University Roundtable Series.
The University of Wisconsin needs to expand its outreach across the state, work closely with state lawmakers and make a strong case to alumni to donate to the university moving forward, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in a roundtable on campus Wednesday.
Downtown workers might want to hit the road home a little early on Friday afternoon, or get caught up in the UW-Madison Homecoming parade.
The state also must pay $88,270 in lawyer?s fees to the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of Michael Kissick, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison medical school.
Following the fast track Landgon neighborhood officers frequently ride up the ranks of the Madison Police Department, officer Grant Humerickhouse will hand over patrol of the Greek community and surrounding area after approximately three years to up-and-coming officer Shawn Kelly in order to accept a detective promotion in November, according to MPD Lt. Dave McCaw.
The over-four-year initiative to create a College of the Arts was dropped in the spring, replaced by a plan that would revamp the Art Institute instead, University Committee Chair Michael Bernard-Donals said at a Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
The city continued its discussion of the 2014 city budget Tuesday at a Board of Estimates meeting, which consists of Mayor Paul Soglin and city alders, who heard proposals by city departments, including Metro Transit and the City Planning Committee.
A bicyclist and scooter collided on Tuesday morning on the 300 block of East Campus Mall, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain.
After Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola made ?inappropriate comments? to University of Wisconsin Marching Band members during their Green Bay performance last weekend, the band director says he considers the matter closed.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank delivered the State of the University address to the Faculty Senate Monday, outlining her financial and academic priorities for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Amid the mixed chants of ?Congo is the key to our humanity? and ?Go Pack Go,? Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers joined campus organizations to raise awareness of the Congolese mineral conflict on the Memorial Union Terrace Monday.
Residential burglaries, strong-armed robberies and assaults have become a clear and present danger for students. This unfortunate trend has forced downtown residents to recognize the risk implicit in something as simple as walking home from the library after dark.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is rallying support among college students for a cause
Lori Berquam, vice provost for student life and dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Mike Leckrone, director of the UW Marching Band, have issued the following statement:
Berkeley is the Madison of the West. Or so said Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers as he attempted to draw UW-Madison students? attention to the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday night at the Memorial Union Terrace.
Detroit Lions team president Tom Lewand apologized to UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone on Monday afternoon after reports surfaced that center Dominic Raiola verbally abused members of the band Sunday at Lambeau Field.
Noted: Winners of certificates of merit in this year?s awards were the Wisconsin Energy Institute headquarters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Glen Hills Middle School in Glendale. The awards were presented at the alliance?s annual conference, held at UW-Milwaukee.
