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.
Despite widespread skepticism about whether or not the digitalization of America?s dialogue can advance modern thought, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Dietram Scheufele said there are only three common behaviors that, if corrected, could transform the current state of polarizing disagreements online into beneficial conversations.
Buried a mile underneath the ice of Antarctica, the University of Wisconsin?s south pole particle detector, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, has discovered unprecedented amounts of energy beneath the surface and recently has attracted some national media attention in the science community.
In an effort to foster discourse between Badger fans and University of Wisconsin officials about game days, the Athletic Department is collaborating with the first Fan Advisory Council, set to have its first meeting Monday.
Bare trees and bundled up students means its finals season at the UW-Madison Law School.
Noted: Applicants from outside the department could include Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at UW-Madison and a former Madison police officer, who said he is considering seeking the chief?s job and is waiting to see the commission?s application materials before making a decision.
The Border Battle between Wisconsin and Minnesota is a rivalry game and a trophy game at that. It’s expected that emotions run high and sometimes boil over. Even after the game has ended.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
As debate about the monitoring of online activities continues in the public sphere, a review of the University of Wisconsin?s information system privacy policies found administrators can only access student email after a written request is approved.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature?s Audit Committee wants more information from the University of Wisconsin System before it will vote on its plan for how much money it will keep in reserves.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are exploring a partnership.
UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are exploring a partnership.
The Classified Staff Executive Committee will meet Thursday to begin drafting internal bylaws, continuing a process where classified staff will organize in a formal governance structure for the first time in the university?s history.
Noted: In the 1930s, she studied at the University of Wisconsin, where she took classes in art, writing and child psychology, exquisitely apt preparation for her future calling.
Noted: One of the first to do so, in the early 1970s, was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin named Pauline Boss. She was interested in the way that families cope with uncertainty. Whether it?s the sudden disappearance of a child or the slow erasure of a parent by dementia, the grief process is complicated by a disrupted narrative, because so much of grieving depends on the understanding and acceptance of what has happened.
In a Nov. 12 memo, Provost Paul DeLuca and Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell described the guidelines for a fund created to rectify salaries below national averages.
Most nights after coming home from daycare, 2-year-old Brennans favorite toy is a $350 iPad.
Forbes Magazine listed the MGE Innovation Center within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Park as a top hotbed for high tech startups Friday.
An audit of the University of Wisconsin System released Nov. 15 revealed that no documented plans exist for 40.7 percent of UW-Madison?s 2012 program revenue balances.
Just under $150 million of University of Wisconsin?s surplus was discovered to be without documentation in an audit report released Friday, triggering heightened public and legislative concern for UW?s spending accountability.
An armed robbery occurred at about 5:51 p.m. Wednesday night behind 700 Regent Street on the bike path, Madison Police Department Lt. Dan Olivas said.
A Madison man was robbed at knife-point around near West Washington Avenue and Regent Street in downtown Madison Wednesday evening.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced in a press release Tuesday it will partner with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to develop campus entrepreneurship and utilize collaboration to bring innovative ideas to fruition.
Madison residents could see a new transit center in the downtown area after a local company outlined its plan for a development that also would include student housing in a meeting Monday.
The Academic Staff Assembly met Monday to hear from Chancellor Rebecca Blank about the human resources plan and a fund used to give raises for academic staff.
With the future uncertain for a medical imaging center in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, all 60 center employees received layoff notices last month.
Noted: But Mr. Vidal?s bequest could be the culmination of a late-in-life relationship with Harvard. He believed his papers had not been treated with the respect they demanded at the University of Wisconsin, where they were previously held, Mr. Parini said.
