According to a release, three people, two of them firefighters, were transported to UW Hospital overnight following a 2-alarm fire at 2302 University Avenue just before midnight Saturday.
Three people were injured and dozens were evacuated late Saturday night during an apartment fire on University Avenue, officials said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison medical school has laid off all 60 employees from a nationally recognized eye research center that had run up a deficit of $4.6 million.
Does UW-Madison have a snobby image to overcome before it can connect with parts of the greater Madison community?
A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a UW-Madison researcher?s documentary film on how exercise plays a role in combating multiple sclerosis has hit its funding target, and then some.
Noted: Started by two students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988, the free satirical weekly has made people laugh for a quarter-century with headlines such as this one from its latest edition: “Giant burrito to solve all of Area Man?s problems for 6 precious minutes.”
On Sept. 26, Mr. Piscitelli?s eighth grade geometry class took a field trip to the 2013 Wisconsin Science Festival. It was a day of fun and learning on the UW Madison campus.The Indian Mound Middle students got a taste of the college life, while exploring the Engineering Campus and visiting different buildings.
Plans to reconstruct the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall caused a rift between the State Street Design Committee and the Wisconsin Historical Society at a meeting Thursday.
A city committee finalized plans Thursday night for a project to redesign the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall, including a public art sculpture of a maple leaf.
Noted: From 1998 to 1999, Peterson worked as a law clerk for Judge David Deininger of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. 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.
Ozanne was born and raised in Madison, the son of two teachers. He helped lead Madison West to two state soccer titles and went on to play at UW-Madison, where he also attended law school.
Peterson is a 1998 graduate of the UW-Madison Law School … He received his bachelor?s and master?s degrees and Ph.D. from UW-Madison.
Stecker will sing the national anthem at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday prior to the Wisconsin-Brigham Young game. It figures to be her largest audience yet. Tuesday night, she?ll be back at the Kohl Center, doing the anthem before the Badgers play Florida.
Tracking the seasonal flu is an onerous task. To accomplish it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) compiles and analyzes reams of data, including virological surveillance from about 145 laboratories, information on outpatient visits from more than 2,900 healthcare providers, and mortality data from 122 cities.
Charlie Trotter, a chef whose flagship restaurant, Charlie Trotter?s, helped establish Chicago as a serious dining city, died on Tuesday. He was 54.
Noted: After Vollbrecht?s own self-written appeals received no response, an organization of law professors and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called the Innocence Project intervened on his behalf.
Noted: One of the sisters, Madelyne, is a UW-Madison junior.
With a culinary style he likened to improvisational jazz, Charlie Trotter changed the way Americans view fine dining, pushing himself, his staff, his food and even his diners to limits rarely seen in an American restaurant. Yet it was his reluctance to move beyond those limits that may have defined the last years of his life.
The University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate heard annual reports from the Committee on Access and Accommodation in Instruction as well as the Information Technology Committee and reviewed an amendment on UW-Madison Faculty Policies and Procedures at a meeting Monday.
Noted: During World War II, the University of Wisconsin shortened pre-med to two years. I was accepted to the program in 1947. I graduated four years later. Much of what I learned in my fourth year of medical school was of use to me in my medical practice.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin Madison sent out an alert to students in October, warning that the IT help desk had “received numerous reports” of the software.
Shawn Kelly, an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is gearing up to take over as the new Langdon neighborhood police officer next week and wants to communicate with students by using social media to help keep them safe.
The University of Wisconsin System granted funding to two proposals involving UW-Madison Friday as part of a systemwide program meant to encourage economic growth and a stronger workforce in the state.
While they will not vote on any policy changes, University of Wisconsin?s Faculty Senate will review the efforts of several committees to administer a campus-wide diversity survey and improve information technology services at a meeting Monday.
The University of Wisconsin campus experienced a minor theft, the second in recent weeks, on Bascom Hill Thursday.
It started as a magazine cover, then became a gift from a major corporation to a prestigious university. It brought together a famed American artist and a great college athlete, both dead too early. It had a name change, and, later, spent years away from view, presumed lost.
Babcock Hall Dairy Plant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison started producing two lactose-free ice cream options this fall, vanilla and hazelnut cafe, according to a news release.
With the cacophony of lecture hall sniffling here to stay on campus, University of Wisconsin scientists are one step closer to finding a cure to the common cold.
Wadsworth is one of several creative thinkers making use of the state?s historical records that provide a digital window into the past. UW-Madison student Kait Vosswinkel is documenting the “timeless” aspects of campus through a photo essay series called “Moving Forward. Looking Back,” using images from UW Digital Collections. And Megan Costello, a School of Library & Information Studies master?s candidate who is also the director of communications for the College of Letters and Science, and Vicki Tobias, an images and media archivist for the archives, used scrapbooks from the early 1900s to bring the stories of two alumnae to life on the UW Archives “Found in the University Archives!” Tumblr.
People who can?t tolerate dairy can now get a taste of one of UW-Madison?s most beloved products.
20 years ago, 70 people were taken to the hospital after a stampede at Camp Randall. A woman in the student section at the time says she still gets nervous when she sees crowds trying to rush the field.
When the Badgers play football at Camp Randall Stadium, over 80,000 fans pack the stadium, but 20 years ago the fan experience was shaken to the core.
A majority of University of Wisconsin-Madison students have never seen the Hagenah fountain in Library Mall turned on, nor have they been able to walk directly through the space on their way to Memorial Union, and it is unlikely that they will be able to see or do these things anytime soon.
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.
