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.
In a taped conversation, former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, John Dean is heard confronting Nixon about the Watergate Scandal.
The lecture hall was packed Friday night when John Dean, former counsel to President Richard Nixon, gave a lecture on ethics to UW law students.
University of Wisconsin established the first tenure-track teaching position in Hmong American Studies in the nation earlier this year, pioneering the new area of study.
At one point about halfway into the wild ride that was Susan Riseling?s life for a month in early 2011, something strange happened.
Two law professors took up the issue at a recent forum at UW Law School sponsored by the Federalist Society, a student group of conservatives and libertarians.
Mary Murrell, a cultural anthropologist at UW-Madison, will be a contestant Monday on the famed quiz show “Jeopardy!,” according to the show?s publicist.
While researching the history of psychology for her 2002 book on UW-Madison professor and psychologist Harry Harlowe, titled ?Love at Goon Park,? Deborah Blum found numerous references to a leading late 19th century intellectual named William James. Blum, herself a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UW-Madison professor, was intrigued by stories suggesting James ? brother of the novelist Henry James ? had lost his mind.
Presumably, the federal government will resume operations. But as of late last week, the federally funded Madison-based Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) was closed due to the government shutdown.
Some traditions can transcend time. That?s what UW-Madison student Kait Vosswinkel has found while viewing the campus through a camera lens.
More state residents are attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison fashion design graduate student Cory Linsmeyer sketched an outfit for Nova, complete with a butterfly-bedecked purple tutu and sparkly shirt.
Nellie McKay would have enjoyed the recent front page story of The New York Times about a woman named Hannah Bond … McKay, a UW-Madison professor and one of the nation?s foremost scholars of African-American literature, died in 2006. The Times story last month on Hannah Bond appears to have solved the last piece of a mystery that McKay played an early role in unraveling.
In January, Nelson, 65, retired from her dual role in art at UW-Madison, where she both taught in the art department and did outreach, partly as director of the Wisconsin Regional Art Program for nonprofessional artists. The mother of two adult daughters, Nelson also became chairwoman of the Madison Arts Commission this year. Her husband, UW-Madison Afro-American Studies department director Craig Werner, urged her to do a retrospective exhibit.
Design plans for the next phase of the Memorial Union Reinvestment project moved forward after Union Council voted to approve the latest update to the layout at a meeting Thursday.
he incoming freshman class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison boasts the most Wisconsin residents in 12 years.
Tuesday morning marked the beginning of the first government shutdown in 17 years, but unless the shutdown continues for a long time, the effects on the day-to-day life of University of Wisconsin students will not be extensive, experts said.
The report was unveiled Wednesday during the YWCA?s annual Racial Justice Summit, attended by about 500 local leaders, representatives of social-service agencies, the UW-Madison and business.
?It wasn?t until 2007 that we really started to recognize our export opportunities. That wasn?t very long ago. We?re still learning,? said Mark Stephensen, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at UW-Madison.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS ? Red, white and black uniforms aren?t an unusual sight Friday nights in fall at South Wood County 2000 field in Wisconsin Rapids.
The Madison chapter of this year?s Wisconsin Science Festival stoked the collective curiosities of students and townsfolk towards modern science and art last week. The four-day science carnival presented exhibits on a variety of topics ranging from chemistry to optics, outer space and cell biology.
The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare released a summary report of its six-month long investigation into a University of Wisconsin-Madison experiment Monday that found no violations in the university?s use of cats in sound localization research.
A working draft of a performing arts study in Madison was released Monday by Webb Management Services Management Services, Inc., the New York-based company that conducted the study in conjunction with WolfBrown consulting firm.
With Freakfest fast approaching, city officials met with local business owners and residents Tuesday to outline the details of this year?s event, with ticketing and stage set-up among the changes attendees will see.
After flooding in the Camp Randall Sports Center caused it to temporarily close on Sept. 22, the facility reopened at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Director of Recreational Sports John Horn said.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam sent an all-campus email including University of Wisconsin?s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report Tuesday.
In the email, Berquam said crime numbers on and around campus remain consistent with past years, but the perceived increase in crime could be the result of UW?s increasing communications efforts.
And for University of Wisconsin researchers, confusion reigned. The National Institutes of Health, the largest source of the $620 million in federal funds awarded to UW-Madison researchers last year, said Tuesday that researchers should hold off submitting quarterly funding requests, which were to be due Friday, until the shutdown ends.
A partnership program between University of Wisconsin Health and the United Way of Dane County will help low-income Dane County residents pay their insurance premiums.
