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.
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.
