Puffy badger is no Bucky … Speaking of singers, OTC was surprised earlier this week when we stood looking over the Capitol rotunda during a noontime Solidarity Singalong and saw a funny looking ?Bucky Badger? had joined the singers, holding a sign that read, ?Let Freedom Sing.?
A lieutenant with the police force for the University of Wisconsin?s Madison campus is the new chief of public safety at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
University of Wisconsin students no longer have the option to study in Egypt after the university suspended its study abroad programs in the country indefinitely for safety reasons.
UW-Madison officials weren?t thrilled to see someone in a Bucky Badger costume appear in pictures from the Solidarity Sing Along last week.
Spatula&Barcode is actually UW-Madison profs Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson, whose legendary Madison food parties and collaborations in the kitchen have led to some deliciously strange and enlightening international encounters.
Not all Buckys are created equal.
A knockoff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s licensed Bucky Badger was spotted at the state Capitol building alongside the protesting group, the Solidarity Singers.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says any Bucky Badger seen protesting at the state Capitol is a knockoff of the school?s mascot.
A Dane County judge has upheld a $250,000 malpractice cap for University of Wisconsin-Madison doctors.
University of Wisconsin and Madison Police fear the same men may be responsible for a series of recent armed robberies near the Vilas neighborhood.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison tied for 41st in the U.S. News and World Report?s latest ranking of 270 national doctoral universities, according to a university news release.
More than two dozen people were forced from their homes early Wednesday morning following a fire at a housing cooperative near the UW campus.
UW alum Richard H. Scheller of Genentech in South San Francisco, Calif., and Thomas C. Südhof of Stanford University, for their study of neurotransmission, the process by which nerve cells communicate with other cells in the brain.
Discussion turned to deliberation over acceptable percentages of allowable reserve funds Friday morning at the monthly meeting for University of Wisconsin System officials.
It?s a valuable natural resource right in the middle of Madison ? the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the UW-Madison campus. The area protects 300 acres of undeveloped land along Lake Mendota, including Picnic Point, Lakeshore Path and Muir Woods.
Madison Catholic school children will not have any more field trips to the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. The center conducts embryonic stem cell research.
Libby Lewis died in 2012 after serving on the Dane County Park Commission for 26 years but her husband, UW-Madison professor emeritus Phil Lewis, is going strong at age 88.
Two men entered a Vilas Avenue apartment Sunday night and robbed the three men inside, according to Madison police.
In a move that deepens its research and innovation team, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has named a former top executive with Dow Chemical Co. to staff positions with its department of chemical and biological engineering and the Wisconsin Energy Institute.
Two 20-year-old University of Wisconsin students were robbed at gunpoint in a parking lot outside a residence on University Avenue Wednesday night.
Some organizations that used to partner with the W Club on football Saturdays also wont be returning this year, saying there are just too many loopholes to go through to allow their kids to work.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) has introduced a bill that he says could make it easier to pay off college loans.
Fans can expect more vendors in the stands at the football game this Saturday.
McLimans is the digital services librarian at the UW Digital Collections Center, which since 2000 has scanned images and documents so they are available for free to researchers and Web surfers worldwide.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are renewing a program designed to track down bicycle thieves by planting “bait bikes” around campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are dealing with high levels of intoxication since the return of students to campus, according to a release.
A University of Wisconsin-Platteville student was appointed to serve as a student member of the UW System Board of Regents this August by Gov. Scott Walker, after Walker rejected a candidate for his participation in the 2012 recall election.
Before the start of this school year, University of Wisconsin Veteran Services Coordinator Joe Rasmussen encouraged out-of-state veterans to look at other Big 10 schools because enrolling in Madison was too expensive.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Benjamin Miller, a former UW-Madison employee, will replace Rhonda Norsetter as the university?s federal relations director, according to a university release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Paul DeLuca released a report Tuesday highlighting the areas in which the university has made progress on 2009 Campus Strategic Framework goals.
Economic regeneration is the name of the game for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and cellular regeneration is one way to play it.
Currently, with certain exceptions, the Department of Administration, with the approval of the Building Commission, may sell or lease state-owned property if DOA determines the sale or lease is in the best interest of the state.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez sent an email to Badger football season ticket holders Saturday night, apologizing for issues with concessions.
Noted: Academic freedom isn?t the only ideal at risk. In 2009, when the University of Wisconsin at Madison was invited by the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan to help create a biotechnology program, the Americans proposed instead to design a school for the humanities and social sciences, one inspired by ?the Wisconsin Idea,? a progressive vision of labor rights and open government. Something very different was built.
If youve been to a football game, you know theres no comparison to watching it live versus watching it at home. You have the noise, the excitement, and fans yelling at ref for a questionable call. It all adds to the overall experience. But up until now, there was one thing you could see on your couch, you couldnt see in person.
Humbling as it is to admit, when I was a college student here in the Neolithic era, I was provincial in my dining habits. I had a meal plan at the Memorial Union and on weekends basically lived on Rocky Rococo?s and frozen yogurt.
A UW-Madison researcher faces trial for what authorities say was his sexual assault of a Japanese exchange student.
The Babcock Dairy Plant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has recently named an ice cream after the new chancellor.
Words that make objects appear from thin air are generally the stuff of the magical worlds of Harry Potter or The Hobbit. But a new experiment (by Gary Lupyan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison) has been shown that words can make objects easier to recognise, as our sense of vision can be altered by other sensory inputs.
Lands Ends only stand-alone Canvas brand store, located near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, has closed after almost four years in business.
Musicians marching under Michael Leckrone usually need some hot air. The newest recruits will get plenty of it this week
In a guest column in last Sunday?s newspaper, “Oppose Iowa model for maps,” Sen. Mary Lazich argued against the creation of a nonpartisan body to guide redistricting in Wisconsin. But her claims are not supported even by the numbers she cites.
Jane had been in Madison since 1970, having arrived with her husband, Dan Rich, a distinguished faculty member of the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry.
For a Midwestern city, Madison has a relatively high concentration of Hindus, with most of them natives of India, said Sharma, who owns five gas stations in southern Wisconsin. ?UW-Madison is a big factor,? he said. ?There are a lot of researchers here and professors and assistant professors. You also have a lot of doctors because of the medical facilities, and a lot of people working for technology companies.?
Wednesday nights drowning was the first this year in Dane county, but the situation itself is something divers have dealt with many times in the past.
Lindbergh briefly lived in Madison along with his mother in the early 1920s. He attended UW-Madison, but dropped out in his second year to enroll in flying school.
The chairman of the Communications Department of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies in 1990 was Barry Orton. It was Orton who gave the OK for his colleague Christine DeSmet?s idea for the Writers? Institute, which next year will hold its 25th edition. Orton told me this week that Leonard was available ? at, get this, no charge ? in July 1990 because he was just starting a book tour for ?Get Shorty,” … Six weeks later, the tour over, Leonard wrote Orton a letter … All these years later, Orton, still a UW-Madison professor, has the letter framed in his office.
8. Madison, WI … Happiness hub: The University of Wisconsin?Madison Arboretum, which includes prairies, savannas, and 20 miles of trails
?He was unresponsive and did not have a palpable pulse,? said Sebranek, who just happens to be head of the division for cardiovascular and thoracic anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Divers in Dane County have recovered the body of a missing swimmer from Lake Mendota.
The body of a missing swimmer was recovered Wednesday in Lake Mendota several hours after going missing, the Dane County Sheriff?s Office said. The Dane County Sheriff?s Office and Madison Fire Department were called to assist UW-Madison police when a swimmer was reported to be underwater near the Porter Boat House off Babcock Drive just after 3:15 p.m.
A business new to the Madison area is encouraging residents to cash in on Badgers football games by renting out their homes to visitors on home-game weekends, just as city officials are looking to regulate the practice.
There are a million stories in the capital city, and not one involving rats and moving day has a happy ending.
On a Friday night earlier this month, between 40 and 50 former BHS members, now far-flung and in late middle age, gathered at Porta Bella restaurant in Madison to swap stories. Actually, an entire weekend of events was planned, but the man many had come to see, LeRoy Lee, could only make Friday night.Not untypically, when Lee arrived, he took a seat alone at a table. Now 78, living in DeForest and still active in education, teaching teachers, Lee doesn?t seek attention.One of his former students, Bill Cronon, today one of the most distinguished faculty members on the UW-Madison campus and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, approached Lee to say hello, and thanks.
The University of Wisconsin Press fall catalog holds a little something for most tastes, from horses to houses, biography to geography.
UW-Madison police chief Sue Riseling will follow with a keynote speech around the convocation?s theme, ?Promoting Excellence: A Safe Campus Community.? Also: The freshmen are coming! More than 7,400 UW-Madison students, many of them in their first year, will be moving into university residence halls starting Sunday, causing traffic reroutes and parking scarcity.
After moving back to Madison, Kristen Riter visited the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery ? new since the days she attended UW Madison ? and learned she could bring her children to an educational program there the next day.
Madison police reports show Badger quarterback Tanner McEvoy possessed fake identification and had been in a downtown bar before he was attacked and robbed.
More cutting edge is Radiant Fabrication, a UW spin-out that makes 3D printers and uses Sector67 tools to build some of its prototypes. ?Three years ago as a student, there were five 3D printers on campus, and nobody could touch them.
Police arrested a couple Wednesday in relation to various thefts on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and throughout Dane County, according to a UW-Madison Police Department statement.
Walker also killed plans for using biomass as a fuel at the new UW-Madison power plant.
