Category: UW-Madison Related

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some traditions can transcend time. That?s what UW-Madison student Kait Vosswinkel has found while viewing the campus through a camera lens.

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.

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 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.

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.

Yang Sao Xiong?s new position teaching Hmong American Studies at UW-Madison is the first tenure-track post in that subject area in the United States, he says.

At a Memorial Union town hall meeting Sunday evening, Dean of Students Lori Berquam shared something a criminal suspect once told her.

A sudden increase in violent crimes near the UW-Madison campus has prompted students and officials to take a deeper look at safety. The meeting was in response to armed robberies near campus. Madison police say they?ve seen a 30% increase in robberies in that area.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is reaching out to its students in an attempt to help keep them safe.A week of online chats led to Sunday night?s town hall meeting, set up so students could question campus leaders over recent crime.

Enhanced safety measures have been in place on the UW-Madison campus following the death of an employee in April when a loading dock lift fell on the employee.

From homelessness and poverty to setting down the path to a degree, the University of Wisconsin?s Odyssey Project provides free teaching to adults facing financial difficulties to take the first steps into higher education.