A Madison man was stabbed downtown Sunday afternoon, but police said his wounds were non-life threatening. The stabbing was reported at 5:22 p.m. in the 200 block of Langdon Street, according to a Madison police news release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison colleagues participated in the campus? annual blood drive Thursday to honor the memory of Maureen Grant, the victim of a bus-pedestrian crash in Madison last June. Blood drives are an annual event for the staff at UW-Madison?s Memorial Library. But the drive on Thursday was to remember one of their own. Grant, a UW Libraries employee of 26 years, died after being struck by a bus while walking across University Avenue in June 2011. “Maureen was a regular blood donor,” said UW-Madison Libraries Interim Director Ed Van Gemert.” She gave blood not only at the university drives, but also in her hometown in New Glarus.”
After a report found that faculty salaries at UW-Madison are significantly lower than those at peer institutions, members of the Faculty Senate said Monday they feared professors would leave the university for better-paying offers.
Police are investigating the sexual assault of a 21-year-old woman early Saturday, which took place in an alley between State Street and the 600 block of University Avenue.
A leader of the University of Wisconsin Police Department presented university police challenges in facilitating and monitoring the crowds at last year?s union protests Saturday.
A 21-year-old woman was forced into a poorly lit alley or parking lot and sexually assaulted early Saturday morning, according to the Madison Police Department.
Police are investigating the sexual assault of a 21-year-old woman early Saturday, which took place in an alley between State Street and the 600 block of University Avenue. A male suspect sexually assaulted the victim after forcing her into a poorly lit alley or parking lot around 2:30 a.m., according to Madison Police Department Sgt. Ann Lehner.
When New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a 1990 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science and journalism, died on his way out of Syria on Feb. 16, he had not yet written about his secretive trip there. So now Tyler Hicks, the photographer who accompanied Shadid, tells what they discovered about the fighting in Syria and describes Shadid?s final days.
Biddy Martin, the former UW-Madison chancellor who was scheduled to give a talk Saturday to the Madison Civics Club, has cancelled her trip to town. Eve Galanter, who is chair of the Madison Civics Club?s 100th Anniversary Committee, said Friday morning that ?due to health reasons, Biddy Martin is unable to travel to Madison.? UW Police Chief Sue Riseling will be filling in for Martin. Galanter says Riseling will give a keynote presentation titled ?Between Protesters and Politicians? that examines her role in leading the police response during last year?s protests around the Capitol.
Former UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin will return to Madison March 3 to discuss the impact of new technologies on university education and instruction.
A $2.5 million endowment to the University of Wisconsin Law School has established the John W. Rowe Faculty Fellowship Fund.
he University of Wisconsin-Madison is celebrating conservationist Aldo Leopold for the seventh year.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest described her work to uncover the immense expansion?and secrecy– of the U.S. government following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Tuesday at the Fluno Center.
Mentions that Dino Laurenzi Jr. earned a bachelor?s degree in athletic training from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prices for city parking facilities, as well as University of Wisconsin campus parking, are expected to rise this summer to maintain upkeep costs.
A University of Wisconsin Department of International Studies committee is examining changes in academic advising, as well as the organization of faculty in academic services.
?Clowns are crazy,? Madison?s Dave Brown said during Sunday night?s episode of CBS? ?The Amazing Race,? showing the keen wisdom that has made he and his wife Rachel the clear front-runners this season. The couple, a Wisconsin National Guard combat pilot and an Epic Systems employee, won last night?s competition, meaning they?ve gone two-for-two so far this season. That earned them a free vacation in Grenada and, as Rachel put it, ?a big target on their back? from the other eight teams still in the race.
Dave Brown is an assistant professor of military science at UW-Madison and Rachel is an alumna of the university.
During Israel?s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, a rocket crashed into Anthony Shadid?s ancestral home in Marjayoun, Lebanon. It was no accident that Shadid was working in Lebanon when it happened.
Born in Oklahoma, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a passionate Green Bay Packers fan, Shadid was also one of the best foreign correspondents of his generation, covering conflicts and wars throughout the Middle East until his tragic death this month in Syria.
An expert on higher education engaged the University of Wisconsin community Monday night, highlighting the ways in which increased costs of college tuition are making higher education less accessible for students.
The thing you notice is that they can?t seem to stop smiling. Maybe it?s that way with most newlyweds. But it must be more true when it happens later in life, out of nowhere, when it?s least expected.
The news that the Supreme Court is revisiting the use of race as a factor in admissions decisions, just nine years after upholding it in a University of Michigan case, has admissions officials worried about maintaining diversity and confounded that the question is being reconsidered so soon.
In a 2003 decision that the majority said it expected would last for 25 years, the Supreme Court allowed public colleges and universities to take account of race in admission decisions. On Tuesday, the court signaled that it might end such affirmative action much sooner than that.
A suspected drunken driver who was spotted driving recklessly and hitting parked cars near Gorham Street is also accused of resisting arrest just after bar time on Saturday morning. Madison police officers said the driver, Spencer Eckstein, 20, of Madison, began racing down Langdon Street as he was being pulled over. They said he jumped out of the vehicle and started to run away, but a second officer who was nearby on a separate call caught up to Eckstein as he was trying to get into a home on North Lake Street. Eckstein resisted arrest and a Taser was used to subdue him, police said.
In honor of University of Wisconsin alum Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize winner and foreign correspondent who died Thursday while reporting in Syria, alumni and friends established a memorial fund in his name.
One day in the summer of 1987 a young man walked in the office of The Daily Cardinal on the UW-Madison campus. I was there, alone, preparing for my new job as campus editor. On his shoulder he carried an overstuffed military-style canvas bag about as long as he was tall. He introduced himself, explained that he had just transferred to the university, and asked me if I could assign him a story. He had yet to even find an apartment. The man was Anthony Shadid. He died of an apparent asthma attack Thursday while on assignment in Syria for The New York Times. He was 43.
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has moved up the publication date of the late Anthony Shadid?s ?House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East? to Feb. 28. Shadid, a renowned foreign correspondent, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, died Feb. 16 of an apparent asthma attack while reporting in Syria. He was 43.
The Obama campaign is stepping up mobilization of younger voters in 10 key swing states this month, dispatching senior aides and a handful of celebrities to college campuses for ?summits? aimed at engaging the 18-to-29-year-old base.
The events will take place at Columbus State Community College in Ohio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, North Carolina Central University, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Colorado-Boulder, Miami Dade College, and University of Iowa in Iowa City, among others, a campaign official said.
The photo comes straight out of the late 1980s, the college journalist at work, sitting in front of a computer, cigarette in one hand, phone in one ear, phone book on his lap.This was Anthony Shadid, out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, out of the Daily Cardinal, bound for the Middle East.
Anthony Shadid, one of the most incisive and honored foreign correspondents of his generation, died Thursday in Syria, where he was covering the armed insurrection against the government for his newspaper, the New York Times. Shadid, 43, won two Pulitzer Prizes for his lyrical and poignant dispatches from Iraq, which he covered extensively for The Washington Post before and after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Shadid, a fluent Arabic speaker, roamed broadly across the Arab world, reporting with precision, nuance and depth from the West Bank, Lebanon, Libya and other troubled and peaceful realms in the region.
The world lost one of its greatest storytellers Thursday when New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria.
New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid has died in eastern Syria while on a reporting assignment. The Times says he died Thursday apparently of an asthma attack. It says Times photographer Tyler Hicks was with him and carried his body to Turkey.
Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus, died Thursday.
The great unfinished story of the last half century in Madison is whatever happened to Leo Burt. Burt, of course, is the last fugitive from the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing on the UW-Madison campus ? the last fugitive, really, from that whole era. In 2006 I chatted about Burt with Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground co-founder who spent 11 years on the run himself. Ayers was stunned to learn Burt was still at large. “That?s amazing,” he said. At the time, Burt had been a fugitive 36 years.
Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and UW-Madison graduate, died Thursday in Syria of an apparent asthma attack. He was 43. Shadid was in Syria on a reporting assignment. The New York Times reported Times photographer Tyler Hicks was with him and carried his body to Turkey. A 1990 UW-Madison graduate, Shadid won two Pulitzer Prizes for the Washington Post, in 2004 for international reporting and in 2010 for his coverage of Iraq. He was with The New York Times since 2009.
Stanford University, which recently broke an all-time record by completing a 5-year, $6.2 billion fundraising campaign, led with $709.4 million collected in fiscal 2011, followed by Harvard ($639.2 million) and Yale ($580.3 million). Rounding out the list were private universities such as Columbia and Johns Hopkins, as well as elite public universities such as UCLA and the Universities of Texas, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Most campuses on the list have major medical schools and affiliated research centers, though No. 4 MIT ($534 million) is an exception.
Anthony Shadid, a gifted foreign correspondent whose graceful dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in Syria. Shadid was a UW-Madison graduate.
On New Year?s Eve, Trotter announced to his staff that he?d be closing Charlie Trotter?s Restaurant, after twenty-five years. (Its last day will be August 31st.) Instead of cooking, Trotter, who is fifty-two, plans to pursue a Master of Philosophy degree, most likely at the University of Chicago.
Members of a student government committee said Monday they are hopeful the latest draft of a proposed city ordinance intended to hold landlords more accountable for parties deemed ?nuisances? would only be used in extreme circumstances.
With the UW System facing over $300 million in budget cuts from the state, the Board of Regents convened Thursday to discuss how institutions throughout the state should be structured and more efficiently use their resources.
The Board of Regents recognized three programs across system campuses for their contributions to furthering the UW System?s efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusivity Friday. UW-Madison was not an award recipient.
….While new to city lots, this system isn?t new in Madison. UW-Madison made pay-by-phone parking available to its 1,200 flex parking program members in 2009.
With the UW System facing over $300 million in budget cuts from the state, the Board of Regents convened Thursday to discuss how institutions throughout the state should be structured and more efficiently use their resources.
A Madison man was arrested Thursday on the UW-Madison campus after he was found driving a vehicle that had been reported stolen, authorities reported. Jermaal Maymon, 21, was arrested by UW-Madison police shortly after noon on Thursday on tentative charges of operating a motor vehicle without the owner?s consent and having no valid driver?s license, according to a campus police news release.
A bus driver failed to perform a physical maneuver to overcome a blind spot before striking a pedestrian in a fatal crash on University Avenue last June, Metro Transit officials said Wednesday. General Manager Chuck Kamp said Metro is now remounting the external driver?s side mirror on its buses to reduce the left-side blind spot, and is considering adding audio signals to alert pedestrians that a bus is making a left turn.
The University of Wisconsin was again ranked as one of the best values for a public university by the Princeton Review, ranking fifth on its list for 2012.
The Princeton Review has released its annual college rankings, and UW-Madison is in the top 10 “Best Value Colleges” for 2012.
Dane County?s emergency communications network will see yet another upgrade following the county?s acceptance of an award worth a quarter of a million dollars, which will be used to create a seamless radio communication network.
About a decade in to this great experiment in collaborative creation, Wikipedians efforts are resulting in increased credibility among academic historians, signaled most recently by an essay by the president of the American Historical Association William Cronon in the association?s publication Perspectives on History.
Officials at University of Wisconsin-Parkside say there will be consequences for the person responsible for recent hate crimes on campus.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation?s endowment grew by 20.7 percent between fiscal year 2010 and 2011.The endowment housed in the UW Foundation — the private, nonprofit fundraising arm of UW-Madison — jumped from $1.55 billion to $1.87 billion, according to an annual survey of endowment returns by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation?s endowment for UW-Madison grew 20.7 percent to a total of $1.87 billion from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, according to a report released this week. Data gathered for 823 U.S. colleges and universities showed endowments gained an average of 19.2 percent in the 2011 fiscal year, according to the report released by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute. That?s up from an average 11.9 percent gain in 2010 and an average 18.7 percent drop in 2009.
Six CIOs and senior technology leaders, including UW’s Bruce Maas, talk about their backgrounds, the strengths and skills needed for future CIOs, and the challenges of preparing the next generation of CIOs. They list the most critical competencies for current and future CIOs, and they debate whether these competencies are changing.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks among the national leaders in producing Peace Corps volunteers for the 12th consecutive year. In 2011, 107 alumni served as Peace Corps volunteers, a figure that ranks UW-Madison third among large universities nationwide. The top spots in the most recent “Peace Corps Top Colleges” list released last week belong to the University of Colorado at Boulder (112) and the University of Washington (110).
A national council has filed suit against the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents for refusing to comply with requests to access course syllabi across the UW System?s four-year campuses.
You can expect to see a plume of white vapor escaping from the masonry stack of UW-Madison?s renovated Charter Street Heating Plant in the coming week. The university announced officials are scheduled to conduct a “steam blow” at the plant Monday through Friday. The procedure is used to clean steam piping that connects new boilers to the plant?s steam turbine generator.
Few Madison City Council members have seen their fortunes change more than Bridget Maniaci….Maniaci, who graduated from UW-Madison with degrees in political science and economics, is mulling graduate school and “keeping an open mind” about seeking another term. In the long term, she is pondering a run for mayor or working as a staff member in that office.
People near the Charter Street Heating Plant, located on the intersection with Dayton Street, will hear bouts of loud “steam blowing” beginning 7 a.m. Monday that will continue until 7 p.m. Friday. The plant will undergo a cleaning process to remove loose material in the plant?s steam turbine generator by blowing high-pressure steam through the piping, creating the noise.
JEFFERSON, Wis. — A research and policy group aimed at improving teacher quality is suing to get access to course outlines at the University of Wisconsin?s schools of education. The National Council on Teacher Quality is reviewing teacher colleges around the country. The nonprofit group has met resistance from UW, which has refused to hand over course outlines. The group is suing the UW System Board of Regents for not complying with information requests the organization made in November under Wisconsin?s open records law.
A Wisconsin man who killed his mother and staged her death as an accident has been sent to prison for life.
Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk — who is among the Democrats seeking to unseat Gov. Scott Walker in a recall election later this year — will speak Tuesday for an hour on the UW-Madison campus about her 30-year career in public service. The event, titled “A Career of Politics, Service and Leadership: The View from the Executive?s Chair,” will run from noon to 1 p.m. in room 114 of UW-Madison?s Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr. The event was originally slated for the conference room of the La Follette School of Public Affairs but a decision was made to move the talk to a larger venue.
