Category: UW-Madison Related

?Quakers believe there?s a god in every person, so everyone is who they are supposed to be,? said Joe Elder, a UW-Madison professor marching with the group. Parishioners from five Madison-area Episcopal churches marched together, many wearing T-shirts that read, ?God loves you. No exceptions.? …The group from the UW-Madison chapter of Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics included a marcher with a beard and shoulder-length brown hair. He wore a white tunic and carried a sign saying, ?I approve.? ?It?s a long-time joke that I look like Jesus but I?m a hardcore atheist,? said the marcher, Chris Calvey.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved two budget requests for the upcoming biennium and held discussions about accountability measures and the new flexible degree program.

The University of Wisconsin System regents are meeting to discuss funding needs for the upcoming budget cycle and to review the systems annual performance.

Madison Police Chief Noble Wray wants to put more surveillance cameras Downtown and have them monitored in real time so officers on the street quickly can respond to areas where problems might be developing. “We?re trying to be as efficient with our limited resources as possible and have more eyes out there,” Wray said Wednesday. The number of potential new cameras, their locations and costs have not yet been determined, he said. The city currently has 118 surveillance cameras, police spokesman Joel DeSpain said. Among them are 34 surveillance cameras on Downtown streets, said Central District Capt. Carl Gloede. The Downtown cameras include those requested by police earlier this year in the troubled 600 block of University Avenue, where at least three people were hurt in a May shooting.

Noted: She is barely 10 years out of high school, the Bullis School in Potomac, Md., where she worked at Tickled Pink, an offshoot of Lilly Pulitzer. She also attended a summer program at Parsons, where Tim Gunn was a mentor. In college, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she majored in fashion design, with a certificate in art history.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police participated in a training exercise simulating an active shooter Tuesday at the Kohl Center.

Madison police said four men robbed a 21-year-old as they walked home early Wednesday morning. According to a news release the person was approached by the four robbers while walking on the 400 block of State Street around 2:30 a.m. Authorities said the person was not hurt in the attack.

While Ankit Agarwal was a chemical-engineering postdoc at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he came up with an idea that could save thousands of lives.

SUPERIOR, Wis.- Repairs at the University of Wisconsin-Superior are nearly complete after June flooding devastated the campus. Heavy rains caused flooding that damaged every building except the Service Center on the south side of campus. But facilities management director Tom Fennessey told the Duluth NewsTribune that repairs are about 95 percent complete. He?s optimistic repairs will be finished when students return to campus in a couple of weeks.

Also celebrating a milestone is the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Keil said. The extension will have extra promotions and a banner congratulating the board on its successful fair. A variety of educational displays and special entertainment will be part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Extension Day on Friday. Fairgoers will be able to interact with the UW-Madison faculty and extension specialist. The university?s official mascot, Bucky Badger, is expected to make a guest appearance around noon with a few musical surprises from the Madison campus.

Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community gathered in Library Mall for a candlelight vigil Wednesday to memorialize the victims of the recent Sikh temple shooting.

2nd Congressional District debate: Democratic candidates for the 2nd Congressional District will debate Tuesday at 7 p.m. on the UW-Madison campus. The televised debate will take place in the Plenary Room of Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave.

Last Friday evening, visitors to the Memorial Union Terrace reported a disconcerting sight to police. A man sat at a picnic table with an uncased compound bow by his side. He had arrows with him as well.

Four candidates vying to be the 2nd Congressional District Democratic candidate this fall will take part in a debate a week before the primary election.The debate will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 7 in the H.F. DeLuca Forum in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus, according to a news release from UW-Madison.The four candidates are state Reps. Mark Pocan and Kelda Roys, Iraq war veteran Matt Silverman and consultant Dennis Hall.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and WISC-TV will host a debate between 2nd Congressional District Democratic primary candidates next Tuesday.

MADISON, Wis. – Madison police said a 21-year-old was beaten up in an unprovoked attack downtown just after bar time early Wednesday. The incident happened in the 500 block of University Avenue at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday. According to police, the man was walking down University when witnesses said five men jumped the victim. Police said he was knocked to the ground and kicked.

MADISON (WKOW) — Police are searching for a group of males believed to have attacked a Madison man on University Avenue. Witnesses reported to Madison police that five men jumped a 21-year-old man while he was walking in the 500 block of University Avenue around 2 a.m. on Wednesday. He was knocked to the ground and kicked. The victim was taken to a hospital with head injuries.

LODI – LeVerne M. “Kirk” Kirking died Sunday afternoon, July 29, 2012, at home in rural Lodi. He was proud to open their farm to international students studying sound farming methods at UW-Madison. Last year theirs was recognized as a Centennial Farm at the Wisconsin State Fair for 122 years of ownership in the same family.

MADISON, Wis.- A 22-year-old man suffered serious injuries when he fell an estimated 22 feet from a roof in downtown Madison early Saturday morning. Madison police said the downtown resident fell from a roof in the 200 block of State Street onto a crevice between two buildings at about 4:30 a.m.

Habitat for Humanity Dane County announced its new chief executive officer Thursday, naming Valerie Johnson the leader of the local non-profit.

The “dog days of summer” refer to the hottest days in July and August, but the phrase takes on a new and charitable meaning on Saturday. The first Dog Days of Summer picnic is a fundraiser for the UW-Madison Police Department?s K9 Unit, with all proceeds supporting training, supplies and the acquisition of another police dog to join the three already in the department.

A suspect arrested early Saturday for allegedly forcing a woman to go with him at knifepoint could be a suspect in other sexual assaults on or near the UW-Madison campus. Oscar Aguilar-Ruvalcaba, 21, Madison, was taken into custody at about 4:10 a.m. Saturday after Madison and campus police set up a perimeter in the area the victim said he could be in.

It?s our southern gateway. And for decades, no single street in Madison has better represented our success and our missteps. It?s our social, fiscal and racial barometer, and we?ve forgotten how it came to be ? how we forced it to be.

Madison police are looking for a group of men who punched and kicked a 27-year-old Madison man Wednesday morning on West Johnson Street near Campus Mall.

A 20-year-old Madison man was arrested Thursday morning after Madison police said he knocked over 20 mopeds in the 500 block of University Avenue. Many of the mopeds were damaged, police said.

Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison tweeted her a “huge congrats,” and retweeted a post from BabieFaceRunde, who wrote, “@marissamayer was my babysitter!!!! Wausau pride!!” 

Of all the experiences Madison native Katherine Anderson has gained while student teaching near Kasese, Uganda, perhaps one of the most important was to “fall in love with teaching again.” Anderson, 23 and a Memorial High School graduate, left for Uganda after graduating with honors in elementary education from UW-Madison. She applied for the UW International Academic Program through the School of Education. She and fellow UW graduate Jenna Oskey are teaching at Rwentutu Christian Community School in the small village of Rwentutu near Kasese, Uganda.

The University of Wisconsin ? Eau Claire?s interim president begins his term.

Gilles Bousquet has called Madison home for about 30 years, but he still retains some of his French accent.

If you?re reading these lines it?s because of this man. He?s Dave Winer, the inventor of blogs and RSS syndication, two of the backbones of the web. Often controversial, always challenging, this is the story of what got him inspired to do it all.

Madison police said a 20-year-old man was beaten and robbed by a group of men early Sunday morning in downtown Madison. Police said the incident occurred about 3:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of College Court near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Madison Police Chief Noble Wray on Thursday joined the chorus of official protests against the Mifflin Street Block Party, declaring that the city can?t afford “an end-of-the-school-year bash funded by taxpayers.”

PLATTEVILLE (WKOW) ? University of Wisconsin-Platteville police are looking for the people responsible for an attempted robbery that happened Saturday night on campus.

Genetics researchers at Washington University, one of the world?s leading centers for work on the human genome, were devastated. Dr. Lukas Wartman, a young, talented and beloved colleague, had the very cancer he had devoted his career to studying.

Scott Walker is the third governor to bring low-cost competition in higher education to his state. Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Mitch Daniels of Indiana have given special priority to Western Governors University (even though WGU is available to all). Now Walker has proposed a flexible competency-based degree à la WGU, but conducted by the University of Wisconsin?Extension.

A suicidal man with hazardous chemicals in his car caused a UW parking lot to be closed for a time Thursday morning, the Madison Fire Department reported. Crews were called to lot 60, 801 Walnut St. near UW Hospital, for a suicidal person at 5:10 a.m., Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Bernadette Galvez told Madison.com.

Police say three men hosting the party, which was advertised on Facebook, were cited for underage drinking and dispensing alcohol without a permit. Officers say when they got there, there were about 100 people in the street. The victim was found lying in some grass near a church. Police think he was carried away from the party area. Tests show the teenager had a blood alcohol content of .22.

MADISON, Wis.- A 16-year-old boy ended up injured and unconscious outside a house party near the UW campus early Sunday morning, according to Madison police, and officers are trying to figure out whether someone beat the teen up. The incident happened just after midnight Sunday in the 300 block of North Breese Terrace.

When I taught a course titled “Introduction to the City” in the UW-Madison Geography Department last spring, I had my students view an online lecture by Professor John Merriman of Yale University.

President Barack Obama has nominated U.S. Magistrate Sheri Polster Chappell to a judgeship in Florida?s Middle District.

This month alone, authorities are investigating four possible drownings in Dane County.

A doctoral student in education at UW-Madison was charged Monday with 10 counts of possessing child pornography that was allegedly discovered on his home computer and his cellphone. A criminal complaint against Jay A. Babcock, 31, also alleges that he admitted to taking an “up skirt” cellphone picture of a young girl who is the classmate at a Fitchburg elementary school of another student whom Babcock was studying as part of his graduate school program.

A young man was rescued Monday morning from the waters of Lake Mendota after trying to swim across the lake, just a few days after a young man drowned in the lake. The Madison Fire Department Lake Rescue team was called to the shoreline of Lake Mendota at about 5 a.m. Monday, after a woman called 911 to report her boyfriend was in the water and was struggling to get back to shore. The rescue team went to 140 Iota Court, just east of the UW-Madison campus.

By any standard, the Internet ranks as one of the leading innovations of our time. It has revolutionized everything from commerce to medicine to entertainment, all within the confines of a generation.

The University of Wisconsin-Superior is shut down after flooding on campus.

No one was injured in a boat fire on Lake Mendota Tuesday night, authorities reported. “The UW-Madison lifesaving boat and the Maple Bluff Fire Department boat were dispatched to the scene and assisted in getting the boat to the dock,” said Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth in the release.

An open data ordinance is moving through the legislative process in Madison, Wis. Championed by Scott Resnick, an alderperson on Madison?s Common Council, the proposal seeks to codify a movement that?s gaining momentum inside and outside of City Hall. Drawing on best practices of other cities across the country, Resnick expects that the law will be approved by Mayor Paul R. Soglin and the Common Council in July or August.

An electrical problem likely caused the weekend fire in Wittich Hall, the second University of Wisconsin-La Crosse building to catch fire in less than six months, according to a Monday announcement from campus officials.

A fire has damaged one of the oldest buildings at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Brent Smith?s election last week as president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is great news for western Wisconsin and the entire UW System.

Two 21-year-old American students have walked out of the New Zealand wilderness after a snowstorm trapped them for nine days. Police say they survived by rationing their meager supplies of trail mix and warming themselves in hot springs.

MADISON (WKOW) — A Green Bay man was convicted of stabbing another man at last year?s Mifflin Street block party. 23-year-old Colin Rosenow pleaded no contest to a charge of first-degree reckless endangerment. He was originally charged with attempted homicide, but it was reduced as part of a plea deal.

Madison Police Department detectives, acting on a tip, traveled to the Chicago area Wednesday with hopes of apprehending Mr. Darrion D. Brown, age 20, Fitchburg on a tentative charge of Attempted Homicide. Working in concert with Cook County Sheriff?s Department detectives, a search warrant was executed around 6:00 p.m. on a Dolton, Illinois residence. Dolton is a community between Chicago and Gary, Indiana.

The second alleged shooter in the May 19 University Avenue shooting was arrested Wednesday night near Chicago. Darrion Brown, 20, was taken into custody without incident at about 6 p.m. at a residence in Dolton, Ill., a suburb between Chicago and Gary, Ind., according to Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain.

Aaron Brower is typical of many academics in that he generally takes a well-reasoned, measured approach when addressing various topics with reporters. So the choice of words from UW-Madison?s vice provost for teaching and learning was telling when he was asked to comment on a rash of recent media accounts pointing to a potential seminal shift in how higher education is delivered to students.

In a knowledge economy, we are often told the smartest cities and nations do the best. But economists typically measure smart cities by education level, calculating the cities or metros with the largest percentage of college grads or the largest shares of adults with advanced degrees. Others (like me) do it by charting the kinds of work people do and the occupations they hold, differentiating between knowledge or creative workers and others who do more routine manufacturing and service jobs.

Madison Fire Department?s rescue team trained at the Kohl Center Monday. The Heavy Urban Rescue Team was rappelling and practicing high ropes.

Madison firefighters took to the roof of the Kohl Center on the University of Wisconsin campus on Monday for heavy urban rescue training.

Tuition and fees this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would top $10,000 for in-state students, and UW-Milwaukee would be close behind, if a recommended tuition increase of 5.5% is approved by the Board of Regents this week.

Wisconsin sports teams spend plenty of time practicing in the Kohl Center, and on Monday a special group of Madison firemen will do the same. Instead of training on a court or rink, though, they will use ropes courses to practice some of the more complicated rescues Dane County needs. The Madison Fire Department?s Heavy Urban Rescue Team, which a city news release said uses “complex rescue techniques” to respond to emergencies like building collapses anywhere in the county, will train at the UW-Madison arena Tuesday afternoon.