There is, sadly, a noticeable lack of evidence of much attention paid to ethics in our culture today. It?s not a priority in most schools, and it certainly doesn?t get talked about much in our business or political worlds to say nothing of popular culture.
University of Wisconsin faculty representatives presented multiple annual reports on campus diversity and undergraduate admissions for consideration to Faculty Senate members Monday following challenges to university budgets and independence.
UW-Madison officials have requested permission from the city of Madison to demolish two university-owned buildings on West Johnson Street to expand a parking lot on Clymer Place.
A monthly social outing and fund-raiser that used to attract hundreds of minority adults is making a comeback starting Friday night at a Far East Side banquet hall.”It fills a void,” said Dwayne Williams, a UW-Madison budget analyst who also works part-time as a disc jockey and promoter. “In Madison there aren?t a lot of places people of color can go and enjoy themselves.”
Dear Editor: It was wonderful to see the energy and high spirits of runners in the Spring Sprint for the Arb event on Saturday. The event is a real celebration of our beautiful Arboretum, which hundreds of Madisonians enjoy every day. Therefore it was a surprise to hear some caveman in the parking lot beep his horn loudly and repeatedly and shout, ?What are bicyclists doing here? Runners rule!? He sounded angry, and not one bit as if he were joking.
It was four years ago on April 2 when UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her downtown Madison apartment.
Four years later, Madison police are still looking for answers in a killing that rocked the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to honor two Spanish literary masterpieces and a critic who wrote key reviews of the texts at a symposium later this month.
Is the concept of fair-minded political reporting in today?s social media world outdated? Noted journalists and social media experts will tackle the issues of partisan journalism and “combat” politics at the fourth journalism ethics conference April 13 at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus.
Demand is so high for tickets to hear Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul speak at UW-Madison Thursday that his speech was moved to a larger venue, according to his campaign. Paul will now be speaking at the Union Terrace, rather than the original location of the Stock Pavilion.
Wisconsin will play host to former Gov. Tommy Thompson and two Republican presidential hopefuls over the next week, as pivotal primary elections loom ahead.
The University of Wisconsin has gained a top ranking in an annual international survey of higher education institutions.
A Madison man was arrested early Saturday morning after he allegedly snatched a purse from a woman walking on Dayton Street. Jerry Lee Jones Hoffman, 19, was tentatively charged with strong-arm robbery and resisting/obstructing following his arrest by UW-Madison police.
The Student Transportation Program introduced its budget, which could significantly increase student fees toward SAFEride services, to the Student Services Finance Committee Thursday.
The daily traffic jam on University Avenue is expected to get much worse on Monday when work begins on the final stretch to reconstruct the major west-side arterial. Work on the two-mile stretch from Segoe Road to Allen Boulevard is expected to continue through the end of October, and while the work is in progress, drivers should expect “severe delays,” according to a news release from the Madison Traffic Engineering Division.
Seven of UW-Madison?s School of Education graduate programs ranked in the top three in the 2013 edition of U.S. News and World Report?s “Best Graduate Schools. “Overall, the school was ranked ninth.
The College of Engineering was ranked 17th overall. Masters of fine arts was ranked 18th. The Law School was 35th and the School of Medicine and Public Health was 27th in research and 12th in primary care. Public affairs was 12th.
U.S. News and World Report released its 2013 edition of ?Best Graduate Schools,? and a number of UW-Madison programs once again earned recognition. The School of Education was the lone UW-Madison program to earn a top-10 ranking this time around, checking in at No. 9 overall. In addition, several specialties housed within that school also earned high praise.
U.S. News and World Report released its 2013 edition of ?Best Graduate Schools,? and a number of UW-Madison programs once again earned recognition. The School of Education was the lone UW-Madison program to earn a top-10 ranking this time around, checking in at No. 9 overall.
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.
