Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced continued improvements March 24 at the Alliant Energy Center Campus beginning in April.
Two men were arrested after fighting on the 500 block of State Street Saturday afternoon, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
The UW-Madison Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and the Mills Music Library received a $230,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, according to a university press release, which will be used to digitize a historic collection of music and sound recordings. The recordings provide an auditory history of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, and the cultural traditions captured on them are currently only available on discs and cassettes that are deteriorating or obsolete, according to the release. Jeanette Casey, head of the Mills Music Library, said she is grateful that the grant will provide greater access to the recordings. “We’re thrilled the NEH recognized the importance of this fabulous and historic collection,” Casey said in the release.
While presidential candidates for both parties square off ahead of Wisconsin’s April 5 primary, there is another race students should know about as well. Rebecca Bradley and JoAnne Kloppenburg are vying for an open seat on the State Supreme Court and its corresponding 10-year term.
An Associated Press team that reported on slave labor in the southeast Asian fishing industry won the 2016 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics UW-Madison announced Friday.
Shortly after the UW System Board of Regents passed three tenure resolutions that faculty members deemed more harmful than helpful in protecting academic freedom, Slate education columnist Rebecca Schuman wrote that despite efforts to retain superstar faculty at UW-Madison, “the damage has been done.”
Angelito Tenorio, a UW-Madison sophomore, and Hayley Young, a May 2015 Madison graduate, are fighting to replace another recent Madison graduate, Leland Pan, in the District 5 Dane County Board of Supervisors race. The district is approximately 75 percent Lake Mendota with the remaining area being mostly campus.
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Kasich will each visit Madison Monday as they look toward Wisconsin’s primary election April 5.
James Baughman, who spent more than 30 years as a journalism professor and instructor at UW-Madison, died Saturday morning from lung cancer at the age of 64. Highly revered by both his earliest students and current journalism undergraduates, Baughman came to Wisconsin in 1979 as an instructor and became an assistant professor in 1981, according to a School of Journalism and Mass Communication release.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill into law Thursday designed to increase reporting of sexual assaults on college campuses. The measure prevents law enforcement from issuing drinking tickets to victims or witnesses of sexual assault.
MILWAUKEE- Backed by former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich kicked off the final weeks of courting Wisconsin voters before the state’s April 5 primary.
After a series of deadly terrorist attacks hit Brussels, all seven UW-Madison students studying abroad in the city were accounted for and reported safe Tuesday morning, according to University Relations Specialist Greg Bump.
Several graduate programs at UW-Madison ranked among the top in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 edition of “Best Graduate Schools,” according to a Wednesday university release.
The American Education Research Association awarded UW-Madison faculty Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy the 2016 AERA Outstanding Book Award Tuesday for the publication, “The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education,” according to a university release.
State lawmaker Rep. Andy Jorgensen, D-Milton, announced Wednesday he will not seek re-election to the Wisconsin legislature but instead intends to run for Rock County Register of Deeds.
UW-Madison researchers released a groundbreaking observational study which found that highly specialized athletes were more likely to report a history of overuse knee injuries, according to a university release.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Wednesday allowing Wisconsinites to register to vote online. The measure allows anyone with a Wisconsin driver’s license or state-issued voting card to register online.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council heard legislation during its meeting Wednesday that would ultimately disband the University Affairs Committee and focus its grassroots efforts into the Shared Governance Committee.
Mayor Paul Soglin went before the Alcohol License Review Committee Tuesday to request a moratorium on alcohol licenses in the State Street and Capitol Square area until the completion of a retail study. Specifically, the ALRC would not grant any new Class A, B or C alcohol licenses, no new entertainment licenses and no physical expansions of existing alcohol establishments, according to a memo Soglin sent to the committee. The memo also said transfers of alcohol licenses to new locations would not be permitted.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a racist graffiti image found Monday in the first floor restroom of the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, according to UWPD Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott. The graffiti was found around 7:20 p.m. Lovicott estimates the image was drawn late afternoon Monday between 3:30 and 7 p.m.
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