Go Bucky! Are you kidding me? Be True to Your School. It's got to get 5-Stars!…read more After trying two other schools (Sarah Palin still has me beat!) I met my mentor, bassist Richard Davis, and the rest is history. Yes, a true mentor/apprentice relationship based on daily contact. Not the "mentor" relationship some American Idol kids call listening to someone's CDs and mimicking them. My mentor woke daily at 4a.m. Sometimes he would call me at 6:30a.m., wake me up, and ask what I was doing. "Practicing" was always my sleepy answer and he never called B.S. He gave me the keys to his office as a Grad student and I never took advantage of it...save for the few times I spent hours listening to his extensive jazz LP collection. A Love Supreme never sounded so good! Political Correctness (PC) was de rigeur when I transfered there, and UW was the hotbed center of it all, for better and for worse. Chancellor Donna Shalala (later Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services) presided over my Undergraduate graduation ceremonies. A Top-notch research school, we didn't have to rely on our sports teams to be the sole attention of our University. But Barry Alvarez brought the Football Badgers to the Rose Bowl in 1994, '99, and 2000. Ron Dayne won the Heisman Award in '99. Cha! And when we owned a team's ass, like the UCLA Bruins, we were confident enough to not have to root against them, in games that didn't matter to us. Our Marching Band high steps. Yours does not. Our Marching Band kicks your marching band's ass. During Fifth Quarter, too. Does your school even know how to Polka??? Sections O-P. And although having a 35,000 student body doesn't hurt, Madison's reputation as a state Capitol and a great place to live just added to our quality of life while at UW. Lake Mendota and Lake Monona- beautiful places for water sports during the summer, and XX skiiing and ice fishing in the winter. Bike lanes- bikes rule in Madison. Cars do not. The UW Rathskellar and Terrace. The German style Rathskellar provided ample space for eating, studying, debating, wasting time, drinking beer, watching bands for free. And the Terrace, overlooking Lake Mendota, provided all of the same in a beautiful outdoor setting. Be True to Your School! Go Big Red!

This is to review the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I chose to work at U.W. - Madison…read morebecause my undergrad and graduate degrees from U.C. Berkeley concerned vitamin research. As an undergrad, I did lab research on vitamin B6, and for my Ph.D., I did lab research on folic acid and vitamin B12. And so, it was a no-brainer that I should do my post-doctoral work at U.W. - Madison. U.W. - Madison is renowned for many of the early discoveries in the field of vitamin research, for example, for its introduction of the rat as the animal of choice for performing research on vitamins, amino acid metabolism, protein requirements, and so on. It was at U.W. - Madison, that the vitamins were first classified as being, "fat-soluble A" and "water-soluble B." At Madison, all of my work concerned vitamin K. Prof. H. DeLuca, and his laboratory staff at U.W. -- Madison are renowned for their work on vitamin D and vitamin A. SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC ENVIRONMENT. U.W.--Madison is home to 20 Nobel Prize winners and 33 winners of the Pulitzer Prize. The Nobel Prize winners include, Joshua Lederberg (1958, Medicine), Har Gobind Khorana (1968, Medicine), Howard Temin (1975, Medicine), and John Van Vleck (1977, Physics), William C. Campbell, (2015 Medicine), Oliver Smithies (2007 Medicine). During my 4 years of residence and employment in Madison, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art was my connection to the world of art and, in particular to the group of Chicago-based artists known as The Chicago Imagists. An exhibit of Richard Lostutter's paintings at this museum inspired me to drive to Chicago, and view paintings by the Chicago Imagists, including paintings by Ed Paschke, Roger Brown, and Sarah Canright. SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. The social environment at U.W. -- Madison is provided by the many Mini-Courses that are taught at the two student unions (Union South and Memorial Union). Four of the people in my laboratory were members of a clogging group, The Kickapoo Cloggers, and they suggested that I learn. And so, I took courses in clogging, tap dancing, jazz exercise, and ballroom dancing, all of these being taught in Union South. When I arrived in Madison, I was a total nerd and had no skill in dancing. But after two years of training, I was good enough to perform, and I performed with my group in front of audiences numbering from about 100 to about 500, and these included performances at State Capitol building (see, attached photo of me performing, YOU NEED TO CLICK ON THIS PHOTO TO SEE ALL OF IT), and at bluegrass festivals in Edgerton, WI, Amherst, WI, Edgerton, WI, Ashland, WI, Mount Horeb, WI, Verona, WI, Kahoka, MO, Delevan, WI, and Rockford, IL. Football games are a big deal at Univ. Wisconsin -- Madison. Please see my photograph of the marching band carrying sousaphones. The marching band plays at every football game. CULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT. Wisconsin was settled by immigrants arriving from German and Norway. The Memorial Union has a Stiftskeller where the walls bear murals having a German theme (see, the photo of me in the Stiftskeller, and a close-up photo of one of the murals). Regarding Norwegians, Sytende Mai (independence day) is a holiday that is celebrated in some towns in Wisconsin, for example, by an annual parade in Stoughton, WI. The nearby town of Mount Horeb is a center for Norwegian culture. Madison, Roxbury, Milwaukee, and other towns are distinguished by their German restaurants. In addition, every year a few farms in the Madison area feature, DAY ON THE FARM, where any person can visit a farm and see displays relating to crop harvesting, veterinary science, or cheese-making.

Free! Tucked right inside the door of this building on campus is the Physics museum…read more It is a little museum. It was not what we expected when you read museum, however worth the stop. We found parking about a block away in a ramp. Inside the Chamberlin Hall just to the right is the entrance. The entire exhibit is hands on. Experiments are explained and are really cool. My husband and I spent over an hour here. He loves to understand how things work and enjoyed explaining some experiments to me. We played around for some time and pretty much had the place to ourselves. We recommend the stop.

This is a great little free museum on the University of Wisconsin campus just inside the entrance…read moreto Chamberlin Hall. We spotted it during a prospective student campus tour and circled back afterward. The museum consists of hands-on physics experiments and is well worth 30 minutes if you have school aged kids who are interested in science.

I'm not sure why they've put the University of Wisconsin at this address. This is the address of…read morethe Nielsen Tennis Stadium, maybe I can help work to get it fixed with some help from the Yelp Community Manager in Madison - I'll ask her. Anyway, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is truly a world class university! With more fields of study than twenty people could manage in a lifetime, chances are, whatever you want to major in, they offer a degree for you. Getting good advice from an undergraduate adviser, you can complete one, two, or even three baccalaureate degrees with only a few more credits than you would need for just one degree. I got three degrees, and only had 7 more credits than I needed. There also are many buildings which are great works of architecture and building, and I believe that a young Frank Lloyd Wright worked on the physical building of Science Hall, on North Park Street, as a young man. The campus extends from Lake Street on the east, to West Johnson and Dayton Streets on the south, and on out west to Camp Randall, and beyond, with the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics.

Scored tickets to the Nutcracker at the memorial union theatre. I nice small venue for a matinee…read more They have a nice large lounge area and the box office is right inside the doors. We parked in the ramp near by. We definitely enjoyed this visit and will visit again in the spring or summer.

Love this place! The ice cream is awesome, the beer cold, and the food is a mixed bag... but the…read moreviews are spectacular.

This is for the law school which the address provided is the law school's address but the name…read moredoesn't explicitly provide - UW Law. In state tuition and MN reciprocity is a total deal for the education in terms of value.

Visited the University of Wisconsin Law School today on the main campus in Madison, Wisconsin. The…read morefacilities are very nice...there used to be two separate buildings for the Law School but in the late 1990s the school built a four story connection between the two making it one huge building...it houses all the administrative offices, faculty offices, the Law Library and all the classrooms and courtrooms. The Law School facilities are nice and modern and they have tons of room. The Law School is located on Bascom Mall in the old part of the university grounds...but very close (walking distance) to the Memorial Library and the Union. One of the Law School buildings houses the majority of the classrooms - many of which are laid out like traditional rectangles, others in the pie-wedge shape...all seem to have up-to-date technology keeping students plugged in. The lecture and seminar rooms were very nice and on the newish side. The moot courtroom and other specialty rooms were also very nice...the Moot Courtroom especially so. It is obvious the Law School is reinvesting in its property. The other main law building contains most of the administrative offices, clinics, and faculty offices. There is a nice little coffee shop on the lower level of the connecting building but it was not open when we visited and is probably only operating when classes are in session. The law library takes up two to three floors...depending on how you count. A portion of the library is housed in the new 4-story connecting edifice which joins the two original buildings. The main reading room is on the top floor. The library stacks are on a couple of floors...but in both of the old buildings so you cross over and back often. And since the two buildings are not on the same level...you walk up or down a half flight of stairs each time...that is why it is hard to pin down how many floors. It can be confusing which library floor you are on at first, but it becomes obvious pretty quickly. Nicely laid out library, and a number of smaller reading rooms are included besides the newish main one. The main reading room is laid out with a series of large tables with lamps...there are a number of cushy chairs at the end of the room which has an entire wall of glass facing Bascom Mall...neat view. There are carrels spread around the other library floors, some locking and some not. It does not appear there are enough carrels for each student...hence the reading rooms. This yields a lot of seating spread out around the library. Wisconsin's Law School is well-ranked in the top-50 tier of schools and the faculty is well regarded. Being located in the capital city of Madison, the school has the benefit of experienced lawyers coming in as adjuncts and job/internship opportunities for students. We were out looking at law schools and stopped by for a visit...even though we showed up unannounced they had someone in the Admissions Office who provided us with a self-guided tour brochure...nice touch. It just showed a welcoming attitude, and a school that is not resting on its laurels. A good choice for a top-50 law school just 2 1/2 hours from Chicago.

Lot of classes--noncredit and credit--for adults. Also some career advising. Noncredit classes…read moreinclude art, music, writing, history. Noncredit courses for about communications, social media, web design, business for the artist, courses for public management etc. You can be admitted as a Special Student here and take credit courses, even if you aren't working toward a degree.

The first day I set foot on campus, the unique architecture of the school really caught my…read moreattention. It was very different from all other schools I had toured. Now, over a year later, I am currently in my third semester here at Madison College. I have truly enjoyed the opportunities and real world insight that this school has helped me develop. The moderate size of the classes makes the educational experience much more personable. Your teachers know your name, & class discussions allow you the opportunity contribute to your own educational experience, since you aren't packed into a classroom with hundreds of other people. Looking back now, I am grateful that I did not choose to begin my college experience in a UW school. I needed time to sort out my interests, and time to really explore my options. The liberal arts program here gave me the perfect opportunity to sort things out, while earning general education credits that will still count towards my higher education goals, regardless of the path I choose. Aside from the beautiful large windows and open concept designs, I still feel the warm atmosphere every day I step inside of this school. The community of the school is always buzzing with energy. I love the welcoming nature of the building itself, and the way it seems to add to the welcoming environment created by all of the people and students inside. I believe that the "Technical" label was removed from the school name due to higher learning accreditation. I appreciate that they were able to earn the right to do so, as it takes the stigma away from ideas society may have when hearing the word 'technical' next the title of a college. I do not believe the college in which you attend should promote any sort of 'social status', - however, from personal experience, I have noticed that some people seem to react differently when they hear the word 'technical school/college'. Regardless of individual perception on the topic, when I tell people that I attend "Madison College" I feel a sense of earned pride. I love this school, the people and professors which I have had the pleasure of meeting and learning from, as well as the city of Madison.

I am about to complete my program at Madison College, lots of support and great systems to help you…read moresucceed, BUT they will try to take every single penny from you, colleges are Businesses, and they will put you in classes you certainly don't need and they will charge things to your account mysteriously and they won't know how to explain what is it and why it is being charged.

Its a UW hall, nothing special. Offices on upper floors (East Asian Languages, for example),…read moreclassrooms on floors 1-5. For the lifts you need a key or activated wiscard to get to floors one through five from the ground floor; waits are long between classes. So to get to floor 5 one must take the lift to the sixth floor, go down the hall and back down a flight of stairs, more if going to floor 4, etc. Messed up huh? On the third floor they took out some vending machines and the microwave. I miss being able to get white castles and milk or choco tacos before class. They need a printer in the lobby, and an ATM; but there is a UPS box for what its worth. The benches in the lobby and halls need cushions; it can be hard to get around the building if you're not familiar with its layout or aren't very mobile. There's the LSS language lab on the second floor, and tech centre on the fourth floor- convenient for homework making. The bathrooms only use those hot air blow dryers that don't work. They need to get some towels IMHO. Parking is a real hassle; there's an underground garage if you have a permit but there's no room. The nearest handicapped/any spots are two blocks away and usually taken. So come and enjoy fantastic Van Hise hall. If you're taking a language or various other course at UW, you probably have to anyway. Oh, the view from floor 14, or any top floor is awesome.