Town / Gown

When Rutgers University announced last month it planned a $295 million makeover of the heart of the New Brunswick campus, school officials said the historic project could not be built without an Urban Transit Hub tax credit from the state.

UW-Madison announced Tuesday it is closing some of its recreation facilities and opening a cooling center in the Eagle Heights neighborhood in response to the heat wave gripping Madison.

School's growth worries some

At least 16 people have reported that their credit cards might have been compromised at Olympic College.

After a vicious assault on a Trinity College sophomore a few months ago, suspicions turned toward neighborhoods near its Hartford campus. Hundreds of students rallied for tighter security. Police stepped up patrols. And the chairman of the college's board of trustees pledged to address safety concerns.

Plans are coming together to bring two colleges to a new home in downtown Brattleboro.

Michigan State University and the city of Detroit announced a joint project Wednesday to position Detroit into a work center for urban food system technology and development.

Wayne state University plans to begin work this year on a $93 million biomedical research facility in Midtown that President Allan Gilmour believes will "reviatlize a city block that is now vacant."

If 30,000 people attend a football game at Tulane University's proposed on-campus stadium, 70 percent of them are likely to travel by private cars, meaning more than 8,000 parking spaces would be needed to accommodate them, consultants working for Tulane said at a public forum this week.

Public invited to David Pershing’s meetings with community and college leaders