The UW-Madison Faculty Senate has renewed its efforts to officially change the name of Campus Drive to Karl Link Drive.

At its meeting Monday, faculty approved a motion presented by Math professor Anatole Beck to continue pursuing the name change.

Last October, the Faculty Senate voted to rename the major thoroughfare after Karl Paul Link, the scientist who discovered Warfarin, a blood thinner that helps patients with clotting disorders.

But the name change has not been supported by city of Madison staff, Beck said at the meeting.

He said he was told that a change in name would interfere with access to University Hospital and the VA Hospital for patients and visitors.

Beck said that he looked at the directions given on the University Hospital website.

"The words Campus Drive do not occur on any of these pages," he said to laughs at the meeting.

The resolution urges the university administration, the UW Board of Regents, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to "expend a strengthened effort" to work with the city on the new name.

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