The iconic chairs are expected to be removed from the Terrace on Oct. 28. The more than 2,000 yellow, orange and green chairs and more than 400 tables mark an end to the Terrace summer entertainment season.
The UW Odyssey Project empowers adults to overcome adversity and achieve dreams through higher education.
Bill served as director of the graduate program in school psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held appointments as principal investigator at the Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development and as discipline chief of Psychology of the University Affiliated Program at the Waisman Center.
Carla dedicated a significant part of her career to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working in both the School of Agriculture and the Art Department.
There was an extra step of paperwork necessary as part of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team’s interest in participating in the 2024 Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
He served as an Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science, working with students and staff for thirty two years, which seemed a job made in heaven for him.
Alobbyist organization for Madison-area landlords and property owners hoped to stall UW-Madison’s push to build a new residence hall, according to a letter to the UW Board of Regents shown to the Wisconsin State Journal last week.
Those hoping to see British band Coldplay take the stage at Camp Randall next summer might have a hard time snagging tickets to the stadium’s first concern in nearly three decades.
UW Health’s seven-story Eastpark Medical Center, under construction for more than two years in the American Center Business Park on Madison’s Far East Side, will open for patients this month.
“The quick and dirty answer is that [we] discourage it,” Amy Nichelason, a veterinarian and clinical assistant professor of primary care services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, tells Inverse. She says it’s not difficult to understand why dogs might enjoy riding with their heads out the window. With their keen sense of smell, “it really is just like sensory overload,” Nichelason says. “It’s like me in the candy store.”
If you’re hoping to keep the stink bugs out, your options are slightly limited. The best way is physical exclusion, according to PJ Liesch, the director of the UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab who is aptly referred to as “the Wisconsin Bug Guy.”
Apart from this niche-use case, it’s not clear whether these statistics are even helpful for the people who watch games with the FanDuel app open. When I called up Michael Titelbaum, a philosopher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who works on probability, he told me that these statistics are easy to misinterpret. “Decades of cognitive-science experiments tell us that people are really, really bad at making sense of probability percentages,” he said.
Lucas Graves, a journalism and mass communications professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that publicly chafing at fact-checking has become a form of tribalism among some Republicans.
“A big concern for me [is] that the kids who are already poorly served will fall further behind because there won’t be anything that requires states” to use the funding equitably, says Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor emerita of education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The man known for his attention to detail during a legendary coaching career that included stops leading University of Wisconsin men’s basketball programs at Platteville, Milwaukee and Madison is still a stickler for the little things when preparing for something.
On Friday, over 50 students came to UW-Madison’s Library Mall to protest its investments in Israeli companies. Protesters took aim at how the university treated ongoing calls for divestment and new rules on free speech that followed late Spring’s encampment. The protest from SJP marks the last demonstration in its “Week of Rage” during the anniversary week of the genocide in Gaza’s start.
UW is facing a decline in the number of Black students in its freshman class, pointing to deeper issues in diversity, equity in higher education.
The revised Creando Comunidad program aims to bring together students interested in addressing systemic oppression by engaging with communities of color.
Protest leaders criticize university police, administration’s response to demands.
SJP marched from Library Mall to Bascom Hill, calling for the university to divest their funds and for an end to violence in Gaza as a part of their final event during their “week of rage.”
Event features informative booths, creative activities, wellness workshops.
Lauren Carlini was expecting to kick back and chill on the return flight to Madison after the University of Wisconsin volleyball team recently swept Rutgers in Piscataway, New Jersey. Instead, the former UW star spent the next few hours engaged in conversation with coach Kelly Sheffield, who had just collected his milestone 300th career win in 12 seasons at Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team played five games on Peacock last season. That will double for the 2024-25 season.
While district-wide enrollment remained flat last school year, the student population is likely to trend downward for at least the next five years, according to projections by researchers at UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
The design phase is nearly done. Then, the college will take the plans for the new facility to the UW system Board of Regents and State Building Commission, said UW-Madison College of Engineering Dean Ian Robertson.
Dr. Louis Macias serves as Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) at UW-Madison, where he leads efforts to maximize positive outcomes by aligning the College’s actions with its values, needs, and goals.
UW history assistant professor, SJP student leader, members connect Palestinian resistance to historical examples.
Nearby residents express concern over lack of police communication and increased violence in student-populated area.
Camp Randall had successful alcohol sales in the general seating area and will continue to sell alcohol for the rest of the season, though a former UHS doctor raised concerns on the decision.
The answer isn’t straightforward, those involved with bringing a concert back to Camp Randall said Tuesday when the details were unveiled. The tendency has been for big shows to go to larger cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis than to try to fill a venue in Madison that will have a 58,000 capacity for the Coldplay date.
Soon after police officers removed protesters’ tents and withdrew from the scene on May 1, a pro-Palestinian encampment reemerged on Library Mall, forcing University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders to contemplate their next step.
The amount of lightning in Hurricane Milton is “unlike any event” meteorologist Chris Vagasky has ever seen in the Atlantic Basin. Hurricane Milton’s eyewall, where the storm’s strongest winds are, exhibited more than 58,000 lightning events in just 14 hours, according to Vagasky, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That’s more than one lightning event every second, which he described as “astounding.”
Hillel has been foundational to so many Jewish stories over the past century. In the 1930s, it established a student refugee program, saving the lives of nearly 150 young European Jews. In 1947, it helped Hungarian-born Tom Lantos come to the U.S., where he became the only Holocaust survivor to ever be elected to Congress. In the 1950s and ’60s, Hillels across the country organized robust support for the civil-rights movement. In 1960, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Hillel director Max Ticktin addressed 500 students in a march on Library Mall and called for an end to both local and national discrimination, and encouraged students to fight against racist Jim Crow laws.
UW Health Distinguished Psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain joined WMTV Monday to talk about the issues parents are facing. One change Mirgain said needs to happen is a change in the “culture of comparison,” which she explained is the habit of comparing one’s family to others, especially on social media.
Mike Wagner is a professor and election expert at UW-Madison. He says no one person or individual will change the outcome of the November 5th election, but says it’s groups of people who could have the biggest impact. This means students, specifically out-of-state students.
Dr. Dominic J Ledesma is assistant vice provost for culture, climate and engagement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT).
“They are not numbers. We will remember their names,” said Students for Justice in Palestine (SPJ) on the one-year anniversary since the genocide began while pro-Israeli counterprotesters mocked them at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Speakers share their accounts of the day, hopes for the future.
‘I’m disappointed, but not shocked,’ SJP member said of counter-protest.
“Many people on campus on both sides were touched by the news of this conflict a year ago, but today they are just used to it and have stopped caring,” SJP protester Junyao Wang told The Daily Cardinal. “We are not going to give up because we’re tired. We need to give people stimulation.”
Roughly 200 students gathered in Library Mall Monday night to remember the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel.
The delivery arrived in the west concourse of Camp Randall Stadium midway through the first quarter Saturday. The cargo on a rolling flatbed cart already was causing a line to form a few minutes later.
Coldplay has been confirmed for a Camp Randall Stadium concert in 2025 and the date is set, according to announcements by University of Wisconsin Athletics and Coldplay.
The Wisconsin Badgers announced in a post on social media over the weekend Coldplay would come to Camp Randall, exciting both local business owners and tourism leaders.
Latino judges from across Wisconsin spoke about their careers and the obstacles faced on their path to the bench at a panel held at Memorial Union.
Dr. Reznikoff was the first woman to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and went on to become a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned international recognition for using novel techniques to define genetic changes in transitional cell carcinoma. Dr. Reznikoff served as Chair of the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, underscoring her reputation and her integrity.
The line extends out to the street for what UW-Madison students with the Collegiate Farm Bureau and the Badger Dairy Club are cooking up.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department showed a promotional video at Saturday’s football game for the first concert at Camp Randall Stadium in 28 years.
The teases continued Sunday with an apparent confirmation of the group.
He returned to his beloved University of Wisconsin until his retirement in 1994. During those decades Blair served as an Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Science, Assistant Dean in the Dean of Students Office and assistant to the Vice Provost. He counseled and advised countless students throughout his career whose lives he significantly influenced. Blair supervised doctoral and masters degree students as they served as clinical interns in the University Counseling Services.
A patient should never come out of the operating room with more pain than they went in with.
That’s the thinking behind a group of UW-Madison engineers whose invention aims to make surgical incisions easier and reduce the incidence of accidental cuts from free-floating scalpels.
Pam taught elementary education in the Cottage Grove and Monona School Districts for seven years, until she joined Dr. Dempsey’s Neurosurgery team at the University of Wisconsin as a research coordinator. She finished her career as a research coordinator for the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) study at the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute.
UW-Madison police reported that 26 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and nine people were arrested during Saturday’s football game between the Badgers and Purdue.
Despite an entertaining and dominating performance by the Wisconsin Badgers at Camp Randall Saturday, some fans ran into law enforcement trouble. According to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department Saturday, 26 people in total were ejected from the stadium during the game against Purdue. The total includes seven that were identified as UW students.
The University of Wisconsin Marching Band were not the only ones performing at Badger Bash Saturday.
Fans will have to chance to jump around and enjoy live music at Camp Randall when Coldplay arrives at the stadium next year.
Diego Campoverde Cisneros is diversity, equity and inclusion manager at UW Health, a role he took on in 2022 after nearly three years in a similar role at Quartz Health Solutions.
Natalie Arriaga de Brooks is the assistant director of the Wisconsin School of Business Multicultural Center, where she manages the center’s daily operations and its internship program.
A Sept. 26 legislative committee meeting highlighted the problems smaller University of Wisconsin System campuses face as a new budget season looms.
The demolition of the Mosse Humanities Building and construction of new art and music buildings are under discussion after regents approve $855 million budget increase.
Spring in October. That’s what David Stevens, curator of the UW Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens, is calling the unusual fall blooming of local lilacs that’s drawing crowds to see and smell the typically spring-blooming flowers.
One of the Dairyland’s key industries has a shortage of people — and UW-Madison is stepping in to help.
