UW-Madison says its Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards is reviewing complaints of a student covering the windows of the College Republicans student office with signs calling President Donald Trump a sexist and racist.
The UW-Madison community is celebrating Homecoming this week. It’s the first for the new Badger Band director.
UW-Madison has suspended Sigma Chi, the third time the fraternity has been suspended in four years.
“We survey our students every year about their dining experience on campus,” said Peter Testory, Director of University Housing Dining & Culinary Services, in the release.
The university says Sigma Chi was prohibited from serving alcohol at events, but that the frat did it anyway, violating the Student Organization Code of Conduct.
Ahead of the 2020 census, UW Madison and the City of Madison are working together to make sure all college students get counted.
The senator’s grandfather, David Green, studied at UW-Madison’s Enzyme Institute in the 1950s. His discoveries pioneered research students and facility study today.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will vote on highly criticized changes to its student misconduct policies Friday, potentially codifying mandatory punishments for students disrupting free speech into official administrative policy.
An individual covered the outside of the UW-Madison College Republicans’ office with signs labeling President Donald Trump as racist and sexist, according to video the group shared on Twitter Wednesday.
Foxconn pledged $50 million to Illinois’ flagship university just weeks after UW-Madison reported receiving less than 1% of the company’s $100 million commitment in the first year of their five-year agreement.
Newell’s Deli, a quick stop for sandwiches, soup and hot entrees at Smith Hall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall at 35 N. Park St., has fewer than two years left on campus before being replaced by a full-service Starbucks.
Madison residents interested in representing the UW-Madison campus on the City Council have until noon Monday to apply for the position.
UW-Madison suspended Sigma Chi fraternity from all university activities until at least Jan. 21 and is requiring the chapter to elect a new executive board.
Column: The $386 million Wisconsin Partnership Fund for a Healthy Future shouldn’t be considered secret.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take a case requested by UW-Madison’s patent-licensing arm that could have awarded it about $506 million in damages from Apple, effectively ending the case.
The Cost of NewsThe Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 10% decline in jobs for reporters, correspondents and broadcast news analysts by 2028, and it isn’t hard to guess why. It’s easy to come by free information in the internet age, so why pay? Unfortunately, there’s no reason to believe that free news is better news.
— Clare Stumpf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, actuarial science
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a 2018 decision to throw out more than $500 million in damages owed by Apple to the University of Wisconsin for infringing on one of its patents. The win for Apple comes as it endures heavy scrutiny from federal regulators over its business practices.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professor Robert Radwin studies workplace ergonomics. He was not involved in the University of Pittsburg study but he instructs students on the qualities of sit-stand desks which he feels have gotten a lot of hype. He does not have one.
Last month, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research and the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association were selected to host one of three initiative sites. The group received $454,392 to provide grants and workshops to producers and processors in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Illinois.
Quoted: “The ecosystem concept ecologists now use has been refined since it was first introduced by Tansley almost a century ago,” says Stephen Carpenter, a scientist in the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Ecosystem science studies the interactions of all the living and non-living entities in a specified place. This definition is consistent with modern concepts of energy, nutrient flow and biogeochemistry, which barely existed during Tansley’s career.”
Quoted: Communication scholar Dietram Scheufele at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said that at any point in time, roughly five issues tend to dominate a person’s memory. A constantly shuffling set of concerns struggle endlessly for one’s attention.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents are poised to approve draft rules Friday that would mandate suspension for students who disrupt the free speech rights of students or invited speakers on two occasions. The rule would require expulsion if a student is found to violate the policy on three occasions.
A professor here at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Howard Temin represented what society expects from us and had the characteristics that make society willing to fund our work. People want scientists who get up every morning committed to finding the truth.
Quoted: Catalina Toma is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She studies how people communicate online, and has recently been investigating self-presentation and deception in online dating profiles.
As an institution whose primary focus is on education, lackluster performance in this category is a call to action.
While diversity training and more extensive critique process are good steps, they fail to address underlying racial issues in Wisconsin.
Lack of classrooms, practice rooms in Hamel Center is frustrating students.
Compared to years before, 2019 is likely to see most events, involvement.
Dairy farming produces greenhouse gases in various ways, could cut emissions by half.
WARF spokesperson ’disappointed’ in Supreme Court decision.
University of Wisconsin professor of sociology Doug Maynard spoke on the importance of understanding autism spectrum disorder and making spaces more accessible to those with autism as a part of the Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present lecture series Tuesday night.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal Monday by UW-Madison’s patent licensing arm to reestablish a legal victory against Apple in a dispute over computer processor technology.
Introduced in Fall 2019, the degree hopes to optimize experiential learning through real-world computing projects and a variety of industry specific analytics courses — a skill many students feel they lack coming out of undergrad.
UW-Madison scored silver in its first time being rated by a national organization that aims to boost environmental sustainability on campus.
The day that he felt so distant from the fun everyone else was having around him was the first indication to Ty Pelton-Byce there was something wrong.
For the past eight months, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has spearheaded efforts to collect data and speak with students, faculty and staff about its sustainability performance. On Monday, the university’s Office of Sustainability announced the fruits of its labor, reporting that it earned a silver rating through the national Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System.
The regents in 2017 adopted a policy declaring students who twice disrupt others’ free speech would be suspended for at least one semester. A third offense would mean expulsion. The policy hasn’t taken effect, however, because the UW System’s administrative rules haven’t been amended to include it.
Lovicott tells News 3 Now that many Badger students did not grow up in cities as large as Madison so understanding how to navigate campus safely is an adjustment.
“The cool thing about [UW Homecoming Week] is that there are a lot of events that make you have spirit throughout the week, not just the weekends,” UW Homecoming Committee member Colleen Muraca said.
“(Cars) just barrel on, they don’t stop,” University of Wisconsin-Madison student Samuel Julson said. “It’s crazy.”
Fraternities are known for their wild antics, what function do they serve in campus settings?
SSFC also approved GSSF eligibility for Wisconsin Association of Black Men.
UW had score of 51.72, compared to University of Illinois with score of 72.89.
Margaret Raymond has served as dean of the UW Law School since 2011.
Posick, a Badgers junior, scored her first collegiate goal Friday night in top-ranked UW’s 7-0 victory over Penn State … Up in the press box, her dad Brian was wearing a headset and calling play by play on Fox Sports Wisconsin.
Student loan debt is a national crisis, but it is also a crisis that hits Wisconsin students and graduates particularly hard. Nationally, student loan debt has ballooned to $1.6 trillion, and borrowers graduate with an average debt of $28,565 — which is up $277 from last year.
Andrea Dutton, new to University of Wisconsin-Madison this semester, studies climate change and caught the eye of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It awarded her one of 26 “genius” grants in 2019.
UW-Madison professor Barry Burden, an expert on American politics, said Walker’s stance on pardons was “exceptional” for Wisconsin, as both Republican and Democrat governors before him exercised their constitutional pardoning power.
Most University of Wisconsin System campuses ban e-cigarettes in and near campus buildings, but university officials say enforcement of anti-smoking policies is relatively lax.
“It’s definitely true. There’s not a lot of diversity here. So in a way that does kind of reflect the school, [whether] that’s good or bad,” Zeid tells NBC15 News.
The alumni association will implement diversity, equity and inclusion training for staff and members of WAA-sponsored student organizations.
UW-Madison announced Friday several actions it is taking in response to a student-created video featuring an almost entirely white student body that failed to include a black student group who participated in filming.
Quoted: Jerry O’Brien, director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison, calls Von Maur, which is privately held, a “high-service, high-quality, high-touch retailer” that isn’t big into promotions like Kohl’s but is focused more on creating “a great shopping experience with personalized attention.”
911 calls routed to Dane County.
The former Dean Clinic cardiothoracic surgeon stopped seeing patients in 2004 but refocused his passion for medicine to teaching ensuing generations of physicians at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
The event was organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
UW-Madison economics professors Menzie Chinn and Noah Williams weigh in.
Attendees report being required to sign nondisclosure agreements, even at an on-campus event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Catherine Emmanuelle is the vice president of the Eau Claire City Council, the area extension director for Chippewa, Eau Claire and Dunn counties and is a member of the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Latino Task Force.
Quoted: “Discussion of the Bidens is part of a deflection strategy,” said Yoshiko Herrera, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia. “It’s like breaking into someone’s house and then saying, ‘That person had bad credit.’”
