Improving the climate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for underrepresented and disadvantaged students is going to rely on efforts in departments, classrooms and social circles around campus, officials told a luncheon gathering Tuesday at the school’s 2017 Diversity Forum.
Herman Goldstein, a professor emeritus at the UW-Madison Law School whose theories on effective policing in free societies have been applied by police agencies around the world, was named Tuesday as the winner of the prestigious 2018 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.
The defense in the case of the former UW student accused of sexually assaulting multiple students asked for evidence — including a black leather notebook with a list of women’s names — to be thrown out and for a change of venue Monday, according to court documents.
Everyone knows Veterans Day is set aside to honor those who serve in the U.S. military, but few know how it started.
Final decision will be voted on Thursday.
Lori Berquam spoke about recent attempted abduction at College Library.
Fat-talk, social comparisons in college exacerbate insecurities — magnitude of eating disorders remains unseen.
Continuing a trend found on other college campuses, a poster reading “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” was found taped to a lamp post on Bascom Hill earlier this week.
Board of Regents to vote on merger at upcoming Thursday meeting.
As many are undoubtedly aware, it is annual campaign time for some of our most important nonprofits, especially umbrella organizations such as United Way and Community Shares. That includes the State, University and UW Health Employees Combined Campaign of Dane County to whom we give a special shoutout today.
The 2017 University of Wisconsin–Madison Diversity Forum, “Together: Building Cultural Capacity,” will take place Tuesday–Wednesday, Nov. 7–8, at Union South on the UW campus.
“We think the world of Tamara Grigsby and we think she is a great role model as we want all of our social work students to be thinking about making social change in the world,” says Stephanie Robert, director and professor at the UW School of Social Work.
$19 million went toward Morgridge Institute for Research, the highest in WARF history
A planned reorganization of the University of Wisconsin System could dilute the link between counties and UW Colleges and strain financial investments made by counties in the schools, officials say.
UW Carbone Cancer Center currently working on modifying cell pathways
The University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team learned Monday that it is making a return trip to the NCAA tournament.
After a Student Judiciary ruling granted the Multicultural Student Coalition an opportunity to make their case to the Student Services Finance Committee for general student services funding, the group used outdated information and lacked several necessary documents in their presentation Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents appears set to vote this week on a proposal to merge the state’s two-year colleges and several of its four-year institutions without a clear picture of how the plan could affect UW’s finances.
Amid a battle over free speech on the UW-Madison campus, the university’s campus-wide climate survey revealed that politically conservative students were more likely than liberal students to feel safe on campus
The ex-husband of a former UW Health billing specialist, 15 of his family members, one friend and the estates of two deceased family members, are suing UW Health and the man’s ex-wife, alleging that she invaded their privacy by accessing thousands of their medical records over a period of more than 10 years.
UW-Madison’s Department of Anesthesiology should recruit more female residents, examine salaries for gender equity and boost mentoring of leaders to improve a culture characterized by “male centrism,” a university report says.
The Wisconsin Singers is celebrating 50 years with two special performances in Overture Hall.
Senior Claudia Kepler, junior Mikaela Gardner and sophomore Alexis Mauermann each notched goals to power the No. 1 Wisconsin women’s hockey team to a 3-1 victory and a series sweep of No. 4 Ohio State Sunday afternoon at LaBahn Arena.
Quoted: “Be looking for those pieces of equipment where you might not be expecting them,” said Cheryl Skjolaas, the agricultural safety and health specialist for UW-Extension.
Arden worked for UW Veterinarian Sciences, as the Herdsman on the UW farm, until his retirement.
For Angela Byars-Winston, becoming the first Black tenure-track, full-professor in the UW-Madison Department of Medicine in September was just the another stepping stone in her career.
Tenure, salary, other factors considered to cause surge remain in question.
For some Badgers, both current and alum, being a part of the community means serving in it.
Across the country, hate crimes often go unreported. The Daily Cardinal wants to change that, and that’s why we’re partnering with ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project to track these stories.
For some UW-Madison students, last week’s campus-wide climate survey results were no surprise.
Weiss is a junior studying business at the UW-Madison. He said he launched CupsOver in 2016 after he was inspired by what he heard from a professor about entrepreneurship.
A ton of students lined up to get free donuts from Google on Thursday outside the Engineering Building on the UW Campus.
The kick-off event of a new publicly funded policy center at the University of Wisconsin has a bipartisan mix of speakers, including Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman and Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz.
The head of the University of Wisconsin medical school says passing a fetal tissue research ban would shut down ongoing potentially life-saving research.
Professor Howard Schweber said there are three main flaws with policy.
This bill sets a dangerous national precedent for all public universities.
A line snaked around Engineering Mall in Thursday’s rainy weather as students and community members waited hours in the cold for the chance to receive a free Google Home Mini.
A campus faculty and staff group is circling a petition alleging that two faculty assistants were not hired as retaliation against their involvement in last years’ faculty assistant campaign for equal pay.
The Law Library at UW-Madison was evacuated Wednesday morning and students were sent an alert asking them to avoid the area, after police got a report of a man with an AK-47 rifle.
The Wisconsin Legislature is tackling anti-abortion measures, but it’s unclear whether any of them have enough support among Republicans to pass.
Students of color and those who are transgender or gender nonconforming are less likely than their peers to say they feel welcome and respected at UW-Madison, according to a survey campus officials released Wednesday.
Only half of students of color at University of Wisconsin-Madison report that they usually feel like they belong on campus, according to a results of a first-ever climate survey released Wednesday.
This is the first survey the institution has put forth that allowed undergraduate, graduate, professional and non-degree-seeking students to respond.
More than 30,000 people are expected at exhibits across Wisconsin for the seventh annual Wisconsin Science Festival.
Most students on the UW-Madison campus feel welcome, but underrepresented students report less positive views of campus climate, according to a report released by the University Wednesday.
Twenty-three percent of University of Wisconsin’s students of color often feel “excluded,” compared to only nine percent of white students, according to the Campus Climate Survey report released today.
If determined competent, Siedl could still face charges.
While majority students feel welcome on campus, many students of marginalized identities feel less safe.
The UW System’s announcement that it plans to merge each of Wisconsin’s two-year colleges with a nearby four-year university to combat declining enrollment was met with skepticism from many student leaders across the state.
UW-Madison released results from its first-ever campus climate survey, and data showed school officials what they had “long known anecdotally” — underrepresented students have a significantly less positive perception of the university’s environment.
The University of Wisconsin conducted its first-ever study of campus climate in fall 2016, and plans to release the results Wednesday.
Quoted: Halloween makes some children anxious, and here with what parents can do to help make it a little less scary is Dr. Marcia Slattery, head of the UW Anxiety Disorder Program.
Nov. 9th meeting will discuss ways to help students vote despite current, ’confusing’ voter ID laws
UW-Madison’s retention and recruitment of staff is returning to normal after the university faced budget cuts and tenure policy changes in the previous two years, according to a 2016-17 faculty recruitment efforts document.
A sexual assault reportedly occurred in a southeast residence hall this past Saturday, according to a UW-Madison Crime Alert.
A short-lived set lacks focality and quickly runs through Top 40 hits with little to no effort.
If you’re tired of waiting for packages, don’t worry — an Amazon pickup point now open in Sellery Residence Hall plans to eliminate the wait for Prime customers.
Vos says there is also no agreement on another bill that would prohibit University of Wisconsin doctors from working at Planned Parenthood clinics where abortions are performed.
“There are people who are diagnosed with CTE who had never had a diagnosed concussion,” said Julie Stamm, a University of Wisconsin-Madison anatomist who has studied CTE and brain trauma in athletes.
A small chemical spill at UW Hospital Tuesday night brought out the hazardous incident team of the Madison Fire Department, with nobody injured in the spill.
