Gun-rights advocate and conservative pundit Katie Pavlich visited campus to educate students on the second amendment and gun use for self-defense without any disruption from protesters.
The Treinen Farm Corn Maze, in Lodi, WI features Wisconsin’s state fossil, the trilobite.
The suspect that police say pulled out what appeared to be an assault rifle in an altercation at a food cart on State Street Sunday morning has been arrested on unrelated charges.
A pateint’s doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center, Dr. Lisa Barroilhet says, PARP inhibitors are making a difference.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators are defending their decision Monday to keep a teaching assistant out of the classroom after racist social media and blog posts surfaced.
DeJope Residence Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus was targeted with anti-native graffiti on Monday, which the City of Madison declared Indigenous Peoples’ Day, according to campus administration.
Columbus Day would be replaced by Indigenous Peoples Day under new legislation.
UW political science professor said the book provides insight into rural motivations for voting for President Donald Trump.
UW officials condemn graffiti, say native heritage revitalization, recognition of tribal sovereignty is priority to university.
Graffiti reading “Columbus Rules 1492” was found on a sacred fire circle at Dejope Residence Hall Monday morning, according to a letter from Vice Provost for Student Life Lori Berquam sent to members of Wunk Sheek, an indigenous student group on campus.
Amid backlash against this year’s Go Big Read book, students, staff and community members packed into Shannon Hall Monday night to hear three Madison experts discuss J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.”
UW-Madison has relieved a graduate student from his teaching duties after a blog post, which claimed he was expelled from Oberlin College for racist messaging and currently belongs to a white supremacist group, went viral. The student, Dylan Bleier, denied the allegations.
When the 1960s are caricatured as a sex-, drugs- and rock-n-roll-fueled free-for-all, the 50th anniversary of the Dow Chemical protests at UW-Madison serve as a reminder that college students are capable of caring about international injustices and believing they can influence what their government does about them.
Something was different Friday when the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents took its latest action to fine-tune free speech policy to the times.
The Cap Times recently carried a well-written feature about student loan debt’s deleterious hold on the lives of not-so-recent college graduates.
A national group that bankrolls conservative speakers on college campuses is stirring up controversy ahead of the scheduled appearance of commentator Katie Pavlich Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“That shows they’re doing a good job of reaching out to kids from diverse backgrounds,” said Eric Grodsky, a UW-Madison associate professor and co-director of the research partnership.
Quoted: “If it’s warm and there’s enough water and there’s plenty of sunshine, the plant continues to make food and remains green by keeping chlorophyll in the leaves,” said Dr. Ken Cameron, chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Botany Department.
Alumni Park is opening just as the University’s chief alumni officer is getting ready to call it a carreer. Paula Bonner, the president of the Wisconsin Alumni Association, is retiring at the end of the month.
Where were the students who didn’t show up for the “sold out” UW football game against Northwestern at Camp Randall last Saturday?
Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Institute for Public Service, is one expert on a panel that will discuss “Elegy,” UW-Madison’s Go Big Read at a keynote event at 7 p.m. Monday at Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall. The event is free and no ticket is required.
Tony Evers cast only dissenting vote.
The Board of Regents adopted the language on a voice vote during a meeting at UW-Stout in Menomonie.
Driver arrested for operating vehicle while intoxicated.
In the midst of constant rainfall and the threat of thunderstorms, hundreds of UW-Madison alumni, students and community members crowded Library Mall Friday to celebrate the opening of a new park honoring alumni and their achievements.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank said she has no plans to answer the Associated Students of Madison’s call to put a plaque on Bascom’s statue of Abraham Lincoln recognizing the president’s role in the deaths of natives.
After an hour of celebration and exploration of UW-Madison’s Alumni Park, visitors at Friday’s grand opening gathered for the unveiling of the new Bucky Badger statue.
Fifty years ago next week, thousands of students on the UW-Madison campus — and the rest of the country via news photos and film clips — witnessed a protest-turned-riot that put the anti-war spotlight on the city, shattered the trust between the university and many of its students, sent nearly 70 people to the hospital and forever became known as the “Dow riot.”
WPR recently remodeled its newsroom in Vilas Hall on the UW-Madison campus and is now renovating Radio Hall for more office space.
As a new student at UW-Milwaukee, I know college is an exciting time. I graduated as valedictorian from Delavan-Darien High School in May looking forward to this fall.
Preliminary enrollment numbers are down by more than 2% this fall on more than half of University of Wisconsin System’s campuses, draining millions in tuition and fee revenue and challenging campuses to make up for demographic shifts in the state’s population.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Friday passed a policy pushed by Republican state lawmakers to punish students on UW campuses who repeatedly disrupt campus speakers with opposing views.
Alumni and community members will celebrate the grand opening of a new park on the UW-Madison campus on Friday night.
Restrictive gun laws not proven to decrease gun violence, disproving liberal cries for stricter regulations
Thirty eight year-old Tino Luu was arrested for theft, disorderly conduct.
UW-Madison will host a panel of three experts to discuss its 2017-’18 Go Big Read book, J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.”
The next UW-Madison chancellor could come from the private sector, after the Board of Regents approved sweeping hiring policy changes requiring the UW System to also recruit potential hires from non-academic fields.
The work of Dr. Budge has made a significant impact on the field of transgender psychology. Her work is often lauded as being cutting edge and addressing the day-to-day challenges faced by gender diverse people.
Under the plan, campuses can’t block people who lack terminal degrees and tenure from serving as System president, chancellors or vice chancellors. The System must look to recruit applicants from the private sector as well.
UniverCITY is designed to tap the expertise on campus to help local units of government address specific issues affecting the community.
As a longtime professor of Wisconsin constitutional law and government, I have been lamenting that Wisconsin’s constitution and institutions have been largely absent from the Wisconsin redistricting case just argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. Simply put, the case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.
University of Wisconsin System regents are set to vote on a policy that calls for suspending and expelling students who disrupt campus speeches and presentations.
Alumni Park is full of unique pieces including exhibits focused on themes of the Wisconsin Idea including service, discovery and tradition. Faces of iconic alumni, lit sculptures cast words against the ground for visitors to read at night and even a sculpture of the first issue of “The Onion” await park visitors.
Over a thousand students and recruiters jostled about the Varsity Hall conference room in Union South on Tuesday afternoon. Lines of varying sizes snaked throughout the space, some even winding outside of it, as students — many wearing formal wear, almost all clutching resumes — waited to chat with potential employers from almost 50 different startups, tech firms and government institutions. Local institutions like Epic Systems and American Family Insurance had booths side by side with global brands like Facebook and Bloomberg.
A UW-Madison student mugged early Thursday morning was able to get his stolen property back, and was also able to get a business card from the officer he could show his professor, if he wasn’t steady enough to take an exam.
Plants producing their own nitrogen would require less fertilizer and reduce environmental pollution, and researchers at UW-Madison will be studying it thanks to a grant from a federal agency.
University of Wisconsin System Regent Tony Evers cast the sole vote Thursday against a policy change that gives regents a larger role in selecting chancellors for system campuses.
UW Health put on the training event at one of its Middleton offices. It taught doctors, nurses, physicians’ assistants, EMS staff and other health care workers the best practices for teaching citizens the program.
Students, faculty, alumni alike note influence of internet jokes across campus.
At a Wednesday lecture regarding Alzheimer’s disease, medical professionals discussed simple measures individuals can take to prevent or slow the effects of dementia.
An undetermined number of University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, students and staff may have been exposed to unacceptable levels of lead dust during painting projects in two buildings this summer and fall, the university notified the campus community this week.
Quoted: “The biologist in me says, ‘Preserve everything. We don’t have the right to make the decision to get rid of an entire species,’ ” says Susan Paskewitz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and chairman of the Department of Entomology. “The global health specialist in me says, ‘A half a million people die from malaria, most of them under the age of 5. That’s an awful lot of suffering.’ ”
Steve Miller, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a former UW-Madison student, is coming back to campus — for a good cause.
Reported hate crimes on UW-Madison’s campus dramatically increased in 2016 — and anti-Semitic vandalism was the most prominent issue.
City officials, downtown residents and local business owners are grappling with a wave of crime in a popular bar district near the UW-Madison campus.
First-year students on campus are more likely to be low-risk, rather than high-risk, drinkers, according to a new report from University Health Services.
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison will be continuing its groundbreaking research for years to come, thanks in part to a multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has so successfully ramped up its summer term that it exceeded its goal for increasing revenue three years ahead of schedule.
Quoted: With Wisconsin being one of the most politically divided states, Dave Schroeder, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer and cybersecurity expert at UW-Madison, said it’s no surprise Russian actors are targeting it.
Employees working in two areas of UW-Madison halls are being relocated after elevated levels of lead contamination were found, following a lead paint removal project.
