Six seniors took their turn in the spotlight before the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s regular-season home finale Sunday.
An 18-year man, who was reportedly grabbing and attacking pedestrians near a UW-Madison dormitory Saturday, charged at officers and ran away before he was eventually Tased and arrested, UW police said.
The Badger women’s hockey won their game this afternoon, and the win was especially exciting for one fan in the arena. 14-year-old Megan Pharo says she feels like she’s part of the team after the players surprised her with a meet and greet last month.
There’s no shortage of alcohol-soaked traditions at college campuses across the country, even within the UW System—whether that’s Oktoberfest at UW-La Crosse, UW-Whitewater’s Spring Splash or the biannual pub crawl in Oshkosh. And for every event, there are dozens of guidelines, strategies and campaigns in place to educate students about the risks they take when engaging in heavy drinking. But those at UW-Madison who seek to promote healthy habits face hurdles other UW System schools do not.
Carter Kofman was 20 years old when he had to put his education at UW-Madison on hold to get sober. After going into recovery in 2015, he returned to campus in the spring, aware living alone could be tough in a college environment.
Quoted: “For an individual, this won’t look any different for you,” said Justin Sydnor, associate professor of risk and insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business. “You’ll still have an insurance card, you’ll still go to the doctor and they’ll place a bill and the bill will first go through insurance. So for an individual going to your doctor it really won’t have any change.”
If Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed 2017-19 budget is approved, University of Wisconsin-Madison students would be able to opt out of a bus pass program that contributes about $3.7 million to Metro Transit’s budget.
Gov. Scott Walker has been quite successful at fooling 51 percent of the voters every four years. The re-election budget he offered this week shows he’s deep into campaign mode once again, hoping Wisconsinites will buy his attempts to fix things and forget about the fact that he broke them in the first place.
Walker was traveling the state Thursday to defend the state budget he introduced to the state Legislature on Wednesday. Republican legislative leaders have been lukewarm on several provisions, including the call to cut University of Wisconsin tuition by 5 percent starting in 2018.
Spending time in Nairobi, Kenya teaching young adolescents about the importance of reproductive health care may not seem like a typical day for most, but for Susan Gold, it’s just that. Gold, who works at University of Wisconsin as an HIV nurse, recently received the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders for her work in with reproductive health.
One day after Gov. Scott Walker announced a state budget that would potentially affect how the group allocates fees, the Student Service Finance Committee toured the University Health System facility in anticipation of its budget hearing.
At least one thing was clear in the hours after Gov. Scott Walker unveiled his plan for the state’s next budget: His Republican colleagues, who control the state Legislature, aim to dramatically reshape it.
On Wednesday, the city’s Urban Design Commission granted initial approval for the new design of a University of Wisconsin-Madison gym, but asked for updated designs to improve the look of its eastern facade.
Two finalists have been selected to fill the director’s post at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, one currently working at the lab the other heading a federal lab in Arkansas.
The student fees Gov. Scott Walker would make optional pay for passes that give UW-Madison students unlimited rides on Metro Transit buses and a student government that has called for administrators to declare the university a “sanctuary campus” for undocumented immigrants.
Harald S. Naess, an affable, accessible UW-Madison professor who for many years was Wisconsin’s go-to guy for answers to all questions about Norway, died Sunday in Kristiansand, Norway, where he grew up. He was 91.
The Group Insurance Board on Wednesday approved a plan to change the way Wisconsin pays for health insurance for nearly 210,000 state workers, retirees and dependents, many of whom live in Dane County.
If someone set up a poll of every University of Wisconsin student, I wonder what the percentage of students who have been or have almost been hit by a moped would be.
Republican state lawmakers are renewing their push to ban research on aborted fetal tissue in Wisconsin, with one proposal circulated this week branded as ineffective by the staunchest anti-abortion forces.
For the first time, all UW System students may be allowed to opt-out of allocable segregated fees, due to a budget proposal from Gov. Scott Walker. Touted as increased freedom of choice, students from multiple system campuses are concerned about the outcome for student organizations.
The grand opening of the Black Cultural Center—originally planned for February—has been pushed back to an undetermined date in either late April or early May, according to university officials. The space will still be dedicated with a ceremony at the conclusion of Black History Month.
Republicans are largely supportive of Walker’s higher education proposal, but Democrats say it doesn’t do enough to make up for past cuts.
A change in how the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department accounts for money it sends to campus means that a proposed 8.7 percent increase in spending authority for 2017-18 isn’t as large as it appears.
Wisconsin will move to self-insure state workers beginning next year after the controversial plan was adopted Wednesday by the Group Insurance Board, but it still must be approved by the state Legislature’s budget committee.
The night was the second annual “Race and Faith” event hosted by Pres House at 731 State St. The goal of the evening was to plant seeds of hope and reconciliation through storytelling, especially needed in this time of high anxiety and growing suspicion, Liu said.
College students would receive more need-based financial aid and those attending technical schools would have their tuition frozen under provisions announced Wednesday in Gov. Scott Walker’s executive budget.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball coach Bo Ryan has been retired for a little more than a year.
Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would cut University of Wisconsin System tuition by 5 percent in the 2018-19 school year and provide $100 million in new funding for the System, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.
Recently, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank proposed an initiative called the Badger Promise. The objective is to welcome more first-generation students who have completed programs at one of Wisconsin’s two-year campuses by providing free tuition at UW-Madison.
Republican legislative leaders are showing where divisions will be with Gov. Scott Walker and his state budget proposal.
In-state undergraduate students at University of Wisconsin System schools would see a 5 percent tuition cut under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed 2017-19 budget, set to be unveiled in full on Wednesday.
A pair of Democratic lawmakers is reintroducing for the third time a proposal that would allow student loans to be refinanced at lower interest rates, but the bill is unlikely to gain traction in Wisconsin’s Republican-led Legislature.
After years of deep cuts, K-12 public schools and the University of Wisconsin stand to be big winners under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget.
Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal would cut University of Wisconsin System tuition by 5 percent in the 2018-19 school year and provide $100 million in new funding for the System, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.
A $100,000 funding stream the Dane County Rape Crisis Center receives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison could be in jeopardy under a proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2017-19 budget.
Besides partnering with the UW-Madison on autonomous car testing, pursuing smart infrastructure and otherwise researching the issue through the Smart Cities Collaborative, the City of Madison is mostly biding its time on the autonomous cars front.
Along with its call for a tuition cut and increased funding, Gov. Scott Walker’s executive budget for 2017-19 includes a range of new spending and policy changes for the University of Wisconsin System.
As Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget proposal nears its unveiling, the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Associated Students of Madison met to discuss the upcoming biennial budget.
Standing in front of a crowd of 200, Zahiah Hammad introduced the ways President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration impacts her life, her family and her friends.
Though all energy expenditures for UW System institutions are controlled by the Wisconsin Department of Administration, a new campaign seeks to alter this policy and allow schools to be 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.
After strong opposition from both the administration and student body, University of Wisconsin student Daniel Dropik will not be pursuing to start a chapter of the American Freedom Party on campus.
Quoted: “Meteors like that are surprisingly small for as much light as they put out,” said Jim Lattis, the director of UW-Madison’s Space Place, which is part of the Astronomy Department.
A UW-Madison student reported that a man touched and tried to kiss her without her consent in Grainger Hall Monday, according to a UW-Madison Police Department crime alert.
A student who attempted to form a Madison chapter of the American Freedom Party in January has abandoned his plans to bring the “alt-right” organization to campus, according to the Associated Press.
The University of Wisconsin’s spring football game will be played under the lights at Camp Randall Stadium this year.
White, 25, a third-year pro and fourth-round draft pick, caught a Super Bowl-record 14 passes for 110 yards and scored three touchdowns — the final one on a 2-yard toss play in overtime that gave the Patriots their second title in three years.
A UW-Madison student trying to form a pro-white group has abandoned his efforts after intense backlash from other students and university officials.
For now, people from seven countries can still come to the U.S. But before a judge put the ban on hold last week, President Trump’s executive order left many travelers in limbo. One student who was on a UW-Madison school trip at the time was nearly impacted as she wondered if she would ever get back.”It’s just a terrible form of discrimination,” Lily Khadempour said.
After the removal of tenure protection, the Board of Regents began to remove stipulations from UW System policies that weakened the program for faculty. After a change made by Regents to the UW-System policy, an original draft was returned as it was determined that it did not meet new standards. The senate must approve a revised proposal to be approved by the Board in April or UW-Madison will be forced to adopt a policy provided by the Regents.
An open forum held at UW-Madison’s Discovery Center aimed to explore issues of Islamophobia in the community and worldwide.
UW-Madison’s Middle East Studies Program and Center for Humanities held the panel to shed light on this national issue. The event was named “Fighting Islamophobia”, which the six panelists said is a growing fear affecting how Muslim’s are perceived.
Gov. Scott Walker is expected to announce tuition cuts for the UW System.
Shortly before 3:00 a.m. Sunday, Madison Police were called to Gilman Street, near State Street and close to UW’s campus, because people heard a gun fired in the area.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: Walker promised to cut tuition for all in-state undergraduates in the UW System, but he hasn’t said by how much. Walker said he would give more details on Tuesday. He also hasn’t said whether he will fulfill UW’s request for $42.5 million in additional funding. But Walker has said any new money would be contingent upon the university meeting performance measurements not yet specified.
On Friday, the University of Wisconsin System launched a new website that will quickly connect it’s users with resources to address sexual violence and harassment.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has turned a $10 million commercial biotechnology plant laboratory in Middleton into the hub of a new crop research center.
UW-Madison students can reduce the environmental footprint of buildings on campus with the help of $50,000 of funding from the Office of Sustainability’s Green Fund.
A group of UW-Madison law students demonstrated on Bascom Hill Friday afternoon, in support of their fellow students affected by the new federal travel ban.
There was a bit of irony in the latest flap over at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Chancellor Rebecca Blank has asked the Board of Regents to review admission policies that prohibit asking prospective students about or considering their criminal history.
Following early life values and directions, she was always grateful for the privilege of serving the UW-Madison as a program manager, researcher, writer and artist for departments and units dedicated to expanding social, economic and educational opportunities for all.
