As students make their way to the gym to fulfill New Year’s resolutions, the Southeast Recreational Facility will be fulfilling its own through a series of renovations.
Assembly Republicans are calling for at least $300 million in tax cuts in the upcoming biennial budget to offset up to the same amount in new transportation revenue, including a possible gas tax increase.
UW-Madison Athletics sent a letter to the lead worker on its grounds crew Tuesday, informing him he has been fired after his May arrest and loss of his driver’s license earlier this month.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison athletics employee has been fired after pleading guilty earlier this month to a felony battery charge.
Host countries often offer Syrian refugees an elementary education, but refugees that seek higher education in their new states frequently face logistical and financial barriers. One UW-Madison student has started a movement to urge the university to aid her Syrian counterparts.
Republicans like to claim “freedom” as a banner ideology of their party, but the GOP in Wisconsin has shown an aversion to freedom lately. In particular, state Sen. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of freedom, namely academic freedom.
Recently revealed allegations of the misuse of public funds by the former chancellor and vice chancellor at UW-Oshkosh should have taxpayers and legislators outraged – and demanding a long-overdue independent audit of the entire UW System.
“We’re happy to have anyone that’s interested,” Anthony Di Sanza, UW-Madison professor of percussion, said. “We’re offering opportunities for students and people who have never tried anything like this before.”Di Sanza is hosting the daylong event with the UW-Madison Percussion Program Saturday at the Mead Witter School of Music at UW-Madison.
A group is organizing a march and rally near the Wisconsin State Capitol to voice their concerns about Friday’s presidential inauguration. If you are downtown, depending on when you take your lunch or evening commute, the rally could affect you.
Students and the public got their first look at the final design drawings for the new southeast recreational facility at UW-Madison Thursday night.
Retirees in Wisconsin who worked for a state or local government agency in most parts of the state can expect a small boost in their pension checks this spring.
A group of University of Wisconsin medical students met in downtown Janesville Wednesday morning to hand over a petition to Paul Ryan’s constituent service center asking Ryan not to defund Planned Parenthood.
In an attempt to continue ongoing efforts to raise awareness of sexual assault, a student-activist group ran a second pilot Snapchat filter during the Michigan vs. Wisconsin men’s basketball game at the Kohl Center Tuesday night.
Students walking down Langdon Street Oct. 6 could not have heard a single catcall but instead a chorus promoting sexual assault. Sigma Chi fraternity house, located at 221 Langdon St., is reportedly the source of the explicit chant, according to documents obtained by The Daily Cardinal.
“The Problem with Whiteness” is not that every single white person is racist. “The Problem with Whiteness” is that in 2017, there are still people who are afraid their white privilege will be taken away by a professor teaching a class on what it means to be white.
After hours of lengthy discussion, the Associated Students of Madison passed its internal budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year in their first meeting of the semester.
Some reach for the stars. Others, like University of Wisconsin professor James Lawler, devise ways to measure their chemical elements.
Campus concealed carry legislation hasn’t been formally introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature, but University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students and leaders are letting their opposition be known.
She dedicated many years working for the University of Wisconsin at Lowell Hall.
Lawmakers should put money toward increasing financial aid for students at University of Wisconsin System campuses instead of cutting tuition as Gov. Scott Walker has proposed, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin System is suing the former chancellor and chief business officer at UW-Oshkosh, alleging the two men improperly used the university’s funding and credit to finance real estate projects for its private foundation.
Wisconsin’s biennial budget picture got $714 million brighter Wednesday, with a projected deficit turning into a small surplus, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
UW-Madison physics professor James Lawler has been awarded the 2017 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize by the American Astronomical Society for his significant contributions to the science.
A study being conducted by the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is looking into whether video games on a smart phone can help smokers quit.
Where once was the cafeteria-style Lakefront on Langdon is now Strada, a fast casual Italian place serving pizza and flatbread wraps called piadina. Nearby, Carte serves grab-and-go sandwiches and salads made Chipotle-style to diner specifications.
Governor Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) wants to cut tuition for all UW System students, but not all Republicans are on board with that idea.
Since UW-Madison is currently the only Big Ten institution that does not offer a form of legal help to its students, the Student Services Finance Committee added $50,000 to the budget at the end of last semester intended to fund Student Legal Services.
Quoted: Federal regulations already define milk as “the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows,” and UW-Madison Center for Dairy Research director John Lucey notes that there are “‘Standards of Identity’ for yogurts and most cheeses, where they state that those products must be made from milk.”
Wisconsin lawmakers from both parties are waiting for more details before they stake a position on Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut undergraduate tuition for in-state students at University of Wisconsin System schools.
University of Wisconsin women’s hockey players Emily Clark and Ann-Renee Desbiens earned conference recognition Tuesday for their performances in victories over St. Cloud State last weekend.
The first floor of the Memorial Union reopened officially Tuesday with a freshened Der Rathskeller (no significant changes) as well as two new restaurants, Carte and Strada.
If you want to hear more about the proposed rebuild of the recreation building on the southeast side of the UW-Madison campus, slide on down to an open house Thursday night.
JangoBio, a University of Wisconsin-connected biotech that announced its launch at the end of 2016, is refining a stem cell-based solution for restoring the flow of hormones in aging patients.
Monkeys that eat less than normal live longer and are healthier than other monkeys, meaning the same is likely true for humans, according to a new study by scientists at UW-Madison and the National Institute on Aging.
A UW-Madison committee suspended a fraternity chapter Tuesday amid allegations members provided alcohol to minors and sang a song glorifying multiple sexual assaults.
For many at UW-Madison, construction is a way of life. Disgruntled students ceded Memorial Union to renovations last year and buildings, such as the Hector DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Complex, dot the campus landscape when they did not exist five years prior.
Monkeys that eat less than normal live longer and are healthier than other monkeys, meaning the same is likely true for humans, according to a new study by scientists at UW-Madison and the National Institute on Aging.
The Wisconsin women’s hockey team delivered for fans at Fill the Bowl on Saturday, defeating St. Cloud State, 2-0, in front of a record-setting crowd of 15,359 at the Kohl Center.
As people in Madison gathered at the Overture Center Monday night to pay tribute to the civil rights work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., community leaders know there’s still a lot of work to be done to overcome these disparities.
After delivering stories and exhortations in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to a room filled with diversity, student activists laid out the challenges of change-making as people of color on campus, deeming the university’s approach laissez-faire and in need of change.
Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, returning to our roots doesn’t mean we’ll be printing five days a week again. And it definitely doesn’t mean we won’t be perusing new ventures in the form of partnerships or technology.
As more Wisconsin health care professionals retire, University of Wisconsin looks to create programs that will drive up health care enrollment and alleviate shortages around the state.
A Minnesota man with a string of domestic violence convictions was charged in the death of a Saudi Arabian college student stemming from a confrontation in northwestern Wisconsin last year, prosecutors said Friday.
Gripe if you must, UW System officials, for you have at least a few legitimate things to gripe about, including $600 million in cuts to state aid since 2011 and overly sensitive white Republican lawmakers who have a problem with courses like “The Problem of Whiteness” and take out their frustration by threatening to cut university funding yet again.
After Cheryl Stedman got on the waiting list for a kidney transplant at UW Hospital in 2015, she figured she’d have to wait a year or two to get one. But nine months later, in May 2016, she received a kidney.
This week, President-elect Donald Trump held his first press conference in six months. Many of the questions addressed the unsubstantiated claims recently released by Buzzfeed concerning Trump’s connections to Russia, and included accusations of “fake news.”
Letter to the editor: I have been a practicing psychiatrist in this community for over 30 years, and this proposal by our legislators to allow guns in UW campus buildings has caused me great concern.
If Rashard Griffith were willing to lace up his sneakers and hit the floor to give the post players for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team a veteran big man to go against in practice, his giant frame and long arms certainly wouldn’t be turned away.
A report released Thursday highlights Wisconsin’s severe racial disparities spanning measures of poverty, unemployment, educational attainment and incarceration.
After several years in Vail, he returned to Madison and began his 23 years of Wisconsin state service, the majority at UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies where he worked until his retirement in 2014.
In 1968 Carol moved the family to Madison, Wis., where he had taken a job as a Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Wisconsin. He retired from this job in 1994.
Letter to the editor: The Student Multicultural Center, which includes the Men’s Project, appears to offer a safe place for students to exchange ideas and concerns in a safe environment.
Letter to the editor: I read with interest the article about Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition for University of Wisconsin System students. While I know students appreciate any cost-saving opportunities, one has to remember that tuition is just one small part of the overall cost of a college education.
Later this month, the brainchild of a team of UW-Madison students will be loaded into a trailer and driven across country to a site south of Los Angeles, home to the headquarters of tech titan Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX.
UW-Madison awarded more Ph.D.s than all but two other universities nationwide in 2015, according to a survey officials announced last week.
Wisconsin ranks among the worst states in the country for racial disparity in key economic and societal measures including unemployment, poverty, education and imprisonment, according to a report from a national think tank based at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison awarded 836 Ph.D.’s in 2015, earning the number three spot in the nation, according to the Survey of Earned Doctorates. The university fell behind only the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the University of Texas-Austin.
After a semester where the number of hate and bias incidents reported to the Bias Response Team more than tripled, UW-Madison is beginning to improve and develop tactics to respond to such occurrences by connecting with other colleges throughout the Midwest.
Traditionally, members of the Madison community recognize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day through service. This year, several UW-Madison organizations created an event focused on bringing everyone, especially the campus community, together.
Gov. Scott Walker plans to cut in-state undergraduate tuition, which many view as a move that could help ease the burden of college costs and propel Wisconsin students to a dream of receiving a higher education.
