Ecologists at University of Wisconsin-Madison led a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Oct 21, demanding Venus flytrap be recorded as an endangered species in accordance with the Endangered Species Act.
Sore arms and talks of a deadly infection flooded the campus last week, a result of students swarming the Southeast Recreational Facility to receive the first of two free meningococcal B vaccines offered by the university’s health services after three UW-Madison students fell ill this past month.
A memorial fund has been established in the name of a University of Wisconsin-Stout student from Saudi Arabia who was attacked and killed.
This latest incident of racism at last Saturday’s UW football game is shocking yet somewhat familiar. Last year I gave my football tickets to a black friend of mine and his 10-year-old brother. As they were walking down the aisle to their seat, some jerk, who was apparently sitting with his son, shouted “Sit down n—–!” Many people in the area heard this and NO ONE DID ANYTHING!
I was horrified to read about the writing off of a football fan in Obama mask and noose at last Saturday’s football game. As an educational institution that taught both of my parents, my father an immigrant, I am ashamed at the lack of thoughtful reflection that led to the decision by UW that this was simply “free speech.”
Intimate partner violence will affect one in five undergraduate relationships at the University of Wisconsin.
Gov. Scott Walker spent his 49th birthday speaking to College Republicans Wednesday about the fundamental differences between Republicans and Democrats in light of the Nov. 8 elections.
Cover story on UW women’s volleyball team.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Wednesday that the university will change stadium policies in the wake of an incident Saturday when the Badgers took on Nebraska at Camp Randall Stadium.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said the school would change its stadium policies following last Saturday’s incident where a fan wore an Obama mask with a noose around its neck.
The National Lawyers Guild and the Black Law Student Association chose the theme of mass incarceration for their “Take Action” panel because it is a permanent issue in the state of Wisconsin and permeates many different types of law, according to a BLSA representative.
The College Football Playoff committee’s public opinion of the University of Wisconsin didn’t surprise anyone Tuesday night when the group released its initial rankings.
University of Wisconsin officials have committed to making stadium policy changes before the next home game in response to outrage over an offensive costume.
Muslim students at UW-Madison say they hope the murder of a UW-Stout Muslim student sparks conversations about acceptance on campus.
In the wake of the Big Ten’s controversial announcement that its member schools will play six primetime games on Fridays during September and October beginning in 2017, the University of Wisconsin announced it is not open to hosting such games at Camp Randall Stadium with the exception of Labor Day weekend.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Wednesday that the university will change stadium policies in the wake of an incident Saturday when the Badgers took on Nebraska at Camp Randall Stadium.
Before he enrolled at UW-Madison, student Devon Hamilton had never heard of the fraternity members at the university who dressed in blackface and held a mock slave auction in the 1980s.
The climate at University of Wisconsin-Madison for many African-Americans, Latinos, and individuals with mixed heritage is often one where they feel unseen, unwelcome and unsafe. Beyond looking at policies at Camp Randall, I challenge the university leadership to confront and reduce hate speech while maintaining free speech.
Madison community leaders are calling for a review of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s stadium policies and for a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racist behavior on the university’s campus.
Court documents show the UW-Madison student charged with the sexual assault of several women is accused of moving into a woman’s campus apartment complex in order to stalk her.
The UW community responded to the death of Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, a UW-Stout international student from Saudi Arabia, Monday by offering condolences and holding a memorial service.
With recent incidents of hate and bias making news locally and nationally, the annual UW-Madison Diversity Forum provided an opportunity for administrators and the campus community to discuss inclusivity on campus.
The Wisconsin Idea is based on the belief that UW-Madison students will take the knowledge they gain on campus and apply them to issues throughout the state. With his best-selling book “Eviction: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” alumnus Matthew Desmond took that idea to full effect.
The UW-Madison student organization Promoting Awareness and Victim Empowerment, or PAVE, presented their budget proposal last Thursday in front of the Student Services Finance Committee.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials will be reviewing Camp Randall policies after a fan wore an offensive costume to Saturday’s Badgers football game.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association honored three alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards this fall. Racine native Doris Feldman Weisberg, former Food Network producer and educator, was among those honored.
University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County faculty and staff gathered around the university’s Sifting and Winnowing plaque Tuesday to recognize colleagues who left the UW System due to what they view as an attack on the Wisconsin Idea.
UW-Madison will review policies at Camp Randall Stadium after photos of a man in costume with a noose around his neck stirred outrage, with officials saying they will seek to ensure “that symbols of this type are not displayed in our stadium again.”
I find it difficult to express the depth of my disappointment with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If this is not hate speech … a costume of a black president in a noose, then what is?!
Social media erupted over the weekend after a pair of football fans showed up at the Wisconsin Badger football game in Halloween costumes depicting Donald Trump hanging Hillary Clinton and President Obama with a red and white rope noose.
UW-Madison’s latest race-related incident at a football game on Saturday where a man could be seen wearing an offensive costume was a topic of discussion at the university’s diversity forum.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Athletic Director Barry Alvarez released a joint statement Tuesday in which they committed to keeping controversial costumes out of Camp Randall.
In 2014, two University of Wisconsin engineering professors revealed technology light years ahead of what was currently available for imaging the brain.
Though the percentage of people in both cases is relatively low, the statistic could highlight underlying clashes between people on whether the voter ID law is actually beneficial to Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin political science professor Barry Burden said.
A student at the University of Wisconsin-Stout has died after he was injured in a weekend assault in Menomonie.
A UW-Madison student was ticketed for allegedly pulling a fire alarm in Witte Hall on the UW-Madison campus, forcing the dormitory to evacuate in the early Friday morning hours.
Noted: The latest Wisconsin visits by Trump and Kaine could signify that the presidential contest in Wisconsin is tightening slightly, or it could be the latest symptom of a race that has defied all traditional rules for presidential campaigns, said UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer.
The University of Wisconsin System should be able to manage construction projects on campuses rather than allowing bureaucracy to muddle up the works.
A costume depicting President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck at Saturday’s Wisconsin football game has ignited a firestorm on social media and on campus, with students, faculty and others denouncing both the people who wore it and what some considered a weak response to the incident from UW-Madison.
“It’s really disheartening and sickening,” said Ashley Duffy as she explained the situation. Duffy is a second year law student at UW-Madison whose studies are focused on federal Indian and environmental laws. “And I think this really hits home,” she added. She’s also part of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe.
The UW Hospital’s Emergency Department has been renovated.
Reaction to the picture shared at Saturday’s Badgers football game on social media of a man wearing a costume of President Barack Obama hanging by a noose is spreading nationwide.
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County CEO Michael Johnson says he’s not pleased with the university’s response to an offensive costume shared on Twitter, showing President Obama in a prison garb with a noose around his neck.
What started as a prank from a satirical political group, the Pail and Shovel Party Student Government, in the fall of 1979 has turned into an annual philanthropy event for UW-Madison.
With thousands of students and faculty working to bring change through various academic projects at UW schools, it can be easy to feel as if one’s work isn’t appreciated. This was not the case for a few students and faculty Friday, however, as the Alliant Energy Foundation and the UW System awarded them for their exceptional achievements.
Students were evacuating Witte as the Madison Fire Department arrived to an alarm activation around 2 a.m. Friday, according to a daily report.
With about 30,000 people partaking in the 11th annual Halloween celebration on State Street Saturday evening, no serious incidents were reported.
The incident comes at a time when students, faculty and staff are questioning the University of Wisconsin’s campus climate, after what Chancellor Rebecca Blank referred to as “ugly incidents” last Spring.
Republican lawmakers are fond of saying public institutions should be run more like businesses. But what successful business would put off needed repairs to the tune of $2 billion?
A University of Wisconsin- Madison junior says she was harassed by Alec Cook for a year after they met in class last fall. Cook was arrested on October 24 on charges of sexual assault.
Officers arrested 25 people and ejected 69 people from Camp Randall Stadium during Saturday night’s football game, according to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department.
While UW-Madison is famous across the country for its annual Halloween celebration starting the weekend before Halloween, what gets most overlooked are the after-effects on the campus. When googling “who picks up trash on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?” the results give links to the City of Madison Streets & Recycling Department. But these hardworking men and women can’t be solely counted upon to clean up after the students.
Indigenous students at UW-Madison are assisting protesters at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota by raising funds and donating items such as lanterns, sleeping bags and firewood.
Lisa Hansen’s daughter, a 19-year-old freshman at UW-Madison, had a sore throat and was achy and tired when she went home to the Milwaukee area the first weekend in October.
Matthew Desmond’s work studying poverty as part of his Ph.D. program at UW-Madison led him to move into some of the poorest neighborhoods in Milwaukee. There, he meticulously researched the book chosen for the 2016-2017 Go Big Read, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.”
Last fall, UW-Madison officials released the results of a survey that found more than 1 in 4 responding women said they experienced unwanted sexual contact during their time at the university.
The First Folio is coming to Madison, one of the last stops in a yearlong tour designed to exhibit a copy of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays in every U.S. state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The precious and historic volume, laid open to the page bearing Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” speech, will be on display from Thursday to Dec.11 at the UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art.
The University of Wisconsin says it asked a fan wearing what appeared to be a President Barack Obama mask and a noose around his neck to remove the offensive parts of the costume during the school’s football game Saturday against Nebraska.
A man attended Saturday’s UW-Madison football game at Camp Randall Stadium in a President Barack Obama mask while wearing a prison jumpsuit and a noose around his neck.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will hold an event on the UW-Madison campus at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday at the Gordon Dining & Events Center, 770 W. Dayton St.
