In an office cluttered with monkey memorabilia —stuffed animals, posters and photos, books galore —Dr. Karen Strier smiled as she spoke about the species she holds close to her heart: the muriqui monkeys.
Lamar “Soup” Campbell, a former University of Wisconsin defensive back, was hired as an assistant athletic director for student-athlete engagement, the athletic department announced Friday.
Paul returned to Madison in 1999 as the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, retiring from that position with Emeritus Status in 2013.
On Friday, a third woman reported that she, too, had been sexually assaulted by Alec R. Cook, 20, in 2015, police said.
At a recent Black and Brown Vote event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, many of the attendees were active in student politics and protest movements. L. Malik Anderson, a 21-year-old journalism and communications arts major, helped organize the Oct. 12 panel discussion to encourage people his age to register and vote.
The University of Wisconsin fell one spot to No. 11 in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls this week after the Badgers’ 17-9 win at Iowa on Saturday.
On Sunday evening, students did not receive a WiscAlert. This is disturbing, because when a violent sexual assault occurs in the heart of campus, I think it’s well within our right to know.
Barb worked for a number of years at the University of Wisconsin Union kitchens in Madison.
University of Wisconsin System regents are poised to vote on a plan to raise in-state undergraduate tuition for the 2018-19 school year if Republicans lift their tuition freeze.
The campus drinking culture continues to isolate non-drinking students of color, according to a recent University Health Services survey that assessed those students’ experiences with alcohol during college.
Some University of Wisconsin-Madison students believe the recent top ranking as a “party school” is an attack on the character of the university and said as much in a resolution approved Wednesday by Associated Students of Madison.
A new UW System Business Council is one of the outcomes from a Board of Regents meeting in Eau Claire.
University of Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst said he’s in favor of two major changes recommended by the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
Wunk Sheek, UW-Madison’s “only organization that can speak for the indigenous voices on campus,” received eligibility for funding from the Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee Thursday to finance enduring cultural traditions and the development of new programming.
The symposium, titled “Relations between Community and Police,” was sponsored by the Wisconsin University Union, an independent organization composed of staff and faculty at UW-Madison.
Pending approval of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents this Thursday, the College of Letters and Science and Career Initiative and Career Services may take residence above the University Bookstore.
UW has joined colleges and universities around the country in an initiative to prepare students for the upcoming presidential election.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison shouldn’t enter a contract that helps Amazon compete with local businesses through an order pick-up point at the Red Gym or anywhere else on campus, local small business owners say.
The University of Wisconsin’s Committee on Student Organizations has terminated Sigma Phi Epsilon after receiving evidence the fraternity had violated its suspension.
Noted: Damon Smith, an assistant professor of field crops pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, comments.
Associated Students of Madison listened to a presentation on the impact the University of Wisconsin’s drinking culture on students of color Wednesday.
The system released reports ahead of this week’s regents meeting that show total balances stood at $888.3 million on June 30, the end of the 2015-2016 state fiscal year.
In the sea of University of Wisconsin students who returned to campus this fall, UW also welcomed hundreds of exchange students from around the world to begin their study abroad experiences in Madison.
There was no specific incident or threat that triggered the University of Wisconsin athletic department to spend about $200,000 to equip the Kohl Center with walk-through metal detectors, an official said.
UW-Madison has terminated its Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter over what campus officials described Tuesday as a pattern of safety and alcohol policy violations by members.
Each preseason, the University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s basketball team scrimmages one of the eight teams in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference on a rotational basis.
After a raucous so-called “hick” party that violated terms of a previous suspension, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter at UW-Madison has been terminated, campus officials announced Tuesday.
In-state students at University of Wisconsin System institutions would see no tuition increase next year and a small increase tied to the cost of living for the 2018-19 school year under a proposal UW officials released this week.
College students will do pretty much anything for free food. Rock The Vote and Doritos took advantage of that today on UW-Madison’s campus.
On Sunday morning, Police responded to a loud argument outside the State Street campus parking ramp on Lake Street, where someone pulled a knife. Minutes later, a security guard found a woman crying and couched between two parked cars.
While Wisconsin’s new voter ID requirement continues to cause controversy, the Dane County Clerk’s office will study the November election to see how much of an impact the law really has on voters.
With the elections a hot topic of discussion, UW-Madison professors will be taking the talk on the road in October in a series of town hall gatherings.
The University of Wisconsin will start using metal detectors for all events held at the Kohl Center this season and hope to expand their use into additional athletic events on campus in the future, the university announced on Monday.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team gained four first-place votes and maintained its hold on the No. 1 spot in the USCHO.com Division I poll.
What the new University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coaches realized while studying game video one night this summer, however, was the last piece in truly putting together their links as a staff.
One of the best pieces of advice Greg Gard has received from others who have lost loved ones is to try to turn milestone dates into something positive.
The number of out-of-state and international students in UW-Madison’s freshman class did not skyrocket in the first year after the university lifted its cap on the percentage of new students who can come from outside Wisconsin and Minnesota.
A new report says 61 Wisconsin high schools each had 100 or more of their June graduates enroll as UW System freshmen this fall, and what percentage of graduates from each of those high schools needed remedial math instruction.
When the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team opens the regular season on Friday, it’ll be in a familiar neutral-site venue.
The UW-Madison Department of Athletics will begin using metal detectors at all Kohl Center events.
UW-Madison prides itself for being one of the premier state schools in the nation. Data released by the university Friday, however, highlights just how much support the school needs from students outside of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin’s Student Services Finance Committee Monday heard a presentation from Native American student organization Wunk Sheek that encouraged broader engagement and cultural awareness with new events this year.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team is ranked No. 1 in the first NCAA RPI rankings and moved up one spot to No. 2 in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.
UW System students will have the chance to attend one of the world’s most innovative campuses, as the system ranked 13th in Reuters’ 2016 list of top 100 innovative universities.
UW-Madison students could be grabbing their Amazon packages from Sellery Residence Hall, Memorial Library or the University Bookstore, among other new options, for the corporation’s on-campus pickup point, student leader Omer Arain said Sunday.
UW System President Cross op-ed: When we are young, we dream about our future and what we will become. We are excited to spread our wings and see what adventures lie ahead.
She resided in Madison until retiring from the University of Wisconsin, Department of Education Placement.
The first three years of a neutral-site Big Ten Conference men’s hockey tournament generated unflattering images of empty seating sections in big, NHL arenas.
She worked at UW Purchasing Department for 18 years.
Mike Eaves had some terrific moments as coach of the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team, including winning an NCAA championship in 2006.
Nearly one-third of new students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall are coming from outside Wisconsin and paying higher tuition, according to data released Friday by the university.
Column: Wisconsin’s future lies in a competitive, qualified workforce that is highly educated in the trades, sciences, arts, education and quality government service. All that is made possible by the technical and college system in Wisconsin.
UW-Madison Police Department held its first Active Shooter Response training session Wednesday that taught students, faculty and staff what to do if a mass shooting were to occur on campus.
Letter to the editor: Recently my 35-year-old niece received a call for a heart from the transplant team at UW Hospital in Madison. She was admitted two-and-half hours after the call and in surgery before 8 p.m. Her surgery was a success, and within 24 hours she was sitting in a chair in her hospital room.
The University of Wisconsin dropped three spots to No. 11 in the Associated Press poll following its 14-7 loss at Michigan on Saturday.
Baby boomers who embraced the humanities in college are flocking to a growing number of programs that feed their desire to keep learning without the pressure of tests or grades.
Within the past year, protesters at UW-Madison have struggled to achieve change. Actually providing the change they strive for on campus can prove to be a similarly frustrating pursuit for administrators.
In their continued efforts to foster transparency with the community, the University of Wisconsin Police Department has published a list of all the current equipment the department owns and intends to acquire.
CDI is partners in the venture with David Gamm, director of the UW-Madison’s McPherson Eye Research Institute.
Campus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison don’t own .50-caliber firearms, bayonets or tracked armored vehicles. They don’t have grenade launchers, but equipment they use to disperse crowd control chemicals could be used to launch grenades (if they had them).
