I feel that Sam Cleggâ??s opinion column (â??Donâ??t bother with diversity positions,â? Dec. 5) necessitated a response representing the student body that does care deeply about diversity and racial equality at the University of Wisconsin and in America. First, Mr. Cleggâ??s claim that the Office of Diversity and Climate be â??put to rest once and for allâ? is ignorant of the barriers preventing racial equality from occurring.
University of Wisconsin researchers have successfully used human embryonic stem cells to diagnose diseases and predict the effects of certain drugs in the human body.
Sugar may now be OK to put in your gas tank.
In a Gilson Discovery evening seminar Thursday, president and CEO of Virent Energy Systems Eric Apfelbach presented current developments in converting biomass, including sugarcane, into hydrocarbon fuels, providing renewable energy as a replacement for oil products.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will continue to explore what can be done to maintain affordable textbook prices, as decided at their monthly meeting Thursday.
State Rep. Joan Ballweg, R-Markesan, considers herself to be a true â??traditionalistâ? when it comes to issues of marriage and family.
Las Cruces, N.M., police have determined a body found in a canal near Calle de Alegra last week is a University of Wisconsin student.
Student organizations cannot use segregated fees to pay for off-campus rent or salaries of non-University of Wisconsin employees, according to a final decision announced at Thursdayâ??s UW Board of Regents meeting.
ESPN SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt will deliver the charge to the University of Wisconsinâ??s graduates in the winter 2007 commencement ceremonies.
Last month, after UW-Madison and Kyoto University researchers announced a new technique that turns skin cells into cells that look and function like embryonic stem cells, the world seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. At last, the end to the nearly decade-long stem cell war was in sight. Or, so it seemed.
Ashley Halstead, a sophomore at UW-Madison, was up early two weeks ago chalking. Members of Colleges Against Cancer drew chalk lines 25 feet from several major campus buildings for National Lung Cancer Awareness Month in November. This is the distance one must be from a university building to be smoking a cigarette. Halstead dusted the pink chalk off on her jeans, avoiding her new t-shirt, which proudly declared â??I Put Outâ??Cigarettes.â? After a long day of chalking and classes, Halstead went to study at College Library. She sat at a desk in the café, stretched and rolled up her sleeves.
Those who managed to spend their time on the UW-Madison campus without hearing Madisonâ??s premiere male a cappella group, either by attending one of their other concerts performed during the year, or by being â??MadHatteredâ? on the street, can get more than their vocal-injected fill this weekend.
Police in Las Cruces, N. M., who discovered a charred body on Nov. 21, identified the man as UW-Madison student Michael J. Mowers on Thursday after Wisconsin detectives matched the fingerprints through a national database.
UW System administrators announced Thursday the adoption of a new segregated university fee policy, which aims to continue the shared responsibility between students and campus administrators in the allocation of segregated fees and protect their use in the best interest of students.
Scott Van Pelt, an ESPN SportsCenter anchor who called Madison â??Americaâ??s best college sports town,â? will be speaking to UW-Madisonâ??s December graduates on Dec. 16 at the Kohl Center.
This past Tuesday, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Conservative Union hosted a speaker by the name of Walid Shoebat. Mr. Shoebat is a self-described former PLO terrorist and was speaking out against jihad. It goes without saying that this contentious topic was not well-received by many at UWM.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation selected a new foundation director of investments, the foundation announced Wednesday.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly is scheduled to issue his report today on the hotly contested segregated fee policies at the monthly Board of Regents meeting.
Enrollment throughout the University of Wisconsin System is at an all-time high, up 2.1 percent from fall 2006.
After six months of search and interviews, the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics announced its new leader Wednesday.
When a noose appeared on the office door of a black professor at Columbia Universityâ??s Teachers College this October, students and professors were outraged at the blatant act of racism.
UW-Madison filed an unprecedented federal trademark infringement lawsuit Friday against Washburn University in Topeka, Kan. for its use of a â??Wâ? logo similar to UW-Madisonâ??s â??Motion W
For the past six years we, as residents of Madison, have been living under a veil. A community so focused on activism in every extreme seems to have let one issue slip to the wayside. The issue at hand is the University of Wisconsinâ??s coal plant located on Charter Street.
In light of the recent fires that affected two separate residences and impacted more than 35 UW students near our campus, Iâ??d like to publicly recognize the efforts of the following:
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will hold its monthly meetings in Madison this Thursday and Friday, and among the topics of discussion will be the high cost of textbooks.
Two state legislators introduced a bill Tuesday that would give University of Wisconsin faculty and staff the opportunity to unionize and collectively bargain, a right they currently do not have.
After the Madison Police Department declared a recent incident at the La Ciel apartments a suicide attempt, University Health Services is reminding students of the help available to them during this stressful time of year.
he Madison City Council unanimously approved a license for the new campus-area restaurant Field Pass Tuesday night.
The father-son ownership team of Field Pass, opening Aug. 1, 2008, invested millions of dollars to try to ensure its success and according to co-owner Matt Brink, the two-story restaurant â??is going to be very different.â?
A national watchdog group that opposes animal research accused the Wisconsin Primate Research Center of â??wasting tens of millions in federal tax grantsâ? Tuesday.
A group of University of Wisconsin campus-area legislators sent a letter to UW System President Kevin Reilly Tuesday, expressing their concern regarding proposed segregated fee policy changes.
After six years of negotiations, the University of Wisconsin is pursuing legal action against Washburn University for infringement of UWâ??s trademark â??Motion Wâ? logo.
Ever since last weekâ??s monumental breakthrough by UW-Madisonâ??s own researcher Dr. James Thomson, which turned human skin cells into stem cells without using a human embryo, people have misunderstood its significance.
Textbooks can rack up a hefty bill, but a Board of Regents request to assess textbook prices has spurred the creation a UW-Madison task force to help students plan expenses.
The Madison Plan Commission decided Monday to refer the plans of a proposed apartment building on the corner of West Johnson and North Mills streets due to uncertainty surrounding the relocation of two houses the highrise would replace.
Chancellor John Wiley addressed members of the Faculty Senate Monday about the contract with the Big Ten Network, implications of the 2007-â??09 biennial budget and the need to help UW-Milwaukee become a great research university.
Beginning spring semester, the University of Wisconsin will launch an initiative to promote environmental sustainability on campus, UW administrators announced Monday.
With textbook prices rising, some University of Wisconsin students are looking at more affordable options.
When people think of Britain in the 1800s, they often think of the technological and scientific advancements of the emerging empire. What they do not think of immediately are the improvements in art techniques that dramatically changed British society and its depiction on canvas.
A UW-Madison student survived a fall late Saturday night from an eighth-story balcony at the La Ciel apartment complex, according to police.
A 19-year-old female UW-Madison student reported being sexually assaulted in Ogg Hall early Friday morning, according to University of Wisconsin police.
After widespread outrage from users, including a 50,000-member MoveOn.org petition, Facebook announced changes Friday to a new advertising program that many said violated usersâ?? privacy rights.
How could it have come to this? How broken and inept must our governmental and corporate institutions be that, within the span of only a month, both Packers and Badgers fans were unable to get access to two of the most important games of the season?
Our university spent $41 million on campus energy in the 2006 fiscal year: 46 percent for electricity, 47 percent for power plant coal/gas/oil and 7 percent for water and sewage. Gov. Doyle has required all state facilities and campuses to reduce energy use by 20 percent in just four years, from 2006 to 2010. UW-Madison needs your help to accomplish this goal.
A University of Wisconsin professor will break his silence this week on the controversy surrounding student reaction to allegedly racist remarks he made in a lecture last semester.
Beauties and geeks showed up at the University Bookstore Saturday hoping to earn a spot in season five of Beauty and the Geek, CWâ??s reality television show.
University of Wisconsin System students are becoming less prone to binge drinking, although the numbers are still above national binge drinking rates among college students, according to a survey released last week.
A University of Wisconsin student was rushed to a local hospital Saturday night after falling from the eighth story of an apartment building.
University of Wisconsin Police officials said they are still investigating an alleged sexual assault at a dorm on campus involving a UW student.
More than six inches of heavy wet snow plastered parts of the Midwest Saturday causing several car accidents, delays at airports and a fatal car accident on Interstate 90/94 near DeForest.
Among the numerous artistically enriching opportunities available throughout Madison, the Chazen Museum of Artâ??s impressive exhibition of 120 works from its renowned Van Vleck collection of Japanese woodblock prints is both aesthetic and educational.
As part of World AIDS Day, UW-Madisonâ??s Sex Out Loud organization will host a display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt from Friday until Dec. 14 at the Red Gym.
This weekend, people of all ages will be amazed and astounded by the wonders of science at University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiriâ??s annual â??Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri.â?
Although the number of law school applicants has declined across the country, a study conducted this summer revealed admissions have nonetheless become more competitive.
For the sixth straight year the University of Wisconsin athletic department will have a large payday as it heads to its 13th bowl game in the last 15 years this year in Tampa, Fla., for the Outback Bowl.
Over 500 Facebook groups are devoted to sleep, yet, for being such a popular topic, many experts say most college students are not giving it the respect it deserves, especially with the end of the semester looming.
The state Legislatureâ??s Joint Committee on Employment Relations voted Tuesday to give UW System faculty and academic staff a raise of 5 percent over the next two years, though some call the increases disappointing.
A state legislative panel approved pay raises Wednesday for all nonunion state employees, totaling up to a 5 percent spread over the next 18 months.
Walking across campus near Lake Mendota on a sunny Sunday afternoon, itâ??s hard to ignore the thunderous cacophony reverberating from the tower standing in front of the Social Sciences building on Observatory Drive.
The contract between the Big Ten Network and UW-Madison has come under scrutiny recently, with two legislators demanding additional answers from Chancellor John Wiley in a letter released Tuesday.
Madison fire officials determined discarded smoking materials were the root cause of the Nov. 18 fire at 123 N. Bedford St. that killed a 23-year-old UW-LaCrosse student and displaced five UW-Madison students.
The University of Wisconsinâ??s role in the future of the state economy was discussed at a statewide listening session Tuesday afternoon.
