Category: Campus life

Gheorghe Craciun, Autumn Kent and Andreas Seeger join 45 other scientists this year in receiving Simons Fellowships, founded 25 years ago by Jim and Marilyn Simons to support basic scientific research.

Ten faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators.

Noted: A spokeswoman from Wisconsin said the priority deadline allows the school to determine financial-aid offers earlier, allowing students more time to make their enrollment decisions. She added that the school has seen an increase in low-income students submitting aid applications by that deadline in recent years.

Associated Students of Madison passed one round of voting on a bylaw change that would create a new position to coordinate on-campus efforts encouraging students to vote.

After a 2018 survey demonstrated alcohol amplifies racial tensions for students of color, Associated Students of Madison’s Student Council met with the study’s authors to learn more about their findings Wednesday night.

A 13-year-old icon near Camp Randall Stadium might be on its way out as part of planned renovations to UW Madison’s Field House.

Lack of access to academic support, inhospitable campus climate hinder academic success of students of color.

MADISON, Wis. – Students and community members at UW-Madison gathered on Friday to celebrate International Women’s Day and petition a law change in Madison.

For female international LGBTQ students, besides the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, finding an inclusive student organization or activist group on campus can be a challenge.

UW, with 844 doctorates, came in first, University of California-Berkeley University of Texas, Austin, were runner-ups.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education will honor the remarkable career and groundbreaking work of Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings on Thursday, March 21, at Gordon Dining and Event Center on the UW campus.

New representatives will be sworn into office April 24.

In a 1 percent uptick from last year’s spring voter turnout, the Associated Students of Madison elected new representatives for the 26th session Wednesday.

While University Health Services advised “walking like a penguin” to avoid falling in an Instagram post Feb. 7, the tip seems to have evaded students as complaints about slippery sidewalks continue to escalate on social media. Students believe the solution is simple: UW needs to apply more salt on campus walkways.

Without evaluation, current pro-diversity programs will remain unproductive.

On Tuesday, Kelly will be honored by UW-Madison’s Department for Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences with an alumni award for “outstanding achievement.”

Letter to the editor: On behalf of the Political Science Student Association, we would like to address concerns raised regarding media at the Beto O’Rourke UW-Madison campus event held on Feb. 15.

A young cat gets a second chance, thanks to a group of UW-Madison engineering students.

Members of Young Americans Federation, College Republicans and other conservative UW-Madison students traveled to Maryland’s National Harbor this weekend to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference hosted by the American Conservative Union.

Although the fee has not been finalized, segregated fees will increase because of an 153 percent increase in the Recreational Sports budget. Most of the increased funds will go towards the construction of the Nicholas Recreation Center and Natatorium.

Six inches of ice, six inches of snow and winds of at least 10 mph. For David Fish, this means it’s time to hoist the sails — or, in this case, the kites.

“Snowkiting is how we get rid of our cabin fever,” says Fish, kiting fleet captain at Wisconsin Hoofers, a UW-Madison outdoor club. While most people might elect to stay inside on a windy, blizzardy day, Fish locks his boots into downhill skis, hooks himself into a size 10 wind kite and speeds around Lake Mendota.

MAP will be hosting its first event March 6, focusing on student debt, financing higher education.

This year marks the 150th of women graduating from UW-Madison and the 11th of recognizing women of color with the Outstanding Women of Color Awards. Over the years, more than 50 women have been honored.

In the first one of the semester, a panel of five mixed-raced students lead the conversation on inclusivity and accessibility on campus.

Kooyenga says choice of school is an important aspect in closing achievement gap.

“We wanted to get people to pay attention to us,” said Hines. “This was all about young people trying to get an education.”

A fraternity at the University of Wisconsin has been suspended after younger members were allegedly pressured to run errands, wear “Dora the Explorer” backpacks and carry fruit around campus.

Dozens of members of the Theta Chi Fraternity shaved their heads on Saturday to see if they could raise more money than other college groups.

The chapter violated the Student Organization Code of Conduct as new members were coerced to wear “Dora the Explorer” backpacks, carry fruit around campus and run errands for the older members.

2018 National Teacher of the Year and returned Peace Corps volunteer Mandy Manning will headline UW-Madison’s upcoming Peace Corps week.

University Communications senior photographer Jeff Miller took winter wonderland photos above campus from the open window of a smal chartered airlane during the “blue hour” of dusk on Feb. 13.

Award-winning professor Christy Clark-Pujara, Ph.D., presented on the history of voting rights for Black men at the Capitol yesterday as part of a series of events hosted by the Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus.

“My project showed me a lot … it was sobering to know that these things aren’t new and not too much as changed,” Millet said. “It’s sometimes frustrating to live inside this campus that claims to be so progressive, but race issues have been historically here since the beginning.”

Butler earned his law degree from UW in 1977, would later be subject to bitter partisan attack ads in bids for Supreme Court.

University Housing Director Jeff Novak said the meal plan, which requires first-year students living in residence halls to make a $1,400 minimum deposit onto their Wiscards for on-campus dining, “rebounded” the dining program from where it was “a few years ago.”

Hines, an alumnus of UW’s Law School and a former associate of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, discussed what she learned about racialized policing throughout her career.

Rye encouraged students to demand change, draft agenda to start revolution.

Now Williams is involved with Bird Collision Corps, a partnership between the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Department of Facilities Planning and Management, and the Madison Audubon Society.