This time will be different. That’s the hope of politically active students on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in advance of the Nov. 6 midterm election. Wisconsin was one of three states in the country where student turnout was down for the 2016 presidential election.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will participate in the Association of American Universities Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Assault Climate Survey in the spring semester.
Twelve University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professors signed a nationwide petition asking the United States Senate not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court.
MADISON, Wis. – Odds are, you’ll never face an active shooter situation. But events like last month’s shooting in a Middleton office building serve as startling reminders of the importance of being prepared.
From October 11 – 14, the Wisconsin Science Festival will host a variety of panel discussions and breakout sessions, as well as fun and educational activities for science enthusiasts of all ages, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. – 18 University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professors signed a nationwide petition asking the United States Senate not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court.
As The Round Table previously reported, Dr. Christina Klawitter’98, who had served as Beloit College’s Dean of Students since 2011, has accepted a position as Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs for the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gabbie Taschwer, a University of Wisconsin–Madison senior, along with two fellow members of the 2018 Water Ski Show Team became the first female trio ever to perform a triple helicopter spin in competition.
Black Lives Matter sign legislation, ’Ice Cream for All’ postponed for rewrite.
Conservative UW-Madison Student Council representatives said former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin didn’t speak for them when she published an article on her website earlier this month criticizing the Associated Students of Madison for crafting legislation meant to make Babcock Ice Cream more inclusive.
Ranked: UW: “Growing up in the state, I worried that I was too close to home and would be unable to make new friends or find new, exciting opportunities if I went to the University of Wisconsin.
ASM members raised concerns regarding active participation of MSA members.
In 1896, the first women earned undergraduate degrees from UW-Madison. Now, 150 years later, Inside UW is celebrating the anniversary with a series that promotes the accomplishments of women associated with the university.
The UW will be the first to admit that more needs to be done to create a diverse educational community, including changing the attitudes of some students and faculty who make campus life uncomfortable for those who don’t look like them. But it isn’t as if many at the school aren’t trying. While the UW’s leadership is working to solve the perennial diversity problem with ambitious and expensive recruitment programs, there are many smaller efforts that go unnoticed, but might just turn out to be as effective in the long run.
A $4.5 million project to replace the 40-year-old pier system will revamp the marina, improving the sailing experience for the more than 1,000 students, staff and community members who make up the Hoofer Sailing Club, according to Wisconsin Union officials.
Hundreds gathered at the Kohl Center Saturday evening to celebrate the campaign’s end at the Bucky on Parade Finale, and they came to bid on 21 of the statues in a live auction benefiting the non-profits.
There was a wrap-up part for Bucky on Parade after months of seeing them around Dane County. But don’t worry, you’ll see some of them again.
With all of her necessary documentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans arrived at her polling place on Nov. 8, 2016, for the presidential election. But when poll workers examined her mailing address under the guidelines of the Wisconsin voter ID law enacted in 2015, the philosophy major initially was barred from voting due to confusion over her address.
Kavanaugh trial reflective of society’s overall treatment of sexual assault survivors, speaker says.
Bonobos, an online retailer of men’s clothing, will set up a mobile shop Oct. 3 to Oct. 6 at Union South on the campus of UW-Madison.
A new initiative meant to enhance the faculty recruitment process by attracting staff from underrepresented populations was introduced at the Faculty of Color reception Tuesday.
Will a new wave of eligible college voters line up at the polls this voting season? Studies show that may be unlikely.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked among the top 50 universities in the world.
UW-Madison is ranked among the top 50 universities in the world once again, and is in the top 25 of U.S. universities, according to rankings released Wednesday.
Since 1919, Wisconsin Hoofers— one of UW-Madison’s oldest and largest student organizations — has promoted outdoor recreation to not only the campus community but also the city at large.
Noted: Dixon on Wednesday was included in a group of 180 semifinalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy, which is given annually by the National Football Foundation to the nation’s top football scholar-athlete.
Most important decision a woman makes is who they marry, speaker says.
About 28 percent of UW-Madison undergraduates took at least one summer course in 2018, up from about 21 percent in 2014.Officials said Wednesday that nearly 8,300 undergrads enrolled in at least one summer course this year, up from about 6,300 in 2014.
Noted: Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations at UW-Madison, will be presented with the Hispanic Achievement of the Year at La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon.
If you’re wondering why your kid didn’t get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall, a record number of out-of-state freshmen may have something to do with it.
Retired professor says instructors have right to set course structure, while students also entitled to question material.
Journalists across the country — especially student journalists — are struggling. But at UW, it’s students and their untold stories who have the most to lose.
UW-Madison celebrated a 3.8 percent increase in enrollment in the largest class the university has ever seen.
The University of Wisconsin football team will play its second straight night game and third of the season next week against Nebraska.
UW-Madison welcomed 6,862 freshmen, for a class of 2022 that’s 3.8 percent bigger than last year’s class of 6,610.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2018 freshman class is the largest that the school has ever seen, officials said Monday.
For National Voter Registration Day Tuesday, volunteers are set up around UW-Madison to help students register to vote for the November 6 election.
The garage will replace one of the campus’ largest existing surface lots and provide a net 120 spaces to campus, according to planning documents provided to the city. It will offset parking spaces lost from construction of the new Meat Science and Muscle Biology building and the School of Veterinary Medicine addition.
Reuben Sanon, coordinator of the Badger Volunteers program, talked about the 10-year-old program, which works out of the Morgridge Center for Public Service in the Red Gym on Langdon Street, and how he caught the volunteerism bug.
College is a time for personal growth, and for Wisconsin Badgers linebacker Zack Baun, that’s taking place on the field and on campus.
As the sun sets behind Dejope residence hall, Aaron Bird Bear stands before a group of students seated around the building’s sacred fire circle, a gathering place and monument honoring Wisconsin’s Native American tribes. First, he greets them in Ho Chunk, the language of the mound-builders whose history in Madison dates back thousands of years. Getting no response, he tries Ojibwe, the language used for trade in the Great Lakes region; then French, the language of the fur trappers and missionaries who came to Wisconsin in the 1600s; and finally English, the language of the colonists and the Americans who attempted six times to forcibly expel the area’s indigenous people from their ancestral homeland.
Sign came down during cleaning, hasn’t been put back up.
UW-Madison engineering students are continuing to help the women of a Kenyan village with an invention they initially developed last year that allows the women to carry water on their backs .
The fate of the Black Lives Matter sign that hung in the Associated Students of Madison office window until last summer is uncertain as the council debates its suitability on the prominent location.
As students break in the new academic year and legislation gains momentum, concern to remain neutral is always in the back of Student Services Finance Committee representatives’ minds.
An “Ice Cream for All” proposal from the Associated Students of Madison is calling the use of beef gelatin in most Babcock Ice Cream flavors a “gross act of discrimination.” The proposal writes that Babcock ice cream is a part of the Wisconsin experience and “all badgers, regardless of dietary restriction should have the freedom to enjoy the merchandises of university-related food producers.”
The Student Services Finance Committee met Monday, when they decided to fund Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics for the next two fiscal years.
The sweet treat bucks the university’s commitment to inclusivity by relying on an ingredient that effectively discriminates against certain faiths and lifestyles, said Yogev Ben-Yitschak, vice chairman of the Associated Students of Madison.
A vote on a bill that would require Babcock Dairy remove beef gelatin from all its ice cream flavors in an effort to be more inclusive to students with dietary and religious restrictions has been postponed, after having been originally scheduled the same night as Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews.
Susan Brandscheid, 70, was a central figure in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication where she started working in 1973.
The Badger Band Alumni Association said it hit capacity for band alumni to participate.
The university is planning a $133 million revamp of the Department of Chemistry building at University Avenue and Mills Street.
Saturday was Alumni Band Day at Camp Randall. It’s a day when graduates come back, get together and march in the band during the game.
Officials broke ground on a new marina for the Wisconsin Union’s sailing boats Saturday, honoring a family with a long sailing history who contributed to the project.
Noted: In addition to Hodapp’s project, NSF gave $10 million to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, based in Washington, D.C., and the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. They are pursuing a three-pronged attempt to improve the skills of STEM faculty members at dozens of universities in mentoring minority students, grow the ranks of minority STEM faculty, and promote diversity throughout academia. Another $10 million Alliance award, based at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, will help community college students in California and three other states overcome deficits in math as the first step into a STEM major. A fourth $10 million Alliance grant, based at the University of Texas in El Paso, will support expansion of a 12-year-old computing alliance among academic institutions that serve a large number of Hispanic students.
It was all worth it. That is, the recently concluded Bucky On Parade program, aka a giant gauntlet of latter-day Hummel figurines, aka let’s decorate different versions of the same sculpture 85 whole times and place most of them within a few blocks of each other, but also put a real scary one all by its lonesome in Sun Prarie, was worth it because it gave us Visible Bucky.
A Madison developer is taking another stab at getting city approval for a 12-story student apartment building at the corner of North Charter and West Johnson streets.
A group of 85 former Badgers reunited Thursday evening to reminisce on the years they shared in the Faville and Ross dorm houses.
A four-month public art display of 85 colorful, life-sized Bucky Badger statues wrapped up this week in Dane County. Bucky on Parade encouraged families throughout the city, and state, to see all 85 Bucky statues.
The Dane County District Attorney’s Office will not be pursuing criminal charges against Badgers wide receiver Danny Davis.
