Backstage at Memorial Union’s Fredric March Play Circle, members of the UW-Madison performance art collective Yoni Ki Baat were waiting to perform their annual showcase of songs, monologues and spoken-word poetry celebrating stories from women and nonbinary people of color.
Backstage at Memorial Union’s Fredric March Play Circle, members of the UW-Madison performance art collective Yoni Ki Baat were waiting to perform their annual showcase of songs, monologues and spoken-word poetry celebrating stories from women and nonbinary people of color.
After standing for more than 150 years on the University of Wisconsin campus, the Science House will be demolished to make way for another building’s expansion.
She did it exactly 100 years after the first African-American woman graduated from the University of Wisconsin way back in 1918.
MADISON – A news story posted on Facebook jolted Erin Miller when she read it in 2014.
A former University of Wisconsin student accused of attacking several women on campus has been sentenced to three years in prison.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student was sentenced Thursday by a Dane County judge to three years in prison followed by eight years of state supervision for a string of sexual assaults near campus that a prosecutor characterized as a “campaign against women.”
A former UW student has been sentenced to 3 years in prison, for campus sexual assaults. A Dane County judge also sentenced 22-year-old Alec Cook to 5 years extended supervision for those crimes, plus 3 additional years of probation for other felonies.
MADISON, Wis. — A judge on Thursday sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student to three years in prison for sexually assaulting three female students and choking or stalking two others.
A 22-year-old man expelled from the University of Wisconsin-Madison nearly two years ago for sexually assaulting and stalking multiple female students was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison — far short of what prosecutors requested.
A 22-year-old man expelled from the University of Wisconsin-Madison nearly two years ago for sexually assaulting and stalking multiple female students will face the possibility Thursday of spending the next 40 years in prison.
MADISON, Wis. – State prosecutors are asking for a lengthy confinement for a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who pleaded guilty to five felonies in connection with multiple sexual assault charges against multiple women, according to court documents.
State prosecutors want the maximum sentence for a sexually violent former University of Wisconsin student. Calling him “a dangerous man,” they’re recommending 19 1/2 years in prison for 22-year-old Alec Cook, who pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual assault, strangulation and stalking.
Noted: Wisconsin School of Business has yet to restart its search for a dean to replace Anne Massey, who resigned in December, after four tumultuous months on the job. It cost the school $188,000 to recruit Ms. Massey from a professorship at Indiana University last year, according to a spokesman.
Wisconsin Public Media will have a new leader later this summer, and it’s someone with longtime ties to public broadcasting.
Noted: Some of the universities to just miss out on the top 50 include the University of Bristol (U.K.), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), University of Wisconsin-Madison (U.S.) and the University of Warwick (U.K.).
Wisconsin Public Media will have a new leader later this summer, and it’s someone with longtime ties to public broadcasting.
Noted: The Terrace at Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison: When I spotted the iconic terrace chairs artist-made in miniature for sale at the Farmers’ Market, I knew they must be special. These sunburst-design chairs emerge every spring to celebrate summer with live music, conversation, food, drink and beautiful lake and campus views. Symbolic of “Wisconsin’s agricultural roots and evoking summer and fall”, these colorful chairs are a welcoming site for new students and returning alums and their guests.
The parents of a former UW-Madison student who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three female students, and choking or stalking two others, said in a letter to a judge Tuesday that they believe his accusers, but begged for a chance at redemption.
MADISON, Wis. — The Twin Cities parents of a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student asked a judge Tuesday to give their son a chance at redemption when he is sentenced for a string of alleged assaults around campus.
Firefighters are called on to do many types of rescues, but rescuing a woman from a tree is not a normal call. That’s what happened Thursday afternoon when a UW-Madison student climbed a tree on Henry Mall on campus, and didn’t know how to get down.
Those were the days, University of Wisconsin alumni from the 1960s recalled as they shared their stories for posterity during the Madison Reunion.
Christenson will study community and nonprofit leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall.
A college student called 911 after climbing a tree near downtown Madison Thursday afternoon. A 20-year-old UW-Madison student climbed a tree when she realized she didn’t know how to get back down on the 400 block of Henry Mall just after 4 p.m., according to the Madison Fire Department.
Three Wauwatosa West Trojans are about to become three Wisconsin Badgers who are taking their next big step in life together.
Noted: Lewis Friedland, professor of journalism and mass communication and the principal investigator on the project, told me in an interview that the effort began years back when he and other journalism faculty started studying links between media changes and political contention, which escalated with the 2011 fight over labor rights for public employees.
In preparation for the fall semester, first-year students are using Facebook to help them facilitate new relationships and learn about the UW-Madison campus.
Delight Hailman thought she had her summer plans figured out: the UW Madison student would work two part-time jobs and an internship. But two weeks before starting, she was told her internship was unpaid, and thus unaffordable. She couldn’t look elsewhere for work, because her university required an internship for her to graduate. Like tens of thousands of college students each year, Delight had no choice but to work unpaid.
Families and community members enjoyed the Art+Lake+Green+Bike event at Alumni Park Saturday.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and elevated allegations of sexual harassment at campuses across the state, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a resolution Thursday to review human resources policies to prevent harassment.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s flagship program to prepare underrepresented students to enroll in and succeed in college will accept undocumented students starting next school year.
Mark Koehn sits down with Stu Levitan and looks back at the events that took place on Bascom Hill, changing a city and a generation.
UW-Madison budget director Tim Norris is putting his calculator away. The head of the budget office will be stepping down after 30 years at the state’s flagship university, leading the budget office since 2004 … Jennifer Klippel, who joined the budget office in 2011, will serve as interim budget director.
Sexual harassment of students, long carried on behind closed doors and in late night phone calls, is now seeping into Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, texting and dating apps like Grindr, where students stay connected or hang out.
Tricia Nolan explained, “We spend most of our time saying, do NOT alter Bucky, and do NOT change him, because he’s such a hallmark. Why would we allow this creative, artistic interpretation?”
The University says two groups of students and teachers are “far removed” from the area where the volcano erupted.
University disregard and tolerance for racism led to short-lived KKK-named organizations on Wisconsin campus
“There were times when I used to struggle and used to cry,” said Aaliyah Whitfield, a senior at Madison La Follette High School who was being honored as the senior class of Mann Scholars at the annual Mann Scholar Celebration June 1.
From June 14-16, the Madison Reunion will give graying University of Wisconsin alums a taste of their youth at a venue that has symbolized the campus experience for generations: Memorial Union.
Two candidates for a top financial post at UW-Madison will be on campus the first week of June, meeting the college community at two open forums.
Emmanuel Urey could not read until he was a teenager. He grew up in a tiny, impoverished and embattled village called Gormue in an isolated part of Liberia. Only when he and his family fled to Guinea to escape the civil war destroying his country did Urey finally have access to a school.
Noted: The terrace is just about the best place to sit and stare at the water and do absolutely nothing else. Sit in one of the iconic chairs with a beer or ice cream cone and get some quality “people watching” in.
1968. In one year, the U.S. experienced the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Open Housing Marches in Milwaukee, escalating protests against the Vietnam War, riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
On Twitter, L. Jameco McKenzie reintroduced himself after graduation with post-nominal letters M.Ed, after attaining a masters of education degree.
Someone may have left a friend behind when they moved out of the University of Wisconsin dorms for the summer.
As the new director of the U.W.’s Gender and Sexuality Campus Center (formerly the LGBT Campus Center), Warren Scherer brings to the job a wealth of experience and a dedication to listening and letting youth lead.
University asks students to check after finding one on Bascom Hill.
The University of Wisconsin Madison is looking for the owners of a bearded dragon left behind during move-out.
Twitter Hashtag Celebrates Graduate-Level Accomplishments While Serving As Reminder Of Overcoming Obstacles
From May until July of this year, the UW Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) will conduct a series of community meetings, forums and other means of engaging everyday people as part of an initiative called the Alliance for the American Dream, funded with a $1.5 million grant from Schmidt Futures. The initiative was announced at a press conference last week.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison named Karen Wassarman, associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
It was a snowy day in Wisconsin.In the middle of May, about 6,800 of University of Wisconsin’s 2016 graduating class, myself included, filed in to the outdoor Camp Randall football stadium to graduate.
Best friends Anthony Wright and Brian Allen want the world to see what they know exists — black students graduating with master’s and doctoral degrees.
A new collaboration between Dane County and UW-Madison is promoting shared prosperity and increasing net income for minority middle class families.
Tragedy often leads to change and UW Lake Safety is no exception. The century-old program — often called “Harvey,” after one of its longtime supervisors, Harvey Black — was created in 1909 after two UW students drowned in Lake Mendota.
Five Bucky on Parade statues are at the statue hospital, largely due to weather damage, according to the art project’s Facebook page.
Schmidt Futures is funding the project the university is calling the “Dream Up” initiative. It will be led by the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW.
Looking for Cambridge artist Kathryn Schnabel’s Bright Idea Bucky, that’s one of 85 life-sized Bucky Badger statutes now in place around Dane County?
MADISON – Karen Wassarman has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs in the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS). In this role, Wassarman will be in charge of guiding and overseeing the college’s student services and academic programs, including undergraduate majors, Farm and Industry Short Course, continuing education and international student activities.
Lori Reesor, the vice provost for student affairs and dean of students, is leaving IU to take a new position at University of Wisconsin–Madison, which begins July 1.
