Connor Sawyer was the official winner of the Bucky on Parade: Find Bucky contest for kids. His twin sister Imogen, older brother Jordan, and parents Janet and Chris joined him for his prize.
The forum, Beyond the Numbers — Relationships, Retention and Reality, will consist of national speakers, panel discussions, trainings and networking.
When Catarina Colón, vice president of academic affairs for the Latino/a Law Student Association, first got to University of Wisconsin Law School she heard a lot of concerns, particularly from students out of state, like: Where are all of the people of color? Where is the representation?
Noted: The project started after Lundberg read William Fulton’s 1997 book The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. The book details the early city’s critical need to seek water in other regions. “That opened my eyes to this huge re-engineering of water,” says Lundberg, who is studying at UW’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies while also pursuing a law degree. “I was fascinated by these gigantic systems that allow us to live and profit in these ways, but without seeing the infrastructure that make them happen.”
In recent years, some colleges and universities have set out on the long path of addressing their historic ties to systems rooted in white supremacy, including slavery, the Confederacy, and hate groups. Against the backdrop of a resurgence in white nationalism, this work has only grown in urgency and significance. At the same time, many institutions have deepened their commitment to atoning for their past by working to build a more inclusive future.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will visit Madison and Milwaukee on Tuesday to encourage voters in the state’s most liberal areas to vote for U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Democratic candidate for governor Tony Evers.
Biden will stop first in Madison around 9:30 a.m. for a rally on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Baldwin, Evers and lieutenant governor candidate Mandela Barnes. He will then head to Milwaukee for a 2 p.m. rally at Laborers’ Local 113 at 6310 W. Appleton Ave.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be in Madison Tuesday for an early-vote rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
ASM plans to work with Babcock to find graduate student to develop flavors that wouldn’t use beef gelatin.
Alta Charo, a professor at UW, said fake science shifts focus away from issues that actually matter.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be at UW-Madison on Tuesday to tout early voting alongside Democratic candidates who will appear on the midterm elections ballot.
Noted: One of the CEOs on this year’s list, Jeffrey Sprecher, the CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the New York Stock Exchange, holds both an MBA and an engineering degree but said in a video posted on Facebook by his alma mater, University of Wisconsin, that he’s never had a job that relates to his chemical engineering degree. Still, he said, it “taught me about problem-solving, and complex systems and the way things relate to each other, and business is really just that.”
The Freakfest Music Festival is for everyone, say its organizers. But the primary demographic has typically been the college-aged crowd — after all, the one-night festival that takes over State Street every Halloween made its debut as an antidote to raucous college partying that had traditionally run rampant downtown.
Partisanship, informed voters identified as integral factors in 2018’s election.
Kleefisch expressed support in covering preexisting conditions and a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
With that motivation and skill on her side, Gray took a chance at auditioning for the UW Marching Band, hoping she’d find a special community within a school that has nearly 44,000 students.
“Many people believe that the left has a monopoly on women in politics. However, that’s not true,” Alesha Guenther, a twenty-year-old student at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the communications director for the College Republicans, told me.
Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed moratorium on new liquor licenses in Downtown Madison is getting little support as it begins to move through the city legislative process following months of delays.
If you’re a student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, university officials and your fellow students really want you to vote. And to make sure you do, they’re launching a week of voting events to make it easy.
Political science professor David Canon said young people usually vote in low numbers. “Eighteen to 34-year-olds vote at a rate of about half as much as say 50 to 60-year-olds and in recent elections, especially the last midterm elections, between about a sixth and a fifth of all young people, millennials, ended up voting,” Canon said.
Voter turnout on campus decreased in 2016.
UW senior Heidi Knoche said she attended the discussion because she views it as her social responsibility to learn about the perspectives of those outside of her community, particularly regarding domestic violence.
University of Wisconsin scholars and experts discussed immigration, citizenship and the economy in a panel called “What Makes America Great? Immigration, Citizenship and the Wisconsin Economy” at the Wisconsin Historical Society Monday.
The panel discussed how immigrants are a necessity to the Wisconsin workforce, especially in the dairy industry. In a market where farm laborers used to be paid $12-13 an hour, farms themselves are not making a great enough profit to be able to pay workers a fair amount, causing a labor shortage that immigrants are filling.
The trio of Downtown council members are instead backing a resolution acknowledging that city staff are already studying the issue. It calls on staff to engage with UW-Madison officials, business groups, neighborhood organizations and others on the topic without having a formal task force.
The tradition dates back to 1979, when a group of students thought it would be funny to fill the Bascom Hill with pink plastic flamingos.
A new organization on the UW-Madison campus is connecting people in costume with chances to put a smile on a kid’s face.
“It’s not only fun, but it gives everyone a chance to think about how historical figures, musicians, or authors are still with us in some ways,” Emily Auerbach, director of the UW Odyssey Project, tells Madison365. “Last year, we had Socrates walking around … you never know who might just show up.”
Launch a weekend of Badger fun at the UW-Madison Homecoming Parade beginning 6 p.m. Friday and traveling from the Langdon Street staging area to Wisconsin Avenue to West Gilman Street to State Street to North Lake Street.
Langdon Street will be the place to be for UW-Madison homecoming revelers on Friday, and will not be the place to be for motorists.
Associated Students of Madison ignited concerns of their ability to maintain an active role on campus after passing a negligible amount of legislation after seven weeks in session.
Gordon switched from sending trash to the UW-Madison agricultural research station to a local digester in Middleton.
A trio of Wisconsin attorneys, including two whose appearance in the first season of “Making a Murderer” launched them to international stardom, have started a nonprofit aimed at improving forensic science.
A new beer is being brewed by the Wisconsin Brewing Company, Heineken and UW-Madison that has a recipe with roots in our very own back yard.
She will discuss the changing culture of higher education and effective techniques for recruiting and retaining students and faculty from underrepresented communities in “Power in Numbers: Data-driven decision making for inclusive education.”
ASM staff will receive 4 percent increase in wages due to campus-wide pay adjustment provided by UW.
UW-Madison’s student government backed off a controversial resolution that called for campaigning against the university’s use of beef gelatin in Babcock ice cream after working with university administrators to bring awareness to the ingredient’s use in the official campus ice cream.
11,000 student accounts have been activated on Handshake, along with almost 9,000 employer accounts.
Professor Christy Clark-Pujara discusses how historical context shapes modern racial attitudes.
Respect for group inclusivity an important aspect, Staskunas said.
Native American student organization received a 20 percent budget increase.
Homecoming week at UW-Madison is a time-honored tradition filled with student and community activities that highlight what it means to be a badger.
Students who live in some off-campus neighborhoods will be able to receive WiscAlerts for crimes in their areas while police pilot a new notification system over the next six months, the UW-Madison Police Department announced last week.
Crowds of all ages attended the annual Wisconsin Science Festival at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID) building this weekend.
It’s officially homecoming week at UW-Madison!
An Acapella Showcase kicked off the week of celebration Sunday night, after the Red Tutu Trot with Cardiac on Campus earlier in the day.
But the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter whose book is being read all over the UW-Madison campus this year as the community Go Big Read selection, has seen some positive signs, at least in terms of public awareness.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police began a pilot program Wednesday, offering off-campus safety alerts to students and faculty who sign-up.
Wisconsin’s attorney general candidates will debate three times before Election Day, not four as originally scheduled.
Dan Egan, author of “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Oct. 16.
Me Too. These two small words, coined by Tarana Burke in 2006 and brought into the public sphere nearly a year ago by actress Alyssa Milano on Twitter, have since sparked a widespread campaign for women’s rights.
“This is the type of learning that will light a fire in you. You learn more from the burning in your throat than all the time spent in limbo.”
Those words help kick off “Hip Hop U,” a documentary detailing the rise of hip hop in a college academic setting that is now available on the Wisconsin Public Television website. Hip Hop U, which premiered two weeks ago, tells the story of a one-of-a-kind academic program offered at the University of Wisconsin.
In light of National Coming Out Day, UW-Madison students reflect on their coming out experience, describing their identities as journies.
Each year the University of Wisconsin-Madison picks a common book for the entire campus to read and discuss called the Go Big Read program. The book for the 2018-2019 school year is “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan, a Milwaukee Journal reporter and senior water policy fellow at UW-Milwaukee.
The UW-Madison Police Department will be testing out an off-campus alert to warn students of emergency situations east of campus, while parents of students will now be able to receive WiscAlert notifications for on-campus incidents.
To keep the community and parents more informed, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Police Department is launching Off-Campus Alerts and is expanding WiscAlerts to parents.
When Earl Edwards – a farm boy from near Cedar Falls, Iowa – arrived at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the fall of 1954 on a wrestling scholarship, he took up residence in a tiny room in the field house at Camp Randall football stadium.
UW-Madison’s oldest tree, cut down three years ago, is getting another lease on life. In 2015, UW-Madison had to say goodbye to the President’s Oak. It was the oldest tree on campus, estimated to be around 300 years old.
Multi-factor authentication process will be implemented at UW-Madison in order to create a safer online experience for students and staff.
The proposed parking structure on Linden Drive could increase parking accessibility for UW-Madison’s campus visitors.
With more student DJs than hours of airtime to give them, WSUM?—?the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s radio station?—?started an online-only livestream earlier this year. Called FreeFlow, it abides by looser rules than the station’s federally regulated FM stream.
A 600-stall garage could replace one of the last large surface lots on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and add needed visitor parking spaces under a proposal from the university.
