Noted: Fledermaus, which runs July 20-29 at UW-Madison’s Music Hall, is also the first directorship for Shelton, a lyric tenor who has performed in theaters around town and in the blockbuster opera, Dead Man Walking (Madison Opera, 2014). For a director whose heart is in comedy, Fledermaus is a perfect fit.
As the Aug. 14 primary election approaches, UW-Madison is reminding students to take time before moving out day to vote.
The Madison Metropolitan School District partnered with UW-Madison to give kids in high school a chance to explore a future career in health care and veterinary medicine.
The Wisconsin HOPE Lab at UW-Madison, which made headlineswith research showing many college students struggle to find enough to eat and a place to live, has closed with the expiration of its funding.
Omar Poler’s slender frame is easy to follow as he leads people up Bascom Hill on a historical tour. The sea of students rushing downhill makes participants aware they are on a college campus. Amid this commotion, Poler, a Sokaogon Chippewa and interim coordinator of American Indian Curriculum Services at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shares stories of the ancient effigy mounds that can be found around campus and in the Madison area.
Omar Poler, a Sokaogon Chippewa and interim coordinator of American Indian Curriculum Services at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shares stories of the ancient effigy mounds that can be found around campus and in the Madison area.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) program will recognize 121 PEOPLE high school scholars for their outstanding accomplishments on Friday, July 20, at the Marriott West Conference Center in Middleton. The annual R.I.S.E. (Reflect. Inspire. Succeed. Evolve.) Recognition Luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) program will recognize 121 PEOPLE high school scholars for their outstanding accomplishments.
The power of financial education has made a huge difference in Martinez White’s life. It has helped him to escape poverty and to pursue his dreams. White’s mission, he says, is to get people talking about the principles of financial empowerment and to inspire intergenerational wealth in emerging communities.
The University of Wisconsin has added Georgia Southern to its football schedule for the 2023 season, according to a release from Georgia Southern.
“To see someone who was associated with the KKK is a slap in the face of that and is a reminder of the continued brutalization of people of color in America,” said one student.
The governing body of UW-Madison’s Memorial Union heard impassioned pleas from both sides Wednesday in the debate over whether to rename spaces in the Union named for two prominent alumni who, while students, belonged to a campus group called “Ku Klux Klan.”
The Director of Wisconsin Union UW-Madison, Mark Guthier, said “The fact that they kind of go away during the winter and reemerge and there’s a kind of an annual ritual of them coming back out and bringing life back to the terrace and to Madison really is part of what makes them unique!”
Those who support changing the name of the gallery said that any associations between the university and the KKK make spaces uncomfortable for marginalized students.
Community members spoke out Wednesday afternoon on whether two Memorial Union rooms — both named after alumni who were members of a 1920s campus organization called “Ku Klux Klan” should be renamed.
Forums will be held next week about the names of two spaces in Memorial Union, named for two men with links to the Ku Klux Klan.
Meetings are planned Wednesday and Thursday to get comments from the public on what to do about the names of the rooms.
Mike Sussman, who ran the Biotechnology Center for over 21 years, will become director of the Genome Center of Wisconsin, which is in the Biotechnology Center.
“Sometimes we don’t know what to do with emotions,” so parents channel them into packing and shopping to feel productive, said Beth Miller, a coordinator for residence life at University of Wisconsin-Madison who has been involved in campus life for the past 17 years. “But sometimes parents are purchasing things based on emotion and not necessarily based on need.”
Members of the UW-Madison campus community and the general public will have a chance this week to discuss whether two spaces at Memorial Union — Porter Butts Gallery and Fredric March Play Circle — should be renamed because of links between the men they are named for and a 1920s campus organization named the Ku Klux Klan.
The national Kappa Sigma fraternity has terminated its University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter after people pushed a television off the chapter’s balcony and nearly hit a woman.
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community are working to ease the plight of migrants seeking refuge in the United States, with law school students headed to Texas to represent them in immigration court and professors going on record denouncing Trump administration policies.
“Everyone, in our opinion, is entitled to due process, and a lot of people aren’t receiving that because they’re not from here and that seems very strange to us,” said law student Nancy Cruz.
A group of nine University of Wisconsin-Madison law students will drive to Dilley, Texas, in August to assist immigrants being held in a family detention center.
After nine-and-a-half years near the UW-Madison campus, the coffee shop and cafe CoffeeBytes is calling it quits Friday with the retirement of its owners.
After graduating from UW-Madison 15 years ago, Andrew Olson was eager to swim in Lake Mendota while visiting his alma mater. “I’m disappointed,” Olson said. “I’m here for a conference and I was excited to go swimming.”
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.
