DiMarco, who grew up in a deaf family and has been deaf since birth, will visit Madison on Tuesday as a guest of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series, a student-run organization.
An email exchange between an SSFC official, UHS official revealed plan, which would be tested at vending machine in SAC.
This data comes after recent debates over race and inclusivity on campus following the release of the 2017 AAU campus climate survey.
In just one weekend, the UW-Cinematheque series can take film fans through 80 years of cinema across three continents.
The Office of Human Resources and the Office of the Provost created a new website that will help employees identify, prevent and address these behaviors.
Body also also discussed widening medical amnesty laws.
n 21st century, activists reconcile challenges, personal lives and shifting social climates in efforts to create meaningful change.
For Julia Nepper, getting in her Ph.D. in Biophysics at just 23 years old was no big deal; it was just another stepping stone in a journey to teach and learn.
UW-Madison employees could get an across-the-board four percent pay increase, including those making less than $15 an hour.
A group of house fellows will be moving to new rooms this coming fall to free up space for students who would otherwise live in temporary spaces.
Warren Scherer, the new director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s LGBT Campus Center, values equity, dignity, temperance and originality. And he’s a big fan of TED Talks.
UW-Madison students planning to get in cardio between classes next year will be looking for the Nick.
A new student recreation facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be known as the “Nick” when it opens next fall on the site of the former SERF.
Following heightened concerns over alcohol-related problems, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is proposing a moratorium on new alcohol licenses downtown.
Warren Scherer, who identifies as queer and biracial and uses the pronouns per and pers, has 19 years of experience working with LGBTQ+ populations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison political science department plans to warn students considering internships with Democratic Rep. Josh Zepnick that he’s been accused of sexual misconduct.
Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday the nation celebrates Monday, visited UW-Madison twice, the last time drawing an estimated 3,000 people — mostly students — who packed into the Stock Pavilion on Nov. 23, 1965.
“It’s OK to be wrong. Until you acknowledge what you don’t know, you cannot progress,” said the North Carolina native who, at age 23, received her Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison last month.
K9 Officer Kobalt and his handler, UW police Officer Nikki Zautner, are on their way home from a six-week intensive training program at Shallow Creek Kennels in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, a kennel the department has used before to select dogs, said police spokesman Marc Lovicott.
Amy Gilman has lived in Madison only a few months — but will likely become one of the more visible faces in the city’s art world.
The geology hall at UW-Madison was evacuated Tuesday afternoon following a small chemical spill, with nobody hurt in the incident.
Team MacIver survived the bitter cold spell to bring you a report on the hotbed of hate pervading the UW-Madison student body – or at least, you might think that if you don’t take a closer look at the actual hate and bias reports filed by students. Hear that and Team Mac’s incredibly expert insight on a new problem at the Tomah VA, a dispatch from the front lines of the tax cut armageddon, the failure of ethanol, zombie regulations, and the latest at the state Capitol.
The dining hall in the Carson Gulley Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was dressed for dinner, complete with white tablecloths. Along with an Asian-inspired buffet, networking was on the menu.
A year after the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents adopted a policy prohibiting professors from entering into romantic or sexual relationships with their students, such relationships are still permitted at UW-Madison.
If you walk the trails of the UW-Madison Arboretum this winter, you may cross paths with Karen Oberhauser. The Arboretum’s new director is on a mission to get to know every inch of the 1,700-acre facility, which includes tall grass prairies, savannas, wetlands, forests and gardens.
The university in Madison, Wisconsin, is among many that don’t formally track student suicides, but officials there say the new database will link local information with death data kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.University of Wisconsin epidemiologist Dr. Agustina Marconi says “our findings and the standards we create will benefit other universities moving forward.”
Examples of the blurring of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism abound. In April, the student government at the University of Wisconsin-Madison held a vote on an anti-Israel resolution — on Passover. A student legislator at McGill University tweeted “punch a Zionist today” and somehow survived impeachment; an anti-Zionist student group at the same Montreal university admitted that it used anti-Semitic propaganda to prevent a Jewish — and presumably anti-BDS — candidate from being re-elected to the student government.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison group Student Coalition for Progress was miffed — MIFFED, I tell you — that the school’s football team was staying at a Trump hotel during its Orange Bowl appearance on December 30.
Beginning Monday Jan. 1, Madison’s new ordinance banning mopeds from being parked on public sidewalks and terraces takes effect. No respite will be found for moped drivers hoping to continue this practice as a provision in the law allowing property owners to set up designated parking areas on terraces has drawn little interest.
Listed: $20 million: Tashia and John Morgridge, 84, former CEO and chairman of Cisco Systems, to University of Wisconsin-Madison for faculty and scholarships.
Madison’s largest and deepest lake officially froze over Wednesday, thanks to days of frigid temperatures and low winds.
As the UW-Madison Arboretum’s eighth director, Karen Oberhauser enjoys the quiet patch of forest and prairie in the midst of the city the way many do, with walks and bike rides to admire its beauty.
Lexi Greytak is a former student athlete, an aspiring sports broadcast reporter, and a recent college graduate who just earned her degree after four and a half years of work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And she received her diploma while carrying her nearly 2-year-old daughter across the stage.
The search for a new vice chancellor for student affairs at UW-Madison has started, with the 15-member committee utilizing a national search firm to fill the post.
The Philanthropy Lab at UW-Madison is rewarding three nonprofits with grants totaling $50,000, the culmination of classwork in a unique lab teaching students the hows and whys of giving.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison—where state legislators made national headlines for banning protests that shut down speaking events or presentations—graduate students held a phone bank on the national day of action and later held a rally with other groups in the city. CV Vitolo, a campus activist and Ph.D. candidate in communications, said, “we definitely had concerns about being portrayed as hysterical or irrational … but this is about something much larger than ourselves, and I think most of us here are willing to sacrifice whatever it is that we look like to the public in order to make sure the people are protected.”
Ticket usage fell 15 percent in 2017 when compared to the all-time high of the previous year.
The dean of the UW-Madison School of Business is resigning after just one semester, which included a proposal — since reversed — to end the school’s Masters of Business Administration program.
Anne Massey announced Monday that she would resign — after only one semester in office — as dean of the business school at the University of Wisconsin, The Wisconsin State Journal reported.
While the Badgers had an announced home attendance average of 78,824 in 2017, only 84 percent of those tickets were used.
UW-Madison could receive another $20 million for student scholarships and faculty support thanks to mega-donors John and Tashia Morgridge.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison offered seats to its first batch of prospective freshmen over the weekend and plans to get financial aid offers to them this week — several weeks earlier than in past years for competitive reasons.
After over two weeks of pushback from student organizations and shared governance groups, changes will be made to the controversial meal plan that will require new dorm residents to deposit a minimum of $1,400 onto their WisCard for dining, university officials said Friday.
En 1967, Luciano Barraza completó un doctorado en economía agrícola, pero sus obligaciones laborales en México y la falta de dinero le impidieron participar en la ceremonia de graduación, explicó la universidad en un comunicado este lunes. Ahora, 50 años después, Barraza podrá hacerlo, indicó.
Ithaca College, Duke University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the other schools that have courses or touch on the show in other music or history classes.Educators are also targeting high school students. There’s a program coordinated through the show and donors that uses donations to allow 10th- and 11th-graders to see “Hamilton” for free or reduced admission.
Unlike the more than 1,000 recent graduates participating in UW-Madison’s commencement ceremony Sunday, 77-year-old Luciano Barraza finished his studies at the university 50 years ago.
After earning his doctorate in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Luciano Barraza could not stick around for graduation ceremonies.
Much of the discussion was centered on a new University Housing dining policy which mandates the purchase of a $1,400 meal plan for all students living in university residence halls.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is recognizing one graduate 50 years after he received his degree.
Kathy Cramer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor best known for “The Politics of Resentment,” her 2016 book exploring discontent among rural voters, is headed back to research after a stint leading the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
The program, to be announced Wednesday by state Attorney General Brad Schimel, will offer a nasal spray version of Narcan, also known as naloxone, to UW-Madison, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Stout and UW-Superior.
It’s the latest organization on campus to denounce the plan.
Under the plan, nearly two dozen smaller libraries would be eliminated and the collection would be reduced by three quarters in volume,.
The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has embarked on a US$11 million construction project to convert three floors in its facility into a vertically connected educational space called the Learning Commons. The Learning Commons will become the heart of the building, connecting its east and west wings, with ample natural light to open the space. The first floor will house the school’s finance and analytics lab, and the second and third floors will feature the business library and business learning center with five active learning classrooms equipped with wireless displays for collaboration. The upper floors will include ten breakout rooms, as well as collaborative and casual seating. Construction on the 33,000-square-foot space is due to be completed this spring.
Quoted: The economic side of the industry is “where all the questions are these days,” said Hart Posen, a UW-Madison associate professor of business who tracks sharing economies.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison plans to close 22 libraries and create six “hubs” designed to facilitate how students and scholars work today, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
The city has more than 850 stationary cameras at points east, west, north and south, with an especially heavy concentration of police cameras in the State Street and Downtown areas.
A group of faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pressing campus officials for clarity on students’ free speech rights under a new policy adopted by the UW System Board of Regents.
A leading advocate for health equity who once served as the state’s health officer has been chosen as the new director of the Population Health Institute at UW-Madison.
UW-Madison officials unveiled a plan Thursday to create six major library “hubs,” while eliminating nearly two dozen smaller libraries and reducing collection space by nearly two-thirds, in what they say is an effort to adapt to changing ways students and faculty members use libraries.
