Category: Campus life

The ticketed event is on the University of Wisconsin campus on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16-17.

Carl Ross began his new duties on July 1 after more than a year as the Waisman Biomanufacturing interim director.

He’s a man who towers above many of his colleagues at University of Wisconsin- Madison. Although he retired last fall, Lyle Anderson still climbs the stairs of the UW Carillon Tower to be the man behind the bells on campus.

Capital, culture, active, isthmus, foodies, Bucky. Those half-dozen words are Madison in a nutshell, but particularly so in the fall, when the tone is set by the student-led hustle and bustle, the bounty of the harvest, and the ombré of colors from brilliant red to midnight blue. Whether traveling solo, as a couple, or with friends, a getaway to downtown Madison and the University of Wisconsin campus is ripe for the picking.

UW-Madison’s Badgerloop, a student organization made up of mostly undergraduate engineering students who aim to determine if hyperloop—a proposed form of transportation—could become a reality, placed high and won an innovation award Sunday at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, Calif.

A look at move-in day through the eyes of one freshman.

UW-Madison students will move back into residence halls and apartments starting this weekend. That will affect traffic on campus.

Video segment on start of the school year..

Thursday, the contest shifts to Babcock Hall at UW-Madison, where 14 categories with 270 entries including ice cream, sherbet, frozen yogurt and gelato will be evaluated.

The annual migration of young people to living quarters on the UW-Madison campus will commence on Saturday, and with it, the congestion and confusion of out-of-town drivers lost on campus.

Recent white nationalist events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere have led many states, cities and institutions to reevaluate their own history, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which was once home to Ku Klux Klan student groups. The Klan has been active in Wisconsin for nearly a century.

A collective roar of “oohs” and “aahs” swept across UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace about 12:30 pm Monday as the clouds parted to reveal the emerging solar eclipse.

Last month it was announced that five-year university employee Karla Foster would serve in a directorial role as the center’s Program Coordinator.

Numerous campus-area streets will close to accommodate the more than 7,500 UW-Madison students moving into university residence halls beginning Aug. 26.

UW student Shane Linden wants to bring a Culver’s to campus,

An electrical problem at the UW-Madison boathouse cut off power to three dorm buildings Wednesday night, with nobody hurt in the outage.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the university was planning to welcome students back closer to the start of the fall term, but she said she needed to address the national event which resulted in a fatality and President Donald Trump blaming “both sides” of the protest.

Every Saturday of each month, the UW Discovery Center celebrates science with a free day filled with events. Saturday’s theme was the solar eclipse.

The Madison Plan Commission voted in favor of a conditional use permit for HotelRED’s plan to add three floors and 39 rooms to the four-story, 48-room building at the intersection of Monroe and Regent streets — despite a recommendation from the city’s Planning Division to deny the permit.

Young America’s Foundation, a national conservative youth program that has played a key role in the college campus controversy over freedom of speech, has named University of Wisconsin-Madison as its affiliate chapter of the year.

The city says last year, student moving days put more than a million pounds of trash into the landfill. In response, some studnets are trying to be more conscientious.

“UW-Madison does not have any institutional relationship with HonorSociety.org nor do we endorse it or encourage students to participate in it,” a UW-Madison spokeswoman says.

As student dining hall employees across campus return to their food stations this fall, they will go back to work with an added perk—a 30 percent discount on food and beverages.

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) — Sagashus Levingston is a mother of six, and is getting her PhD at University of Wisconsin – Madison. On top of that, she’s going on a pop-up tour across the country for her new book, “Infamous Mothers.”

Ace Hillard fishes for his iPhone as soon as he steps out of his therapist’s office into the June heat. He taps out a message about the good news: Hillard, a transgender man, finally got approval to begin hormone therapy — something he’s been working toward for more than a year.

The woman known as the band’s mom and the wife of UW Marching Band Director, Mike Leckrone, passed away on Tuesday.

The start of a new school year is right around the corner. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the new year brings new opportunities for students, faculty and staff to have access to fresh produce.

Robert Enright was studying justice for 10 years when he hit a wall.

A new program at a Wisconsin university aims to make it easier for students to get fresh produce.

The university’s Department of Food Science is hosting an inaugural “Wine is Wisconsin” competition that will include 85 wines from 18 wineries throughout the state. The alcoholic beverages will be judged by eight food writers, restaurateurs, wine experts and retailers.

Eneale Pickett was just two years old when his father died.

University of Wisconsin-Madison lost its top spot among party schools in the latest Princeton Review survey released this week, but it’s still got the most beer and the best health services.

The Princeton Review’s annual college rankings, released Monday, put UW-Madison at No. 5 in its “Party Schools” category, down from No. 1 in last year’s survey.

HotelRED, located steps from Camp Randall Stadium at 1501 Monroe St., has been open since 2011. It has 47 guest rooms, but wants to expand, originally proposing to double its height, adding four stories to the existing four-story hotel.