Category: Campus life

That’s according to a list compiled by The Princeton Review.

Veterinarians are trying to figure out why two dogs died after swimming in Lake Mendota on Sunday. Lindsey Holmes says she took her dog Lucy to the Memorial Union for a quick swim around noon Sunday. Within minutes of getting home, the 3-year-old dog started acting strangely. She vomited and was gasping for air, so Holmes took her to the UW School of Veterinary Care. She was told the dog could no longer breathe on her own.

We learn about the UW Food Shed, a program setup to give away free fresh produce that is harvested and leftover from research at the UW-Madison.

It was just about lunchtime — a few residence hall custodians gathered in the Sullivan Hall break room, chatting about the day’s work.

Although the Associated Students of Madison didn’t get their current name until 1994, student governance at the University of Wisconsin has a long history.

The Department of Risk and Insurance in the Wisconsin School of Business at UW-Madison has been designated as one of the best in the country and the world.

Amy Gilman, who has worked at the Toledo Museum of Art since 2005, will start Sept. 11. She takes over for Russell Panczenko, who will retire after leading the campus art museum for 33 years.

There’s new science-backed evidence that diversity training workshops work. For a paper set to be published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, researchers decided to test their experimental “prejudice habit-breaking intervention” at STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) departments where women are historically underrepresented. Women are almost half of the U.S. workforce, but they’re 39% of chemists, 28% of environmental scientists, and 12% of civil engineers. In fact, 40% of women engineers quit the field or will never use their degree.

The facilities manager of the original site where America’s nuclear weapons were developed has been named the facilities planning director at UW-Madison.

James Tinjum leaves Saturday, July 15 for Bike the Wind, a biking tour of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota that will take him past 17 wind energy sites.

After six years of inactivity, Hagenah Fountain on Library Mall started to flow again Monday.

Students looking for their morning caffeine fix on campus will be sipping freshly roasted, locally owned Steep & Brew coffee instead of Starbucks this fall.

The festival will be staged across three buildings on the University of Wisconsin campus. UW-Madison was our first co-sponsor.

The Hagenah Fountain, a fixture at the heart of the UW-Madison campus, began operating again Monday after about six years of silence, though it functioned intermittently between 2007 and 2010.

UW-Madison junior Eneale Pickett has started a project called Dear Masculinity for “individuals assigned male at birth and male identifying folks to critically examine their masculinity.” Starting as an online video project, Dear Masculinity will also become a stage production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago on August 26 at 7 pm.

Recently, the organization announced that it will be cutting back on the number of schools it will be accessible to.

“I have so much hope for our campus and I care so deeply about it and so I wanted to be in a position where I could maximize my ability to create change on campus,” Katrina Morrison said.

UW-Madison is #27.

Ald. Zach Wood, District 8, said the changes could “bring some semblance of order downtown.” He said UW-Madison campus areas such as Mills and Dayton Streets become hazards during busy periods between classes when students are rushing from one lecture to the next.

MADISON (WKOW) — Dawn Crim wears a lot of hats, wife, mother, volunteer.

In the Commercial Design competition, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Courtney Christensen earned first place by re-imagining the University of Wisconsin Credit Union’s E-Commerce Center.

McKenna Collins is studying communications and political science.

Tazio Stefanelli, a recent graduate of Elkhorn Area High School, has his sights set on attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall for mechanical engineering.