Category: Campus life

Dozens of people crowded around a single refrigerator loaded with an assortment of vegetables on the third floor of the Student Activity Center Friday for the grand opening of the UW Food Shed.

When Hannah DePorter’s plant breeding and genetics lab at UW-Madison grows beets, only a fraction of what the students harvest winds up being used for research.Some of the rest goes to local food pantries and to students such as DePorter, who takes beets home to cook and give to friends. But there’s always plenty left over.

While the inaugural class, which began May 30, has only eight students, interest in drones and learning to use them is high, said instructor Chris Johnson. Johnson, director of the UW Flight Lab in Industrial & Systems Engineering and a program specialist in unmanned aerial systems, developed the new course.

[O]n Thursday, June 15, at 7 p.m., the International Socialist Organization will hold a meeting entitled “Unite Against Far-Right Hate!” in Sterling Hall (475 North Sterling Hall, 475 North Charter Street, Room 1313) on the UW-Madison campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering has added a course on drones this summer, according to a release.

There have been some well-publicized incidents in which student groups or other protesters have interfered with scheduled appearances by right-wing speakers at US universities. In response, a number of states have considered “campus free speech” bills based on model legislation produced by the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank. Different bills introduce specific penalties for students who shout down the speech of others and prevent college administrators from disinviting speakers, to give two examples.

After UW-Madison’s student government concluded the spring semester with controversial legislation that angered members of the Jewish community and drew concern from others on campus, UW-Madison’s College Republicans chapter called for the disbandment of The Associated Students of Madison.

Noted: The University of Wisconsin – Madison is a large university known for its dedication to academic excellence. The School of Social Work teaches students about well-being, while working to promote human rights and social justice. Faculty members have developed an innovative curriculum that incorporates theory, research and practice to teach students about the field and prepare them to actually work in it.

Noted: At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a class called “The Problem of Whiteness” this spring drew criticism from a state assemblyman, David Murphy. Mr. Murphy, who called the course “garbage,” threatened the loss of state funding if the university stood by it.

A candlelight vigil is planned for Wednesday following the death of a windsurfer on Lake Mendota last week.

MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeing an increase in applications from international students while other colleges continue to see a drop.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s pre-college prep program will be refocused to reach students living in Madison and Milwaukee, the university announced Monday.

The 4,832-square-foot building, purchased by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1950 after the governor’s residence was relocated to Maple Bluff, was most recently used for graduate student housing as the Knapp Graduate Center.

The crane will be used at the construction site for the UW-Madison Music Performance Center.

A student’s lawsuit against a University of Wisconsin administrator who had been exchanging text messages with a motorist who struck and killed the student’s mother in 2013 has been settled for $200,000, reports the Wisconsin State Journal.

LYNDA BARRY and Ann Telnaes were marquee winners at the National Cartoonists Society’s 71st annual Reuben Awards on Saturday evening in Portland, Ore.

Madison (WKOW) — State officials have settled a lawsuit over a UW-Madison associate dean’s counseling of a drunk driving victim’s daughter, despite the official’s friendship with the drunk driver.

At UW-Madison, along with others across the country, student activists have rallied to start a conversation to change the culture on college campuses. They have argued that racism is an issue on campus, and one not discussed nearly enough.