“I have never been so stunned in my life. I went from thinking I was going to pass out a few samples to getting my own hashtag, messages of support from DJ Khaled and one heck of a challenge,” Jeschke said. “But the best part was all of the people I met. The entire student body rallied behind me. It was an experience I’ll never forget.”
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan will be on the UW-Madison campus Friday, to talk about her life in law.
DJ Khaled — the hit-making producer behind such songs as “I’m the One” and “All I Do Is Win” — will play a free concert for UW-Madison students at the Kohl Center on Oct. 30, after a freshman met Mentos’ challenge of handing out tens of thousands of packs of gum during his first week on campus.
By handing out no less than 43,000 packs of Mentos gum, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Sam Jeschke earned his university a concert by renowned musical artist DJ Khaled.
Professor Noel Radomski said communicating with greater community is key to keeping UW united.
In addition to receiving a free year of tuition from the gum company, Jeschke will receive $2,500 for distributing Mentos Gum at designated locations throughout campus.
“I am saddened that I contributed to an environment of exclusion,” Morrison said. “My intentions were never to alienate Jewish members of our community, but I fully recognize that that was my impact.”
After making a suggestion to the sociology department chair and gaining the support of faculty members across UW-Madison, Brenzel created a new course aimed at exploring the university’s relationship with the state of Wisconsin.
“FORWARD? The Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present,” is under the microscope after UW announced launch of study of the school’s history with the Ku Klux Klan.
Alissa Swenson continued her involvement in Kibera Girls Soccer Academy by organizing a book reading of the school’s story.
In the aftermath of violent protests on college campuses from University of California-Berkeley to Middlebury, and the deadly events of Charlottesville, some think it’s possible the University of Wisconsin could also reach a tipping point.
Noted: Laura Minero, 26, is a PhD student in counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has found strength in organizing and supporting other undocumented students. Her parents came to California from Mexico in 1995; her father works at a dairy and her mother at a meat-processing facility.
Even before Trump was elected, she and three other students founded a Dreamers organization at UW-Madison to raise scholarship money for undocumented students, who cannot apply for federal financial aid, and to provide emotional support for students because of the divisive campaign rhetoric.
Under the Trump administration’s plans for winding down the program, immigrants whose protections expire before March 5 can apply for a two-year renewal.
Despite growing up in Madison, Selina Armenta felt culture shock when she first set foot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as a freshman.
“It’s not surprising, but the things that were said were disheartening,” said Laura Minero, a graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison and leader in a campus DREAMers group after the announcement Tuesday that Trump would phase out the program.
With just one parking space for every five people, on a campus of roughly 65,000, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has one of the lowest parking ratios of any major university in the country.
By this fall, all employees at University of Wisconsin campuses — from custodians and residence hall staff members to professors and administrators — will have completed training on sexual violence and harassment as part of a new systemwide requirement.
The Institute for Foundations in Data Science, which will be part of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, will re-examine the core mathematics, statistics and computer science that make big data science possible. The ultimate mission will be to come up with new ways to more efficiently and effectively use big sets of data.
Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are eager to tell the public about their work and how it benefits the state, said Patrick Brenzel, a staff member in the Department of Sociology.
UW-Madison is introducing its own mandatory sexual harassment prevention training this semester. But some universities do not require it, and some academic fields have special training needs, said Marín-Spiotta, an associate professor at UW-Madison in the Department of Geography. She will be lead investigator of research being conducted in a partnership of the American Geophysical Union, Earth Science Women’s Network, and Association for Women Geoscientists.
The event was the third — and second one on Labor Day — hosted by the Wisconsin Union’s Wheelhouse Studios.
Hundreds filled an auditorium at the Gordon Dining and Events Center on UW-Madison’s campus Saturday night for an interactive performance.
If Jeschke is successful in distributing the gum—approximately the same number of bottles as there are students—Mentos Gum will pay for one year of his tuition. The gum company will also bring rapper DJ Khaled to campus for a free concert.
MADISON (WKOW) — Students at UW-Madison are starting off the school year with a welcome from the city’s official bird, the pink flamingo.
The UW Marching Band performed on Wake Up Wisconsin under the direction of its legendary director, Mike Leckrone.
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.
The Wisconsin Badgers will play the Utah State Aggies at Camp Randall Stadium on Friday night, but the tougher battle might be on the streets and in parking lots.
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.
Noted: After launching at Marquette, the site started hosting listings for housing near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where about 80% of the 30,000 students live off campus.
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.
One of Anne Massey’s main areas of expertise during her more than 20 years at Indiana University-Bloomington was how technology impacted the performance of teams. Now she’s taken that knowledge to work for her new team: Massey assumed the role of dean at Wisconsin School of Business on August 7.
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..
Startup accelerator gener8tor is launching a new program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to help students build products and start companies.
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.
If you happened to be walking down State Street in Madison in May of 1920, you may have been confused about what you were witnessing. You may have seen more than a dozen young men wearing their finest suits and top hats while pushing baby carriages up and down the street.
Just over a week after a gathering of white supremacy groups in Charlottesville, Virginia, left three dead and led to the quick removal of Confederate memorials across the country, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Monday she has formed a committee to examine the history of student groups affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
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.
A history professor and the president of a local mentoring and economic development organization will lead a study group this fall to examine the Ku Klux Klan’s history at UW-Madison, campus officials announced Monday.
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.
Just over a week after a gathering of white supremacy groups in Charlottesville, Virginia, left three dead and led to the quick removal of Confederate memorials across the country, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Monday she has formed a committee to examine the history of student groups affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.
As an undergraduate nursing student at UW-Madison, Maichou Lor tried three ways of getting information about cancer screening from Hmong adults: using written surveys with true-false or check-box answers, and reading questions out loud.
UW-Madison does not require supervisors or human resources officials to keep records of anonymous sexual harassment complaints that are brought forward by students or employees, administrators say.
Andy Mendez, who will be a junior at McFarland High School this fall and is interested in becoming a pharmacist, said his eyes were opened when he attended the UW-Madison Pharmacy Summer Program.
A Dane County judge has cleared the way for separate trials, for a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student. Prosecutors had requested joining two separate cases against 22-year-old Alec Cook, who faces more than 20 counts, including sexual assault, false imprisonment and disorderly conduct.
Although genetic information has become more accessible through direct-to-consumer testing, the secrets it reveals are not always as clear as a crystal ball.“They’ll tell you whether you like cilantro, which is a genetic trait,” said Jason Fletcher, a professor of public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They’re right with that — I hate cilantro. … But they’re wrong when they tell me that I shouldn’t be bald.”
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.
Does the name Vel Phillips ring a bell? How about Edwin Witte? They are more than 120 University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni whose achievements will be honored at Alumni Park, a new feature on the Lake Mendota waterfront due to open Oct. 6.
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.
Though still mired in the roar of construction, UW-Madison’s Alumni Park will soon offer a stunning view of Lake Mendota on one end, and the social center of the campus on the other.
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.
Filming my third short documentary, “Voices,”was a transformative experience. “Voices” is a 10-minute documentary chronicling the inception of the first Afro-American Cultural Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973 and the opening of the newly minted Black Cultural Center in 2017. It tells the erased narratives of black students at UW–Madison.
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.
