Category: Campus life

Three engineering students said they were shocked to see issue of immigration brought up in statistics classroom.

The UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies gathered the authors — Paolo Bacigalupi, Emily St. John Mandel and Sherri Smith — to talk about the end of the world as they wrote it.

A group of Hmong-American undergraduates is pushing administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to hire more faculty who study the ethnic group and to launch a program through which students can earn a certificate in Hmong-American studies.

Fatoumata Ceesay is a UW-Madison journalism student and a reporter in the Madison365 Academy. A Bronx native, she moved with her family to Madison at the age of 12 and graduated from Madison East High School. She serves on the board of directors of the Muslim Student Association.

The LGBT Campus Center created a template to serve as a model for signs such as this, which is placed next to what was previously labeled a women’s restroom on the fourth floor of Helen C. White Hall.

Brightly colored powder dusted the grass in hues of blues, yellows and reds near Dejope Hall on the UW-Madison campus Saturday, but the lawn was nothing compared to the colors smeared on the faces of students participating in a traditional Indian celebration marking the return of spring.

Students of The First Wave Hip-Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community display premiere works in annual festival.

John “Vietnam” Nguyen’s legacy continues to inspire in Madison through the JVN Project, an organization set up by those who knew him to keep spreading his positivity by using hip-hop as a tool of empowerment in the Madison community.

If the guiding principle of the Wisconsin Idea is indeed to bring knowledge beyond the state’s campuses, UW-Madison’s partnership with Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan may be the most extreme manifestation of that goal.

Video: Summit aims to increase Latino enrollment at UW-Madison.

While home on congressional recess, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., held a town hall Thursday in Dejope Hall to answer questions from students and community members alike.

John Hall, a UW history professor, said the recent surge of populist and nationalist views in political discourse is not a new phenomenon.

Four people have been selected as candidates for the UW-Madison director of undergraduate admissions and recruitment, with the finalists scheduled to make public presentations on campus within the next two weeks.

The University of Wisconsin celebrates the unofficial start of spring by bringing the iconic sunburst chairs outside to the Memorial Union Terrace on Lake Mendota.

The “Leon Varjian Pail and Shovel Archives Exhibit” will open at 4 p.m. May 6 at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union.

A new academic calendar was released on Wednesday, showing major changes in when the fall and spring semesters begin, how long a semester lasts and a set day when spring commencement happens.

A campus wide awareness campaign at UW-Madison brought a human trafficking survivor to share her story, on Wednesday.

’Empathy and humility,’ ’relentless curiosity,’ ’intellectual confidence’ and ’purposeful action’ among ideas for additions.

Old schedule negatively impacted student experience, UW officials said.

For about seven years, on the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue, sat a sign that read “Future home of the UW School of Music Performance Center.”

Six UW-Madison economic professors penned a letter along with professors nationwide to President Donald Trump, detailing the economic benefits of immigration.

Leng Lee came to the U.S. from a refugee camp in Thailand when he was just 5 years old. Here he grew up in poverty. “But I got lucky,” he said. “I did well in school.” With financial assistance and a fellowship, he was able to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison for his undergraduate and graduate degrees while accumulating minimal debt.

Lambright describes the extraordinary opportunity provided by a program at UW–Madison called PEOPLE—Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence.

UW-Madison hopes to pilot a program that would slash student textbook prices by large margins, according to a university official.

Teaching as a black woman at a predominantly white university has its struggles, according to New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay.

Educators from throughout the Midwest came to Madison on Monday to learn how they can better serve their students through the art of hip-hop.

A sure sign that warmer days are here to stay in Madison: The Union Terrace chairs are set to return this week.

Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are bullying one another more than what was expected by researchers who surveyed them on campus life, a new report reveals.

To the students who organized it and UW-Madison officials who supported it, the Revelry Music Festival was a new rite of spring — a day of concerts put on by and for students starting in 2013 that just so happened to be held during the raucous Mifflin Street Block Party.

The Engineering Expo is an annual event where younger students explore what engineering involves through displays and demos.

Despite having already removed multiple members this school year, Student Services Finance Committee passed legislation Thursday allowing unlimited excused absences rather than a bill that would have made it more difficult for members struggling with attendance to return to the committee.

Four UW-Madison administrators are currently being investigated for allegedly discriminating against a student, according to the student filing the complaint and university officials.

In place of Revelry this year, WUD Music will be putting on a bigger show, WUDstock, April 29, the day of the Mifflin Street Block Party.

Members cited issues with lack of attendance from last semester, votes to implement consequences.

Khury Petersen-Smith said President Donald Trump is inspiring a new generation of radicals.

UW-Madison will begin a pilot program to provide free menstrual products to students starting this month.

Both UW-Madison and city police say they would permit their officers to wear hijabs while on duty, a move that sets them apart from other departments around the country.