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.
Continuing a parade of new student housing towers near UW-Madison, a developer is proposing a 12-story, 46-unit apartment building near the corner of North Charter and West Johnson streets.
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.
SoHE faculty associate Lesley Sager tells us how she and her students at UW-Madison are using the principles of design to solve problems and create better lives for people around the world.
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.
A man who claimed to have information on the 2008 homicide of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student died over the weekend.
“They’re a hook and they’re powerful,” said Yorel Lashley, who runs the Drum Power Drum and Dance Camp, which wrapped up last week at UW-Madison.
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.
After a cross-country manhunt, a Northwestern University professor and University of Oxford employee are in custody for the brutal stabbing death of a 26-year-old hair stylist in Chicago. The case has involved peculiar twists, including a cash donation by one of the two suspects in the victim’s name at a Wisconsin library and a videotaped confession sent to friends. The two men surrendered peacefully in California after eight days as fugitives.
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.
Ever since I can remember, food has fascinated me. When I was a young child, my parents frequently took me out to eat—to the kinds of places you didn’t take kids. I collected menus and received a subscription to Gourmet magazine on my 10th birthday. It was inevitable that I would want to learn how to cook. My father instigated it when he gave me a meat thermometer and a dollar and told me to take out the Sunday roast before my mother overcooked it. But what would become a lifelong passion began with Carson Gulley and his TV show.
A former college student in Wisconsin has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a dorm, despite telling friends in a group text message that he did.
Beginning in January, moped drivers will not be able to park their rides at bike racks and on sidewalks following the City Council’s approval Tuesday of stricter rules.
An arrest warrant has been issued for a Northwestern associate professor and a University of Oxford employee in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in a Near North Side apartment. He is a UW alum.
Eneale Pickett was just two years old when his father died.
College students notoriously rely on cheap, easy food like ramen noodles. But a new program on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is trying change that by making fresh produce an easy option for students, too. It’s called the UW Campus Food Shed.
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.
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.
“It’s goggles, gloves and lab coats right now,” Dan Murphy, outreach coordinator for the Morgridge Institute for Research, shouted, rallying participants in Summer Science Camp at the Institutes for Discovery on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus earlier this week.
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.
In an effort to connect black-owned businesses in Milwaukee and Madison, the Heymiss Progress Business Expo and Job Fair returned to Madison late July, this year featuring a University of Wisconsin student’s clothing line which drew headlines for its controversial message.
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.
A UW-Madison student is pushing drunk driving prevention at campus bars to help cope with the loss of his girlfriend to a suspected drunk driver. Senior Nick Debner tells 27 News he scans bar parking lots, and if he sees a drinking patron about to leave in a car, he often intervenes.
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduates will have a space devoted to them on campus when Alumni Park officially opens on Oct. 6. The 1.3-acre green space, located between Memorial Union and the Red Gym, will contain more than 50 museum-like exhibits throughout the gardens.
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.
A master plan for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus adopted by the City Council this week gives the university an expedited process of review for its development projects.
When Bud Selig steps to the podium next Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y., to deliver his acceptance speech during induction ceremonies for the Baseball Hall of Fame, there will be many familiar faces in what is expected to be an enormous crowd.
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.
What happens on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on a #UWSummer Day UW-Madison officials wanted to document it for everyone, so they deployed campus photographers, videographers and writers across campus Tuesday.
Luckily, this wasn’t during the school year. Only 16 camp counselors were staying there at the time and all got out safely.
New rules will limit what kinds of bags spectators can bring into University of Wisconsin football games at Camp Randall Stadium starting this season, but the change isn’t as severe as at some other schools.
In the interest of security, the University of Wisconsin has announced a new bag policy for fans attending home football games this upcoming season at Camp Randall Stadium.
UW-Madison Police Department and Madison Gas & Electric responded to the scene after they received a call around 3 p.m. The cause and location of the leak is currently unknown, according to UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
Marc Lovicott, UW Police Department spokesman, said the leak was first reported between 2:45 p.m. and 3 p.m. Monday, but has since been turned off. West Dayton and West Johnson streets surrounding the residence hall were closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic, Lovicott said.
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.
Think the cost of a University of Wisconsin education has been frozen for the past four years? Think again: that’s just tuition.
MADISON (WKOW) — UW-Madison students could soon be shaping local policies and helping with county projects after a bill passed Thursday night.
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.
A judge in Madison has entered not-guilty pleas for an expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of molesting and harassing 11 women on campus since 2014.
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.
While lawmakers in the state Capitol debate legislation that would punish University of Wisconsin students who interrupt campus speeches, the UW Board of Regents quickly and unanimously approved a resolution Friday affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
Over a year after University of Wisconsin-Madison students of color protested at a Board of Regents meeting and demanded that the university address what they saw as its institutional racism, the task force formed to hear them out affirmed that the system needs to do more for marginalized students.
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.
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