University of Wisconsin-Madison will ask UW System Regents to approve $9 million more in spending to demolish and rebuild the Southeast Recreational Facility on Dayton Street, bringing the cost to $96.5 million.
UW-Madison graduates will have a new look when they gather for commencement later this spring.
The University of Michigan is the best public college in America, according to Buffalo Business First’s nationwide rankings for 2017, which have been released Tuesday. The state universities of North Carolina and California are this year’s runners-up.
Five UW-Madison graduate students and one post-doctoral scholar will be inducted this upcoming weekend into a national honor society that promotes diversity and excellence at the highest levels of education.
A revised deal between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Amazon to open a pickup spot on campus will go before the UW System Board of Regents for approval Thursday.
Students who feel marginalized on campus — by race, gender or sexual orientation — and their allies are engaged in a battle over “safe spaces” with classmates who insist they, and the speakers they invite to campus, can say what they like, no matter who finds it offensive.It’s a culture war for the 21st century that some say threatens America’s bedrock value of freedom of speech.
David French, a senior fellow of the conservative-leaning National Review, visited the University of Wisconsin to discuss some of the facts and fiction when it comes to fighting the organization.
This year, three UW-Madison students out of the 1,286 total nominated from 470 institutions received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship to award their excellence in science and mathematics.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting six women and groping, stalking or sexually preying on four others could face additional charges, UW police announced Monday.
With hundreds of special education degree programs around the country, University of Wisconsin has had to remain unique in their approach to special education to earn College Choice’s No. 2 ranking in the nation.
The writer spoke about her novel “Hag-Seed” and how there are modern-day ideas in a 400 year old play.
FAs across the university have campaigned throughout the semester for “fair and equitable pay.” Although FAs teach the exact same classes, they are paid a lower rate than TAs.
UW-Madison is taking another shot at opening an on-campus facility where Amazon customers can pick up their packages.
Though she was entering a male-dominated field, Anne Massey knew she and other women were no less than any businessman.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police have referred more charges to prosecutors against a UW-Madison student already accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women.
MADISON — The University of Wisconsin – Madison campus is a place where you can Jewishly connect as much as you like and can even immerse yourself in a Jewish bubble.
Outside the UW-Madison campus and State Street, mopeds currently can be parked anyplace a bike can, including bike racks; sidewalks, if the pedestrian path isn’t blocked; legal spots on the street, a lot or ramp.
Families got a chance to see how UW-Madison students are learning, at a weekend-long event.
Madison celebrated Wisconsin’s rich Native American culture this weekend with an annual spring powwow.
Remi Kanazi said divestment doesn’t target individuals, rather institutions.
The UW-Madison student organization Wunk Sheek coordinated the powwow in the Alliant Energy Center’s New Holland Pavilions Saturday and Sunday.
The Madison branch of the Industrial Workers of the World held a demonstration speaking out against fascism and recent violence against members of their union Friday.
When Brooke Evans graduates in May she doesn’t want the university to put low-income students’ challenges on the back burner.
Every year, a panel of artists and scientists at UW-Madison judges the scientific and artistic value of beautiful images and videos created by the university’s science students, faculty and staff.
Eleven UW-Madison professors who are in their mid-career stages have been honored as outstanding faculty.
UW-Madison’s 15th annual free scientific open house is taking place Friday through Sunday at 21 locations on the UW-Madison campus.
At a Distinguished Lecture Series talk Wednesday evening, Reza Aslan told the audience that people are having a hard time defining what it means to be an American, which is leading to a fear of “others.”
Controversial Associated Students of Madison legislation that harshly criticizes Israel drew impassioned backlash from Jewish students and other members of the UW-Madison community at a tense and packed ASM open forum Wednesday.
After six hours of heated debate, the University of Wisconsin Associated Students of Madison voted 13-12-1 to postpone a resolution demanding the university divest from corporations complicit in human rights violations both in the U.S. and around the world.
Noted: Anne P. Massey has been selected as the next dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Massey, currently at Indiana University Bloomington, is a professor of information systems at the Kelley School of Business as well as associate vice president for academic affairs. Massey will succeed François Ortalo-Magné, who has been named dean of London Business School. She begins her new role at Wisconsin on August 7.
The UW Russian Folk Orchestra is holding a free concert celebrating Russian folk music.
One fitness class on UW-Madison’s campus has stood the test of time, lasting more than 30 years.
Most students face cap on sessions and longer wait times, but two schools do not.
Students for Justice in Palestine has taken the lead on the proposition.
Doctoral candidate Julissa Ventura was one of six women honored March 7 with UW’s Outstanding Women of Color award.
Displacement has characterized the Native American experience for hundreds of years.
Alumni of one of the nation’s oldest student newspapers will return to UW-Madison this weekend to celebrate The Daily Cardinal’s 125th birthday.
For the first time in nearly 200 years, UW Madison fraternities and sororities have an anti-sexual assault policy.
The Associated student of Madison’s Student Council has demanded UW Athletics sign a 10-year contract with Wunk Sheek to host their annual Spring Powwow at UW facilities.
Alec Shiva—who is currently facing criminal felony counts of false imprisonment, strangulation and second-degree sexual assault—has been found responsible of a crime of violence by a disciplinary hearing that recommended his expulsion from UW-Madison.
The student organization Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Initiative is holding a drive through the end of March to collect menstrual products to distribute to low-income people who need them in Madison who could not otherwise afford them.
In a January city council candidate forum, a UW-Madison student raised her hand to ask a question that seemed to catch both Zach Wood and John Terry Jr.—who are vying for a seat representing campus—off guard: “What would you do to combat sexual assault?”
The Wisconsin School of Business named a veteran professor at rival Kelley School of Business at Indiana University as its new dean. The school today (March 23) announced that Anne P. Massey, 56, who holds the title of dean’s research professor of information systems at Kelley, will succeed François Ortalo-Magné, who will depart Madison this summer to become dean of London Business School.
Observant Badgers fans may be wondering why legendary UW band director Mike Leckrone has been missing from the NCAA tournament basketball games.
As director of the UW-Madison botany department’s greenhouses and botanical garden, Mo Fayyaz oversees a world of trees, flowers, crops and other plants on campus.
The seasonal prescribed burns of vegetation at the UW-Madison Arboretum start Tuesday, with the fires set and controlled by crews trained in wildfire management.
WHITEWATER—A UW-Madison Varsity Band concert in Whitewater raised nearly $7,500 for music programs in Whitewater schools, according to a news release.
Though the weather was cold, the colorful costumes of Runways of the World at Union South Thursday night made the night warmer.
Four other model cities were scattered around a lobby at UW-Madison’s Union South Friday night as part of the Hip-Hop Architecture Camp’s premiere night festivities. The use of vinyl records was a nod to the project’s concept, a question framed by organizer Michael Ford: “What happens at the intersection of hip-hop culture and architecture?”
MENOMONIE — If Damien Adamski hadn’t come to fully appreciate the “applied” aspect of his applied social science major at UW-Stout, he did by late January when he returned from Ecuador.Heading into his final semester, Adamski, of Eau Claire, and associate professor Tina Lee went on a research trip with a team of engineering students from UW-Madison. The UW-Madison students were finishing installation of a clean water system in the village of Tabuga, on the northwest coast.
Autumn Kent is a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I am lucky enough to call her a friend. Last fall, I was one of the people who was surprised when she came out as a trans woman. I don’t know many trans people, or at least I don’t know that I know them, and I’m grateful that she and my other trans friends have helped me become more conscious of issues affecting trans people and challenged me to be a better ally to trans people.
A dozen UW-Madison faculty members have been honored by the university with the annual Distinguished Teaching Awards, awarded every year since 1953 to honor the best educators at the state’s flagship school.
Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke said at a UW-Madison faculty forum that he hasn’t found any lawmakers who are excited about the plan, The Associated Press reported.
Letter to the editor: As a freshmen in the fall of 2015, I did not anticipate encountering so many issues related to diversity on the University of Wisconsin campus. Having grown up in a predominately white town in Wisconsin, I was excited to come to a university that people and advertisements told me was very diverse. Little did I know that when trying to navigate this large university, campus sometimes can feel unwelcoming to minority students.
To promote inclusivity for the Hmong communities at the University of Wisconsin, Associated Students of Madison unanimously moved to endorse a proposal to implement a Hmong-American Studies Program and Certificate Wednesday.
An idea conceived by four UW-Madison students in the fall of 2012 is coming to fruition with the remodel of Witte Residence Hall. After 53 years, the dorm, located in the Southeast neighborhood of UW-Madison’s campus, is set to be renovated later this month.
As national debates on immigration grow more prominent, the University of Wisconsin is hosting a conference to discuss how to help the children of immigrants and refugees cope with the challenges of starting life in a new community.
Alleging an unfair process, the attorney for a recent Edina High School graduate charged with several sexual assaults at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Wednesday he will appeal his client’s expulsion from the school.
A suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting six women and groping, stalking or sexually preying on four others has been expelled after a non-academic misconduct hearing committee found him responsible for violating student conduct policies related to “a crime of violence.”
UW-Madison is being investigated for four cases of mishandling reports of sexual violence—the second-most of any Big Ten school, after the University of Indiana’s five, and more than double the average of investigations for all Big Ten institutions.
