Category: Campus life

The Chazen Museum of Art will be losing one of its most important pieces this summer, with the retirement of director Russell Panczenko.

Roughly three weeks after UW-Madison student Daniel Dropik took a leave of absence from the university, the American Freedom Party, a white nationalist group, has continued to actively recruit in Madison.

Following pushback from students, faculty and alumni last semester about the Red Gym as an Amazon pickup point location, UW-Madison students will likely be picking up their packages from Sellery Residence Hall.

The Chazen Museum of Art will lose someone who’s been a fixture for 33 years with the retirement of Director Russell Panczenko, who is leaving June 30, according to a UW-Madison news release.

The Wisconsin Idea is a concept most students hear about during their time at the University of Wisconsin. But many students rarely hear about other students who fully embrace the idea.

Changing Health, Attitudes, Actions to Recreate Girls at UW-Madison is a chapter of a national organization that coaches members to be confident and lead healthy lifestyles through weekly meetings and group support.

By gathering more than 100 UW-Madison women together, a new student organization is striving to make fitness a fun component that fits into female students’ lives.

The Global Connections Committee hosted UW political science professors to discuss government corruption amid growing public distrust of public officials.

The UW-Madison School of Business is getting closer to naming a new dean.

Faculty of color at UW-Madison—a demographic that has increased 5 percent in the last 10 years—who got promoted or recently hired were honored Thursday during an annual reception in which top university administrators discussed diversity on campus.

A New York Times award-winning reporter, a UW-Madison graduate and a UW-Madison professor rethought the connection between mass incarceration and race on a panel Tuesday.

For New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor, conversations around mass incarceration in the United States rarely make it past the incarcerated.

“We will be organizing, demonstrating and meeting with different groups to figure out how to come together as a collective to pressure the administration,” said Tyriek Mack, a representative of the Associated Students of Madison student council.

After over four decades of service at UW-Madison, President of the Wisconsin Alumni Association Paula Bonner announced Monday she will retire effective Oct. 31.

More than half of undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduated with no debt in 2015-16, the university said in a news release.

As part of the the University of Wisconsin Multicultural Center’s ongoing festivities of Black History Month, the campus welcomed poet Nikki Giovanni as the celebration’s keynote speaker.

Despite national worries over student debt the last few years, 53.4 percent of UW-Madison’s 2015-‘16 undergraduate class graduated without student debt—a 3 percent increase from the year before, according to a report from the Office of Student Financial Aid.

Mindfulness is an up-and-coming health and wellness technique focused on reducing stress and anxiety. But what exactly does it mean to be mindful, and does it actually work?

Under the Associated Students of Madison bylaws and Wisconsin state statutes, the Student Services Finance Committee is an independent organization. During its meeting Monday night, SSFC will seek to reaffirm their independent status with legislation.

Balancing the newfound energy of city life with academics proved challenging for Emily Nelis, a student who came to UW-Madison after growing up on an Indian reservation in northern Wisconsin.

Noted: A panel of seven experts from the University of Wisconsin System, Madison College, Edgewood College and the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association talked about how to strategize and deal with the teacher shortage during a panel discussion on UW-Madison’s campus last week.

A “cognitive dissonance” exists between UW-Madison’s rhetoric and actions for diversity and inclusion on campus according to Tyriek Mack, a representative for the Associated Students of Madison.

Jarrett Adams was 17 years old in September 1998 when he made a decision he would regret for the rest of his life.

With more than 43,000 students enrolled, the Associated Students of Madison has a large constituency. Adding to this are nearly 1,000 registered student organizations listed on the Wisconsin Involvement Network, 17 General Student Service Fund groups and the network on campus that can each focus and engage students.

The UW-Madison Office of Student Financial Aid has moved toward no longer being “paper-pushers,” as many other financial offices are, according to the office’s Communications Manager Karla Weber.