Category: Campus life

University screening policies, traveler preparedness combine to minimize potential dangers overseas.

UW-Madison will work with graduate students in the Office of Human Resources and representatives from different colleges to develop new policies and procedures related to graduate assistant employment.

Nine percent of UW-Madison students experience suicidal ideation, according to a recent University Health Services report, leading the campus community to raise concerns about stigma surrounding the issue.

Karen Oberhauser, a monarch butterfly researcher, has been named director of the UW-Madison Arboretum.

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison want more information on — and influence over — the investments and business dealings of their school. But efforts by student government to compel more transparency and exert influence have opened rifts among its members.

Three times this week Associated Students of Madison representatives brought cases against their own Student Council surrounding controversial divestment legislation and a subsequent bylaws change.

Release of student date of birth, graduation date among changes Office of Registrar will enact.

Berquam shared news in hopes of showing solidarity with students whose lives have been touched by cancer.

The UW-Madison’s Varsity Band Concert was held this past weekend. The annual spectacle is something nearly 30,000 fans look forward to, but the band was almost without its charismatic leader who recently underwent double bypass surgery.

Shanara Reid-Brinkley concluded her three-day lecture series by highlighting ways white, black community can come together.

Medical Students for Choice and NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin hosted the Thursday panel as leaders in the field of reproductive rights in Wisconsin led a discussion on abortion services at the University of Wisconsin Health Services Learning Center.

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.

As the Kohl Center prepares for the 43rd Annual Varsity Band Spring Concert. Backstage, UW Band Director Mike Leckrone is getting ready to take center stage.

Statistics instructors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are apologizing to students for putting a question about a border wall on a test.

A national expert on civil rights, social justice and campus culture has been named the next president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

You and your dog have a chance to help raise money for the department.

The UW-Madison Libraries are in the midst of a makeover, and in light of proposed transformations, the university will hold two upcoming town halls dedicated to collecting campus input on the futures of the libraries.

Students in full-body cow suits loitered around Library Mall Wednesday, handing out can koozies and beef jerky to passersby.

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.