Category: Campus life

University of Wisconsin-Madison students voting on campus who lack proper identification will be able to remedy the problem at their polling place this fall.

Officials say the individuals are students from another college who were visiting UW-Madison and picked the doors at random.

Three roads will be closed on the UW-Madison campus beginning Wednesday, Sept. 14.

Some 30 people gathered at the base of Bascom Hill to share experiences of life as members of the LGBTQ+ community and commemorate the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre in June.

After a long summer of avoiding Learn@UW, students at the University of Wisconsin may be surprised to find a new system accessible through their dashboard called Canvas.

As more students attend college, they incur student loan debt that is often unmanageable and unaffordable — something the state’s new Student Loan Debt Specialist Cheryl Weiss is trying to change.

When United Council for University of Wisconsin students was defunded in early spring, a group of students decided they were not going to sit around and leave their peers without a voice.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was warm and funny, but principled and passionate, too, in a 90-minute informal talk Thursday with an audience made up largely of law students and members of the local legal community at the Wisconsin Union Theater.

Through group discussions, one-on-one conversations and even a card game, UW-Madison officials hope a new program they will roll out next week for 1,000 newly arrived students will be a step toward improving the racial climate at their university.

Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court has been both a blessing and a curse and reaching decisions is harder than she ever expected, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday during a visit to UW-Madison.

Highlights from the first day of school at UW-Madison on Sep 6, 2016 in Madison, WI.

The Associated Students of Madison Student Council passed legislation Wednesday urging the UW-Madison Police Department to be transparent about the equipment it owns and intends to own.

SexWIse Workshop kicked off its opening event at Sellery Hall Wednesday night.

Many Americans have been noticing that local police and sheriff’s departments have become more and more militarized over the past decade. More and more, students are worried that this is starting to occur in police departments on college campuses, too. The UW Blackout Movement will host an event tonight on East Campus Mall in hopes of starting a conversation with students and to encourage the UW-Madison police and police nationwide to be more transparent about the military-style equipment they have access to.

University Health Services has hired three new mental health professionals prepared to support underrepresented student groups, including one specifically for students of color, who began their positions Tuesday.

Derek Kindle, who was appointed to lead University of Wisconsin’s financial aid department this summer, said he’s devoted to helping students — but needs support from legislators.

A U.S. Supreme Court justice is visiting Madison on Thursday to give a lecture and have lunch with law students.

The University of Wisconsin and UW System are implementing initiatives to improve campus’ racial climates, but some experts harbor concerns.

Many fans gathered at State Street Brats for one reason, Badger Football.

Members of the UW-Madison community can begin to take advantage this year of several new initiatives meant to foster more diversity and inclusion on campus.

A fourth-year biomedical engineering student at UW-Madison has won the grand prize of an international, GE sponsored, university challenge for his proposed technique to do the impossible.

Each year the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation offers special tours of historic sites in and around Madison. This year the tour will feature the University of Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural Campus.

A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the UW-Madison is “sinister.”

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is back on top. Of the party world, that is. UW-Madison recently was named the nation’s top party school by the Princeton Review. Madison last claimed that title in 2005.

University of Wisconsin officials announced 18 initiatives Wednesday with the goal of achieving diversity and inclusivity on UW’s campus.

University of Wisconsin officials announced 18 initiatives Wednesday with the goal of achieving diversity and inclusivity on UW’s campus.

A Republican state senator says a new diversity outreach program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is “sinister.”