Category: Campus life

Move-in photo gallery.

The Princeton Review named the University of Wisconsin the country’s top party school Monday. Two Heralders explored the good and the bad of this.

UW-Madison is back atop a list it doesn’t want to be on, but can’t seem to get off of. The Princeton Review has ranked UW the number one party school in the nation.

One of the nation’s best-known college rankings has once again crowned UW-Madison the top party school in the country, a distinction sure to draw groans from campus administrators nearly as loud as the cheers from many students.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has clinched the number one party school spot. West Virginia University has claimed second and The University of Illinois was lowered to the third spot.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is ranked the top party school in the nation in the annual rankings released Monday by the Princeton Review.

MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are chafing under a state-imposed tuition freeze and the football team didn’t crack the Top 25 preseason rankings. But no school in the country throws a better party, according to the Princeton Review’s 2017 edition of “The Best 381 Colleges.”

Two city streets on the UW-Madison campus will be shut down to through traffic starting Tuesday, so thousands of students can move into their dormitory rooms.

University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders are chafing under a state-imposed tuition freeze and the football team didn’t crack the Top 25 preseason rankings. But no school in the country throws a better party, according to the Princeton Review’s 2017 edition of “The Best 381 Colleges.”

According to the City of Madison, there are a few street closures and transit route changes in order to accommodate UW Move-In.

The somewhat mysterious whistle has actually been a signal for a variety of messages through the years.

With $8,000 to go and 30 hours left to her Kickstarter campaign, Sagashus Levingston walked into Divine Transformation Salon on Madison’s south side, looking for help. After hearing about the project, the salon’s owner, Fontainious Webb, made a generous contribution and offered ideas for more funding possibilities. As clients trickled in, support began to swell.

MILWAUKEE —University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials were on the offensive Thursday, trying to set the record straight after being accused by some of trying to censor student speech.

UW-Madison’s Red Gym could soon be home to the latest physical location of Amazon, after the university’s governing board approved a plan for the online retail giant to open a package pickup location inside the historic campus building.

A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is introducing a course this fall that aims to foster public discourse about UW’s role in current issues in the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea.

University of Wisconsin-Madison is taking another step in its ongoing program of acquiring property near campus for eventual redevelopment.

UW-Madison officials say they have been ramping up their efforts to prevent sexual misconduct on campus with new programs, training and staff members in the year since a survey found more than 25 percent of undergraduate women have experienced sexual assault.

Starting this month, all UW-Madison graduate students and new students in the university’s professional schools will take part in mandatory sexual assault and harassment education programs.

The University of Wisconsin is on track to strike a deal with Amazon creating a central location on campus for package pickup.

Harvard has more millionaire alumni than any other university in the world, according to a new survey. UW is No. 20.

Democratic Senate candidate Russ Feingold helped some students move into their new apartment and talked about college affordability early Monday morning.

Multiple downtown streets will be closed Saturday morning due to the Madison Mini Marathon.

For the first time in 15 years, a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice is coming to UW-Madison.

Fermentation — the process by which microorganisms metabolize sugar into alcohol and other byproducts — has been an important part of the human diet for thousands of years. But the art and science of this practice is undergoing a bit of a renaissance, as craft brewing explodes, and as professional and home cooks rediscover its important role in the preparation of many foods.

In March 2014, Sri Lankan customs officials got a tip that valuable contraband was moving through the country’s port city of Colombo.

There’s a new exhibit in the display cases at the south end of the Mechanical Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.

Several UW-Madison students sat down with U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., Sunday in Union South to plan how to best unite students for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election.

During the student lease turn-over process, residents on the UW-Madison campus may find themselves left with unwanted items as they move from one location to the next.

As she prepares to step into her new role as UW-Madison’s director of community relations, Leslie Orrantia is poised to send a message of collaboration between the university and all of Dane County.

With thousands of leases set to expire in the coming days and city crews preparing to pick up hundreds of tons of garbage, clothing and furniture left behind by tenants, UW-Madison and local officials are once again ramping up their efforts to reduce waste during the rush of Downtown move-out days.

A Q&A with Kathy Knox, the League’s Board Interest Groups’ Chair