UW-Madison is recommending that students be vaccinated against a rare form of meningitis following the hospitalization of two students last week, university officials said Friday.
UW-Madison spent $23.6 million in the latest fiscal year to keep about 200 faculty members on campus after other universities ramped up their efforts to recruit professors away in the wake of budget cuts and controversial changes to tenure policies, officials said Friday.
Yes, Rece Davis confirmed, it is as much fun on the ESPN “College GameDay” set as it looks on TV.
Back when I was a freshman at UW-Madison in the fall of 1988, one of the fraternities pulled one of those stupid stunts where white people dress up in blackface. In this case, there was a “slave auction” and skits parodying the likes of Oprah Winfrey.
UW-Madison students can start getting free vaccinations on Thursday against the rare form of meningitis that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.
In an effort to gauge how comfortable people from different racial, religious, political and other backgrounds feel on campus, UW-Madison is launching a survey of its student body that officials say could inform changes meant to improve the university’s climate.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is urging all undergraduates to get vaccinated against a rare form of meningitis that put two students in the hospital last week.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says it spent nearly $24 million in its latest fiscal year to persuade about 200 faculty members not to leave after other universities ramped up their efforts to lure professors away in the wake of budget cuts and tenure changes.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says it spent nearly $24 million in its latest fiscal year to persuade about 200 faculty members not to leave after other universities ramped up their efforts to lure professors away in the wake of budget cuts and tenure changes.
Campus health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending that UW-Madison undergraduate students become vaccinated against meningococcal disease serogroup B.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last academic year spent $23.5 million to counter job offers and hang on to a growing number of faculty who had opportunities to leave, and most of that money came from federal funding that supports research overhead and the university’s private research foundation, according to university officials and a report released Friday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday issued a rare recommendation that all undergraduates get immunized against a type of potentially deadly meningococcal disease that put two students in the hospital a week ago and announced it will set up a special clinic starting Thursday to offer the expensive vaccine to students at no charge.
Miss Wisconsin USA returned to the Chippewa Valley Sunday. Skylar Witte, a UW-Madison student, celebrated her honor with family and friends at the Theatre Guild in Eau Claire.
Officials from ESPN are working on the final touches to their College Game Day stage, getting ready to put UW-Madison on the national stage for the Badgers vs. Ohio State game Saturday.
Presenting to a room of about 500 students at the fourth annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase Thursday evening, four prolific entrepreneurs, all University of Wisconsin graduates themselves, touted the qualities that make for successful endeavors in entrepreneurship.
UW-Madison’s College of Letters & Science Career Initiative program received approval last Friday to move into the third floor of the University Bookstore.
Once mature, the spherical fungi will puff at the slightest impact, emitting a cloud of dust-like spores. During a recent rainstorm, YouTube user Cid Freitag managed to capture one mass puffening near the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Reports of discrimination at the University of Wisconsin-Madison more than tripled this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the university’s Bias Response Team.
The Wisconsin Energy Institute is buzzing with about 400 scientists, graduate students and staff.It boasts the University of Wisconsin System’s largest grant, $265 million over a decade. But, its sunsets next year, and the Energy Institute is at a pivotal point, both in leadership and funding.
The University of Wisconsin Bias Response Team released a report Wednesday that found students reported nearly three times more campus bias incidents in the first half of 2016 than in the last half of 2015.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department will institute some added restrictions surrounding Bascom Hill in preparation for ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday.
Fifty-two-year-old Witte Residence Hall will receive a $47 million renovation, after approval Wednesday from the State Building Commission.
The number of hate and bias incidents reported on campus has increased from 18 in Fall 2015 to 66 in the spring, according to university officials.
Governor Scott Walker announced Wednesday a renovation project for Witte Residence Hall on UW-Madison’s campus has been approved.
Sweatshirts are causing a stir on the UW campus. A group of students are selling shirts with racially charged statements.
Gov. Scott Walker Wednesday approved a request to renovate the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s largest residence hall, according to a news release.
The State Building Commission signed off Wednesday on a $47 million renovation that will bring air conditioning and other creature comforts to UW-Madison’s Witte residence hall.
UW-Madison students reported more than three times as many instances of discrimination to campus officials through the first half of 2016 than they had during the prior six months, according to a report released Wednesday.
Shortly after Lori Berquam became dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 20 years ago, she encountered a female student on a moped covered with stickers.
Eneale Pickett, a second-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was done with polite, comfortable conversations about race, so he debuted an in-your-face clothing line with shirts and hoodies featuring slogans like “ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACIST.” Now, he’s getting death threats.
The first critical assessment of changes in teacher compensation published in Wisconsin since Act 10 was released this fall in a study by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
A national free speech organization has given the University of Wisconsin’s newly updated bias reporting policy a “green light.”
A UW-Madison student says he’s received death threats in reaction to his movement to end racism on campus.
-Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students were hospitalized with meningitis this week, the university said Friday.
Two students at UW-Madison who were hospitalized last week have both been confirmed to have meningococcal disease B, a form of the bacterial disease few students are vaccinated against, according to a statement from university officials.
No new cases of meningococcal disease have been reported at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since last week, when two students were hospitalized with the rare, potentially deadly bacterial illness.
After $250 million in funding was cut from the UW System in the state’s last biennial budget, many different members of the campus community condemned the effect the cuts would have on universities. At a panel in Union South Monday, faculty, staff and students came together to discuss the ways in which the cuts are proving harmful.
For many students, meeting the statue of Abraham Lincoln after a trek up Bascom Hill is part of a normal day at UW-Madison. However, some students of indigenous descent view Lincoln’s post overlooking campus as a reminder of the suffering of their ancestors at his command.
Hundreds of students stepped onto the Kohl Center floor for the fifth annual “Shooting Down Cancer” Monday in an event that brought together the Wisconsin basketball program and its student body.
Addressing how cuts to education affect students, Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, said everyone has to come together to address systemic funding problems at “Fund the Freeze” “teach-in” Monday at Union South.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the eligibility of two student organizations — Working Class Student Union and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán — to get funding from student segregated fee.
Kicking off its #DecolonizeOurCampus campaign, student organization Wunk Sheek held a die-in protest at the top of Bascom Hill to promote the rights of indigenous people and condemn Columbus Day Monday.
University of Wisconsin sophomore and First Wave scholar Eneale Pickett is no longer saying, whispering or asking “Can I please be given access to this space?”
On most crisp, fall days in Madison, students and families spend their afternoons enjoying a walk along Lake Mendota, or a Spotted Cow on the Terrace at Memorial Union.
The headline of the email reads “UW-Madison Crime Warning,” but it is the subhead that details the crime itself — sexual assault.
A Madison woman was arrested on Sunday for attacking a 26-year old victim near the UW- Madison campus.
House Speaker Paul Ryan will be in Downtown Madison on Friday for a speech and conversation with UW-Madison’s College Republicans, the group announced Monday.
ESPN’s College GameDay pregame show will come to Madison for the sixth time in the show’s history when the Badgers host Ohio State on Saturday. Here’s a look at each of the previous five times GameDay visited UW.
Two University of Wisconsin Masters in Business Administration courses became the first to receive a STEM designation in the country Thursday, which could make the degree more valuable to students and employers.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students are recovering from meningitis.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students were hospitalized with meningitis this week, the university said Friday.
Two UW-Madison students are recovering from the disease that can cause meningitis as officials try to determine if the two cases are related.
Noted: This State Journal editorial ran on Oct. 11, 1916, the day after Bascom Hall, which was then called Main Hall, lost its ornate dome to fire.
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building on the UW-Madison campus will be a hive of activity Oct. 20-23 during the 6th annual Wisconsin Science Festival, where thousands of people will engage in science, often in unique ways.
Before she shows social work students a video about post-traumatic stress disorder that includes graphic images, UW-Madison professor Angela Willits warns them about the upsetting scenes.
Wisconsin students sell ‘all whites are racist’ hoodies: Blake Neff of the Daily Caller writes: “Several students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to sell a line of hoodies carrying provocative messages like, ’All White People Are Racist,’ and another variation that seems to promote anti-cop violence.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students were hospitalized this week with meningococcal disease, and one has been confirmed to have a type of the rare, potentially deadly form that most students have not been immunized against.
The campus drinking culture continues to isolate non-drinking students of color, according to a recent University Health Services survey that assessed those students’ experiences with alcohol during college.
Some University of Wisconsin-Madison students believe the recent top ranking as a “party school” is an attack on the character of the university and said as much in a resolution approved Wednesday by Associated Students of Madison.
Wunk Sheek, UW-Madison’s “only organization that can speak for the indigenous voices on campus,” received eligibility for funding from the Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee Thursday to finance enduring cultural traditions and the development of new programming.
