Category: Campus life

Due to circumstances beyond their control — meaning it would be crazy to stop now — the Memorial Union Terrace will remain open this week.

UW-Madison has suspended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and ordered its members to take part in diversity training after an investigation found students in the chapter repeatedly used racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs, then ostracized a black member who told them to stop, officials said Tuesday.

Roundup of Instagram posts using #uwgrad.

Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson had a message of positivity and resolve for graduates at University of Wisconsin’s 2016 commencement ceremony Saturday.

According to UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone, a crowd of roughly 47,500 families and friends of graduates attended the 2016 Spring Commencement Saturday in Camp Randall Stadium despite strong winds, cold temperatures and brief snow.

UW-Madison is giving special recognition to a graduate student who overcame a lot to continue his important work but passed away before he was able to finish it.

Over 47,000 students, parents and educators have braved chilly temperatures today at Camp Randall Stadium for commencement events for the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The forecast had called for wind chills near 40 degrees and some of those attending reported seeing snow flurries and hail.

For three years, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have been working toward adding more summer courses to the school’s curriculum. “The campus is now moving toward not just having summer school, but having a summer term,” the associate dean for curriculum and global affairs for the School of Education, David Rosenthal, said.

When Chris Enos first visited UW-Madison from Boston, Massachusetts, he looked at the Abraham Lincoln statue that overlooks Bascom Hill and told himself one day he’d get to sit on Abe’s lap.

Russell Wilson played at the University of Wisconsin for just one year, but apparently that one year was enough to make him a commencement speaker for Saturday’s commencement ceremony.

Super Bowl XLVIII champion Russell, 27, said: ’If you’re dating a woman that’s way out of your league, ask her to marry you.’

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson will get an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is being cited for his dedication to the university and the Wisconsin Idea.

For three years, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have been working toward adding more summer courses to the school’s curriculum.

Russell Wilson had a lot to say about Tom O’Brien and N.C. State during a commencement speech the Seattle Seahawks quarterback gave at the University of Wisconsin on Saturday.

May 12 was a joyous day: The return of the Memorial Union Terrace.

(Video) Crews have been hard at work for more than seven months, updating and improving the Memorial Union Terrace at UW Madison. This weekend the sunburst chairs are out, and our 27 News viewers are getting an exclusive tour of the upgrades on Wake Up Wisconsin.

MADISON, Wisconsin — The University of Wisconsin-Madison will award a posthumous degree Friday for just the second time in the school’s 168-year history to a student who faced enormous obstacles on his way to a doctorate.

Directors of ethnic and indigenous studies programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are calling on Chancellor Rebecca Blank to make a significant financial investment in their fields to improve campus climate, prompt conversations on race, and produce leaders for a diverse future.

The first spoken weather forecast on U.S. radio came out of St. Louis? Not so fast.In a recent post, historian Frank Absher wrote that St. Louis University aired the first spoken (as opposed to Morse code) weather broadcast on American airwaves. Shortly after we published that item, however, an email came from Wisconsin Public Radio questioning the assertion.

Laverne Cox gave a deeply political speech about her life and about black and transgender identity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Monday night.

For those attending UW-Madison commencement ceremonies at the Kohl Center or Camp Randall Stadium this weekend, think of it as going to a basketball or football game, when it comes to parking.

When University of Wisconsin–Madison freshman Launa Owens reported that someone slipped a racist note underneath her dorm room door last month, one of the first things university officials did was explore the possibility that Owens created the note herself.

Their snapchat love story was declared the next great romantic comedy when it captured the nation’s attention, but right now these two University of Wisconsin students are just trying to get through finals.

A meet-cute romance that played out in real time on a University of Wisconsin-Madison Snapchat channel last week seems to have charmed not only students around campus, but the national media as well.

This story might have attacked your social media feed at some point in the past week. A pair of UW Madison students met on the app, Snapchat, and wound up getting the whole campus in on their quest to find each other.

A love story on UW-Madison’s campus has a modern day twist to it.

A student posted on UW’s Snapchat to try and find someone she was head over heels for. In the video, she says, “The guy wearing the Vikings Jersey on the UW Snap Story, I’m seriously in love with you. Find me.”

Planet Mercury’s transit, or crossing, of the sun on Monday would be next to impossible, and dangerous, to see with the naked eye, so the Washburn Observatory at UW-Madison will open its doors to the public for safe viewing of the event.

UW-Madison grads will be able to snap photos at the terrace one last time before heading out into the real world.

The Memorial Union Terrace is set to reopen temporarily for graduation weekend.

The Memorial Union Terrace will likely reopen May 20 after months of construction, officials announced Tuesday, and parts of the iconic campus spot along Lake Mendota will be open for UW-Madison’s graduation weekend.