Category: Campus life

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

A 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student is being featured in the September issue of Glamour magazine in an investigation into the rise of homelessness on college campuses.

University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans was recently featured in a Glamour article for a less than glamorous reason — she spoke frankly about her six year struggle with homelessness as a student.

Wisconsin Public Radio program to feature “The Life Of UW Chef And Instructor Carson Gulley” during segment on Thursday, Aug. 11.

The annual migration of apartment dwellers in Madison has started, with Madison garbage and recycling crews ready to take away the discards.

UW-Madison has started searches for candidates for two positions, the chief human resources officer for the university, and director of the UW-Madison Arboretum.

Madison Gas & Electric will be performing maintenance work, including pavement replacement, on a gas main on the UW campus.

Parking meters are becoming a thing of the past at UW-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) is starting a new initiative this fall to help incoming freshmen from one of the whitest states in the union better understand diversity.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is creating a diversity program for its incoming freshmen students after a series of race-related incidents on campus.

Fresh from Iowa, Najeeha Khan came to University of Wisconsin-Madison with a thirst for more diversity.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying out a new diversity program for incoming students. This comes after multiple incidents of racial hate threats plagued the campus last year and fueling social unrest among students.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the campus will test the program on up to 1,000 freshmen to allow students to learn about themselves and others.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is creating a diversity program for its incoming freshmen students after a series of race-related incidents on campus.

University of Wisconsin–Madison doesn’t just stand alone as our state’s only representation among the 120 most Jewish schools in the nation, it’s got the seventh-largest Jewish population on the nationwide public schools list. With an estimated 4,200 Jewish undergraduates, about 13 percent of students are Jews.

The departure of the video gaming scholars Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler from the University of Wisconsin-Madison won’t just result in the university losing two of the leading academics in the field of games and learning.

Stereotypes and generalizations are powerful in that they constrict the poor and oppressed to limited and dismal narratives that people — both black and white — innately accept as universal truths. For Sagashus Levingston, a low-income black mother with six children from Chicago, you can go ahead and keep your stereotype to yourself. There’s no telling her what she can’t do. She’s simply not hearing it.

DeJa Cooper and Kingsley-Reigne Pissang are the embodiment of The Dream for attending college. The two incoming University of Wisconsin-Madison PEOPLE College Scholar freshmen were selected to go to the White House this year for the Beating the Odds Summit.

A new law in Wisconsin aimed at prescription drug and heroin abuse allows pharmacies to provide naloxone, the life-saving antidote, without a prescription. It’s one of many recent laws looking to combat opioid addiction in Wisconsin.

The University of Wisconsin Law School is launching a new program to help exonerate Latinos who have been wrongly convicted.

Noted: Madison, Wis. It has been praised for its employment opportunities and low poverty rate for older adults, a low crime rate, quality health care, intellectual engagement at the University of Wisconsin, an abundance of recreational and fitness activities, and low rates of smoking, falls and diabetes among older people. Housing is considered expensive, however.

Along with increasing costs, many students are facing food insecurity on college campuses across Wisconsin.

Two UW sophomores are fed up the with racial hate and bias incidents at the University of Wisconsin and in the Madison area.