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.
Growing up in some of Chicago’s tougher neighborhoods presents a very big challenge to young people who want more for their lives than the gangs and drug dealing they often see all around them. But on Tuesday night, more than 300 youngsters were honored as part of the Chicago Scholars program.
A new study ranks UW-Platteville and Madison as two of the ‘best value colleges’ in the state.
The smartasset.com study ranked schools based on criteria including average starting salary for grads, living costs and tuition.
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.
Dozens marched on the UW-Madison campus Tuesday night, to speak out against recent sexual assaults.
They walked from Bascom Hill to Memorial Union, chanting.
Student Claire Van Valkenburg organized the march.
The Small Business Development Center at the UW-Madison Wisconsin School of Business is accepting nominations for the 2016 Dane County Small Business Awards.
The Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot will appear at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in November as part of the just-announced Wisconsin Union Theater 2016-17 season.
Column: On May 1, UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote about the great pain that has been caused on the UW campus, particularly to students of color, by the string of hate and bias incidents that have recently occurred. She said she believes the incidents reflect a lack of understanding, not just on campus, but in our increasingly diverse nation. Blank wrote of addressing these issues with training programs in cultural competency and community building, more mental health counseling, and UW’s Diversity Framework. The UW community responded to a request for ideas with over 100 proposals that a committee is reviewing and prioritizing.
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.
A competency hearing was ordered for a Madison man after he was charged Tuesday with tagging buildings and electrical boxes in the Downtown and UW-Madison campus areas with symbols representative of white supremacist groups.
If you’ve been online in the past 48 hours, you might’ve seen headlines about a college romance blossoming after two University of Wisconsin students saw each other on Snapchat. (Yes … Snapchat.)
To begin to address cases like Levandoski’s, UW administration announced in February that it would set the campus minimum wage to $9 an hour for its more than 14,000 campus workers, starting Sept. 1, 2016.
Who needs dating apps when you’ve got Snapchat? This past weekend, the addictive social media platform helped two college students find love each other in one epic Snap story. Here’s how it went down:
The Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Monday voted no confidence in Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, and in the system’s Board of Regents. The vote follows the board’s rejections of proposals made by faculty groups that they said would protect academic freedom in new system policies on tenure and the elimination of faculty jobs.
E-cigarettes will no longer be allowed in University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings or near entrances as part of a new school policy that says e-cigarettes haven’t been studied enough to determine if there are potential health risks.
After a string of anti-Semitic and racist incidents on campus, UW-Madison faculty from the four ethnic and indigenous studies departments sent Chancellor Rebecca Blank a proposal with their ideas on how to improve the campus climate for students of color.
Nearly 16 years after UW-Madison came under fire for photoshopping a black student on the 2001-’02 Undergraduate Application’s cover photo that created a facade of diversity, #TheRealUW movement has once again crashed the illusion of a diverse and inclusive campus for all.
Forty-three citations were issued during the Mifflin Street Block Party by 8 p.m. Saturday, Madison police said. Of the 43 citations, one person went to jail. Seven other people were sent to the Dane County Detoxification Center.
Student activists pushing to improve the experiences of minorities at UW-Madison say the wind is at their backs.
Under dull gray skies, thousands of revelers celebrated spring and the coming end of the school year Saturday in a mix of beer, rain and mud with no major incidents at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
The string of hate and bias incidents that we’ve been responding to reflects a lack of understanding on our campus, but also a set of broader issues facing all of us in a nation that is becoming increasingly diverse.
Romantic comedy writers may need to revise the classic boy-meets-girl structure after a University of Wisconsin, Madison student confessed her love for a stranger wearing a Vikings jersey over Snapchat.
About a dozen University of Wisconsin Madison alumni returned to their alma mater Friday to urge the university to stop investing in fossil fuels.
University of Wisconsin Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Patrick Sims and student leader Kenneth Cole discuss recent incidents of racism on the UW campus, as well as potential solutions.
(Video) The Mifflin Street Block Party is known for chaotic house parties, binge drinking and drawing large crowds of college students ready to celebrate the end of the school year. Madison police are preparing for the weekend event and offered safety reminders to revelers. Eden Checkol reports.
BELOIT, Wis. — Three sophomore students at Beloit Memorial High School will receive full-tuition scholarships to the UW Madison Business School upon graduation as part of the Business Emerging Leaders Program.
I hope all the protesters of the handling of the Denzel McDonald situation take the time to read the April 22 State Journal editorial, “Cop camera brings clarity to controversy.”
When, as they have in recent years, 15,000 or more people show up Downtown for the annual Crazylegs Classic, they stand (then move forward en masse) as representatives of the unofficial start of the running season in the Madison area.
Since a violent 2011 block party on Mifflin Street spurred Madison officials to crack down on the unsanctioned event, police costs have declined.
Expect traffic snarls throughout Downtown Saturday morning, as thousands of people first converge on Capitol Square for the start of the event, then wind their way west to the Camp Randall Stadium finish line.
As part of the UW-Madison’s campus wide Day of Service, the first ever UW student food pantry, Open Seat, collected donations in exchange for herb and vegetable plants.
If students donated a non-perishable food item or a hygiene product to the pantry, they were given a basil or lettuce plant to take home and grow.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and other top UW-Madison administrators will take part in cultural competency training this summer, a university spokesman said, after a semester in which student activists have criticized their response to racist incidents on campus.
The UW-Madison Police Department is looking for two men who damaged property inside the Memorial Union early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
The discussion over race relations and cultural competency continues on UW-Madison campus. Earlier this week the Associated Students of Madison sent a letter to UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank, urging her and other administrators to undergo cultural competency training along with the students they serve.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s executives will get cultural training following a semester marked by students’ calls for a more inclusive college experience for minorities.
Catching the last plane from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just hours before a massive earthquake struck in 2010, left Gergens Polynice with a mixture of gratitude and helplessness.
The discussion over race relations and cultural competency continues on UW-Madison campus. Earlier this week the Associated Students of Madison sent a letter to UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank, urging her and other administrators to undergo cultural competency training along with the students they serve.
When graduate students of color at the University of Wisconsin-Madison met with Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Tuesday to talk about the racial climate on campus, one of their requests was for the university to invest in legal counsel for students.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s executives will get cultural training following a semester marked by students’ calls for a more inclusive college experience for minorities.
Late Monday night at approximately 10:38 p.m., three men vandalized two parking signs at a sorority house on Langdon Street with anti-Semitic symbols, according to an email sent to members of the UW-Madison chapter Kappa Alpha Theta.
This instance comes only a few days after two other cases of anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on university buildings, including the west-end wall of the University Bookstore and Engineering Mall.
Wollersheim Winery will be releasing a new wine Wednesday in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison fermentation sciences program, according to a release.
Noted: Soon after that, with support from fellow students and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Polynice created an initiative that still is helping families become self-sufficient in Haiti more than six years later.
UW-Madison marching band director Mike Leckrone said he’s often compared to a coach. It’s a parallel he agrees with.
The UW-Madison campus is divided over a proposed ’no-confidence’ vote led by university professors. The resolution was written to speak out against UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents.
Firefighters respond to a garbage truck fire on Lake Street Monday morning.
Since 1969, students have taken to the streets for the biggest block party of the year. This year, police have a plan to keep everyone safe this year on Mifflin Street.
Madison’s police chief says he wants the annual Mifflin Street Block Party to be a thing of the past.
UW-Madison’s student affairs professionals will have extended hours between April 25 and April 28.
UW-Madison leaders met with community members Monday night at the Urban League of Greater Madison on Park Street. The goal of this community Q&A session was to address recent hate and bias incidents at UW-Madison and to also come up with ways to improve the racial climate on campus.
Firefighters put out a large trash fire after a garbage truck driver dumped trash that had caught fire in the back of his truck in a parking lot in downtown Madison Monday, according to a release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison campus leaders responded to community concerns at a forum Monday night following incidents of racial discrimination culminating in campus protests over the past few months.
It seems to be happening more and more lately: we put an issue on our editorial agenda for the year and the issue takes an unexpected turn before the year is half over.
UW-Madison students, alumni and campus community members are sharing their stories of discrimination and bias with the hashtag #TheRealUW, illuminating how for some students, feeling safe, accepted and respected on this campus is not a given.
Wollersheim Winery will be releasing a new wine Wednesday in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison fermentation sciences program, according to a release.
UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace should reopen in May, officials say, but it’s still unclear whether the major reconstruction project that has kept it closed for months will be finished in time for the university’s graduation weekend in less than three weeks.
After a push from Associate Students of Madison leaders to increase administration cultural competency, Chancellor Rebecca Blank agreed to begin administration training which will address unconscious biases.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling and others faced tough questions and listened to recommendations about improving the campus’ climate at a community meeting at the Urban League of Greater Madison on the South Side.
