Go to the mountaintop: Honor the legacy of one of America’s greatest civil rights leaders at the annual River Valley Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. Everett Mitchell, a community activist and candidate for Dane County Circuit Court judge, will deliver remarks.
Several cases of mumps have been recently reported in students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to an email sent Tuesday to students from University Health Services.
The cases are connected to current outbreaks of mumps occurring at other Midwestern universities, officials said.
Worship leaders for the Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship wore #BlackLivesMatter T-shirts at the group’s annual “Urbana15” conference in St. Louis last week, where keynote speaker Michelle Higgins called Black Lives Matter a movement doing God’s work.
Noted: Lukas, who was struggling to do his homework, said he has realized that many students could do better at school if they just finished their assignments. Now, he gets help twice a week staying on task and understanding his assignments better from his tutor, Andrew Meyerhofer, a UW-Madison student. Meyerhofer volunteered for the program after hearing about it from his fraternity, Alpha Sigma Phi.
After serving the UW-Madison community since 1909, an iconic church hosted its final mass on Sunday.
St. Paul University Catholic Center will be torn down in the coming months. The building was last remodeled in 1968 and is not meeting the church’s needs anymore. The new facility will be a five-story building including a chapel, dining facilities, meeting rooms, a rooftop terrace and a hall accommodating 200 people.
Cindy Foss retired this month after 24 years of steering, editing and nurturing On Wisconsin, the UW Alumni Association publication. The magazine’s always been a good read whether you’re a UW alum or not. But it has become an even more important chronicle of The Wisconsin Idea recently and Foss was awfully good at leading that effort. Thanks to her we continue to need publications like On Wisconsin.
On Thursday morning, the Catholic student center at UW-Madison did not feel like a place about to be demolished.
The Catholic student center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison holds its final Mass on Sunday before its demolition.
A federal complaint against the University of Wisconsin-Madison about its handling of a sexual assault report — one of three such complaints filed against UW-Madison in 2015 — alleges the victim was subjected to a sexually hostile environment because the university failed to respond promptly and equitably.
Federal authorities have launched another investigation into UW-Madison’s handling of a sexual violence allegation, bringing to three the number of cases on the campus now under review by the U.S. Department of Education.
A bill that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring guns into college and university buildings probably won’t come up for a vote during this session of the state Legislature, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday.
A record number of Chinese students are flocking to the U.S. For higher education and the University of Wisconsin is a popular destination. It may be dead on campus right now, but things will certainly pick up at the start of the new semester as UW educates one of its largest number of Chinese in the 2015-2016 students ever.
Appleton’s Michael Donovan isn’t your typical 22-year-old. Donovan, an Appleton West High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison student, earned top honors from Officer Candidates School in Quantico, Va., this summer at the training command base.
A Netflix documentary focusing on a Wisconsin criminal case is lighting up the internet this Christmas season. The documentary called “Making a Murderer” is centered on the case of Steven Avery.
In 2003, The Wisconsin Innocence Project helped prove Steven Avery was not guilty of sexual assault, which came after Avery already spent 18 years behind bars for the crime he didn’t commit.
A group aiming to help hungry college students is opening a food pantry on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Donations of canned food are being collected in campus offices and dorms to stock the pantry, called the Open Seat.
Called the Open Seat, the pantry will serve a population of college students that advocates say often goes unnoticed, struggling to afford basic needs like housing and food while some of their peers pay four-figure monthly rents to live in luxurious apartment buildings.
Keena Atkinson went from sleeping in her car to graduating from UW-Madison in just six years with the help of the UW Odyssey Project. Brett Bachman reports.
A number of sexual assault survivors from four University of Wisconsin campuses and their lawyer are asking UW System officials for an opportunity to share their concerns about how they were treated and to provide ideas on how future cases should be handled. So far, their request has been denied.
Freshman members of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band won’t make the trip to San Diego for the Badgers’ Dec. 30 game against USC — a result, the band’s leader said, of the Holiday Bowl’s lower payout to participating universities.
A black UW-Madison student newspaper, that ended decades ago, is making a comeback, at a time when race relations on campuses across the country are sparking demonstrations.
Jordan Gaines, a senior from Milwaukee, launched The Black Voice — blackvoicesuw.wordpress.com and @BlackVoicesUW on Twitter — earlier this month as an online media outlet to collect students’ news coverage, opinion writing, art and poetry.
Dozens of students and community members gathered at the Board of Regents meeting Friday morning to declare their demands to make the University of Wisconsin System better for students of color.
Participants in the event wore all black and held signs to represent the discrimination they experience in classrooms and through university policies.
B-cycle stations around Madison will begin operating according to a winter scheduled on Monday. That means the majority of the city’s 39 bicycle sharing stations will be closed for the season.
Starting Monday, the following (university-area) stations will remain open: Lake St. and University Ave.; UW Union South; UW Natatorium.
All other B-cycle stations will be closed.
A meeting between UW System officials and students concerned about diversity and inclusion was canceled Friday, after disagreement over whether or not that meeting should be public.
Friday, The Board of Regents passed a resolution that states the university should not shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome. In a statement, the regents said that, while the university greatly values mutual respect, it cannot be used as a justification for closing off a discussion of ideas, however offensive or disagreeable.
University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross is slated to meet with about students who are demanding more measures to recognize diversity on campus.
About 20 students waited for Cross to finish a Board of Regents meeting on the UW-Madison campus Friday. The students held signs that read “Our president is black, so there’s no reason to talk about race, right?” and “Black and brown lives matter.” As the meeting wound down they silently stood up from their front row seats.
A meeting between University of Wisconsin leaders and a student group demanding more efforts to recognize diversity on campus has fallen through.
UW System President Ray Cross and regents President Regina Millner were slated to meet with about 20 students after a regents meeting Friday morning to discuss demands for a diversity task force, more mental health professionals of color on campus and mandatory racial awareness training.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking on projects that represent, at least for now, long-range dreams for the city while also offering ideas worth discussing outside the classroom.
About 30 University of Wisconsin students and allies staged a silent protest after they were refused a chance to speak Friday at a meeting where the UW System Board of Regents adopted a resolution supporting free speech.
UW-Madison student demonstrators Friday released a list of demands aimed at making the University of Wisconsin System more inclusive, adding UW to a growing group of institutions across the country where black students have sought changes from administrators to improve their experiences on predominantly white campuses.
College-application deadlines are looming for many high school seniors across the state.
(Video) Includes video and interview with members of UW-Madison’s grounds crew.
Families are invited to experience the campus holiday event at a new matinee held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Sunday at Union South. Children can dress up, sing out and revel in old English traditions given a kid-friendly spin.
Featuring Patti Lux-Weber: The college admissions cycle is a long process with a lot of moving parts. In the midst of all of the upcoming deadlines, parents and students may overlook some of the ways that college will affect the family dynamic. Discussing expectations beforehand can help students choose the best school for them and help families feel more confident about the transition to campus. College admissions experts encourage parents to consider the following questions as they set expectations before their teen applies to or chooses a school.
Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison band will be left behind when members make the trip to San Diego in a few weeks for the Holiday Bowl.
Eight UW-Madison doctoral students have won Fulbright scholarships to study overseas, more than any other school in the country.
Since the creation of University of Wisconsin Native American Center for Health Professions, there has been a 250 percent increase in Native student applicants to UW’s medical school.
Created in 2012, Native American Center for Health Professions was designed to improve the health and wellness of Native people, Melissa Metoxen, community and academic support coordinator at the Native American Center for Health Professions, said.
The issue of food and housing insecurity on community college campuses across the country is now at the forefront of many discussions thanks in part to a report published by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Q&a with Sir Williams, UW Law School’s director of admissions, who came to Madison to attend UW-Madison Law School, it was his first time living away from his mother’s home on Chicago’s South Side.
Two projects at UW-Madison are going forward after approval Wednesday by a state panel.
The state building commission approved the renovation of the Babcock Hall dairy plant so it can house the Center for Dairy Research.
The building commission also okayed money for an addition to the UW-Madison police department on Monroe Street.
Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus will reopen on Friday and stay open all winter, but will close once again in spring for more construction.
(Video) Every year a group of seniors at the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism spend an entire semester putting together a 64-page magazine. The new issue of Curb Magazine is available now. This year, the magazine highlights perspectives on Wisconsin traditions. (Featuring Stacy Forster, associate faculty associate in the SJMC.)
Despite administration’s assurances, university’s removal of out-of-state enrollment cap, rising nonresident tuition and Wis. high school achievement gap could add to recruitment challenges for minorities.
The project is researching the size and behavior of packs of coyotes and foxes on and around the UW-Madison campus by capturing the animals and putting radio collars on them. Physical examinations and bio-testing of anesthetized animals provides data for the eventual mapping of the transmission of disease from wild canids to domestic dogs, said David Drake, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and UW Extension wildlife specialist.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors voted 32-2 in favor of a resolution for UW-Madison to modify their student ID cards to have a two year expiration date to comply with voter ID criteria.
Currently, students at UW-Madison cannot use their Wiscards for voting purposes. While in-state students can use their government issued driver’s licenses, out-of-state students do not have a readily available ID to take to the polls, as out-of-state driver’s licenses and other IDs are not valid voter IDs in the state of Wisconsin.
Senator Tammy Baldwin spent an hour with the University of Wisconsin System Sexual Assault and Violence Task Force on the campus of the UW-Madison Friday.
The group discussed ongoing efforts both the university and Congress are making to combat sexual assault on college campuses.
You can learn proper CPR techniques on your lunch break today. The Madison Fire Department is teaching “Sidewalk CPR” on UW’s campus.
“Sidewalk CPR” is today from 11 to 2 at Gordon Commons on the downtown Madison UW campus.
The University of Wisconsin System Sexual Assault and Violence Task Force met with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D- Wisconsin) Friday afternoon.
The conversation focused on how congress can help universities deal with on campus sex assaults. A recent survey of women at UW-Madison found one in four reported experiencing a sexual assault. Friday’s meeting centered around ways to tackle the problem.
Noted: On the University of Wisconsin campus, the Hoofer’s Club held its annual snowboard and ski re-sale. Organizer Mitchell Beres said fewer people have stopped by to buy with no snow on the ground.
“It’s definitely a little difficult to have that mentality and that preemptive mindset,” he said.
Last year, the sale raised more than $400,000. Beres estimated the organization would bring in around $350,000 this year.
(Video) Students across the country are upset with a bill that would change the way sexual assaults are reported on campus. Velena Jones reports.
A sign has been sitting at the corner of Lake and University Streets in downtown Madison for years, announcing the site of a new UW-Madison School of Music building.
Now, a large gift from the Wisconsin Rapids-based Mead Witter Foundation will allow the sign to finally come down next fall and construction to begin on a new building that will house both music classrooms and a large concert hall.
“This was proposed before the 2008 financial crisis and we had some wonderful, generous donors, but the fundraising effort stalled out for some time,” Director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison Johannes Wallmann said. “Even the most optimistic among us thought it might be decades away.”
The president of the University of Wisconsin’s Muslim Student Association applauded the part President Barack Obama’s terrorism speech making clear ISIS did not speak for Islamic faith followers.
“President Obama is telling people to not give into the fear,” said Hani Rustom. “That is when he said ‘that’s exactly what ISIS wants.’ I think he hit it right on the head, because ISIS wants that fear so that people have that anti-Muslim sentiment. That if we, as an American community unite against that sort of thing, I think it will go a long way.”
The Mead Witter Foundation is giving $25 million to University of Wisconsin-Madison to support the building of a music performance venue, writes the Wisconsin State Journal. The donation will allow construction to begin next fall of a 680-seat concert hall, the larger of two performance spaces at the planned Hamel Music Center.
“Just Bust!” is billed as the longest-running open mic in Madison. It is a monthly event hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives.
When one of America’s first graduate-student unions was recognized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1969, organizers embraced a key principle: Graduate assistants should get equal pay for equal work. (Login may be required.)
The foundation of two families that have a long history with the University of Wisconsin has donated $25 million to the UW-Madison School of Music, according to a release.
The 64-year-old Mead Witter Foundation’s gift will provide major funding for the school of music’s new performance building, which is slated to be built at the corner of University Avenue and Lake Street, officials said.
Noted: It used to be that stellar academics, a nice campus and perhaps an array of extracurricular activities were all a university needed to attract students. Now you might have to add a good social media presence to the list. If that’s the case, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is in good shape. The state’s flagship university has one of the best college Twitter accounts according to HubSpot, a marketing software platform. Wisconsin ranked No. 4 on the list.
UW-Madison students will speak Thursday in support of a Dane County Board resolution calling on UW-Madison to alter student identification cards to put them in compliance with state Voter ID laws.
Computer science classes, once the exclusive realm of computer geeks planning careers at software companies, are fast becoming part of the mainstream college experience.
There’s endless data and statistics that tell the story of what it’s like to be an African-American student at a predominantly white college. Those numbers across the nation paint a dismal picture.
There was something fishy about the dozens and dozens of coconut doughnuts delivered this week to the campus police at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
