University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are responding to a racially charged incident last week in which a male student verbally assaulted and spat on a black female student.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has long had a reputation for being inhospitable to students of color who for years have quietly endured underlying racism and discrimination.
University of Wisconsin Police Department met with UW National Alliance of Mental Illness members to discuss how UWPD addresses mental health issues and what students can do to reform the stigma surrounding mental health issues.
UW-Madison Police are investigating another racist incident on the UW-Madison campus.
Racist graffiti was reportedly found in a bathroom at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Monday.
Police said it was reported just after 7 p.m They believe the vandalism happened sometime between 3:30 p.m – 7 p.m. that day.
A student will not face charges in a reported racial incident on campus
UW-Madison Police were called to Sellery Hall Saturday just after 2 a.m. for an incident between four students.
Police said 19-year-old Matthew Hsieh got into an argument with three female students who were reportedly playing loud music and talking loudly.
A group of students at U-W Madison proved that college students can do a lot more than drink beer, they’re pretty good at brewing it, too! 18 students in the food science program faced off today at U-W’s Babcock Hall as part of their fermentation studies class.
The UW Police Department is investigating after someone sprayed graffiti on the outside of Memorial Library Wednesday evening.
The words “White Supremacy is a Disease. – God” can be clearly seen still Thursday morning as students head to class Thursday morning.
University of Wisconsin police are investigating vandalized property at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery that was reported Monday night. Graffiti of a stick figure hanging from a tree by a noose was found in a men’s bathroom. The N-word was written out next to the image, officials said.
Graffiti declaring that “White supremacy is a disease” was left on Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin Wednesday night, according to University of Wisconsin police.
Citing “a troubling string” of hate and bias incidents, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced she would accelerate the hiring of two mental health professionals dedicated to diversity and climate, roll out a program to teach students cultural competency and step up efforts to encourage students to report such incidents.
A UW-Madison student who shoved and spit on other students during a dispute in a dorm over the weekend will not face criminal charges for the incident, which helped energize conversations about the campus’ racial climate.
UW-Madison police are investigating an act of racist vandalism that was committed earlier this week on campus, officials confirmed Wednesday.
The peaceful atmosphere of the UW–Madison Arboretum seems an unlikely site for a city rocked by scandal, war and nature’s cruel grip. Yet tucked within the Arboretum is Madison’s own Atlantis, its lost city.
With many students using #TheRealUW to voice their experiences with racial prejudice on campus, a discrimination expert said there are caveats that come with greater media attention.
University of Wisconsin psychology professor Markus Brauer, an expert on discrimination, said greater visibility means students’ perceptions of racial prejudice on campus will have a concrete impact on the racial climate.
A team of students in the College of Engineering at University of Wisconsin took first place and won $2,000 at a regional competition to develop clean energy snowmobiles last week.
The challenge asked students to redesign the powertrain of a conventional snowmobile to be as clean and quiet as possible, while maintaining power and affordability.
UW-Madison freshman Synovia Knox was in a Sellery hallway with several friends from the 9th Cohort of First Wave the night before their Line Breaks performance that covered issues of racism, classism and sexism—when a male resident shoved her and spat in her face.
During the assault, the aggressor, who was intoxicated, hurled hateful language about race and socioeconomic status at Knox and three other First Wave scholars: Maryam Muhammad, Nora Laine Herzog and Francisco Velazquez.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank says she is taking action after several recent cases of discrimination on campus.
In an open letter to the UW-Madison community, Blank announced several expanded or accelerated initiatives to which she intends to devote time and resources.
A trending hashtag has popped up on Twitter following University of Wisconsin-Madison’s third incident of discrimination in the last month. Students are using #TheRealUW to share their own experiences of discrimination on campus, saying they would otherwise go overlooked by the university.
The finalists, selected by a search committee, are Linda Scott, associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Nursing at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Linda Lewandowski, associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
#TheRealUW hashtag, previously a moribund catchall for sports, was reignited after an incident at Sellery Hall over the weekend, when a resident allegedly spit in the face of an African-American woman who also lived there and derided her for her race, gender and scholarship status.
Following a string of racially related incidents at UW-Madison this year, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a set of new initiatives Tuesday to encourage cultural awareness and improve mental health resources on campus.
After three hate incidents occurred within one week, University of Wisconsin students created a platform to share stories about the importance of including students of color.
#TheRealUW began trending on Twitter shortly after a hate incident occurred Sunday. According to a Facebook post by Karie Le, the Vietnamese victim, a middle-aged white man spat on her and told her to “go back to China” outside the Student Activity Center.
Donald Trump’s rhetoric throughout the 2016 presidential campaign has sparked outrage from members of the American Muslim community, and for Muslim UW student Alaa Fleifel, it has sparked fear.
“When people get riled up about hating Muslims, eventually Muslims are not seen as human, [and] they become easy targets,” Fleifel said. “I honestly have felt somewhat unsafe.”
Amid a presidential campaign that has centered on issues relating to Islamic extremism, Fleifel’s comments echo the sentiments of many in the UW Muslim community.
UW-Madison freshman Synovia Knox still can’t believe what happened early Saturday morning at Sellery Hall. She and a group of friends had returned after grabbing some late night food and were met by her frustrated neighbor who started shouting profanities and racially charged comments.
UW-Madison officials are investigating another instance of insensitivity at a campus dorm.
Three students say they were pushed and spit on at Sellery Hall over the weekend. Campus police say they do not consider it a hate crime right now, but they did give out a ticket for disorderly conduct.
Faculty and University of Wisconsin police are looking into their third incident of discrimination on campus in the past month after a group of students were pushed and spit on in Sellery Hall. Synovia Knox and Francisco Velazquez were walking to their dorm room in Sellery Hall with two other women when they were confronted by another resident, who they say began yelling at them and said they didn’t belong because of economic status.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are beefing up programs to prevent and respond to hate and bias incidents as reports of an incident involving name-calling and spitting on a student went public over the weekend.
Perennial frontrunner University of Wisconsin-Madison took home the MacLean-Fogg Cup Saturday as winners of the ASE Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2016 Internal Combustion-class competition. UW-Madison topped a dozen other teams in the challenge’s most competitive class.
UW-Madison officials are considering increasing the training students and staff members get on race and cultural competency, administrators said Monday, as the university investigates two racially charged incidents on campus in the past week.
UW-Madison freshman Karie Le reported to university officials and took to social media Sunday to detail a Saturday night incident of discrimination, which is now the third incident of bias to be reported in the last week.
Le, who is Vietnamese, said she was spat on by a middle-aged white man outside of the Student Activity Center at around 7 p.m. Saturday night. The man then told her to return to China, and the roughly five other men he was with laughed at Le.
University Housing is leading an investigation into an incident of discrimination that occurred early Saturday morning in Sellery residence hall, according to an email sent to First Wave Scholars from Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims.
A student reportedly pushed three residents of Sellery Hall at roughly 2 a.m. The aggressor also spat on one of the students, according to an email sent to Sellery Hall residents later Saturday morning.
Less than three weeks after a town hall meeting to address a racially charged incident, UW officials are now investigating a second one. This instance occurred at a Native American ceremony on the UW campus earlier this week.
UW-Madison officials are investigating the disruption of a campus, Native American ceremony, with unidentified hecklers using mock war cries to drown out a tribal elder’s solemn singing.
Officials say the interruption of a community healing circle at a fire pit outside DeJope residence hall with approximately fifty people participating happened Wednesday.
A little over a month after UW students posted pictures of Hitler to a Jewish student’s dorm, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is investigating another act of intolerance. At Dejope Hall on campus, an important Native American ceremony was cut short, Wednesday night.
Students from inside the dorm started shouting mocking war cry sounds, upsetting everyone at the event.
For nearly 40 years, Darrell Bazzell has called Madison, Wis., home. That connection weighed heavily on his mind this fall as he contemplated whether to accept a new position as chief financial officer at the University of Texas in Austin.
Under Riseling, UWPD also has been on the forefront of some changes or advances in police practices, becoming the first agency in the state to put computers linked to dispatch in police cars in 1992, and last year being one of the first locally to add body-worn cameras for officers.
A young rapper who drowned two years ago will become the first Vietnamese American to have a street named in his honor in Chicago.
Officials at UW Madison have another racially-based investigation on their hands. They say a Native American elder was heckled while a group was on campus for a healing ceremony.
A group of about two dozen students has interrupted a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting to demand the panel improve how minority students are treated.
A Ho-Chunk elder was heckled with stereotypical “war cry sounds” by a group of people in a UW-Madison dorm room while performing a healing ceremony Wednesday night, according to campus officials.
A group of people in a UW-Madison dorm room shouted stereotypical “war cry sounds” at a Ho-Chunk elder who had come to the campus for a healing ceremony Wednesday night, according to witnesses and university officials.
Leaders from the University of Wisconsin and beyond discussed the science behind meditation and the virtues taught by the Dalai Lama. His Holiness talked about how those practices can help improve mental health.
With mental health care costs expected to soar in coming decades, world leaders in science and health looked for ways to improve global happiness and well-being at a Wednesday panel discussion featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama. UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, said the Dalai Lama had interesting insights into modern research.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke in Madison Wednesday about nurturing unconditional love and compassion, and joked with moderator ABC News correspondent Dan Harris about his meditation habits.
The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader spoke Wednesday at a gathering hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Healthy Minds. The gathering featured panelists with expertise in psychology, mindfulness and well-being for a 90-minute discussion.
University of Wisconsin is offering $250,000 in summer term scholarships, which is 10 times the amount from last year. UW currently offers more than 1,000 different summer courses, but the program will expand with an addition of nearly 100 new summer courses.
Freshman Samantha Heesacker, who has autism in addition to clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety, is one of 23 current UW-Madison students on the autism spectrum and officially registered with the McBurney Disability Resource Center, which makes her college transition different than that of most students.
Gone are the days when museums were dusty archives of half-forgotten lore. Wisconsin is full of bright, interactive learning environments that stress teaching important lessons over merely archiving historical minutiae, and some of the most interesting and unique examples are tightly condensed into downtown Madison.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, the outspoken University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who vowed to leave Wisconsin after state lawmakers changed tenure protections last year, announced on her blog Monday night that she has accepted a job at Temple University and will start July 1.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison last semester doled out $726,436 in raises and $8 million in research support to retain 40 faculty members who brought outside job offers to the central administration, according to information obtained by the Journal Sentinel through an open records request.
Praised by UW-Madison officials as a “dedicated promoter of the Wisconsin Idea,” former Gov. Tommy Thompson will be one of three recipients of honorary degrees from the campus this spring.Photojournalist Lynsey Addario and biochemist William J. Rutter will also receive honorary degrees during a commencement ceremony at the Kohl Center in May, officials announced last week.
Noted: Other speakers included members of UW-Madison’s Blackout movement, a group formed last year to raise awareness of racial issues on campus.
Noted: The gala, added in 2012, draws a throng of media and serves as a fundraiser for the graduate studies programs at UW-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
Take a tour of the D.C. Smith Greenhouse at UW-Madison. The greenhouse was completed in 1996 and is used to provide instructional space for plant-growing primarily for undergraduate classes. The greenhouse offers tours and is open to the public.
Kenneth Cole began his activism at UW-Madison last fall, when he organized a march in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri, whose protest over race issues on campus ousted two top administrators.
There are several events planned in Madison to mark the anniversary of the Tony Robinson shooting, including a rally Friday afternoon (4 p.m. on Library Mall).
One of the organizers of the event is UW Blackout Movement, a student group formed in November in response to issues of racial tension on campus and in the community.
Students at UW-Madison duked it out Thursday night to find out who’s the best on Bascom.
It was the annual Battle for Bascom, a snowball fight on Bascom Hill on the UW campus.
Noted: Be transported across landscapes of Asian and Western identities with Li Chiao-Ping Dance and the UW-Madison Dance Department’s performances of “Fluid Measure,” at 8 p.m. Friday and at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. A reception with the performers will be held following Friday’s performance in the Virginia Harrison Parlor of Lathrop Hall.
Unlikely international sex symbol Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, former defense lawyers for Steven Avery, the Manitowoc, Wis., man exonerated on a rape charge and subsequently convicted in 2005 for the murder of photographer Teresa Halback, announced this week they are launching a North American tour.
After being closed for nearly two years, UW-Madison’s iconic observatory will reopen tonight.
Unexpected repairs are to blame for the closure, but now everything is back up and working better than ever.
