Category: Campus life

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is working on an update of the Campus Master Plan.

UW’s chief of police shares techniques and procedures for staying safe in an active shooter situation.

UW-Madison health officials are holding a series of talks on campus about the results of a recent survey that showed more than one in four responding undergraduate women at the university have been sexually assaulted.

Should concealed weapons be permitted in buildings on college campuses? It’s a question being debated in Wisconsin after a couple GOP lawmakers put forth legislation that would allow students and staff to carry concealed guns and knives.

For months, Dane County officials and student groups have been talking with the University of Wisconsin-Madison about the need to help students navigate Wisconsin’s Voter ID law in the upcoming presidential election year.

Slow Food UW has brought fresh produce to University of Wisconsin-Madison students for almost a decade, but this year the organization is looking to expand its reach.

The student organization Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics requested an increase in their budget proposal to the Student Services Finance Committee for the next fiscal year to better campus-wide programs and events.

Erica Halverson, associate professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is one of many partners at The Bubbler. She sees the program as an important place for people to contribute to the larger society by building things. “The maker movement affords people the opportunity to be producers of ideas in an arts-based way,” says Halverson.

As a cancer survivor, Meg Gaines saw the scarcity of health care resources available to people with serious and life-threatening illness.

The Wisconsin Collaborative Education Research Network, or WCERN, lists the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education and the UW–Madison Center for Education Research as supporters of this ambitious endeavor to connect research being done in the education field by UW students with the people who need to utilize said research.

A Madison man suffered severe head injuries after his moped crashed into an SUV Tuesday.

UW Madison’s well-known cheese and ice cream makers at Babcock Hall Dairy announced a new ice cream flavor will soon join their line up in honor of the Wisconsin Science Festival. The new flavor, MicroSwirl BerryScope, coincides with numerous science-related activities set to take place on campus as part of the statewide festival beginning Thursday and continuing through the weekend. Those with curious tastebuds can get a scoop of the flavor and learn about the science behind making the delicious products at the store on Linden Drive from Thursday through Saturday.

When Shuang Hu discovered her love of American hip hop as a nine-year-old in China, she felt very alone.

(Video) Organizers say the day gives potential future Badgers an inside look at what Wisconsin has to offer.

(Video — segment runs approximately 6:55-7:33) UW-Madison is rolling out a new event to attract potential students. The first ever Experience Wisconsin event included campus tours, mock lectures and a resource fair. Organizers hope to give high schoolers a taste of the college life.

“This is our first year where we have essentially opened up our campus,” says Andre Phillips, senior associate director of the Office of Admission and Recruitment. “We say hello and we greet the families in the morning students have already preregistered for certain events, and we are letting them go.”

More than 1100 high schoolers from across the country attended today’s event.

A TV writer and producer who made it big in Hollywood came back to Madison to visit his old stomping grounds this week.

Steve Levitan, creator of the ABC comedy Modern Family, stopped by WKOW to visit his former co-workers. Levitan was a reporter and anchor in the 1980’s after he graduated from UW-Madison’s journalism school. He visited campus with his son this week to speak with students about his accomplishments.

Levitan says his time in Madison has helped shape his career.

UW-Madison officials are hoping Homecoming Weekend helps them raise big bucks for the school — with some inspiration from a campus icon.

Staff at the Wisconsin Alumni Association and the University of Wisconsin Foundation planted more than 1,000 pink plastic flamingoes on Bascom Hill on Friday after reaching their goal in the 3rd annual “Fill the Hill” fundraising campaign.

(Video) Live at Five catches up with Emmy award winner Steve Levitan, the creator of Modern Family, before he receives UW’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

The University of Wisconsin Madison Geology Museum was established in 1848, the same year Wisconsin was granted statehood.

Madison, Wis. — It’s been a long day of travel for eleven pups who flew more than 1,000 miles from Georgia to Madison. It was done in an effort to give them a brighter future.

A proposal by Mayor Paul Soglin and Ald. Mike Verveer to condemn the properties west of Capitol Square was moving through city committees, but the sponsors are now asking that it be shelved because the city has been contacted about a voluntary sale at another location.

Melanie Matchett Wood, assistant professor of mathematics, has been named a Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering, one of 18 early-career scientists in the U.S. to win the award this year.