Category: Campus life

A man missing from a university medical facility was found late Saturday night, campus police said.

Police are looking for a 55-year-old man who walked away from a university medical facility in Madison Friday morning.

In a salute to the graduates embarking on the next chapter of their lives, here are some of the best pieces of advice handed to the class of 2015. UW-Madison is briefly featured.

A town of Madison man and a Muscoda man were facing charges of possession of stolen property, but UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott told News 3 Wednesday afternoon that the DA’s office rejected the case, citing lack of evidence.

Two monthslong construction projects will hamper traffic and parking near the Wisconsin Union Theater beginning this week, officials said. Wisconsin Union Theater spokeswoman Esty Dinur said the construction of an underground loading dock at Memorial Union and a city of Madison Langdon Street utility project will close UW-Madison’s Parking Lot 1 beginning Tuesday. Parking Lot 1 is off Langdon Street and adjacent to Memorial Union.

At $209 a pound, the cheese won’t be a wish every food lover will be able to fulfill. Yet, it’s something that will benefit the state. Cheese makers Tony and Julie Hook are donating $40,000 from the cheese sale — half its revenue — to the Center for Dairy Research and Babcock Hall building project underway on the UW-Madison campus.

Tony and Julie Hook are giving $40,000 from the cheese sale to the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison stripped Chi Phi of its formal status as a student group for “hazing” pledges – humiliating or abusive initiation rituals – that included making new members wear hoods during a period of isolation and refusing them food.

Watch the most memorable moments, both witty and wise, from college commencement ceremonies this year. Katie Couric is featured.

Featured: Katie Couric. “But don’t wait forever to find your bliss, or you may find yourself at 30 living in your parents’ basement eating microwave popcorn and binge-watching reruns of “The OC.” And while it might be nice to have your mom or dad make your favorite casserole or do your laundry, don’t wait too long to get going. As Einstein said, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” …

On any college campus you’re bound to see students munching or sipping on something during class, but in Professor Bradley’s Sensory Evaluation course, it’s required. “You don’t really sit down at home and try eight different types of the same ice cream or the same milk,” said Eleanor Miller, a Junior majoring in Food Science at UW – Madison. “Um, so it helps me a little bit with knowing you know, what I like and what I don’t like in the store.”

The Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that a detective took a report Friday of a man with an accent who called a UW student and claimed to be a representative of the Sheriff’s Office. The student said her caller ID showed the Sheriff’s Office reception number, which can be done by a method called “spoofing.”

Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus will be closed beginning Tuesday so restoration work on the Memorial Union can continue.

Back in February, our Academic Series featured an interview with distinguished radio scholar Michele Hilmes. The interview touched on a variety of issues in Radio Studies, including the lost critical history of radio and the transnational production on sound media.

Nursing is an increasingly technology-driven field, so it’s only fitting that the student nurses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing now have a state-of-the-art facility to call home.

A University of Wisconsin student will get his stolen $700 bicycle back after police were able to track it by using the bike’s serial number.

Article about Karen Brown, 63, a Ph.D. student in cognitive ethology, who is challenging UW-Madison’s policy on handicapped parking.

Two UW-Madison students who stayed up late Thursday night studying for final exams got a wake up call when they went to bed: A stranger had entered their apartment and stole a laptop computer right before their eyes.

Madison College, UW-Madison, and Edgewood College will all hold their commencements this weekend. Three colleges, and over 8000 graduates. Madison has a lot of people entering the workforce this weekend.

Two UW-Madison students told police they walked in on an intruder in their living room early Friday morning, according to a release from the Madison Police Department.

Students stream into Steenbock Library at the UW-Madison during midterm exams week, but they aren’t here to cram for tests.

After being closed for three months of renovation, the 72-room hotel at 601 Langdon St., known the last 12 years as Campus Inn, is scheduled to reopen Thursday as Graduate Madison.

Douglass Henderson owns the DODDS-Europe records for two track and field jumping events. The distances are 23 feet, 8 inches in the long jump and 48 feet, 11.75 inches in the triple jump.

The annual mass migration of students leaving campus comes to a head on Saturday, the same day graduation ceremonies will be held at Camp Randall Stadium.

A print and online magazine produced by students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named Best Student Magazine in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s police officers are expected to be wearing body cameras this fall, but the police chief first wants to get public input on how officers should use them.

“Threads” is an annual event that showcases work from the Textile and Fashion Design Program in the UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology. It bills itself as an event that encourages involvement from students spanning a plethora of academic disciplines, from sciences to music and design.

Katie Kowalsky hadn’t always known she wanted to be a cartographer. In fact, she started out as an economics major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but somewhere along the line, stumbled onto cartography. Doing so was the “best mistake” she ever made, she writes at her blog. Kowalsky goes on to explain why cartography was such a perfect fit for her:

Video: Students working with the Office of Sustainability are separating recyclables for trash to see how much is being mistakenly mixed with waste.

The Badger Herald student newspaper in the University of Wisconsin campus will go from printing twice a week to once a week. In a note from the editor published Thursday, Aliya Iftikhar said the change will “foster creativity among the staff by continuing to move away from the stagnant structure of daily print newspapers.”

Youtube video with caption: When a group of freshmen at University of Wisconsin-Madison signed up for an introduction to engineering design class they expected to get a grade, but they got more than that. They got an understanding of life.

In a news release Wednesday afternoon, UW-Madison said Alpha Epsilon Pi violated Student Organization Code of Conduct policies and was terminated.