Category: Campus life

While most of his classmates are preparing for a looming graduation date, UW-Madison senior Zach Wood is running unopposed for Madison’s District 8 aldermanic position.

A three-month-old policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that insulates professors from harassment has been heralded as a welcome protection against bullying – but concerns remain that the new regulation might be used as a general civility policy, which would run afoul of its original intent.

Homebrewing is so popular that the Badger Brewing Association, the UW-Madison club devoted to the topic, attracts several hundred students a year, according to faculty adviser Jim Steele. It’s an impressive number, since the club can’t even brew beer, due to the participation of underage students.

For Jake Anderson, life changed in just one moment in the dark waters of Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison says the percentage of undergraduates who use student loans and the amount theyre borrowing is up slightly from last year.

Bryan Kasten, an English and practical arts teacher at Rosati-Kain High School, warmly greeted former student Maya Warren, winner of “The Amazing Race” reality TV show on CBS.

Some college students from Wisconsin have been spending time in Hattiesburg, helping to build a home for a deserving family.

The Babcock Institute closed as of Dec. 31, 2014, because federal funding is no longer available.The institute was a joint program of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and University of Wisconsin-Cooperative Extension Division. After the 2010 presidential election, Congress cut special grants out of Washington’s budget, which was where funding for the program had come from for the past 24 years.

Ben Deutsch, vice president for corporate communications at The Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta, GA, delivered the commencement speech to the graduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2014 Winter Commencement Ceremony. Deutsch, a 1985 graduate of UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, encouraged graduates to “listen first,” “be true,” “step back and step up,” “walk the talk,” and said, “Hard work is what makes life meaningful and satisfying.”

Students leaving the University of Wisconsin after commencement this weekend will likely have an easier time finding work.

Television for college football games doesn’t give enough time to halftime performances by marching bands as they once did.

Two University of Wisconsin buildings will be without water until Monday after a water main broke Sunday morning, according to a campus alert.

A water main break near Linden and Babcock Drives on the UW-Madison campus could make for hazardous walking conditions until it is repaired Monday morning, UW-Madison police report.

A water main break in Madison has left two buildings on the UW-Madison campus without water at least until Monday.

Jake Anderson would be any parent’s dream.

UW-Madison needs to digest — and learn from — the police killings cases that have cast race relations back in the spotlight in America, says Patrick Sims, chief diversity officer on campus.

Noted: The incident occurred at 12:17 a.m. at Equinox Apartments, 409 W. Gorham St., a complex where many University of Wisconsin-Madison students rent units.

Northwest suburban native Amy DeJong and teammate Maya Warren — the “Sweet Scientists” — won a sweet victory on CBS’ reality television show “The Amazing Race” on Friday.

When I pitched recapping the 25th season of The Amazing Race to Isthmus, all I wanted was to get paid to watch TV. That’s the American Dream, right? I honestly hadn’t thought about the possibility that contestants Amy DeJong and Maya Warren, a pair of students in UW-Madison’s Food Science doctoral program, would actually make it all the way to the finale, much less come from behind to win it all. That’s how it all ended, though.

The oldest tree on the University of Wisconsins Madison campus, beloved by some of its youngest students, is coming down.

The director of a group that advocates for religious and private schools was named Thursday as the new lobbyist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison at a salary 14 percent higher than his predecessors.

Long before the tract of land next to Lake Mendota became the University of Wisconsin, an acorn embedded itself in the soil not far from some burial mounds created by the original occupants of the land.

In 2012, Jake Anderson, then a senior at Chanhassen High School, underscored the importance of those qualities in his keynote speech at the 2012 Storm Hawk Awards.

University of Wisconsin food science graduate students and “Amazing Race” finalists Amy DeJong and Maya Warren are featured in a video explaining their work at the UW.

niversity of Wisconsin food science graduate students and “Amazing Race” finalists Amy DeJong and Maya Warren are featured in a video explaining their work at the UW.

Noted: Mark Pan, co-treasurer for Atheists, Humanists & Agnostics AHA at University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that he hopes student groups like AHA can help nonbelievers become more comfortable in their identity.

In some cases, the protests have gone into libraries where non-protesting students were studying amid the stress that comes with the end of the semester. This has drawn mixed reactions at the University of Wisconsin at Madison above right, which saw a large protest enter the main library as students were cramming.

Hundreds of UW-Madison students held a demonstration tonight, hoping to shed light on racial disparities on campus.