How would it feel for two people to live under the same roof but move in different worlds? My “Foreign” Roommate, a short film on Channel C on You Tube to be released Friday, demonstrates that having a Chinese student as a roommate can quickly answer that question.
In addition to hunting down overwhelming loads of required textbooks and materials, students face the challenge of locating all their classes with the start of each semester. This semester, more than 100 UW-Madison students are utilizing the recently launched iPhone app Campus Maps to make finding spring classes fast and easy.
Former Wisconsin Badger running back Melvin Gordon has written an open letter to fans for their support during his three-years with the Badgers.
Researchers at UW-Madison and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently developed a collaborative project to develop new ways of integrating robots into human workforces, according to a university press release.
The UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine raised $1.3 million in grants, gifts and pledges to help fund a Shelter Medicine Program, according to a university press release.
Last December, hundreds of students packed Helen C. White Library chanting “hands up, don’t shoot” in response to racial discrimination in Madison. Tuesday, members of the UW-Madison community filled Varsity Hall in Union South to engage in a campus-wide dialogue on diversity and inclusion.
The first day of spring semester classes was interrupted when the Madison Fire Department was called to the Humanities building at 11:09 am.
Noted: Initially arranged by the Italian Consul General in Chicago, the Madison stop was highlighted by the ambassador speaking to UW-Madison students on campus before heading over to Porta Bella for an impressive reception and lunch served in their new and beautifully decorated Mantova Room, named for Madison’s Italian sister city, Mantova.
UW-Madison’s anti-bullying policy is only a couple of months old, but faculty members already are worried it will be employed to enforce “civility,” thereby stifling dissent and unorthodox speech and thought, says Donald Downs, a political science professor.
The first day of classes in the Humanities Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus got off to a smoky start after winter break Tuesday.
Even before he spoke, Marine Sgt. Jake Wood drew a standing ovation Tuesday from hundreds of those in attendance at a Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Sparky!, written by Jenny Offill and illustrated by Chris Appelhans, is the winner of the 18th annual Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. The award is given by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and will be presented in Madison this spring. In a release, the committee said: “The marvelous humor is never overplayed as Offill skillfully maintains a measured, evenhanded tone and perfect pacing.”
A UW-Madison student was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting another student in her campus dorm room last May.
The free on-campus film series starts this weekend, including “Citizen Kane” on Saturday night.
Takeaways from the “UW Voices” series will inform the implementation of the new campus diversity plan.
According to finaid.org, the student loan debt in the United States currently amounts $1.2 trillion and counting. With a larger percentage of UW students now receiving financial aid and graduating with debt, the costs of college continues to live on even after graduation.
In response to concerns raised by students, staff and faculty, Chancellor Rebecca Blank and members of the UW-Madison administration have invited the university community to an open discussion Tuesday centered on improving diversity and equity on campus.
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.
Karma Chávez, an associate professor in the university’s department of communication arts, hosted a lively debate Thursday on whether body cameras can help prevent police violence.
A debate about whether or not police should wear body cameras took center stage at UW Thursday night.
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.
A selection of monotypes is on view at the Chazen Museum of Art as part of an exhibit from the Baker-Pisano Collection … To celebrate these unique pieces, UW-Madison graduate Joann Moser, senior curator and specialist on American monotypes at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will lecture on Jan. 29 in the Chazen auditorium.
The UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology has decided running two preschools as a teaching and learning laboratory is too expensive, so the 67 children enrolled at its Mineral Point Road site will have to find care elsewhere or move to the remaining facility on campus after this summer.
Madison has benefited greatly from its building boom Downtown and elsewhere. This includes the central city, the East Washington corridor, the UW-Madison campus, State Street and beyond.
David Peterson wanted to take his 13-year-old daughter to a UW-Madison men’s basketball game and Dec. 28 seemed to be just the right date.
The tenant’s attorney, who uses the single name of Mitch, runs the UW-Madison Law School’s Neighborhood Law Clinic.
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.
A Dane County judge has refused to reissue a restraining order against frequent University of Wisconsin System protester Jeff Decker.
“Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen” will begin on Feb. 1, less than a year after Wisconsin Public Radio announced it would no longer broadcast the program that had been on since 1978.
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.”
Generally, taking a college course costs money. But a group of students at UW-Madison wound up making money — $30,000, or theoretically, enough to pay annual tuition and fees for three in-state students — when they took an introductory class on entrepreneurship for non-business majors this fall and had to run a business of their own.
Up and coming gaming companies with ties to UW-Madison are one way the university indirectly helps grow the local tech economy, UW-Madison News reports.
Claudia Card attended UW-Madison and has taught philosophy at her alma mater since 1966.
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.
On a campus full of classes teaching ancient wisdom from science and philosophy, a new class at UW-Madison is offering lessons of the practical sort, reminding students about wants — bad! — and needs — OK!
Two University of Wisconsin buildings will be without water until Monday after a water main broke Sunday morning, according to a campus alert.
Natalie Rudolph is one of 11 recipients for the award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Why not cut it down to just a large stump, perhaps three feet high. It could be sealed over the top using some of the good lumber from the tree to make a monument and statement.
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.
John Magnuson, UW-Madison professor emeritus and the first director of the Center for Limnology, told the CLA in the last 30 years, Lake Mendota has frozen as early as Dec. 3 and as late as Jan. 20. Article also chronicles hockey playing exploits of some UW faculty and staff.
Comments from professors Will Jones and Pam Oliver, references campus “die-in” demonstration.
This is the story of a rare disease that was diagnosed in a rare young woman, and what happened before, and after.
Mathematics professor emeritus Anatole Beck died Sunday at Agrace Hospice in Fitchburg. Art professor emeritus Frances Myers died Wednesday, a few weeks after suffering a stroke while visiting campus.
The pair — Warren’s voice hoarse from doing so many interviews in the past few days — talked with the Cap Times about how they won, how they were portrayed on the show and how they hope their win inspires young women everywhere interested in math and science.
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.
Some people and organizations are well ahead of the curve in terms of meaningful action. The Rev. Carmen Porco is doing great work on the North Side of Madison, creating new ways to think of low-income housing that defy stereotypes about low-income communities and what they can achieve. UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently stated that diversity and inclusiveness are priorities. Common Wealth Development and Freedom Inc. are two nonprofits doing important work. And of course the YWCA has a track record of encouraging dialogue and understanding.
When he got the invitation to be the keynote speaker at UW-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony, Ben Deutsch said he initially thought it was one of his college friends pranking him.
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.
The ASM Student Government recommended that the university divest from fossil fuel companies this past spring. However, the Faculty Senate, despite acknowledging climate change and its dire implications, recommended not divesting from the fossil fuel industry, citing other options. This is backward logic.
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.
