The University of Wisconsin and police community came together at the annual Diversity Forum on Monday, seeking to strengthen trust between citizens and police officers through a discussion of affirmative action and diversity.
Online ticket reseller StubHub listed more than 1,100 tickets available on Monday afternoon, with only a few available for under $100 apiece.
A developer is proposing a twin-tower, 185-unit apartment project rising up to 10 stories near the Kohl Center, but the redevelopment won’t include an intercity bus facility once eyed for the site.
Student athletes of all abilities got the chance to compete together Saturday at the second annual Badgers ADAPT initiative at UW-Madison. The program shows students the skills a person has to develop to adapt to different situations through paralympic sports and activities.
The University of Wisconsin Union has a problem — its colorful metal chairs are being stolen.
As many as a quarter of low-income Wisconsin college students have trouble making the rent or paying utilities, but colleges across the country typically lack systematic programs to help students meet basic needs, a newly released study by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab found.
Upon her death, Winston had been giving to the University of Wisconsin Foundation for more than three decades. She directed funds to, in part, the Wisconsin Union, the Chazen Museum of Art, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection in the School of Human Ecology, the Medical Genetics Department and Medicine and Public Health.
A devoted opera lover, Winston gave directly to UW Opera and the School of Music’s new Performance Center. In 2003, through the UW School of Music, Winston funded a fellowship for a graduate student in voice.
University of Wisconsin’s Lakeshore path and dormitories are known today as the quiet side of campus, but during World War II, the area was known for being home to military servicemen.
Noted: “It’s an absolute safety concern,” said Marc Lovicott, a campus police spokesman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where a white quadcopter swooped into 80,000-seat Camp Randall Stadium and buzzed over the student section during an Oct. 11 game against Illinois. “You never know what might be carried along with something like that.”
The resolution, if approved, also would start making good on a “priority recommendation,” Verveer said, in a Downtown Plan approved more than two years ago by the City Council to build a park in the area of Downtown adjacent to the UW-Madison campus, west of North Broom Street and north of West Washington Avenue.
Notes domestic abuse prevention efforts on campus, including the Lamba Beta Phi-Latin Fraternity Inc., and University Health Service collaboration with the School of Social Work, Domestic Abuse Intervention Services and fraternities to offer a for-credit class each spring called “Greek Men for Violence Prevention.”
Citizens against UW-Madison’s monkey experiments will hold a protest prior to the Board of Regents meeting Nov. 6 from 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. at the intersection of Johnson Street and Lake Street on the UW-Madison campus.
As students exhaust themselves with late nights at the library in the midst of midterm season, one UW-Madison undergraduate combats an entirely different source of stress.
The metal sunburst chairs that color the Union Terrace at UW-Madison and announce the end of winter when they arrive in April began disappearing into storage this week with a different message: Winter’s almost here.Their departure brings a seasonal gloom and, this year, a mystery: Why did so many of the terrace chairs get stolen?
University of Wisconsin has received a federal grant to partner with five Native American tribes in hopes of increasing the number of young Native Americans pursuing a career in the medical field.
An illegal University of Wisconsin-Madison “bucket list” item is happening so often campus police are issuing a warning.
Months of campaign speeches and voter registration drives culminated to nearly half of UW-Madison students turning out to vote during Tuesday’s gubernatorial election, which is up from about 36 percent in 2010.
UW-Madison is instituting a 2015 Campus Master Plan to update and evaluate previous campus development efforts.
At UW-Madison’s Union South Tuesday evening, about 50 students gathered to watch results, hear a professor’s commentary and discuss their views on politics.
The “Voices for Peace and Justice in the Holy Land” regional conference is at the UW-Madison Pyle Center on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8.
Caroline Russell was on a mission. Dressed in a lime green T-shirt that read, “vote today,” Russell was camped out on UW-Madison’s East Campus Mall, urging students to cast a vote in Tuesday’s election.
UW Madison Police say on Sunday shortly after midnight a UW Police officer made contact with a 19-year-old student who walked into a closed door at Gordon Commons. The student gave the officer three different birth dates.
Halloween weekend was relatively safe in Madison, but the detox center was already filled to capacity by 6 p.m. Saturday, an hour before the gates opened for the annual Freakfest costume party and music festival on State St., according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Police.
Tree and grass will take precedence over bricks and mortar in the new master plan for the UW-Madison campus. Work is starting on the 2015 campus master plan, updating the 2005 plan in a once-every-decade project to guide future development on the 936-acre main campus.
Campus police issued 29 underage drinking citations over the weekend. They transported 13 people to detox facilities and took numerous others to area hospitals because the Tellurian Detoxification Center was full by early Saturday evening, said Marc Lovicott, a spokesman for UW police.
Two main entities power Madison, Wis. One is the state government, headquartered in this capital city. The other is the 43,000-student-strong University of Wisconsin-Madison. The two are connected by State Street, a half-mile shopping-dining-entertainment corridor that starts out a bit staid at its eastern end near the Capitol, then slowly lets its hair down as it nears Badger territory.
Inspiring others to pursue their goals, whatever they may be, is the overarching goal of Keven Stonewall, a 19-year-old UW-Madison sophomore who has made incredible breakthroughs in colon cancer research.
Two UW-Madison graduate students in chemical engineering have made recent developments for 3-D printer technology with the help of grants, providing an easier method to print objects in color.
Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition gathered on Bascom Hill Friday for a “die-in” to protest UW-Madison’s affiliation with JanSport.
When it was announced that author Danielle Evans would join the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s creative writing program, one new UW colleague noted she’d have to up her “shoe game” to match the Washington D.C. writer’s penchant for fashionable footwear.
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s upcoming lecture at UW-Madison … is part of a larger event, “The Anthropocene Slam: A Cabinet of Curiosities,” a three-day event sponsored by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
University of Wisconsin-Madison College Democrats and College Republicans used a personal touch Sunday, trying to win new votes ahead of Tues.’s election.
Being homeless adds another layer of challenges on top of the rigors of academic work at UW-Madison.
Janet Hagen, 65, is a retired UW-Madison office assistant.
Candace McDowell has seen UW-Madison through many lenses: as a student in the late 1960s when the Afro-American Student Center was created as a result of student protests, as a Black student recruiter during the 1980s who had to sell the campus to students who had concerns about visible racial incidents that had occurred and as the director of the UW Multicultural Student Center for 22 years where she provided students of color a “home” where they could relax and recharge and get vital information that would contribute to their success at UW-Madison.
Madison knows how to enjoy Halloween. All you have to do is go down to State Street during Freakfest, our annual costumed blow-out coming up this weekend, to see for yourself. But we have ghosts and ghouls that turn out at other times of the year, even over decades. “Wisconsin contains, if the yarns are an indication, more ghosts per square mile than any other state in the nation,” wrote the late author and folklorist Robert Gard in 1962.
The point of the tombstones, erected by a group of UW-Madison atheists, is to suggest that one person’s god centuries ago may be another person’s myth today.
Science, technology, engineering and math disciplines at UW-Madison have grown in enrollment and number of degrees since 2000, according to a June report conducted by the university.
UW-Madison professor Emily Auerbach will receive national recognition Sunday for her commitment to promoting educational opportunities for students of diverse backgrounds.
A Coca-Cola executive who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison almost 30 years ago will return to his alma mater to deliver the speech at this winters graduation ceremony.
A Coca-Cola executive who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison almost 30 years ago will return to his alma mater to deliver the speech at this winter’s graduation ceremony.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, ranging from graduate teaching assistants to custodians, gathered on campus on Wednesday to protest for higher wages.
The Associated Students of Madison invited special guest speaker, Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate, Patrick Sims, to their meeting Wednesday night.
Badger alumnus and Coca-Cola executive Ben Deutsch will be the keynote speaker for this winter commencement ceremony.
An underground chamber reachable only by a long passage on the side of Bascom hill is home to flesh-eating beetles, left gnawing at skeletal remains for research.
UW-Madison’s Institute for Biology Education is expanding to create broader opportunities for students who wish to pursue studies in science fields.
In the video posted on Facebook, Gregg Mitman, a UW-Madison professor of medical history and bioethics, tells of learning that the outbreak had reached Monrovia, Liberia, while he was there in June filming a documentary with UW-Madison graduate student and Liberian native Emmanuel Urey.
Noted: Nationwide data about student-recreation fees are scarce. But 10 schools in the Big Ten Conference, a collection of large, mostly Midwestern universities, charged students an average of $135 per semester last year, according to the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Allie Ebben, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, described a similar trajectory. She didn’t drink in high school, because getting caught would have risked her place on the varsity sports team and in the National Honor Society, which would have compromised her ability to get into University of Wisconsin, where she would have plenty of time to drink.
It was an “U-ra-ra Wisconsin” weekend as University of Wisconsin alumni made their way back to Madison this weekend for the annual Homecoming parade along State Street and the pep rally held at Memorial Union Terrace.
Ebola has rapidly become a source of fear and debate, bringing concern as far as University of Wisconsin, where officials are making preparations for the unlikely event that the virus would reach Madison.
On Saturday, October 25, at approximately 3:00 a.m., a female UW-Madison student reported a sexual assault to the UW-Madison Police Department.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Spring commencement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will return to Camp Randall Stadium.
UW-Madison Police issued 24 citations, made 24 arrests and ejected 42 people during the Badgers’ 52-7 victory over Maryland on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
UW-Madison police are investigating a reported sexual assault of a female student.
Amy Alida, a UW-Madison student and a First Wave Urban Arts scholar, also is featured in the song.
Earlier this month, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The book that tells her dramatic story of standing up for education while being persecuted by the Taliban is this year’s selection for UW-Madison’s Go Big Read.
For their 2014 campaign Partners in Giving is putting into effect a new online pledging system that allows employees in Dane County to donate money through payroll deductions or credit cards, according to the organization?s website.
In the spirit of homecoming week?s community service theme, UNICEF?s Next Generation founder and Director Casey Rotter spoke to UW-Madison students about the importance of young people?s dedication to charity.
Rides on all Metro buses throughout Madison will be free Saturday, after MillerCoors gave the city $10,000 to operate the buses at no cost.
