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.
The UW Marching Band finally received a check from the Detroit Lions Dominic Raiola, more than a year after it was promised.
The Ryans pledged to donate $10 for every free throw a student made and $1,000 for anyone who buried a half-court shot. There were 46 half-court shots made during the 4 1/2-hour event benefiting cancer research.
The spring commencement at UW-Madison?s Camp Randall Stadium in May went so well that the 2015 graduation ceremonies will return to the venerable football field.
A two-year extension to the University of Wisconsin System tuition freeze would mean trimming the fat in UW?s budget.
As University of Wisconsin celebrates its 104th homecoming this week, large crowds have already gathered at campus events this week in anticipation of parades, football and alumni events.
Tourism leaders across the Big 10 Conference are banding together to create a new website for fans. They call it “Cities of the Big 10” featuring all 14 teams in the conference.
Wisconsin?s homecoming football game at Camp Randall approaches with concern over a repeat launch of a drone over thousands of fans.
Spring graduation at Camp Randall went so well this year, the UW is doing it again next year.
Noted: Representatives from the Ready for Hillary super PAC, as well as volunteers from UW-Madison?s College Democrats, handed out promotional materials and encouraged students to support Clinton and Burke.
UW-Madison will see major campus changes on campus in upcoming years under the 2015 to 2017 university capital budgetary plans that Madison?s Joint West Campus Area Committee discussed at a meeting Wednesday.
The 2015 UW-Madison spring commencement ceremony is scheduled to be held in Camp Randall Stadium for the second year in a row, according to a university release.
Culinary innovator Dave Arnold spoke with UW-Madison students and community members about new techniques and changing culinary mindsets Wednesday.
The pomp and circumstance of homecoming week is colored by scores of red and white balloons and flowers, hoards of alumni returning to their old stomping grounds and a slate of events celebrating all things UW-Madison.
Students and community members will have the opportunity to make Wisconsin men?s basketball coach Bo Ryan contribute money to cancer research at the Kohl Center Wednesday.
Seven UW-Madison doctoral students received grants totalling $306,628 through the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program.
Environmental history professor William Cronon transported hundreds of viewers Tuesday evening from a theater in Memorial Union to iconic national areas including Niagara Falls and Yellowstone Park, challenging them to question the real meaning of wilderness.
Monday’s panel at the Pyle Center included University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor Michael Wagner and UW-Madison political science Ph.D. candidate Brad Jones.
A UW-Madison Police spokesperson says the product of investigations into reported, sexual assaults at campus residence halls last month have been referred to Dane Countys district attorney.
UW-Madison Space Place is inviting the public to watch Thursday?s partial solar eclipse alongside the center?s astronomy experts.
Other “Big Ten” schools to make the Top 15 included the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin Madison and the University of Michigan.
