Category: Campus life

UW-Hillel decided to mix it up a little this year for Passover.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison sought to ?uncover and reverse gender bias in biology,? which has led to the creation of a post-doctorate in ?feminist biology.?

Noted: Her son, Vonzell Coleman Jr., had a 4.6 grade-point average and deserved the chance to attend a school where he didn?t have to worry about safety or gangs or nonsense, she said. ?I just want your readers to know that Vonzell is graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 17,? she told me.

On May 1, International Workers? Day, the University of Wisconsin (UW) Madison Teaching Assistants? Association (TAA) will host a “grade-in” at Bascom Hall, UW?s administration building. The event is part of the TAA?s ongoing “Pay Us Back” campaign for higher take-home pay for all graduate employees.

Oliver Stone, the director of several popular war films, spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday about his recent Showtime documentary series, ?The Untold History of the United States.?

A family of red foxes has become a fixture on the UW-Madison campus, contributing to scientific research, and becoming an attractions for dozens of students.

Set times and locations for acts performing in the Revelry Music and Arts Festival at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were announced Wednesday via the festival?s Facebook and Twitter pages.

At a White House summit on January 16, President Obama called for higher education leaders to commit to the administration?s goal of leading the world in college graduation rates by 2020. In response to the president?s request, more than 100 college presidents and 40 nonprofits, foundations and other organizations announced new commitments in various areas to expand college opportunity.

Motorists will be detoured around Downtown Madison Saturday morning for the annual Crazylegs Classic run and walk.

Steenbock?s on Orchard, the serene fine-dining restaurant hidden inside Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, has a new chef, a new menu and a new look.

A group of foxes has made its home on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and now campus officials are asking for help in naming them, according to an article posted by the university.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan heard from Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group members, faculty and staff in a meeting Monday about how to keep textbooks affordable.

MADISON (AP) ? University health officials are warning students about a rise in confirmed cases of mumps at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Before garnering national recognition as one of 50 students awarded the 2014 Udall Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Colin Higgins founded the Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee and helped run a competition between residence halls to reduce electricity use.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan heard from Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group members, faculty and staff in a meeting Monday about how to keep textbooks affordable.

After the Spectrum sweater factory collapsed in 2005, killing 64 workers, hardly anything changed to improve factory safety in Bangladesh.

Members of 350 Madison will join University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty and others supporting the university?s divestment from corporations that profit from fossil fuels in a march and rally Tuesday to mark Earth Day.

Promoting research using a feminist lens to approach biology, University of Wisconsin will be home to the nation?s first post-doctorate program in feminist biology this fall after a donation.

The festival, an all-day conference organized by UW-Madison?s Distinguished Lecture Series, will showcase “some of the best and brightest ideas and collaborations happening on campus.”

All accounts currently managed through Wiscard, University of Wisconsin-Madison?s photo ID, will merge into one June 1, according to a university press released emailed to students Tuesday.

Faculty at Cornell University voted for it. Nearly 100 faculty members at Harvard have written the university president seeking it. But don?t look for the faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison to come out any time soon in favor of divestment from fossil fuels.

University of Wisconsin Landscape Architecture students are competing to design the floral gardens that will be planted outside the Capitol this year.

University of Wisconsin students had the unique opportunity to tell the untold stories of 30 Wisconsin soldiers who fought and died in World War II and found their final resting place miles away in a cemetery in France.

Occupy Madison?s initiative to build tiny houses for the homeless community in Madison is drawing the attention of University of Wisconsin professors and students.

As the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus works toward a new diversity plan, the latest Data Digest shows that the campus has made progress in that area in the last decade, if slowly.

On many college campuses, thousands of students gather each spring for a week of discussing sex.

In the midst of a terrifying heroin epidemic and Madison?s notoriety as one of the worst binge-drinking college towns in the country, it?s easy to overlook the trend of young adults living clean and sober lives here.

Nearly 50 years ago, a group of UW-Madison students combined their activism with academics and the result was the core holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society?s civil rights collections.

Associate Dean of Students is just one title used to describe Argyle Wade. Those outside of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, however, know him as a husband, father and volunteer firefighter.