Category: Campus life

As part of a new program to connect professional journalists with University of Wisconsin students, Joel Christopher of Gannett Wisconsin Media has been named the campus? first Journalist in Residence.

Officials are still investigating the cause of a fire at 407 W. Mifflin St. at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon that resulted in $60,000 worth of damage.

A fire caused approximately $60,000 in damage to a downtown home Tuesday afternoon, according to a release.

The movement to divest from fossil fuels gained ground at University of Wisconsin-Madison last week, when student government went on record urging the UW Foundation to stop investing in companies profiting from fossil fuels.

The Badgers success on the court could also help bring the UW success in the classroom. University leaders say the NCAA tournament could increase the student applicant pool next fall.

Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss will receive an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the spring commencement ceremony May 16.

Sarah Mangelsdorf, dean of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, is a candidate to be provost of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the school?s search committee announced this month.

Members of University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Student Labor Action Coalition met with Chancellor Rebecca Blank Friday to discuss the enforcement of the Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh signed by the chancellor earlier this month.

MADISON, Wis. ? We are fully aware of who Wisconsin Reporter is.

Dr. Richard Harris, a longtime leader in Madison?s African-American community, will be hosting a press conference on March 31, 10 a.m., at the Genesis Conference Center to go into detail explaining his multiple race discrimination complaints that have drawn some attention both locally and nationally.

As Badgers prepare to walk across the stage at Camp Randall in less than two months, the announcement of Jon Huntsman, Jr., former governor of Utah and a United States ambassador, as the commencement speaker sparked mixed reactions from the student body.

Concrete work and a crane being dismantled will require two blocks of Downtown streets to be closed.

In the second of four final provost candidate presentations, University of Wisconsin School of Education Dean Julie Underwood spoke in Grainger Hall Tuesday to a group of faculty and students of her plans to make UW the ?model research university for the 21st century.?

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a former Badger, is set to visit Madison Friday to speak on U.S. Africa policy.

UW-Madison students from a variety of cultures and backgrounds have taken to the blogging website Tumblr to share these and other insensitive comments they?ve heard on campus or near it. The project, “I Too, Am UW-Madison,” comes with inspiration from a similar campaign by African-American students at Harvard.

Jon Huntsman Jr., former governor of Utah and U.S. ambassador to both Singapore and China, will be the University of Wisconsin?s 2014 spring commencement speaker on May 17.

A former UW-Madison student and rocket maker was charged Tuesday with possessing an explosive compound that was found by police after an apartment maintenance crew discovered usual lab equipment in a closet.

New technology is changing the way one University of Wisconsin department is teaching its students.

MADISON ? The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department has fired a veteran captain after an internal investigation revealed he used department cameras to take hundreds of inappropriate photos of department employees and members of the public.

Offering an opportunity to interact with unique communities and people across the country, 120 students participated in Wisconsin Union Directorate?s Alternative Breaks program over spring break.

As the University of Wisconsin reaches the home stretch in its search for a new provost, candidates began their final public presentations on campus Monday with Robert Blouin, dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy.

UW-Madison graduate and civil rights pioneer Vel Phillips will be honored during a daylong celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Right Acts on Wednesday. Attendance is open and the event will be live-streamed online.

UW-Madison is No. 14. “Everyone here is very intelligent and extremely hard working. With all the hard work does come with a lot of fun ranging from fraternity events to football games to laying out on Bascom Hill, the people at this university are amazing to say the least.”

Madison police detectives are continuing to investigate the materials found in a downtown Madison residence Saturday.

Wisconsin?s largest used book sale is coming this week to UW-Madison.

Steven M. Swanson, a professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1998, has been named the new dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

When the city approved the alcohol license density ordinance (known by its Muppet-esque acronym, ALDO) in 2007, it was trying to reduce the number of bars and taverns heavily concentrated in the downtown area.

How do dairy farmers keep milk flowing when temperatures plummet?That was the question The Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes wanted to answer. Bettes and producer Christina Glowacki headed to the University of Wisconsin?s dairy research center to find out more.

Captain Carl Gloede, one of two finalists for Madison police chief, oversees the city?s Central District, which includes almost all of the downtown Isthmus and areas around the UW-Madison campus.

A team from The Associated Press has won the 2014 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for a story that revealed the CIA ties of an American who vanished in Iran.

Madison police are asking for help in the search of a missing University of Wisconsin student.