For several years now, UW students from the Wisconsin Union Directorate?s Film Committee have been heading to Sundance to see the latest movies. And they?ve had a place to stay, thanks to an alumna of the university and WUD.
Four MBA candidates and a public health graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has teamed up to try to improve chronic disease care in urban slums by 2019.
Academy Award-winning film director Oliver Stone headlines a stellar group of speakers this spring in the Distinguished Lecture Series on the UW-Madison campus.
It?s not like Cynthia Snyder needed another ceramic bowl. By her count, she and her husband already have 20 bowls from their previous trips to the annual Souper Bowl. But that didn?t deter them from coming again to Souper Bowl XVIII ? that?s 18 for the Roman numeral challenged ? the annual fundraiser for the UW-Madison chapter of Habitat for Humanity held Saturday at Madison West High School.
We enjoyed the Jan. 26 State Journal article describing the Memorial Union?s current renovation. The Union, as the article states, is an iconic campus landmark. It has been the second living room and favorite playground to generations of students, graduates and Madisonians.
A home invasion Downtown Sunday night prompted UW-Madison police to issue an alert to students living in the area, but no one was injured and the alert was lifted later.
The harsh winter has certainly been tough on Madison homeless shelters. Organizers with Porchlight say they?ve seen record numbers at many of their locations.
The University of Wisconsin has launched a one-stop website for the 2014 spring commencement ceremony, outlining all necessary details for graduates and attendees.
Wisconsin-Madison students succeed in ensuring that their university creates and maintains peaceful ties with Israel, despite BDS and ASA movements.
Chris Cole was a 10-year-old living in suburban New York when four Vietnam War protesters detonated a bomb inside UW?s Sterling Hall in 1970, killing one and injuring three.
Long before it became merely a space to store equipment for what some may believe is a perpetual cycle of construction on campus, Library Mall flourished as an inspiring landscape with the power to converge struggle and companionship and, at the end of the day, collect and embody the Wisconsin spirit.
Crimes against people and property happen every day, even here in Madison. Anyone can fall victim to one of these crimes, but there are ways to help protect yourself; and officials say knowing what to do in those situations could possibly save your life.
Last Friday the school celebrated Drew Birrenkott Day. It was a day to acknowledge the academic achievements of a McFarland High School alumnus, celebrate education, and recognize Birrenkott?s selection as a Rhodes Scholar.
Police said four people stole a sign posted outside above a University of Wisconsin athletic office last week.
Do you think your previous work within the UW System will serve as an advantage in your new role as president?
Don?t let his age fool you: University of Wisconsin System President-Delegate Raymond Cross is still willing and able to challenge college students to a pick-up game of basketball. Though, you may need to take it a little easy on him.
As construction continues at the Memorial Union, a project estimated to cost $53 million, sustainability and environmental efficiency are at the forefront of the company?s plans.
A new student athletic academic center opens as the final piece of an $86-million project that has kept Camp Randall under construction for over two years.
Drinking remains one of the biggest health risks for college students, with 80 percent of students drinking alcohol, and more than one-third binge drinking.
For Anna Zeide, graduate school doesn?t happen only on UW-Madison?s campus. A part-time job brings her to the Madison Children?s Museum on the Capitol Square, and projects there take her to neighborhoods in other parts of the city in what is known as ?the real world,? a place the university is encouraging more scholars in the humanities to explore.
Three existing UW-Madison buildings that would violate height restrictions in the expanded zone ? Van Hise Hall, the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science Building, and the Engineering Research Building ? would be grandfathered under the proposal.
Around 700 people took a much-needed break the cold on Saturday night to at least pretend they were in more tropic climes by attending a luau.
MADISON ? Wisconsin has more meat processing facilities than any other state, and the state is widely known for the quality meat it produces.
Madison Metro buses are expected to operate normally, according to a UW statement. However, if the buses are unable to run, the decision to keep campus open would be re-evaluated, University Communications spokesperson John Lucas said.
About three-quarters of the way through a$52 million renovation of UW-Madison?s Memorial Union, green construction practices and attention to historic detail are contributing to a sustainable restoration that could preserve the iconic campus landmark for another 100 years, university and project leaders said.
The University of Wisconsin?s Police Department will start gathering feedback from the campus community as they begin the process of renewing their accreditation.
Danielle Evans, a former Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow, will join the faculty of the UW-Madison creative writing program as an assistant professor in the fall of 2014. A position opened about a year ago when Lorrie Moore, a revered fiction stylist who was also recognized as a rising star when she came to Wisconsin in the 1980s, quietly accepted a professorship at Vanderbilt University.
University of Wisconsin-Madison instituted a revised campus-wide alcohol service policy at the start of the spring semester, according to a university news release.
Madison Common Council gathered Tuesday evening to approve the redesign of the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and authorize a $60,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for alcohol enforcement in 2014.
Helping students to stretch their skill set and potentially gain flexibility in future career paths, University of Wisconsin is offering a new Pilates class as part of its certificate program within the dance department.
That drop in annual memberships came in spite of a $45 discount offered to UW-Madison students, staff and faculty. The docking stations on the UW campus are the busiest in the city, Madison B-cycle said.
It is a communication system University of Wisconsin-Madison police hope they will never have to use in the event of an active shooter situation on campus. It is also a communication system they are confident may save lives if that situation occurs.
It is a communication system University of Wisconsin-Madison police hope they will never have to use in the event of an active shooter situation on campus. It is also a communication system they are confident may save lives if that situation occurs.
AT&T donated $35,000 to University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, according to a Jan. 10 press release.
Kiplinger Magazine ranked the University of Wisconsin eighth out of 100 schools in its 2014 ranking of Best Values in Public Colleges this year, focusing on the university?s academic quality in relation to costs and financial aid.
Faculty governance is getting a new face as William Heiss assumes the position of interim secretary of faculty for a six-month appointment.
The UW-Madison employee who died Thursday after she was hit by a truck backing up on Mendota Court has been identified as Edith M. Dixon, 62, of Madison.
It was December 2009 when Heidi Allstop, then a UW-Madison graduate student in psychology and business, needed someone to talk to about the stresses of student life and figured other students probably did, too.
Goodbye, president Reilly. Hello, professor Reilly.
The holiday spirit could be felt well into January as University of Wisconsin?s Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence initiative received a $35,000 donation from AT&T.
The fundraising and alumni organizations that support the University of Wisconsin-Madison are merging to become more efficient and to “speak with one voice” as pressure mounts on public universities across the country to find private donors.
At the same time, the UW Police Department last year decided to ramp up how often it issues warnings about crimes that happen near campus, spokesman Marc Lovicott said.
A UW-Madison employee died Thursday morning after she was hit by a campus truck backing up near Lake Mendota, police said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank proposed initiatives Thursday to help expand access for low-income students to the state?s flagship university during a White House summit Thursday.
A former University of Wisconsin student was recently arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly sending graphically violent and sexually explicit threats to a 14-year-old girl on a social networking site.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced (Hazel) Symonette, a program development and assessment specialist at UW-Madison, will receive the award at the 29th annual City-County Martin Luther King Jr. Observance on Monday.
In the Middle-earth of Tolkien lore, Lothlorien was a “Golden Wood” populated by reclusive elves.
UW-Madison routinely hosts thoughtful events on all aspects of religious life, often free to the public. One such opportunity arrives Jan. 29.?A Polite Bribe? is a new film by noted director Robert Orlando that is getting a lot of buzz nationally. It uses creative animation and interviews with top scholars to discuss the Apostle Paul.
Wisconsin?s 48th Fairest of the Fairs is Kaitlyn Riley from Crawford County. Riley is a UW student.
Flight problems at Chicago O?Hare forced more than thirty UW-Madison students to scrap their participation in a long-planned medical mission to Honduras.
The future of competitive swimming on the UW-Madison campus is unknown, as students prepare to vote on a referendum project that threatens the WIAA state meet and UW events.
John Coleman, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, has been named the new dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.
The University of Minnesota announced Wednesday that John Coleman is set to become the next College of Liberal Arts dean, pending Board of Regents approval.
An expansion to the University of Wisconsin?s Rec Sports facilities at one point carried an option to build an 8-lane, 50-meter competition pool, but that option has been scrapped from the master plan moving forward due to lack of funding sources.
Students at UW-Madison don?t have to go back to school until Jan. 21, but that doesn?t mean the campus is shut down.
The F.H. King organic farm at the University of Wisconsin has been growing produce for students to veg out on since 1979. The urban garden is the pride of the sustainability of agriculture program at the Madison campus.
former accountant accused of stealing more than $144,000 from a university department pleaded not guilty Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison still can?t live down the cast of the Photoshopped admissions brochure 13 years later.
Looking back, Harold Scheub sees nothing in his urban northern Indiana boyhood that prepared him for a decade of tramping around the African continent, tape recorder in hand, gathering thousands of spoken stories.
