Category: Campus life

Noted: If given advance notice, many admissions offices will help arrange for a prospective student to sit in on a class, or for a family to have lunch in a dining hall, says Adele Brumfield, director of admissions and recruitment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If you have the opportunity to do so, Mr. Barry says to ask yourself, “Are the students paying attention? Or is there a dead look in their eyes?” You might also ask if advance plans are required to eat in a dining hall.

As Millennials lead a national shift away from driving, universities like University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are looking to become transportation innovators, according to a new report released Thursday.

This week, managing editor Troy Reeves wears his Badgers pride proudly in an interview with historian Matthew Levin. Levin, who received his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties (UW Press, 2013). Cold War University offers a long view of the 1960s, charting the UW-Madison?s transition from a center for military research to a hotbed of dissent, to unpack what Levin calls ?the contradictions of cold war era higher education.?

Community members have raised environmental concerns about the University of Wisconsin?s Recreational Sport?s proposed development in University Bay.

The Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee hosted a celebration of the ?unity of identities? at Union South Tuesday.

John Shutske, who has a joint administrative appointment with the UW-Madison and UW-Extension, will begin serving as the new interim provost and vice chancellor of UW-Extension on Feb. 17.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings goes beyond the classroom in her quest to diminish racial disparities on and off campus.

No gold medal was at stake, but the sunshine was golden Sunday as hockey players competed on Lake Mendota during the final day of Hoofers? weeklong Winter Carnival.

Last week was really something for UW-Madison sophomore Chandler Davis, who picked the sport of boxing off the mat and got it going again on campus, to the delight of some and dismay of others

It?s a report that?s taken social media by storm; the University of Wisconsin System now considered one of the “booziest” and “druggiest” among colleges in America.

The states flagship campus is at the bottom of the Big 10 in the amount of space it devotes to student fitness, but that could change if students agree next month to pay higher fees toward a $223 million expansion.

MADISON, Wisconsin (WKOW) — Boxing is back at the University of Wisconsin after a 54 year hiatus.

After four months of restoration, a bar inside the Memorial Union will reopen Monday.

The University of Wisconsin Varsity Band is making a return appearance to the Waterloo High School gym. After a four-year absence, the band members that march at football games in Madison will perform in a concert at the school at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17.

Chris Cole, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department director of threat intervention services, plans to hold information sessions with the goal of familiarizing the campus community with him and his new position, according to a Tuesday university press release.

Recently released data, collected in 2011, shows that many Wisconsin colleges and universities rank high in total number of alcohol and drug related offenses.

Four University of Wisconsin engineering students will compete for the chance to win $1 million in an international competition to find a way to stop the spread of diseases in urban slums.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.