Category: Campus life

Diallo Shabazz was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 2000 when he stopped by the admissions office.

A UW-Madison student was a victim of battery last night, according to police.

University of Wisconsin?Madison students are among more than 700 undergraduates from 341 colleges and universities across the United States awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State?s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, for study abroad during the spring 2014 semester.

The student unions at UW-Madison will be closed for two weeks for the Christmas and New Year?s holidays, with one very notable exception.

Last year, 45 seniors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison went off to classrooms across the country for two-year tours with Teach for America. Founded in 1990, the program sends recent college graduates into under-served rural and urban school districts to bolster thin teacher corps and help improve the education of students in poverty.

It is something very simple that is having a positive impact on students during a trying time. During finals week on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, students spend long hours studying in the libraries.

Court documents state prosecutors lacked enough, unspecified evidence to prove a sex assault charge, and a felony false imprisonment charge, against a UW-Madison researcher.

A traffic ticket issued to the tow truck driver who made a deadly left turn into the path of a bicyclist on Mineral Point Rd. in Madison carries a $1,311 fine, the largest imposed in the death of a bicyclist in recent years.

The 18 Bangor High School students in Ryan Strunz? English 4 class recently got to experience something few people do as they traveled to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to meet and talk with an author who won the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature.

Two charges against a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher have been dismissed after a plea of no contest to a third charge of disorderly conduct, according to state court records.

As President Barack Obama praised Nelson Mandela as a ?great liberator? at a massive memorial service in Johannesburg Tuesday, members of the UW-Madison campus community with ties to the Nobel Prize winning statesman shared their reflections with Inside UW.

Two charges against a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher have been dismissed after a plea of no contest to a third charge of disorderly conduct, according to state court records.

Funny how some of the most important moments in life go by in the blink of an eye.That?s how University of Wisconsin-Madison fifth-year senior Drew Birrenkott felt about the process of applying for, and eventually receiving, a Rhodes Scholarship earlier this month.

A sexual assault survey students will receive in their inboxes over winter break will launch the next step in a campaign aiming to improve how the campus perceives and prevents sexual violence.

UCSD?s first ever Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Linda S. Greene will leave La Jolla and return to teaching in Wisconsin, effective Dec. 31, 2013. Greene, who began her tenure on Jan. 1 of this year, will return to teaching as the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian today.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison senior will attend graduate school in London next year, after winning a competitive scholarship.

A new book that details the extensive and toxic party culture at the Princeton Review?s Top Party Schools blames not just the students who explain away drunken behavior as “stuff that happens, ” but also administrators who fail to do anything significant about it.

A 72-year-old woman was cited for misdemeanor theft for taking a painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Union South and said she took the painting only to show her interior designer color ideas, police said Tuesday.

Nothing like this has ever happened on HGTV. A Madison woman has admitted to stealing a student artwork from Union South on the University of Wisconsin campus, so she could show it to her interior designer.

After speaking with Adele Brumfield for a few minutes, one would swear that Brumfield, the director of UW Admissions, was born and raised in Madison, had been a Badger all her lifeand bled Badger red even though she grew up in Milwaukee, graduated from Marquette University and worked in admissions at the University of Chicago before coming to Madison. She is bursting at the seams with enthusiasm for UW-Madison.

Police arrested a University of Wisconsin student in connection with the sexual assault of a woman at the Kohl Center Saturday.

UW-Madison police have released a surveillance photo of a woman suspected of stealing a painting valued at $700 from Union South.

The final design for the reconstruction of the west end of State Street at UW-Madison?s Library Mall will be introduced to the public at a public meeting Dec. 5.

The scheme wasn?t as elaborate as The Thomas Crown Affair, but the result ? a stolen piece of art ? was the same.

MADISON – At the University of Wisconsin, campus police officers have reported finding students passed out naked in bushes. Some of the students have been covered in their feces. Police said blood alcohol levels are so high students ended up in the emergency room.

University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Drew Birrenkott is the recipient of the 2014 Rhodes Scholarship and will be invited to spend two or three years of study, all-expenses paid, at Oxford University in England.

Two college students from Wisconsin are among this year?s group of 32 Rhodes Scholars from the United States.