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.
Diallo Shabazz was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 2000 when he stopped by the admissions office.
On a frigid, snowy morning last week, the UW-Madison campus is nearly deserted and Dean Soyeon Shim is using the rare silence in Nancy Nicholas Hall to do some thinking about a paper she?s planning to write. As might be expected for the building that houses the university?s interior architecture program, the space is bright, comfortable and exquisitely designed.
Chloe Smith?s college coursework will include mastering machines known as the Reformer, Cadillac, Low Chair and High Barrel. There will be deep breathing, intense stretching, a lot of sweat and healthy dollops of both pain and pain relief.
Former walk-on Jared Abbrederis has set a new standard with his exemplary college career for No. 19 Wisconsin
A bill in the legislature would change how UW campuses buy food, putting more emphasis on price and increasing flexibility to buy from local vendors.
A UW-Madison student was a victim of battery last night, according to police.
Despite the winter storm thousands of friends and family members made it to this year?s UW Winter commencement ceremony to cheer on the graduating class.
Slippery conditions and long, slow drives were all too common stories at this years University of Wisconsin – Madison winter graduation ceremony.
Before addressing graduates on Sunday, UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank congratulated the commencement crowd at the Kohl Center for simply showing up.
Princeton University is letting students receive a meningitis vaccine not approved in the U.S., following an outbreak of a meningococcal bacteria strain that killed a UW-Madison student this year.
UW-Madison graduate student Alper Sarikaya says he didn?t have much textile experience going into a class he took this semester about wearable computing. But that didn?t stop Sarikaya, who wanted to gain real world prototyping experience and learn how to integrate a computer and clothing: ?I wanted to take it so I could understand how these two things can be merged together, done together well.?
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.
Also featured: Union sponsors chair photos, urges membership for new UW-Madison grads
Hoping to make a point about “ridiculous” religious displays on public property, the Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics at UW-Madison (AHA) added their own display Monday to the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda.
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.
Devinder Sandhu, an associate professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, gets a steady stream of job offers for at least $25,000 more in salary, and some of his peers are paid nearly double what he is.
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.
