A small electrical fire in a UW-Madison hall early Friday afternoon created large amounts of smoke, forcing an evacuation and a large response from the Madison Fire Department. There were no injuries.
Rachel Gross emerges from a classroom to face the crush of students charging through the corridors. The labyrinthine hallways and riot-proof walls make the UW Humanities Building feel like a medieval fortress under siege during class change. Gross has just a few minutes to herself before her next skirmish — with a room of 13 undergraduates.
For a few brief moments on Thursday afternoon, Wayne Valliere was communing with his ancestors.
If you want to find one of the greatest college towns in the world, look no farther than Bascom Hill and Camp Randall Stadium.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
As debate about the monitoring of online activities continues in the public sphere, a review of the University of Wisconsin?s information system privacy policies found administrators can only access student email after a written request is approved.
In part for being a college town with a strong sense of community, Madison was recently ranked the fifth best city to call home in the United States.
Madison, WisconsinWith its downtown on a narrow isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, and the college campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison spread along the lakeshore, Madison is perhaps one of the loveliest college towns in the US Midwest.
Jason Furman, President Obama?s chief economist and head of the Council of Economic Advisors, spoke about the outlook for fiscal policy in an event sponsored by the Department of Economics at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System began accepting applications Monday for the Flexible Option Degree Program, a service that will help adult students receive college credit in nontraditional ways.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a statewide, multicampus forum Monday discussing insurance options for young people under the Affordable Care Act.
A new report shows record numbers of international students studied in Wisconsin and around the country last year.
MADISON ? UW-Madison police made 16 arrests, issued 16 citations and ejected 40 people during the Badgers? 51-3 rout of Indiana on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
As editor-in-chief of the Badger Herald, one of the largest independent student newspapers in the country, Katherine Krueger has a unique perspective on the future of journalism in the digital age. Last year the Herald, which had long been the larger and wealthier of the two UW-Madison campus newspapers, decided it could no longer continue to print a daily broadsheet newspaper.
When University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Cal Melberg attended a bone marrow registry drive at his girlfriend?s request, he had no idea he would soon be making a donation that could hopefully save a woman?s life.
Despite how ridiculously expensive tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gets, one thing I will not gripe about paying is the student segregated fee that all UW-Madison students pay equally regardless of residency, year or school. UW-Madison?s segregated fees are taxes that are tacked onto our semester tuition that add a little over $1,000 to our overall tuition and fees annually.
An audit of the University of Wisconsin System released Nov. 15 revealed that no documented plans exist for 40.7 percent of UW-Madison?s 2012 program revenue balances.
Following an apartment fire last week in the Casa Blanca Apartment building on University Avenue that displaced 50 University of Wisconsin students, the Dean of Students office is raising awareness about a ?crisis fund.?
A man in camouflage who alarmed Madison neighbors when he walked down a street with an uncased shotgun Saturday morning turned out to be a hunter thwarted by city parking.
A report of a man with a gun that prompted a police alert in downtown Madison turned out to be a false alarm – just a guy returning home from hunting.
How does UW-Madison make you feel? UW officials asked that question of some 25 community members, faculty and staff ? many of them African-American ? who gathered Wednesday evening for the second of four scheduled community listening sessions on diversity and inclusion at the university.
An Office of Sustainability representative facilitated discussion on environmental initiatives on campus and the recently established Green Fund at the second Sustainability Fair Thursday.
President John F. Kennedy begins his last full day in the White House with a Western Union telegram to UW-Madison President Fred Harvey Harrington.
An armed robbery occurred at about 5:51 p.m. Wednesday night behind 700 Regent Street on the bike path, Madison Police Department Lt. Dan Olivas said.
A Madison man was robbed at knife-point around near West Washington Avenue and Regent Street in downtown Madison Wednesday evening.
A new report ranks UW-Madison as sixth among U.S. universities and colleges in the number of students studying abroad for academic credit.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced in a press release Tuesday it will partner with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to develop campus entrepreneurship and utilize collaboration to bring innovative ideas to fruition.
After the final campus engagement session Tuesday, committee members say that they want to gather more student feedback on what should be included in an upcoming campus diversity plan.
Madison residents could see a new transit center in the downtown area after a local company outlined its plan for a development that also would include student housing in a meeting Monday.
Kaleem Caire has been pushing to get a good turnout for UW-Madison?s second community meeting on diversity and inclusion, to be held Wednesday at the headquarters of the Urban League of Greater Madison, where Caire is president and CEO.
The University of Wisconsin has experimented with new learning methods recently by ?flipping? classrooms, changing the traditional structure of large lectures.
Fox sightings are occurring on the UW-Madison campus, sometimes evening interrupting classes.
The Fall edition of the Badger Insider, one of the slick publications produced by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, has a great story about one of Badger football?s all-time legends, the Portage Plumber.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked sixth among U.S. universities and colleges in the number of students earning academic credit from study abroad programs during 2011-?12, according to the 2013 Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange released Monday.
The Academic Staff Assembly met Monday to hear from Chancellor Rebecca Blank about the human resources plan and a fund used to give raises for academic staff.
As a University of Wisconsin ad hoc committee continues work on a new diversity plan, it is turning to the community for input on what changes need to be made on campus.
A record number of international students studied at American colleges and universities last year, including in Wisconsin, driven largely by an influx of young scholars from China, according to U.S. data released Monday.University of Wisconsin-Madison enrolled 5,291 international students last year ? 12.5% of its total 42,463 enrollment.
Eric Dahl is the country?s top collegiate eater. The University of Wisconsin-Madison senior fairly regularly chows down tons of food, very fast, on stage, on camera and before throngs of fans and restaurant-goers.Dahl currently holds the number-one ranking within the National Collegiate Competitive Eating Association (NCCEA).
Look up the Grand Canyon on Google Maps. Imagine running your fingers over your computer screen and actually feeling the topography, the jagged tip of the mountaintops, the unevenness of the rocky terrain. You trace the winding Colorado River and graze the mountainsides as you guesstimate how deep the valley must be in real life.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health laid off 60 employees from its nationally recognized eye research center after learning the facility had accumulated $4.6 million in debt, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
Using the sound of Veterans, Educators and Traditional Students? members voices honoring fallen soldiers from atop Bascom Hill, Cpl. Jake Beebe strives to ensure University of Wisconsin-Madison students are reminded of American heroes as they walk to class this Veterans Day.
UW Marching Band members showed support for a local cancer research center at Saturday?s game.
According to a release, three people, two of them firefighters, were transported to UW Hospital overnight following a 2-alarm fire at 2302 University Avenue just before midnight Saturday.
University Police released their statistics on arrests at the Badgers vs. Brigham Young University, including twenty three arrests, fourteen of them students.
Three people were injured and dozens were evacuated late Saturday night during an apartment fire on University Avenue, officials said.
A fire at a three-story apartment building on Madison?s Near West Side late Saturday night injured three people and displaced dozens of residents, many of them UW-Madison students.
Plans to reconstruct the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall caused a rift between the State Street Design Committee and the Wisconsin Historical Society at a meeting Thursday.
A city committee finalized plans Thursday night for a project to redesign the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall, including a public art sculpture of a maple leaf.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez are making another effort to address concerns regarding the sportsmanship of a student section chant at Badger football games.
Members of the Theta Chi Fraternity at UW-Madison have all been growing out their hair.
The Madison Traffic Engineering and Parking Division said in a news release the 400 block of the street, between North Bassett Street and North Broom Street, will be closed from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. each weekday for almost two weeks.
A committee to help select the next provost of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has begun its search for Paul DeLuca?s successor, after he announced in June he would be returning to the faculty, according to a news release.
Vice Provost for Student Life and Dean of Students Lori Berquam attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council meeting Wednesday to discuss recent safety issues on campus, as well as to propose possible recognition of members of ASM.
Members of the University of Wisconsin community were quick to respond after a letter to the editor dispelling ?rape culture? was published in The Badger Herald Monday, prompting what several sexual violence professionals said was the start of a campus-wide conversation.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison expects to have a new provost in place sometime during the spring semester.
An associate dean for academic affairs and the campus child care coordinator at UW-Madison have been honored for advancing the status of women on campus.
David Hookstead appears to be at the top of his game. And his game is ticking people off.
Harmful social norms regarding sexual violence discourage University of Wisconsin-Madison sexual assault victims from reporting incidents and seeking support, according to a University Health Services statement Tuesday.
After an influx of emails and WiscAlerts this semester, University of Wisconsin students received an email last week reiterating crime rates around campus remain normal, but police are increasing communication with the student body.
Attempts to address space shortages with a new master plan from University of Wisconsin Recreational Sports may fall flat following student feedback, as recent changes downsizing the Natatorium could possibly prevent the university from meeting fitness standards.
