Category: Campus life

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.

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.

A new report ranks UW-Madison as sixth among U.S. universities and colleges in the number of students studying abroad for academic credit.

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.

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.

Fox sightings are occurring on the UW-Madison campus, sometimes evening interrupting classes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Ad Hoc Committee on Fossil Use and Climate Change held a meeting Monday to discuss potential ways of addressing climate change on campus.

A letter to the editor printed by a University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspaper is going viral online.

This week, O?Reilly Factor correspondent Jesse Watters? traveled to Madison, Wis. to visit the University of Wisconsin. The institution was named the “Sexiest College In America” by The Daily Beast.

Have you ever felt uncomfortable sharing an elevator with Chinese people talking with each other in their language and you have no idea what they?re saying? Don?t be surprised to learn some Chinese feel the same way.

Blake Pluemer played a lot of hockey in his life but never while strapped to a sled.

MADISON ? The dairy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has unveiled its first two lactose-free ice cream flavors, catering to customers who may have a hard time digesting milk sugar.

It isnt easy being lactose intolerant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where Babcock ice cream is a rite of passage.

Four Chinese students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Chinese enrollment has grown 356% in the last decade, have set out to educate their American peers about themselves. They?ve taken to YouTube to explain the social misunderstandings that block many foreign students?particularly those from Asia?from integrating with the slang-speaking, booze-guzzling Americans.