UW Moving Days took place again in Madison to keep items that can be reused or recycled out of landfills, as thousands of students move in or out of their apartments this week.
A closed half-block of Langdon Street in front of the UW-Madison Memorial Union will reopen eastbound only on Thursday, as traffic starts to increase with the pending fall semester on campus.
Moving can be a test of brain and brawn whatever the circumstances, but the managers and tenants of high-rise student apartment buildings near the UW-Madison campus are preparing for the departure and arrival of thousands of students this week.
After months of effort, the city and UW-Madison have preliminary design concepts for a remake of the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street and Library Mall that include more green space, better bicycle and pedestrian routes and changes to the area?s many food carts.
Back in May, the city of Madison installed three chalk boards on the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street with the intention of capturing ideas that college students and other city residents have for improving the space, better known as State Street Mall.
In a final obituary for the beloved former Stadium Bar, developers on Tuesday announced they would break ground this month on Varsity Quarters, a new student housing tower to be built on the bar?s former site despite heated objections from neighborhood residents during the planning process.
City of Madison crews were out before dawn Wednesday, trying to keep ahead of a massive amount of trash and recyclables piling up during the annual move-out, move-in week.
Opus Group?s Milwaukee office is partnering with a Chicago developer on a six-story building with 162 beds for University of Wisconsin-Madison students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is partnering with two Wisconsin Indian tribes in an effort to increase enrollment and graduation rates of Native American students.
A Fitchburg man garnered his fifth drunken-driving charge early Monday morning after University of Wisconsin-Madison police stopped him for allegedly driving erratically.
It contains one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s best-known natural spots, especially for couples: Picnic Point.
Laura Knoll and her husband, Rob Striker, need nothing more than an open space to get their young sons moving.?We go to the track at West High School and have races with the kids,? Knoll said. … ?We have sprint races, where we see who can win once around the track, and then twice, and so on. It gets us all outside,? said Knoll, a professor of microbiology at UW-Madison. Her husband is also a professor at UW, and their demanding work schedules require plenty of play therapy.
One of the annual rites of early fall near the UW-Madison campus arrives this week in the form of ?Moving Days,? that super-charged, super-condensed few days Downtown when thousands of students move out of their apartments and thousands more move in.
At the hour when Texans dash from air-conditioned office to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned home, couples and children are twirling on Memorial Union Terrace?s lakefront promenade. Everybody?s welcome at the University of Wisconsin?s sea of tables circled by bright yellow, orange and green chairs, each graced with a stamped-metal sunburst pattern.
The archives are now stored at the museums or the Historical Society building on the UW-Madison campus, Risser said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been recognized in a number of recent college rankings, including the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) survey, “Fiske Guide to Colleges,” and Livability.com?s top college towns.
As summer begins to wind down and a new school year approaches, various organizations across the city and state have sought to collect and deliver supplies to some of Milwaukee Public Schools? neediest students.
High school scholars in UW-Madison?s PEOPLE program (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) and incoming PEOPLE college freshmen from across Wisconsin were recognized for their accomplishments at the program?s annual recognition banquet Friday, Aug. 2, at the Exhibition Hall D of the Alliant Energy Center.
As Damon Williams departs from his position as the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s chief diversity officer, two campus figures involved in efforts to create a more inclusive university will help guide its diversity initiatives over the next year.
The bill also prohibits the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and any two- or four-year UW System school from imposing certain sanctions on students who commit an underage violation if they are exempt from a citation
Interviewed: Michelle Curtis of the Office of Student Financial Aid explains that the federal government set up a cap in case things got out of hand with the financial market.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, No. 8 on this year?s list, university officials and the city have worked to address the drinking problem, including passing an ordinance in 2012 designed to crack down on large house parties and trying to provide more entertainment options for students who aren?t of legal drinking age.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ranking as the nation?s eighth best party school is being met not with a toast but a sigh by those who work to curb underage drinking.
Time Magazine has named the ?Elemental? blog for Wired Magazine, written by journalism professor Deborah Blum, one of the 25 best of 2013.
The University of Wisconsin-Madisons ranking as the nations eighth best party school is being met not with a toast but a sigh by those who work to curb underage drinking.
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s titan arum ? or ?corpse plant? ? is, at this writing, in full bloom, but the time to see and smell the rare, foul-smelling plant is limited.
The idea of anonymous confessions went viral last semester, with Facebook pages popping up at campuses large and small. The confessions page out of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which went up in late February, says it?s the nation?s largest, with about 500,000 weekly views during the school year.
An underground utility construction project will result in the shutdown of the Langdon Street and North Henry Street intersection Downtown from Monday through next Friday.
Football season starts in just about a month, and if you?re headed to a UW game, you?ll see some pretty big changes at Camp Randall.
The Titan Arum plant began blooming inside UW-Madison?s D.C. Smith Greenhouse around noon on Thursday, August 1 and should reach full bloom sometime Thursday evening.
Camp Randall gets a major makeover ahead of football season. It?s a project that started almost three years ago, and now the crew is in stage three. It?s the final one of the $86 million dollar face-lift.
One of the most successful long-term diversity pipelines to higher education in the nation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) continues to increase the number of college-ready students applying to the state?s flagship campus.
Klein is also taking on the UW biking culture, notorious for jamming downtown traffic between class periods with many bikers displaying complete disregard for any rules of the road.?It?s a tough crowd,? says Klein. ?It is amazing just how little folks do know about the rules.?
More than 130,000 people trekked to the United States Botanic Garden last week to see its stinky titan arum “corpse flower” in bloom.
It?s been dubbed ?the corpse flower,? and the Titan Arum plant at the University of Wisconsin is set to bloom this week. The mature flower of the tropical plant is known for the unsavory smell it gives off, a scent akin to rotting meat that?s designed to attract the carrion beetles and flesh flies that typically pollinate it.
F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture is a student garden organization within and funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students and other volunteers maintain 1.75 acres of vegetables, herbs, and fruit at Eagle Heights Community Gardens as well as host garden and food workshops for the community. F.H. King also has a small vegetable and herb rooftop garden on top of the Pyle Center on campus.
While UW-Madison students are certainly a piece of the target market, Carbine is most excited over the possibility of young professionals, empty-nesters and even families moving downtown.
Construction of a new Catholic student center at UW-Madison, now in the fundraising phase, is his ?most urgent? priority, Morlino said.
Is there anything more American than sharing a bag of oranges with your University of Wisconsin friends and geeking out in your Peanuts-themed dorm room?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will have a featured presence at the Wisconsin State Fair on August 7.
After the GI Bill passed in 1944, so many WWII veterans flocked to the University of Wisconsin that they had no place to sleep. Each year from 1946 to 1949, more than 10,000 enrolled, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all students.
It?s a story of well-aged philosophy, begun in a UW-Madison library prior to World War II and concluded in the same library last week.
A book overdue by more than 75 years was returned to a UW-Madison campus library last week.
It is a humid 89-degree morning when Jacob Arndt unloads his truck of chisels and other tools onto a table at the University Club, where he begins massaging one of two slabs of Indiana limestone.
Noted: When I first traveled through West Africa, as a student backpacker more than 30 years ago, I was haunted by the beggars disabled by blindness, leprosy and polio. Now I?m on my annual win-a-trip journey with a university student, Erin Luhmann of the University of Wisconsin, and she is encountering a fundamentally improved landscape than the one I saw when I was her age.
Andrew Nehmer may have tried to tell what happened.The phone in the Open Pantry where the 20-year-old student worked was off the hook. Police speculated that he started to make a call but then realized that he couldnt speak.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is naming its new residence hall after conservationist Aldo Leopold.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is naming its new residence hall after conservationist Aldo Leopold.
The University of Wisconsin System?s new flexible degree option for working adults has earned approval from an accrediting agency, clearing the way for the first degree programs to enroll students later this year.
I?m on my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student along with me so we can report on global poverty. The winner, Erin Luhmann of the University of Wisconsin, and I randomly stopped in a village near the Malian town of Mopti to ask about food shortages.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a tuition freeze for all students. Thursday?s vote went beyond a mandate included in the recently signed state budget, which directed the UW to hold the line on tuition only for in-state students, by also applying the freeze to out-of-state and graduate students.
The University of Wisconsin System has approved a tuition freeze for both in and out-of-state undergraduate and graduate students next year.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Tuition will be frozen for all students attending the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years, while fees and room and board costs will go up, under action taken Thursday by the Board of Regents.
Two institutions at the University of Wisconsin System have gotten approval to begin offering working adults the option to finish college degrees under the new Flexible Option program.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has approved a tuition freeze for all students.
The University of Wisconsin System has proposed an across-the-board tuition freeze for next year, extending the Legislature-mandated freeze on tuition for state undergraduates to include out-of-state and graduate students, as well.
After five years of hosting curious students from across the globe, Martha Querin-Schultz and her husband Steve have decided to end International Day on their farm in the Town of Cottage Grove.
Are you looking for a fast-paced career in wire-tapping, records grabbing and just general creeping?Then look no further than the National Security Agency.
TIMBUKTU, Mali ? IT?S time for my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student with me on a reporting trip to Africa. So I?m here in Timbuktu, the ancient crossroads of the Sahara, with Erin Luhmann, a journalism student from the University of Wisconsin, navigating roadblocks and jittery soldiers in a city that Islamist militants ruled until early this year.
Attention all NSA recruiters: If you?re planning to pitch your agency at a college career fair anytime soon, be sure to bring your “A” game.
