Ho-Chunk flag raised at UW-Madison
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Badger Recovery offers alternative spaces to UW-Madison’s party culture
The Daily Cardinal
At a university with a strong drinking culture, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students are creating an alternative community with Badger Recovery programming.
UW-Madison’s Badger Recovery program provides resources for students navigating recovery from addictive behavior in all forms, such as free coaching, peer meetings and sober social events for students in recovery from substance use, eating disorders, gambling and other behaviors.
Slow Food, WASB collab on food insecurity panel, homemade meal
The Daily Cardinal
The Wisconsin Alumni Student Board (WASB) collaborated with student organization Slow Food UW to host “Food For Thought” at The Crossing on October 23rd, providing a free, homemade meal and discussion on food insecurity.
Food For Thought — this semester’s collaboration between Slow Food UW and WASB — serves as an initiative to raise awareness around ongoing food insecurity locally and globally, as well as how students and other members of the Madison community can improve access to healthy, nutritious food.
AC/DC to play at Camp Randall Stadium next summer
Wisconsin State Journal
Legendary heavy metal rock and roll band AC/DC announced Monday that it will play at Camp Randall Stadium on Sunday, July 19.
The Madison show will be part of the Australian band’s “Power Up” tour named for its latest studio album, which reached No. 1 in 21 countries.
Amid SNAP uncertainty, Wisconsin campus food pantries are already stretched thin
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s food pantry, in one sense, looked a lot like business as usual Friday: Student workers continued to dump bags of carrots and onions into bins. They wrote produce labels. They trained volunteers.
The bevy of activity, however, was set against a backdrop of uncertainty, as millions of Americans were set to lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding, known as SNAP payments, due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.
4 UW-Madison students diagnosed with viral meningitis
Wisconsin State Journal
Four UW-Madison students were diagnosed with viral meningitis in late October, according to an official with University Health Services.
All the students, who were diagnosed from Oct. 24 to Oct. 31, received prompt medical care, UHS director of medical services Andrew O’Donnell said in an email. One student was briefly hospitalized and has been released. The other three were not hospitalized, he said.
Protesters rally against Israel ceasefire violations
The Daily Cardinal
Nearly 150 students attended The University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) rally against Israel’s violation of their ceasefire in Gaza Thursday on Library Mall.
Students from the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine, Young Democratic Socialists of America and World Beyond War also attended the rally.
UW students react to new Halloween weekend guest fee
The Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin dorms will require residents to register guests for a rate of $100 during Halloween weekend. To ensure students are abiding by the new registration fee, Wiscard and ID checks will continue to be performed at larger dorms to gain entry into the dorm buildings, and all dorms will be locked for the weekend.
UW Housing to limit, charge $100 for overnight guests during Halloweekend
The Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison housing announced students who wish to have guests in dorms over the weekend will be required to register them and pay $100, a new Halloween weekend policy for guests.
Housing said the decision was motivated by safety issues around Halloweekend in past years. “Our goal is to maintain your safety and that of our community, and years of experience have indicated that Halloween weekend requires extra steps,” said Beth Miller, an assistant director of resident life in an email sent to all residents.
UW-Madison faculty debate campus ideological diversity at conservative student group’s panel
The Daily Cardinal
A conservative student group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a panel discussion on campus Oct. 15 highlighting growing tensions on college campuses over free speech, representation and political balance in the classroom.
Wisconsin Young Americans for Freedom’s panel, featuring current and former UW-Madison professors and state Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, examined how universities can preserve open debate while addressing concerns about a shrinking range of political views, especially in the aftermath of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s assasination at a college in Utah.
Here’s where 2,000 sunburst chairs go when they leave UW-Madison’s terrace
Wisconsin State Journal
The time to pack away 2,000 sunburst chairs for the winter has come, and Wisconsin Union project engineer Joel Gerrits has the plan all laid out, broken down into five-minute increments.
“Here, if you look at the bottom,” Gerrits said, pointing to a printout he created. “That’s almost 3,000 pieces of furniture. It does take a long time to unload, and then stack, put them away, so it’s not like we just go there and dump them.”
Inside UW’s most haunted building: Science Hall’s ‘Fright Night’ returns
The Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin-Madison students explored Science Hall’s rumored hauntings in an interactive haunted house experience Wednesday hosted by the Nelson Institute Ambassadors in collaboration with Japanese Student Association (JSA) and Intermission Theater.
Starting in 2013, the annual Fright Night gives Science Hall a frightening makeover, decorating the building with cobwebs, skeletons, candles and spiders while giving visitors a spooky self-guided tour of the building to celebrate Halloween and the building’s history.
Halloween starship delivery bots, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and more spooky Halloween campus events
The Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host many free Halloween events around campus leading up to Oct. 31.
Starship delivery bots are already celebrating. Customized spooky robot themes are available now until Oct. 31, with personas of Count Snackula, Witchy Wheels, FrankenFeast, Hungry Haunter and Pumpkinbot available to choose. Robots will deliver speaking in-character.
UW-Madison launches privately funded ‘pluralism’ initiative to promote open conversation
The Daily Cardinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison launched “The Wisconsin Exchange: Pluralism in Practice,” a campus-wide initiative aimed at promoting open dialogue and creating a campus atmosphere where “different points of view are both expected and respected.”
The initiative will streamline the university’s preexisting programs with new opportunities, emphasizing the value of diverse viewpoints and civil dialogue.
Church says nearby development will block its solar panels, degrade building
Wisconsin State Journal
Luther Memorial Church on Madison’s Near West Side is asking the developer of a planned 15-story student apartment building to compensate it for what it projects will be lost output from the church’s new solar panels and damage to its century-old sandstone exterior by leaving the church covered in shadow for much of the day.
National Geographic photographer discusses pandas, climate crisis
Daily Cardinal
National Geographic photojournalist, documentary filmmaker and educator Ami Vitale explored ecological concerns, cultural traditions and questions of belonging Tuesday at the first lecture of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
UW-Madison students fight off cuts to American Sign Language program
NBC 15
A group of UW–Madison students are fighting to stop cuts to the school’s American Sign Language program.
ASM hosts workgroup with UHS discussing funding models for student health services
The Badger Herald
University Health Services presented a list of suggestions for UHS funding models to the Associated Students of Madison council Wed. night, discussing the future of funding of health services and the impact they will have on students, according to ASM.
Behind lab doors: How accessibility for students in STEM actually works at UW
The Badger Herald
Lab director talks accessibility for lab work, research for students.
Across University of Wisconsin campuses, 9.6% of enrolled students utilize disability services, a number that has grown by 95% in the past nine years, according to the 2023-24 Services for Students with Disabilities Annual Report.
At Omari Carter’s vibrating screendance, viewers step into the story
Cap Times
The installation debuts on Thursday at the a2ru Conference 2025 at the Play Circle Theater in the Wisconsin Memorial Union. (A2ru is the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities, of which UW-Madison is a part.)
Say goodbye to the chairs at Memorial Union Terrace
Channel 3000
Terrace Season is coming to an end, which means the colorful chair decorating Memorial Union will be leaving at 8 a.m. on Oct. 27.
The Terrace first opened in 1928, with the first full “Terrace Season” took place the following year in 1929. The green, orange and yellow Sunburst chairs first came to campus in 1933 and over the years emerged as a campus icon and trademark of the Wisconsin Union.
Two UW-Madison professors awarded ‘genius grants’
The Daily Cardinal
Ángel F. Adames Corraliza and Sébastien Philippe joined seven University of Wisconsin-Madison professors since 1981 to receive an $800,000 “no-strings-attached” genius award from the philanthropic MacArthur Foundation.
UW-Madison students ‘pump up’ to support domestic violence survivors
The Daily Cardinal
Alpha Chi Omega sorority (AXO) hosted a “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event Friday on Library Mall where the University of Wisconsin-Madison students walked in high heels to spread awareness about domestic violence and support survivors through the Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS).
UW-Madison becomes hub for Puerto Rican studies with new center
Wisconsin State Journal
It’s because of the vision of professors Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, who secured a $3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that over the next three years will bring research scholars, musical artists, culinary and film events and expert speakers related to Puerto Rican studies to the university.
Wiley’s new gallery is a response to today’s chaos
Madison Magazine
Neil Heinen recently attended two events — one being the dedication of the John D. Wiley Gallery for Art in Science — that showed people answering current political and societal challenges with determination and clarity of purpose.
Multicultural Greek student organizations celebrate Homecoming at annual yard show
The Daily Cardinal
The Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) and the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) held their Homecoming Yard Show at Shannon Hall on Friday, showcasing their cultures and unity through ‘strolling, stepping and saluting.’ — forms of performance that are prevalent in Greek organizations.
UW Nonprofit kitchen applies for $20,000 grant from Student Services Finance Committee
The Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin’s Student Services Finance Committee, the allocations branch of the Associated Students of Madison, met Oct. 13 to hold an open forum and discuss Slow Food UW’s application for the General Student Services Fund.
UW hosts Homecoming Blood Drive
The Daily Cardinal
As part of the Big Ten’s “We Give Blood” campaign, the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a Homecoming Blood Drive at the Nicholas Recreation Center Tuesday and Wednesday. Working with Abbott Laboratories, a health care company, the 18 universities in the conference aim to address the nation’s blood shortage by targeting first-time blood donors.
UW-Madison flamingo fundraiser brings in a record-breaking $738K
Wisconsin State Journal
Pink flamingos blanketed the front lawn of UW-Madison’s Bascom Hill on Friday, each ornament in the grass representing a donation toward the record-breaking total of $737,849 brought in by the annual fundraiser.
UW-Madison hosts annual Homecoming Parade
The Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin-Madison community members, student organizations, alumni and local companies joined together for an evening of celebration and togetherness at Friday’s annual Homecoming Parade.
28 ejected, 16 arrested during Iowa’s rout of Badgers, police say
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison police reported that 28 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 16 were arrested during Saturday’s Badgers game against Iowa.
A sellout crowd quietly watched as Iowa routed Wisconsin 37-0.
Effigy mounds on UW-Madison campus get national historic nod
Wisconsin State Journal
Dugout canoes discovered in Lake Mendota have been getting much attention in recent years, but a series of burial mounds on the lake’s shoreline are now getting their turn.
The Wisconsin Historical Society has announced that a grouping of burial mounds on the UW-Madison campus has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
UW-Madison police ask students to stop TikTok prank putting parents in a ‘panic’
Wisconsin State Journal
“We love a good trend, but this one’s got your parents calling us in panic mode,” UW-Madison Police said in the post. “Yep, it’s super funny and harmless — but don’t let your parents sit and stew on it. Quickly tell them it’s a prank so they don’t call the police.”
13th annual ‘Fill the Hill’ at UW-Madison kicks off, raising thousands for student causes in 24 hours
WKOW - Channel 27
‘Fill the Hill’ at UW-Madison kicked off at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9. The event is the university’s largest fundraising day, allowing donors to gift money to student groups for 24 hours.
To celebrate the event, a flock of flamingo rubber duckies will be dumped into the fountain at Library Mall at 9 a.m. on Friday Oct. 10. Participants can rescue them with a net and keep the ones they catch.
In the 608: ‘Fill the Hill’ returns to UW-Madison with flock of pink flamingos
Channel 3000
Thousands of pink plastic flamingos will once again cover Bascom Hill as the University of Wisconsin–Madison celebrates its 13th annual Fill the Hill fundraiser.
The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association hosts the event each fall as part of the University’s day-of-giving campaign. Each donation of $5 or more adds another flamingo to the growing flock on the hill.
Cardinal Call: The UW-Madison information ecosystem and how students perceive the news
The Daily Cardinal
2 UW-Madison professors named MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ fellows
Wisconsin State Journal
Two UW-Madison professors have been named MacArthur Foundation fellows, called “genius awards,” for their work in studying weather patterns in the tropics and investigating the effects of nuclear weapons.
UW-Madison professors Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, who is an atmospheric scientist, and Sébastien Philippe, a nuclear security specialist, were selected Wednesday for the prestigious fellowships. Fellows receive $800,000 paid out over five years for any use.
MacArthur 2025 ‘genius’ grant winners include 2 UW-Madison professors
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named atmospheric scientist Ángel Adames Corraliza, 37, and nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe, 38, as recipients of the prestigious MacArthur fellowship. Also known as the “genius grant,” the national award is given annually to a small group of people across a range of disciplines who show exceptional creativity in their work and future ambitions.
UW Madison community remembers lives of Palestinian victims at candlelight vigil
Badger Herald
Madison Students for a Democratic Society organized a candlelight vigil at Library Mall Oct. 7 to remember the lives of Palestinians killed in Gaza.
The United Nations declared that Israel has been committing four genocidal actions in Gaza since the Hamas attacks that occurred Oct. 7, 2023.
Bat Brigade: The UW group contributing to bat conservation
The Daily Cardinal
A University of Wisconsin-Madison collective is working to establish a long-term data set of little brown bat populations on campus with national implications for conservation.
The UW-Madison Bat Brigade is a collaboration between students, professionals and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to monitor and study bats on campus. The Brigade is part of Biocore, an honors biology program.
Faculty Senate discusses new computing school, ethnic studies
The Daily Cardinal
A University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate meeting Monday centered on two hot-button issues on campus: a proposal for a new college of computing and data sciences and systemwide reforms on the university’s general education requirements, including rumored threats to the ethnic studies requirement.
How does the government shutdown impact UW-Madison research?
The Daily Cardinal
Some University of Wisconsin-Madison research will be affected due to the federal government shutdown, according to a message from both the Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration and of Research.
UW-Madison ranked sixth nationally for research expenditure in 2024 and is at risk for delayed research project funding after the shutdown.
UW-Madison to keep ethnic studies requirement
The Daily Cardinal
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said the university’s ethnic studies requirement will remain in place Wednesday, as a plan to standardize required courses across the University of Wisconsin System left the requirement in ambiguity.
Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants
Associated Press
For Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the award is also a recognition of the talent and grit coming from Puerto Rico, where he is from, despite the hardships his community has endured. His research has uncovered many new findings about what drives weather patterns in the tropics, which may eventually help improve forecasting in those regions.
Adames said usually one of his classes would be ending right when the foundation would publish the new class of fellows, so he was planning to end the lecture early to come back to his office. He said he’s having trouble fathoming what it will be like.
“I am low-key expecting that a few people are just going to show up in my office, like right at 11:02 a.m. or something like that,” he said.
Many 2025 ‘Genius’ Fellows affiliated with universities
Inside Higher Ed
Since the fellowship launched in 1981, fellows have included writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers and entrepreneurs. While no institutional affiliation is required, the award went to the following 2025 fellows with ties to a college or university:
- Atmospheric scientist Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, an associate professor in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for investigating the mechanisms underlying tropical weather patterns.
- Nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe, assistant professor in the Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for exposing past harms and potential future risks from building, testing and storing launch-ready nuclear weapons.
Streets to close for 2025 UW Homecoming Parade
Channel 3000
Multiple streets near campus will be close on Friday for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Homecoming Parade.
Wisconsin sets sights on new location for Badgers hall of fame plaques
Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin athletic department has a new site planned for its hall of fame.
Initial plans show the plaques honoring former Badgers athletes, coaches and administrators moving from near Camp Randall Stadium to near the main entry to the Kohl Center.
Enjoy Badger Bash before Wisconsin homecoming football game this Saturday
WMTV - Channel 15
As Wisconsin Football takes on Iowa this weekend for the Badgers’ homecoming game, fans can enjoy pregame festivities at Badger Bash. Badger Bash begins 2-and-a-half hours before every home football game at Union South.
With the game starting off at 6 p.m. Saturday, this week’s Badger Bash will start at 3:30 p.m.
UW students worried new proposed gen ed categories could nix ethnic studies requirement
Channel 3000
The Universities of Wisconsin released its new proposed core general education requirements to comply with Wisconsin Act 15 — and some students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are concerned about the future of the school’s undergraduate ethnic studies requirement as the plan stands.
Badgers community encouraged to donate blood during UW homecoming
WMTV - Channel 15
Anyone and everyone is being called to roll up a sleeve to support the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s annual homecoming blood drive. The blood drive is part of a nationwide effort and competition through Abbott and the Big Ten.
UW-Madison plans to move Athletic Hall of Fame to Kohl Center
The Cap Times
While the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Athletic Hall of Fame is set to move next year, commemorative bricks purchased by Badgers fans will stay near Camp Randall Stadium, an administrator said Tuesday.
The athletics department plans to relocate the Hall of Fame outside of the Kohl Center, where the school’s basketball teams play. About a mile east of UW-Madison’s football stadium, the Kohl Center is a “prime location” on campus that attracts thousands each year, said Jason King, UW-Madison’s senior associate athletic director for capital projects and operations.
New details emerge in ‘violent, unprovoked’ deadly attack on man near Camp Randall
Channel 3000
he man charged with violently attacking his former coworker near Camp Randall allegedly used a hammer and kicked the 62-year-old victim numerous times to death, a criminal complaint alleges.
Keith Jones, 58, is accused of murdering 62-year-old Mark A. Tiggelaar of Fitchburg at the UW Athletics Operations parking lot.
Wisconsin Badgers changed the brats they’re serving at games. Here’s the backstory
Wisconsin State Journal
Part of the shipment of food to be prepared for the next week’s University of Wisconsin football game arrived, as usual, at Camp Randall Stadium on a Thursday. The collection was short in one product that in Wisconsin almost certainly would get noticed if concession stands ran out early: There weren’t enough brats.
In the short term, a search gathered enough supply of the brats to get Wisconsin through the football season before pivoting. Over the following months, chefs went through a taste-testing process that informed how they were planning to move forward.
A “country cap” at universities shouldn’t worry international families
Forbes
While the proposed caps might not immediately affect most colleges, some of the “elite” private colleges and large state schools would be impacted. Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Southern California, along with the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, all surpass the proposed limit. The high concentration of international students at these institutions is more related to brand recognition and recruitment efforts than to student success. Families should keep this in mind.
UW, state leaders unveil Morgridge Hall, ushering in ‘AI revolution’
The Daily Cardinal
Morgridge Hall, the new home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Computer, Data and Information Sciences (CDIS) programs, which may soon separate from Letters & Sciences, is officially open for business.
After a two-and-a-half-year construction project which cost $260 million, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and a host of other speakers cut the ribbon on Morgridge Hall Friday, ushering in a “new AI revolution” that will sweep the campus.
October 5, 1928 – Memorial Union opens on UW-Madison campus
WMTV - Channel 15
On this day, October 5, 1928, Memorial Union opened on UW-Madison’s campus.
The Memorial Union was the first union to serve beer at a public university, according to the Memorial Union.
About that column I didn’t write as a UW professor
Wisconsin State Journal
“I am not going to be that professor who posts on social media and is promptly pilloried for expressing an opinion.
“Like many academics these days, I have been wanting to weigh in on recent crises and tragedies that are at the top of the news cycle. But such a course hardly seems wise.”
Written by Russ Castronovo, a professor of English and the director of the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison.
UW eliminates HR Dept of Equity, Inclusion and Employee Wellbeing
Madison 365
The Department of Equity, Inclusion and Employee Wellbeing (EIEW) within UW-Madison’s Office of Human Resources (OHR) has ceased operations, a UW spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
UW-Madison cuts diversity-related unit in human resources office
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison has shuttered the equity and well-being department in its human resources office, which worked to retain LGBTQ+ and employees of color.
The university established the Office of Equity, Inclusion and Employee Well-Being in spring 2021 to offer consultation and promote inclusive policies and environments, with a focus on support for traditionally marginalized communities.
UW-Madison lab creating archive of historic, significant locations for Black Madisonians
Spectrum News
New research going on at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is focused on how Black residents find and build community in the City of Madison, which is predominantly white.
About a dozen students are part of the first research lab within UW-Madison’s Department of African American Studies. It’s called the Soulfolk Collective.