We talk with a member of the Governor’s broadband task force about hurdles to more people adopting the service. Then we discuss the tricky balance between managing pests and promoting pollinators. And a disabled UW student and advocate reflects on Disability Pride Month coming to a close.
Brelynn Bille of Waupun started using a wheelchair as a support for her disability during her sophomore year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That’s when she really began to notice the accessibility obstacles on campus.
Students at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee joined the tidal wave of pro-Palestinian protests this spring. The demonstrators on both campuses followed similar formulas, pitching tents and demanding that their schools divest from Israeli companies.
The vacuum provides cool air to help the chocolate set as creamy layers are added to create the sweet treat, said Rich Hartel, a food science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hartel runs the university’s Candy School — also known as the Confectionery Technology Course — which started in 1963 and has become so popular that it has a waitlist of people who want to attend.
Madison will soon welcome a new professional sports league to the community. Wisconsin Athletics and League One Volleyball (LOVB) announced Tuesday that they will play their home games at the UW Field House, starting with their first game following the Olympics.
Your eyes are drawn to the ceiling when you enter through the doors of Nancy Nicholas Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Organized by the Faculty and Staff for Palestinian Liberation, the demonstration drew approximately 30 people.
Billie requested a proclamation to make July Disability Awareness Month in Wisconsin. For the last three years, the month celebrates the community, while also fighting for a better future.
Voter turnout in the last two Associated Students of Madison elections has been a measly 3%. In the Spring 2024 election, just 1,273 students out of the University of Wisconsin’s 48,557 total student body cast a vote via ASM’s online voting platform.
While many students at the University of Wisconsin use their summer to vacation, bolster their resume with an internship or take an extra course, there’s still plenty going on in the world of UW athletics. Between the imminent release of College Football 25, the roster list being announced for the Paris 2024 Olympics, the reveal of the UW Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2024 and much more, there’s something for everyone to catch up on at UW.
As a former campus tour guide, I was often asked what made the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus so special. My answer? For a long time, I would tell incoming students a variety of answers: Lake Mendota, gameday culture or lakeshore in the fall.
But after living on Stanford University’s campus for the last month, that’s changed: what makes UW-Madison’s campus so special is our ability to leave it.
Universities of Wisconsin schools will soon be offering admission to tens of thousands of Wisconsin high school seniors without receiving applications.
Incoming high school seniors, check your inboxes: You may have just gotten into college without even applying.
Ten of the state’s public universities will send acceptance letters starting next week through a new “direct admissions” program. Eligible students at participating schools will be automatically admitted to universities based on their grades and coursework at the end of their junior year, essentially bypassing the traditional application process.
Events of all kinds have taken place under the arch of the 1,600-ton concrete roof in the Camp Randall Sports Center over the last 68 years.
Football fans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon be allowed to buy alcohol throughout the stadium.
Wisconsin Athletics announced on Monday that, for the first time ever, they plan on selling beer, wine, and pre-packaged alcoholic products like hard seltzers in the general seating areas at Camp Randall Stadium and the UW Field House this fall.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department cracked the top on the sale of alcoholic beverages to all fans of legal drinking age last season.
Badger fans will now get to enjoy Wisconsin football with a brew. UW Athletics announced Monday alcoholic beverages will be sold in the general seating area at Camp Randall at the start of the 2024 season.
Badgers football fans will now be able to buy alcoholic beverages at Camp Randall.
The Lakeshore Path along Lake Mendota may receive some safety touch-ups as UW-Madison conducts surveys to see how the public responds to future lighting on the path.
UW-Madison is studying the feasibility of both paving and lighting parts of the Lakeshore path between the Limnology building, just west of the Union Terrace, out to Willow Creek near the new Bakke Recreation Center and soccer fields.
Babcock Dairy Store: This treasure at UW-Madison has a long history of serving locally made ice cream.
UW said the “Temin Lakeshore Path Study” will look at potential impacts of proposed paving and lighting of the lakeshore path, which will run from Willow Creek to the UW Limnology Building. The study comes following reports of perceived safety risks for navigating the limestone gravel path at night.
Another 15-story student housing development could go up on the corner of North Frances and West Johnson streets Downtown.
Chicago-based Core Spaces announced plans Thursday for 392 apartments, a rooftop pool and other “premier” amenities at 305 N. Frances St., where the Saxony Apartments stand today.
After Porchlight transitions its operations and residents to the new building on East Washington Avenue, the developer intends to demolish the nonprofit’s four-story, 102-unit North Brooks Street facility and replace it with a 15-story, 189-unit student apartment building.
A Dane County supervisor, a public health expert and a pharmacist are making the case they can best represent some of the state’s youngest voters in an Assembly district anchored by UW-Madison.
The event runs from Sunday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 21. Shannon Hall in UW’s historic Memorial Union will be home to four days of sessions. We will also use other venues across the city.
Nikhita Steward-Trivedi, a rising ninth grader in Beaver Dam, was accepted into UWs Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), a three-week residential program for academically gifted students, to take a course in art and activism.
Mecha described the investigation as “a pattern of harassment and intentional intimidation of our already vulnerable Latine, Chicane and Indigenous members” in a July 4 statement announcing their independence from the university.
Terrace Art Zone: Easy, free craft sessions for all ages are held on the UW Memorial Union Terrace, 800 Langdon St., from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays through Aug. 17.
Years before upcoming “Bachelorette” and former “Bachelor” contestant Jenn Tran was looking for love on TV, there was something else she was trying to find:
A college with “a lot of school spirit.” She’d find it — in Wisconsin.
Campus administration received anonymous feedback criticizing speakers for anti-Black sentiments after an April internal antisemitism training.
The Wisconsin Union team is putting special colors of terrace chairs on display that aren’t usually seen at the terrace, including purple and blue. New this year, pink, brown and white have been added to the collection.
UW-Madison student veterans could receive new services and acknowledgements at Camp Randall under a UW System Board of Regents proposal amid construction near Camp Randall Memorial Park.
The meeting would have held a first reading for a faculty-written resolution condemning police action taken against pro-Palestinian protesters by the University of Wisconsin May 1, according to previous reporting from The Badger Herald.
It’s at least the fourth proposal for 126 Langdon St. since 2008. The most recent attempt to redevelop the site, Core Spaces’ seven-story Hub II, failed to secure city approval in 2020 and again in 2021 after residents objected to the building’s height and its luxury amenities, which included a rooftop swimming pool and hot tub.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department issued citations to 19 people Thursday related to the pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall at the end of the spring semester.
Madison police continue to seek a suspect in a weekend shooting at an unauthorized rooftop apartment party in the city’s downtown that left 12 people hurt.
The shooting took place at a rooftop party with more than 25 people attending at the high-rise Lux Apartment building near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and came as two other weekend shootings occurred in the city. At a Monday press conference, Madison officials said they’re still determining a motive and have yet to arrest anyone.
“The feedback that I’ve heard, and obviously I’m sure there are people on all ends of the spectrum, but the feedback that we’ve received has been almost exclusively positive,” Dargan said.
Marcelle Haddix, who has held numerous leadership positions in her 16 years at Syracuse University and currently serves as associate provost for strategic initiatives, has been chosen as the next dean of UW–Madison’a School of Education. Haddix will begin on Aug. 11.
Marcelle Haddix, who has held various leadership positions at Syracuse University, will take the helm of one of the nations highest-ranked education schools.
Incoming Dean Haddix plans to incorporate more interdisciplinary education.
Dr. Marcelle Haddix was announced as the school’s new dean on Thursday. Haddix is currently the associate provost for strategic initiatives at Syracuse University and was previously chair of the Reading and Language Arts department at Syracuse’s School of Education.
The Daily Cardinal spent over 1,000 combined hours at the UW-Madison pro-Palestine encampment. Here are our takeaways.
University Health Services partners with student organizations to support student survivors beyond Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
The NCAA and its Power Five conferences recently agreed to an antitrust settlement that would allow colleges to pay student athletes directly. But it’s still unclear how schools in those conferences, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will implement the new framework.
In April, the Peace Corps announced that UW-Madison was its No. 1 volunteer-producing university for 2023. Since President John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps in 1961, more than 2,700 volunteers have come from UW-Madison.
Three of those volunteers joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” from across the world to talk about their experiences and lessons from the organization.
Elsdon is a Presbyterian minister and executive director of Pres House, a campus ministry and student housing community at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a co-founder of RootedGood, a nonprofit organization that helps churches think creatively about how to use their spaces.
Low trust in campus administration remains in the month following the police raid on the UW-Madison pro-Palestine encampment.
On University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus, first-year graduate students Marian Azeem-Angel and Rusal Ferus were sitting at the Memorial Union terrace when they saw the news of the guilty verdicts.
“My friends from out of state just texted me, saying, ‘It finally happened,’” said Ferus, who grew up in Georgia and followed news about the Trump campaign’s election conspiracy charges there. “Thank god something came out of that and it wasn’t just a whole lot of deliberation for nothing.”
University of Wisconsin officials announced in February that the width of the ice rink at the Kohl Center would be reduced to 85 feet from 97 in time for the 2024-2025 season.
What wasn’t known at the time was whether that reduction would eventually affect seating for men’s basketball. It will.
In fact, there is data showing a lack of overt bias. A study of the University of North Carolina system, for example, found that direct discussion of politics comes up in only 8 percent of classes. In the University of Wisconsin system, “students reported substantially more frequent encouragement than discouragement of exploring a variety of viewpoints.”
The initiative, known as the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program, is launching for undergraduate, medical degree, law degree, and currently enrolled Native American students.
Each Thursday and Saturday beginning this week, the group will offer guided one- to two-hour walks focused on the Greenbush, Maple Bluff, Mansion Hill East, Westmorland and Vilas neighborhoods, as well as the UW-Madison agricultural campus, Orton Park and King Street areas.
Here are five major Madison-area road projects to be on the lookout for this season.
How this protest fits into recent history, what to carry moving forward, and what to leave behind.
UW–Madison is home to a two-year training program, known as the Master Meat Crafter Program, that offers members of the meat industry new skills and knowledge to take their careers to the next level. Created in 2010 by Jeff Sindelar, Ph.D., a professor and extension meat specialist in Animal & Dairy Sciences, it is a one-of-a-kind program that brings people from across the country and abroad to Madison to earn the “Master Meat Crafter” distinction upon graduation.
Student demonstrators at UW-Madison took down their tents on Library Mall nearly two weeks ago, after organizers reached an agreement with university administration
Archaeologists with the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday they have identified up to nine more dugout canoes on the lake’s bottom near Shorewood Hills.
YDSA is suspended pending an investigation for allegedly violating campus policy and state law during the encampment, a suspension letter from Dean of students, Christina Olstad said. SJP is under a similar CSO investigation.
