Category: Campus life

The October traffic crash that killed a UW-Madison student was caused by a woman who was texting while driving, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. Authorities charged Stephanie M. Kanoff, 20, of Sun Prairie, with homicide by negligent driving for allegedly writing a text message on her cell phone before she struck and killed Dylan Ellefson, 21, whose car had become disabled in the 1400 block of East Johnson Street on Oct. 24.

A 20-year-old Sun Prairie woman is expected to be in Dane County Circuit Court on Wednesday for charges stemming from a fatal crash in October.

Georgetown University, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and the University of Wisconsin?Madison?reported that none of their students keep cars on campus. Georgetown, for instance, does not allow students who live on campus to have cars there, though the school?s Washington, D.C., location allows access to a vast public transportation system, as is the case for NYU-Poly students in New York City. 

MADISON (WKOW) — From the simple, to the creative, to the bizarre. There are hundreds of thousands of smart phone apps available on the iTunes and Android markets, and some are made here in Madison. UW-Madison grad student Matt Luedke and his company, SnowShoeFood, have developed a new app to help customers shop local.

A group of Sherman Middle School seventh-graders who recently traveled to New Orleans on a rare service-learning trip are sharing their experience at UW-Madison?s School of Education on Monday. The trip was unusual because most community service projects in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina have involved high school or college students. Students, professors and researchers at UW-Madison are interested in hearing about the community service component, professor Diana Hess said.

The University of Wisconsin Multicultural Student Center celebrated its 11th annual graduation by honoring more than 100 students and naming the inaugural honorees of the McDowell Alumni Achievement Award.

The Tenant Resource Center has been awarded a contract with Associated Students of Madison to provide housing counseling services and outreach to University of Wisconsin-Madison students for the upcoming academic year. In addition to services currently available at TRC?s Williamson Street office, TRC will have an office in the Student Activity Center. The room will be in the ASM Office, Room 4301 at 333 East Campus Mall.

UW-Madison benefactors John and Tashia Morgridge shared the dais at the Kohl Center on Sunday, delivering the commencement address to graduates, taking turns speaking from two different lecterns. The high school sweethearts said they shared a rich and unique experience with graduates, with some key differences. The Morgridges spoke at the weekend?s four undergraduate ceremonies for about 6,000 graduates.

Frequent UW-Madison donors John and Tashia Morgridge have pledged to match gifts that this year?s graduates give the university. Through Dec. 31, the Morgridges will match gifts ranging from $20.11 to $120.11 to support a graduate?s college, school or department, or the university as a whole. The couple made the pledge during remarks at Saturday?s undergraduate commencement ceremonies.

At UW-Madison, it doesn?t take much to create a registered student group. All a student needs is three other people with a common interest. That means ? among some 830 registered student organizations ? there are groups that fill even the most quirky and bizarre niches.

But this spring?s graduates, like many of late, face a hard reality once they?ve returned the caps and gowns: the persistently brutal job market. Nilesh Patel, JD career advisor with the University of Wisconsin Law School, said that in the past two years, about half of the school?s graduating class did not have positions lined up. While the numbers aren?t yet in for the Class of 2011, he suspects that figure won?t be dramatically different.

Noted: Nike actually said it heard about the situation and told the WRC, who were among a few groups to put pressure on them last year to remedy workers pay in Honduras when two subcontractors failed to make employees whole. Nike eventually paid $1.54 million, but lost its licensing deal with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the process.

If you find yourself constantly checking over your shoulder this weekend, it could be from empathizing too much with those paranoid “Survivor” castaways. Or, it could be the fact that there are now roughly 6,000 new college graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who are looking for a job and the job they?re looking for may be yours.

For the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, the route to campus internationalization has been less like a highway and more like a series of small, winding paths.

The UW-Madison?s Mosse Humanities Building is slated for demolition. Long live the Humanities Building!

One of the largest student organizations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recognized many of its members for their various accomplishments this past school year. During the Badger Dairy Club end-of-year banquet, freshman Cara Biely, sophomore Mitch Kappelman, junior Curtis Horsens, and seniors Dana Mohn and Bob Heintz were named Outstanding Class Members for 2010-11.

Some students may talk a good game about changing the world but Steven Olikara is following through.The UW-Madison junior from Brookfield is active in the university?s sustainability initiative and is helping to create a study abroad program in China focused on sustainability issues. Olikara, 21, was recently elected senior class president for the 2011-12 school year, has spoken at two rallies for Barack Obama, one since Obama became president, and serves on the program committee of pop artist Usher?s New Look youth empowerment organization. Olikara, who plays guitar, bass and drums, just received a $30,000 Truman Scholarship for graduate study and a $5,000 Udall Scholarship for his senior year.

Few issues are more divisive or difficult to tackle than immigration reform. But a key point from President Barack Obama?s speech on the touchy topic Tuesday in El Paso, Texas, deserves wide support and quick action in Congress. Obama called for allowing more of the brainy and creative foreign students studying at American universities to stay in the United States after graduation. UW-Madison alone had more than 4,000 international students on campus during the last school year. And more than half of those students are earning advanced degrees.

UW students have the opportunity to let themselves go to the dogs to help get through final exams.