Panelists shared thoughts and challenges about Asian-American representation in schools and how they feel its presence could create a brighter future in education.
The 1,400-square-foot gallery, named after a longtime art and history professor at UW-Madison, opened in 2004 and is operated by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. The organization’s work includes examining science and culture in Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine, exploring pathways to a sustainable future through its Climate and Energy Initiative, offering courses and public talks, and supporting the state’s poet laureate.
Further emptying out the Mosse Humanities building by building a new music academic building and adding nearly 2,000 beds to University Housing could rank high on UW-Madison’s list of priorities for the next state budget.
PhD student and president of UW Madison’s Bridge Club Austen Fen says he and his friends first started discussing the idea of bridge club this year.
’What we’re trying to do is confront power … Because for too long our stories have been told by non-Native people,’ keynote speaker Dallas Goldtooth says.
Mecha de UW-Madison moved from its location on Bernard Court to the Red Gym for at least one year due to looming Levy Hall construction.
Council also approves feedback form to bridge gap between ASM, students.
The United States Deputy Commerce Secretary is on a swing through Madison. As part of the trip, Deputy Secretary Don Graves sat down with UW-Madison students to talk about climate change.
I much prefer the succinct response by the then provost of the University of Wisconsin at Madison to demands by students that the university speak out against the impending invasion of Iraq. He said, “The University of Wisconsin does not have a foreign policy.” That is beyond perfect.
The cheerleaders became the cheer recipients Saturday night for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team.
On Wednesday, Israel’s prime minister said he unequivocally plans to resume the war between his country and Hamas fighters when the current cease-fire ends. In Madison, another pair of demonstrations took place on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus about the war.
Student Transportation Board amendment is accepted after a 5-0-1 vote, proposals will be voted on Thursday.
Demonstrations fall on sixth day of truce between Israel, Hamas.
Professor Jon Pevehouse’s Monday night lecture touched on the history of Israel and the United States’ support for the nation.
Karla Weber Wandel, communications manager for the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s financial aid office, started working with Ivy.ai’s chat bot in 2018. The technology scrolls the UW Madison financial aid page daily to provide up-to-date information to chat-bot users.
“It wasn’t to address one financial aid issue arising; more so it’s just helping folks get access to information on the site when the hot topics were popping up,” Weber Wandel said. The chat bot is especially helpful, she added, with the FAFSA change on “the forefront of everyone’s minds.”
Chief Kristen Roman has long understood the value of teamwork. Roman, originally from Illinois, was a standout athlete on the UWMadison volleyball team, recording over 1,161 kills and 1,107 digs. She graduated from the university in 1988 with degrees in both English literature and women’s studies. Now Roman serves as the university’s Chief of Campus Police, and the fieldhouse where she spent four years playing volleyball is visible from her office window.
The guide, created by UW Marketing, has everything from cheese to mini terrace chairs
“In India, there is an emphasis on ‘Who is your cook?’ ‘Who occupies your kitchen?’” said Vamsi, who is living in Madison for the 2023-’24 school year as the artist-in-residence for the UW-Madison Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program. “People put out (help wanted) ads saying they want somebody from a certain caste. That I would go out and occupy these spaces was an important part of designing the performance.”
All but one of the fifth-ranked Badgers’ matches at the UW Field House this season has been an announced sellout of 7,229. It’ll be the same for Friday afternoon’s tussle with No. 1 Nebraska, and the lowest price for a general admission ticket on the secondary market was well above the cost of a season ticket.
Late fall is crunch time for John Achter and his team of counselors across the state public university system.
The novelty of the new school year has worn off, the realities of classes have set in and finals are looming. An increasing number of students have been seeking counseling in recent years, often during this stressful period of the semester.
Katherine Zimmerman had a very good problem on her hands. So many students showed up for the September kickoff meeting of an organization she leads that she had to move attendees to a larger room on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
That’s not surprising for a school bursting at the seams. But the turnout was unexpected, given the group’s focus on a topic long treated as taboo: mental health.
Hmong American Students Association, Wisconsin Union Directorate organize performances, keynote address for holiday.
Jewish students and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are in shock, following a group of nearly two dozen neo-Nazis marching through the city on Saturday.
Dear Editor: I completely agree that Madison Metro should not close the bus stop in front of the Hamel Music Center. Nor should Metro close the bus stop in front of the Witte Residence Hall. These two stops, Numbers 0670 and 0435, are heavily used and strategically located.
Christian, Jewish and Muslim panelists discussed religious diversity and coexistence to close the two-day forum.
When the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Dairy Research publicized it was looking for a new crew of cheese tasters, the response was exuberant, as you might expect in a state known as the country’s cheese capital.
What unfolds is UW-Madison alumna and guest arist Taryn Vander Hoop’s “Fever Pitch,” a masterful work that interrogates the uniquely modern tension between homogeneity and freedom. The piece is reason enough to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Dance Department’s Faculty Concert Fall 2023 at Lathrop Hall.
In the past two months, the UW-Madison School of Engineering has endured fire, flood and funding woes.
Budgets for SAC, SSFC up for approval Monday.
New Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall building disrupts area.
Environmental advocates at UW-Madison and 350 Wisconsin, a local environmental nonprofit, raised concerns of a lack of sustainability over the summer and fall for the campus redistricting project.
Laila Edwards sat in the locker room last week with a lot of her idols. Former Wisconsin Badgers star Hilary Knight was there. Two-time Olympic medalists Alex Carpenter and Megan Keller were as well. On the ice, Edwards played on the same line as UW great Abby Roque.
The 6-foot-1 sophomore forward for Wisconsin soaked up her first experience with the U.S. national team. She also made history and drew attention nationwide by becoming the first Black woman to suit up for the U.S senior team.
“As of October, we are serving about 1500 unique individuals in the UW-Madison area, whether that is an undergraduate or graduate student, one of their children or family members or roommates that might be living with them,” said Amelia Weidemann who helps run the pantry.
‘No Nicotine November’ encourages students to reflect, make plan around relationship with nicotine.
Amid a push to bring more transportation to campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has embraced electric bikes from Madison BCycle. However, some students who use the city’s urban bike share program say issues with BCycle’s availability and equipment are complicating their commute to class.
Poet and speaker José Olivarez addressed attendees of an annual forum themed after ‘Bridging the Divide.’
Abrief disruption at UW-Madison over a suspicious package on State Street Mall Tuesday ended up being a false alarm.
The Madison Plan Commission voted unanimously to support a proposal from nationally known student-housing developer Core Spaces to build the 465-unit student housing development near the University of Wisconsin campus. The building would range from eight to 15 stories tall and accommodate up to 1,624 beds.
During a recent discussion with students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Baldwin expressed support for humanitarian aid to the region but was interrupted by protesters urging a ceasefire.
Isabelle Bogan is a junior studying marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a sexual assault survivor.
“I wasn’t treated very well by friends when I told them about it or by people who knew the [assaulter],” said Bogan.
Bogan said she never wanted to be labeled as a sexual assault survivor. She said she just wanted to continue on with her life the best way that she could. That’s why she became a peer facilitator at Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment, or PAVE.
Global Engagement Office, Indian Student Association, Gender and Sexuality Campus Center host events celebrating “festival of lights.
Students invited to dedicate flag to loved one, highlighting community of military connected students on campus.
The vote calls for UW-Madison to support a movement opposing the creation of a police training facility in Georgia and four Madison ‘student-age’ people arrested in conjunction with the movement.
Founded in 2007 as a small-scale way of bringing local Wisconsin crops to campus, Slow Food has grown into a bustling food hall with a team of over 50 student employees, from chefs to cashiers to interns and everything in between.
The University Veteran Services and Wisconsin Union teams at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invite the public to recognize veterans and service members during the free Veterans Day Recognition Breakfast on Friday, Nov. 10 at 9 a.m. in the Main Lounge at Memorial Union.
Former Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Michael Wilson spoke about the importance of prioritizing sustainability in government and policy.
The university’s supply of scooped hard-pack ice cream is made at Babcock using milk from the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant and from Middleton-based Foremost Farms, a dairy co-op, as necessary, Brinkmeier said. “When we look at our dairy category, just about every item is from the state of Wisconsin,” Testory said.
The University of Wisconsin system is ending a policy requiring schools to consult with students when seeking to raise tuition for specific programs.
The Regents unanimously approved the policy change at a board meeting Thursday.
This fall, the Universities of Wisconsin saw its first growth in enrollment since 2014.
According to official 10-day enrollment figures, enrollment increased by more than 1,700 students. This brought the Universities of Wisconsin total enrollment to 162,528, which is a 1.1% increase from last year’s enrollment.
Multidisciplinary approach combines architecture, engineering education, assistant teaching professor says.
Co-op members faced resistance from University Housing and difficult conditions after being told their original space was set for demolition.
A spokesperson from the University of Wisconsin at Madison told The Badger Herald, a campus newspaper, that “we have asked our registrar’s office to carefully review the academic calendar in all future years to identify potential religious conflicts well in advance so that we can make changes when appropriate.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison kicked efforts to persuade the Legislature to come up with nearly $200 million for a new engineering building into higher gear Monday.
Joshua Manders is a Jewish student studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Manders said since the Israel-Hamas war started on Oct. 7, his life has become very stressful.
“It definitely has been tough, that first week where, the first few days, especially when the war first broke out, it is a lot of emotions to go through,” said Manders.
Manders has direct connections to the war. That’s not unlike many other Jewish students on the UW-Madison campus.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin came to connect with University of Wisconsin-Madison student leaders on Friday as a part of Democrats’ weekend of “One Year to Win” events, a get-out-the-vote effort in the lead-up to the November 2024 elections.
The UW–Madison Special Education Teacher Residency Program comes with a commitment: three years working in MPS after finishing the master’s. Those teachers continue receiving mentorship and guidance for at least the first two years of teaching after finishing the degree.
Bascom Hall, one of UW-Madison’s earliest buildings, sits on land the Ho-Chunk Nation called “Teejop.” Once home to more than 900 effigy mounds made generations ago, the Ho-Chunk Nation considered dejope to be sacred immemorial. When Bascom Hall was built in 1859, UW-Madison destroyed the effigy mound where it currently sits.
The expansion of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine is almost complete, and to mark the occasion, a new piece of public art celebrating a veterinary medical student’s journey has been installed between the school’s current and new buildings.
“What you see here behind you is more than just a mural, more than just banners,” Ho-Chunk Nation President Jon Greendeer said at the ceremony. “It speaks volumes to our history, our clan system, our culture.”
The three-panel banners titled “Seed by Seed” incorporate the effect of thousands of beads, showcasing symbols and traditional colors of the Ho-Chunk Nation. The work aims to honor those whose ancestral land UW-Madison is now on.
