The plan will serve as a framework for an estimated 30 years of initiatives and construction projects for the research and work-focused zone of UW-Madison.
Teaching assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
The drinks are non-alcoholic, gluten-free, sparkling beverages, called Terrace Lemonade and Terrace Strawberry Lemonade. They will soon be available at all Wisconsin Union-run dining locations.
Summer’s heating up and the Wisconsin Union Terrace will soon have a new way to cool down. The Union teamed up with Karben4 to create two new non-alcoholic, sparkling drinks.
Brian Schimming practically grew up on a college campus. His parents both worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lived on Lathrop Street for 37 years, less than a block from Camp Randall Stadium. He spent a lot of his time wandering the rolling hills and historic buildings on campus or trekking over to bustling downtown Madison.
Bernie Sanders has come to Madison many times to campaign — on behalf of his own presidential bids and the candidacies of the many progressive contenders who have sought his backing — but his appearance at the 2023 Cap Times Idea Fest on the UW-Madison campus will be different.
This year, cost overruns have popped up all over the U.S. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, multiple projects have soared over budget, leading the UW Board of Regents to approve an extra $60 million for overages driven by inflation and supply chain issues. But in the case of two projects at UW Madison, state officials are mulling a possible lawsuit against contractors to recoup the overages.
The Rec Well Summer Camp features recreational activities and on- and off-campus field trips with partners including Outdoor UW, Babcock Hall Dairy Store and science labs for 10 one-week sessions. The camps are open this year to 5- to 14-year-olds broken into four age groups, and the size of each session was increased from 55 to 110 campers. Next year even more campers will be allowed to register, Van Note said.
Several developments are taking shape on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, after the COVID-19 pandemic brought delays to some construction projects.
“As we look to enhance the customer experience inside and outside our venues, we have done a lot of listening and observing,” Athletic Director Chris McIntosh said. “It is critical that our fans have an enjoyable, safe, and efficient experience when they engage with us. I am happy to be able to announce a few new initiatives and I am excited about continuing to develop more ways to better serve our fans.”
Wisconsin was one of only a few Big Ten schools that did not allow alcohol to be sold at any sporting events. But the athletic department announced Thursday afternoon that it will sell beer, wine, and some other pre-packaged alcoholic beverages — like hard seltzers — in general seating areas for basketball and hockey games as well as concerts at the Kohl Center and LaBahn Arena.
University of Wisconsin fans have been unable to raise a glass (or in this case a plastic cup) to their beloved Badgers at sporting events.
But that will change somewhat this season.
UW will expand beer sales to the general public at the Kohl Center and LaBahn Arena starting this season, it announced Thursday.
Mad City or Madtown might appear to be just plays on its name, but it also says something about its quirkiness. This is a town, after all, that has a National Mustard Museum and named the plastic pink flamingo as its city bird. The latter happened after the University of Wisconsin’s quad was plastered with a thousand plastic pink lawn flamingos overnight in 1979. That flamingo-bombing became an annual tradition and the city’s official bird.
Marla Delgado-Guerrero has been counseling undergraduate students since she was one herself.
Many let loose at a free swing dancing class at the Memorial Union Terrace in Madison Sunday night.It featured large group lessons by the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Music Committee, the Hoofer Sailing Club and the Madison Swing Social Dance Club. The dancing was set to live swing music by All That Jazz Little Band.
Maraniss will talk with Woodruff and Hunt in the ornate and intimate setting of Tripp Commons inside the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union, on Thursday evening, Sept. 21.
The initiative is headed by an advisory council consisting of officials from Public Health Madison and Dane County, members of UW-Madison Student Services, nonprofit leaders, business owners and city officials. It combines Safer Bars training with increased surveillance, better lighting in the city-owned Buckeye parking lot and other safety measures.
“It’s going to be a great day [Wednesday],” said Charles Hoslet, UW-Madison’s Vice Chancellor for University Relations. “We’re having a big event at the Memorial Union Terrace … We’re going to have live music and fireworks at the end of the evening.”
“We have weekly deliveries of fresh produce, fresh eggs and milk as well as shelf-stable donations,” Nicole Giuliani, Outreach Director for the Open Seat Food Pantry, said. “Then, every week we go to the Eagle Heights Community Center and have a weekly distribution there.”
The state of Wisconsin’s flagship university celebrates its 175th anniversary this year; it was founded in 1848, the same year as both the state and the city of Madison.
Many students and alums took part in the kick-off event. For Dave Arneson, Wednesday’s celebration created a memorable moment. Arneson played football for the Badgers as a tight end back from 1982 through 1984.
The statue, named “Honor the Air, Land and Water,” was unveiled Wednesday at Memorial Union to mark UW-Madison’s 175th anniversary. The 6-foot-tall badger is meant to represent the university’s past, present and future.
Tomorrow is University of Wisconsin-Madison’s demisemiseptcentennial anniversary as the University of Wisconsin System’s flagship campus celebrates its 175th anniversary. To honor the milestone, the university will be holding a free celebration with music, fireworks, and of course, free ice cream.
University Health Services in fall 2020 started its own mental health response team called the co-responder program. The University Police Department contacts Health Services for calls related to mental health, and the team will send two counselors to join UW officers at the scene.
Sarah Nolan, director of UW Mental Health Services, said that program has made a big difference on campus but is challenged by limited hours of service: from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The latest statue, called “Honor the air, land and water,” will be on public display at Memorial Union Wednesday night.
350 Wisconsin, the state branch of a national organization focused on steering mankind away from the worst impacts of climate change, has rallied its members and elected officials in recent weeks. The call: push UW-Madison to explicitly include sustainable building practices in its final version the West Campus District Plan.
Over the decades, a Sunday afternoon stroll through the UW-Madison campus has been marked by bells playing the sonorous melodies of “On, Wisconsin,” “University Hymn” and other musical pieces.
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The University of California system, for example, has pledged to give free tuition to some Native American students amid a movement to reclaim tribal lands. The University of Wisconsin at Madison flew the flag of the Ho-Chunk Nation on campus for the first time in 2021 in an effort to acknowledge land taken from the tribe. And Cornell University launched a research project to account for all the land that it took from Native communities.
Wisconsin Republicans released two proposals Wednesday that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in female sports at every grade level and in college.
The bills, authored by Republican Rep. Barbara Dittrich of Oconomowoc and Sen. Dan Knodl of Germantown, would bar male and transgender female students attending publicly-funded K-12 schools, University of Wisconsin System campuses and state technical colleges from competing in sports designated for females.
The main complaints about UW Hospital service are being addressed with fixes planned for August, Rusch said. “Some of the concerns people have are because they are still learning how the new system works, and it’s a bit different from what they’re accustomed to,” said Dar Ward, commuter solutions manager for UW-Madison Transportation Services. “It appears Metro Transit’s proposed service adjustments are directed at addressing the complaints.”
Meanwhile at UW-Madison, groundskeeping staff are continuing to water key campus locations, such as the fields along Lake Mendota and the lawns in front of the Kohl Center and Gordon Commons. Other less-frequented sites on campus are watered to keep vegetation alive but not necessarily green, to minimize water use, said Greg Bump, a UW-Madison spokesperson.
Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the state’s flagship campus, said in a statement after the ruling that the school had increased its underrepresented undergraduate student population by about 50 percent over the last five years, but still lagged many of their peers. They would need to change admissions policies to comply with the law. “At the same time, I want to reiterate that our commitment to the value of diversity within our community, including racial diversity, remains a bedrock value of the institution.”
Admissions and financial aid, recruitment and retention and support of students, are so intertwined at colleges that it’s natural that people are asking questions after the Supreme Court ruling, said Nicholas Hillman, a professor in the School of Education at UW-Madison.
In 2021, the University of Wisconsin at Madison displayed the flag of the Ho-Chunk Nation on campus to acknowledge the land taken from the tribe.
’This timely book gives us all an opportunity to challenge our own beliefs and assumptions, and to recognize the importance of empathetic listening,’ Chancellor Mnookin says.
For one UW-Madison alum, the return of a chair has absolved 31 years of guilt.
The Madison premiere of “Falcon Lake” kicks off the UW Cinematheque summer series at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave. The screening is free, and seating is first-come, first-serve.
Madison is a city surrounded by lakes and since 1939 the Hoofer Sailing Club has been a guide for everyone from beginners to advanced sailors to learn and teach.
Applications have just closed for a new cheese taster at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research.
The West Campus District Plan calls for a hotel, amenity spaces, affordable housing, and research spaces to be added.
Revised concept plans for UW-Madison’s underutilized West Campus will emphasize residential and research spaces while also bringing in a hotel, either by renovating the hulking Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation building or by replacing it.
“UW-Madison is aware of non-sanctioned Facebook groups, such as the one you flagged,” a spokesperson wrote in an email. “When these come to our attention, we first attempt to message the group moderator, and then file terms of service complaints to ensure that the groups are clearly marked as unaffiliated and do not use university logos or marks. In general, we suggest that students and parents follow official UW-Madison Facebook accounts for the most accurate and up to date information.”
Chairs in colors not normally placed on the Terrace, such as blue and yellow, will be arranged alongside the other colorful, sunburst chairs near the front steps of the Memorial Union from 2-5 p.m. on June 21.
A new chief diversity officer hired by the University of Wisconsin System will start just weeks after Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called for eliminating DEI staff at the state’s 13 universities.
This might be the most Wisconsin-y job yet — sorry, Culver’s and Kwik Trip employees.
The Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to hire people “passionate about all types of foods, but especially cheese, pizza and other dairy products,” according to the job posting.
According to Public History Project Director Kacie Lucchini Butcher, an initial center staff meeting was held on May 24 to discuss months of listening sessions across campus.
UW-Madison students may see small differences in service, but because the campus already gets high levels of service the impacts will be limited, officials said.
“To the University of Wisconsin–Madison student body, faculty and community, I sincerely apologize for the harmful actions and comments I made towards African American individuals. My words were utterly disgusting and unacceptable, whether in public or private,” Audrey Godlewski wrote in an email to The Daily Cardinal.
Dr. Rev. Alex Gee and his family all together hold 13 degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Now, Gee has been named of the 15 UW-Madison graduates honored with 2023 alumni awards from the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
For many recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates, the 2022-23 academic year was considered the only “normal” year of their college journey. Following the commencement ceremony on May 13, recent graduates reflected on how COVID-19 impacted their college experience.
The Language Sciences department will offer ASL courses for the first time in university history.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student at the center of a racist social media video that caused outrage and protests on campus last month came forward Monday to apologize for her comments.
Audrey Godlewski, the UW-Madison student seen in a social media video making racist comments about Black people — wishing for a return to slavery, among other harmful remarks — has issued an apology through The Daily Cardinal student newspaper.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department is assembling a team to design and build the next change to the landscape in and around Camp Randall Stadium.
They were freshmen in high school and college trying to figure out how the world worked, when suddenly the world stopped working.
COVID-19 was a generation-defining disaster. Schools shut down. Lives were lost. Learning was, too. College students traded their dorm rooms for doomscrolling, their socializing at parties for social distancing. High schoolers were reduced to suffocating squares on Zoom; college students dealt with professors they never met.
The University of Wisconsin Department of Economics released a memo to UW economics graduate students May 18 containing a substantial plan to address concerns from many about sexual misconduct within the department.
The first of the major-stage sessions at this year’s festival will be Tuesday night, Sept. 19, in Shannon Hall, the largest theater in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin will talk about current conversations around speech on campus and, importantly, where she thinks that discussion will be many years from now.
Written by Kevin P. Reilly, president emeritus of the University of Wisconsin system.
But Gen Z won’t find happiness getting high in Ibiza, scrolling on TikTok or sleeping till noon. True work-life balance is important, and lasting happiness is achieved by working incrementally toward valuable, fulfilling goals—not in indulging the fleeting pleasures of “funemployment.”—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
