Mandela Barnes visited campus ahead of the highly contested April 4 Wisconsin Supreme Court election to engage student canvassers and emphasize UW-Madison student voters’ importance.
UW-Madison College of Letters and Science Dean Eric Wilcots will become interim provost in April as provost John Karl Scholz departs to become president of the University of Oregon.
In a statement, Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association director of annual giving Betsy Popelka Massnick expressed her gratitude for the support.
Evi Radcliffe embodies next-level diligence by participating in three different organizations and working a job, all while maintaining a high level of performance as a student.
Keith is LaFollete School of Public Affairs’ spring 2023 journalist in residence.
UW-MadisonFinding balance between research, teaching and service and managing a life outside work pose significant challenges for professors.
Past and present student workers express exhaustion of their constant battle for a living wage.
“We don’t get paid a living wage, we don’t get paid enough,” Maya Banks, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the mathematics department, shared. “We make around $25,000 a year [in my department], which is about $10,000 less than the cost of living in Madison. And that doesn’t include what we have to pay in segregated fees and international student fees.”
Current and past House Fellows at UW-Madison discuss the pressures and perks of working to enforce policy and build community for UW Housing residents.
“This situation is really hard to put into words how terrible and tragic it is because it’s sad to know that a student, one of our peers, is not with us anymore,” Katherine Zimmerman, a junior at UW-Madison, said.
Donors raised more than $1.5 million dollars to go towards the UW-Madison campus’ greatest needs Wednesday during the fourth “Day of the Badger” event, the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association announced.
Republicans on the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities announced on Tuesday they’d be holding a series of hearings about free speech and “intellectual diversity” on Wisconsin’s public university campuses.
A Republican legislator who has accused colleges of “indoctrinating students” will hold hearings next month on whether a lack of what he calls “intellectual diversity” at UW System campuses is hurting the quality of education. The push follows a campus free speech survey that found some conservative students reported self-censoring views in class.
Noted: Students should also be prepared for the possibility of deferment, especially at early action colleges, as some schools are experiencing record application volume and are deferring a larger number of students than usual. For example, University of Wisconsin-Madison deferred 17,000 of its 45,000 early action applicants, while Clemson University delivered deferment messages to 15,000 of its 26,000 early applicants.
The fundraising event helps raise money for important university functions, including funding research and supporting students in need. University officials said over 100 areas of campus are participating this year, and alumni and others are encouraged to donate to causes they support.
Since the Nick is nearing its three year mark, RecWell has begun looking at the equipment they’ve had since pre-COVID.
The Willis L. Jones Leadership Center hosted Rooted Tuesday night. Rooted is an organization that is dedicated to promoting healthy food access and secure land tenure in Madison’s access improvement areas.
UW-Madison is encouraging students and staff affected by the suicide of a student Monday to seek out campus mental health services.
We caught up with the acclaimed ethologist and conservationist before her talk on UW-Madison’s campus, where she reflected on her time in Tanzania and our shared climate future.
Wisconsin Track Club, Orthodox Christian Fellowship receive funding, among others.
Near East Fields reconstruction to be fourth, final project of RecWell’s masterplan.
“I don’t agree with scientists who say the tipping point has already reached the point of no return with climate change and loss of biodiversity,” Goodall told the Cap Times. “We still have a window of time. But if we lose hope, fall into apathy and don’t take action, then we’re doomed.”
The project will convert the Near East Playfields, which sit just south of Dejope Residence Hall and to the east of the new Bakke Center, at Observatory and Elm drives. It’ll go from natural grass to synthetic turf with stormwater management features tucked underneath, with upgraded LED lighting and scoreboards, and a slender building with bathrooms and a training room.
Noted: Cao, 54, a research scientist at the University of Kansas, graduated from medical school in China and practiced internal medicine for a decade before immigrating to the U.S. with her family in 2006. Meanwhile, Liu, 26, is a current student at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is expected to graduate this May.
Last week, Cao learned she would be headed to the clinical pathology residency program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while Liu learned he had matched with the radiation oncology residency program at the University of Pennsylvania in his hometown of Philadelphia.
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The first scientist to observe human-like behaviors in chimpanzees visited UW-Madison Sunday night.
Each year, the McPherson Eye Institute at UW Madison hosts their Cycle for Sight event at the Princeton Club, raising money to fund research for eye diseases.
The world-renowned ethologist and conservationist gave a 90-minute lecture at the Memorial Union to a sold-out crowd. Goodall opened her speech by talking about how it felt to hear herself be introduced, and how even she is surprised by where her career has taken her.
UW-Madison students flooded Memorial Union to hear Ethologist Jane Goodall discuss her past research and her thoughts on the future’s environment.
The Cycle for Sight fundraiser is hosted by the McPherson Eye Research Institute each year. According to the organization, their mission is to ‘gain critical knowledge about the science and art of vision, and apply it to the prevention and treatment of blinding diseases.’
Imbler is a former New York Times reporting fellow and former reporter at The Atlantic’s science and health desk. Now, they write for Defector, an employee-owned sports and culture website where Imbler covers creatures, and reports on everything from 70-year-old Albatross birds to monkeys getting high.
Susan and James Patterson’s donation extended the university’s Teacher Pledge program through the 2026-27 school year.
Muslim Student Association, other campus organizations provide Iftar meal for students during Ramadan.
It signed an $100 million agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and several local agreements to build “innovation centers” in Racine, Green Bay and Eau Claire. However outside of signing the agreements, not much else has been done.
The $100 million agreement with UW-Madison is to create the Foxconn Institute for Research in Science and Technology and a new interdisciplinary program in the College of Engineering.
A 10-year period of remarkable growth in University of Wisconsin volleyball attendance finished with another record. The Badgers averaged nearly 6,000 tickets scanned per home game in the 2022 season, by far the highest number.
“Mr. Garvin is an esteemed teacher and researcher and a vital knowledge-holder for the Ho-Chunk Nation, the state of Wisconsin, and the global Indigenous community,” UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin told UW News. “He richly deserves this honor, which recognizes his extraordinary career and outstanding service to society.”
‘The Vault’ makes its debut on campus with panel of fashion speakers.
Latinx-identifying seventh and eighth graders from throughout southern Wisconsin are invited to participate in the 11th annual Latino Youth Summit on March 27-28 on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The annual event assists students in getting ready for the future transition from middle school to high school, college, and beyond.
UW students present nine events on campus throughout March, recognizing cultures and heritages of MENA community.
Event, travel grants will allow student organizations to host seminars, attend conferences.
The University of Wisconsin Women’s Hockey team made history — again.
The team won its seventh national title on Sunday in a major upset, beating the Ohio State Buckeyes, the top ranked team of the season and the 2022 defending NCAA champions. The Badgers now lead Minnesota with the most national titles of all time in the Frozen Four.
The bus ride back from Duluth, Minnesota, on Sunday night was a lively one for the newly crowned NCAA champions from the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team.
Tickets to see Jane Goodall speak Sunday on the UW-Madison campus were claimed within 90 minutes, but those who want to hear the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees can still do so via livestream.
A new program for UW-Madison pharmacy students looks to help address a rural shortage while giving students a hands-on experience.
In May 2021, UW’s School of Pharmacy began the Advanced Pharmacy Experience rotation. The program rotates students in their fourth year into rural pharmacies to practice under the supervision of a pharmacist preceptor.
The University of Wisconsin is hosting a rally at 6 p.m. Monday at LaBahn Arena. The doors for the free event will open at 5 p.m.
Video of the Badgers arriving early Monday morning after securing their seventh national championship. They received a colorful welcome.
Friday was Match Day for fourth year medical students the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, a major step in their journeys toward becoming doctors.
Earlier this month, the UW Odyssey Project launched a brand-new enrichment program called Odyssey Senior to spotlight the incredible and unique stories of Odyssey elders.
UW’s International Student Services, located in Red Gym, supports international students.
The UW System is funding the first year of the Wisconsin Tuition Promise program, which launches next fall and provides full tuition coverage for new, in-state freshmen and transfer students whose families earn $62,000 or less. The program is open to students attending any UW campus except UW-Madison, which already offers its own tuition promise program that isn’t funded with taxpayer money.
‘The Peace Corps is a logical extension of the university’s Wisconsin Idea,’ Returned Peace Corps volunteer says.
Search for new provost in progress, finalists to visit UW after spring break.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity to help lead one of America’s leading research universities, with broad strengths across the arts and humanities, social sciences, and physical, biological and mathematical sciences, along with several excellent professional schools,” Scholz said in a statement. “It has a well-deserved reputation for innovation and excellence.”
Scholz begins the role July 1, succeeding Michael Schill, who left the position to become Northwestern University president. Schill assumed that role after Rebecca Blank, former UW-Madison chancellor, resigned as Northwestern president due to a cancer diagnosis. Blank passed away last month.
A 130-year-old program created to connect Wisconsin farmers with university research is getting a second chance at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
UW-Madison announced last year that the Farm and Industry Short Course would move from a 16-week, on-campus certificate program to a non-credit format that would use online learning. Officials said the change was due to a significant decline in enrollment, with less than 100 students each year over the last decade. With only 20 students projected to enroll in the program for 2022, officials said it no longer had enough students to run the self-funded program.
The Gordon Dining Center voting ward on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus usually draws about 50 voters in spring primary elections.
But this February, 515 voters cast their ballots there, according to turnout data from the city of Madison clerk’s office. Other campus-area voting wards reported similarly high voting rates. A dorm along Lake Mendota reported 39% turnout.
UW students create organization to host professional learning opportunities, events related to fashion industry.
Jason Rivera, Wisconsin deputy director of Rise, discusses his organization and the efforts they are making to promote student voting for the upcoming general election.
The University of Wisconsin removed funding for the Shared Governance Project Assistant position, originally granted as a symbol of support for ASM, according to SAC Governing Board Chair Kevin Jacobson.
WiscWind helps students prepare for careers in wind, renewable energy sectors.
