Category: Campus life

Registered Student Organizations can allocate maximum of 75% of GSSF funding to pay student workers.

Repair staff is currently working to address damages and re-open the building.

All classes and labs in the Engineering Centers Building on UW-Madison’s campus are cancelled Thursday after flooding broke out in the building.

“I know many of you are eager to enter the building, particularly those of you who conduct research in ECB,” says Engineering Dean Ian Robertson. “I ask for your patience and assure you we will strive to allow you to enter as soon as we can. We are working to determine the extent of the flooding and will follow up with additional communications as we learn more.”

Some UW-Madison students got an unexpected break Thursday after flooding in the Engineering Centers Building prompted classes and labs held there to be cancelled. In a message Wednesday, university officials said the cause of flooding is not yet known but multiple parts of the building were affected. Crews have sealed up the leak and are working to clean things up.

Writer, activist, and comedian Babatunde Thurston, the Emmy-nominated host and executive producer of the PBS television series “America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston,” will offer a free, public lecture at UW–Madison’s Shannon Hall on Oct. 5. The UW Nelson Institute will host Thurston through its Jordahl Public Lands Lecture  Series.

Associated Students of Madison Grant Allocation Committee chair and UW student Amaya Boman, who is a part of the study group, said since August, the group has been looking at historical events affecting the Black community and UW’s response to them.“[We’ve been] going through past movements, past demands, looking at what’s been done or hasn’t been done, finding gaps,” Boman said. “Really kind of just starting from there.”

The event, hosted by The Cap Times as part of its weeklong Idea Fest, put free speech center stage as UW-Madison administration continues to face student criticism of their policies. The discussion, which also included UW-Madison Law School Dean Daniel Tokaji, former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and moderator David Maraniss, explored the debate between ensuring campus safety and the limits of free speech.

Standing above a crowd of more than 100 people gathered near Library Mall Tuesday afternoon, Cindy Smock, the evangelical street preacher better known as “Sister Cindy,” spouted profane and offensive language that raised concerns among multiple student groups.

The Learning Analytics Center of Excellence is rolling out an analytical tool for advisors that has raised privacy concerns.

“We’ve seen problems reported from drivers not knowing how to properly load wheelchairs and other mobility aids into their vehicle to drivers being late and students missing classes,” Associated Students of Madison (ASM) Equity and Inclusion Chair Emmett Lockwood told The Daily Cardinal.

PharmD Early Assurance program aims to help UW system students stay close to home for undergrad.

Historic artwork by former UW professor commemorates Madison’s Ho-Chunk people.

Kelly Tyrrell, UW’s director of media relations and strategic communications, explained in an email statement to The Badger Herald that it would be difficult to draw a connection between either application size or average applicant qualification and UW’s ranking. “Our number of applicants has increased annually for many years now, a trend that has remained consistent irrespective of what our particular U.S. News ranking is in a given year,” Tyrrell said.

The outage frustrated many students and faculty during the first full week of the fall semester.

University leaders addressed DEI initiatives, free speech, campus safety and belonging amidst statewide tensions.

Dietram Scheufele, the director of graduate studies in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, was joined by Assistant Professor in Computational Communication Kaiping Chen and Burgess Chair of Journalism Ethics Kathleen Culver, both also of UW-Madison, on a panel for Cap Times Idea Fest. Moderated by Cap Times State Government and Disinformation reporter Erin McGroarty, the three panelists discussed “Journalism In The Age Of AI: Who Tells Us What’s Real?”

UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, Ho-Chunk representatives and Truman Lowe’s daughter, amongst others, dedicated one of Lowe’s sculptures in his name.

The due date for Registered Student Organizations to apply for SSFC funding is Sept. 25, which falls on Yom Kippur. Jacobs said SSFC and Associated Students of Madison should consider sending an email out about the due date or give an extension to Jewish groups. Wagaman said the SSFC should talk to ASM leadership about a plan of action for that due date.

Elections Research Center Director Barry Burden, who moderated the event, said hosting the Road to the 2024 GOP Presidential Nomination on UW-Madison’s campus is important because of the youth vote in Wisconsin, a swing state that could be the electoral “tipping point” in the 2024 presidential election.

Participants marched while chanting “Sí, se puede,” a motto representing Latine unity and strength.

A sculpture by a Native American artist and University of Wisconsin professor was finally back home on the UW-Madison campus Friday. 26 years after Truman Lowe worked on the art piece for the White House Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, the sculpture returned to Wisconsin.

UW-Madison officials said there is no evidence that a cyber attack caused an outage that left the campus without wi-fi for long stretches of time over the past three days.

Vice chancellor Lori Reesor, deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion LaVar Charleston and dean of students Christina Olstad attended the Wednesday evening meeting. “We think it’s really important for the things that are happening in the world, whether it’s a SCOTUS decision about affirmative action, whether it’s some of the legislation that happened in the state of Wisconsin university system with budget cuts as a result, we’re not cutting DEI positions, there’s no backing off the importance of this value, it is primary for the institution,” Reesor said.

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Madison next month as part of a nationwide college tour, her office announced in a social media post Wednesday.Harris will visit UW-Madison on October 4. Further details of her visit were not released as of Wednesday evening.

Vice President Harris posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that she will stop on campus on Oct. 4.

UW Hillel to host events, meals to bring campus Jewish community together for Jewish new year.

“We have not been able to keep new plantings sufficiently watered,” explained Isaac Zaman, a horticulturalist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Allen Centennial Garden. “We have to be in there almost every other day with how behind we’ve been with the rainfall.”

Their demands include raising graduate assistants’ annual stipend to $50,000 from its current average of around $23,000. “We need to reframe the narrative,” Flowers-Morgenstern said. “It shouldn’t matter what the university thinks of our demands. What matters is that graduate students need to be making $50,000, and the school can afford to pay us.”

Lori Reesor, UW-Madison vice chancellor for student affairs, confirmed the decision in remarks during a meeting with the university’s student government body Wednesday evening.

An official dedication of the sculpture honoring Ho-Chunk artist and Professor Emeritus Truman Lowe’s life and work will take place on the UW-Madison campus this Friday, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. After several stopovers, the artwork has made a final journey back home to UW-Madison.

During summer 2023, Mai Nguyen and Lacey Dinh established the Vietnamese International Student Association at the University of Wisconsin, with the goal of facilitating networking for Vietnamese international students.

Students, faculty fight for expansion of three-credit requirement, but challenges persist.

The controversial speaker announced via TikTok that she will visit Madison on Sept. 19.

The Daily Cardinal spoke with Brooke Harding, B.A. 2014, about her efforts in Ukraine, her time at UW-Madison and what she’s learned from her work with USAID.

The Wisconsin Homecoming Committee has planned plenty of events to celebrate Sept. 30-Oct. 7, including a concert with rapper Armani White.

Budget cuts, skyrocketing rents and fights over free speech and belonging loom as fall classes begin.

The Blk Pwr Coalition has met on multiple occasions with University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s office, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor told The Daily Cardinal on Tuesday.

The African Studies Department at UW-Madison will host the 50th annual Africa at Noon weekly lecture series starting September 13 at 12pm in Room 206 of Ingraham Hall on the university campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a statement that a “number of students and other members of the public were on the pier” at the time.

UW-Madison is welcoming students back to campus with a series of events — one of them is quite colorful. As part of Monday’s Terrace Takeover, Wheelhouse Studios hosted a Paintacular. They call it Madison’s largest free group paint event. Wheelhouse offered a free canvas and water colors to anyone who was interested.

Ahead of the start of classes at UW-Madison, the Wisconsin Union hosted its annual terrace takeover on Monday at the Memorial Union. Attendees enjoyed live music, stand-up paddle boarding, rock climbing, lawn games, food and more.

The UW Odyssey Project takes a whole family approach to breaking the cycle of generational poverty through access to education, giving adult and youth learners a voice, and increasing confidence through reading, writing, and speaking. The Odyssey Project was co-founded in 2003 by Emily Auerbach, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.