He said the system needs about 170 drivers each day when buses are running and UW-Madison and Madison schools are in session. Currently it has 288 on staff and as of last week had 21 vacancies. There also were 16 drivers in training — three of whom are expected to be on the road on Oct. 1, another three on Oct. 15 and another 10 on Nov. 12.
The artwork created by Truman Lowe, a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum and former art professor, has now found its permanent home on campus. Located just north of Van Hise Hall and atop Observatory Hill — once home to Native American effigy mounds — the aluminum sculpture reflects Lowe’s Ho-Chunk roots and the loss of Indigenous burial mounds throughout the Midwest.
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.
This past July, the University of Wisconsin kicked off celebrations for its 175th anniversary with festivities at the Memorial Union for years of achievements, traditions and the legacy of the Wisconsin Idea.
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.
Tucked away in a hot and humid room on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, colonies of flesh-eating beetles and their larvae crawl along the bones of a giraffe, chomping away at its dried tissue.
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.
Leo Burt was 22 when he was suspected of helping to commit the largest act of domestic terrorism at the time: bombing a mathematics center at the University of Wisconsin.
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.
Many of UW-Madison’s leaders, including Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, Provost Charles Isbell, Jr., and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Lori Reesor spoke about the attack, which resulted in a student being hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, during the university’s convocation to incoming students Tuesday afternoon.
In a procedural vote, the City Council unanimously decided Tuesday night to direct city staff to start planning an experimental blocking off of the 400 to 600 blocks of State Street, which feed into the State Street Mall near UW’s campus, to nonemergency vehicle traffic.
The 700 and 800 blocks of State Street already function as a pedestrian and bicycle mall, commonly known as State Street Mall by the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but feature several buildings that can be accessed from other streets.
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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.
Wisconsin, like others in the entertainment business, has been looking for ways to sell people on being there for the presentation of the game and not just what’s happening on the field. That’s taking a step up at Camp Randall in 2023, starting with Saturday’s opener against Buffalo.
The large skull sculpture that had been in front of the Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus for nine years was moved inside the museum Thursday because of concerns for its preservation.
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.
The FBI Milwaukee Field Office on Thursday released age-progressed photographs of Leo Frederick Burt, who is wanted for his alleged participation in the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thousands of new Badgers are settling into their new homes on campus as the fall semester nears.Students began moving into the university’s 21 residence halls in earnest Wednesday, with move-in continuing on Thursday and Friday.
With fentanyl being one of the top killers in Wisconsin, UW-Madison is taking a step to keep its community safe.
Over 8,800 students from around the globe are making the big move to UW Madison this week and University Housing has been preparing for the arrival of students living in on-campus housing for weeks. “Move in day is always really exciting,” Director of Marketing & Communications for University Housing at UW Madison Brendon Dybdahl said.
On July 31, the day Paul Reubens died, Jim Healy began trying to book “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” to show at the UW Cinematheque.
UW-Parkside and UW-Platteville are now among the eight other system campuses considering furloughs and layoffs to close budget gaps. The president of the University of Wisconsin System elaborates on the system’s fiscal situation.
University of Wisconsin System leaders plan to ask Republican lawmakers this fall to release about half of the $32 million they withheld in the hopes of defunding campus diversity initiatives, a top UW budget analyst said Tuesday.
The heat is top of mind for staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. New this year, freshmen living in the dorms can bring their own portable air conditioner.
Olivia Bozich flew back to Madison Friday after her trip home to Hawaii turned into a nightmare. The rising senior said she’s thinking about her home state right now after seeing the wildfire’s destruction.
Someday, when Tina Tran has a legislative internship as part of her public policy studies at UW-Madison, she hopes it’s with a Wisconsin legislator who cares about conservation.
Brenda Yang has been named assistant director of career communities at UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Sciences, where she will help head up the SuccessWorks program.
Noted: She’s going to UW-Madison, majoring in Biochemistry. But before she left high school, she completed one of her most important projects. She created and ran a camp called “Little Scoopers” during the summer of 2022 at an intermediate school in Oconomowoc. It taught first and second graders ways to lead better, more healthy lives. Her efforts netted her $10k in scholarship money. Her award money will go toward paying off her tuition.
An online survey in June asked UW-Madison students to describe their experiences looking for off-campus housing for the 2023-24 academic year. The survey, conducted by newly elected District 8 Ald. MGR Govindarajan, who represents much of the campus area on the City Council and is himself a rising senior at UW-Madison, received over 1,700 responses.
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway talked about some of the potential changes earlier in August, mentioning that some routes were running late. She also said there were complaints about a lack of direct service from the west side to the UW Hospital area.
UW-Madison Provost Charles Isbell Jr.’s new office overlooking Bascom Hill isn’t fully unpacked, but it’s already full of personality.
Many knew the date was approaching when their leases expired at noon, resulting in them having to deal with the morning’s rain whether they liked it or not.
The University of Wisconsin had 35 robots at its peak, including a few for off-campus neighborhoods that needed permitting from the city.
Downtown Madison can expect to see the worst of off-campus student moving over the weekend and into early next week. With virtually every off-campus student housing lease turning over between Aug. 14 and 15, streets near campus quickly become congested as students and their families park all along the streets for moving days, the curbsides become temporary landfills, and the city of Madison Streets Division attempts to mitigate it all starting with 4 a.m. shifts.
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.
