Stephen Kacena is the President of the UW-Madison Chapter. Last month, he met Fraser at a conference and remembers him well. “He was super outgoing, super nice. I definitely enjoyed the brief conversation. We said our names and where we’re from, talked a little bit about school and a little bit about sports,” Kacena said.
“You can only tell so many stories in a small space,” Lucchini Butcher said. “So one of the big things I think is that we want to do more research, we want to make more stories available. We want to create more curricular materials, do more public events. Just more is kind of the theme.”
After a successful “Sifting and Reckoning” exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art, staff will continue work in a new center named after the former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.
Grace Marie Stanke, the first UW-Madison student to be crowned Miss America, comes back to campus this weekend. From 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday, students, staff and public can meet Stanke at a special homecoming event in the Shannon Hall Lobby at the UW Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St, along with Miss Madison 2023, Paige Alexis Eide of La Crosse, a UW-Madison sophomore, and the new Miss Wisconsin 2022, Kylene Elizabeth Spanbauer of Fond du Lac.
The Black Student Law Association held “Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.” — a panel for Black History Month featuring Black legal professionals Monday at the Black Cultural Center in the Red Gym.
The Madison Association of Turkish Students raised over $11,200 and donated around 4,000 items to the Turkish Consulate General in Chicago.
“We aren’t going to erect fortresses around our campuses,” said Kristen Roman, chief of police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s about finding that balance, what tools do we see as necessary, what tools do we see as reasonable, and what are the resources that campuses have to procure those and implement them.”
The six-screen theater at Hilldale has been a part of the Wisconsin Film Festival since it opened as Sundance Cinemas 608 in 2007, and was the primary off-campus location for the festival. While the festival, produced by the UW-Madison’s Department of Communication Arts, has several screening venues on the UW-Madison campus, such as Shannon Hall and the Union South Marquee Theatre, booking conflicts have meant that campus screenings were limited to the first four days of the festival.
Datamatch promises to be Bucky’s go-to matchmaking service, but is there success?
Other campuses offer similar enticements. The University of Chicago, where Datamatch festivities are hosted by the campus’s humor magazine, The Shady Dealer, partners with restaurants in the surrounding Hyde Park area to offer discounted meals. And the Datamatch team at the University of Wisconsin has held free events, including swing dancing, ice skating and movie nights for its users.
UW-Madison professor emeritus Clint Sprott has spent half of his life making people’s hair stand on end and shooting sparks out of people’s fingertips.
Four University of Wisconsin created a website to rate and rank the residence halls at UW as a potential tool for new students looking for on-campus housing. Students can rank multiple aspects of residence halls — location, social life, building and food — to contribute to an overall ranking for each residence hall.
The UW-Madison Dance Department presented its first of six showings of the 2023 Faculty Concert Thursday night in Lathrop Hall. The evening included a total of six works, including five by UW faculty and one from guest artist Charles O. Anderson, Chair of The Ohio State University Department of Dance. Performances continue tonight and Saturday night, and next Thursday, Feb. 16 through Saturday, Feb. 18.
Many members of the UW-Madison Society of Women Engineers said they never had the opportunity to learn about engineering as kids. That’s why they created Disney Day, a way to get kids interested in the field.
Ahead of his freshman year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pranav Poddutoori scoured Reddit for guidance on which dorms might be best to live in.
McBurney Disability Resource Center director Mari Magler said the center was created by a coalition of students last year and while the space is now open for students, the details are still being ironed out.
Student members of ASM are preparing which topics will be presented to the state legislature on lobbying day to best benefit the UW-Madison student body.
Video: Photographer John Hart captured a time lapse of Lady Liberty, or part of her at least, being inflated.
Resurgence of games serve as key cultural revitalization effort.
In her first semester, Mnookin focused on observing the university’s culture and supporting the Wisconsin Idea. To achieve this, Mnookin met with various student groups, helping her better understand the perspectives of the students she serves.
Students can donate money, food, water, clothes and more.
“No Bears,” which had its Madison premiere at 7 p.m. Thursday as part of the UW Cinematheque, is a noticeably bleaker film than its recent predecessors, with Panahi taking a darker look not only at the state of his country but his role documenting it.
“We appreciate Mayor Rhodes-Conway and alders taking this step to help UW-Madison students and the broader community,” Rob Cramer, UW-Madison vice chancellor for finance and administration, said in a statement. “It is our hope that this will increase affordable housing downtown and aligns with our efforts related to affordability and access for our students.”
The Badgers are on pace for their lowest announced attendance average since they moved to the Kohl Center in 1998. A massive dropoff in season ticket sales after a fourth losing season out of five set up the downturn.
The university’s use of different melting agents combined with salt reuse mitigates environmental harm.
The Black Cultural Center and Black History Month Planning Committee curated a month-long program full of speakers, performances and other events to highlight Black arts and culture.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is aiming to finalize the West Campus District Plan by the summer of 2023. Seeking to expand the university’s reach westward, the West Campus District Plan was formed as the 127-meter space did not attract many students and faculty.
The U.S. News rankings’ metrics do not make room for world-class legal education at an affordable price, the UW Law School Dean said.
According to an article on the Wisconsin Historical Society website, 13 U.S. presidents have come to Wisconsin’s capital city — though the list was compiled before President Barack Obama visited Madisonians during his tenure. The University of Wisconsin-Madison also compiled a list in 2010 of past, sitting and future presidents who have visited campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was closing in on tech rehearsals for “The Wolves” in 2020 when COVID-19 sent everyone home. Director Audrey Lauren Standish knew immediately that they would return to it.
University Theatre presents the play in the Hemsley Theatre Feb. 16-26.
The UW-Madison Human Powered Vehicle Club’s attempt to create a human-powered recumbent bike didn’t quite pan out. But the bike the HPVC ultimately created never fails to turn heads.
The Thompson Center is set to host a summit addressing concerns on declining early literacy rates across Wisconsin at the Monona Terrace on Wednesday.
Ice skating, free hot chocolate, Lady Liberty, other free events last all week.
Video: Members of the UW-Madison Human Powered Vehicle Club have created a bike that’s not-so-human powered, as the competition they’re preparing for this spring has since allowed batteries to be integrated as e-bikes grow in popularity.
From themed ice skating to maple taffy making, the Wisconsin Union’s free wintertime revelry series the Winter Carnival returns for an 83rd year Feb. 6-11, 2023.
New events join a giant list of longstanding traditions during Feb. 6-11 festival.
The Ojibwe were not out of place in this land of the Ho-Chunk.
When incoming museum director Amy Gilman first saw “Emancipation Group” on display at the Chazen Museum of Art in 2017, she reacted like many visitors: She stopped in her tracks.
Vigue plans to take experience as a public servant to raise awareness about different Indigenous cultures and histories, and further how the university and tribal nations can connect and help each other.
Students in small groups worked together for 48 hours to develop their own video games for a worldwide competition.
Our health crisis will not be solved with increases in government spending or price-controlled medicine. Instead, people must reclaim their agency, working every day to improve their lifestyles and achieve their goals.—Anika Horowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics
Feb. 1 marked the kickoff of the Life Sciences Communication Department’s 2023 science communication colloquium series. Professor and Taylor-Bascom Chair Dietram Scheufele was the first to present for the weekly series, speaking on “The pitfalls of not being scientific about science communication … especially after COVID.”
University of Wisconsin System students statewide have a strong interest in free speech and expression — that’s the finding of a survey released Wednesday in Oshkosh.
A survey of more than 10,000 University of Wisconsin System undergraduate students shows stark differences in opinion on free speech when broken down by political affiliation, gender and race.
More than half of University of Wisconsin System students reported wanting to express their views about a controversial topic in the classroom but opting not to, according to results of a free speech survey released Wednesday.
The University Club has a long history at the University of Wisconsin, having first opened in 1907. The building is considered part of the Bascom Hill Historical District and is a Tudor Revival Style building.
More than half of University of Wisconsin System students believe campuses should disinvite speakers who are thought to be offensive, a free speech survey conducted last fall found.
A majority of University of Wisconsin System students don’t feel free to share their opinions about controversial topics or are unwilling to consider views they disagree with, according to results released Wednesday from a survey that has stirred controversy across the 13 campuses.
(Video) UW-Madison students share their thoughts on free speech. Results of the University of Wisconsin System’s free speech survey are expected this afternoon.
This month’s theme, Black Arts: Multiple Mediums, One Story, champions commemorating the art that Black people have created throughout history.
Kay LeClaire, formerly known as “nibiiwakamigkwe” received nearly $5,000 through the School of Human Ecology’s Center for Design and Material Culture.
The teachers came to the School of Education during a six-week stretch in the fall semester to share teaching practices, new pedagogies and ways to confront global challenges such as media literacy.
Some panelists pointed out the results showed stark differences in responses based on political views. “The difference in how students feel on campus, whether they are conservative or liberal, that is probably the most dramatic difference in the results that are here in the survey,” said Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville.
Most students who responded to a survey about free speech on University of Wisconsin campuses said they’re afraid to express their views on controversial topics in class because they fear other students won’t agree or it could hurt their grades, according to findings released Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has yet to fill the position of vice provost for data, academic planning and institutional research since Jan. 1 following the retirement of Jocelyn Milner at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.
Relocation proposed to accommodate growing School of Public Affairs.
Hillel Foundation commemorates Holocaust at community gathering.
UW-Madison spokesperson Kelly Tyrrell said the Facilities department uses salt as needed to keep its 13 miles of roads and 60 miles of sidewalks safe for use. Staff minimize salt usage by closing off redundant sidewalks and stairs on campus, using brine on roads if able and avoiding using salt while it’s actively snowing. Staff is trained to use the minimum amount of salt and opt for removing snow with plows or shovels.
“Exceptions can occur on machines intended to distribute bulk salt. For example, plow trucks upon start-up can unintentionally drop a bit more salt,” Tyrrell said. “(The Facilities department) has long been focused on reducing salt use wherever and whenever possible.”
Standing in New York’s Museum of Modern Art this January, composer Laura Schwendinger received a call from librettist Ginger Strand with life-changing news: They had just won a $50,000 award for their 2019 opera “Artemisia.”
“The fundamental problem is that U.S. News doesn’t value what UW Law School values,” UW Law School Dean Dan Tokaji said.
