The UW-Madison community is grieving the deaths of two students. One died on March 27 near a residence hall. The other died Friday morning at an off-campus home.
The Wisconsin Union team, which manages the Terrace as well as the nearby building Memorial Union and some other campus entertainment, learning and dining destinations, will also return more than 400 tables to the Terrace.
The Wisconsin Union team, which manages the Terrace as well as the nearby building Memorial Union and some other campus entertainment, learning and dining destinations, will return more than 2,000 chairs and 400 tables to the Memorial Union Terrace over the next couple of days to get ready for the grand opening on Wednesday, April 12.
Sure, the nearly 80-degrees temperatures in store for Wednesday portend the warmer days ahead, but an even surer sign of summer in Madison is coming that same day: the return of the Terrace chairs to the Memorial Union.
The events are all part of a campaign called March 24th to Earth Day. The weekly events take place outside on East Campus Mall bringing together student and non-student organizations, along with the greater Madison community. The events also have free food, music, art and more, according to ASM Sustainability Committee Campaign Coordinator Winston Thompson.
Madison will soon see a familiar summer sight, as the Memorial Union Terrace will once again be decked out with its iconic sunburst chairs starting this week.
Incoming and current students were caught off guard by the recent tuition hike.
The UW System Board of Regents voted last week to raise tuition prices by an average of 4.9% (or $404) across all 13 universities and 26 campuses in Wisconsin. Room and board rates will increase too, by an average of 3.5%, resulting in an overall 4.2% (or $706) increase for all in-state students.
The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held a more than four hour meeting on Thursday in an attempt to find ways the Legislature can facilitate free expression on the state’s public university campuses.
Republican state lawmakers questioning whether a lack of political diversity on college campuses is hurting education discussed possible fixes — like considering political affiliation when hiring professors — during a legislative hearing Thursday. The meeting follows a University of Wisconsin System student free speech survey that found a majority of conservative respondents reported self-censoring views in class.
An hour before the polls closed on Tuesday, Teddy Landis was standing outside a freshman dining hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, trying to encourage students who hadn’t voted yet to cast their ballots.
Students emphasize importance of togetherness amid differing views.
Students cast ballots for candidates in the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, Wisconsin State Senate, Madison mayor, as well as several referendum questions.
Running from March 28-29, the “Day of the Badger” event raised $1,691,726 for UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked No. 196 in “America’s Best Large Employers 2023” by Forbes Magazine. The university is one of the eight large employers recognized within the state of Wisconsin.
Speakers discuss health access, global health change.
SCO to launch Healthy Minds on Campus to prioritize as senior class gift.
UW-Madison has named four finalists for provost, most of whom have ties to Big Ten universities.
Oliv Madison was Core’s most recent project downtown and was approved by the Plan Commission in November 2021. Oliv was the first project in Madison to have affordable housing for students and included land-use agreements with the city of Madison and the University of Wisconsin to ensure continued affordability for the student population.
The Vault was founded to provide a way for students to explore the marketing, communication and design sides of the fashion industry.
Madison’s political landscape is shifting and its common council is looking much younger.
More and more young Wisconsinites find themselves not only running for, but sitting in Madison Common Council seats. Some said their interests piqued while enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin students kicked off celebrations for Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month at the Heritage Festival Saturday.
The University of Wisconsin Grant Allocation Committee met Monday to discuss operational, events and travel grants for registered student organizations on campus.
Hundreds of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison lined up Friday to cast their ballots early for the spring election. Student organization ‘Badger Vote’ said that turnout has been higher than usual this year and national organization ‘Campus Vote Project’ released its list of voter-friendly campuses and UW-Madison earned its badge.
The Badgers for Special Olympics, along with UW-Madison’s chapter of Best Buddies, hosted their first “Buddy Olympics” event Sunday at the Nicholas Recreation Center as a way to engage in some friendly competition while promoting inclusion in the community.
In-state undergraduate students in the University of Wisconsin System will see the first tuition hike since Republican state lawmakers instituted a tuition freeze a decade ago.
The UW System Board of Regents on Thursday approved the tuition hike with 16 members voting in favor and one voting against. Regents Héctor Colón and Jennifer Staton were not present. The average increase of 5 percent comes as a GOP bill aims to limit the board’s tuition setting authority once again.
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.
