During their meeting at the Student Activity Center, the GAC also discussed travel grant funding for the spring Model UN conference and nationals for the swim and gymnastics clubs.
“Formless” features a cohort of new performers every year and will premiere for the second time ever on at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Play Circle in the Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
Some 700 area high school students already have matinee tickets reserved for “Fences,” the upcoming play from the UW-Madison Department of Theatre and Drama.
The University of Wisconsin RecWell announced Feb. 21 that the new Bakke Recreation and Wellbeing Center will open April 24, barring any scheduling changes. Along with the opening of the Bakke, the Shell will be closing, with April 19 being the last day to use the facility.
During “What’s in a Name? Van Hise & the History of Eugenics at UW-Madison,” the Committee on Disability Access & Inclusion shared with students and community members they are seeking approval for a proposed plaque.
Bees Please UW educates community on the role of bees while maintaining a pollinator garden and bee hotels around campus.
Video: UW-Madison presented its 17th annual Moonshine Show Friday in celebration of Black History Month. Performances included spoken word and dance.
Growing up on the Oneida Indian Reservation, just outside of Green Bay, Carla Vigue fondly remembers the close relationships she formed with the tribe’s leadership.
Wisconsin has topped 10,000 fans at a women’s game six times, even exceeding it by margins as great as 5,000. No other women’s college hockey program has ever had more than 7,000 attendees.
The University of Wisconsin Student Services Finance Committee met to discuss ways to improve the committee Thursday.
Cultivating an inclusive environment while balancing free speech protections on campuses can be tricky — but it’s important for administrators and faculty, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber said at a forum Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison says a memorial service for former Chancellor Rebecca Blank will be held on March 4.
UW-Madison’s former president Charles Van Hise (1857-1918) led the school through the rough years of World War I and the university’s income quadrupled during his tenure, but did you know he was a eugenicist?
UW-Madison will hold a memorial service for former Chancellor Rebecca Blank on March 4, with a dress code of Wisconsin Red encouraged.
UW-Madison’s west side could be dramatically reshaped under a new real estate strategy that would infuse high-density housing, hotels or retail into an area that, right now, is heavy with surface parking lots.
Though some students are passionate about the topic, others arrive at UW with varying levels of experience with or knowledge about Black history, Shashko said.
The Wisconsin School of Business launched a campaign highlighting the unique paths students may take while pursuing their business degrees. While each student’s experience differs slightly, a commonality amongst all University of Wisconsin business students is their ability to lead.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and Madison residents gathered at campus polling locations on Feb. 21 to vote in local and state primary elections. Ballots across campus included primaries for Madison mayor, alderperson in districts 2, 4, 8 and 5, and for Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justices. The winners of each primary will face off on April 4 in the final election.
Datamatch, the self-proclaimed “Bucky’s go-to” matchmaking service, returned for its fifth year on campus with new events and fun survey questions for students looking for love or friendship. The organization hosted a prom for the first time as a way to end off the week-long festivities.
Attracting the attention of hundreds of Madison residents and university students, the Hemsley Theater was packed on Friday night. After filing down the stairs to the underground hall, the audience settled into seats on each side of the astroturf stage, positioned like sports fans in bleachers, looking down at the players.
UW-Madison botany professor Katherine McCulloh sees former Chancellor Rebecca Blank as one of her heroes.
A longtime UW-Madison music professor and composer has received one of the nation’s premier music awards for her opera about a 17th-century female painter.
The 5th Annual Black History Education Conference took place virtually, hosted by the Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Video: The first step in addressing mental health seems simple: to talk about it. But for some, that’s easier said than done.
The four founders — Kevin Phouisangiem, Aayush Bharadwaj, Pranav Poddutoori, Adilur Istekov — said they came up with the idea to create a dorm review website in the university’s Software Development Club, where they had to come up with a project and wanted to create a platform beneficial for students.
The University of Wisconsin’s size, urban campus and lakeside position make parking cars difficult for students, Assistant Vice Chancellor of UW Transportation Services Patrick Kass said in an email statement to The Badger Herald.
UW-Madison and the UW-Madison Police Department said they are aware of defaced transgender pride stickers found on campus, according to a statement shared with 27 News.
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.
