Early absentee voting for the 2022 midterm elections is in full swing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and voting stations have been buzzing with students and poll workers.
“This is a monumental fight for the future of Wisconsin and the future of our nation,” Senator Warren says
Winter graduates at UW-Madison will get some final words from the host of the Manitowoc Minute. Charlie Berens will be the winter commencement speaker this year.
Berens is a New York Times best-selling author, an Emmy-winning journalist, a popular podcast host and the creator of “Manitowoc Minute.” He earned a bachelor’s degree in 2009 from UW-Madison in journalism and geography.
In a video posted by UW-Madison’s Twitter account, Berens thanked students for selecting him as the commencement speaker, coming to them “live from his garage.” Senior class officers choose the speakers each year in conjunction with the chancellor’s office.
“As someone new to Wisconsin, I’ve learned a lot from Charlie, like the importance of getting the buttered rye bread with the Friday night fish fry and of watching out for deer on the roads,” Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said. “He’s a great comedian, but much more — an entrepreneur, a business owner, a skilled interviewer, a proud Badger. I’m delighted he will be offering his wisdom to our graduates.”
“Charlie Berens is a Wisconsin cultural ambassador for all corners of the state,” senior class president Liam McLean said in a news release. “It is fitting to have him speak to our winter commencement graduates as his reach and our university grow in scope and status.”
Other high-profile Democrats, Republicans to visit Wisconsin before Nov. 8 election.
Pres House Apartments leased 60% of its building in October, holding spaces for a second round of leasing to take place in November, and several more to be made available in February 2023.
During the roughly hour-long talk at Memorial Union, Nate Silver also explained how polling data helps provide insight into policy discussions.
GSCC director hopes to cultivate belonging for transgender students.
’You spineless, gutless clowns owe me an apology,’ Walsh says of UW.
Committee also approves funding for Badger Catholic, discusses other budgets.
Overnight vandals did “extensive damage” to the Memorial Union and Alumni Park on the UW-Madison campus, in protest of conservative provocateur Matt Walsh’s planned visit to campus, university officials said Monday.
On Monday, protesters demonstrated outside Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus ahead of an event featuring conservative commentator Matt Walsh.
Opposition to conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s visit to UW Madison could be seen and heard throughout the day Monday.
“UW-Madison, by telling a bunch of delusional psychos who are already defacing property that my perspective is harmful — the university, one could argue, is inciting violence against me,” Walsh said.
A crowd of about 250 people gathered outside Memorial Union Monday night to protest the Matt Walsh event hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, demonstrating support of transgender rights.
The University of Wisconsin-Wisconsin Police Department released statistics of the citations they handed down on the game day Saturday.
During the Purdue Game, UWPD said they ejected 43 people, with 24 of them being students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Gender and Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC) works to support and foster community among UW’s trans and queer students. The organization planned a day-long community-building event and trans film festival on Oct. 24, the same time as conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s talk at Memorial Union. GSCC organized several other initiatives throughout the fall to support LBGTQ+ students on campus.
UW-Madison police reported that 43 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 20 people were arrested during Saturday’s game between the Badgers and Purdue.
Of the 43 people ejected, 24 were UW students, and of the 20 arrested, 12 were UW students, police said in a statement detailing the numbers.
The potential for adults returning to school to reach goals of obtaining degrees and knowledge is often most affected by external factors that can make everyday life and returning to academics a difficult balance. The UW Odyssey Project is a remedy to that problem, and over their 20 years working to bring adults to higher education, they have gone the extra mile every time.
The Odyssey Project started in 2002 and quickly started changing lives. Acting as an avenue for adults to return to higher education through the resources and knowledge that run throughout UW-Madison has allowed the Odyssey Project to serve a plethora of people each year to achieve their academic, career, and personal goals. A celebration at the UW-Memorial Union was only fitting.
Multiple landmarks on the UW-Madison campus — including Memorial Union — were seemingly vandalized overnight with messages protesting a conservative commentator who was set to speak on campus Monday night.
UW-Madison is celebrating homecoming and starting off the weekend strong with their beloved parade.
NBC15′s John Stofflet reported live from the parade and talked to the owners of a Bucky Wagon, a reconstructed fire engine.
It’s Homecoming Week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Badger Band is getting ready for its annual parade performance.
News 3 Now photojournalist Sydney Martin caught up with the band as they ran through one of their final practices before the event.
The tenth “Fill the Hill” fundraiser at the University of Wisconsin-Madison brought in more than $421,000 for various campus initiatives.
Morning rounds at the animal hospital on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus start at 8 a.m. sharp. That means the days begin around dawn for veterinary medicine students in their fourth and final year of school, when clinical rotations largely replace classwork.
The UW-Madison Homecoming Committe continued its Homecoming week festivities Thursday by making a cupcake mural in the Sun Garden at Union South.
Pink flamingos can be seen on Bascom Hill on UW-Madison’s campus Friday morning.
The annual event is a fundraising initiative for the university. For each gift given during Fill the Hill, a flamingo appears.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the event. In that time, more than $2,040,000 has been raised.
University Health Services hosted an event in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month at the Eagle Heights Community Center on Wednesday in partnership with University Housing.
Inspiring atmospheric scientist, co-founder of Earth Women’s Science Network and University of Wisconsin professor, Tracey Holloway was recently elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine Oct. 17.
Marcel Schreir, the Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was named a Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering on Tuesday. The Packard Fellowship, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, is given to early-career scientists and engineers pursuing innovative high risk, high reward research.
Staff and volunteers at Union South built a cupcake mural of Bucky Badger Thursday to celebrate UW-Madison’s homecoming!
The mural depicts Bucky and is made of 1,200 cupcakes.
What started as an epic prank is now a tradition unlike any other on the UW Madison campus. Plastic flamingos are invading Bascom Hill once again on Friday.
University Health Services’ Survivor Services tripled in size to address growing demand for more student survivor resources.
UW-Madison announced that this year’s freshman class is the largest in the university’s history, with a record-breaking 8,600 students. But increases in enrollment have made housing on and around campus more competitive than ever.
Put on your Badger red, it’s homecoming week at UW-Madison and the University is offering many different ways to show your pride.
Michelle Kullmann says her story along with others has helped to bring these emergency kits to campus. Her son passed almost a year ago.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Monica Kim has received a major award, being named one of 25 2022 MacArthur Fellows. The award, also known as the “Genius Grant,” includes $800,000 of no-strings-attached grant money.
Celebrate campus traditions new and old in Madison this week.
Madison’s last student housing cooperative secures new home after uncertain year following displacement by Levy Humanities Building.
Celebration includes concert at Shannon Hall, parade, multicultural homecoming events.
Student groups propose new budgets to address specific needs within organizations.
Noted: During a September campaign stop at a coffee shop near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the college Democrats who came out to support Evers were well aware of his vetoes. Several said they were worried about the dramatic changes that could be in store for state government if Evers were to lose.
“I think in a democracy, you need balancing voices,” said Rianna Mukherjee, a senior at the UW-Madison majoring in political science. “Our Republican Legislature doesn’t balance voices.”
“Without a Democrat as governor … I’m concerned that Republicans will have too much control,” said Elliot Petroff, a sophomore studying political science. “We need to be able to veto things and there’s no other opposition that can do it right now.”
Some students mentioned specific bills Evers vetoed, including some that would have restricted abortions prior to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Roe v. Wade. Grant Hall, a sophomore studying computer science and data science, referenced the election bills.
“I fear that if he is not reelected, voting rights in Wisconsin will take a major hit,” Hall said. “I think those bills would pass pretty easily, and that’s terrifying.”
“I came to UW because of the strength of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department, and because they already had folks working in disability studies,” she said. “That was really exciting for me, as a disability studies scholar, to know that I would be able to come here, and teach classes in disability studies.”
The American Red Cross and UW-Madison are teaming up for a Homecoming Blood Drive. It starts on Tuesday and goes until Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at The Nick on West Dayton Street.
At 12:01 a.m. — the exact time Aberdeen Apartments opened for leases Oct. 6 — property manager Kelly Whitkins saw 162 applications flood in.
The level of interest was something Whitkins has never seen before in the 18 years she’s worked at the building, which is predominantly leased by students and located near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Of the 112 Homecoming buttons or pins made, Pete Christianson has collected 102.
The Black Voice is a student-led online publication whose goal is to amplify the voices of Black UW students, which have historically been silenced, programming coordinator Tatiyana Benson said during the budget proposal presentation.
Life-saving opioid overdose treatment available through Wisconsin Voices for Recovery.
“A large number of people do believe in the fact that there are two genders and that biology exists,” Wells said. “So although there might be controversy around it, we still are going to have our event and we invite people with a host of opposing viewpoints to come and discuss with us.”
A group of students expressed concern for possible misconduct taking place on the Associated Students of Madison’s Nomination Board.
The MacArthur Foundation selected the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, historian and author as one of this year’s 25 fellows who are “on the precipice of great discovery or a game-changing idea.” The so-called “genius grant” is perhaps the most prestigious and sought-after award in the arts, sciences, humanities and academia.
UW Herbarium home to over 1.37 million plant species.
In response to the upcoming event, the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center is offering space for folks to be in community on the day Walsh comes to campus. “We recognized the impact and thought to offer space that would counteract erasure, isolation, and ostracization; in turn, we crafted space for students to cultivate belonging and encounter affirming narratives,” Warren Scherer said in an email statement to The Badger Herald.
Senator Ron Johnson and Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes faced off Thursday night during the TMJ4 Senate Debate. The debate was broadcast across the state and the country.
At UW-Madison, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership hosted a debate watch party for students. About two dozen students showed up and were engaged for the entire debate.
The Odyssey Project at UW Madison hosted their biennial “Why Vote” event Wednesday, reminding students who are trying to break the cycle of generational poverty their vote matters.
Following roll call and an open forum, the council discussed legislation to renew the contract of the Public History Project.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Wisconsin Governor among 11 esteemed alumni.
