Friday was Match Day for fourth year medical students the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, a major step in their journeys toward becoming doctors.
Earlier this month, the UW Odyssey Project launched a brand-new enrichment program called Odyssey Senior to spotlight the incredible and unique stories of Odyssey elders.
UW’s International Student Services, located in Red Gym, supports international students.
The UW System is funding the first year of the Wisconsin Tuition Promise program, which launches next fall and provides full tuition coverage for new, in-state freshmen and transfer students whose families earn $62,000 or less. The program is open to students attending any UW campus except UW-Madison, which already offers its own tuition promise program that isn’t funded with taxpayer money.
‘The Peace Corps is a logical extension of the university’s Wisconsin Idea,’ Returned Peace Corps volunteer says.
Search for new provost in progress, finalists to visit UW after spring break.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity to help lead one of America’s leading research universities, with broad strengths across the arts and humanities, social sciences, and physical, biological and mathematical sciences, along with several excellent professional schools,” Scholz said in a statement. “It has a well-deserved reputation for innovation and excellence.”
Scholz begins the role July 1, succeeding Michael Schill, who left the position to become Northwestern University president. Schill assumed that role after Rebecca Blank, former UW-Madison chancellor, resigned as Northwestern president due to a cancer diagnosis. Blank passed away last month.
A 130-year-old program created to connect Wisconsin farmers with university research is getting a second chance at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
UW-Madison announced last year that the Farm and Industry Short Course would move from a 16-week, on-campus certificate program to a non-credit format that would use online learning. Officials said the change was due to a significant decline in enrollment, with less than 100 students each year over the last decade. With only 20 students projected to enroll in the program for 2022, officials said it no longer had enough students to run the self-funded program.
The Gordon Dining Center voting ward on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus usually draws about 50 voters in spring primary elections.
But this February, 515 voters cast their ballots there, according to turnout data from the city of Madison clerk’s office. Other campus-area voting wards reported similarly high voting rates. A dorm along Lake Mendota reported 39% turnout.
UW students create organization to host professional learning opportunities, events related to fashion industry.
Jason Rivera, Wisconsin deputy director of Rise, discusses his organization and the efforts they are making to promote student voting for the upcoming general election.
The University of Wisconsin removed funding for the Shared Governance Project Assistant position, originally granted as a symbol of support for ASM, according to SAC Governing Board Chair Kevin Jacobson.
WiscWind helps students prepare for careers in wind, renewable energy sectors.
Artwork in Red Gym depicts values of intersectional women’s history.
As we honor one of Madison’s favorite conservation giants this March, let’s use his story to look at equity in the environmental field.
With spring approaching in Madison following a snowy and icy winter, some students are wondering just how much snow it takes to cancel class.
The new center replacing the Natatorium will have spaces dedicated to supporting mental health, a pool, ice rink, climbing walls and more.
“The most accessible of the inaccessible” — disabled student reflects on accessibility in the dorms, campus.
Computer science is a lot more than just programming. The major involves the study of logic and proofs, getting into the nitty gritty of software and hardware and understanding what makes algorithms quicker or slower.
Women’s History Month encourages education about women’s contributions to U.S. history.
UW Foundation CEO, Public History Project director, Blank Professorship recipient reflect on Chancellor Blank’s legacy at UW.
Variety of cultural programming scheduled throughout month of March.
Tickets for Goodall’s visit to UW-Madison sold out in less than 90 minutes during the student presale Monday, organizers said. Goodall is scheduled to speak at Shannon Hall at Memorial Union on March 26.
‘It is a happy holiday, but it also has some deep issues that are relevant today,’ Hillel Rabbi says.
GAC approves funding for Malaysian Student Association, Hmong American Student Association.
direct approach to leadership and her dedication to serving others.”She’s an incredible leader,” said current UW Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin. “She’s a role model to an awful lot of people and certainly I am one of them. It’s an honor to succeed her, sometimes a daunting honor, but I feel really lucky that I got to cross paths with her.”
“She was a tremendous public servant,” Mark Doms, the chief economist for the Congressional Budget Office, said.
Assistant professors Rebecca Alper, Carlos Benítez-Barrera research early interventions for communication disorders.
New program to be implemented in addition to Bucky’s Tuition Promise.
University of Wisconsin at Madison: Students with concerns about eating and related issues complete an eating disorder assessment. The three-session assessment explores mental health and social history. Diagnosis and treatment plans are discussed, as is a treatment plan. Care is delivered by a team of group and individual counselors, psychiatrists, and medical and nutrition providers. Students are seen weekly or biweekly.
The announcement for the memorial service of Rebecca Blank came with a specific request from her family: Wear red, in honor of the former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor who died Feb. 17 of pancreatic cancer.
University and government officials and community members celebrated former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s life Saturday in just the way she planned — a sea of Wisconsin Red, German chocolate cake and plenty of Diet Coke.
Keynote speakers and panelists from across different aspects of the policy process met at the Monona Terrace to discuss different issues and solutions relating to policy, its formation and its implementation.
Madison community members gathered this weekend at the First Congregational United Church to commemorate the legacy of Rebecca Blank.
“This is our referendum on abortion,” says Margaret Keuler, a University of Wisconsin–Madison junior who is the chair of College Democrats of Wisconsin. “Others states, like Michigan, have had actual referendums. This Supreme Court race is our referendum.”
The annual event, hosted by the Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement, included a welcome speech from Deputy Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer LaVar J. Charleston and 2022 UW Outstanding Women of Color Honoree Cat N. Burkat, opening remarks from UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, award announcements and closing remarks.
The GSSF is a funding source for the annual operating budgets of qualifying student organizations. The budgets cover student hourly wages and operational and programming costs. Currently, the GSSF funds 15 student organizations.
UW-Madison has opened the Osher Center for Integrative Health, joining 10 other universities in the Osher Collaborative for Integrative Health, which focuses on complementary therapies such as acupuncture and yoga as well as medications and other standard treatments.
The UW center, housed in the Department of Family Medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, is funded through a $5.5 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation received in 2021.
The talk highlighted the stories of Black leaders in clean energy throughout the Midwest to encourage more representation of Black voices in the clean energy transition, according to research and education coordinator Scott Williams.
UW-Madison Professors shared how despite the AI bot’s impressive products and abilities to make students’ lives easier, it cannot fill the necessity to develop skills on their own and assign meaning to their work.
Some staff reported experiencing or witnessing hostile or intimidating behavior on campus, as well as sexual harassment in the last three years.
College students are in a unique stage of life, navigating new independence and learning to eat in dining halls or grocery shop and cook for themselves, balancing studies, sleep and socializing, University Health Services (UHS) Registered Dietician Sarah Van Riet said in an email statement to The Badger Herald. “On the UW-Madison campus at UHS, the number of students seeking care for disordered eating has risen in recent years,” Van Riet said.
Ross is native Wisconsinite, first transgender woman to play Broadway lead, entrepreneur, advocate.
Rising student population leads to cramped dorm rooms, high demand for food, more disease transmission.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of 20 schools across the country with food-delivering robots rolling around its campus.
“An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall: Inspiring Hope Through Action” will consist of a 90-minute speech followed by a Q&A at Memorial Union in late March.
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?
