Scott Kelly, the former NASA astronaut who has orbited the Earth 8,300 times, will give a free talk at 7 p.m. Oct. 4 as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series in Madison.
Noted: The State Street area near the University of Wisconsin Madison’s campus had been a destination for Halloween revelers for decades prior to the pandemic, although the festival had changed over time.
The Badgers made history at the Kohl Center Classic, breaking the NCAA’s regular-season attendance record as 16,833 fans gathered Friday. It broke the previous record set nine days ago by Nebraska and Crieghton in Omaha, topping their mark of 15,797. UW dropped the match in five sets, but that did little to dampen the atmosphere.
For the third straight year, Madison is canceling its formal Downtown “Freakfest” Halloween event, this time because of declining attendance, significant public cost, and declining enthusiasm from the promoter.
The panel was brought together in honor of the class’s 50th reunion. Participants listened to the session as part of their ‘Day of Learning,’ according to the UW Alumni Association.
Gary Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus and director of campus planning and landscape architecture, announced his retirement this June and plans to start working on a book about the university’s campus planning history.
Thursday afternoon, a group of alumni, faculty and students from UW-Madison’s art and art history departments will read an open letter outside the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
They’ll be there to protest the mistreatment of artists during this year’s Wisconsin Triennial exhibition, which was the first Triennial in the museum’s history to focus exclusively on the experiences of Black women, femmes, and gender non-conforming artists.
Thursday afternoon outside the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, a group of alumni, faculty and students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s art and art history departments will gather in support of Black women artists.
ore than 250 people watched as Ho-Chunk Nation President Marlon WhiteEagle raised the Ho-Chunk Nation flag over the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Thursday.
The flag, located at UW-Madison’s Bascom Hall, will fly for more than six weeks this fall, starting with one week in September. It will also be flown on Indigenous Peoples Day in October and for the full month of November, which is National Native American Heritage Month.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is also launching a fleet of Kiwibots on campus this fall.
UW-Madison partnered with a different company, Starship Technologies, though the general concept is the same. The university’s 30-bot fleet debuted in November 2019, which turned out to be good timing. The robots offered students a dining option without needing to set foot in a busy dining hall during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last school year, UW-Madison received nearly 80,000 orders, said UW-Madison spokesperson Brendon Dybdahl.
“The Starship robots have become a very popular fixture on our campus,” he said. “Students take pictures with them, help them when they occasionally get stuck, and treat them almost like people.”
Ho-Chunk Nation President Marlon WhiteEagle raised the flag at the ceremony Thursday morning. WhiteEagle said that events like the flag raising ceremony help break down barriers.
“This day is so significant because it showcases how important Indigenous knowledge is to fulfilling the mission of the institution, which is to educate people about the complex cultural, physical worlds in which they live,” said Aaron Bird Bear, the UW-Madison director of tribal relations.
Marlon WhiteEagle, the president of the Ho-Chunk Nation, said it provides a chance to teach others about those who once lived on the land currently home to the university and the city of Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison raised the Ho-Chunk Nation flag over Bascom Hall, the university’s main administration building, in an outdoor ceremony Thursday morning in the heart of the UW campus.
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“The flag is a symbol of something much larger,” Ho-Chunk Public Relations Officer Casey Brown told the Cardinal. “It may look like just a flag and a piece of fabric, but what it means to us to have it flying above Bascom Hill is incredibly meaningful.”
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“Our shared governance process in Council gave voices to staff, faculty, students and alumni in this decision,” said Mark Guthier in a statement from 2018, who was Union director and Union Council member at that time.
Religious and cultural groups are asking UW-Madison to investigate pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel messaging chalked on the sidewalk that targeted Jewish student groups last week that university administrators have decried as antisemitic yet an expression of free speech by a registered student group.
The gallery is a culmination of the university’s Public History Project, titled “Sifting & Reckoning,” which confronts the challenges of marginalized communities on campus. The exhibit runs through Dec. 23, featuring photographs, archival materials and oral histories spanning 175 years.
“Public history is, at its simplest, history that is written and made accessible for the public, for the people in our community. While many other universities have looked into their histories, no other has made public engagement the center of their work, this project has. Our work, including this exhibit, is focused on our community, and how best to make this accessible to them,” Lucchini Butcher says.
Today, a new exhibit is being opened to the public at the Chazen Museum of Art on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The culmination of multiple years of research and planning, the UW-Madison Public History Project exhibit looks to ask questions about the real history of UW-Madison itself. The Public History Project looks to give voice to a lesser-known history of UW-Madison through students, staff, and associates of the university who have been affected by marginalization across identities.
A campus free speech survey that spurred the resignation of a University of Wisconsin System chancellor will be sent to students at all state colleges this fall, according UW System President Jay Rothman.
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The flag will first fly for one week in September, beginning with a public flag-raising ceremony at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 15, as a part of UW-Madison’s ongoing commitment to educate the campus community about the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk and First Nations history.
Antisemitic messages were written at various spots across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on the first day of classes this week, prompting an apology from frustrated administrators at the school, which has a significant Jewish population.
Raskin will be in Madison Friday, Sept. 16, for a Capital Times Idea Fest discussion of the fight for accountability. The session is at 7 p.m. in Shannon Hall on the UW-Madison campus. It will be a rare chance to go deep with one of the greatest constitutional scholars ever to serve in Congress.
Nebraska and Creighton played in front of an announced crowd of 15,797 on Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska, the largest attendance ever for a regular-season college volleyball match.
The sixth-ranked Badgers might make that record last only nine days.
UW-Madison wants to reimagine and energize Library Mall in the heart of campus with stylish walkways, native plants, shade trees and splashing water.
The university’s $6 million plan looks good so far, with a fundraising campaign on the way.
Vice chancellor for student affairs Lori Reesor and chief diversity officer LaVar Charleston issued a statement Thursday condemning the incident.
“These labels are antisemitic: they attribute broad actions or beliefs to Jewish student groups,” they wrote. “To those Jewish students and others affected, we are sorry for the impact this had on your first day of class at UW.”
Set in the middle of the newest exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art, opening Monday, is a video screen looping an artifact once thought to have been destroyed: a black and white film shot undercover in 1961 to document discrimination against students of color seeking housing in Madison.
A group of UW students tried to turn the situation into a positive experience by adding their group Instagram handle to one of the drawings and included how proud they are to be Jewish.
“You want to still be careful, because we don’t want to go to all online this winter. That’s what I worry about most, because I want to have a normal experience,” Wendland said.
Leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are condemning anti-Semitic messages written in chalk at locations around campus on Wednesday. The messages, according to a statement from Vice Chancellor Lori Reesor and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer LaVar Charleston, targeted Jewish student groups and called them racist and genocidal.
“We are sorry for the impact this had on your first day of class at UW. We truly strive to create a campus where every student feels they belong, and this kind of messaging harms that goal and aspiration,” the statement reads.
The university acknowledged that these antisemitic messages “represent free speech which is a core value at UW.”
Enrollment numbers from the university’s official census are not yet available, but officials expect the incoming freshman class of around 8,600 to be the university’s largest ever class.
Coming off of the first Badger football win of the season, it’s back to school for Badgers at UW Madison Wednesday. The class of 2026 making their debut appearance in classrooms for the fall semester.
In terms of the 2022-2023 school year, Kerkes said freshmen should cut themselves some slack despite internal or external pressures. “It’s okay, you can breathe,” Kerekes said. “You can be a freshman for a little bit.”
“I just was given the letter here today, so I haven’t had a chance to take a look at it,” Mnookin told the Cap Times at the event. “What I will say is that I will be listening very carefully to public health professionals, just as Becky Blank did, to try to find the balance between keeping our community safe, but also protecting the education and the strength of the experience of being here as best as we possibly can.”
This year, UW-Madison is ushering in around 8,600 freshmen — the largest freshman class in the university’s history — and about 1,100 new transfer students. The freshman class was selected from a pool of over 60,000 applicants, which Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said was “one of our most competitive years ever.”
For students living in foster care, or those who’ve experienced homelessness, navigating college can be daunting. But a program to support those students is expanding across the University of Wisconsin System — in hopes of increasing school success and retention.
Fostering Success began at UW-Stout in 2013. The program is designed to support students by offering help navigating financial aid, academic advising and tutoring. Angie Ruppe, director of the program at UW-Stout, said Fostering Success is important because “the students are deserving.”
With the Fall semester just days away, college students have returned to the Madison area.
And on Sept. 2, 137 of them were cited for underage drinking.
Freshman enrollment at UW-Madison is up 16% compared to last fall. A record 8,465 freshman students will begin studying in just a few days; many of them have already moved in.
There’s a renewed push to restore Academy Award-winning actor Fredric March’s name on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A student-led group voted in 2018 to remove the UW alum’s name from a theater in Memorial Union because of his association with a student group that shared a name with the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century.
Miss Wisconsin 2022 — Grace Stanke, a nuclear engineering student at UW-Madison — spoke to students Tuesday morning about the importance of embracing multiple identities, especially in the rigorous engineering field.
It may seem like the school year has just started, but we are only 44 days away from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Homecoming, and the Wisconsin Homecoming Committee is inviting everyone to their party.
The free event helps kick off the semester for graduate students, faculty members and staff. Participants could choose from the 5.07-mile Doctoral Derby or the 1.94-mile Master’s Mile. Race distances are based on the approximate number of years to get a degree.
The Graduate School Degree Dash was held on campus Friday. The idea is to have a community building-event to bring grad students, undergrads and other members of campus together to have fun. Organizers say they encourage students to have a positive work-life balance.
With the fall semester set to begin Wednesday, University Health Services is prepared to meet student demand for monkeypox resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said UHS executive director Jake Baggott.
The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences is seeking an artist to create a large art installation for its new building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison officials on Thursday confirmed that a man who drowned in Lake Mendota nearly two weeks ago was a student at the university.The Dane County Medical Examiner identified the man Thursday as 22-year-old Layne Hailu.
Camp Randall has been Wisconsin’s home dating all the way back to 1895. The state landmark is the oldest stadium in the Big Ten and has the fifth-largest capacity in the conference.
The hallowed venue provides a daunting backdrop for opposing teams. Wisconsin has registered five double-digit winning streaks at Camp Randall. The longest streak was 21 games from October 31, 2009 to October 27, 2012.
The difference is mostly due to changes in housing, food, transportation and personal expenses, according to a table on the cost of attendance by the Office of Student Financial Aid.
The head of athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this week defended a proposed $300 million practice facility and backed two West Coast teams joining the Big Ten Conference.
UW athletic director Chris McIntosh made the comments Monday during an interview with Shereen Siewert on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show.”
Greek life can have excesses, but that’s more a function of human nature. Fraternities actually restrain destructive impulsivity, with their structure of norms and mores that keep students in check. There will still be extroverted and reckless students if you get rid of Greek life. Banning fraternities or hazing altogether will only unleash these students’ worst aspects on campus.Imagine a frat with no rules and no sense of brotherhood. That’s what you’ll get.
—Jonathan Draeger, University of Wisconsin Madison, economics
UW Varsity Band Concert 2022, 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26
Third-year director Corey Pompey leads the UW Varsity Band through a mix of new material and familiar favorites, including a tribute to the music of Queen and a salute to members of our nation’s armed forces.
UW-Madison is looking for an artist — or artists — to commission an outdoor art installation for the new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences (CDIS) building.Wisconsin artists are encourage to apply, though the search is open nationally.
