Written by Matthew T. Hora, an associate professor of adult and higher education and co-director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison has hired a new tribal relations director to continue the “high priority” work of strengthening ties with Wisconsin’s Indigenous nations, the university announced. Carla Vigue will join UW-Madison later this month to succeed Aaron Bird Bear, the inaugural tribal relations director.
The new cafe in the historic campus dining venue, 803 State St., will be run by the Wisconsin Union, the nonprofit organization that manages Memorial Union, Union South, the Memorial Union Terrace, and markets and cafes throughout campus, Union spokeswoman Shauna Breneman said in a news release.
Benjamin Jealous, a former investigative journalist and NAACP president, will be the keynote speaker at the UW–Madison’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium at the Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall on Monday, Jan. 23.
Brown is the host of the PBS travel series “Samantha Brown’s Places to Love,” which is launching its sixth season later this month. One of this year’s 10 new episodes brings her to Madison, where she spends close to an hour on air exploring the UW-Madison campus, a supper club, a curling competition and more.
As most University of Wisconsin System campuses grapple with consistent enrollment declines, some have increasingly relied on out-of-state students to fill the gap. That’s brought in more tuition revenue along with some concerns about limited access for state residents.
Noted: I was interviewed for a Forbes article with the title “A Computer Can Now Write Your College Essay—Maybe Better Than You Can.” Forbes fed ChatGPT two college essay prompts, one the 650-word Common Application prompt—“Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story”—and the other the “Why Wisconsin?” essay from the University of Wisconsin at Madison supplement. According to the article, each essay took ChatGPT less than 10 minutes to complete. That is both far less time than we hope students would spend composing essays and far more time than most admissions officers spend reading essays.
We talk with LaVar J Charleston, the University’s Chief Diversity Officer, about his job and efforts to promote equity and social justice. We also look at scholarship and service programs designed to increase diversity and foster equity.
The newly crowned Miss America, Grace Stanke, said she wants to spend her term promoting nuclear power as a cleaner way to reduce fossil fuel emissions.
“It doesn’t use a lot of land,” said Stanke, a Wausau native and University of Wisconsin-Madison senior studying nuclear engineering. “As our population continues to grow, we can continue to use that land for farming and agricultural purposes, and we can use that clean, zero-carbon energy coming from nuclear energy to power our cities.”
As a professor teaching in areas of both Folklore and African American Studies, Wilkins’ field and work align with his interest in Hip Hop music. A passion that started as a young boy growing up in Houston, Texas.
One UW-Madison student who wished to remain anonymous said he’s used it a few times on homework.”Everything that the chat would spit out would be like thoughts that I had on my own,” he said. “And then it was really like well written.”
List includes Paul Tran, assistant professor of Asian American studies and English at UW-Madison.
Mark Johnson calls this the best time of the year.
It’s winter break on the University of Wisconsin campus, a time that most of the student body heads home and recharges for the second semester. The break is a favorite of the Wisconsin’s women’s hockey coach because it is the one time all season that his players can lock in and devote all of their energy to the game.
Noted: For young voters in Dane County, it was a message that worked. Abortion access was regularly listed to NBC News a top issue motivating voters.
University of Wisconsin student Valerie Howell, who said she supported Democratic candidates, told NBC News that she likely would have turned out to vote in any case, “but I wouldn’t have been as passionate about it.”
With the fall semester drawn to a close and a new year on the horizon, University of Wisconsin-Madison professors in departments ranging from math to English are reflecting on their favorite reads of the year.
From the moment UW-Madison Director of Tribal Relations Aaron Bird Bear arrived on campus in 2000, he had a mission.
To be considered frozen over, lakes Wingra and Monona must have at least half ice cover. Mendota, the largest of Madison’s lakes, is subject to another rule developed by limnologists Edward Birge and Chancey Juday in the early 1900s: If you can’t row a boat between Picnic Point on UW-Madison’s northeast side to Maple Bluff, the lake is frozen.
For University of Wisconsin-Madison students with on-campus jobs and late final exams, storm conditions on Thursday are leaving them stuck on the university’s campus.
Some universities, including UW-Madison, are wrapping up finals week. While some exams were held online, students who had to be on campus for finals faced either heading home in bad weather or staying put and possibly missing the holidays with their families.
About 70 UW-Madison students living in residence halls have asked to stay past the scheduled closing time of noon Friday, University Housing Marketing Director Brendon Dybdahl said, although he said he expects that number to increase by Friday morning.
University Housing plans to let students stay as late as Wednesday with all fees waived. Typically, students are allowed to stay past the closing date until Dec. 26 but are required to pay $35 a night; students who choose to stay for the entire winter break are charged $500.
“The timing of this storm is challenging for a lot of students and families,” Dybdahl said. “Most students were able to leave campus before the storm arrived, but due to reports of travel delays, we want to make sure our residents have a safe space if they need to make a change in plans.”
It will be an extended holiday break for Wisconsin men’s basketball.
UW-Madison announced Tuesday it would remain open for final exams through Friday, when wind chills are expected to dip to minus 30 degrees. University Housing said it will accommodate dorm residents who are unable to leave due to weather by the time residence halls are due to close at noon Friday.
The university plans to stay open for business on Friday as well. Employees who do not feel they can safely make it to work are directed to notify their supervisors and take paid time off.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison issued a statement Tuesday that “based on currently available information, the university will be open for normal operations for the conclusion of final exams Thursday, as well as for business on Friday.”
In a statement to News 3 Now Tuesday, campus officials said “it’s not possible for UW to reschedule or change the Thursday exam period to accommodate travel issues on Friday or beyond,” but students should contact professors directly with concerns.
The Badgers (4-9) and Beacons (2-6) originally were scheduled to start at 4 p.m., but the two teams shifted the start time to try to avoid the forecasted snowstorm beginning Wednesday evening.
Marcus Sedberry is deputy athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, where he oversees internal operations for the athletic department.
Dr. Brian Burt is director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory at UW– Madison.
She fell in love with the University of Wisconsin-Madison during her first visit to campus, and started school there in 2019 as a political science major.
At the beginning of this school year, graffiti on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison listed five Jewish organizations and said that they all “have blood on their hands.”
Of all the Hanukkah events the University of Wisconsin Hillel center hosts for UW-Madison students, the nightly lighting of the candles is what Rabbi Andrea Steinberger looks forward to the most.
Genac is no stranger to adversity. During his sophomore year, he was hospitalized and found out he had an enlarged heart.
“Find your light,” Berens said. “Find what lights you up or lights your soul up and then let that sort of guide your path.”This message hit close to home for Anthony Genac, who graduated from the School of Human Ecology in just three and a half years after undergoing a heart transplant.
“This is the first adversity I have ever hit in my life,” Genac said. “I left the hospital with a scar on my chest but a deeper appreciation of universal healthcare.”
The university said the campaign ended in 2020 and the poster should have been removed. The university said it’s likely it remained up longer than it should have because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
News 3 Now’s Brady Mallory and Charlotte Deleste caught up with Berens this week to preview his commencement address.
“Yeah, so I’m hoping to go in hot off the punch lines, you know, slip in a little wisdom, close with a nice solid punch line and call it a day,” Berens explained. “Hoping to get these people home in time for a noon Bloody Mary, spicy.”
Miss Wisconsin has won the title of Miss America 2023.
Wausau native Grace Stanke, a 20-year-old nuclear engineering student at UW-Madison, is the third woman from Wisconsin to be crowned as Miss America. The others are Laura Koeppeler of Kenosha, who was Miss America in 2012, and Terry Meeuwsen of De Pere, who was Miss America in 1973.
The east-west route will run along East Washington Avenue through the city’s center and the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and end at West Towne Mall. The north-south route is in the request for proposals stage and there is no estimated timeline right now on when it will launch.
UW-Madison’s 2022 winter commencement will take place this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Kohl Center, where the university will confer degrees to nearly 1,800 doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s students.
Results from survey are used to understand how to cater services, classes to student body, lead researcher says.
Allen Centennial Garden is a 2.5-acre botanical garden filled with a wide variety of plants that present different beautiful colors all year round.
As opioid deaths surge in Wisconsin, a growing number of universities are making the overdose reversal drug naloxone publicly available in dormitories and other campus buildings.
This fall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, UW-La Crosse, UW-Eau Claire and UW-Parkside installed opioid overdose rescue kits called “Nalox-ZONE” boxes aimed at preventing opioid overdose deaths. They join UW-Oshkosh, which installed the boxes in late 2021.
Go Big Read, an initiative of the Chancellor’s Office, selects a book annually that explores issues of contemporary society. UW-Madison features the book selection during Go Big Read events for the 2023-24 academic year and hands copies of the title out to first-year students at convocation.
Gimse, who will be the student commencement speaker at UW-Madison’s winter commencement ceremony Sunday, has beat the odds to become the person she thought she’d never be. Nearly two decades after she dropped out of high school, she’s graduating with a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular pathology. Her research centers on Alzheimer’s research and gene therapies.
Student-run print shop founded to create flyers, posters, brochures during civil rights movement.
Chazen Museum of Art hosts Study Day events, free food.
SSFC recommends Wisconsin Union does not add Registered Student Organization advisor.
Readers raised alarms when Moda posted on Instagram about its fashion editorial photoshoot called “A Girl is a Gun,” which showed models posing with a prop gun. Dozens of comments called the use of the prop tone deaf and insensitive. Moda then deleted the Instagram post and removed the photoshoot from the issue online.
Results from UW-Madison’s most recent campuswide survey, conducted in fall 2021 and published in November, reveal that while most students say the campus’ climate is positive, students in marginalized groups are more likely to feel excluded from campus life and witness harassing or hostile behavior.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student from Wausau will be the first nuclear engineer to compete in the Miss America contest Dec. 15. Grace Stanke, who was crowned Miss Wisconsin in June, is using her platform to advocate for nuclear energy while showing women they can succeed in male-dominated industries.
UW phases out PCR testing on campus amid lessening demand.
A mega-development that would erect a $140 million housing project, parking garage and bus terminal on State Street inched closer to final approval on Monday with the blessing of the city’s Plan Commission.
Students expressed concerns to ASM on Wednesday about the potential negative impact of the construction of Levy Hall on nearby communal spaces.
Noted: Just this month, the University of Wisconsin-Madison broke ground on a new on-campus housing facility that will contain 142 units with a total capacity of 536 residents in rooms ranging from one to five beds.
The volleyball team has been on an amazing roll the past several years, notably including last year’s national championship. And the fanbase has grown along the way: The team’s Sept. 16 game, attended by 16,833, broke the NCAA regular-season attendance record.
Taught by Ariel (AJ) Juarez, the class allows students to work on the building blocks of the dance style, such as house — a freestyle dance method that evolved from the underground music scenes in Chicago and New York City — and popping, which involves creating a jerking effect by contracting and relaxing one’s muscles.
Chair Gracie Nelson announces resignation.
Center for Journalism Ethics hosts Williams at Memorial Union.
Decision comes amid lack of available student housing.
This role is not something she initially sought out, but she followed a calling which eventually led her to this position.
The International TEFL Academy (ITA) aims to offer a solution to students’ question of what comes next — through the opportunity to teach English abroad.
