Category: Campus life

The vet school sees 30,000 patients each year, but that’s far from all the veterinary medical hospital does for the community and beyond.

Studying abroad is a critical component of the Wisconsin Experience, said Daniel Gold, the director of International Academic Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is facing controversy from students around the lack of menstrual products in campus restrooms. Each women’s restroom has a dispenser where students can get period products such as pads and tampons, but according to a tweet from April 21, not all of them have been restocked on campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is attempting to fully accommodate vegan and vegetarian diets across campus dining halls, though some students say options are limited.

The time between freshman and senior year can seem to fly by. Senior Samantha Benish reflects on her years as an undergraduate student.

The summer 2022 season has officially begun for Outdoor UW as they are now open for the rental of tandem kayaks, single kayaks, canoes, stand-up paddleboards, and an eight-person stand-up paddleboard.

A “cold case” involving the disappearance of a UW-Madison Memorial Union Terrace chair has officially been solved this week.

The recent law school graduates are now able to officially become attornies if they choose to practice in Wisconsin.

This week’s Traveler Throwback Thursday piece from 1988 revisits the barber who once had a shop inside Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Following two summers of limited programming due to COVID-19, traditional in-person entertainment has now returned to the Memorial Union Terrace, the venue announced Wednesday.

Percival Matthews, as interim associate dean since Aug. 1, 2021, will be the UW–Madison School of Education’s next associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion, Dean Diana Hess announced on Monday following a recently completed search.

She studied at UW-Madison and was part of the Association of Women in Agriculture, Badger Dairy Club and UW Marching Band.

’I’m mostly going to be doing a lot of listening and thinking and then bring my ideas together with the ideas of others to help move the university forward,’ Chancellor-designee says.

Blank issued a statement on her positive test Wednesday. “Badgers: I want to share with you that this morning I received a positive test result for the virus that causes COVID-19.”

The news comes after several recent public-facing events celebrating her time at the university, including a day at the Memorial Union Terrace for a final round of ice cream, music and goodbyes with students and staff. Blank also attended UW-Madison’s 2022 commencement ceremony at Camp Randall over the weekend.

Less than two weeks before she is set to depart from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for good, outgoing Chancellor Rebecca Blank has tested positive for COVID-19.

“I look forward to arriving in Madison and looking for that common ground and I think that higher education is a place where I very much hope we can come together,” Mnookin said.

Jennifer Mnookin, chosen this week to replace Rebecca Blank as UW-Madison’s chancellor, shook off criticism from Republicans in the state Legislature during her first media availability Tuesday.

“Academic freedom is just a key, key principle for great universities like UW and UCLA,” Mnookin said. “And that needs to mean the freedom to pursue scholarship and research in all kinds of different ways, certainly including [Critical Race Theory.]”

Mnookin was previously the Dean of the law school at UCLA. She becomes UW’s 30th chancellor. Officials said the UW System Board of Regents voted unanimously to approve her.

Dr. Jennifer L. Mnookin is the Dean of the School of Law and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law at UCLA. She becomes UW-Madison’s 30th chancellor, following Rebecca Blank’s departure to Northwestern.

To back his claim that the UCLA Law School dean’s selection was partisan, Vos pointed to two issues where he argued her actions were not in line with GOP stances, critical race theory and vaccine mandates.

The University of Wisconsin System selected the woman who will take the helm of its flagship university this fall as its next chancellor.

‘Incredibly Excited:’ Mnookin vows to make UW stronger in cooperation with campus community.

The first cohort of students to receive four years of free tuition through the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bucky’s Tuition Promise received their diplomas Saturday. The donor-funded initiative has grown since its inception in 2018 to include thousands of recipients at the state’s flagship university.

“You made it,” U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who gave the commencement address, said. “This is what you all have been waiting and working for.”

Photos from the UW spring commencement ceremony at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wis., Saturday, May 14, 2022.

Thomas-Greenfield reflected on her time at UW. While she loved her experience, she said her first days here were uncomfortable to say the least.

“I’m not talking about my legacy, I’m talking about our legacy,” said Blank in her opening remarks. “All of the things done on campus took an enormous amount of effort from staff, faculty, students, my executive team and the deans. All of this was a team effort and not an individual effort.”

Chancellor Rebecca Blank shouted out the L&S graduates in the stands, encouraging them to “take advantage of one last chance to ‘Jump Around’ in the student section. No other class has gotten to do that.”

Thousands of students and family members will be in town celebrating spring commencement. Downtown Madison is expected to be very busy.

‘Students paying this amount of money to be at this school deserve more than a crumbling building,’ anonymous statement says.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students will take the stage Saturday for commencement ceremonies, and some of those students will be graduating debt-free, thanks to Bucky’s Tuition Promise. The program started four years ago with 796 students, and UW staff say roughly 600 will graduate this year.

Roughly three-quarters of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel welcome and safe on campus, but disparities remain among those in marginalized groups, initial results from the university’s 2021 Campus Climate Survey show.

According to a press release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the majority of students on the UW-Madison campus find the environment to be inviting to people of all backgrounds. Even so, the university is continuously striving to make the campus a more welcoming place for all. One of the ways the university gains information about areas needing improvement is through Campus Climate Surveys.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison BIPOC Coalition plans to drop the university affiliation from their name, a decision that was made months ago according to co-founder Tarah Stangler. The organization does not want to focus on the same administrative goals as the university, but rather continue to have the freedom to organize independently.

Despite being excited to graduate, some UW seniors are frustrated with shipping delays and construction that will impact their commencement experience.

On Saturday, May 7, UW-Madison unveiled a much-overdue landmark of one such community’s presence on its campus. Hundreds turned out to witness the unveiling of the Divine Nine Garden Plaza, dedicated to the history and achievement of Black members of the National Pan-Hellenic Council at UW-Madison.

When Israel Oby was a freshman at UW-Madison, he felt out of place. “It felt kind of lonely, and I didn’t really have a support system,” said Israel, Project Leader for the new garden.

“While we worked hard together to create a more inclusive climate at UW, meeting all of the demands is part of the ongoing process,” Reesor said. “It was also about building relationships, helping student leaders accomplish their goals and supporting their well-being.”

Hundreds of members and alumni of UW-Madison’s historically Black fraternities and sororities gathered on East Campus Mall Saturday to bear witness to the unveiling of the Divine Nine Garden Plaza, the first physical manifestation of the National Pan Hellenic Council’s presence in its 75 year history at the state’s flagship university.

It’s a program that transforms lives right here in the Madison community. The UW-Odyssey Project offers University of Wisconsin-Madison humanities classes for adult students facing economic barriers to college.

John Karl Scholz, the provost and a professor of economic policy at UW-Madison and the only UW-affiliated finalist, laid out his vision during an event on campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Union team will host a variety of festivities from May 8 to May 14 for the upcoming graduates. The Class of 2022 accomplished many incredible feats in their time at UW-Madison, and staff around campus want to ensure they feel celebrated and appreciated.

On Thursday dozens of Badgers took part in “It’s Just Coffee” a student lead initiative to encourage conversation between people with different perspectives on campus, the last of it’s kind for the semester.