Rebecca Blank has been the chancellor of UW Madison since 2013, steering the university through the pandemic, an imposed tuition freeze, and growing awareness of social justice issues. We have an exit interview with the chancellor as she leaves to become the president of Northwestern University.
WUD SoPo holds ’Unpacking the Arguments: Marijuana Legalization’ discussion on World Weed Day in response to MORE Act entering Senate.
This week, University of Wisconsin Communications and UW Marketing are celebrating the 10th anniversary of a digital time capsule called #UWRightNow.
As the 2021-22 academic school year comes to a close, elections for the ASM Student Council are in full swing. The primary elections were held in late March to determine which students will sit on the council, which is made up of 33 elected members who work in legislative positions as the voice of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Looking to go out for a nice dinner the weekend of UW-Madison commencement? You should have made your reservation at least a month ago.
Events will continue to be organized for the month.
Spark will hold two events in honor of April being ’Take Down Tobacco’ month, UW Spark President says.
As the UW Band approaches its first spring concert under Dr. Pompey, former leadership and current students reflect on how the organization has evolved during COVID-19, major transitions.
The UW-Madison varsity band’s annual spring concert is back this week for the first time since 2019. It’s the first time without Mike Leckrone conducting the show, so we talk to new director Corey Pompey about taking his place and leading the band into the future.
A group of students and staff at the University of Wisconsin – Madison is gearing up for a big trip overseas this summer to hopefully bring soldiers home who are missing in action.
Cheri Klussendorf graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Farm and Industry Short Course in 2002.
The 16-week on-campus certificate program is where she met her husband, Ryan, and where she decided to take a chance on dairy farming.
A UW-Madison student housing cooperative whose building the university has slated for demolition will likely look off campus for a new place to live because the two parties are seemingly at an impasse.
“The community is seeing the importance of Zoe Bayliss and we should be preserved,” former co-op President Angela Maloney told News 3 Now.
Ajanae Dawkins, a Detroit native and UW-Madison alum, is the 2022 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence at the Taft Museum of Art in downtown Cincinnati.
ASM also passes free speech survey in meeting, hears presentation from the Public History Project.
’We are just trying to spread awareness of what resources we have on campus and have some fun,’ outreach coordinator said.
The University of Wisconsin is inviting staff members to participate in the Staff Climate Survey administered by the UW Survey Center to better understand the work environment on campus. Around 16,800 permanent academic and university staff, limited appointees who do not hold a faculty appointment and post-doctoral fellows are invited to participate in the survey, UW spokesperson Greg Bump said in an email statement to The Badger Herald.
Increase connected to ’higher rates of depression and anxiety, as well as isolation and reliance on social media for interaction,’ according to UHS.
Bump explained that the arrangement would work similarly to the arrangement with their current building, with financial power over things like setting rent rates, leasing arrangements and the hiring of a private chef.
Titled “Resolution Addressing Anti-Semitism on Campus,” the Associated Students of Madison’s resolution denounced the recent rise in antisemitic incidents at UW-Madison, acknowledged antisemitism’s recurring issues on campus for over a century and urged administrators to take disciplinary actions toward perpetrators of antisemitic incidents.
A group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a Relay for Life event Saturday, raising money for the American Cancer Society.
Established in 1848, Madison’s University of Wisconsin sits on over 900 acres, with plenty of greenery and easy access to amenities. Educational opportunities are plentiful here, and students can choose from more than 120 undergraduate majors within eight schools. Students who attend enjoy a variety of academic programs, scenic campus views, and an active Greek life.
One construction worker was injured after a fire broke out at Camp Randall Stadium on Wednesday morning, according to University of Wisconsin officials.
Dawry Ruiz is studying community and nonprofit leadership with a certificate in arts and teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A scholar in the First Wave Hip-Hop & Urban Arts scholarship program. Dawry wants to pursue an MA in arts administration or an EdM in education leadership, organizations, and entrepreneurship.
Rampell is the University of Wisconsin La Follette School of Public Affairs’ spring journalist in residence and will give a virtual talk May 2 about her extensive data-oriented reporting on economics, immigration, public policy and politics. May 4, Rampell will be a keynote panelist at the 2022 La Follette forum on American Power, Prosperity and Democracy in Madison.
UW-Madison is welcoming a new club that is launching the week of April 22nd. IfYou’reReadingThis.org is a national organization whose purpose is to create a support network for mental health for students by students. It currently has twelve chapters at universities throughout the country, and its thirteenth is in the process of being established on our very own campus.
In this interview segment, two UW-Madison Seniors–Executive Producer Lindsay Cohen and Public Relations Chair Maddie Krebs– share how hundreds of UW-Madison students bond together each year for this creative production that’s been a staple of spring since the late 1940s.
Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP UW-Madison, raised awareness for Palestine by displaying a mock apartheid wall at the University of Wisconsin’s Library Mall on Thursday.
“Pitches and Notes,” a longtime treble choir based at UW-Madison, is headed later this month to compete for top honors in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, or ICCA, in New York City. It’s the same competition that spawned the “Pitch Perfect” series of three movies and the 2015 reality TV docuseries “Sing It On.”
Margo Wyatt and Liam McLean were high school acquaintances, but it wasn’t until college that they connected and realized they would be a powerhouse duo “in terms of getting things done,” said McLean. Each described the other as ambitious and hard-working, with big ideas and plans to accomplish them; seeing these qualities reflected in one another inspired the two to form a ticket and run for senior class office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On the University of Wisconsin campus, the decrease in STI testing has caused concern among advocacy groups such as Sex Out Loud, a peer-to-peer resource on campus that uses sex-positive language to promote sexual health on campus, according to their website.
A worker was taken to University Hospital with burns after a fire Wednesday morning in an area under construction at Camp Randall Stadium, authorities said.
Wong and Schalk pointed out that though the disability community — namely disabled people of color — have been hit hardest by the pandemic, they also invented many of the health strategies the mainstream culture used.
The fire involved roofing solvent material and was extinguished by non-emergency personnel at the scene before the Madison Fire Department arrived, according to a statement from UW Athletics.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is the first academic health center in the country to launch the American Medical Association Foundation’s LGBTQ+ Fellowship. This fellowship is aimed at transforming the health equity landscape for the LGBTQ+ community.
The amount of tuition costs at Wisconsin colleges covered by state and federal financial aid for students has shrunk over the last two decades, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The average amount of federal Pell grants and state Wisconsin grants together covered 91.4 percent of tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, for example, but only 69 percent in 2021.
A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created a material that is tougher than Kevlar, which is found in bulletproof vests.
It’s a project they hope can help save lives.
The material in small scale is almost comparable to the look of electrical tape. However, it’s much different and much stronger. So what’s inside that makes it so strong? Engineering and physics assistant professor Ramathasan Thevamaran has the answer.
“It’s a nano fiber mat made out of carbon nanotubes and Kevlar nano fibers,” Thevamaran said.
The family of the late Teju Olaniyan, a beloved UW-Madison professor who died suddenly on Nov. 30, 2019, honored his legacy with a celebration of his life on April 9 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, and launched a nonprofit in his name that will focus on preserving and continuing strands of his contributions to higher education.
The iconic green, yellow, and orange sunburst chairs, synonymous with summer, will return to the Memorial Union Terrace on Wednesday morning.
We hear from one of the professors behind the UW system’s planned free speech survey on its campuses. Later, we talk about the career of Wisconsin actor Frederic March and the removal of his name from a campus theater at UW-Madison. Plus, a Milwaukee filmmaker talks about his new documentary about the architecture of sacred buildings.
In 2018 and 2020, the name of actor and famous UW-Madison alum, Fredric March, was removed from two University of Wisconsin campus buildings. And in the years since, that decision has gotten pushback from prominent actors, historians and civil rights advocates. We talk to a freelance journalist and public historian about why he says the decision was a mistake.
When people think about geology, most people will think of well… rocks. But the geology museum on the UW-Madison campus shows that geology is much more than rocks, it’s rocks from space, bones, and fossilized dino-droppings.
Last month, WORT reporter Andie Barrow went to the Museum of Geology to learn what makes the museum special.
When Sophie Jester, a sophomore biology major at University of Wisconsin-Madison, auditioned for Pitches & Notes, a treble a cappella group on campus, she didn’t think she would make it. Now, a little over a year later, Jester and the rest of the group will head to New York to perform in the upcoming in-person International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). This is the first time that a group from UW-Madison will be competing at an in-person ICCA finals, set for Saturday, April 23, at The Town Hall in Times Square.
In an event organized by the University of Wisconsin’s Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, Stardust discussed her two main passions on stage — burlesque dancing and helping tenants figure out what type of plunger to use in any situation.
The organization announced rules for those interested in participating in the egg hunt on the group’s Instagram, including the fact that the egg is hidden on UW-Madison property and only students are allowed to claim the prize. Further, no “trespassing or damage to property” is needed to find the egg. The egg in question contains a voucher that can be redeemed for cash.
’This is an exciting and important opportunity to educate physicians to better serve the needs in our community and to advance health equity,’ UW School of Medicine and Public Health dean says
The Little Free Library in Madison’s Lisa Link Peace Park on State Street has gone solar. A group of UW-Madison students have outfitted the community book depository with a solar-powered battery with ports and cables to charge cellphones and other small electronic devices.
For the past two years, the varsity marching band has anticipated its big return to spring concerts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since COVID-19 brought a halt to the annual shows, this year marks the first with marching band director Corey Pompey leading the way. In 2019, Pompey stepped in for Mike Leckrone, who retired after directing the band for 50 years.
Employees at the Wisconsin Union will pull out hundreds of the green, yellow and orange chairs on April 13 and reopen the 40,000 square-foot patio, located behind the Memorial Union building at 800 Langdon St.
Next Wednesday’s return of the Wisconsin Union’s signature sunburst chairs marks the official start of Terrace season, a UW-Madison tradition dating back more than 90 years.
Over the weekend of April 8-10, there will be five campus spots each hosting a ton of hands-on science exhibits that are perfect for families, kids, and the science-curious public.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has selected Clint Smith’s “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” as the 2022-2023 Go Big Read book.
“Some might say going to college here at Madison tells you a lot about Marxism,” Walker said. “I’ve often said during COVID when we shut down colleges and universities, we did more to stop the spread of communism than prevent the spread of COVID along the way because of a bunch of the influences. Not just because of the faculty and staff, but oftentimes from fellow students and bad actors.”
UW-Madison investigated at least nine employees over the past six years for “hostile and intimidating” academic bullying, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. We talk with a State Journal higher education reporter about their investigation
Members of the University of Wisconsin athletic department – from administrators to coaches – routinely tout the school’s academic standing as a selling point for recruits and a source of pride.
UW officials plan to back up their words with action.
UW is among only 22 FBS schools currently with plans to compensate student-athletes for academic achievement.
In a sign the seasons are changing, the Wisconsin Memorial Union says its iconic green, yellow and orange chairs will return to the terrace beginning on Wednesday, April 13.
Nye will be hosting an hour long talk followed by a thirty minute Q&A session at 7 p.m. April 25 as a part of the Wisconsin Union’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The event was originally scheduled for April, 2020, but was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Memorial Union Terrace will reopen next Wednesday filled with its famous green, yellow, and orange chairs covered in a sunburst design, the University of Wisconsin revealed Thursday.
Keuler said the ASM chair, ASM vice chair and Legislative Affairs chair made the selection without creating an application or sending outreach emails, and there was no transparency on process for how they chose their delegates. The result was a non-representative group of delegates, according to Keuler.
Doctor Angela Fernandez of UW’s school of nursing and Dan Cornelius of the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center were on the list.
