Paul Chryst is out as Wisconsin’s head football coach.
UW officials announced Sunday that Chryst has been removed five games into his eighth season as the Badgers’ head coach.
Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard, 39, was named interim head coach.
Driving a university-owned van, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Morgan Barlin traverses the campus, making stops at three dining halls on a spring afternoon.
At each stop, Barlin is met by kitchen staff who present her with various leftover foods, from sweet potatoes to breakfast omelets. These foods, which would have otherwise been thrown away, will be redistributed to students at no cost.
At the end of her route, Barlin records the weight of each donation. Her calculations show that on this day, she saved 271 pounds of food from ending up in the landfill. Barlin’s organization, the Food Recovery Network at the UW-Madison, uses the recovered food to provide free community meals.
Beyond efforts on the UW-Madison campus, other programs in Wisconsin intercept still-edible food from grocery and convenience stores and restaurants that would normally be heading to the dumpster. In Madison, The River Food Pantry operates a food recovery program that collects food from more than 100 stores around Dane County.
University Housing for UW-Madison is reminding students to be extra cautious of who they hold the door open for, following the arrest of a man who made “threatening statements” to residents.
This year’s show is entitled Something’s Coming!, and features music from artists like Prince and Katy Perry as well as songs from West Side Story, Muolin Rouge and Footloose.
Driving a university-owned van, University of Wisconsin-Madison student Morgan Barlin traverses the campus, making stops at three dining halls on a spring afternoon.
At each stop, Barlin is met by kitchen staff who present her with various leftover foods, from sweet potatoes to breakfast omelets. These foods, which would have otherwise been thrown away, will be redistributed to students at no cost.
At the end of her route, Barlin records the weight of each donation. Her calculations show that on this day, she saved 271 pounds of food from ending up in the landfill. Barlin’s organization, the Food Recovery Network at the UW-Madison, uses the recovered food to provide free community meals.
In a move that reflected growing momentum on campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student council introduced legislation Wednesday to increase the wages of all student worker positions to $15 an hour. The introduction of this legislation is in response to the Wisconsin Union and UW Housing & Dining increasing their minimum wage to $15 an hour in late August.
The Associated Students of Madison held their second meeting of the school year Wednesday night. They were presented with several speakers and five new legislation proposals to vote on.
The University of Wisconsin System is making a new push to encourage more potential college students to apply for federal financial aid. The goal is to get more high school seniors from lower income families to consider enrolling at state universities and ensure qualification for a new tuition promise initiative.
UW–Madison’s ambitious Public History Project exhibition at the Chazen highlights those who fought back.
The ASM Grant Allocation Committee held its third meeting Thursday in the Student Activity Center to discuss grants for Art for Change, the Wisconsin Law Review and the American Medical Association Interim Meeting.
Meet the professor behind a new digital map marking indigenous history across campus and Madison.
The university was selected as the winner of the regional W.K. Kellogg Award for its commitment to bettering underserved communities.
Kristen Roman, chief of police at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said that for colleges, one of the advantages of having a police department is that officers are more familiar with the institution’s particulars.“
As a community member, I myself would rather have somebody in a police role who is invested and understands some of the unique challenges of my community,” said Roman, who serves as director-at-large of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators’ Board of Directors
The L&S Dean’s Ambassadors program is made up of student volunteers who assist in helping the College of Letters & Science with a variety of projects to help foster a greater student community.
Representatives aim to increase student awareness for RSO funding.
UW students gather to celebrate the Jewish new year.
’To have that flag in Madison is a symbolic reminder of who we are, what we are and where we’re going,’ public relations officer for Ho-Chunk Nation says.
Companies across disciplines set up booths at the Gordon Dining & Event Center this Tuesday, seeking interns and new hires.
Authors of the new book “Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest” speak about their research on Latinx communities and current projects.
A new exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art explores stories of racism and resistance on the campus of UW-Madison. Kacie Lucchini Butcher, the curator of the exhibit joins the show to talk about the years-long effort.
Yep, it’s that time of the year again for David Gilreath.
Inevitably, when the University of Wisconsin football team gears up to face Ohio State, his name will surface, particularly until the Badgers beat OSU for the first time since the night of his legendary 2010 kick return.
But 12 years after Gilreath started off an unforgettable 31-18 win over No. 1 Ohio State with a bang, he’s a full-time employee with his alma mater and planning for UW’s many years ahead. He’s the university’s director of development, housed in the athletics department.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators are working to educate members of Students for Justice in Palestine on the harm caused by their antisemitic messages, after the messages were chalked around campus overnight before the first day of the fall 2022 semester, according to officials.
The ongoing enrollment decline at Wisconsin’s public universities continues this school year, with preliminary numbers released Thursday showing more than half of the University of Wisconsin System campuses down by 3% or more.
The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA) hosted ’Thank a Badger Day’ on Wednesday.Students wrote thank you notes to donors who supported the school over the last year.
Alvvays, a Canadian-based group that fuzes psychedelic sounds with pop-friendly hooks and melodies, will headline the show less than a week after the group releases their third album that’s more than five years in the making.
Historical artifacts from the UW Archives combine with curator commentaries to detail the history of marginalization on campus. From athletics to admissions, housing and class work, the exhibit spares no details in recounting the school’s exclusionary past.
An independent investigator will need to produce a report the next time Madison police use tear gas to control crowds.
The ordinance approved by the city’s Common Council on a 14-4 vote Tuesday night is a softened version of an outright ban on tear gas, originally proposed by Alder Juliana Bennett.
Bennett, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, told the council Tuesday she vomited after being tear-gassed by police while protesting in Madison during the summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
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.
Inability to accommodate disability restrictions create ’unwelcoming’ culture in STEM field.
Students, faculty marched up Bascom Hill with flags, music to celebrate Latinx cultures.
Chancellor shares opinions on first month in office.
“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.”
Julia Stern discusses old and new scholarly pursuits at UW-Madison lecture series.
Wage increase encourages UW students to take on-campus jobs.
“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.
Student Services Finance Committee sets expectations for upcoming semester.
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.”
