Category: Campus life

The Electric Eats food truck will offer locally-sourced meals, raise awareness about sustainability.

University of Wisconsin La Follette School of Public Affairs professor Gregory Nemet was one of the lead authors of the latest report. Nemet said the report is different from the other IPCC reports in the past, as it considers other necessities that have not been suggested before.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker spoke to the University of Wisconsin-Madison College Republicans group about free speech issues Wednesday at Grainger Hall, encouraging students to take a free speech survey which will be sent out to all UW System undergraduates Thursday.

Bill Nye the Science Guy — whom millennials may remember as the man on TV during their elementary school science classes — will be at the University of Wisconsin-Madison later this month.

After the festival was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 and streamed online last year, community members are excited to finally experience cinema in person once again.

Working hand in hand with the university’s Filipinx American Student Organization (FASO), the Midwestern Association of Filipino Americans (MAFA) was able to organize the summit, which drew over 234 attendees from 13 different colleges across the Midwest.

Kristen Olson from the UW Alumni Association joins Live at Four to talk about the Day of the Badger.

’The reporting system is broken — it just doesn’t work,’ a UW graduate student witness to academic abuse said.

Senior class officers announced on Wednesday that the 2022 Senior Class Gift will be donated to the Green Fund. Housed in the Office of Sustainability, the Green Fund is a program designed to implement student-led initiatives to improve sustainability around campus.

Thanks to new recruits, hard work, UW mock trial team qualifies for nationals for first time in over one decade.

The purpose of the Pail and Shovel run was for UW students to have the opportunity to donate clothing to St. Vincent de Paul— or St. Vinny’s — a community organization dedicated to helping those in need. Once the clothing was gathered, participants ran down the hill in their underwear.

Thursday, a group of University of Wisconsin students gathered outside Memorial Union, wearing Keffiyehs as part of a movement to raise awareness for Palestine.

The event is an annual dance hosted by The Pride Society (TPS) where members of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies come together to celebrate their identities and express themselves.

The Friends of UW-Madison Libraries is hosting its spring book sale this week. Over the last 25 years, the organization has raised more than a million dollars for the UW Library system through the twice-yearly book sale.

Several dozen University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members took part in a vigil on Library Mall Thursday evening to show their support for Ukraine as Russia’s invasion of its eastern European neighbor continues.

Students at UW-Madison held a vigil for peace in Ukraine.They brought people together on Library Mall. The university’s student governance body, Associated Students of Madison, is calling on UW to increase financial and emotional aid resources to students affected by the war in Ukraine.

Helen Zia, a Chinese-American journalist and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights, will talk about ways to mend society’s fractures and the imperative for multicultural communities to move forward together on Thursday, March 31, 7-8:30 p.m. at Union South’s Varsity Hall.

Those of Native origin often struggle to access higher education due to a convergence of historical and modern factors, including colonialism, poverty, the breakage of treaties and societal discrimination. These factors have pervaded Native history since the arrival of European colonists on the continent.

Wunk Sheek’s goal is to make sure that this garden becomes a permanent part of the community gardens, and they’ve already begun talks to figure out how to make that vision a reality.

Currently, Blank has the second-longest tenure of any current leader of a public Big Ten university. During her eight years with the UW-Madison, she created many beneficial programs like Bucky’s Tuition Promise, guaranteeing free tuition to in-state students with income less than $60,000.

Reminders of wealth inequality exist across campus, but students with lower incomes most frequently cite unreasonable housing costs as their greatest anxiety.

SSFC discusses bylaw amendment, position changes, will select members to address budget disagreement with ASM

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Middle East Studies program (MESP) hosted more than 200 people at its international conference this past weekend to discuss post-Arab-Uprising changes in the Middle East.

In 2011, Kelsey Brannan hosted her first radio show on WSUM 91.7 FM as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More than a decade later, Brannan is back at WSUM, this time as general manager — a role she took over from cofounder Dave Black, who retired in November and died in February. He served as WSUM’s general manager for 26 years.

A new project led by professors at the University of Wisconsin plans to take student learning outside of the classroom by making the campus’ native history available digitally. The project called “Mapping Dejope”, after the name given to the Madison area by the Ho-chunk people to mean four lakes, will highlight sites on the UW campus especially linked to indigenous history via an app or website.

The UW MIA Recovery and Identification Project has located and recovered the remains of three American WWII soldiers since 2014. Now that the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions are being lifted, they hope to recover many more.

Ballot includes referendum question on $15 per hour minimum wage for student workers

“UW-Madison strives to ensure that our learning and working environments are places where everyone feels valued and can succeed,” Blank said.

These elections decide the 33 student representatives that make up the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) student council. The council serves as the official student voice on critical issues that affect UW-Madison students such as plastic use and COVID-19 policy on campus.

The possibility of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson becoming the first Black woman to join the Supreme Court of the United States, is a moment that’s inspiring young Black women across the country.

Iman Davenport is a second-year law student and the president of the Black Law Students Association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

When Davenport recently had the opportunity to be in Washington, D.C., she jumped at the chance to get a front row seat to history being made.

“She’s one of his country’s brightest legal minds. Yet, there are still people in this country that see her skin and assume that she’s not qualified. As a Black woman entering the legal profession, this confirmation is a literal dream come true,” said Davenport.

These women were chosen out of a nomination pool of just under 50 women, according to Anju Reejhsinghani, who is the assistant vice provost for strategic diversity, equity and inclusion administration and the selection committee co-chair

Former University of Wisconsin-Madison student and slam poet Shasparay, had a goal — she knew she needed to create a platform to be able to showcase, celebrate and engage with contemporary black artists.

The university lifted its mask mandate as of March 12 just as students left campus for spring break. Classes resumed — masking optional — on Monday.

Oliv Madison, a student housing development being constructed on the 300 block of State Street by Chicago-based Core Spaces … forced several local businesses to move or close … Another proposal floated for the 400 block has displaced other local businesses for a possible restaurant and apartments, and could demolish architecture dating to the 1890s … More changes are in the works. Next year begins construction of shelters for bus rapid transit, a longtime goal of Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. Larger buses can shuttle more people to the city’s downtown but critics worry about the effect they will have on the pedestrian-friendly street. All of these changes have some wondering what the future of State Street will be, and how its lively culture and history will endure.

Five years ago WKOW brought you the story of a young woman who decided to go to med school at UW-Madison in part because of the time she spent on the writing staff for Grey’s Anatomy. Now, it’s her Match Day.

This meeting mainly served as an open discussion following spring break to gauge interest in amending the committee’s constitution and bylaws, SSFC Chair Maxwell Laubenstein said in the meeting.

UW associate professor of population health sciences Ajay Sethi said in an email to The Badger Herald low case levels and high vaccination rates in the community rationalize the mandate lift.

UW-Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge is a program that pledges to pay the equivalent of in-state tuition/fees, testing, and licensing costs for all teacher education students. In return, students would work in Wisconsin schools for four years or three years at a high-need school or high-need subject area.

Adapted Fitness and Personal Training program has been a part of the university for 35 years

ASM will host a vigil, suggests financial and emotional support for all those impacted.

‘Navigating these moments is challenging, it requires some flexibility, some grace and a lot of patience with and care for one another,’ UW official says

“The university could not have chosen a worse time to remove the mandate,” said Grace Bauernfeind, a student supervisor at Carson’s Market, a smaller dining market surrounded by Adams, Slichter and Tripp Hall. “Students are going to travel on break, and I worry COVID will spread like wildfire when we get back.”

The Zoe Bayliss Student Housing Cooperative will be displaced by the development of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new Irving and Dorothy Levy humanities building after the 2022-23 school year. It is the only remaining student housing cooperative in Wisconsin.