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.”
Set in the middle of the newest exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art, opening Monday, is a video screen looping an artifact once thought to have been destroyed: a black and white film shot undercover in 1961 to document discrimination against students of color seeking housing in Madison.
A group of UW students tried to turn the situation into a positive experience by adding their group Instagram handle to one of the drawings and included how proud they are to be Jewish.
“You want to still be careful, because we don’t want to go to all online this winter. That’s what I worry about most, because I want to have a normal experience,” Wendland said.
Leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are condemning anti-Semitic messages written in chalk at locations around campus on Wednesday. The messages, according to a statement from Vice Chancellor Lori Reesor and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer LaVar Charleston, targeted Jewish student groups and called them racist and genocidal.
“We are sorry for the impact this had on your first day of class at UW. We truly strive to create a campus where every student feels they belong, and this kind of messaging harms that goal and aspiration,” the statement reads.
The university acknowledged that these antisemitic messages “represent free speech which is a core value at UW.”
Enrollment numbers from the university’s official census are not yet available, but officials expect the incoming freshman class of around 8,600 to be the university’s largest ever class.
Coming off of the first Badger football win of the season, it’s back to school for Badgers at UW Madison Wednesday. The class of 2026 making their debut appearance in classrooms for the fall semester.
In terms of the 2022-2023 school year, Kerkes said freshmen should cut themselves some slack despite internal or external pressures. “It’s okay, you can breathe,” Kerekes said. “You can be a freshman for a little bit.”
“I just was given the letter here today, so I haven’t had a chance to take a look at it,” Mnookin told the Cap Times at the event. “What I will say is that I will be listening very carefully to public health professionals, just as Becky Blank did, to try to find the balance between keeping our community safe, but also protecting the education and the strength of the experience of being here as best as we possibly can.”
This year, UW-Madison is ushering in around 8,600 freshmen — the largest freshman class in the university’s history — and about 1,100 new transfer students. The freshman class was selected from a pool of over 60,000 applicants, which Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said was “one of our most competitive years ever.”
For students living in foster care, or those who’ve experienced homelessness, navigating college can be daunting. But a program to support those students is expanding across the University of Wisconsin System — in hopes of increasing school success and retention.
Fostering Success began at UW-Stout in 2013. The program is designed to support students by offering help navigating financial aid, academic advising and tutoring. Angie Ruppe, director of the program at UW-Stout, said Fostering Success is important because “the students are deserving.”
With the Fall semester just days away, college students have returned to the Madison area.
And on Sept. 2, 137 of them were cited for underage drinking.
Freshman enrollment at UW-Madison is up 16% compared to last fall. A record 8,465 freshman students will begin studying in just a few days; many of them have already moved in.
