The WIAA girls wrestling state tournament will be held in conjunction with the boys wrestling individual state tournament at the Kohl Center, effective with the 2022-23 school year.
Curtis Wang is going into his senior year at UW-Madison with hopes of eventually becoming a lawyer.
Wang moved from China to America to chase his dream and has loved every second of living in Madison. But what happened to Wang last Tuesday night has shaken him to the core.
Madison police on Tuesday identified three of the four teens arrested last week in a series of Downtown Madison attacks — two of which some in the Asian community have called racially motivated.
UW-Madison continues to offer support for its students after four suspects were taken into custody for recent attacks on UW students and others.
UW Interim Chancellor John Karl Scholz said in an announcement that UW–Madison and the UW Police Department continue to work with the Madison Police Department to support the victims and understand what occurred during the recent attacks. Following these incidents, UWPD and Madison Police are increasing their presence in the downtown area.
An open letter addressed to the entire UW-Madison campus community assured students and staff that UW Police Department and Madison Police Department personnel have stepped up their presence in and around downtown.
The Associated Students of Madison convened for an emergency meeting to address recent acts of violence against University of Wisconsin-Madison students of Asian origin on Monday. The meeting, called by ASM Chair Ndemazea Fonkem, provided community members with an open forum to express the impact these events have had.
An open letter signed by hundreds of current and former students, faculty and staff at UW-Madison calls for more action from university leaders after an attack on an international doctoral student last week.
After the Madison Police Department concluded a recent attack on an international doctoral student was not racially motivated, an open letter from a group of Asian students, professors and teaching assistants is calling for the University of Wisconsin-Madison urge the department and the Dane County District Attorney’s office to investigate more thoroughly.
On Tuesday, June 14 around 10pm, an Asian man was attacked on University Ave, close to the UW-Madison campus.
The victim is a PhD student at UW-Madison. In posts circulating online on social media, he wrote that he was attacked by five strangers on University Avenue, pulled to the ground, and punched in the face. He was left bleeding from his ear. Another person of Asian heritage was attacked Tuesday night, only a few blocks away and by attackers who fit a similar description.
Noted: Stanke was crowned Miss Wisconsin Outstanding Teen in 2017 five years ago to the day, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering student is the first women to have held both the titles of Miss Wisconsin’s Outstanding Teen and Miss Wisconsin.
The last two school years have been anything but normal. A global pandemic upended schools, taking learning from the classroom into students’ homes. All the while, the country has grappled with deep-rooted racism, climate change, debates over abortion access, gun control and rights for trans students — leading to widespread student activism. Politics infiltrated schools and school boards at a pace not seen in decades, and yet students’ hopes for the future are as strong as ever.
As the school year draws to a close, Wisconsin Public Radio is celebrating graduation season — and the future — by featuring stories from new graduates around the state in their own words.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will drop the banner for the 2021 NCAA Championship before their home opener against Marquette on Sept. 2. That’s one of the highlights of the 2022 schedule, which was released Tuesday.
In the wake of the July 2021 incident, university officials are pledging to improve protection measures for the ancient monuments.
As Blank leaves behind a decade-worth of attempts to shift UW’s financial model, it is up to new leadership to piece together university’s budget.
One particularly egregious example of trainee abuse that did create national outcry spanned more than two decades in the engineering department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The faculty member in this case was well-known for verbally berating his students and humiliating them in front of their peers. His shouting reverberated down the hall into other labs and faculty offices, but little was done to call out the perpetrator until John Brady, a graduate student in this PI’s lab, tragically ended his own life because of the relentless abuse.
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.
Despite unseasonably cool, wet weather, blue-green algae blooms led Public Health Madison and Dane County to close Memorial Union and Spring Harbor beaches Wednesday.
The time between freshman and senior year can seem to fly by. Senior Samantha Benish reflects on her years as an undergraduate student.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will take a run at setting an NCAA regular-season attendance record during its national title defense. The Badgers will play perennial national power Florida at the Kohl Center on Sept. 16, the team announced Monday.
A group of University of Wisconsin alumni and donors determined to see UW athletics remain competitive in the Big Ten and nationally, have banded together to form “The Varsity Collective.”
In February 1969, University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman Harvey Clay stood outside Bascom Hall, seething with anger.
Clay, a 6-foot-8-inch, 255-pound center, came to UW-Madison to play football. But in this moment, he was confronting players from his own team.
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.
The buildings have been student housing for a long time, but the new development will likely attract some students and many young professionals who want to live in the Downtown area but not in the most bustling areas like Capitol Square or State Street, Stopple said. Many students are shifting from neighborhoods to the high-rises going up closer to UW-Madison, he said.
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.
University of Wisconsin-Madison representatives shared concerns about the capacity of buses through the core of campus, so an amendment is committing more peak hour service through the UW campus on Observatory Drive.
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.
Steve Holtzman is easy to spot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. At the back of a classroom in the psychology building, he and his wife Jane sit amid students decades younger than them as they take notes for a lecture on the Civil War. “You won’t have any problems seeing us,” Holtzman said, laughing. “We’re the only old folks in there.”
Diana Hess, dean of the UW-Madison School of Education, will become interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs on June 1, when Provost John Karl Scholz takes over as the interim chancellor, UW said on Tuesday.
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.
Spring enrollment data from the University of Wisconsin System show continued declines at many two-year campuses and some four-year universities.
Enrollment across all state public colleges and universities showed little change, with an average 1.6 percent decline this spring, according to final UW System data. The average among all four-year universities was down 1.4 percent while the decline across the state’s 13 two-year campuses dropped by 8.6 percent.
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.”
After years of the COVID-19 pandemic’s shuttering of dear traditions, UW-Madison had its first proper spring commencement in three years on Saturday. As the smiling faces of friends and families packed the stands at Camp Randall, the theme of change, for students and the university, ran through the words of speakers and the audience of 42,000 people.
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.
On the cusp of leaving the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor Rebecca Blank used a final news conference Wednesday to take somewhat of a victory lap, saying she is leaving the university on strong financial footing and in a much better place.
But she also took the opportunity to highlight “unfinished agenda” items, such as increasing diversity and students’ sense of belonging on campus.
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.
