Category: Campus life

The provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and four others from out of state have been named as finalists to lead the UW-Madison flagship campus.

Interim President Michael Falbo announced the finalists Wednesday, as the school continues to search for a replacement for Rebbeca Blank. Blank announced last October that she would be leaving at the end of the academic year to become president of Northwestern University.

n the early 1960s, the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched a year-long inquisition into homosexual activity on its campus, now known as the “Gay Purge.” This purge aimed to identify gay male students and discipline them through expulsion, arrest or revocation of financial aid.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the finalist candidates in the school’s search for  chancellor to replace Rebbeca Blank Wednesday. The five candidates announced by UW-Madison include Daniel A. Reed, Jennifer L. Mnookin, Ann E. Cudd, Marie Lynn Miranda and John Karl Scholz.

Big Ten climate coalition makes demands to University of Wisconsin, other Big Ten universities.

Finalists will visit UW next week for Q&A sessions.

Those who attended middle school science classes from the 90s onward may fondly remember the days when teachers would forgo class, instead rolling out a television with a familiar, bow-tie wearing, figure on the screen. They could join in with their classmates in chanting along with the show’s theme song — to their teacher’s encouragement or dismay.

The Associated Students of Madison Student Council nominated and elected Ndemazea Fonkem as the new ASM chair for its 29th session, succeeding Adrian Lampron. Fonkem and 33 other new Student Council members started their term last Sunday.

Co-op will seek out an off-campus housing option, begin fundraising to support move.

“The goal is not to do less. It’s to do more sustainably, to do more with less of an effect on the environment. That’s the goal,” Nye said.

The special moment was made possible by Make-A-Wish Wisconsin, which learned of Ila’s enthusiasm for the UW Marching Band and reached out to director Corey Pompey, who eagerly made it happen. Ila is a liver transplant recipient who loves to “play marching band,” according to her parents, Jadon Scullion and Dana Hellgren.

After Make-A-Wish Wisconsin heard about her story, they contacted Corey Pompey, the UW Marching Band director. The duo worked together to surprise Hellgren by giving her an up-close sneak peek at the marching band’s rehearsal at the Kohl Center, UW

The series, called “Canopy Understories,” was made by Madison-based artists Laura Richards and William Grant Turnbill, according to a news release from the Madison Public Art Project, which commissioned the works.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting its first Miracle Network Dance Marathon to raise funds and awareness for sick and injured kids treated at local children’s hospitals on Saturday. The student-led organization hopes to raise $20,000 for the Mission Critical Fund at the Children’s Wisconsin Hospital in Milwaukee.

Sarah Shulze, a runner on the University of Wisconsin’s track and cross country teams, has died. She was 21.Shulze’s family announced on April 15 that she had taken her life two days earlier.

Shulze’s family publicly stated that her suicide was the result of stresses she experienced on campus.  “Sarah took her own life. Balancing athletics, academics and the demands of everyday life overwhelmed her in a single, desperate moment,” an announcement read. “Like you, we are shocked and grief stricken while holding on tightly to all that Sarah was.”

The UW Madison community is heartbroken by the unexpected passing of Sarah Shulze, on Wednesday, April 13.

Rob Cramer took over as the temporary vice chancellor for finance and administration last May following the departure of Laurent Heller, who left for Johns Hopkins University. Cramer was also among the finalists in the 2016 search that led to Heller’s hire.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.