The fire involved roofing solvent material and was extinguished by non-emergency personnel at the scene before the Madison Fire Department arrived, according to a statement from UW Athletics.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is the first academic health center in the country to launch the American Medical Association Foundation’s LGBTQ+ Fellowship. This fellowship is aimed at transforming the health equity landscape for the LGBTQ+ community.
The amount of tuition costs at Wisconsin colleges covered by state and federal financial aid for students has shrunk over the last two decades, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The average amount of federal Pell grants and state Wisconsin grants together covered 91.4 percent of tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, for example, but only 69 percent in 2021.
A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created a material that is tougher than Kevlar, which is found in bulletproof vests.
It’s a project they hope can help save lives.
The material in small scale is almost comparable to the look of electrical tape. However, it’s much different and much stronger. So what’s inside that makes it so strong? Engineering and physics assistant professor Ramathasan Thevamaran has the answer.
“It’s a nano fiber mat made out of carbon nanotubes and Kevlar nano fibers,” Thevamaran said.
The family of the late Teju Olaniyan, a beloved UW-Madison professor who died suddenly on Nov. 30, 2019, honored his legacy with a celebration of his life on April 9 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, and launched a nonprofit in his name that will focus on preserving and continuing strands of his contributions to higher education.
The iconic green, yellow, and orange sunburst chairs, synonymous with summer, will return to the Memorial Union Terrace on Wednesday morning.
We hear from one of the professors behind the UW system’s planned free speech survey on its campuses. Later, we talk about the career of Wisconsin actor Frederic March and the removal of his name from a campus theater at UW-Madison. Plus, a Milwaukee filmmaker talks about his new documentary about the architecture of sacred buildings.
In 2018 and 2020, the name of actor and famous UW-Madison alum, Fredric March, was removed from two University of Wisconsin campus buildings. And in the years since, that decision has gotten pushback from prominent actors, historians and civil rights advocates. We talk to a freelance journalist and public historian about why he says the decision was a mistake.
When people think about geology, most people will think of well… rocks. But the geology museum on the UW-Madison campus shows that geology is much more than rocks, it’s rocks from space, bones, and fossilized dino-droppings.
Last month, WORT reporter Andie Barrow went to the Museum of Geology to learn what makes the museum special.
When Sophie Jester, a sophomore biology major at University of Wisconsin-Madison, auditioned for Pitches & Notes, a treble a cappella group on campus, she didn’t think she would make it. Now, a little over a year later, Jester and the rest of the group will head to New York to perform in the upcoming in-person International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). This is the first time that a group from UW-Madison will be competing at an in-person ICCA finals, set for Saturday, April 23, at The Town Hall in Times Square.
In an event organized by the University of Wisconsin’s Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, Stardust discussed her two main passions on stage — burlesque dancing and helping tenants figure out what type of plunger to use in any situation.
The organization announced rules for those interested in participating in the egg hunt on the group’s Instagram, including the fact that the egg is hidden on UW-Madison property and only students are allowed to claim the prize. Further, no “trespassing or damage to property” is needed to find the egg. The egg in question contains a voucher that can be redeemed for cash.
’This is an exciting and important opportunity to educate physicians to better serve the needs in our community and to advance health equity,’ UW School of Medicine and Public Health dean says
The Little Free Library in Madison’s Lisa Link Peace Park on State Street has gone solar. A group of UW-Madison students have outfitted the community book depository with a solar-powered battery with ports and cables to charge cellphones and other small electronic devices.
For the past two years, the varsity marching band has anticipated its big return to spring concerts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since COVID-19 brought a halt to the annual shows, this year marks the first with marching band director Corey Pompey leading the way. In 2019, Pompey stepped in for Mike Leckrone, who retired after directing the band for 50 years.
Employees at the Wisconsin Union will pull out hundreds of the green, yellow and orange chairs on April 13 and reopen the 40,000 square-foot patio, located behind the Memorial Union building at 800 Langdon St.
Next Wednesday’s return of the Wisconsin Union’s signature sunburst chairs marks the official start of Terrace season, a UW-Madison tradition dating back more than 90 years.
Over the weekend of April 8-10, there will be five campus spots each hosting a ton of hands-on science exhibits that are perfect for families, kids, and the science-curious public.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has selected Clint Smith’s “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” as the 2022-2023 Go Big Read book.
“Some might say going to college here at Madison tells you a lot about Marxism,” Walker said. “I’ve often said during COVID when we shut down colleges and universities, we did more to stop the spread of communism than prevent the spread of COVID along the way because of a bunch of the influences. Not just because of the faculty and staff, but oftentimes from fellow students and bad actors.”
UW-Madison investigated at least nine employees over the past six years for “hostile and intimidating” academic bullying, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. We talk with a State Journal higher education reporter about their investigation
Members of the University of Wisconsin athletic department – from administrators to coaches – routinely tout the school’s academic standing as a selling point for recruits and a source of pride.
UW officials plan to back up their words with action.
UW is among only 22 FBS schools currently with plans to compensate student-athletes for academic achievement.
In a sign the seasons are changing, the Wisconsin Memorial Union says its iconic green, yellow and orange chairs will return to the terrace beginning on Wednesday, April 13.
Nye will be hosting an hour long talk followed by a thirty minute Q&A session at 7 p.m. April 25 as a part of the Wisconsin Union’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The event was originally scheduled for April, 2020, but was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Memorial Union Terrace will reopen next Wednesday filled with its famous green, yellow, and orange chairs covered in a sunburst design, the University of Wisconsin revealed Thursday.
Keuler said the ASM chair, ASM vice chair and Legislative Affairs chair made the selection without creating an application or sending outreach emails, and there was no transparency on process for how they chose their delegates. The result was a non-representative group of delegates, according to Keuler.
Doctor Angela Fernandez of UW’s school of nursing and Dan Cornelius of the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center were on the list.
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.
Nye will speak on the UW-Madison campus at 7 p.m. April 25 as part of the Wisconsin Union’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The event was initially scheduled for April 2020 but COVID-19 scuttled those plans.
The University of Wisconsin System will survey students over the next month about whether they feel campuses support freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The survey is being funded by a donation to UW-Stout’s Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovations.
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.
Former Foxconn executive Alan Yeung has been hired by the University of Wisconsin-Madison to “jump-start technology entrepreneurship efforts” within its College of Engineering.
Yeung was heavily involved in Foxconn’s failed pledges to invest $10 billion into a high-tech manufacturing hub in Racine County and donate $100 million to UW-Madison.
An announcement posted Thursday by UW-Madison’s College of Engineering announcing Yeung’s hire lists him as an author, college alum and technology executive — it has no mention of Foxconn.
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.
On a typical print night, editor in chief Addison Lathers and managing editor Grace Hodgman stay at the Daily Cardinal office, a windowless room in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Vilas Hall, often as late as 2:30 a.m. They hunker down until the pages of the student newspaper are finalized, editing stories and checking in with reporters in the newsroom, also known as the News Womb, in between.
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.
The Migration Policy Institute says about 10,000 individuals in Wisconsin qualify for the DACA program, also known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. But, only 6,200 individuals are active recipients. We learn about a new support center at UW-Madison helping immigrants.
The University of Wisconsin Badgers offensive line runs drills during the University of Wisconsin spring football practice at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison on Thursday, March 31, 2022.
Over the past semester, University of Wisconsin-Madison dance professor Chris Walker worked with freshmen and alumni of First Wave — a scholarship program for hip hop and urban arts — to bring Danez Smith’s poem “summer, somewhere” to life, fusing dance, theater and music.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has hired one of Foxconn’s most prominent former Wisconsin executives.
Part of the deal former Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn executives struck with Wisconsin included a promise to give UW-Madison $100 million. But that money never showed up. And the Foxconn project has only faltered since it was announced.
Now Alan Yeung has joined UW-Madison’s College of Engineering as an entrepreneurship consultant. He’ll be helping the college “commercialize research, and connect with industry and entrepreneurs,” said Renee Meiller, a spokeswoman for the College of Engineering.
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.
A developer is proposing to raze a small church, a former Italian deli, two houses and Buckingham’s Bar and Grill — a historic building — for a 10-story structure with housing, commercial space and parking on the 800 block of Regent Street.
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.
Aside from the babble of Brush Creek and an occasional car pulling up to the small cluster of brick buildings capped with sloping metal roofs, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland in rural Richland Center is mostly quiet on a February morning.
Enrollment at UW-Platteville Richland has fallen by nearly 87 percent, from a peak of 567 students in 2014 to 75 students in fall 2021. It’s the sharpest decline of any UW campus. Still, UW-Platteville officials have said there are no plans to shut the campus down.
