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.
Gary Grossen talks about cheesemaking poetically, even almost romantically. “Copper vats have a special place in my heart,” he said, arm extended toward some machinery in Babcock Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
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.
Noticing a lack of spaces for Black artists to showcase their talents in Madison, Shasparay, then a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, launched the Black Arts Matter Festival in 2019. The festival began at the Madison Public Library, where Elizabeth Snodgrass attended as a spectator. When she later took a position as the Wisconsin Union Theater director, she saw an opportunity to bring Shasparay’s vision to the university’s performing arts center.
The nation may have its eyes on the college basketball brackets, but another March Madness event unfolded Friday at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where the Class of 2022 graduates received their long-awaited residency placements.
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.
The period of time between when USA Hockey asked to host a rescheduled IIHF Under-18 Women’s World Championship and when the request was granted was short. So, too, was the time for bid partners with the Madison Area Sports Commission, the University of Wisconsin and the operators of Bob Suter’s Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton to put together their case to be the site.
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.
Madison city staff are recommending a Minneapolis firm for a major Downtown development that would replace the obsolete State Street Campus Garage with housing, commercial space, public parking and an intercity bus garage.
“I’m a first-generation woman of color who has to learn a completely new world,” says Melinda Soares-Furtado, Ph.D. 2020, a Hubble fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who studies stars with odd chemical abundances. “I can code-switch, but it’s exhausting.” Kao is first-generation Taiwanese-American: “From day one I’ve struggled to belong in the space I’m in. Half the time I want to change my name.” Lopez says, “I’m Mexican-American and have cerebral palsy, so that’s another set of hurdles.”
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.
Scott Seyforth has read more than 100 interviews with Carson Gulley.
Not once did the culinary, radio and TV pioneer of the mid-1900s mention how proud he was of his now-famous fudge bottom pies, said Seyforth, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant director of residence life at University Housing.
“It’s one of the only things people know him for because for 40 years, it’s the only way almost that university communications has presented him to the public — as in relationship to fudge bottom pie,” Seyforth said recently on WPR’s “The Larry Meiller Show.”
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.
For Maddy Rauls, teaching is a family business.
The fourth grade bilingual English language arts teacher in Waunakee has several aunts who are teachers, and her dad was her high school’s chemistry teacher.
When she started school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in September 2017, a career in teaching was on her radar, especially because she loved babysitting and working with kids at summer school. When she liked the education classes she took her first couple of years, that sealed the deal.
CALS administrators say course will be easier for students. Agriculture groups and students say changes will hurt future students.
’This project seeks to uplift the Native voices that have often been overlooked,’ UW professor says.
Citing an Anti-Defamation League report about a general rise in anti-Semitism that has spread to campuses, the statement detailed the three incidents and said that such actions “will not be tolerated at UW-Madison.”
UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) announced they will alter their Farm and Industry Short Course (FISC), beginning in 2023.The program will switch from a for-credit, on-campus residential experience lasting 16 weeks, to a more flexible, non-credit format. The residential program will end this spring when the current class of Farm and Industry Short Course (FISC) students receive their certificates.
A UW System initiative will provide incentives to twice as many student health care workers with additional funding from the Wisconsin Partnership Program.
This UW School of Medicine and Public Health program is providing $500,000 for the effort, doubling the total funding for the incentive program that was announced in December 2021. The state Department of Health Services provided the initial funds.
The films will screen at several venues on campus, including the Union South Marquee Theatre and Shannon Hall, as well as AMC Madison 6 at Hilldale Shopping Center.
Corey Pompey, Leckrone’s successor, said in his first few months on the job in 2019 that he didn’t plan to swing from ceilings, citing a fear of heights, but he promised performances with high-production values.
UW-Madison has no plans to do widespread installation of detectors in its dorms, some of which also lack alarms in residential areas. But university spokesperson John Lucas said that’s because most campus buildings, including dorms, are heated via steam generated off-site at campus heating plants, not through fuel-burning appliances. He said UW-Madison has detectors in areas where there is gas usage, which is generally isolated to laundry rooms and commercial kitchen spaces.
We asked what prompted you to wait in line for more than two hours: Suzie Bassi waited in line to purchase a Cabbage patch doll for her daughter “way back in the day.”… Sharon Rosenblum camped out two days for Bruce Springsteen and a day to see Bob Dylan. … Daniel Goldwin: “Any, and I mean any, University of Wisconsin basketball game in the old Field House — this is how I “On Wisconsin-ed” 1989-94.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Teacher Pledge program has been extended into the 2025-26 academic school year to address the educator shortage in Wisconsin.
Upon receiving the news that University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank was to be the next president of Northwestern University, students at the school wanted to learn more about her. In response, a series of articles in North by Northwestern, a student publication, were published throughout January, February and March that provided the campus with a picture of Blank’s past that has dismayed many.
The election for Senior Class Office officially begins Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There are seven candidates, nearly all registered as pairs, running this election season, with the voting window closing Thursday, March 10.
“Antisemitism is wrong and it will not be tolerated at UW–Madison,” Reesor and Charleston said. “We are committed to creating a campus where everyone feels valued and knows they belong.”
For the first time in two years, fans of UW-Madison’s Varsity Band will be able to catch the band’s spring concert in person at the Kohl Center.
After a two-year hiatus, the University of Wisconsin- Madison varsity band is bringing back its spring concert.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Idea: The Wisconsin Regional Art Program hired painter John Steuart Curry in 1936 as the first artist-in-residence at a U.S. university. Curry, and later Aaron Bohrod, worked with groups around the state to encourage to encourage small-town and rural artists. The program valued art created not only by professors and artists, but also by regular people, Sawkins said.
Letter to the editor: More than just safety (which is still important), college students have had a tumultuous two years amid the pandemic and could use the relief of a snow day when conditions are snowy and icy. Snow days provide momentary freedom from responsibilities and allow for some well-deserved free time. We have rarely had days off (and got no spring break last year).
The initiative received a seed project grant from the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment this year, according to the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology. The maximum amount awarded from these grants is $4,000. Other funds are also coming from the School of Human Ecology’s Indigenous EcoWell Initiative.
The few dozen UW-Madison students living in what is likely the state’s last student housing cooperative are pleading with the university for a solution to their destined-to-be-demolished building.
The annual UW System’s Research in the Rotunda will return to the Capitol for its 18th year on Wednesday. Students and faculty are especially eager to share their work after the event was canceled last year due to COVID-19.
DJay Mando was watching closely from his perch in the Kohl Center during the last 15 seconds of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s game against Purdue on Tuesday.
While the cooperative is located in a university-owned building, which the cooperative has leased at the corner of Park and West Johnson streets for the past 67 years, Zoe Bayliss operates independently from UW-Madison. Elected student board members manage Zoe Bayliss’ finances and determine rent prices for the year. They also hire a chef to cook lunch and dinner on weekdays, a perk included in the rent.
The new five-story, 26,000 square-foot building — called Levy Hall — will be “one of the most heavily used academic buildings on campus,” said Eric Wilcots, dean of the College of Letters & Science, in October. Levy Hall will also support UW-Madison’s largest academic program, Dybdahl said, “providing 1,800 seats in state-of-the-art classrooms.”
UW Madison’s Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia hosted a panel Wednesday night on the Russian-Ukraine conflict to help members of the community better understand the conflict and it’s impact beyond the two countries’ borders. The public forum was the second event on the subject–the first meant to reach students–hosted by the group since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last week.
Students have lived in the Zoe Bayliss Cooperative building on UW-Madison’s campus since 1955, but a new construction project is threatening the building and co-op’s future. “They’re displacing us,” co-op president Angela Maloney said. “We didn’t ask to be displaced. We like the building that we’re in.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will begin construction on the “Divine Nine” plaza this spring. The plaza will be located in the garden space across from the Walgreens on East Campus Mall, and it will be unveiled as a tribute to the Divine Nine in early May.
The Black Voice marked its 50th anniversary Tuesday night at Union South where the organization presented a documentary celebrating the history of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s only Black newspaper. The Black Voice was initially founded in 1971 and operated until 1973 before it was re-established on campus in 2015 by student Jordan Gaines.
The chancellor was very respectful and responsive to ASM’s advocacy, offering a compromise to every request, Bailey said. “We were really happy to get this meeting, and I think the fact that the chancellor was willing to sit down and meet with us face-to-face signaled how she was willing to listen and hear our advocacy,” he said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Affairs Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Advancement teams surpassed their fundraising goal for a project that will honor all nine of the National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations on campus.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a top diplomat on the world stage, will be the keynote speaker for spring commencement for the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Saturday, May 14 at Camp Randall Stadium.
SSFC representatives express need for more discussion on UHS violence prevention programs.
‘The station as a whole, as a concept, wouldn’t really exist without him and this physical space wouldn’t exist without him,’ Black’s mentee says.
Residents of last co-op on UW campus urge students to sign petition to save building or receive adequate replacement.
