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.
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.
