Category: Campus life

UW Virtual Environments Group use the power of VR to enhance data visualization as others creatively.

Six Madison-area women — Dr. Cat Burkat, Jennifer Gauthier, Dr. Sheryl Henderson, Carola Gaines, Danielle Yancey, and Carolina Sarmiento — have been selected to be honored with UW-Madison Outstanding Women of Color Awards.

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced a multitude of changes into the lives of students across the globe. From daily zoom classes to constant masking and social distancing in dormitories, nothing about college or learning felt the same. Those with disabilities, mental and physical alike, had to adjust their learning accommodations and routines as the pandemic altered major aspects of their lives.

University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomed a new student organization to campus this fall. Badger Blockchain, founded this past August, aims to “engage and evangelize the UW-Madison student community into Blockchain technology.”

The Associated Students of Madison will discuss the Break Free From Plastics Resolution legislation tonight to push for the school to stop purchasing single-use plastic. The legislation calls for the university to slowly eliminate the purchase of unnecessary and wasteful plastic.

Jerome Chazen’s life inspires Chazen’s future, Chazen Museum’s chief of staff says.

Her son, Connor, fell near the Kohl Center on the UW campus and suffered a traumatic head injury. He was found by two men nearby who threw their jackets on top of Connor to keep him warm and waited until paramedics arrived.

Jerome “Jerry” Chazen, a 1948 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and philanthropist for whom the Chazen Museum of Art is named, died Sunday at the age of 94, the university said.

Jerome Chazen, a philanthropist, arts advocate and man whose name was later honored in the new namesake of the art museum on UW-Madison’s campus, has died. He was 94 years old.

Modernized labs, active learning classrooms, flexible lecture halls are features of new space.

The Wisconsin Union’s more than 80-year-old Winter Carnival features a variety of events and activities that showcase the fun wintertime opportunities available to Wisconsin Union members and guests.

Every weekend, thousands of students flood to State Street to meet up with friends, grab a bite to eat, or just have a good time. Do you ever wonder what they all could be thinking?For over a year, Jake Jennings and Matthew Shaw have been getting to the bottom of it. The two friends came together to start an account on Instagram called “Stranded on State.”

Bringing a new sorority chapter to a university is no easy feat, UW-Madison ZTA President Rhyan Peed told The Daily Cardinal. She explained that there are a multitude of unexpected challenges that can arise during the complex process.

The Wisconsin Union Directorate and Hoofers will kick off their annual Winter Carnival on Monday. The event has been a long-time favorite for University of Wisconsin-Madison students and the local community for decades.

“When I did it as a freshman, it was the third or fourth day after we moved in,” Yadev said. “I really liked the intentions behind it; you could tell, based on the questions they were asking, that the staff wanted us to understand that a lot of us came from different backgrounds and have different identities that affect how we experience the world. I personally had never experienced something like that in high school.”

The Green Dawn Global Takeover has over 68,000 members on its subreddit. “Your mission is to strategically place army men throughout your hometown or any remote region you come upon during your journeys,” the forum’s description reads. “Use caution. This is a covert operation and discretion is advised.”

Student service coordinator with UW special student programs hopeful about expansion.

Key note speaker encourages “bystander intervention” as a way to combat gender-based crimes at virtual event hosted by PAVE.

Last month, Dr. Louis Macias, 39, took on the new role as the associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin College of Arts, Letters and Sciences, representing about 3,700 students and 970 staff.

Indigenous communities and scientists are working together to create a set of guidelines for using plant genetic resources, Department of Horticulture teaching faculty member Claudia Calderón said in a Science and Technology Studies Lunch Seminar on Thursday.

As a first-grader, Kyla Vaughan set a class record by reading more than 1,000 books in a year. Now the UW-Madison senior has accomplished another page-turning feat: She read 365 books in 2021. We talk with Vaughan about meeting their goal and get their book recommendations.

UW-Madison students who take Chemistry courses as part of their degree will have more options and more areas to work in at the new, revamped Chemistry building.

At least 200 people donated blood at a blood drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday.

Classes have since begun inside the new nine-story tower of the Chemistry Building at the corner of University Avenue and North Mills Street. Work on the more than $130 million project began in the fall of 2018.

Legislation introduced by the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) will raise future student council member wages to $12 per hour if passed. Currently, ASM bylaws mandate minimum hourly wages of $10.50 for student-held positions. Governance body members address wage increases as a necessary step to improve working conditions and housing affordability.

Tuesday, Feb. 1 marked the first day of the Lunar New Year and the start of the Year of the Water Tiger. The 15-day festival is celebrated by many Asian communities around the world.

Discolored tap water found in University of Wisconsin-Madison residence halls and in off-campus housing may be the result of a nearby water main leak, according to the city of Madison’s Water Utility department reported a discoloration of tap water supplied by the Madison Water Utility Wednesday afternoon.

As members of campus community clash with administrators over return to classes, university sticks to original mitigation plan to press on in person.

Events to include movies, visit from Ruth E. Carter.

“The university tries to represent and show its diversity. In the end, it doesn’t come out because there is not a lot of diversity on this campus,” Adegoke said. “In my opinion, it doesn’t really show because I’m usually the only Black person in (a) class.”

As UW implements promising forensic nurse program, students, campus advocates say adequate support for survivors still requires more institutional resources.

Multiple events at UW-Madison listed.

Students on committee, in audience voiced their opinions in final public listening session.

So far, UW has not considered a threshold for COVID-19 cases that would make it pivot to online instruction, McGlone said. In addition, UHS is confident the university will operate in person throughout the spring semester, according to Baggott.

WSUM proposes budget of $15,995.50 more than previous year.

Jeb Barzen founded and is the sole employee of Private Lands LLC, which explores methods of ecological restoration on privately-owned lands, and is an adjunct professor at UW-Madison.

Nearly 9,000 antigen tests in residence halls and up to 1,000 tests daily at Memorial Union and Union South have been distributed across campus from Jan. 18 to Jan. 24, according to university spokesperson Meredith McGlone.

Events will take place at Memorial Union Feb. 7-12 and at Alumni Park on Feb. 12.

They’re busy little bots delivering hundreds and hundreds of food orders every day, and that number has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

In their Wednesday night meeting, the Associated Students of Madison passed an amendment that would increase the minimum wage for General Student Services Fund organizations and ASM from $10.50 to $12.00 an hour.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, a historian, professor and award-winning journalist, did not intend for her keynote speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to send a hopeful message. “If you came here to get uplifted and inspired: wrong speech,” she told the audience virtually and in person Tuesday for the MLK Symposium at Memorial Union. UW-Madison hosted the event in honor of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Hannah-Jones said education on King has been whitewashed, and in reality, he was “not so kumbaya” as most were taught to believe. At the time of his death, most Americans held an unfavorable view of King.

Two University of Wisconsin alumni held an online discussion Tuesday evening on the importance of knowing Black history when being an ally of the Black community.

’This is the time of year when the people who don’t align with Dr. King’s values like to try out his name,’ creator of The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones said

In-person instruction has remained central to UW-Madison’s protocol, according to university spokesperson Meredith McGlone. The university has held that this is due largely to the fact that vaccines and boosters greatly decrease the risk of severe illness.

Hannah-Jones prefaced her words at the event with a qualifier: “If you came here to be uplifted, wrong speech.” This is perhaps inherent in work like hers, which forces readers to confront difficult, uncomfortable and, at times, unbelievably cruel parts of the United States’ collective national history.

As students at UW-Madison head back to in-person instruction this spring, not all are happy about returning to the classroom. “I’m scared, I’m nervous,” said Adrian George, teaching assistant and co-president of the Teaching Assistant Association (TAA).

Every student was asked to get tested for COVID-19 before coming back to class. Results didn’t need to be reported unless they are living in a dorm and get a positive result. Exceptions for testing were made for those who had a positive PCR test within 90 days of returning to campus.

Several student-led organizations, including the Associated Students of Madison (ASM), the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) and the BIPOC Coalition of UW-Madison, gathered outside of Chancellor Becky Blank’s office Monday to demand a switch to remote instruction during the first two weeks of the spring semester.

The Associated Students of Madison proposed “stronger COVID-19 precautions at UW-Madison,” including an option for hybrid learning.

The UW-Madison senior from Lancaster set out to read 365 books in 2021. Vaughan says she set this goal after she noticed her reading had increased significantly during the pandemic. In 2020, she read 276 books. “I wanted to challenge myself to do one book a day,” said Vaughan.