Category: Campus life

“This building is in dire shape. It is not able to support student needs, it has inadequate heating and cooling. The classrooms are poorly configured, there have been times where water has poured down the walls of the classrooms,” said Blank.

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and UW System president Tommy Thompson say the Humanities bBuilding needs at least $70 million in maintenance, which the university says would not be a good investment.

“Due to the pandemic we’ve had to adjust to mostly a virtual fashion week, but we do have a couple in-person events- so, today we have our photo station,” Spark said.

“I definitely think they have the ability to change [the academic calendar] but don’t really care,” stressed Silver.

“The fact that we implemented [SD/UD grading] in the spring and not in the fall is, I think, unfair to students,” Kons said. “What this university has been promoting throughout the entire pandemic is a failure to understand the needs of students. I think it highlights a disconnect between students and the university.”

The scholarship is awarded to students who excel greatly in natural science, engineering, mathematics and have high academic and research achievements.

The fully-online Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation program will look to examine the relationships between psychedelic drugs and mental health, including MDMA, also known as ecstasy; psilocybin, the active ingredient in mushrooms; ketamine and more.

’I appreciate seeing faculty recognized for their work within the classroom, as it speaks volumes to the impact that they have made on students like myself,’ member of the Distinguished Teaching Awards Committee says.

The UW-Madison Senior Class Officers-elect look forward to fostering an environment where Rathskeller sauce is free flowing, the Humanities building is turned into a skatepark and an escalator is built on Bascom Hill. Rising seniors Pranav Srivastava and Barnabas Shiferaw were elected as President and Vice President, respectively, for the class of 2021-22 Senior Class Office, receiving 782 votes of the 1,888 completed ballots.

According to the university, Almaz Yimam has worked the counter at the Wiscard office at Union South since 2002, welcoming hundreds of thousands of students and employees to campus.

In races for open seats, Juliana Bennett beat Ayomi Obuseh with low turnout in the student-dominated 8th District around UW-Madison.

Each year, before classes begin, newly admitted students to the University of Wisconsin-Madison are welcomed to campus to receive their very own Wiscard — the “key to campus life” carried by every student. The beloved “Wiscard Lady” Almaz Yimam, cup of black coffee in hand, has long been the first face that greets them.

A concrete slab fell to the ground from the third floor of Van Hise Hall on the UW-Madison campus, causing no injuries but shutting down one entrance to the building.

Students complained due to Honorlock’s inability to recognize when those with darker skin tones looked up at their screens.

’Some of the statements [UW] released were tone deaf at best and just didn’t really cover what I hoped the university would cover,’ UW student says.

UW-Madison disabled the pause feature on its Honorlock software on March 11 after students stated that it failed to recognize their darker skin tone.

This grading option, similar to the accommodations made in Spring 2020, allows students to choose to replace the grade they receive in any eligible course with one of the following alternative grades: SD (Satisfactory-Disruption) or UD (University Disruption-No Credit). Disruption grading was not offered for the Fall 2020 semester.

To help address the greatest needs on the UW–Madison campus, the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association is holding its second-ever ‘Day of the Badger’ fundraising event. The virtual fundraiser will bring alumni and friends of UW–Madison together to help the university during one of its greatest times of need.

’They completely overlooked how much students need that break from school,’ UW student says.

U.S. News & World Report released their 2022 rankings of graduate schools Tuesday, with UW-Madison ranked fourth in the country.

The Associated Students of Madison passed legislation in support of transgender women in sports, revisions to their COVID-19 Student Relief Fund and the implementation of a Tribal Affairs position for their organization on Tuesday.

The voting period for the two elected positions will conclude March 31.

Gia is the director of diverse alumni engagement at Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association. One of her core goals is to connect alumni of color with the alumni association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

UW-Madison students started voting for the 2021-22 Senior Class Officers on Monday. Once elected, the student leaders, including president and vice president, will work with the Office of the Chancellor, Office of Student Affairs and the Wisconsin Alumni Association and Foundation to plan events for seniors, decide on commencement speakers and choose the class gift.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will hold in-person ceremonies in its Camp Randall Stadium, which can hold about 80,000 people. The university will hold two ceremonies on May 8, but graduates cannot bring guests.

UW-Madison students should plan to return to campus for mainly in-person instruction and expect a “new normal” this fall, said Chancellor Rebecca Blank. In a March 25 blog post, Blank announced that the fall semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will look more like fall 2019 than fall 2020. While guidelines for the semester have not yet been defined, they will be based on the state of the pandemic, Blank said.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced their May commencement speakers Wednesday, naming Broadway actor André De Shields as the speaker for undergraduates and psychologist John Gottman, Ph.D. as the speaker for graduate students.

Undergraduate and graduate students graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this year will have separate commencement ceremonies due to the pandemic, and that means two commencement speakers.

UW-Madison officials said both speakers will deliver their remarks virtually to follow travel guidelines amid the pandemic.

For the first time since the pandemic, the University of Wisconsin-Madison band makes their way to the field for an in-person practice.

The Badger band is back. Members of the UW Varsity Band held their first large group practice outdoors Wednesday since the pandemic began.

Tony Award winner and UW graduate André De Shields will give the commencement address for bachelor’s degree candidates this spring.

Broadway star André De Shields and psychologist John Gottman will address University of Wisconsin- Madison graduates as keynote speakers at the spring commencement ceremonies.