Category: Campus life

Professor’s resignation comes over four years after suicide of doctoral student who worked in his lab.

UW System President Tommy Thompson announced that UW-Madison won the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Postsecondary Sustainability Award on Thursday.

Keynote event will feature comedian, writer, actor Joel Kim Booster.

The UW-Madison chapter of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment teamed up with the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association to host their first annual Denim Day event on Wednesday, April 28.

In one of the first campus events since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, UW-Madison took a step towards creating visible spaces for Black involvement on campus.

A space on the East Campus Mall will soon be home to a plaza honoring the achievements of UW-Madison’s Black fraternities and sororities. The “Divine Nine Garden Plaza” was dedicated Saturday in a ceremony.

Saturday afternoon, student leaders and university officials hosted a dedication ceremony and broke ground on the new Divine Nine Garden Plaza located at East Campus Mall.

Heller will be moving on to work at Johns Hopkins University this summer.

Students oppose Line 3 pipeline crossing Ojibwe lands.

More than 100 students gathered on campus Friday for an Earth Week Climate Strike, pressuring UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Foundation & Alumni Association to divest from fossil fuels.

Ray Taffora, the vice chancellor for legal affairs, is also retiring this summer. A search for his successor began earlier this spring.The university is also looking for its next chief diversity officer. Applications were due earlier this month.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Laurent Heller will leave the university later this summer to take a similar role at Johns Hopkins University.

According to UW spokesperson, Meredith McGlone, positive COVID-19 cases on campus have remained relatively low while vaccinations increase.

“NPHC has provided an important anchor, connection and family for our students for many years, but they haven’t had a space to call their own on campus. There are no NPHC-affiliated houses or markers at UW … and nothing is shared publicly about their contributions to our community. This garden plaza is a central campus space to honor their work, their legacy, and for our Black fraternities and sororities to be seen,” Reesor said in the statement.

Event will be held at terrace, will include food, cap decorating, games, more.

According to University of Wisconsin-Madison News, the scholarship fund was started by former Dean of Students Mary Rouse in 2019 to honor the legacy of Roger Brusewitz. Brusewitz was imprisoned for 12 years before enrolling at UW-Madison in 1973. He graduated in 1975 with honors and a degree in journalism, going on to become a copy editor at the UW Law School.

’Once I get into office, I’m going to work on the redistribution of [Rathskeller] sauce throughout the city,’ SCO vice president says.

The UW Tribal Relations Director also spoke on behalf of the Ho-Chunk Nation during the last meeting of the 27th ASM session.

Beginning May 10, several aspects of the current COVID-19 response will be adjusted for the summer months.

In this legislation, the Student Council officially committed to promoting self-determination, justice and liberation for Indigenous people at the UW-Madison and across Wisconsin. They further demanded that UW-Madison students should be able to apply to receive financial assistance from the COVID-19 Student Relief Fund as a one-time use of allocable fee reserves and demanded that UW-Madison eliminate a surcharge on students who take over 165 credits.

WASB is the UW-Madison student organization in partnership with the Wisconsin Alumni Association that focuses on campus engagement and community involvement. The “All Campus Party” is WASB’s annual week-long initiative to gather “the nation’s largest cost-free and alcohol alternative campus celebration.” This year’s events feature a virtual drawing class, a REDTalk discussion and a virtual concert.

The Wisconsin Union’s famous sunburst terrace chairs will soon be seating all comers again.

The University of Wisconsin announced Monday that it will end the green Badger Badge requirement to access campus buildings and loosen several other COVID-19 restrictions for community members from May 10.

At a protest organized by the BIPOC Coalition at University of Wisconsin-Madison, close to 150 students and community members marched from Camp Randall to the Capital Sunday to rally against racial inequality and promote community support.

A week after the fatal police shooting of Duante Wright in Minnesota, people in Madison marched from Camp Randall Stadium to the Capitol.

The University of Wisconsin BIPOC Coalition planned and led the demonstration called a “March for Unity.” Protesters gathered at the Camp Randall Arches before marching down Dayton Street to the Capitol building.

Now in its fourth year, Earth Week was started by a group of student organizations and the UW Office of Sustainability in 2018 with the goal of educating students, staff and community members about environmental issues.

’It’s officially spring when the Terrace is open,’ UW student says.

The HEERF III funding preliminary statement and the legislation regarding relief to Perkins borrowers were both unanimously passed during the meeting.

Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation program is a cutting-edge, first-of-its-kind program, beginning fall 2021.

The Associated Students of Madison advocated for better implementation of student aid efforts and clarified their bylaws regarding student government positions at their Tuesday night meeting.

The student organization Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) is working to inform and empower the campus community to stand up against sexual assault during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

“We have no words for what happened in Minnesota,” read a statement from the UW-Madison BIPOC Coalition on Tuesday. “We wish that we did, but there are no words to describe the despair and seemingly endless frustration that we feel.”

The Union plans to open the terrace on Wednesday, April 14; however, access will be limited to customers who have Badger Badges, which are only available to University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty, and staff.

’I think it’s a very prudent thing that we eliminate the risk of panels falling and again the engineers in their review expressed concern about that potential,’ UW Vice Chancellor says.

’This past year has shown us all the importance of listening to people’s stories and finding ways to reach out to them,’ UW Chancellor says about selection.

The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association planned the second annual Day of the Badger efforts, which spanned 1848 minutes, in remembrance of the year UW was founded, on April 6-7. Of the 5,782 gifts, 2,027 were from donors in Wisconsin. The College of Letters and Science was the largest beneficiary, with 1606 gifts totaling over $510,000.

UW System Interim President Tommy Thompson and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank toured the Mosse Humanities Building and discussed proposals for new College of Letters and Science and Engineering buildings Monday. “The two projects that are in the budget for this year are cornerstones for growth and success in UW-Madison,” Blank said.

“I guess every day we’re doing things so that everything else can operate, and that’s true about facilities,” said LaBorde. “That’s true about a lot of housing. When I think of ‘essential,’ I really do think of frontline workers.”

“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.