On Feb. 10, the absentee voting locations will expand to include Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College’s Truax and South Goodman campuses, Union South, UW Memorial Union, the UW-Madison Student Activity Center, and the UW-Madison Health Services Learning Center.
The Transportation Policy and Planning Board unanimously recommended the measure on Monday. If approved by the City Council, it would continue to allow the food delivery robots that UW Housing deployed in November to take dining hall food to students on campus.
In arguing a case for the University of Wisconsin to host the NCAA women’s volleyball championships at the Kohl Center, Badgers coach Kelly Sheffield comes armed with details.
The Chazen Museum of Art has long showcased art by UW-Madison faculty. And this year, in celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary, the faculty show is bringing artists from across the university together to showcase everything from painting to modern dance and even cooking.
Spore, the only woman to try out for the role last year, follows in high-stepping footsteps: The band added its first female members in 1974 and its first female drum major in 1989.
Each year, UW-Madison students who lived in the dorms at the university forget to update their mailing addresses or forward their mail when they move out.
The window for eighth-grade students to apply for the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, known as PEOPLE, a high school precollege preparation and scholarship program is now open.
“2020 feels worse, as far as regards to the safety of Jewish people, than it did in 2010,” Head of Chabad House Rabbi Mendel said.
UW-Madison published Tuesday its first campus-wide policy for research assistants, the largest group of graduate student workers on campus whose work conditions are under heightened public scrutiny.
Change welcome for Teaching Assistant’s union, further changes still desired.
Sustainability Chair Sanauz Alaei discussed the sustainability topics brought up at the conference. “We want to have a network between our schools and to encourage Big 10 universities to freeze investments in fossil fuels to promote sustainability,” Alaei said.
As student employees’ relationship with the university continues to fray, TAA co-president Robert Christl said the union’s priorities remain what they have been all along — a greater commitment to shared governance and tangible protections from workplace abuse or overwork.
While the Graduate Assistantship Policies and Procedures previously applied to teaching and project assistants, it now includes language covering research assistants. Together, TAs, PAs and RAs make up about 80% of graduate student employment at UW-Madison as of fall 2019.
Camp Kesem is a student organization on campus that provides children, ages six through 18, whose parents have or had cancer with resources and support; their flagship program sends those children to a week of free summer camp where they make connections with other campers in similar situations.
The Office of Child Care and Family Resources presented their budget proposal for their Child Care Tuition Assistance Program to the Student Services Finance Committee on Monday night.
The Chazen Museum of Art has long showcased art by UW-Madison faculty. And this year, in celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary, the faculty show is bringing artists from across the university together to showcase everything from painting to modern dance and even cooking.
From January 13th until 31st, students picking up their spring semester bus passes from the Student Activities Center or Union South will also have the opportunity to register to vote at the same location.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hired more new faculty this year than it has in the last 15 years, and has seen a decrease in the number of faculty leaving for other universities, according to a blog post by UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
In addition, the delivery service will now accept Wiscard as a payment method, which allows students to get discounted residence pricing on their deliveries and pay using their university meal plans.
Thursday, the Student Services Finance Committee heard a budget proposal for the UW student led radio station, WSUM.
Hosted by UW-Student Affairs, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement and the Morgridge Center for Public Service, Jemison’s lecture filled Union South’s Varsity Hall to the brim.
With less than a month to go before the Feb. 18 Wisconsin Supreme Court primary and three months before the April 7 presidential primary, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are preparing to cast their ballots, a process that has become more confusing in recent years.
“When I was a little kid, this all started with looking up. I remember looking up at the sky and wondering what children on the other side of the world saw,” Jemison said. “It was something that connected me. And “look up” is one of those words that always brings us hope. I think very much that connects us with Dr. King.”
Noted: Madison officials also work with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to recruit college students — in friendly competition with the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, which had the highest voter turnout in the midterms of the largest public universities in the nation.
When she was 8 years old, Mae Jemison looked to the world’s first astronauts venturing into space and asked: “What happens if the aliens only see these guys and they think that everybody on Earth is a buzz-cut-haired white male?”
Decades later, Jemison would remedy that quandary on her own by becoming the first woman of color to go to space.
Greeted by a standing ovation, Jemison may be considered a living legend. Not only a former NASA astronaut, Jemison is also a physician, engineer and doctor.
She spoke about the impact Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had on her life and helping her overcome barriers in her field.
Jemison encourages audience to use their talents to for positive social change.
But there are groups working to change that. The Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project is an organization that provides UW students education and resources about the long-term, sometimes irreversible consequences of heavy drinking.
So audiences for “Floe,” a world premiere coming to Union Theater Jan. 22-24, should be prepared: It will not be a simple experience.
Democrats know that to defeat President Donald Trump they need to do a better job motivating young voters like University of Wisconsin junior David Pelikan, one of about 40 students being trained this week to become organizers for the eventual presidential nominee.
Warm temperatures in December and early January caused ice to accumulate later than usual as the freeze date neared the latest on record for Mendota, according to the Clean Lakes Alliance. The latest freeze date on record for Lake Mendota is Jan. 30, 1932.
In the month since (Lisa Kamal) made the speech — a poignant meditation on belonging, resilience, diversity, mental health and kindness toward oneself — the video went viral, garnering 3.5 million views across multiple social media platforms and a lot of attention, especially from her home country of Malaysia.
The iconic statue will be inflated on Feb. 6 as part of The Wisconsin Union’s Winter Carnival.
Federal authorities recently closed one of several investigations looking into UW-Madison’s handling of sexual assaults and also opened gender discrimination cases at two other University of Wisconsin campuses last year.
Fire crews and the department’s Lake Rescue Team both assisted, as did UW-Madison Police.
The team left from campus Sunday morning for the Universal Dance Association National Championships in Florida. The competition will take place next weekend in Orlando.
All screenings are free and open to the public, but Cinematheque, a production of the UW-Madison’s Communications Arts Department, accepts and encourage donations. Seating is free on a first-come, first-served basis.
“We recognize we have more work to do,” Blank said. “Working towards greater diversity and inclusion is not something you finish.”
A two-minute video made by students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was meant to promote school spirit and bring the campus together during homecoming festivities a couple of months ago. But some students there had a very different reaction as they watched scene after scene of students working and playing around campus, since almost every one of the students shown was white.
Mark your calendars or set your phone alarm: Tickets for the UW Varsity Band spring concert go on sale 8:30 a.m. Monday.
The Badgers host Big Ten Conference foe Indiana on Friday, Sept. 4 in the season opener, the first Friday game at UW since the 2018 opener against Western Kentucky.
The UW–Madison Odyssey Project received a generous gift of $50,000 from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation to support Odyssey’s mission of breaking the cycle of generational poverty through access to education.
A physician and engineer, Jemison has been inducted into both the National Women’s Hall of Fame and the International Space Hall of Fame, UW said in a press release,
The summer before JT Nejedlo attended UW-Madison unitentionally became a difference maker in the 2016 Kettle Moraine High School graduate’s young life.
Noted: Jessica Antonio: Antonio was one of the first graduates of Cristo Rey High School and one of the first participants in the promising All-In Milwaukee nonprofit effort to provide help in several ways (including financial) to low-income students as they tackle college. She enrolled this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is off to a good start.
A video meant to promote unity at the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison has instead prompted a reckoning over who feels at home there when virtually every student featured in the video was white.
The video was just two minutes long: a sunny montage of life at the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison. Here were hundreds of young men and women cheering at a football game, dancing in unison, riding bicycles in a sleek line, “throwing the W” for the camera, singing a cappella, leaping into a lake.
As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares to play against the Oregon Ducks football team in the Rose Bowl in California, fans in Wisconsin are cheering on the Badgers with Rose Bowl merchandise.
Badgers fans are on their way to Pasadena.
A plan to bring some rationality to a chaotic west Madison traffic corridor has been pushed back a year, but bike and pedestrian advocates say safety features resulting from their input will improve the project.
“I came here on a scholarship, a long way from my home in Kuala Lumpur. This opportunity to be here at the prestigious University of Wisconsin-Madison did not come easy or cost little for any of us,” she had said in her speech. The video, which was posted online, has been viewed over 100,000 times since.
Data provided by UW-Madison earlier this month show the extent of the university’s rebound in faculty recruitment and retention in the three school years since 2015-16 when officials said budget cuts and controversial changes to tenure policies led to a decline in the number of new faculty hires and a spike in other institutions poaching UW-Madison professors.
The spirit of the season is more important than the ability to hold a tune.At least that’s what we’re telling ourselves after we got together groups of people representing Madison-area sports teams to sing “The 12 Days of Christmas.”Athletes, front office personnel, a coach and a mascot from these teams loaned their voices to the effort: University of Wisconsin volleyball, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s hockey, men’s basketball and wrestling; Forward Madison FC; the Madison Capitols; Madison College women’s basketball; Edgewood College; Madison Memorial girls basketball; Stoughton wrestling and the Madison Mallards.
If you can’t be in Pasadena to cheer on your hometown band, don’t worry, KTLA 5 has you covered! On New Year’s Day, in addition to our regular live stream of the entire Tournament of Roses Parade, we will be live streaming a separate video feed that focuses on the bands!
In her speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Winter Commencement ceremony, Lisa referenced Hamilton – an award-winning Broadway musical written and composed by Miranda.
Lawmakers approved a pay raise for state workers and University of Wisconsin System employees, though they again opted to scrap Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to implement a $15 minimum wage for Wisconsin employees during a Wednesday vote.
The University of Wisconsin unveils its new Nielsen tennis facility.
Lisa Nur Marini Mohd Kamal was sharing her story at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) Winter Commencement (convocation day) to a crowd of over 7,000 people, including 1,200 graduates who were joined by family members and friends.
For years, the Badger State bemoaned its post-graduation “brain drain” from schools such as University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now, a burgeoning startup scene, plentiful tech jobs, and an abundance of remote work are compelling graduates to stick around and enjoy the city’s vibrant culture and reasonable cost of living.
