University of Wisconsin-Madison’s winter commencement is this weekend. We talk with the keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal sports columnist and UW alum Jason Gay, about his advice for this year’s class – including why he says it’s “essential to avoid (University of Michigan) Wolverines.”
So far, the best habitat to find Starship’s six-wheelers are confined spaces such as college campuses; the University of Houston and the University of Wisconsin-Madison rolled them out this fall.
Noted: Gia Gallimore 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. To do so, Gallimore had a hand in creating a strategic plan for diverse engagement, including strengthening the alumni of color network, enhancing marketing and engagement programs and cultivating student-to-alumni connections. She is also the founder of and driving force behind Badger Vibes, a monthly newsletter highlighting faculty, students and alumni of color in order to celebrate the diverse UW experience, produced in partnership between the WFAA and Madison365.
Letter to the editor: As a UW-Madison double alumnus, I was pleased to join a couple of hundred UW climate activists rallying to urge the university and its stakeholders to better address our local and global climate crises with significant and immediate action to lower carbon emissions.
UW-Madison nursing student Cassie Dietrick graduates Sunday, and she cannot pinpoint the School of Nursing building on campus.
Raise a glass to freedom. Raise a glass to all of us. Telling the story of today. Those slightly modified lyrics to “The Story of Tonight” from the musical “Hamilton” kicked off Lisa Kamal’s speech to her fellow graduates and a crowd of more than 7,000 people Sunday at the Kohl Center for UW-Madison’s 2019 winter commencement ceremony.
Dogs on Call brings in dogs of all shapes and sizes. Its UW-Madison coordinator, Todd Trampe, said Dogs on Call was first invited to the university six years ago, after research showed that dogs can help a student’s academic performance.
Thierno (pronounced “Chair-no”) Diallo sits comfortably in his Sun Prairie living room and shows how he can pull up WhatsApp footage of Gamou Farms, his farm and training center, in his hometown of Mali, West Africa to communicate with his manager.
Hopefully, the Wisconsin football team will make “gouda” on Blank’s wager.
Staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison passed a resolution Monday objecting to the composition of the UW System president search and screen committee.
All four teams participating in the NCAA Madison volleyball regional will have an open practice Thursday at the UW Field House.
This was last meeting of the semester, meetings will resume Jan. 23.
From the campus level to the city to the state, here are the biggest headlines from Fall 2019.
Campus Leaders for Energy Action Now (CLEAN) announced a petition demanding the university transition exclusively to renewable energy by 2050, and derive all electrical power from renewable resources by 2030.
Protestors will gather every Friday at Library mall as a part of Fridays for Future.
State health officials are investigating an outbreak of a common respiratory virus that has appeared on three college campuses across Wisconsin.
Adenovirus, an infection that causes respiratory symptoms ranging from cold and flu-like symptoms to bronchitis and pneumonia, has been confirmed at the University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison, La Crosse and Oshkosh.
Downtown Madison residents have begun to weigh in on the proposed seven-story Hub II proposed for 126 Langdon St. The Hub II will represent the latest in student housing by the developer behind The Hub on State Street and The James on West Gorham Street.
This academic year, OGPSD has undertaken efforts to connect with similar organizations in other Big Ten schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa. They hope to bring these organizations together to form something larger and more capable of creating change for students with disabilities.
CLEAN and other organizations drafted a proposal to Chancellor Rebecca Blank and the administration calling for a transition to renewable electricity by 2030 and entirely renewable energy sources by 2050, which was delivered to Bascom Hall.
The University of Texas at Dallas welcomed a fleet of Starship autonomous delivery robots onto campus this week. According to CBS DFW, the robots will deliver food and groceries to students in a three-mile radius of campus and will charge $1-2 per order. In addition to UT Dallas, Starship’s ‘bots already operate on-campus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Houston, Purdue, George Mason University, and Northern Arizona University, and were recently pulled from the University of Pittsburgh after an accessibility incident.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will face Texas A&M on Friday at 1 p.m. in the NCAA tournament regional at the UW Field House.
About 200 people rallied for improved workplace conditions for graduate students Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Engineering Mall before marching to Bascom Hall to deliver a list of demands.
Almost 200 UW-Madison students and others gathered on campus Thursday to demand the university hold abusers accountable and to protest the possible return of an engineering professor who was suspended for creating a “toxic” work environment for students.
Samantha Carter felt “utter disbelief” at what she saw on Sunday afternoon in the basement of the Humanities Building on North Park Street: The padlock on the locker in which she had stored her violin for the past four years as a music student at UW-Madison was missing.
“We package somewhere between 300-500 pounds of food each week which would have all been thrown in the garbage,” Brianna DeNamur, Food Recovery Program Co-director said.
Javier will focus on identity and inclusion.
Most of WSBU’s monetary needs consistent with last fiscal year.
“The reason we went to the scale of a protest is because on this particular issue, the university would rather not act at all than do something.”
Twenty percent of women will be sexually assaulted at some point in their lives — but that number jumps to 45 percent when applied to Native American women, according to the National Sexual Violence Research Center.
Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to rally Thursday afternoon for better workplace conditions and voice demands about an abusive professor who will return to campus in an administrative capacity in the spring.
Students, faculty and community members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to demand stronger environmental policies with a campus climate strike on a day of global action.
As the University of Wisconsin-Madison closes in on nearly two years of working on a project to review employee job titles and pay, it hopes to begin implementing its findings in the spring of 2020.
Just before Thanksgiving, the CDC released a report that said the number of births in the U.S. dropped for the fourth year in a row — and the fertility rate hit a record low in 2018. That drop in birth rate will have consequences in the future, which the University of Wisconsin System is preparing for now.
“At first it didn’t seem real,” said Samantha Carter, whose violin, which has an estimated value of $10,000, disappeared over Thanksgiving break.
Gabe Javier, who has led the Multicultural Student Center on the UW campus and previously directed the LGBT Campus Center, has been named Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs – Identity and Inclusion, according to an email to UW staff from Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor.
The Associate Students of Madison invited the Dean of the College of Engineering Ian M. Robertson to its meeting Wednesday to address the 2016 suicide of a graduate engineering student John Brady, who worked for several years in the “toxic” environment of professor Akbar Sayeed’s research lab.
UW-Madison plans to serve a new burger blend in dining halls with 70 percent beef, 30 percent mushroom, in an effort to be more environmentally sustainable.
UW Housing Division has 50 vacancies to fill at current wages starting less than $15 an hour.
Roberto Vergara fell and hit his head on the sidewalk early Saturday morning when leaving a building on the 200 block of Bernard Court. A fellow employee called 911 and Vergara was taken to a local hospital, according to the press release.
The recent displacement of the Multicultural Learning Community’s House Fellow Cheufeng Yang did not serve as a catalyst for this protest, but as the final straw in a long history of negligence, according to organizer Karissa Smaglick.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement has published its first annual report, detailing “one of the busiest and most productive” academic years in its history, said Deputy Vice Chancellor Patrick Sims in the report.
Ozzi, which operates out of Rhode Island, is a similar system popular with cafeterias on military bases, corporate headquarters, and college campuses such as Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bucky’s Tuition Promise was a pledge from UW-Madison they would cover four years of tuition and fees for incoming freshman from Wisconsin who had an annual family household adjusted gross income (AGI) of $56,000 or less.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison protested the leave of a house fellow on Monday, after the fellow reportedly made racist comments last week. The students said the fellow didn’t do anything wrong.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved General Student Services Fund budgets for the Black Student Union, Adventure Learning Programs and Live Free, Monday night.
The protest began with chants, including calls to be treated fairly by UW, justice for Chuefeng Yang and demands for changes in the MLC and UW Housing.
According to Yang, university housing officials asked to meet with Yang on Tuesday morning. Yang said the officials stressed that the meeting was to gather information about several complaints that were made about Yang.
Every year, Prof. Bassam Shakhashiri hosts ‘Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri.’
Earlier this month, children and families gathered, as they have for five decades, to embrace the fun of science experiments at his live show, “Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri.”
Every Thursday evening since mid-September, a group of students and volunteers has packaged about 250 frozen meals weekly from leftover food in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s dining halls.
When meeting with MLC’s professional staff about the complaints, Yang said they were blindsided when presented with survey responses from students who said they felt unwelcome as white students or that their white peers were unwelcome in the learning community.
As University of Wisconsin-Madison dining halls continue to take steps toward environmental sustainability without sacrificing taste, a new burger blend with 70% beef, 30% mushrooms is showing up around campus this year.
He joined the faculty at UW-Madison as a professor of chemistry in 1970. Since then, he has won over 35 awards and toured the country.
In an email to The Badger Herald, UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone wrote that after a recent floor meeting where residents were told to limit who they invited based on race, several residents filed complaints.
Yang was placed under disciplinary investigation because some students reported that them and their white peers did not feel comfortable on the floor because of the community values they had instilled.
After Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway broke with city policy and decided to waive the cost of police services for a youth climate rally in September, her office is crafting a new policy to waive fees for other groups exercising their free speech rights.
Over Ada Deer’s life, she has been a social worker, activist, professor, lobbyist, and author. She joins host Chali Pittman in studio to talk about her life, work, and American Indian history.
A student working for a multicultural community at a UW-Madison residence hall is on paid leave following complaints over their alleged racial comments.
Alexander Kain came to UW-Madison from Kenosha in 2018 with dreams of becoming the next up-and-coming hip-hop artist. Walking to class one day, he came across a table promoting LÜM (Live Undiscovered Music) — a streaming and social media app — on East Campus Mall. A year later, he has more than 30,000 followers on the app, connections to Travis Scott’s manager and a performance at Freakfest under his belt.
It is telling how vet students at UW-Madison are taught about declawing cats.
