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.
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.
