Thousands of runners hit the rainy streets Saturday morning for the 38th annual Crazylegs Classic. The 8K run and 2-mile walk started at Library Mall and continued through the UW-Madison campus.
Noted: Sheridan Blanford, director of inclusion for the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has attended the forum across the years and says that she always leaves inspired.
“I love the Inclusion Forum because it brings a good majority of people who are really invested in this work to one space, and we all are trying to figure out how we can be better in our selective areas and it’s just really great to be around a lot of like-minded, extremely progressive people that really want to see our spaces be better,” she said. “A lot of these people come and figure out how to take this back to cater it toward their respective jobs, but this is my job. So I get to do it everyday and I always walk away feeling like my tool belt is set and full and ready to go.”
Police escorted 16 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students out of the Graduate School dean’s office Friday evening after a meeting to discuss the university’s Graduate Assistant Policies and Procedures imploded.
The students were given several warnings before the assembly was declared unlawful, per UW system policy.
Police said the students were occupying the office of the Dean of the Graduate School after a meeting with university administrators in the early afternoon.
UW-Madison graduate students protesting working conditions were removed from Bascom Hall on Friday evening when they stayed past closing, according to university police.
The three 17-foot vertical banners hanging from the pillars of UW-Madison’s Bascom Hall usually last two to three years, said Tricia Nolan, assistant vice chancellor for marketing and brand strategy.
Bucky’s Classroom is designed to increase college opportunities for all students, in part by giving them access to the UW-Madison campus. Presented through the new UW Connects statewide outreach program, the program also establishes a “classroom to campus” connection by having university students teach pre-college preparedness and career exploration at the middle schools through a curriculum developed by the UW-Madison School of Education. The college student ambassadors also develop relationships with the younger students.
TAA attempted to express demands over mandatory fees, wages, inclusion in policy-making.
After leaving class early, the student met with UW-Madison Assistant Dean of Students Kathy Kruse to express their disappointment, while also searching for a better sense of safeness in class.
The TAA said the graduate students waited four hours in Bascom Hall after administrators “walked out” on the meeting before police took action — and during the meeting, Karpus pushed a graduate student.
May: JJ Watt to speak at Spring 2019 commencement .
The unsanctioned drinking event known as the Mifflin Street Block Party and the Crazylegs Classic 8K race are both scheduled to take place Saturday — along with the weekly Dane County Farmers’ Market — despite a winter weather watch and the potential for up to 9 inches of snow.
Back in his playing days with the University of Wisconsin football team, Joe Thomas used to look forward to checking out the Crazylegs Classic, encouraging the participants in his role as a spectator.
Attend the Threads Fashion Show 3 and 6 p.m. Sunday at the Madison Masonic Center, 301 Wisconsin Ave., to see creations by students in the UW-Madison Textiles and Fashion Design Program.
Several graduate students at the University of Wisconsin Madison had some of their research cited in the Mueller report.
The University of Wisconsin Law School created an endowed faculty chair in honor of the late Professor James E. Jones Jr., the first fully funded chair named for an African American faculty member.
Young Mie Kim, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her research on how targeted ads influence elections.
Laura Downer elected ASM chair.
Hoyt, then a member of the Madison Opera Chorus, darkened his face and hands in a production of “The Pearl Fishers.”
Since 2016, Orrantia has held the role of director of community relations in the office of the UW-Madison chancellor. She served as the primary contact with county, city and community entities. Orrantia previously worked as the assistant director for the Wisconsin Collaborative Education Research Network within UW’s School of Education.
Dr. LaVar J. Charleston, an alumnus of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been tapped to serve as the school’s first associate dean for diversity and inclusion. He will begin in his new post on June 16, 2019.
The University of Wisconsin has chosen a new leader of its famous marching band.
Corey Pompey, director of athletic bands and associate director of bands at the University of Nevada, Reno, starts in July.
The University of Wisconsin Law School has announced the creation of an endowed faculty chair in honor of the late Professor James E. Jones Jr. This is UW-Madison’s first fully funded chair named for an African American faculty member.
University says they are engaging with students, but students say their demands aren’t being met.
With an unparalleled class audit program, Wisconsin senior citizens are allowed to further their education for free, feeding their life-long passion of learning.
Initiative to strengthen ties between tribal nations as the university creates support system for minority students through Native elder mentors.
Presenting solutions to pressing climate change questions for more than 1,000 inter-generational attendees, UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies hosted the 13th annual Earth Day Conference at the Monona Terrace Monday.
UW-Madison named Corey Pompey as the successor to legendary UW Band director Mike Leckrone, the first passing of the baton in 50 years.
John Fallon, the Chief Executive Officer of Pearson, confirms that Dieter Kowalski, a man who once lived in Greenfield and graduated of the University of Wisconsin, is one of the victims of a terror attack in Sri Lanka.
Resolution requires GSSFs to report, file their hours.
Dieter Kowalski, 40, was a Milwaukee native who graduated from UW-Madison in 2001. He was on a business trip, staying at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo Sri Lanka, when the attacks occurred.
Seven establishments — including Wando’s on University Avenue and State Street Brats — had conditions added to their licenses last year that prohibit them from allowing people in after 1:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, even if they were previously in the bar that night.
UW-Madison’s seven-month search for its next vice chancellor for research and graduate education failed to result in a hire, the university said.
The iconic sunburst chairs are back at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace Thursday afternoon.
People started lining up to help return the chairs at the N. Park Street entrance to the Terrace at 3 p.m.
At UW-Madison, Anna Andrzejewski says her art history students have started asking questions about the rebuilding process.“What students are asking about is what we can do ahead of time and create documentation for when something like this happens,” Andrzejewski said.
The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership hosted former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and attorney Dean Strang in a discussion on criminal justice reform and Gonzales’ experience in the White House Thursday evening.
Gov. Tony Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes spoke to the University of Wisconsin College Democrats about education reform and combatting inequalities throughout the state Thursday night.
It’s difficult to envision a terrace without its iconic sunburst chairs, which have a long and local history. The chairs return to the terrace Thursday, April 18, after their winter-long hibernation.
The 2019 BWLC will take place on Thursday and Friday, May 2 and 3, at UW-Madison’s Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard St. This is the fourth annual conference, which aims to empower and equip black women and girls through education, networking and leadership training.
The Arboretum joins 70 other properties around UW-Madison’s campus that are already listed as protected historic places. To be eligible, a location must be at least 50 years old and have one of the following: significance in history or architecture, archeological value or association with a significant person.
The school entered bids to host a regional in 2021 and 2022, officials confirmed this week. The host sites for 2020 and 2021 events are expected to be announced by the NCAA on Thursday or Friday.
Letter: The spirit of Wisconsin grabbed me from the moment I entered the Kohl Center where I was surrounded by a sea of cardinal red and white worn by everyone from toddlers to elderly fans moving enthusiastically through the crowd with their walkers.
The university’s sunburst chairs in green, orange and yellow mark the start of UW-Madison’s terrace season. Another 100 or so of the chairs are expected to return to Union South next week.
The Terrace chairs are coming back the Wisconsin Union this week.
Houston – Former Wisconsin and current Houston Texans defensive star J.J. Watt thought he could ad-lib his speech at next month’s UW-Madison commencement ceremony. He was wrong. The school wants a copy of what Watt plans to say, which came as a surprise to the former all-American.
“Give up positions that you’re in that you know Black people or [another] group [don’t] have access to. I feel like it’s a first step to allyship.”
Arboretum is undergoing controlled burns to prepare grounds for new plant life.
Outstanding Undergraduate Returning Adult Student Award given to two hardworking adult students.
Activist, scholar said young people are an important force driving overdue change in our country.
Seen to stifle diversity and benefit the wealthy, unpaid internships leave students caught between the prospect of invaluable work experience and the threatening lack of a paycheck.
Finding a job after school can be a challenge.
Led by Jacob McInnis, Associate Director of Events for the Wisconsin Union Directorate Society & Politics Committee, the discussion focused primarily on sustainable energy and what political action needs to be taken in order to institute change.
Responding to fan requests for hand rails in aisles of the seating sections at Camp Randall Stadium, the University of Wisconsin athletic department has launched a test project for next season.
Middle school students got a sneak peek at life on a college campus at UW-Madison. The UW-Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom program aims to increase college opportunities for young students.
Hundreds of students at UW-Madison put on their walking shoes Sunday afternoon to help bring people out of the darkness. The walk is one of several across the country raising suicide prevention awareness.
Natasha Oladokun is a poet, but she didn’t grow up reading much poetry. She wasn’t really aware contemporary poets existed or that poetry was a legitimate academic pursuit.
Noted: Cory Dudka, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wasn’t as sure about Sanders’ prospects.
“I don’t think he can win, but I think he can influence the debate,” said the 18-year-old from Arlington, Virginia.
First-year UW-Madison students Katie Andahl and Ekaterina Kabaee came to take in their first presidential rally as they get prepared to vote in a presidential election for the first time next year.
“I wish I knew more so I could be energized,” Andahl said.
Tears streamed down Susannah Peterson’s cheeks as she thought about what she had just heard Saturday night. At the end of that evening’s Humorology variety show at Shannon Hall, UW-Madison students announced they were donating $405,000 dollars to the non-profit Peterson leads—The Badger Childhood Cancer Network (BCCN).
