Students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison know a thing or two about snow. Last year, after a blizzard, some of them built an igloo. The same students are at it again this year.
MADISON, Wis. — For the first half of Officer Kraig Kalka’s shift, the temperature outside hovered at about zero. Within hours, he knew, the air would dive toward negative double digits, part of a dangerous 48-hour deep freeze across much of the Midwest.
Hairu Zheng started the petition to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. The petition notes the extremely cold temperatures and wind chills expected in the next two days.
Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, joined 14 of her assembly members in detailing their reasons for supporting the longtime political science professor.
The life-threatening temperatures forecasters are calling the coldest in a generation prompted UW-Madison to cancel classes, events and campus activities from 5 p.m. Tuesday through noon Thursday.
Thousands of UW-Madison students have signed an online petition calling for the university to shut down Tuesday and Wednesday because of dangerously cold temperatures.
Many students grade school through college level enjoyed a snow day Monday. That doesn’t include the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This announcement caused an immediate backlash on both Facebook and Twitter from students, alumni and professors. The university’s statement on Facebook garnered hundreds of comments, many criticizing UW’s judgement.
The UW-Madison Student Services Finance Committee heard budget requests from the Child Care Tuition Assistance Program and the ASM Transportation Board during their meeting Monday night.
UW-Madison has a history of conservative policy when it comes to allocating snow days and/or extreme cold days. The last time class was canceled as a result of cold weather was in 2012 when 15.2 inches of snow fell within 24 hours in Madison, the fourth highest total in the city’s history according to Weather Underground.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin-Madison said early Monday that classes would be held today but that officials will “continue to assess” the extreme cold expected later in the week.
The University of Wisconsin is one of the only universities in the country to offer a short course program, a hybrid between attending a four-year university and a technical college. Most graduates go on to work in production agriculture or a related field.
Q&A with UW-Madison geography professor Kris Olds.
MADISON, Wis. – Jack Kwan, a 20-year-old kinesiology student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is competing Thursday night on NBC’s “The Titan Games.”
A political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is being criticized by a Republican state lawmaker for how his course syllabus characterizes President Trump.
After attending the first two lectures of “The American Presidency,” along with sitting down with Mayer to discuss her concerns about the course, McKenna Collins said she feels her voice will be heard in his class.
For its fifth annual social justice conference, UW-Madison’s School of Social Work wanted to hear from people who know the social work system better than anyone: those who have grown up in it.
Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes addressed University of Wisconsin- Madison faculty, students and community members in a inspiring keynote on Monday afternoon at UW’s annual MLK Day Celebration.
“The degree of racism and anti-semitism … was just part and parcel of the university world at the time,” said Stu Levitan, a Madison historian and author.
In her invocation, Rabbi Andrea Steinberger, a rabbi at the Hillel Foundation on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, pointed to powerful examples of women, ranging from the Biblical Hannah to civil rights activist Rosa Parks to “women who by their efforts of resistance led us on a path towards the women’s marches of today.”
And while some of the stars of this week’s international competition at UW-Madison hail from Wisconsin, there is not a cheddar, Gouda or mozzarella to be found.
Smoke inside the UW-Madison Engineering Centers building on Monday forced the evacuation of the facility, but nobody was injured.
Those fascinating works are the basis of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, which itself is the foundation for “Applique to Zardozi: A Celebration Sampler,” an upcoming exhibition at the university’s Ruth Davis Design Gallery, located in the School of Human Ecology building at 1300 Linden Drive.
Brauer, a psychology professor, will speak Tuesday, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on “Approaching MLK’s dream: Scientifically tested methods to reduce racism and promote inclusivity” as part of UW-Madison’s Crossroads of Ideas public lecture series.
More than 400 people attended. The event was originally scheduled for the Memorial Union but due to high interest it was moved to Varsity Hall inside Union South.
The event also had social justice dialogues and a food drive benefiting The Open Seat, which is a food pantry for UW-Madison students.
The Madison premiere of “Prototype” (in 3D) takes place at 7 p.m. Friday at the UW-Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall, the first screening of its Spring 2019 film series. The screening is free.
Why would the UW-Cinematheque invest in 3D technology? It doesn’t seem likely that the free, on-campus film series will screen “Aquaman” anytime soon.
Wisconsin’s love affair with booze dates to statehood. Milwaukee has served as home to some of the country’s biggest brewers, including Pabst, Schlitz, Miller and Blatz. The Princeton Review in 2017 rated the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the school with the most beer.
In 2002, five years after Gillian Laub graduated from UW-Madison, she started doing freelance photography for Spin magazine. At that time, a high school student in Montgomery County, Georgia, wrote the magazine begging someone to come tell the story of her town’s segregation.
Portion of proceeds donated to marching band.
Vallabh Sambamurthy, a professor and associate dean for MBA and professional master’s programs at Michigan State’s Eli Broad College of Business, will take the reins Aug. 1, UW-Madison announced Wednesday.
John Diamond, a sociologist of education, was recently named the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with UW-Madison’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
On Wednesday, the university announced it will be hosting a satellite contest of the IFFA Quality Competition Jan. 21-25 in the lobby of the Discovery Building. The main competition is held every three years in Frankfurt, Germany.
The Boston-born Wisel currently teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is a fiction fellow.
This idea has been around for several generations of UW students, but it never really happened, and I think it points to how a lot of diversity initiatives are often budget-based instead of equity or morally based.
As director of the UniverCity Alliance at UW-Madison, Gavin Luter tries to bridge the gap between academia and the “real world.”
Noted: First, we hear from Aaron Bird Bear (assistant dean of student diversity programs) and Omar Poler (American Indian curriculum services coordinator) from the UW–Madison School of Education to discuss the tremendous success of the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour.
For the second year in a row, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been ranked the No. 1 feeder school for the Peace Corps.
A new study finds University of Wisconsin-Madison Division 1 athletes are in better mental shape than their classmates.
December 2018 graduates have made it across the stage this month, putting away another eventful calendar year for higher education. These are the top higher education stories covered by the Cap Times.
University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked No. 1 for student athletic participation in the state, according to a Watchdog analysis of college sports participation.
Stephen Carpenter received the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology earlier this month.
Noted: Wisconsin students could get free tuition at Madison story included: For Wisconsin families whose combined income stands at $56,000 or less, their students could now get free four-year tuition at the University of Wisconsin under Bucky’s Tuition Promise.
Students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students release “Fearless” edition of Curb Magazine.
Growing up in New York, Vic Barrett wanted to make a difference.
“I was always interested in human rights in the way any young, black, Latin American, queer, transgender person growing up in a very white community is interested — I just wanted to plug in and get involved,” says Barrett, who is a UW-Madison sophomore.
Also Monday, the commission killed a previously rejected proposal for a 12-story student apartment near the UW-Madison campus.
Following five years of service to UW-Madison, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Sarah Mangelsdorf is leaving to fulfill her dreams as president at the University of Rochester.
The leading rusher in the NCAA doesn’t just break tackles all over the football field. He also dashes off to class. Being a serious student means getting to his seat as early as possible.
The University of Rochester has chosen University of Wisconsin-Madison provost Sarah Mangelsdorf as its new president.
UW-Madison’s No. 2 executive will leave at the end of the 2018-19 academic year to become the first female president at another university.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chief academic officer for the past five years will leave the university at the end of the academic year to become president of the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
The University of Rochester has named a new president. On Monday morning, UR announced that Sarah Mangelsdorf, currently the provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will succeed interim President Richard Feldman.
MADISON, Wis. – More than a thousand University of Wisconsin-Madison students received their diplomas at the Kohl Center on Sunday morning with a commencement speech from a man well-known by Wisconsinites and baseball fans alike.
Whatever reasons drive someone in the pursuit of higher education, former Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan “Bud” Selig urged UW-Madison graduates Sunday to “dream big dreams, limitless dreams, because only then can you reach your full potential.”
A developer has re-submitted a previously rejected proposal for a 12-story student apartment near the UW-Madison campus. And on the west side of town, neighbors are pushing back against an affordable housing development that city staff is recommending for approval.
Student speaker Jamie Dawson told her fellow graduates of her family’s struggles in her early life, when she and her mother spent time living with family. Like Selig, she never thought she would be where she is today.
A UW-Madison student’s three-year cultivation of a campuswide mental health and suicide prevention awareness campaign is best seen by glancing at students’ backpacks.
The artists call it “the glory hole.” It’s one of three furnaces essential for glassmaking, used to reheat glass while a piece is being worked on. On this late November day, inside the Glass Lab on North Frances Street, the glory hole is burning at 2,150 degrees Fahrenheit. The door is open and the inside glows a molten orange. Helen Lee, assistant professor of UW-Madison’s art glass program, stands next to it, holding a blowpipe with a partially-made goblet at the end of it.
He has authorized students to bring in controversial conservative figures, such as commentator Katie Pavlich, when other faculty would not.
