UW-Madison is one of a handful of universities in the Big 10 that do not require students to get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. But with measles outbreaks in several other states, university health officials are discussing whether their vaccination recommendation to students should be a requirement.
On Monday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Class of 2019 unveiled its gift of a sculpture that pays homage to women who attended UW.
A UW-Madison professor who won the prestigious Passano Fellow award, as well as a second major prize earlier, could be in line for a Nobel prize. Robert Fettiplace, professor of neuroscience at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, won the 2019 Passano Fellow award for research into the mechanics of hearing.
The Wisconsin Union is milking the popularity of its sunburst style Terrace chairs to raise money for the UW School of Veterinary Medicine’s expansion project.
The UW School of Veterinary Medicine is fundraising so they can double the size of their small animal hospital, and the Wisconsin Union is stepping in to help. WU Director Mark Guthier and School of Veterinary Medicine Associate Dean Kristi Thorson talk about the specially made chair.
On Monday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Class of 2019 unveiled its gift of a sculpture that pays homage to women who attended UW.
Jonah Larson, an 11-year-old from Lacrosse, has been getting attention from around the world for his crochet creations he sells to raise money for a Madison non-profit.
Jonah Larson has one of the firmest handshake of any 11-year-old you’ll ever meet. He might rival most adults in that regard.
MADISON, Wis. – UW-Madison senior Jack Pawlik majored in real estate, but will pursue an entirely different career after graduation as co-founder of a start-up app.
A Wisconsin-made sensor part of a cosmic observatory that was buried beneath the South Pole is on its way to the Smithsonian.
The UW Veterinary Center offers discounted procedures to law enforcement dogs,
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an international research collaboration led by UW-Madison, buried more than 5,000 sensors beneath sheets of ice at the South Pole over a period of seven Antarctic summers that began in 2004.
In the 30 years that the University Book Store has provided graduation gowns to UW-Madison’s commencement speakers, company president Pat McGowan cannot recall needing to order a custom-size gown.
J.J. Watt is returning to the University of Wisconsin, where he played football his sophomore and junior years before being drafted.
Megan Miller, the Morgridge Center for Public Service assistant director for civic engagement and communications, said there’s a need to build a lasting commitment to civic engagement in the student body
Brugel said this event, hosted by Wunk Sheek, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán and PAVE, is especially important because Native women are often left out of the discussion about sexual assault.
When you hear the phrase “the future of politics,” they’re talking about people like Avra Reddy. At just 19, this Illinois-native University of Wisconsin-Madison student has become the first woman in 26 years—and the first woman of color—to represent District 8 on Madison’s City Council. And like many women who’ve sought to be the first, she faced sexism and doubt along the way. Here, she talks about the women who helped pull her through and the steps to take to follow in her footsteps.
Chances are, if you’re in the NFL, regular graduation gowns aren’t going to cut it.
Former Wisconsin Badgers and current Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt will give UW-Madison’s commencement speech this year.
Noted: Cliché as it sounds, I knew I wanted to go to Wisconsin-Madison within about 20 minutes of my being on campus. Prior to visiting, it had checked all of my boxes: it was a big school with great game days and school spirit, it had an extremely impressive dairy science program (arguably the best in the nation), and the location wasn’t too close to home while still having all of the seasons. But my love for the school grew exponentially while I was on campus.
Two women questioned dean John Karl Scholz at his finalist presentation Tuesday afternoon about how he responded to complaints regarding Harvey Jacobs, a former UW-Madison professor whom students and staff accused of inappropriately touching, staring and commenting as part of a pattern going back years.
The University Book Store shared this photo the other day, showing that Watt’s custom-made commencement gown was ready to go.
Dr. Gloria Hawkins was honored with a salute and surprise reception for her 41 years of dedicated service to UW-Madison at the Chancellor’s Scholars Spring Reception April 29 at the Varsity Hall of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Union South.
With the end of the 2018-19 school year approaching, The Badger Herald interviewed University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank on a range of issues, including higher education funding, the campus climate and UW mental health services.
As you may know, there was a famous and pivotal event in Madison and University of Wisconsin history of May 1969 known by some as the Mifflin Street Riot and by others as The Battle of Miffland, which spread to the UW campus and went on for three days and nights.
A student reportedly walked out of a legal studies lecture last Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after an ex-convict spoke to the class about his incarceration as a convicted rapist.
Photo gallery of UW Marching Band director Mike Leckrone through the years. Leckrone is retiring after 50 years.
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.
