Category: Campus life

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 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 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.

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).

Pedestrians wait to cross University Ave on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as snow falls in Madison, Wisconsin.

The campus that started a tradition of celebrating planet Earth is connecting back to its environmentalist spirits, while integrating its most recent mission: inclusion.

The Babcock Hall Dairy Store is featuring its newest flavor, March on Leckrone, a vanilla ice cream with cranberry swirls and white chocolate flakes, at Memorial Union and Union South, as well as at the store at 1605 Linden Drive.

Gym houses diverse groups, acts as gathering place.

A photo slideshow of the campus event.

The University of Wisconsin Law School’s graduating class has selected the Honorable Everett Mitchell to present the keynote address at its 2019 Hooding Ceremony, a special recognition for students receiving law degrees.

Panelists say UW needs to take more direct action in supporting minority students in STEM fields.

The survey includes questions about students’ experience with the preserve in order to gain information on their understanding of the space.

Looking back at her time at UW-Madison, recent graduate Tiffany Sneed shakes her head and sighs in relief that she survived living in the dorms.

UW Arboretum designated a historical place, due to the historical impact of its land restoration, specifically its work with prairies.

At UW-Madison’s Science Expeditions Campus open house, there were guided tours of the park where people learned about UW science alumni and their discoveries.

Both feet and paws hit the Lakeshore Path on the UW-Madison campus on Sunday for the 11th annual Canine Campus Crawl.

Hundreds of UW-Madison graduate students staged a sit-in Friday at Bascom Hall, seeking to have their student fees waived, a “living wage” and passage of policies governing their employment that have been under discussion with the university’s administration for almost two years.

April 8 at 5 p.m. marks the start of a 1,848-minute-long Day of the Badger put on by the University of Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association.

A stretch of West Dayton Street will be closed for up to seven months beginning Monday, because of work on a steam tunnel for UW-Madison.

The designation means the arboretum will qualify for grants and income tax credits while still allowing the public to use the property. When the arboretum first opened in 1932, it was on 246 acres. It now spans 1,200 acres.

Members of student political organizations debated most effective means to combatting climate change.

Anyone who has hiked, biked or skied through the University of Wisconsin Arboretum will register memories, whether they are of the fragrant explosion of lilac blossoms in spring, the brilliant crimsons and ambers of autumn leaves or the hardy conifers, heavy with snow.

Members of student political organizations debated most effective means to combatting climate change.

Peggy Hager discusses Norway’s food, history in relation to prosperous country.