Category: Campus life

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.