Category: Campus life

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.

Students from Helios, a student organization that aims to create renewable energy sources on campus, along with university officials from the Office of Sustainability, University Housing and Facilities Planning and Management have worked for over a year to create, test and implement solar panels on the roof of Gordon.

The possible appointment of presidential adviser Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve would be unlikely to shift the U.S. central bank’s policy because he would be only one voice among many, the head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, James Bullard, said on Thursday.

Noted: Gemma is undergoing extensive treatment and is set to have bone, skin and fur replacement. Help will come from the University of Wisconsin – Madison Veterinary Care hospital, along with a fur donation from a Seattle-based company. UWM doctors will 3D print a section of plastic to repair a hole in Gemma’s snout from the severe caustic burns.

The slowdown seen in the most recent economic data is likely to be short-lived, and there is no need to talk about cutting interest rates, said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Thursday.

“I think it’s possible for students to have significant life events and still stay in school. I don’t know why this is not a possibility,” Pechous said.

A panel of Asian American activists and professors intending to add context and an Asian perspective to the controversial musical “Miss Saigon” ahead of its upcoming run at the Overture Center was canceled last minute following disagreements between the theater and panelists.

Prescribed burns have started in the UW Arboretum along the Beltline, with more planned in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the UW-Madison campus along Lake Mendota.

After initiatives as governor caused overpopulation in prisons, Thompson hopes to reduce recidivism by building educational, vocational programs.