Taylor, the featured performer in the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s “Piano Genius” concerts happening at Overture Hall, is a professor in the School of Music.
More than 30 tribes are joining in the 45th Annual On Wisconsin Spring Powwow at the UW Field House. That includes the Ho-Chunk and Oneida Nation Color Guards, leading dancers and drummers in their performances.
Column from Sybil Pressprich, a career and educational counselor for the Division of Continuing Studies.
Steve Brown, 67-year-old developer and campus-area landlord, said he wanted to leverage those assets for the long-term good of the community. The result was the Stephen and Laurel Brown Foundation, started with his wife in 2013. This week, the most tangible and ambitious project of the foundation, a religious gathering spot called UpperHouse, officially opens at 365 East Campus Mall.
The publicly funded college should sell its Downtown Education Center, 211 N. Carroll St., close its West Campus in June 2016, when the lease for facilities at 302 S. Gammon Road expires, and develop a site in South Madison to provide comprehensive programming and services, president Jack Daniels recommended Wednesday to the Madison Area Technical College board.
Bellydancing UW will present its 15th annual spring show Saturday night at Monona Terrace.
Canine Influenza, which can be fatal to dogs, has been confirmed in a dog in the Madison area, according to officials at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries event runs from April 15 through April 18, in Room 116 of the university’s Memorial Library, 728 State St.
These discussion sessions seem to us good faith efforts to make the UW more transparent and accessible in the true spirit of The Wisconsin Idea. We very much appreciate the UW’s leadership here. We need it.
Coates, senior editor and national correspondent for The Atlantic, spoke Tuesday at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
It was a wild night for Madison when the Badgers defeated the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday. Now with the final big game against Duke coming up, the city is preparing for a lot more of March Madness.
UW-Madison officials and local police are preparing for potentially one of the most historic parties the city has seen if the Badger men’s basketball team wins the national championship Monday.
Rerun of front page Wisconsin State Journal story on the return of the basketball champion Badgers, published March 30, 1941.
Noted: UW-Madison is among the campuses with a strong InterVarsity presence. There are more than a dozen InterVarsity chapters there, serving a variety of demographic groups.
Profile of Riley Balikian, a UW-Madison graduate student studying sustainable community development and water resource management and one of 12 members of the steering committee for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action.
Controlled burns of prairie land are scheduled on Sunday in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve on the far western edge of the campus, the university said in a news release on Friday.
Noted: Insight from Pamela Oliver, a UW-Madison sociology professor who has researched the dynamics of protests.
Noted: Includes perspective from Stan Davis, an adjunct instructor at UW Law School, from a forum sponsored by the African American Council of Churches and the NAACP of Madison.
The forums are being organized by the African-American Council of Churches, the NAACP of Madison and the UW-Madison law school.
White began at the UW-Madison’s Waisman Center in 1986 and now runs Community Outreach Wisconsin COW,
A spokesperson for Blank said Thursday that there a no plans to change the operating model of the golf course.“The university is exploring numerous avenues to mitigate the proposed budget cuts, including suggestions on costs savings and efficiencies received from faculty, staff and the public,” John Lucas, executive director of university communications, said in an email.
WAUSAU – If Nathan Fetting and his coworkers at Greenheck do their job right, the fans and vents they develop should fade into the background, unremarkable to the people breathing the air recirculated by the company’s products.
From changing Easter dinner, sliding church services, or bringing extra TV’s into a baby shower, NBC 15 viewers have shared over a dozen cancelled or pushed events.
Four local workers — in fast food, retail, home care and food service at UW-Madison — told their stories Tuesday outside the McDonald’s restaurant on Regent Street during an announcement of plans for local one-day strikes and marches.
That four-week course, “The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold and Conservation,” is part of UW-Madison’s “Massive Open Online Course” series, or MOOC. The course ran from late January to late February, and remains available online at http://moocs.wisc.edu/mooc/landethic/, but interaction with instructors is no longer available.
UW’s golf course opens for the season Wednesday with tee times available after 11 a.m. The practice facility will also open Wednesday, starting at 10 a.m.
Science on Tap this week is looking at water quality in the Great Lakes.Director of UW Madison’s Aquatic Sciences Center Jim Hurley says the nature of Great Lakes pollution has changed over the years, now coming from more diffuse sources instead of point ones.
MADISON – MD-to-be Trista Stankowski-Drengler smiled after she opened the envelope on Match Day and saw she’ll be serving her residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
UW–Madison Social Media Specialist Nate Moll talked to the Cap Times about how he got his job as the “thumbs of UW-Madison” and how he tries to bring “inspired goofiness” to his work.
Noted: Pyle began volunteering this month as part of public service requirement for a literature and medicine class at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s graduating in May with a degree in neurobiology and is applying to medical schools. Pyle is enjoying the experience so much that after her class finishes, she plans to continue volunteering until she goes to medical school next year.
Column by Givnish, the Henry Allan Gleason professor of botany and environmental studies.
Moving from its first to second phase, the Memorial Union Reinvestment project will focus on exterior changes, like reviving Alumni Park and “overhauling” the Terrace, causing it to close from the beginning of September until summer 2016, Marketing & Communications Coordinator for the Memorial Union Reinvestment Anna Johnson said.
Anna Johnson, marketing and communications coordinator for the Memorial Union reinvestment project, told News 3 that the west end of the terrace adjacent to the remodeled theater will remain open during the project, and the new terrace area will open early in the summer of 2016.
A native of New Berlin and a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad, Bown came up with the idea for Unplugged Events last summer during an outdoor-based leadership training session in California’s redwood forest.
2015 Wisconsin Film Festival preview. Screenings will be held at various campus locations April 9-15.
Dane County ranks among the healthier counties in Wisconsin, according to an annual ranking released by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Great World Texts in Wisconsin, an initiative sponsored by the UW-Madison Center for Humanities, will host 500 high school students who have spent the year studying Rousseaus autobiography Confessions at its 10th annual conference. The students will have a chance to hear from political theorist and MacArthur Award-winner Danielle S. Allen, author of Our Declaration.
The 2015 UW-Madison Writers’ Institute intends to show aspiring writers that there are many more out there, all grappling with the same things.
At the crack of dawn, Wildlife Ecology assistant professor David Drake and his team of researchers are finding coyotes and red foxes in unique habitats: in suburban backyards, in city parks, along well-traveled, campus paths. The animals are turning up in traps set by Drake and team members, as they try to gauge the scope of these species of wildlife’s spread into an urban setting.
More than 82,000 tickets are sold for games at the Kohl Center – and more than 6,000 cars park around the venue, bringing in $30,000 for UW Transportation Services.
University of Wisconsin Police had six reports of sex assault in 2014, up from three reports in 2013. But spokesman Marc Lovicott says despite the increase in reports, he knows sex assaults are under-reported according to national statistics.
Through her research, teaching, and mentoring of grad students at the School of Library and Information Studies SLIS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison UW-M, Rebekah Willett works to narrow the gulf between the often enclosed academic arena and the outside world. “By offering students [opportunities] in ‘real world’ situations, I aim to connect their experiences to theories and ideas we’re covering in class,” deepening both, she says.
Here in “idyllic” Madison, Wisconsin, we are regularly told we have one of the most “livable” cities in the U.S. … but livable for whom? It was apparently not livable for Tony Terrell Robinson. Post written by Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor and Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education.
Thousands of young people are heading to the UW-Madison campus this weekend, but not for the state high school basketball tournament.
Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at MIT, will deliver the sixth Len Robock Annual Lecture on March 24 at 7 p.m., in the DeLuca Forum in the Discovery Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
From t-shirt sellers, to bakers, to local drink makers, businesses are cashing in on March Madness.
Cycle for Sight is an indoor cycling event that raises money for vision research at the McPherson Eye Research Institute at UW-Madison. Quoted: David Gamm, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences.
For many students of color on campus in particular, the shooting feels close to home. At the same time, the event has sparked many to recommit to work for racial justice in the community.
Video segment about Wheelhouse Studios on the UW campus letting people use art to react to the police shooting of Tony Robinson.
UW professor David Bordwell and the UW Cinematheque invited Pewaukee native and UW alum David Koepp to Madison to screen three of his films, during which he discussed his inspiration and challenges throughout his career.
Column about the community center by Megan Stefkovich, a freshman majoring in biology.
On Monday, Hetzler and his experimental band Sinister Resonance … will perform at High Noon Saloon. On Wednesday, Hetzler, an associate professor of trombone at UW-Madison, also will lead a benefit concert intended to raise morale and money for Brittany Sperberg, an outstanding university student whose music studies have been sidelined by a severe and yet-to-be diagnosed illness. On Friday and Saturday, Hetzler will be performing in more free concerts, this time with his fellow members of the UW Brass Quintet.
The Dane County sheriff and the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition debated the ethics behind the renovations to the Dane County Jail Thursday on UW-Madison’s campus.
Sheriff Dave Mahoney defended the need for renovations to the Dane County Jail, calling the current facilities “dangerous,” in a debate that about 330 community members attended Thursday on UW-Madison’s campus.
The question hung in the air Wednesday as lights dimmed in the Overture Center’s Promenade Hall on the first night of performances for the ninth annual Line Breaks Festival. The answer presented by performers – students in the UW-Madison’s First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community – evolved over the course of the evening.
The festival takes place from April 9 through April 16 at several UW-Madison locations, including Union South and the UW-Cinematheque, as well as the Capitol Theater and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
This week is Groundwater Awareness Week. A University of Wisconsin expert says the public often is unaware of the volume of our water resources and where drinking water comes from.
Addressing “ratchetness” and respectability, Dr. Brittney Cooper spoke on racial justice and self-expression to illustrate the challenges black people face as part of the Black Lives Matter lecture series Tuesday.
Police discovered over a thousand bicycles, and confiscated 600 of them with identifiable serial numbers. The bikes are now sitting in a storage unit, owned by UW Police.
The searches took place across two counties and include a Muscoda bike shop, an apartment in the Town of Madison, a storage unit in the City of Madison, and a farm in the Town of Windsor.
