In the wake of the Big Ten’s controversial announcement that its member schools will play six primetime games on Fridays during September and October beginning in 2017, the University of Wisconsin announced it is not open to hosting such games at Camp Randall Stadium with the exception of Labor Day weekend.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison African-American alumni sent a letter with more than 160 signatures to the university’s chancellor Tuesday afternoon expressing their frustrations with the racial climate on campus.
With recent incidents of hate and bias making news locally and nationally, the annual UW-Madison Diversity Forum provided an opportunity for administrators and the campus community to discuss inclusivity on campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials will be reviewing Camp Randall policies after a fan wore an offensive costume to Saturday’s Badgers football game.
UW-Madison will review policies at Camp Randall Stadium after photos of a man in costume with a noose around his neck stirred outrage, with officials saying they will seek to ensure “that symbols of this type are not displayed in our stadium again.”
I find it difficult to express the depth of my disappointment with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If this is not hate speech … a costume of a black president in a noose, then what is?!
A costume depicting President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck at Saturday’s Wisconsin football game has ignited a firestorm on social media and on campus, with students, faculty and others denouncing both the people who wore it and what some considered a weak response to the incident from UW-Madison.
Reaction to the picture shared at Saturday’s Badgers football game on social media of a man wearing a costume of President Barack Obama hanging by a noose is spreading nationwide.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison continues to face criticism this week after two fans at Saturday’s football game wore costumes and a noose to depict Donald Trump lynching President Obama.
A Halloween costume involving President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and a noose worn by two attendees at a University of Wisconsin football game has reignited the debate on the role universities play in protecting free speech and curbing hateful words.
Three new bias incident reports have been filed since an individual wore a Barack Obama mask and noose costume to a University of Wisconsin-Madison’s football game Saturday.
The incident comes at a time when students, faculty and staff are questioning the University of Wisconsin’s campus climate, after what Chancellor Rebecca Blank referred to as “ugly incidents” last Spring.
It doesn’t seem like a stretch to say that relations are strained between the University of Wisconsin System and Republicans in the state Capitol. Gov. Scott Walker has proposed extending a tuition freeze for a fifth and sixth year in the 2017-19 biennial budget, a freeze which System administrators say jeopardizes higher education in the state. Walker and his counterparts in the GOP majority in the Legislature would likely reply by inquiring about the status of the System’s cash reserves, which stood at $648 million in the spring of 2013.
Fans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison football game caused a stir Saturday night when they wore costumes of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton with nooses around their necks, led by another fan in a Donald Trump mask.
Matthew Desmond’s work studying poverty as part of his Ph.D. program at UW-Madison led him to move into some of the poorest neighborhoods in Milwaukee. There, he meticulously researched the book chosen for the 2016-2017 Go Big Read, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.”
Last fall, UW-Madison officials released the results of a survey that found more than 1 in 4 responding women said they experienced unwanted sexual contact during their time at the university.
The First Folio is coming to Madison, one of the last stops in a yearlong tour designed to exhibit a copy of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays in every U.S. state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The precious and historic volume, laid open to the page bearing Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” speech, will be on display from Thursday to Dec.11 at the UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art.
A man attended Saturday’s UW-Madison football game at Camp Randall Stadium in a President Barack Obama mask while wearing a prison jumpsuit and a noose around his neck.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has condemned the actions of two fans at Saturday night’s Badger Football game.A picture quickly spread across social media during the game showing a woman in the stands wearing a Barack Obama mask and a noose around her neck.
A third University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been hospitalized with meningococcal disease, the university reported Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus continued to reel Thursday under the national spotlight as new details emerged in the case of a senior facing felony charges of sexually preying on multiple students over the last 18 months.
Epic Systems Corp. founder and CEO Judy Faulkner is in line for more recognition from UW-Madison.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has announced a $99 million gift to UW-Madison to support faculty recruitment and retention, as well as to further opportunities for students during the current school year.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, commonly known as WARF, announced Thursday that its annual gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be $55.2 million for 2016-2017. Additional funding for research with partners, royalties and other grants brings the total investment to $99 million.
MADISON, Wis. — One woman told investigators that the college senior invited her this month to his apartment, where he raped her and choked her until her vision blurred.
An Edina High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison, student is charged with sexually assaulting five women in a criminal case that quickly expanded Thursday after a complaint was filed in one case last week.
A University of Wisconsin student has been charged with a string of sexual assaults involving four different women. Alec Cook, 20, has been the subject of reports from dozens of women, according to police, since the first woman raised the alarm bell.
Over 10,000 University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been vaccinated at a special campus clinic over the past week against a type of meningococcal disease that sent two students to the hospital earlier this month.
University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Wednesday that an astronaut who grew up in Milwaukee has been chosen as its December commencement speaker.
As the national news media descended Wednesday on the story of a now-suspended University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting multiple fellow students, the young man’s attorneys issued a statement arguing that “the rapid-fire news cycle, combined with the viral nature of social media,” had resulted in a “modern-day character assassination.”
Thanks to a four-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the University of Wisconsin will increase the number of resident physicians in underserved rural areas in an effort to close the gap of health disparities.
As the state’s rural population ages, increasing its need for health care, Wisconsin is facing a shortage of physicians in rural areas that is projected to get much worse in coming decades.
To address it, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the state’s health systems are developing residency programs in rural areas — knowing that doctors are more likely to practice where they do their training.
A University of Wisconsin student was arrested this month on charges that he sexually assaulted a female student, prompting dozens of women to contact the police about encounters they said they had had with the man, according to the police and several news reports.
Some polls suggest that Hillary Clinton’s support among millennials may be surging, but there is a lot of anger and disappointment from that huge bloc of voters. In the latest installment of our “Red, White and You” series, NBC’s Ronan Farrow investigates whether efforts to court millennials’ votes will pay off.
Cobb, Wis. – Before Greg Gard knew he wanted to coach basketball, before he wore a badge and carried a gun, before he played baseball at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, before he showed hogs at the county fair, before he cleaned tractors and dried up motor oil, before he wiggled the television rabbit ears to catch Badgers games, he knew that he most wanted to be like someone else.
On Oct. 12, in Madison, Wis., a female student went to police and filed a complaint against a 20-year-old student by the name of Alec Cook. She said she and Cook had originally contacted each other via Facebook and gotten together four or five times since then, always in public.
My grandmother, whom my family affectionately referred to as “Bay” because she was the youngest of her siblings, was one of the wisest people I’ve ever known—especially when you consider the fact that she only had an eighth-grade education. She would often tell me, “If you don’t stand for somethin’ you’ll fall for nothin’.”
For Keven Stonewall, being a teenager meant embarking on a scientific journey of questions and discoveries. It meant taking risks and not being afraid to stand out from his peers. And it meant working to find a cure for colon cancer at the tender age of 17.
After seven years of studying three-toed sloths, scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have made it official: the tree-dwelling animals are the slowest mammals on earth, metabolically speaking. “We expected them to have low metabolic rates, but we found them to have tremendously low energy needs,” says ecologist Jonathan Pauli.
As Shakespeare’s first folio of work from the year 1623 comes to Wisconsin, WPR talks with two celebrated interpreters of his work about what the plays of Shakespeare have meant to them in the course of their lives.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has long been considered to be among the nation’s top universities. But in recent years it has faced deep budget cuts from the state and a critical governor who led the effort to remove tenure rights from state statute. Only some of those provisions were subsequently placed in university regulations, and many faculty members believe the new system lacks sufficient rights for professors.
Two research teams — one with a potential vaccine for the Zika virus and the other with a new way of monitoring sedated patients — have won $10,000 each in an innovation competition organized by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
MADISON, Wis. — David Gilreath never planned on becoming a Wisconsin Badger. Instead, he arrived for a visit intent on reaffirming his commitment to Minnesota. The wide receiver prospect attended high school 12 miles from the Metrodome and hadn’t experienced a college game anywhere else.
The Wisconsin Energy Institute is buzzing with about 400 scientists, graduate students and staff.
Imagine seeing yourself on a billboard showcasing your achievements for a day. One local individual doesn’t have to dream up this scenario – she was featured on a billboard during the whole month of September.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is right: It’s time to reinvest in Wisconsin’s universities after a $250 million cut in the last state budget.
UW-Eau Claire leaders boasted about the university, the city and the university’s graduates Thursday as part of a discussion before the UW System Board of Regents.
University of Wisconsin System regents are poised to vote on a plan to raise in-state undergraduate tuition for the 2018-19 school year if Republicans lift their tuition freeze.
A new UW System Business Council is one of the outcomes from a Board of Regents meeting in Eau Claire.
MADISON, Wis. — Zigzagging through campus on the 15-minute walk to his 8 a.m. class in Nancy Nicholas Hall, a black backpack slung over one shoulder and sporting a red University of Wisconsin warm-up jacket, Tony Granato looks like an average college student.
A 48-year-old Milwaukee man exonerated by DNA evidence in a sexual assault case was released from prison on Wednesday after serving 24 years for a crime he did not commit.
A Milwaukee man is getting a new start to his life after spending 24 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
Andrew Strother is a poster boy for the great outdoors. An image of the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison junior is featured, larger than life, on a billboard facing northbound Interstate 94 traffic just north of the Highway E overpass, where he is shown tying a fishing lure to his line on the shores of a Kenosha County lake.
Wisconsin ranks second to last nationally in funding for higher education, according to one metric published by online news provider “Inside Higher Ed.”
After three years of an in-state tuition freeze, University of Wisconsin System officials are considering lifting the cap after the 2017-18 academic school year.
– University of Wisconsin System regents are set to consider a resolution this week calling for raising in-state tuition after next year.
A new report shows the University of Wisconsin System’s balances have shrunk.
La Crosse attorney and community leader Brent Smith is the local face of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In-state students at University of Wisconsin System institutions would see no tuition increase next year and a small increase tied to the cost of living for the 2018-19 school year under a proposal UW officials released this week.
The number of out-of-state and international students in UW-Madison’s freshman class did not skyrocket in the first year after the university lifted its cap on the percentage of new students who can come from outside Wisconsin and Minnesota.
