Category: UW-Madison Related

A Wisconsin group is calling for an audit into the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s BadgersVote Coalition and if it violated a state law that restricted private funds being used to conduct an election.

The Institute for Reforming Government said that the group uses donations to fund a plan and partner with the Madison city clerk to increase voter turnout amongst students.

As alumni flock back to campus for homecoming weekend, so do the plastic pink flamingos that are part of the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association’s annual fundraising campaign.

The Fill the Hill event returns Friday for the 14th year. For each donation of $5 or more to UW-Madison, a plastic pink bird will be placed on Bascom Hill as part of the annual day-of-giving and UW-Madison Homecoming Week.

In front of Bascom Hall on Sept. 18, drizzly skies did not stop flags from flying at March Up Bascom, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s iconic annual Latine Heritage Month kickoff event. The celebratory march followed by a Carnaval was just a few of many events spread throughout the holiday.

Latine Heritage Month spans between Sep. 15 and Oct. 15 — the recognition overlaps two months to include the Independence Days of eight countries within its timeframe.

A flock of pink flamingos will once again descend on UW-Madison this week as the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association hosts its annual Fill the Hill fundraiser.

The 14th annual event is set for UW-Madison’s Homecoming week.

Fill the Hill is the university’s largest day-of-giving initiative during its fall annual campaign. For every gift of $5 or more, a plastic pink flamingo will be placed on Bascom Hill.

Recent University of Wisconsin graduate Ryan Blum executed a plan to break into the Meat Science & Animal Biologics Discovery building during the Spring of 2026, allegedly capturing footage of pigs being stunned with carbon dioxide, according to WSAW-TV.

The footage allegedly shows pigs undergoing CO2 stunning, with around 30 seconds of the over one-minute video showing the inside of the CO2 gas chamber, according to WSAW-TV.

Universities of Wisconsin and Neenah Joint School District leaders are encouraging students and parents in the Fox Valley to review Direct Admit Wisconsin offers and complete the program form for fall 2027 enrollment.

Nearly 40,000 Wisconsin students, including about 3,000 in the Fox Valley, have received admission letters to participating UW campuses, according to UW representatives.

The University of Wisconsin hosted its Student Housing Fair for all students interested in living off campus next fall Wednesday at Gordon’s Dining & Events center, according to Off-Campus Housing Services.

Students were able to connect with representatives from on and off-campus housing, campus services and privately owned rental companies at the fair.

The University of Wisconsin will celebrate Homecoming Week from Sept. 28-Oct. 3 with a lineup of traditions and festivities presented by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, the Wisconsin Homecoming Committee and the Wisconsin Union, according to WAA.

A former University of Wisconsin-Madison student became an internet sensation after being photographed celebrating the Badgers’ upset victory over Penn State in the heart of enemy territory.

Devin Silver graduated from UW-Madison this past spring and now works as a medical assistant and EMT in Washington, D.C.

ChatGPT hit the internet in November 2022 during Keon Davis’ junior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He used it and grew overreliant, but it also worried him. Davis, who was studying marketing, soon watched it automate tasks he handled in a summer internship, like crafting outreach emails and doing consumer research.

Seeing how easily he might be replaced was one reason he changed direction a few months before graduating in May 2024. Instead of pursuing marketing jobs, he signed up for Teach for America. He’s in his third year in front of a third grade classroom at a charter school in New York City.

Ethnic Studies has officially been replaced by Civics & Perspectives as a Core General Education Requirement at the University of Wisconsin, according to core GenEd requirements, but what does that entail?

The reason for the shift in university-wide requirements has to do with transfer credits between UW institutions, specifically when it comes to the transferability for students between UW system schools, according to core GenEd requirements.

Student ambassadors and athletes on campus are advocating for student blood donations at the second annual Big Ten We Give Blood homecoming drive happening on campus between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1.

Every two seconds, someone around the country needs blood. Fighting a blood crisis, the American Red Cross is pushing donations across the county and Abbott is partnering with the Big Ten to award the university with the most donations $1 million.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a score of 65.1 out of 100, a “D” grade in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) 2027 College Free Speech Rankings on Sept. 24, an increase from last year’s score of 58.98 and “F” grade.

The ranking places UW-Madison ahead of comparable institutions like the University of Illinois, 164th place, the University of Michigan, 166th place, and the University of Minnesota, 204th place. The University of Chicago took first place with a score of 81.4/100.

Any question of whether Corey Pompey had settled comfortably into his role as director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band was answered in the aftermath of 2023’s great Camp Randall sound explosion.

For many University of Wisconsin-Madison students, state politics can feel distant from everyday life. It’s easy to see all of this as a separate entity from state politics, but it is not.

The Wisconsin State Capitol building is only a few blocks away from campus, but the policies and decisions made inside seem far removed from the classroom, residence hall or student org meeting.

They are not.

Annual tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has increased each of the last four years. On August 17, however, the UW system proposed a plan to freeze tuition from 2027 to 2029 if the state agrees to invest $190 million into the universities. Though some students may appreciate this, any sane person will surely empathize with the UW Board of Regents, as this change would bar them from the most self-satisfying part of their jobs: raising tuition.

Gov. Tony Evers and an array of state lawmakers, faculty and donors held a ceremony Thursday afternoon to debut Irving and Dorthy Levy Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s newest campus building.

A new home for the College of Letters and Science, the building will house eight different humanities departments: African American Studies, American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, History, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies.