Selina Armenta was just three years old when she traveled from Mexico to the U.S. with family friends over 18 years ago.
UW-Madison’s First Wave program, a four-year, full tuition hip-hop scholarship, will not be accepting applications for the 2018-’19 academic year. The decision to put the program on hold—the first time in its 10-year existence—comes amid talk of changes to the program that offers scholarships to artists across the country.
A seasoned law student and veteran dean of two law schools, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan expressed her love of academics during her talk at Memorial Union Friday.
The Associated Students of Madison’s Outreach Director Yogev Ben-Yitschak and Shared Governance Chair Deena Whitwam co-hosted the group’s new WSUM radio show, “The State of the University,” which made airwaves across campus Friday.
Just a week after being arrested for sneaking into Sellery Residence Hall and taking pictures of residents in a women’s restroom, an 18-year old Madison man was arrested again Thursday by UW-Madison police for a similar crime.
UW-Madison junior Curran Martin stopped by the Ask a Librarian kiosk on East Campus Mall Wednesday. He was looking for a place to study. After living in the dorms during his first two years of college, he wanted a better option this year.
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan, the fourth woman to sit on the U.S.’s highest court, will come to campus Friday to share her insights and experiences into life in law.
Patrick Brenzel has long been an advocate of public service. From attending UW-Madison as a mechanical engineering student in the 1980s to working in the university’s sociology department, Brenzel has appreciated and supported the Wisconsin Idea, the theory that the university works to improve the lives of the citizens of Wisconsin.
If you’ve been to the union and seen the posters, you knew that #SamHadMentosGum. But now that UW-Madison freshman Sam Jeschke successfully handed out 43,000 bottles of gum, here's what you didn't know about the Mentos Gum challenge:
If you were at the Badgers’ season opener against Utah State, or you’ve walked past the union, or you saw the truck parked on Library Mall—you’ve probably heard that #SamHasMentosGum.
An 18-year-old man was arrested by UW-Madison police late Wednesday morning after he allegedly snuck into a UW-Madison residence hall, entered the women’s restroom and took pictures of a female resident inside.
UW-Madison’s Badgerloop, a student organization made up of mostly undergraduate engineering students who aim to determine if hyperloop—a proposed form of transportation—could become a reality, placed high and won an innovation award Sunday at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, Calif.
With the start of the fall semester quickly approaching, numerous campus-area streets will close to accommodate the more than 7,500 UW-Madison students moving into university residence halls on Saturday, Aug. 26, Tuesday, Aug. 29 and Wednesday, Aug. 30.
The parents of the 19-year-old UW-Madison student who died in Rome last year filed a federal civil lawsuit Monday against the university where their son planned to take classes, claiming the university was negligent and failed to provide adequate safety warnings to its new students.
Starting in July, all UW-Madison employees will be required to take an online sexual violence prevention education course as part of the university’s efforts to crack down on sexual assault and harassment on campus.
A sexual assault was reported to the UW-Madison Police Department early Monday morning.
A well-known phone scam has re-emerged and is targeting UW-Madison students, particularly international students, according to a release issued Tuesday by the UW-Madison Police Department. UWPD received multiple reports from students over the past few days of a caller posing as a campus police officer.
A gas leak occurred at Sellery Residence Hall Monday, causing the building to be evacuated and the surrounding area to be closed off.
Many current UW-Madison students have never seen the Hagenah Fountain turned on, however, after a six-year dry spell, the fountain on Library Mall started to flow again Monday.
In a continuation of UW-Madison’s efforts to combat sexual violence after a year in which three students were expelled for sexual misconduct, first-year and transfer students will complete a new program to learn about dating violence, sexual assault and violence prevention beginning this fall.
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