UW-Madison students and faculty are fighting to eliminate stigma and raise awareness about mental health on campus.
Today, the researchers behind an upcoming public history project that will aim to confront legacies of exclusion and injustice at UW-Madison say addressing campus’s present inequalities must be the priority of that work, and that doing so is a shared responsibility.
Madison’s Common Council member Ald. Denise DeMarb, District 16, announced her resignation Thursday evening.
The Director of the Dane County Regional Airport will retire from his position at the end of August, the county announced in a press release Friday. Brad Livingston has worked for the airport for 32 years, serving as director for the past 15 years.
Board of Regents voted to further review current human resources policies pertaining to sexual harassment in a resolution Thursday.
Madison Police Department officers are investigating after a man attempted to rob Greenbush Bakery shortly after midnight Tuesday. An MPD incident report said an employee of the bakery was in the process of closing when an armed man entered the shop and demanded money from the register.
Representative Max Goldfarb resigned from the Student Services Finance Committee Tuesday after sitting on the committee for a year.
The UW System will look into reforming their hiring processes and reference checks in order to prevent prospective candidates with a history of sexual harassment from being considered during the hiring process.
Last Friday, the staff of the magazine Our Lives, a Madison-based publication focusing on the city’s LGBTQ+ community, arrived at their office to discover a rock had been thrown through the glass door. Nothing had been stolen and there were no signs that anyone attempted to enter the office, which led the magazine’s publisher Patrick Farabaugh to suspect they had been subjected to targeted vandalism. “There’s no way you can say that this is random,” Farabaugh said.
One man sustained multiple gunshot wounds in what police are investigating as an attempted homicide occurring in an apartment above Whiskey Jack’s on State Street.
A community-university partnership will advance the search for innovative ideas to solve Dane County’s racial inequalities and income disparities.
The UW-Madison Police Department was involved in a pedestrian-vehicle collision on campus Thursday afternoon, according to a UWPD release. According to the release, the occupant of a vehicle stopped at a routine traffic stop and fled her vehicle around 2:30 p.m. Thursday. The suspect — a 15-year-old girl — ran across Park Street toward the Humanities Building when she was struck by a separate UWPD squad vehicle entering the building parking lot.
Planned Parenthood opened the doors at their new Sheboygan location Monday, where they plan to offer certain abortions, early pregnancy complication assessments and other preventative healthcare.
With over 7,000 students receiving master’s, bachelor’s or law degrees, the class of 2018 is one of the largest classes in UW-Madison history. Of those graduating, roughly 6,500 students met at Camp Randall to take part in UW-Madison’s 165th Spring Commencement.
As always, this semester was a busy one at UW-Madison. The Daily Cardinal's news team recaps 10 newsworthy moments that could have an effect on the future of the university, the city and the state.
Nearly a month after a Reclaim the UW protest in a blizzard, once again UW-Stevens Point and Superior students and staff band together — this time in a rainstorm.
A 21-year-old man was knocked unconscious after being punched in the face outside of a State Street restaurant Tuesday evening.
UW-Madison Police Department arrested three suspects Tuesday in connection to the battery incident that occurred outside a UW-Madison residence hall last week. According to a university police report, a UW-Madison student was injured following a fight outside Sellery Hall last Friday. The fight stemmed from another confrontation earlier in the evening at a downtown bar. The victim in the battery suffered a broken wrist and a concussion as a result of the altercation, according to the report.
The number of students registered with the McBurney Office who suffer from mental illness has skyrocketed since 2008, when there were only about 15 cases, according to Mari Magler, the director of the McBurney Disability Resource Center. Last year, 4,672 students sought mental health services at University Health Services.
A battery reportedly involving a UW-Madison student outside a residence hall early Friday morning, according to a UW-Madison Crime Warning issued Saturday afternoon. The warning said the UW-Madison Police Department received the report Saturday and are actively investigating the incident.
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