Nour Saeed, a UW-Madison junior, posted an online petition Saturday that calls on UW-Madison to offer 10 scholarships to future Syrian students.
In an attempt to continue ongoing efforts to raise awareness of sexual assault, a student-activist group ran a second pilot Snapchat filter during the Michigan vs. Wisconsin men’s basketball game at the Kohl Center Tuesday night.
Since UW-Madison is currently the only Big Ten institution that does not offer a form of legal help to its students, the Student Services Finance Committee added $50,000 to the budget at the end of last semester intended to fund Student Legal Services.
Inside Sigma Chi's house, roughly 50 members of the fraternity recited a sexually explicit chant Oct. 6.
The lawsuit states the officials allegedly mishandled millions of dollars, made illegal financial guarantees and spent $600,000 on a foundation project with no strings attached.
The UW-Madison School of Human Ecology has created two workshop-oriented courses to help undergraduate students prepare to handle finances during and after college. Each course can be taken for one semester and students will receive one graduation credit upon completion.
The donations will be invested in the UW Foundation’s endowment and will generate about $4.5 million in scholarship funds per year.
Following recent uncertainty for professors regarding the future of tenure at UW-Madison, the executive committee of the Faculty Senate discussed potential changes to the school’s post-tenure review policy in a meeting Tuesday.
A city council subcommittee member called on citizens to urge city officials to adopt a recently introduced plan to transition city buildings and facilities to entirely clean energy, in an opinion piece for the Capital Times published Tuesday. “The council needs to hear from you, hear that our city is committed to changing and leading,” wrote Madison Sustainability Committee member Bradley Campbell.
Applications for SEED grants, city-funded subsidies designed to support emerging food access projects and programs in the Madison community, will be open until the last week of February, according to city officials.
Memorial Union fired up the grills at two new restaurants and familiar eatery, Der Rathskeller, Tuesday. Der Rathskeller will sell the familiar sandwiches, wraps and comfort food they sold before the construction, and have added breakfast items that will be served each morning.
The fraternity, who has a history of previous violations, is suspended from all university activities until March 1.
UW-Madison's Commodity Trading gropu used software from the company Trading Technologies called Algo Design Lab that was provided to them to create an algorithm that trades goods automatically and showcased their work at the company's Chicago headquarters.
For many at UW-Madison, construction is a way of life. Disgruntled students ceded Memorial Union to renovations last year and buildings, such as the Hector DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Complex, dot the campus landscape when they did not exist five years prior.
After delivering stories and exhortations in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to a room filled with diversity, student activists laid out the challenges of change-making as people of color on campus, deeming the university's approach laissez-faire and in need of change.
Gov. Scott Walker plans to cut in-state undergraduate tuition, which many view as a move that could help ease the burden of college costs and propel Wisconsin students to a dream of receiving a higher education. The state hasn’t seen a tuition reduction since 1982. Although Walker didn’t elaborate on the details of the proposed tuition reduction when he announced it during his State of the State address last week, he did explain that the cut would extend to all of the 26 UW System schools. The tuition cut does not apply to out-of-state students or graduate students.
Traditionally, members of the Madison community recognize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by through service.
The Hate/Bias Response Symposium hosted at UW-La Crosse was designed for university faculty and staff who address incidents and crimes of hate and bias in their work, according to UW-Madison Assistant Dean of Students Joshua Moon Johnson.
Madison Deputy Mayor Gloria Reyes and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi awarded recipients Monday with city-county humanitarian awards honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Judge and pastor Everett Mitchell and Rev. Dr. Carmen Porco received this year’s City-County Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 2015 UW-Madison awarded 836 doctoral degrees, third most in the nation behind only the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the University of Texas-Austin.
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