While sitting on her couch, 17-year-old Julia Presten made the ambitious decision to start her own clothing company, ANGELIC NYC.
State Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Cedarburg, led a group of legislators in announcing their endorsement of Texas Senator Ted Cruz Monday for the GOP presidential nominee.
The Associated Students of Madison delivered 450 paper valentine hearts to the office of Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, Monday, representing the 450 UW-Madison students registered to vote by Special Registration Deputies (SRDs) this year, according to an ASM release.
A $1.2 million increase in University Health Services’ budget for the next fiscal year will serve to expand mental health and sexual assault prevention services, as well as closing the organization’s current structural deficit, according to UHS Executive Director Sarah Van Orman. Van Orman and UHS Administrative Director Arnold Jennerman presented the proposed budget to the Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee at its Feb. 8 meeting.
The City of Madison Board of Estimates met Monday night to discuss new proposals for the Judge Doyle Square project.
Research specialists from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center helped design a new strain of yeast that has the potential to improve biofuel production. Quinn Dickinson, a research specialist at the UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Energy Institute, and Jeff Piotrowski, the lead author of the report, used a method called chemical genomics to produce the yeast strain that could tolerate different ionic liquids, according to a university release.
The Madison Police Department arrested a Madison-area man after a witness reported the man pointed a handgun at another individual in the East Towne Mall parking lot Saturday afternoon.
A 31-year-old McFarland man was cited for possession of heroin and other drug paraphernalia Friday after driving onto the lawn of an apartment building on the 2200 block of Allied Drive, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Gov. Scott Walker issued an executive order Monday barring implementation of the controversial Clean Power Plan as the state waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of the law.
Freelance journalist Anna Therese Day, a 2010 UW-Madison alumna who was detained Sunday in Bahrain, has been released.
The first time Brooke Evans saw the word “homelessness” related to higher education was when she was filling out the FAFSA (or Free Application for Federal Student Aid) in 2010, where it wasn’t well-explained and implied that she was not homeless, even though that was not the case.
In recent months, diversity advocates expressed concerns about the UW System’s approaches in improving the experiences of minority students and Wisconsin’s educational disparity between white and black students.
It’s something most students are aware of through a few lines on a syllabus or a brief mention in lecture, but for scores of other students, the McBurney Center is a lifeline to ensure academic success on the UW-Madison campus. In accordance with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, the McBurney Center works to determine whether students meet the legal standards for possessing a disability. The center arranges for a vast array of accommodations, including supplying sign language interpreters, braille and note-takers, providing closed captioning of media used in classes and making arrangements for test taking. Additionally, the center will collaborate with University Housing and other departments to arrange accommodations for students, such as modifying dorm rooms. “We’re working with the student to figure out what they need to have reasonable accommodations and equal access in the classroom,” said McBurney Center Director Cathy Trueba.
The transition from high school to college can bombard a student with many sudden changes, but while most students are shocked by the size of the lecture hall, Kenneth Cole was shocked by the lack of people of color in it.
When Jacqueline DeWalt was a UW-Madison graduate student in 2000, she enrolled her son in the PEOPLE (Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) Program, created in 1999.
Roughly a year after Gov. Scott Walker proposed nearly $300 million in cuts to the UW System, along with significant changes to the way public higher education functions, UW-Madison associate professor David Vanness said he notices things on campus do not shine as brightly as they used to.
UW-Madison international student Xiaofei Xu struggled to integrate with the local community on campus—until he studied abroad in Paris with roughly 30 other students during the fall semester of his junior year. Xu grew up in a city near Hong Kong and decided to attend UW-Madison in 2013, without ever visiting the campus. Both the school’s history and journalism programs were ideal for him, Xu said. There are more than 4,000 international students from roughly 130 countries currently enrolled at UW-Madison, though most are from China. According to Xu, academic programs for international students at UW-Madison are geared toward students in science or engineering majors, which covers most of the students. But Xu, however, studies in the humanities, saying he hopes to graduate with a double major in history and journalism, while also learning French.
On the UW-Madison campus, tip-based service jobs play a pivotal role in student income; and, given the rising cost of college education, income proves to be essential in making the opportunity of higher education accessible to all.
Students at large research universities often feel distanced from their professors, and vice versa. But a new program introduced at UW-Madison aspires to change the structure of teaching and learning on big campuses.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, was found dead Saturday while on vacation at a Texas ranch, according to a statement by Chief Justice John Roberts. According to a government official, Scalia told friends he was feeling ill before bed Friday night and did not get up for breakfast Saturday morning. Scalia was appointed in 1986 by Ronald Reagan, and his 29 years of service made him the longest-tenured member of the Supreme Court. He was known for his conservative leanings and originalist interpretation of the Constitution. Though Barack Obama has power to appoint Scalia's replacement pending Senate approval, there may be political pressure to wait until the next president takes office before the vacancy is filled.
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