Madison organizations host TEDxMadison event Saturday
By Dan Sullivan and Adelina Yankova | Jun. 9, 2014Nine notable speakers presented their “ideas worth sharing” as part of the third TEDx Madison event held at the Bartell Theater Saturday.
Nine notable speakers presented their “ideas worth sharing” as part of the third TEDx Madison event held at the Bartell Theater Saturday.
After a federal judge struck down the ban on same-sex marriage in Wisconsin’s constitution Friday, couples flocked to courthouses and city halls around the state for long-awaited marriage licenses.
UPDATE 6/6/14 at 9:08 p.m. - This article has been updated to reflect leadership election results.
Two Madison Police Department personnel were exonerated Tuesday following an internal investigation into their involvement in a May 2 shooting, according to an MPD statement.
Gov. Scott Walker announced in an April 2014 statement he would include a two-year extension of the University of Wisconsin System’s current tuition freeze in his 2015 budget proposal, pending his re-election.
Environmentally conscious students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will have a new opportunity to get credentials for their passion when the university launches its Sustainability Certificate program this fall.
Attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison comes with many new opportunities for students, ranging from academic endeavors to social discoveries. But one privilege incoming students may not be aware of is the power they possess to enact change on a university and system level.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2014 spring commencement will be held at Camp Randall Stadium for the first time in more than two decades Saturday, but no students will walk across the stage to receive their diplomas.
University police arrested 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student Douglas Gill on charges of third degree sexual assault and false imprisonment, according to a Monday UW Police Department incident report.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday to hear the personal debt stories of students at a roundtable sponsored by the Associated Students of Madison.
In the first meeting of its 21st session, the Associated Students of Madison Student Service Finance Committee unanimously selected Devon Maier as its next chair.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced “I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban” will be the university’s Go Big Read common-reading program book for the 2014-’15 academic school year, according to a press release.
The Associated Students of Madison approved an appeal Wednesday directed at the Board of Regents, regarding Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s decision to overturn the budget-freeze from earlier in the semester.
An unidentified victim reported she was sexually assaulted twice Saturday, according to a timely warning released from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Tuesday students will receive a new competition swimming pool as part of the Recreational Sports Master Plan.
On the tail of the Associated Students of Madison approval of the latest campus diversity plan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate accepted the planned framework at its meeting Monday, launching the draft into its next stage of implementation.
A Madison man murdered a mother and her daughter in an East Washington Avenue residence Friday before he was fatally shot by responding Madison police officers.
UW-Madison campus responds to Final Four berth
The smell of brats on the grill and sound of music blasting from a neighbor’s porch Saturday morning signified University of Wisconsin-Madison students preparing for the Mifflin Street Block Party.