With election season on the horizon, an analytics firm revitalized an economic impact study after 16 years. They found the UW System made a $24 billion economic impact for 2016-17, following the previous $9.5 billion.
UW-Madison Athletics is now partnered with Lyft, a rideshare company, providing community members with an alternative form of transportation on Badger game days. Through the partnership, Lyft will have designated pick-up and drop-off locations at the Kohl Center and Camp Randall.
ASM introduced “Ice Cream for All” to remove beef gelatin from Babcock ice cream in a continuing effort to promote inclusivity.
Two new cultural student centers will open this fall in the Red Gym, following over a year of student initiative.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Foxconn chairman and founder, Terry Gou, announced a gift of $100 million to aid in promoting engineering and innovative research at UW-Madison in the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Monday.
Reigning UW-Madison band director, Michael Leckrone, announced the upcoming academic year will be his last, leaving behind a 50-year legacy at the university.
In hopes of avoiding raising tuition and student fees, the Board of Regents voted to send the requested $107 million in aid to Gov. Scott Walker in hopes of approval. This will be considered as Walker drafts the upcoming executive budget.
Sophomore wide receiver Danny Davis has been suspended for the first two games of the season Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst announced Wednesday.
Following the decision in June to implementa more cognizant hiring process, the UW System will require sexual harassment to be included in personnel files as soon as January 2019.
Junior receiver Quintez Cephus has been formally suspended from the team following the announcement of a pair of felony sexual assault charges Monday.
A battery, which occurred on the Lakeshore Path at UW-Madison, was reported to the UW-Madison Police Department on Saturday.
The Wisconsin football team will be without last year’s top receiving target for the indefinite future, following today’s announcement by junior Quintez Cephus that he is leaving the team due to “unspecified charges” possibly to come from the Dane County District Attorney’s office.
With a new academic year on the horizon, returning and incoming students from two-year colleges will play a key role in determining the success of the integration of two-year and four-year institutions during a transition year.
After piloting the cashless system in Liz Waters residence hall two years ago, University Housing has decided to implement a cashless system at Gordon Dining and Event Center this fall. With this system, students can only use a credit card, debit card or Wiscard to pay for food at university dining halls.
Many potential college students are worried they won't be able to afford an education. Bucky's Tuition Promise is new a program meant to help solve the problem.
The tuition freeze has been criticized in the past from both lawmakers and university officials. Arguments claimed the effects of ongoing funding cuts to the UW System have only been exacerbated by the tuition cap, and they have called on Gov. Walker to fund the freeze.
Wisconsin Union spaces that memorialized former Ku Klux Klan fraternity members could receive new names this fall, if UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank approves the Union Council resolution passed in a 7-2 vote Monday night. The council’s resolution comes after a summer’s worth of discussion and debate surrounding the Porter Butts Gallery and the Fredric March Play Circle, after a report published last spring linked those spaces’ namesakes to a 1920s campus fraternity called the Ku Klux Klan.
Two men driving a stolen car were arrested after crashing into another vehicle Wednesday, according to a UW-Madison Police Department incident report.
An attempted strong-arm robbery occurred on North Lake Street between University Avenue and West Johnson Street early Sunday morning, according to a UW-Madison Crime Warning issued Sunday morning.
An attempted strong-arm robbery and battery occurred near Memorial Library late Saturday night, according to a UW-Madison Crime Warning issued early Sunday morning. The warning stated that an officer was driving through the area when they were flagged down by the victim.
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