The King-Morgridge Scholars program, which is set to begin in the fall of 2017, will award four-year scholarships to six international students from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and South Asia, according to university officials.
United States citizens and individuals from other countries, young children and elderly folks, various genders and all races were present at the Women’s March on Washington Saturday. Attendees showed support for women’s rights—which speakers said are merely human rights—and spoke out against controversial statements made by President Donald Trump.
Although Donald Trump’s tenure as President of the United States is just hours old, students at UW-Madison have already commenced an opposition movement, as some walked out of classes and have plans to join a protest in downtown Madison Friday afternoon.
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.
Inside Sigma Chi's house, roughly 50 members of the fraternity recited a sexually explicit chant Oct. 6.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oliver Smithies, a renowned geneticist, Nobel laureate and former UW-Madison professor, died Tuesday at the age of 91. The British-born scientist was best known for developing a method of introducing genes into the genome of a mouse, which allowed future scientists to observe the effects of thousands of genes and better combat disease. Smithies, along with two other scientists, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his work, much of which he performed during a 29-year stint at UW-Madison. “Just before he left here he did the major piece of work [for which he won the Nobel Prize],” the late UW-Madison genetics professor James Crow said in 2007, according to a university release.
UW-Madison Police Department’s police horse, Vegas, died Tuesday after more than one year of suffering from Degenerative Suspensory Ligament Disease. Vegas, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2015, was euthanized at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, according to a release.
Madison Police Department responded to an act of aggravated battery Friday that occurred at the intersection of University Avenue and Hawthorne Court near the UW-Madison campus. Around 1:30 a.m., three unidentifiable men knocked a 19-year-old male Madison resident unconscious by continuously kicking and punching him, according to an MPD incident report. He suffered severe facial injuries and did not immediately remember the assault. Passersby said his head bounced off the pavement, according to the release.
Low-income UW-Madison students will be able to get daily necessities at no cost at the Badger Caring Closet that will open in the spring semester.
The UW-Madison Police Department is calling on Madison residents to help catch and identify a pickpocket suspect who stole a man’s wallet in November.
UW-Madison received more than $4.4 million from royalties made off the sale of licensed merchandise in the 2015-’16 fiscal year, exceeding the university’s previous high mark by $561,000. University officials said UW-Madison has transferred nearly $3 million of the funds to the Athletic Department and the Student Financial Aid Office to support Bucky Grants, a program designed to provide need-based financial aid to undergraduate students. UW-Madison ranked 12th among nearly 200 schools licensed through the Collegiate Licensing Company, and third in the Big Ten, after the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Trademark Licensing Director Cindy Van Matre attributed the success to strong football and men’s basketball seasons, along with well-managed programs and an increase in the royalty rate the school charges.
A UW-Madison freshman has been reported missing and is feared to be dead after the plane she was on crashed in Lake Erie Dec. 29.
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