Wisconsin HOPE Lab discussed college affordability, specifically the cost of food and housing, in the first of two events for the UW-Madison “Go Big Read” book promotion at noon Thursday in the UW-Madison School of Education. “Evicted,” this year’s “Go Big Read” novel, is written by UW-Madison graduate Matthew Desmond.
UW-Madison faculty and students introduced the upcoming Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge Thursday.
UW-Madison sophomore Skylar Witte was crowned Miss Wisconsin USA 2017 earlier this month after competing against 41 other women for the title. Witte balances her job as Miss Wisconsin along with her academics?she is double majoring in political science and communication arts with plans to go to law school?as well as a full-time modeling career and writing for her blog. Since she won Miss Wisconsin 10 days ago, Witte has travelled to various Wisconsin cities, including her hometown, Altoona.
Memorial Library had its grand opening for the graduate study room on the 4th level of the building Wednesday afternoon. An open house was held from 3-5 p.m.
Madison’s reputation as a party campus filled with hard-drinking students has long served as a draw for incoming freshmen, and such was the case for now-senior Carter Kofman. However, following UW-Madison’s ranking as the top party school in the nation by the Princeton Review, discrepancies appeared between responses from university officials and many students on campus. The university quickly issued a statement criticizing the “high-risk alcohol” use on campus by calling it “a pressing public health concern,” while many students celebrated the school’s crowning rank on social media.
Dear World, a national portrait project, brought their group to UW-Madison Tuesday to ask all members of campus one question: “If you had one story to share with the world, what would you say?” Students, faculty and staff were invited to Gordon Commons to write these messages somewhere on their bodies and have their photo taken by executive producer Jonah Evans.
Associated Students of Madison held their first voter registration event Monday at Memorial Library to attract student voters.
UW-Madison’s Taekwondo Club hosted its third “Fight Like a Girl: Women’s Self Defense Seminar” Sunday at the Southeast Recreational Facility.
UW-Madison students are creating a new student organization that offers a safe space for individuals to discuss eating disorders.
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences hosted their third annual local produce showcase dinner called “Farm to Flavor” Thursday evening. Supported by Slow Food UW and the Friends of Allen Centennial Garden, CALS brought in four Madison chefs?Eric Benedict of Cafe Hollander, Dan Bonanno of Pig in a Fur Coat, Jonny Hunter of the Underground Food Collective and Tory Miller of Graze, L’Etoile, Sujeo and Estrellón.
The UW-Madison Police Department held its “Coffee with a Cop” event Wednesday morning where police officers handed out free coffee to students at East Campus Mall. This is the second year UWPD has held the event.
UW-Madison kicked off a new program aiming to connect the campus community with the needs of cities in Wisconsin with a meeting Wednesday night at the Leopold Nature Center in Monona. The city of Monona, which borders Madison, will serve as the pilot location for the “UniverCity” initiative, in which faculty, staff and students from UW-Madison will work with the city on projects in areas such as parks and recreation, transportation, housing and economic development. The year-long program is part of the UniverCity Alliance, a coalition of various institutions on campus focused on urban sustainability.
UW-Madison held its sixth and final open house to present the final draft of the 2015 Campus Master Plan Tuesday in Union South.
Three roads will be closed on the UW-Madison campus beginning Wednesday, Sept. 14. The first closure Wednesday will be for the addition of a right turn lane on University Bay Drive to University Avenue.
UW-Madison formally congratulated Chris Nguyen, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major, Monday morning at Engineering Hall for winning the grand prize in General Electric's “Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition” competition. The challenge asked participants to debunk common idioms such as “A snowball’s chance in hell,” or, for Nguyen, “You can’t unring a bell.” Noise cancellation technology and research on sound waves were used to help Nguyen support his theory. “I found the premise of the proposal on accident,” Nguyen said.
UW-Madison’s LGBT Campus Center and a campus ministry, The Crossing, held a vigil Monday on Bascom Hill to remember the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on the event’s three-month anniversary. LGBTCC members and allies formed a circle at the base of Bascom Hill and listened to four speakers discuss their thoughts regarding the tragedy.
The School of Human Ecology held the opening reception for the Ruth Davis Design Gallery’s featured exhibit, “Stitching History from the Holocaust,” a travelling display from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee in Nancy Nicholas Hall Sunday.
The Wisconsin Union hosted a campus farmers’ market outside the main entrance of Union South Thursday.
2,996 American flags filled the lower part of Bascom Hill Friday to symbolize and commemorate the number of lives lost on 9/11.
A sexual assault was reported to a UW-Madison Campus Security Authority Thursday morning, according to a UW-Madison Police Department incident report.
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