According to UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone, a crowd of roughly 47,500 families and friends of graduates attended the 2016 Spring Commencement Saturday in Camp Randall Stadium despite strong winds, cold temperatures and brief snow.
A memorial for UW-Madison students that passed away during this academic year was held at the Carillon Tower outside of the William H. Sewell Social Sciences building Friday.
UW-Madison student Denzel McDonald has been referred to the Community Restorative Court after being arrested for 11 counts of graffiti on campus buildings.
The Memorial Union Terrace will open temporarily May 12 until midnight May 15. The opening gives individuals a final opportunity on their graduation weekend to enjoy the Terrace as UW-Madison students.
Nearly 16 years after UW-Madison came under fire for photoshopping a black student on the 2001-’02 Undergraduate Application’s cover photo that created a facade of diversity, #TheRealUW movement has once again crashed the illusion of a diverse and inclusive campus for all. In a March 31 video responding to a threatening note slipped under a student’s door, Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims said he wanted to build a foundation that ensures students in the future would never have to experience these threats of violence and level of hate, which he compared to Jim Crow-era racism.
Three men have been arrested for the recent string of graffiti that featured green and black spray-painted images of the Nazi-related Wolfsangel and Valknut symbols, according to UW-Madison Police Department Lt.
The Chancellor’s Scholarship Program was given a $10 million gift by a group of anonymous donors, UW-Madison announced Wednesday in a news release.
“Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” is the 2016-’17 selection for Go Big Read, the university announced in a press release Wednesday.
Two individuals damaged property inside Memorial Union early Tuesday morning, according to a UWPD incident report.
UW-Madison graduate students met with Chancellor Rebecca Blank Tuesday to review and present demands on the campus environment for students of color.
Attorney Dean Strang came to Shannon Hall in Memorial Union Tuesday night to participate in the Distinguished Lecture Series.
Late Monday night at approximately 10:38 p.m., three men vandalized two parking signs at a sorority house on Langdon Street with anti-Semitic symbols, according to an email sent to members of the UW-Madison chapter Kappa Alpha Theta.
UW-Madison startup company Silatronix recently invented a safer electrolyte that will be used for phone, laptop and tablet batteries.
Two pieces of graffiti featuring Nazi-related imagery appeared on the UW-Madison campus this week near the University Bookstore and Engineering Mall.
The UW-Madison Police Department released an update Friday saying the first-degree sexual assault reported April 8 likely did not actually occur on that day. In the original crime warning, a woman was reported to have been held down with a knife by three men and then sexually assaulted.
The UW Drag Spectacular drew a crowd of all identities Thursday at Varsity Hall in Union South, as part of the LGBT Campus Center’s Out and About Month lineup.
Roughly 400 students walked out of class Thursday at 11:30 a.m. and marched around campus for about three hours to peacefully protest the UW-Madison Police Department’s arrest of student Denzel J. McDonald last week.
Anna Deavere Smith brought characters from her one-woman show to her Distinguished Lecture Series talk Wednesday at Memorial Union as part of Lit Fest 2016.
Comedian and author Zach Anner advised students to embrace each other’s differences Tuesday in a lecture that was part of Disability Awareness Week on campus.
The United Nations Environment Programme reports that about one third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted, which is around 1.3 billion tons.
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