An effort to alleviate the anxiety that accompanies living with a stranger prompted UW-Madison to team up with RoomSync this year, a Facebook application that empowers incoming freshman in the roommate assignment process while preserving the educational benefits random roommate selection offers.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council approved its 2016 fiscal year budget Wednesday, which totaled $1,400,514.70.
The Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee members discussed Wednesday the progress of a project limiting single-use to-go boxes in university eateries.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved slightly adjusted budgets for Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment and Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@de Aztlán Thursday.
UW-Madison’s Traffic Operation and Safety Lab, in collaboration with news website Channel3000.com and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, recently created an interactive map that displays all fatal traffic accidents in the past 13 years, according to a university release.
As tensions in the Middle East grow ever more complex, professors are putting in the effort to foster understanding among students.
Pursuing a diverse, collaborative future was the focus of UW-Madison’s 16th annual campus Diversity Forum, held Nov. 10 and 11.
University Health Services is currently in its last week of offering free walk-in flu shots for registered UW-Madison students and will officially end the service Friday.
The UW System announced Tuesday that beginning in Fall 2015, it will give in-state tuition to nonresidential military veterans who enroll in the System within three years of being discharged, a measure in line with recent changes to federal law.
In an effort to increase the transparency and accessibility of UW-Madison’s expenditures and revenues, Chancellor Rebecca Blank asked staff to design the Budget in Brief, a summary that breaks down the university’s $2.9 billion annual budget.
The UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health received a $70 million grant, the largest to date, to benefit research of asthma and its effects on inner city children, according to a university release.
PAVE, a sexual assault awareness student group on campus, requested a slight raise in funding to help foster growing student interest when presenting its 2015-’16 budget at a Student Services Finance Committee meeting Monday.
The Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee discussed Monday how it could reach out to state officials regarding its recent tuition affordability campaign.
UW-Madison computer scientists and medical researchers recently collaborated to create an “unprecedented” learning simulator tool for surgical students.
Leg cramps began to set in for Brandon Jaeger at the 18-mile mark. Despite the “grueling” last six miles, Jaeger finished the Madison Marathon Sunday, a race he began training for in July.
UW-Madison announced the first ever master’s program solely dedicated to energy conservation set to start fall 2015.
The UW System Board of Regents met Thursday to hone in on workforce demands statewide, as well as to hear a report detailing enrollment and tuition trends across the system.
Due to general budget confusion and a potential violation of total student fee allocation, the Student Services Finance Committee voted Thursday to extend the budget decision deadline for a campus Hispanic advocacy group.
Researchers at the UW-Madison Department of Botany, led by professor Simon Gilroy, received more than 1,000 containers of frozen plants from space Thursday.
The Southeast Recreational Facility will host an annual event open to students of all abilities called “Badgers ADAPT” to encourage adaptive and Paralympic sports from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
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