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.
For many at UW-Madison, construction is a way of life. Disgruntled students ceded Memorial Union to renovations last year and buildings, such as the Hector DeLuca Biochemical Sciences Complex, dot the campus landscape when they did not exist five years prior.
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.
Gov. Scott Walker plans to cut in-state undergraduate tuition, which many view as a move that could help ease the burden of college costs and propel Wisconsin students to a dream of receiving a higher education. The state hasn’t seen a tuition reduction since 1982. Although Walker didn’t elaborate on the details of the proposed tuition reduction when he announced it during his State of the State address last week, he did explain that the cut would extend to all of the 26 UW System schools. The tuition cut does not apply to out-of-state students or graduate students.
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.
Madison Deputy Mayor Gloria Reyes and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi awarded recipients Monday with city-county humanitarian awards honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Judge and pastor Everett Mitchell and Rev. Dr. Carmen Porco received this year’s City-County Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 2015 UW-Madison awarded 836 doctoral degrees, third most in the nation behind only the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the University of Texas-Austin.
Wisconsin ranks among the worst states in the country for racial disparity in key economic and societal measures including unemployment, poverty, education and imprisonment, according to a report from a national think tank based at UW-Madison.
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.
The price of travel is an added college expense many students do not account for. But this cost can be partially alleviated for UW-Madison students with discounted Van Galder bus tickets purchased at the Memorial Union.
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.
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.
Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, said the program signals that UW-Madison “declared a war on men” and the university thinks Wisconsin parents have done a “poor job of raising their sons by instilling in them values necessary to become a man.”
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.
A county judge has appointed two special prosecutors from the state attorney general's office to take over the case of suspended UW-Madison student Alec Cook, who faces numerous counts of sexual assault involving 10 different women.
The case against suspended UW-Madison freshman Alec Shiva, 18, of Verona, will continue after Judge Valerie L.
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