UCLA Professor Sylvia Hurtado opens UW Diversity Forum with talk on diversity in the campus climate
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s first Campus Sustainability Day to recognize the successes, challenges and innovation of sustainability in higher education, will take place on campus Wednesday.
Wisconsin will be the only state relying on the federal health care exchange to not have a coverage gap when the Affordable Care Act-mandated health care coverage begins this January, according to a Kaiser Family report.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department released a statement Monday detailing two incidences of excessive drinking over the weekend and warning students to consume alcohol legally and responsibly.
Isabel Suppé, an inspirational writer, speaker and climber will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday to discuss her recently released book, “Starry Night,” which details her path to survival after falling 400 meters in the Andes mountains in July 2010.
A state senator sent a letter to state Senate President Mike Ellis, R-Neenah, Monday urging him to take action on a non-partisan redistricting bill currently sitting in the Senate Committee on Elections and Urban Affairs.
Two Democratic state representatives proposed a new bipartisan bill Monday aimed at increasing the funding for scientific research in nanotechnology through the University of Wisconsin System.
State Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, and State Rep. Joan Ballweg, R-Markesan, officially introduced their Regulatory Certainty Act Friday, which could reduce the powers local governments have to regulate mining operations in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s annual two-day Diversity Forum will take place on Monday and Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Union South.
A new online tool encouraging civilian participation in the 2014 city budget conversation turned up “curbside composting” as a primary concern among community members, and Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said an amendment expanding the current pilot program addresses that demand.
A scheduled redesign of St. Paul’s University Catholic Church, across from Memorial Library, could add to the construction Library Mall and the 700 and 800 blocks of State Street are slated to undergo in the coming years.
After studying in Uganda for over 20 years, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine professor Tony Goldberg believes not all research that will benefit Wisconsin can be done within state boundaries.
The state Assembly voted Thursday to expand the use of crossbows in Wisconsin deer hunting.
The state Senate Committee on Natural Resources is currently debating a bill that would forbid the use of dogs in wolf hunts in Wisconsin.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a $100 million property tax relief bill into law Sunday only 10 days after he initially announced the legislation.
Ald. Lisa Subeck, District 1, announced Thursday she would run as a Democrat for state Rep. Brett Hulsey’s, D-Madison, 78th state Assembly district during the 2014 election.
Despite occasionally heated back and forth discussions and varying allegations as to the true purpose behind a $100 million property tax cut proposal, Republicans and Democrats in the state Assembly joined together to pass the plan, 82 to 12, in a special session Thursday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan signed a check for $66,130 to be donated toward Coaches vs. Cancer at his Shooting Down Cancer event Thursday.
Real Food Week, an event designed to increase awareness and access to community-based and sustainable food at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, kicks off Monday.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the 2014-’15 budget for the sustainable agriculture organization F.H. King in a near unanimous decision Thursday.
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