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UW-Madison alumnus becomes Madison’s Chef of the Year through anarchy
By Elisa Wiseman | Dec. 6, 2015Don’t call Jonny Hunter a chef.
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VETS gives visibility to veteran issues on campus
By Luisa de Vogel | Dec. 6, 2015Veterans, Educators, and Traditional Students is a student organization dedicated to facilitating discussion for the student-veteran experience, and serves as an academic resource available to both students and faculty on campus. VETS aims to educate the larger community on veteran issues and experiences through informational workshops.
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UW System seeks to gain public input through survey
By Ellie Herman | Dec. 3, 2015The UW System started the second phase of its strategic planning process Thursday by releasing an online survey to the Wisconsin public.
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Report details increase in underrepresented student graduation rate
By Ellie Herman | Dec. 2, 2015The national nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust released a report Wednesday naming UW-Madison as a national leader in improving graduation rates for underrepresented and overall students.
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Wisconsin offers webinars to prepare students for college
By Ellie Herman | Dec. 2, 2015UW System and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction teamed up this fall to create a series of free “College Readiness Webinars” to better prepare students for postsecondary education.
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Cosmic radio bursts rendered for the first time
By Laura Grulke | Dec. 2, 2015Researchers have produced the first detailed picture of a fast radio burst, aided by a UW-Madison physicist whose archived data helped inform where the energy blasts come from, according to a Wednesday university press release.
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New tenure policy criticized for falling short of industry standards
By Lucas Sczygelski and Leah Leonidas | Dec. 1, 2015The proposed tenure policy for UW System faculty fails to meet industry standards, according to the American Association of University Professors as detailed in a letter sent to the group tasked with creating new tenure protections.
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Podcast entrepreneur tells story of starting a business
By Sammy Gibbons | Dec. 1, 2015CEO and radio journalist Alex Blumberg explained his courageous decision to begin his podcast network as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series Tuesday at the Memorial Union.
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Bunker Labs @ Wisconsin aims to support veteran entrepreneurs
By Ellie Herman | Nov. 30, 2015UW-Madison began a partnership Nov. 10 with Bunker Labs @ Wisconsin, an outlet that allows veterans pursue entrepreneurial interests in high-tech startups.
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Student group helps bridge gap between global artisans, local consumers
By Bri Maas | Nov. 30, 2015Global indigenous crafts often have no demand in their own communities, where developing societies can’t afford or have no need for upscale decorative art. A group of UW-Madison students help to connect those crafts with more profitable U.S. markets.
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Student entrepreneurship project flashes local bar deals to become successful startup
By Allison Garcia | Nov. 30, 2015Last semester in an entrepreneurial management course, UW-Madison students Michael Braun and Chad Gaffney aced their assignment to create an entrepreneurship project that eventually turned into an actual startup.
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Chemist starts holiday season with bangs, controlled fires
By Sammy Gibbons | Nov. 29, 2015The holiday season is beginning, and no one is more excited than professor Bassam Shakhashiri as he prepares for his annual Christmas lecture, which sold out this year after less than four days of going on sale.
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New grant to fund achievement gap research
By Andy Van Sistine and Bri Maas | Nov. 29, 2015As part of the largest-ever research collaboration between the Department of Public Instruction and UW-Madison, education researchers will aim to decrease ethnic and economic disparities in student opportunity and achievement across the state.
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UW-Madison faculty, state business leaders to attend UN conference
By Ellie Herman | Nov. 29, 2015UW-Madison faculty members and state business leaders will extend their environmental research internationally Thursday at the United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties.
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Wisconsin Black Student Union organizes new campus-wide events
By Ellie Herman | Nov. 29, 2015Members of the student organization Wisconsin Black Student Union are using their first year as a General Student Services Fund group to further their goal of fostering an environment on campus that better suits the needs of black students.
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BadgerSpill aims to accommodate recent user increase
By Scott Bembenek | Nov. 22, 2015Supporting Peers In Laidback Listening, a student organization focused on helping students maintain mental health, aims to use its recently raised budget to aid the group as it accommodates a recent spike in usage, according to its president Adela Tomsejova.
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UW-Madison student awarded with Rhodes Scholarship
By Ellie Herman | Nov. 22, 2015UW-Madison graduate student Colin Higgins’ commute to class will be longer than most next fall when he travels nearly 4,000 miles to Oxford, England, after being awarded with a Rhodes Scholarship.
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In Chryst they trust: Badger Nuns grace Camp Randall
By Bri Maas | Nov. 22, 2015Although many Badgers’ prayers were not answered Saturday in a tough loss to Northwestern, three super fans clad in red and white habits blessed Camp Randall to lift fallen spirits.
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Diverse student organizations unite over recent tragedies
By Peter Coutu | Nov. 19, 2015More than 100 people gathered Thursday night in Library Mall for a candlelight vigil to honor the lives lost in recent tragedies around the world and to promote unity on the UW-Madison campus.
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Students and community members urge chancellor to reconsider investments
By Sammy Gibbons | Nov. 19, 2015A swarm of UW-Madison students and community members, led by the student organization Climate Action 350 and its city affiliate 350 Madison, protested in front of Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s office Thursday to demand the divestment from fossil fuels.
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