Bill Bryson, famous author of books ranging from travel chronicles to topics like science and the English language, is scheduled to speak to UW-Madison students and community members Monday as part of the Wisconsin Union Distinguished Lecture Series.
UW-Madison alumni John and Tashia Morgridge recently donated $100 million to the university in an effort to support endowed faculty positions, according to a university release.
UW-Madison’s Director of Dining and Culinary Services Joie Schoonover began her robust and varied food service career when she was in fourth grade, sorting silverware for her elementary school cafeteria.
After 10 years as dean of the School of Education, Julie Underwood announced Friday she will return to the school’s faculty come August.
UW-Madison cell and regenerative biology professor James Thomson and his team of scientists recently made new strides in their extensive stem cell research.
The Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee learned about strategies to fairly divide profits and attention throughout different sports on campus during a presentation from the UW Athletic Board Chair Thursday.
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.
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