Town hall forum explores campus safety
By Tamar Myers | Sep. 30, 2013At a Memorial Union town hall meeting Sunday evening, Dean of Students Lori Berquam shared something a criminal suspect once told her.
At a Memorial Union town hall meeting Sunday evening, Dean of Students Lori Berquam shared something a criminal suspect once told her.
Paul Williams, a retired emeritus professor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison plant pathology department, came to the university as a graduate student in 1959 off a train from Vancouver.
Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s “Science Friday,” described how science has become “sexy” in America as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Wisconsin Science Festival.
New safety procedures are being put into place after a UW Physical Plant employee died last spring while working at the Art Lofts, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison news release.
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison student and Daily Cardinal Editor-in-Chief Jacob “Jack” Zeldes died peacefully Sept. 18 after a long battle with health issues.
Ruth Ozeki shared her challenges and inspiration behind the 2013 Go Big Read book, “A Tale for the Time Being” with The Daily Cardinal Tuesday.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council approved a college affordability campaign Wednesday, which will aim to evaluate different factors that contribute to students’ college expenses.
The Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee unanimously voted Wednesday to give ASM sponsorship on an event that will focus on training community members to protest a proposed oil pipeline.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department and the Madison Police Department held a tweet chat Wednesday as the first in three upcoming events designed to share information and seek community input on campus safety following a recent increase in crime near campus.
The Wisconsin Science Festival starts Thursday and will continue until Sunday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, generating a local Wisconsin feel as participants can attend sessions teaching the science behind making bratwurst and beer.
The Daily Cardinal and other student media were invited Tuesday to tour Phase One of the Memorial Union Reinvestment Project, which is expected to finish in summer 2014.
Cartoonist Lynda Barry will join permanent staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor of interdisciplinary creativity through the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and UW-Madison Department of Art, according to a university news release.
Officials are still uncertain about the exact source of a pipe rupture that flooded the track and basketball courts at the Shell Sunday, Recreational Sports Director John Horn said.
Students in the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee now have the ability to register voters for upcoming elections, after a city clerk deputized members at a meeting Monday.
The Student Services Finance Committee did not approve 2015-’16 fiscal year funding for the MultiCultural Student Coalition Monday, amidst criticism from MCSC representatives that SSFC members are unprepared to decide on eligibility.
Coordinators for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association have started finalizing designs for the new Alumni Park, which could break ground summer 2014.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials announced last week the university hired an expert to work with different levels of campus on assessing violent threats, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
The track at Camp Randall Sports Center, better known as the Shell, will close for an undetermined amount of time after a water pipe ruptured Sunday, flooding the floor with water.
Rate My Professors ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison No. 5 on a list of universities with the best professors published this week.
New “green” exercise equipment at the Southeast Recreational Facility allows the user to produce energy that is run back into the building’s power grid, according to a news release.