Student council members voted 15-6 Wednesday to appoint University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore Mary Prunty as Finance Committee Chair, replacing Andrew Kidd.
The Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee met Wednesday to discuss the progress of its current campaigns.
Economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the primary architects of a health care plan that influenced the creation of “Obamacare,” will give a lecture Thursday on current national issues of health care reform.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank met with faculty and staff in the Chazen Museum Wednesday to introduce herself to her new colleagues. The event was a chance “to put a face with our program name and to get to know her and to introduce her to the rest of our staff,” according to Dominic Ledesma, associate director of the Chancellor’s & Powers-Knapp Scholarship programs.
Dane County Board Supervisor Leland Pan told a student government committee Tuesday he plans to begin a grassroots campaign to give community members oversight over police cases.
Dr. William Kelso revealed “the buried truth” at the historic Jamestown, Virginia settlement at a lecture at the Wisconsin Historical Society Tuesday.
The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare released a summary report of its six-month long investigation into a University of Wisconsin-Madison experiment Monday that found no violations in the university’s use of cats in sound localization research.
UW System campuses will begin a transition from the nonprofit WiscNet to a new internally run data network that is set to be completed by Jan. 31, 2015, UW-System officials announced Tuesday.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association will invite University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni and university supporters to ‘Share the Wonderful’ in its second annual fundraising campaign, which starts in October and runs through December.
Nearly 80,000 people from near and far will participate in one of four pilot Massive Open Online Courses Thursday, according to a university news release.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison released an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report as a part of “increased communications efforts” between the university and students about campus safety, according to a university news release.
The Shell, also known as the Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center, reopened Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., with the exception of two basketball courts.
Ald. Michael Verveer, District 4, is no stranger to campus governance, he told students at an Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee meeting Monday.
The Wisconsin Public Interest Group applied for funding eligibility for the next two academic years from the Student Services Finance Committee Monday. WISPIRG is a state-based organization that works to address and find solutions to issues of public interest.
A partnership program between University of Wisconsin Health and the United Way of Dane County will help low-income Dane County residents pay their insurance premiums.
The I’m Shmacked production company featured the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a YouTube video filmed during Parent’s Weekend on Sept. 21, which has raised discussion from students and university officials about the drinking culture depicted in the video.
The reversal of a decision to grant the Board of Regents a harassment injunction against a former University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student will be challenged in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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.
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