For most students, working with state legislators, introducing bills and changing policies may seem like lofty dreams. For those involved in student government, however, this is everyday work.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police arrested a 19-year-old UW-Madison student Saturday after the student set fire to a bulletin board in Sellery Hall, according to UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
Star of the cult hit comedy “Workaholics” and 2003 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Anders Holm did not stray from his hallmark brand of getting-as-close-to-the-line-without-crossing-it humor as he delivered a pop culture-soaked and heartfelt commencement speech to UW-Madison’s class of 2013 at the Kohl Center Saturday.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, spoke at the Overture Center for the Arts during part of his two-day visit to Madison. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute sponsored the Dalai Lama’s Overture panel as a part of the Change Your Mind, Change The World tour, focused on a message that people’s minds and brains can be trained just like muscles.
Nev Singh grew up in Winona, Minnesota, but when it came time to choose a college she knew the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities was not for her.
The Student Services Finance Committee elected representatives to three leadership positions, including Rep. David Vines as committee chair, in its first meeting of the twentieth session Thursday.
Associated Students of Madison Chair David Gardner released a statement Wednesday urging state legislators to vote down a bill he and other ASM members say will hurt communication between landlords and tenants.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council appointed Rep. Mia Akers to the position of vice chair Monday, ending a deadlock with Rep. Sarah Neibart, which carried over from the first meeting of the 20th session held last Wednesday.
The final Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year lasted over two hours Monday, resulting in discussions of the recent student sit-in in Chancellor David Ward’s office and increasing teaching assistant compensation, as well as extensive questioning of multiple annual committee reports, including transportation budgets and faculty compensation.
Outgoing University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward provided clarification about the university’s recently discovered surplus funds in Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, saying a majority of the balances will be used as financial aid resources.
When Equinox first opened in August 2006, Madison Property Management rented out the entire building in one week. As of May 5, 2013, Equinox still has 28 units available for August 2013. Another MPM complex located at 420 West Gorham has 15 units remaining.
University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Julia Sprangers is scheduled to appear on “Jeopardy!” Monday after she flew to the game show’s home in Los Angeles from Spain, where she is studying abroad for the semester, according to The Wisconsin State Journal.
David Ward first arrived on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the ’60s, and says he remembers fellow students taking on the civil rights movement and Vietnam War.
The Revelry Music and Arts Festival took place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Saturday and drew a large number of students, despite a rainy start to the day.
Studying abroad presents an opportunity for students to plant themselves in foreign countries among unfamiliar cultures to experience something new and gain perspective, and many students find that experience here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Faced with declining levels of state funding and higher operating costs, universities across the country are increasing tuition to maintain sustainable operations. But another trend follows nationwide at colleges such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where some students rely on higher-interest private loans to fund their way through college because federal loans have not kept up with tuition hikes.
Harry Markopolos, the former securities industry executive who uncovered Bernie Madoff’s wealth-management business Ponzi scheme, visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spoke with students Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin System cash balances could increase by $150 million by the end of 2013, according to UW System administrators.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers announced Thursday they have successfully converted human and monkey skin cells into various nervous-system cells, while bypassing the stage where the cells are usually converted to undifferentiated stem cells.
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