CAMPUS NEWS
‘Training device’ found on Arboretum walkway
By Annika Bereny | Aug. 4A Monday morning WiscAlert urged students to avoid the Arboretum as a UWPD bomb squad investigated a training grenade.
Annika Bereny
Annika Bereny is the campus news editor for The Daily Cardinal. She previously served as the special pages editor. As a staff writer, she's written in-depth on campus news specializing in protest policy, free speech and historical analysis. She has also written for state and city news. She is a History and Journalism major. Follow her on Twitter at @annikabereny.
SCIENCE
‘It’s just the beginning’: UW-Madison professors help capture new images of the universe, launch new era of cosmic observation
By Annika Bereny | Jul. 22Scientists at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, including some from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, broke ground with new, high-definition images of the universe released in June.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison eliminates Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement, moves programs, staff to other units
By Annika Bereny | Jul. 9Services and staff positions previously under the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement will be moved to other administrative units. Fewer than 10 employees previously under DDEEA were laid off today, a spokesperson said.
CAMPUS NEWS
Wisconsin has a new budget. Here’s what UW-Madison will receive
By Annika Bereny | Jul. 3Though state lawmakers awarded crucial funding for renovations at Dejope and Chadbourne, the University of Wisconsin-Madison fell short of funding requests for a new residence hall and demolishing the aging Mosse Humanities building.
CAMPUS NEWS
UW-Madison schools and colleges to reduce budget by five percent
By Annika Bereny | Jun. 23In an email to faculty and staff Sunday night, Chancellor Mnookin outlined budget reduction plans for the 2026 fiscal year.
CAMPUS NEWS
'He welcomed me to Rome': Badgers mourn Pope Francis during Italian study abroad
By Annika Bereny | May. 3University of Wisconsin-Madison students studying abroad joined mourners in Vatican City after Pope Francis’ death.
CAMPUS NEWS
All 27 UW-Madison visas restored
By Annika Bereny , Francesca Pica and Ella Hanley | Apr. 29A University of Wisconsin-Madison spokesman said nine out of 27 initially terminated visas of students and recent alumni were reversed, while 15 still have terminated records.
LIFE & STYLE
My study abroad experience: Home is where the heart is
By Annika Bereny | Apr. 24Absence truly makes the heart grow fonder in the case of a semester abroad.
CAMPUS NEWS
Mnookin joins over 200 academic leaders in condemning Trump administration’s ‘intrusion’ into higher education
By Annika Bereny and Ella Hanley | Apr. 22Higher education administrators condemned the Trump administration’s “unprecedented political interference” in public research funding, saying the “undue intrusion” is endangering American higher education.
CAMPUS NEWS
Visa terminations are ‘deeply troubling,’ seem 'arbitrary and unjust,' Mnookin says in newspaper column
By Annika Bereny | Apr. 18In a column in the Wisconsin State Journal Thursday, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin criticized recent international student visa terminations, pointing to the contributions of international students and faculty to the university’s success.
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By Annika Bereny | Apr. 21Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Florence, Italy at sunset.
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By Annika Bereny | Jun. 8, 2023Photo credits: Drake White-Bergey, Lauren Aguila, Patrick Flood, John Hart and WLUK.
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By Annika Bereny | Feb. 3, 2023Wisconsin lawmakers on the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy conduct the state's first-ever hearing Tuesday on PFAS, a harmful water pollutant.
