Category: Campus life

A symposium hosted by the Center for East Asian Studies commemorating early UW-Madison students from China brought together families and scholars.

The Indigenous Law Students Association (ILSA) will host the 38th annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference on April 12 and 13, where the group aims to inform students and community members about Indian law.

Award-winning journalist and Pulitzer grantee Jason Motlagh visited the University of Wisconsin April 9 for a talk titled “Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Stories from the Frontlines.” The event was hosted by the Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center.

Leading up to Earth Day and a climate march in late April, the Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee will host events every Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Walk emphasizes connection through community, set to take place April 21.

The UW-Madison chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha hosted an April 2 iftar dinner for students, staff, faculty members and their families to break their fast and share a meal together.

Thousands of students and community members gathered on Library Mall and Bascom Hill to watch the partial solar eclipse over UW-Madison.

The MadHatters are the oldest acapella group at UW Madison, and WMTV 15 News had the opportunity to sit down with two of its members, Emmett Milligan and Asa Rao, to discuss their annual Madison performance.

Students and families of all ages were able to explore science in different ways at the UW-Madison Science Expeditions event this weekend. The three-day community open house event took place at various buildings on campus and allowed families and kids to take part in interactive science and art activities.

WMTV 15 News sat down with AJ Speed, public relations chair and Justin Galler, outreach chair of UW Humorology, Wisconsin’s longest running student-ran philanthropy.

‘The work we do is 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,’ RCC Executive Director says.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is celebrating its 175th anniversary with a Community Open House starting Friday, April 5, with free, family-friendly and interactive fun. This includes more than 60 events through Sunday, April 7.

It’s time for the UW-Madison Science Expeditions Campus Open House happening April 5-7. This is an opportunity to explore UW-Madison and experience science around us. The event gives families a chance to interact with researchers, visit science venues across campus, enjoy science shows, and even try your hand at Exploration Stations.

University of Wisconsin Multicultural Student Center director Claudia Guzman joins the show to help celebrate the 35th anniversary of the MSC’s beginning within the Wisconsin Union.

The summit is sponsored by the UW Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement, the College of Letters and Science, the School of Education, the Business School, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The organizers hope it becomes an annual event – or at least an ongoing movement.

Celebration commemorates work in accomplishments of diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives on campus.

Live viewings to be held at Library Mall, the Sett, the Rathskeller.

The Multicultural Student Center and Wisconsin Union debuted miniature Terrace chairs to kick off a year-long fundraising effort at the MSC’s 35th Anniversary Gala.

Free generative AI tool to provide ‘level playing field’ for students, vice provost says.

Some UW-Madison students worry increased tuition could exacerbate wider affordability concerns and deter enrollment as the UW Board of Regents is set to vote on an increase on April 4.

‘Ummah Walk’ spearheaded by MSA, popular during evening Ramadan prayers.

Recent construction on Mosse Humanities first floor study lounge exposed asbestos during removal.

Voting hours will be extended from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union today after union front desk staff mistakenly turned voters away.

Voting usually ends at 8 p.m. under state law, but the window was extended for those campus voters due to staff at the union’s front desk mistakenly telling voters there was no polling place at the building.

City of Madison officials say earlier Tuesday, staff at the front desk mistakenly told people entering the building that there was no voting taking place at the union.Polling hours were extended for these wards after the City Attorney’s Office petitioned the court.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, some of those younger voters have also been organizing an effort to educate more people about the uninstructed option on the ballot.

UW–Madison professors, Sara McKinnon (communication arts), Erin Barbato (law), and Jorge Osorio (pathobiological sciences), are leading a multidisciplinary research project aimed at understanding the risks that face people as they move through fieldwork with migrants, legal clinics, and humanitarian organizations in migration hot spots like the Darién Gap of Colombia and Panama and the northern parts of Mexico.

The Morgridge Center for Public Service and Associated Students of Madison hosted Voterpalooza Monday evening at Memorial Union to emphasize the importance of voting through musical performances and civic engagement messages.

Such regulations must be content-neutral time, place and manner restrictions, according to the free expression webpage. Time, place and manner restrictions are limits on free speech that do not target the content of the speech, UW Law assistant professor Franciska Coleman said.

Board of Regents to propose plan to honor veterans in new football facility project, student veterans push for community building.

Newly-formed program sees growth, improvement in performance throughout school year.

Newly elected representatives reflect on turnout, look towards future.

Program offers students foundation in cultural, linguistic literacy, department director says.

Freshman Blake Herman was determined to make it home to Eau Claire. “I’m really happy, excited for a break since we’ve been going nonstop this semester,” he said. ““I thought about the storm a little bit, but I just wanted to get home so bad that I was just gonna push through.”

When a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer shoved a pro-Palestinian protester to the ground a month ago and detained another, many students and student organizations took to social media to voice their outrage.

Explore the spaces where LGBTQ+ students find comfort, community and identity when transitioning to Madison from rural and conservative areas.

As Instagram becomes a home for advocacy groups looking to share information on social causes, activists are adapting to nontraditional means of communication. That includes Instagram, a highly visual platform where graphic design aids grassroots organizing.

Created in response to racist incidents that took place on campus last spring, the legislation called on administrators to remove the phrase “Hate speech is free speech” from first-year instructional materials, and take a more active role in outlining the University’s opposition to hate speech.