For campus administrators, reminders of the Virginia Tech tragedy from a year ago are everywhere. The seismic impact of the event, magnified by more recent shooting events at Louisiana Technical College and Northern Illinois — and even the April 2 murder of UW–Madison senior Brittany Zimmermann — have placed the focus of the last 12 months on safety and security.
This year’s All-Campus Party will not only be rockin’ with Talib Kweli but also with the moves of UW-Madison’s own hip hop team, Hypnotiq.
Every year, the Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards honors faculty for teaching excellence.
Alan Boyle, science editor for MSNBC on the Internet, has been named the University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Writer in Residence for this spring.
Love is in the air as University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers share their stories of matrimony at the Memorial Union in the latest edition of Badger Insider magazine.
The seventh edition of the Southern Wisconsin Farm Fresh Atlas will be available starting Saturday, April 19.
Pierre Sauvage, award-winning filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, will deliver the Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
If you find politics and Madison history fascinating, the Olympics and coaching memorable, and the Grammy’s and entertainment business interesting, join the audience of “Wisconsin Reflections” on Tuesday, April 15.
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is accompanied on stage by mascot Bucky Badger during the opening of the Jeopardy! 2008 College Championship taping session held April 11 at the Kohl Center. UW-Madison senior Suchita Shah was one of 15 college students from across the United States chosen to participate on the game show. Photo: Bryce Richter
On Tuesday, April 22, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host a symposium on the career and legacy of Melvin R. Laird, a longtime member of Congress from Wisconsin and Secretary of Defense. The event will take place at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum on the Capitol Square.
A cadre of North America’s leading stem cell scientists will land in Madison April 16 for the third annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium.
The 2008 International Bioethics Forum, to be held April 17-18 at Promega Corporation’s BioPharmaceutical Technology Center (BTC) in Fitchburg, will delve into the science and controversies of evolution in the 21st Century.
Effective September 1, 2008, the undergraduate application fee for the University of Wisconsin–Madison and all UW System institutions will be $44. This is the first application fee increase since 1997, and represents an increase consistent with the rise in the Consumer Price Index, the standard inflationary indicator. The previous application fee was $35. The application …
Updated June 16, 2008 The University of Wisconsin–Madison will be admitting select students from the extended waiting list this year. The process of admitting wait-listed students began on May 19 when an initial group of 375 Wisconsin resident students were admitted. A second group of students, including approximately 200 out-of-state students, will be admitted on/by …
Construction workers use heavy-duty moving equipment to remove rubble — all that remains of aged and now demolished buildings once standing along the 1300 block of University Avenue — in preparation for first phase of construction of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Inside a fenced-off area in the foreground lies a fallen sign warning pedestrians …
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) announces the three winners of its research collaborative competition, each receiving $100,000 during a three-year period.
The Kinesiology Club’s 12th annual 5K Poker Run/Walk will be held on Thursday, April 17, at 6 p.m. in front of the Natatorium.
As 255 University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members thundered down the Lakeshore Path on the first warm Saturday morning in April, they dodged muddy puddles and happy pedestrians out for a weekend walk along Lake Mendota.
When Leotha Stanley was 13 years old, he played the piano at the funeral home on North Avenue in Milwaukee for some extra money.
Huddled under her umbrella, a pedestrian walks across Library Mall during a blustery spring rain on April 10. Photo: Jeff Miller