A new Badger is coming to town this August. Across the street from Camp Randall Stadium on Monroe Street, a 10-foot-long bronze statue of a badger — that people will be able to touch and …
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Uprise Poetry Collective Rising Up Poetically
All eyes on them. Members of the UpRise Poetry Collective will practice for hours to prepare themselves for a massive competition of more than a hundred students from universities across the nation. UpRise is a …
González hired as new UW-Madison community relations director
Brenda González will become the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s new director of community relations starting Aug. 5. González has been part of the Madison community for more than 20 years and has a career of creating strong relationships through collaboration. As director of community …
Young African Leaders Arrive in Madison for 2019 Mandela Washington Fellowship
The University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomed its fourth cohort of Mandela Washington Fellows to campus Wednesday. The Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship program for the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI), is sponsored by the U.S. Department of …
UW–Madison twins to appear on ‘American Ninja Warrior’
Identical twins Marquez and Nathan Green don’t make it easy on new acquaintances — same height, same weight, same college, same major. They live together, study together, exercise together. “People get us mixed up all the time,” …
Photos: Meet the DDEEA graduating class of 2019
The Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement held its annual Graduation Recognition Ceremony on Friday, May 10, 2019, at the Memorial Union. The event was a chance for family, friends and university staff to …
Meet 2019 Forward under 40 Award Recipient Lavar Charleston MS’07, PHD’10
In the international movement to create college opportunity for all, LaVar Charleston is making waves of change. Colleges and universities at home and abroad look to him for his voice and award-winning scholarship exploring how …
UW-Madison student to use prestigious Truman Scholarship to further research on arts education access
By Doug Erickson Shiloah Coley attributes her strong work ethic to her Afro-Caribbean family. Her Grandma Wanna, she says, stressed that any task, from homework to making the bed, was worth doing well or not at …
Truman Lowe, acclaimed Ho-Chunk artist and professor emeritus, dies at 75
UW–Madison alumnus and Professor Emeritus Truman Lowe (Wakajah), an internationally acclaimed artist whose works are deeply rooted in his Ho-Chunk heritage, died at his home on March 30. He was 75. “Truman was a quiet …
13th Annual Line Breaks Multidisciplinary Arts Festival is April 3-April 7 in Play Circle
The 13th annual Line Breaks Festival will take place Wednesday, April 3rd through Sunday, April 7th at the Play Circle Theater in Memorial Union, with a variety of performances,lectures and discussions by the Office of …
UW-Madison 2019 Bouchet Society Induction Ceremony is April 2
The Graduate School has selected five scholars for the 2019 cohort of the UW-Madison Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society commemorates the first African American to earn a doctorate …
Student to student: Recognizing women in leadership at UW
By Kayla Huynh With International Women’s Day coming March 8, now’s the time to celebrate the women who have made an impact on our lives, as well as on our campus community. This month also happens …
Program empowers communities to overpower diabetes
February 18, 2019 By Katie Gerhards Professor Eva Vivian, in the School of Pharmacy’s Pharmacy Practice Division, and fourth-year PharmD student Beatriz Jimenez Cadilla at a training for Peers Empowering Peers coaches at Cavalry Baptist Church in …
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe on journalism, free time, and the day she won’t forget
Q & A: NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe on journalism, free time, and the day she won’t forget February 5, 2019 By Veronica Rueckert Ayesha Rascoe reports on the White House for NPR. She’ll be on campus at the …
UW-Madison alum Stanford Taylor takes over as state superintendent
Carolyn Stanford Taylor was appointed the new state superintendent of public instruction on Monday after Tony Evers was sworn in as the new governor of Wisconsin. Stanford Taylor, like Evers, is an alum of UW-Madison’s …
First Wave scholar Jamie Dawson urges graduates to ‘recognize our limitless possibilities’
When the UW–Madison graduating senior class selected Jamie Dawson to deliver the student address at the 2018 Winter Commencement Ceremony, she promised to be very intentional with her platform. “This will not be a squandered …
New Cohort of Outstanding Women of Color Announced, Reception is March 5
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Outstanding Women of Color Award Reception honors women of color who are deeply rooted in both the campus and the Madison community through their work toward social justice, service, research and …
Center for Educational Opportunity celebrates 25 years of championing academic excellence
Students, families, alumni, staff and supporters of the Center for Educational Opportunity (CeO) gathered in the Memorial Union on Friday, Dec. 7, to celebrate the center’s 25th anniversary on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and the accomplishments …
Mercile Lee’s founding role in prominent scholarships honored
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will solidify the legacy of the late Mercile J. Lee by incorporating her name into the two life-changing scholarship initiatives she established and directed for decades. Lee, who retired in 2013 …
Mercile Lee, guiding force behind prominent UW–Madison scholarships, dies at 87
By Doug Erickson Mercile Lee, the architect and founding director of two of UW–Madison’s most respected and successful scholarship initiatives, the Chancellor’s and Powers-Knapp scholarship programs, died Oct. 25 in Madison. She was 87. The cause was …