The annual awards honor women of color among UW–Madison’s faculty, staff, students, and the Madison area who have made significant contributions to the campus community.
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Campus events to celebrate the Year of the Tiger
Tuesday, Feb. 1st, marks the Lunar New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Tiger.
Registration open for 10th annual Wisconsin Pre-Law Diversity Conference and Law Fair
You are cordially invited to join admissions officers, faculty, and staff from the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Marquette University Law School at the Tenth Annual Wisconsin Pre-Law Diversity Conference and Law Fair! This VIRTUAL event …
Join the first-ever UW Reading Indigenously book club
Wunk Sheek, TLAM, and the Native Nations Wellbeing Group are excited to announce we are hosting our first ever Reading Indigenously Book Club. For our first book, we will be reading New York Times Bestseller …
Chris Castro committed to collaborative, relational approach as Engineering’s inaugural inclusion, equity and diversity leader
At age 18, Chris Castro boarded a plane bound for Miami with his family, unknowingly a one-way journey from Colombia that would upend his life. When they landed, Castro’s parents told him and his 13-year-old …
Media coverage of the 2022 MLK Symposium with Nikole Hannah-Jones
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Nikole Hannah-Jones presented the 2022 UW–Madison MLK Symposium for an in-person and virtual audience at the Memorial Union on Jan. 25.
MLK Symposium: Seeing Martin Luther King Jr. for what he truly stood for
The Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of The 1619 Project did not mince words as she presented “the real Martin Luther King Jr.” and his teachings alongside social justice issues prominent today.
Tuesday Night Ojibwe Storytelling Series
In Ojibwe culture, winter is storytelling season. The Wisconsin Historical Society is celebrating by featuring Ojibwe storytellers in a four-part virtual series every Tuesday evening from Jan. 25 – Feb. 15, 2022. Learn more and …
Law School alum Lloyd Barbee’s pursuit of justice reemerges in a long-lost film, now found
Lloyd Barbee ’56 was just a few years out of law school and the president of the local NAACP branch when he and two friends hatched a plan to use hidden cameras to document and …
UW alum Andreal Davis leading 4th annual Black History Education Conference Feb. 18-19
After serving 26 years in a variety of roles for the Madison Metropolitan School District, Andreal Davis started working in 2012 for the Wisconsin Response to Intervention (Rtl) Center, where she became the culturally responsive …
Statement from Chancellor and Athletic Director on Anti-Asian Incident
We are reaching out today to condemn the offensive anti-Asian gestures made by a man in Badgers apparel at Tuesday’s men’s basketball game at Northwestern University and to share the actions being taken. Our events …
Badger hockey alum Abby Roque blazed her own path to Olympics debut
Next month, the 24-year-old Abby Roque will make her Olympic debut for the U.S. women’s national team. Roque will be the first Indigenous player on Team USA’s hockey roster and the team’s only BIPOC player. …
Meet Nia Trammell (’95, JD ’98), Dane County’s first Black female judge
School of Medicine and UW Health host ‘Trace the Line’ film screening and conversation
All SMPH and UW Health faculty, staff, employees, learners and alumni are invited to a virtual film screening and conversation of Alejandro Miranda Cruz’s film “Trace the Line.” This event is co-hosted by SMPH and …
Name pronunciation feature added to Canvas
UW–Madison students, faculty and instructional staff are now able to record and share their name pronunciations in Canvas through a new feature called NameCoach.
Nikole Hannah-Jones to headline MLK Symposium
The celebrated investigative journalist and historian will reflect on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through the lens of her award-winning work investigating racial injustice and the consequences of slavery in American history.
Madison-area events for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022
Find ways to get involved in your community and honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with these MLK Day events in Dane County, Wisconsin.
UW fellow to explore pop culture portrayals of Jewish scrap dealers in museum lecture
Jewish scrap dealers have appeared in pop culture as both antisemitic stereotypes and more rounded, complex characters.
UW professor’s research prompts rethinking of ‘special needs’ euphemism for disabled children
Professor Morton Ann Gernsbacher found that “special needs” is an ineffective euphemism which seems to be morphing into a dysphemism – a term whose connotations are more negative than the ones it attempts to replace.
For Malaysian students at UW, apartment food stall offers a taste of home
From tomato rice to coconut rice, Nazrie and Nur Liyana have served up around 60 orders of food for those in the UW-Madison Malaysian community, providing them with tastes that remind them of their home …