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COVID-19: Community gathers to support members of Asian Descent during global pandemic
More than 200 campus and community participants joined Tuesday’s virtual townhall, COVID-19: Supporting our Pan-Asian Communities in this Time of Crisis. For a list of shared sources of help, go to COVID-19 Resources. Hosted by the …
CeO’s Jada Thompson featured in CBS Sunday Morning graduation segment
Our new CeO graduate, Jada Thompson, was featured on CBS Sunday Morning as part of a Class of 2020 segment! See the link below. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/for-the-class-of-2020-a-graduation-season-like-no-other/ For the Class of 2020, a graduation season like no …
UW Health Virtual Ready Camp – precollege health option
READY Camp is organized by The Center for School, Youth and Citizen Preparedness, which is a private 503c charitable organization that offers a number of educational opportunities associated with emergency and disaster preparedness. Learn more …
Resources during COVID-19: Supporting our Pan-Asian communities in this time of crisis
On Tuesday, May 19, a partnership of community, education and government organizations hosted a virtual town hall in response to xenophobic and hateful attacks directed at people of Asian descent in Wisconsin during the COVID-19 …
COVID-19: Supporting our Pan-Asian communities in this time of crisis/ ESPAÑOL/ HMOOB/ བོད་ཡིག / 中文 / नेपाली
A coalition of community, education and government groups will host a virtual town hall at 6pm on May 19. The event will focus on supporting Asian-descent communities during COVID-19. Details: go.wisc.edu/covid-townhall ESPAÑOL / SPANISH Una …
Planning to go to Medical School? Join the Great Lakes Applicant Workshop
This year’s workshop was held virtually in partnership with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth and Twin Cities, University of South …
Health Professional Program Application Deadlines
There are a few health professional applications that are beginning to open this spring. All of the programs are linked below along with their deadlines. Please contact our center for coaching, advising, and support with exploring …
Dreamers of Wisconsin Scholarship Applications due August 1st
Dreamers of Wisconsin is excited to announce that the $5,000 scholarship application is now open! All high school, undergraduate, and graduate undocumented/DACAmented students in Wisconsin are eligible to apply. Please find our application link below. All …
COVID-19: Supporting our Pan-Asian communities in this time of crisis
A partnership of community, education and government organizations will host a virtual town hall on May 19 in response to xenophobic and hateful attacks directed at people of Asian descent in Wisconsin during the COVID-19 …
Six First Wave Scholars Win Madison Creative Writing Scholarship Prizes
*Indicates Recipient is a First Wave Scholar The Program in Creative Writing at UW-Madison is pleased to announce this year’s undergraduate and graduate scholarship prize recipients. We wish we could be with all of you …
Digital Recognition Program to Celebrate DDEEA 2020 Graduates
Class of 2020 graduates from programs in the Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement (DDEEA) will celebrate with a multimedia web program recognizing their degrees and accomplishments due to the COVID-19 closing of the …
Seniors to make most of online commencement, celebrating at home
Many UW–Madison graduates-to-be plan to celebrate their commencement from the comfort of their own homes, as the live ceremony has been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual commencement video will be released at …
Notable grads: A few of the outstanding students at spring commencement 2020
The coronavirus outbreak changed a lot of things at UW–Madison this semester; the excellence of this spring’s graduating class was not one of them. As we prepare to celebrate commencement virtually on May 9, here …
Undergraduate research: A powerful tool for sifting and winnowing
University research is often a mysterious and murky concept to undergraduates arriving on campus. But through the College of Letters & Science’s Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, each year we help approximately 200 first- and second-year …
UW professors rethink final exams, mark bittersweet end of year
To most fairly assess a semester that has been far from normal, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking liberties with final exams and projects. Approaching the standard finals week, which runs from May …
CATCHING UP WITH ALUMNI ON WAA VIDEO CHAT
I was pleased for the opportunity Tuesday night to connect with hundreds of alumni on a livestream sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. The alums had great questions, and I enjoyed the conversation with UW …
A New Era for Children’s Literature
Ever since I was born and could see, Everywhere I looked, I saw dance. In the clouds as the wind blew them across the sky, In the ripples on a pond, Even in the sea …
UW–Madison Posse Student Named Newman Civic Fellow ‘20
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is proud to announce Shehrose Charania as its 2020 Newman Civic Fellow. Charania joins 290 community-committed students representing Campus Compact member colleges and universities from 39 states, Washington, D.C., Mexico and Greece. Newman …
UW Now Livestream Special Edition with Mike Leckrone and Corey Pompey
April 16 At 7 P.M. CDT JOIN THE LIVESTREAM THE UW BAND LEGACY From “Build Me Up, Buttercup” to the “U-Rah-Rah” of “Varsity,” the UW Marching Band has been the heart of Badger spirit for …