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Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society 2018 Members Selected
The Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society commemorates the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from an American university (Physics, Yale University, 1876). The Bouchet Society seeks to develop a network of scholars …
UW professor discusses racial intricacies of U.S., campus histories
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara spoke to approximately 60 students about the historical aspects of race in the U.S. and how this history plays a role in UW-Madison students’ day-to-day life.
On Wisconsin Conversations: Alumni Author Ladee Hubbard
At home in New Orleans, Ladee Hubbard MFA’14 was booked. She had a full-time job as an adjunct lecturer in Africana Studies at Tulane University, a growing family, and a super-powerful calling: to write a novel. Sight unseen, …
Artist, Author, Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Michigan State Dylan Miner Coming to Campus
Coming March 16 at 6 p.m., join us for a Meet & Greet Potluck with the P.M.Terra Incognita Art Series featuring Dylan Miner. He is an artist, author, director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies and …
Are you planning to graduate this semester? Do you have questions about commencement?
Here are the details you need to prepare for Spring Commencement. Commencement for Doctoral, MFA, and Medical Professional degree candidates will be held on Friday, May 11, 2018, in the Kohl Center. Graduates need to …
UW–Madison to Host Performance Architect Sheron Wray as the Spring 2018 Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arts Institute (presenter) welcomes Sheron Wray as the Spring 2018 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence. Wray’s residency is hosted by the Art Department with co-sponsoring Departments of Art History, Dance, Afro-American Studiesand African Cultural Studies, and the faculty lead is Associate …
UW-Madison Creative Writing Fellow Wins National Poetry Award
Tiana Clark, a poetry fellow at UW-Madison’s Institute of Creative Writing, is the 2017 winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The University of Pittsburgh Press awarded the honor in recognition of her collection I Can’t Talk about …
Jessika Greendeer Plants Seeds of Healthy Nutrition as Agriculture Division Manager
Jessika Greendeer has taken her passion for horticulture and turned it into a blessing for the Ho-Chunk people. Greendeer is the new Agriculture Division manager for the Ho-Chunk Nation, having started as a limited term …
History in Their Own Words: UW-Madison’s First African American Assistant Coach Lewis Ritcherson
In the years following World War II, African American athletes joined UW teams in larger numbers, and for decades, they were the most visible minority students on campus. But they often faced obstacles and discrimination. …
UW-Madison celebrates Peace Corps’ 57th year with week of festivities
Peace Corps Week began with “A Peace Corps Tip or Two,” a discussion panel where prospective volunteers met with former volunteers to learn about service life abroad. Image By: Jessie Gallimore By Gianina Dinon | The Daily …
How Does Religion Impact the Student Experience?
The Interfaith Scholars of the Center for Religion and Global Citizenry, together with the Muslim Student Association, the Atheists, Humanists & Agnostics, and UW-Hillel, invite you and your students on Saturday, March 3rd, 7:00 to …
UW-Madison Black History: Alumnus Cleared Hurdles on the Track in Life
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV)– George Coleman Poage, a UW-Madison alumni, became the first African American to earn an Olympic medal. Poage was said to be “perhaps the greatest track athlete that was ever developed in this city” …
DIP Raffle Giveaway Winner: Congrats to Ahna Skop
Congratulations to Ahna Skop for her important work concerning diversity efforts on campus. Ahna is our randomly chosen DIP Raffle Giveaway Winner this week for submitting the initiative about the STEM Diversity Network within the …
UW Press book inspires national framework for teaching about slavery
A framework for teaching middle school and high school students about slavery, developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and launched Feb. 1, was inspired by and based on a book published by the University …
Candidates wanted for DDEEA SPECIAL ASSISTANT/CHIEF OF STAFF at UW–Madison
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently ranked among the top ten public #colleges in the nation by US News and World Report, is looking for a Special Assistant/Chief of Staff for the Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer …
Sagashus Levingston: Teaching About The Infamous Mothers of Black History
Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Harriet Tubman. Every year during Black History Month, millions of students and adults alike learn about the respectable, well-known black leaders from America’s past. …
Brushed aside: Students, faculty struggle to define what ethnic studies mean at UW
In the classroom, minority students grapple with requirement clearly designed for white majority
Reminder: American Indian Studies Job Talk & Lunch Thursday
Please join us this Thursday to meet another candidate for the joint faculty position with American Indian Studies and Civil Society and Community Research. Thursday, February 22: Professor Brian McInnes Job Talk: 10 am – 11:00 …
PBS Documentary Features Latinx American Activist Dolores Huerta: Local Screening on March 8
About the Film One of the most important, yet least known activists of our time, Dolores Huerta was an equal partner in founding the first farm workers union with César Chávez. Tirelessly leading the fight …