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UWPD Chief Kristen Roman speaks with The Daily Cardinal about her goals and priorities.

Issa Rae — you may know her as the “Awkward Black Girl” — will speak from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 29, in Union South to kick off the UW-Madison Black History Month celebration.

On Monday, the University of Wisconsin–Madison community came together to consider King’s legacy and how he continues to inspire.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank shares an update on actions UW-Madison is taking to ensure all students feel welcome, valued and able to thrive.

The gifts, spearheaded by Ab and Nancy Nicholas, will generate about $4.5 million in annual scholarships to recruit and retain outstanding students like Parish Johnson, a freshman from Milwaukee.

UW-Madison School of Nursing doctoral student Kala Cornelius is featured in a new video from We Are Healers, a digital media initiative featuring stories of American Indian health professionals.

The GEM consortium is a national network of universities and employers committed to achieving greater diversity in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields by advancing the careers of talented graduate students from underrepresented …

It might be hard to imagine a journalism student, a future economist, a cancer researcher and an aspiring statistician in the same 16-person class in Helen C. White Hall. More than 1,000 undergraduate and graduate …

John Herrington, the first enrolled Native American astronaut, shared his career journey with students, faculty, community members, and elders on Nov. 17. A member of the Chickasaw Nation, Herrington was a mission specialist on the space …

UW-Madison will open a center for black students early next year inside the university’s historic Red Gym, in a move administrators say shows they are taking action in response to complaints from minority students about …

Karla Foster of the Division of Diversity, Equity, & Educational Achievement is taking on an additional role with the Multicultural Student Center in preparation for the opening of a Black Cultural Center on campus. Foster …

A lot has happened between the Oct. 29 Wisconsin Badgers home football game against Nebraska and the team’s huge win during this past homecoming weekend. As a campus community, we’ve had to contend with the …

Education and experience helped define Cheryl Stallworth-Hooper’s destiny. So did a whole bunch of letters that came to her childhood home trimmed in red, white, and blue. Stallworth had uncles in the U.S. Navy, and …

I stayed up late last night to watch the outcome of the presidential election, as I suspect many of you did. As in every election, there were winners and losers. But regardless of your political …

Roberto G. Sánchez, a son of Mexican immigrants and the first in his family to graduate from college, went on to create opportunities for many other students through his work as a UW-Madison professor and his …

A noose displayed in this fashion has no place on campus. Together, the Athletics Department and the University’s Office of Legal Affairs are initiating a review of stadium policies with the goal of ensuring that …

Two UW–Madison students have been recognized by the Alliant Energy Foundation and the University of Wisconsin System for outstanding scholarship and community service efforts by students from traditionally underrepresented groups. Seniors Janerra Allen and Catherine Finedore …

During what should have been an athletic contest that united the Badger community, an individual wore a costume to Camp Randall that for many of us evoked images of lynchings of African-Americans from this country’s …