Important Commencement Reminders

Congratulations families of graduating students! We are enthused to celebrate your students this weekend and are writing to share important reminders for the week. They include: Sending a Tribute message to the graduating class Student tickets …

Preparing for Commencement

If your student is graduating and planning to attend the in-person Spring Commencement ceremony, there’s a few things they need to do first to ensure everyone’s safety. Students should make sure they have the Safer Badgers app, and get tested so it turns green to give them access. Also, graduating students must register to attend the ceremony via Canvas.

University Housing Spring Move-Out

As a reminder, all residents will need to select a time slot to move out of the residence halls at the end of the semester. Sign-ups for move-out are now available in My UW Housing. Move-out runs from April 30–May 9 at noon, and students should vacate their room within 24 hours of their last final exam.

COVID-19 Weekly Update #16

As we head into the final weeks of the semester, we thank you for everything you have done to support the health and safety of our community by following our COVID-19 protocols. It’s critical we …

COVID-19 Weekly Update #15

Campus and the broader community continue to make great progress on vaccination to protect against COVID-19 – now more than 19,000 employees and students have had at least one dose of vaccine. The faster we’re …

COVID-19 Weekly Update #14

We are beginning to see a rise in COVID-19 cases on campus and in the greater Madison area as highly contagious variants of the virus spread widely in the community. We need to act now to control the …

2021 UW–Madison Distinguished Teaching Awards

Thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators. A virtual recognition event will take place at 5 p.m. …

April 6th, 2021: Day of the Badger!

Do You Want 1848 Minutes of Fun in Your Life?   Join us for #DayoftheBadger! Looking for ways to participate? Put on your favorite UW –Madison red attire and head over to  dayofthebadger.org , where you …

COVID-19 Weekly Update #13

Travel health warning Travel increases your chances of getting and spreading COVID-19. More contagious variants of COVID-19 are being found around the country and within Wisconsin. This threatens to produce another surge in illnesses, hospitalizations and …