Change is constant on the UW-Madison campus. Here's the latest.
A $300 million indoor football practice facility at Wisconsin is closer to happening
The University of Wisconsin athletic department wants to spend nearly $300 million for a new indoor football practice facility next to Camp Randall Stadium that it hopes will make it more competitive in recruiting.
The long-studied project, included in the Board of Regents’ capital budget request for the 2023-25 biennium Thursday, would demolish the Camp Randall Sports Center — known as the Shell — and move its indoor track into the adjacent McClain Center.
A rendering in Board of Regents documents shows a cutaway of the potential design for a new Wisconsin football indoor practice facility proposed to replace the Camp Randall Sports Center.
'The ideas are endless' for Wisconsin's new club space in nearly complete Camp Randall renovation
Jason King has seen the transformation of the newest space at Camp Randall Stadium from high-level concept in a facility master plan five years ago to weeks away from completion in a tight construction window.
Now King, a senior associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, is picturing what the new facilities created in the 105-year-old stadium’s south end zone can bring to the department.
Work continues on the Champions Club, one of the new premium spaces being built in the south end zone of Camp Randall Stadium, on Tuesday. The bar backs up to the stone wall of the Field House.
80 Days/Tweets til Opener. As a frosh backup, Jack Sanborn had 7 tackles at ILB. The following season, he took over as a starter and had ‘80’ stops. Will history repeat itself at the position? Jordan Turner had 6 tackles (24 snaps on defense) in ‘21. But looms as a starter in ‘22 pic.twitter.com/wCXJotEAtQ
— Wisconsin Football (@BadgerFootball) June 20, 2022
Construction of new UW-Madison school means end for century-old buildings
UW-Madison will begin demolishing two century-old buildings this week to make way for its new School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences.
The Old Heating Plant, also known as the Service Annex, was built in 1908 in a neo-classical style; the Service Building next door followed shortly in 1910, according to "The Buildings of the University of Wisconsin," a 1997 book by Jim Feldman. The pair of buildings stand on University Avenue between North Orchard Street and North Charter Street.
UW-Madison will keep the carved stone inscribed with "SERVICE" above the Service Building's doorway, along with a number of other artifacts, when the building is demolished.
Student housing co-op looks off campus after reaching stalemate with UW-Madison
The last co-op on campus is slated to be demolished after the 2022-23 school year.
A UW-Madison student housing cooperative whose building the university has slated for demolition will likely look off campus for a new place to live because the two parties are seemingly at an impasse.
The Zoe Bayliss Women's Cooperative has leased space at 915 W. Johnson St. from UW-Madison since the 1950s and is one of the last student housing co-ops in the state. As Downtown rents rise, the co-op is also one of the few affordable housing options left for UW-Madison students.
"People feel a sense of ownership," co-op president Angela Maloney said about the democratically elected way in which the Zoe Bayliss Women's Cooperative runs.
Angela Maloney, a junior from Madison and president of the Zoe Bayliss Women's Cooperative, examines paintings on the wall left behind by former residents of the cooperative that began in the 1950s.
With significant financial support from Marv and Jeff Levy, two brothers and alumni at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the George L. Mosse Humanities building will soon be called Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall.
Slated for demolition, one of last student co-ops on UW-Madison campus seeks housing solution
The last co-op on campus is slated to be demolished after the 2022-23 school year.
The few dozen UW-Madison students living in one of the state’s last student housing cooperatives are pleading with the university for a solution to their destined-to-be-demolished building.
The university plans to tear down Zoe Bayliss Women’s Cooperative sometime after the 2022-23 school year to make room for a new academic building.
Residents at the Zoe Bayliss Women’s Cooperative, a student housing co-op on the UW-Madison campus, chat after sharing a meal together. From left are: Melissa Schmidt-Landin, a third-year graduate student from Baldwin; Kyi Khaing, a junior from Myanmar; Bernadette Maurice, a junior from Oregon; Isha Srivastava, a freshman from Saudi Arabia; and Ishita Arora, a sophomore from Carver, Minn.
Molly Nortman, a first-year graduate student from Beaver Dam, cleans out the fridge in the dining and kitchen area at Zoe Bayliss. Co-op residents are responsible for one hour of kitchen duty per week.
Angela Maloney, a junior from Madison and president of the Zoe Bayliss Women's Cooperative, examines paintings on the wall left behind by former residents of the cooperative that began in 1955.
Gov. Tony Evers on Feb. 20 signed Senate Bill 367, now 2023 Wisconsin Act 95, requiring the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin (UW) System to establish a guaranteed admission program for certain Wisconsin high school students. According to the UW System, nearly 90% of in-state UW System graduates stay in Wisconsin five years after graduation.
