Lit Fest Lights Up the Union
The Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Publications Committee is celebrating literature and writing in a range of shapes and forms during their annual Lit Fest April 27-May 1 in Memorial Union. Throughout the year, WUD Publications Committee promotes reading and writing by providing students professional experience in publishing. The four presenters offer unique perspectives on literature and will be available to give students valuable...
Music Professor Brings Life to Creatures
The JACK Quartet visits Shannon Hall from New York on Friday, May 8 at 8 p.m. to perform the world premiere of UW Professor Laura Elise Schwendinger’s Creature Quartet. Schwendinger, who is the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin Prize Fellowship, wrote the Creature Quartet, a one-movement piece for string quartet that is an ode to extinct, mythological and endangered creatures. “The work is a personal response...
WUD and LGBT Campus Center Celebrate Out and About Month
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center (LGBT CC) of UW-Madison celebrates Out and About Month this April, and the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) has joined in the festivities. “Like with all of our community-based events, our goal is to bring people together to celebrate the awesome spectrum of LGBTQ identities and to show that there are multitudes of lives and experiences within LGBTQ communities,”...
Should I Go to The Terrace?
With our favorite furniture making their epic return to the Memorial Union Terrace this week, we thought you might need a guide to answer one of life’s greatest questions. Follow along and see where your answers lead you! There’s an orange, yellow or green chair waiting just for you! Can’t get enough of the Terrace? Check out the Terrace Chairs – A Love Story series!
Ezra Klein Featured at Distinguished Lecture Series
Students and community members praised both Ezra Klein and his news media venture, Vox, when he was invited on campus as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s (WUD) Distinguished Lecture Series on March 9th. Ezra Klein is the Editor-in-Chief of Vox, a news website that focuses on providing the most important news to consumers in ways that are extremely easy to absorb and comprehend. Vox does this through the use of graphs, lists...
Lights, Camera, Sundance
Fundance. That is what many students from the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Film Committee were calling their trip to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this January. Every year, a select group of students from the WUD Film Committee are invited to travel to Park City to encourage the next step in leadership and bring films back to campus for their programing throughout the year. This years group was a mix of associate...