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July 8, 2026

Community

Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation gives $2.4 million to Madison-area causes

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The Cap Times

Additionally, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded $322,500 for 36 projects, including a $48,000 grant to the Odyssey Project, which offers adults who never had a chance to attend college the opportunity to take college-level classes. Among the university’s grants was one that includes students from the Madison school district’s Shabazz City High School in a project monitoring chlorine in the east side’s Starkweather Creek.

Athletics

New UW track and cross coach ‘all gas and no brakes’ on taking job

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The Cap Times

Chris Solinsky always wanted to get into coaching. But were there overt signs of that while he was becoming a five-time NCAA track champion at the University of Wisconsin?

“That’s an interesting question,” pondered Ed Nuttycombe, the UW track and field head coach during Solinsky’s sterling Hall of Fame running career with the Badgers.

Polzin: Now the real education begins for new Wisconsin AD Shawn Eichorst

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Wisconsin State Journal

Shawn Eichorst believes in the University of Wisconsin way. There should be no question about that after the event introducing him as the Badgers’ new athletic director or the news conference that followed it at Camp Randall Stadium.

In fact, Eichorst spent so much time talking about the importance of education that anyone who stumbled upon the Big Ten Network’s live coverage Tuesday afternoon may have thought they were watching UW-Madison’s new chancellor — not its new athletic director — holding court.

UW-Madison Related

Is it legal for ICE agents to ignore Milwaukee’s no-mask ordinance?

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

In February – in the wake of federal agents shooting and killing two Minneapolis residents – Milwaukee council members were defiant.

Members introduced ICE Out, a package of legislation aimed to curtail the federal agency’s work in the city. Within months, Milwaukee Common Council members unanimously passed one of the key pieces of that package, an ordinance that prohibited ICE agents from wearing masks while working in the city,

UW-Madison issues warning after probe into students’ role in attempted raid at Ridglan

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Wisconsin State Journal

UW-Madison will warn a student animal advocacy organization about improperly posting a flyer after investigating the group’s support for activists’ attempted April raid on the research and beagle-breeding facility Ridglan Farms.

The university’s investigation found that Animal Advocacy UW-Madison did not solicit others to attend activists’ illegal attempt to seize Ridglan Farms’ nearly 2,000 beagles, but the group is guilty of the less severe violation of improperly posting a flyer for an event, according to a Tuesday letter obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.