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Electrifying change

Isthmus

Robin Mwai pulls a key fob out of her handbag and swipes it across the Trek BCycle docking station on the Capitol Square to unlock an electric-assist bicycle. Mwai isn’t planning a long ride, just a quick pedal back to campus.

Climate strike Friday includes rally outside MG&E, march to Capitol

Capital Times

Max Prestigiacomo, a University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman who is organizing the Madison event, said that while there are similarities to an earlier rally in March, in which about 1,000 students marched from East High School to the Capitol, he hopes to see more community members out there this time.

Film for a troubled planet

Isthmus

It’s not too late to save the planet, according to a visually stunning documentary to be screened by UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in advance of a pivotal United Nations climate summit.

Shiva Bidar to Moderate Panel on Standing Together Across Ethnic Lines

Madison 365

Another BIG announcement from the Wisconsin Leadership Summit: Madison Common Council president Shiva Bidar will moderate the panel titled “Together We Stand: Building Community Across Ethnic Lines.”

In her role as the first Chief Diversity Officer for UW Health, Shiva provides vision, coordination and strategic leadership for the design and implementation of UW Health’s initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Madison artists discuss how to create theater that ‘represents the evolving America’

The Capital Times

Quoted: Patrick Sims, founding director of Theatre for Cultural and Social Awareness, said it’s important that wider audiences engage with the work of playwrights of color. “You can go through lists of amazing artists, playwrights, storytellers who have captured the experience of their people, and yet those experiences don’t reach the masses… the way they have the potential to,” said Sims, the deputy vice chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion and the Elzie Higginbottom vice provost & chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

New Madison School Board member looks to use personal experience to inform role

Wisconsin State Journal

Castro participated in one of UW-Madison’s pre-college programs for low-income students across the state. “Being able to experience education with folks going through similar struggles as I was was really informative to my education,” Castro said. After high school, Castro studied sociology at UW-Madison and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2018.

All feelings welcome

Isthmus

Noted: Barcelos, who relocated to Madison from Massachusetts in January, is a UW-Madison professor of gender and women’s studies. Barcelos — who uses they/their pronouns — researches public health through queer, race and feminist perspectives. A yoga teacher since 2012, Barcelos leads the class with an intentional, yet light, demeanor, inviting yogis to take movements rather than telling them to.

Rules of the road

Isthmus

A year ago, Milwaukee resident Jessie Calhoun noticed the buzz online that electric “dockless” scooters were coming to her city. Although the UW-Milwaukee student was excited to try one out, the scooters were in such high demand that it took weeks before she was able to find one to ride.

Deep Bench: Exploring a rich, German history in central Wisconsin

WSAW-TV, Wausau

From sauerkraut to schottisches, there’s no doubt hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites take pride in their German heritage. That influence will be explored in a new traveling exhibit called “Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience” that you can check out right now at the Marathon County Historical Society in Wausau.

Madison teams win major funding competition with ideas to raise net incomes of Dane County families

Capital Times

UW-Madison’s effort was known as “DreamUp Wisconsin,” and Berger said last May that the goal was to put about $4,000 in the pockets of Dane County families. The university’s Institute for Research on Poverty led the effort and helped solicit proposals, which all included a partnership between the university and community.

Vietnam War’s ‘napalm girl’ finds hope and meaning as peace activist

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Kim Phuc is the “napalm girl,” but of course she is much more than a picture, much more than her injuries and much more than a victim of the Vietnam War.

She will share her story at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, exactly 47 years after the napalm attack, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The free event will include an appearance by Nick Ut, the Associated Press photographer who took the photo.

Plan B for State Street art

Isthmus

Madison just dedicated its newest work of public art, a massive sculpture, “Both/And — Tolerance/Innovation,” which has been completed on lower State Street, adjacent to Library Mall.

UniverCity projects highlight opportunity

The Monroe Times

As University of Wisconsin seniors look to wrap up their final projects to graduate within the scope of the UniverCity Alliance with Green County, officials are considering how the different viewpoints can help bolster development in their municipalities.

Encountering backyard bloodsuckers? The Tick App tracks that

Capital Times

The app is part of a behavioral study being carried out by researchers at UW-Madison and Columbia University in New York who are seeking to better understand where and how people encounter ticks. They’re particularly interested in finding out what activities people are doing (and where they’re doing them) when they encounter black-legged (or deer) ticks (Ixodes scapularis), which often carry the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.