Proceeds will go to Helping Hands, which gives children the power to create holiday magic. Through their letters, children identify people in their communities that could use some help during the holiday season.
Lawrence Berger, director of the UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty, said in May that the goal is to put about $4,000 in the pockets of Dane County families. UW-Madison asked for creative ideas from throughout the community to build up the county’s middle class and hopefully narrow racial disparities.
Column by Neil Kraus, professor and chair of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls political science department
A refusal by the University of Wisconsin System to release records related to two charter schools not authorized by the Madison School District is again revealing tensions between the district and the Republican-created body that approved the schools earlier this year.
Neighborhood House got $2,000 for its program that pairs at-risk kids with UW-Madison college students to learn the advantages of higher education.
The session — involving Richard Russell, 74, of Madison, who works as a mock patient to help young doctors learn — is part of a growing effort at UW-Madison and around the state to better prepare health care providers to serve an aging population.
Reddy hopes to improve campus safety, housing affordability if elected.
Noted: They are connecting with the children through an organization called, The Memory Project and it was actually started by a UW-Madison student back in 2004, with a goal to let youth facing hard times know that somebody cares about their well-being.
Empowered voices and heavy hearts carried on the chant, “no one is illegal, refugees are people,” while standing on the edge of State Street Tuesday evening.
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health and the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County have launched a program aimed at increasing the number of students from underrepresented backgrounds choosing to enter the health care and health science research fields.
Shannon Barry, director of Domestic Abuse Intervention Services in Madison, said she’s excited that the UW-Madison Law School will early next year launch a new restraining order clinic, made possible by federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds administered by the state Department of Justice.
Both are freshmen: Avra Reddy, 19, and Matthew Mitnick, 18.
University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer, author of “The Politics of Resentment,” and a media analytics team from Cortico, a nonprofit organization that uses artificial intelligence to assist journalists tell stories, and Massachusets Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Social Machines will be testing the new platform, called the Local Voices Network, in Madison between Jan. 2 and April 2.
The kids at the Meadowood Neighborhood Center didn’t quite know what to make of Tionna Williams when she first showed up at the facility early last summer.
Even though Nov. 11 is commemorated as the date of the armistice ending World War I, it’s also a day to honor all veterans, thanks to a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate.
Shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, the City of Madison’s Clerk’s office announced via Twitter 145,510 voters cast ballots in Madison, representing 92.9 percent of pre-registered voters. The city has not yet released the amount of people who registered at the polls on Election Day.
It is being taught by Rena Kornblum, a dance/movement therapist who … also teaches dance/movement therapy and ballroom dance at UW-Madison.
Noted: The idea spread around the world partly because of a chance meeting in 2010 between Mr. Brooks, an outreach manager for the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Mr. Bol, who lived in Hudson, Wis. Mr. Bol attended a workshop presented by Mr. Brooks in Hudson. Afterward, they began talking about opportunities in what they called social entrepreneurship.
As the midterm election approaches, Madison early voter turnout is on track to match turnout from the 2016 presidential election, according to data collected by the city clerk’s office.
Hafner, the UW-Madison education professor, heads up the Minority Student Achievement Network, a national coalition of 27 school districts that share strategies for narrowing the achievement gap. That coalition includes districts in Verona, Sun Prairie, Middleton-Cross Plains and Madison.
The grant comes from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
“Every single person has a right to be treated with dignity, kindness and love,” said a Jewish transgender professor from the UW-Madison educational psychology department. “We’ve got to talk, we’ve got to act, we can’t stand still. Madison can only be my home if we can be each others’ homes.”
Neither the Madison Club nor Union City, New Jersey, proved much of a match for Shirley Abrahamson.
Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in history, told a packed room at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Oct. 19 how, as a young lawyer at La Follette, Sinykin, Doyle & Anderson, a group of lobbyists tried to take her out for a lunch meeting at the private club in downtown Madison. “We walked into the front entrance and were stopped,” Abrahamson recalled at the law school’s annual Robert J. Kastenmeier lecture. First the group was ushered in through a side entrance and then they were told women couldn’t eat lunch there.
The Wisconsin Partnership Program with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health announced four $1 million grants Thursday, one of which was awarded to Nehemiah Community Development Corp., a Madison organization focused on reducing racial inequities, and its Justified Anger initiative.
Honorees include Dr. Tracy M. Downs, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
When Catarina Colón, vice president of academic affairs for the Latino/a Law Student Association, first got to University of Wisconsin Law School she heard a lot of concerns, particularly from students out of state, like: Where are all of the people of color? Where is the representation?
It said university towns performed particularly well, and cited Madison’s recent No. 10 ranking by commercial real estate firm Cushman and Wakefield on a list of educated tech cities.
Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed moratorium on new liquor licenses in Downtown Madison is getting little support as it begins to move through the city legislative process following months of delays.
The trio of Downtown council members are instead backing a resolution acknowledging that city staff are already studying the issue. It calls on staff to engage with UW-Madison officials, business groups, neighborhood organizations and others on the topic without having a formal task force.
“Representatives of Defendant entered into the upper levels the building without taking precautions to avoid contaminating areas not affected by the Flooding…tracking mud, dirt and other contamination through the building…which greatly increased the costs,” the lawsuit states.
Launch a weekend of Badger fun at the UW-Madison Homecoming Parade beginning 6 p.m. Friday and traveling from the Langdon Street staging area to Wisconsin Avenue to West Gilman Street to State Street to North Lake Street.
Plan will analyze opportunities for renovating 400-500 blocks of West Mifflin Street, West Washington Avenue.
The cooperative received a USDA Local Food Promotion Program grant in September to further work on building a regional food distribution system. Project partners include the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, Willy Street Co-op, Epic Systems and Second Harvest Food Bank, among others.
The Hispanic Achievement of the Year was presented to Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations at UW-Madison.
“This recognition is an honor. While I’m being recognized, we all know that it takes a village,” Orrantia said. “I have so much thanks and gratitude for my family for their unwavering support and encouragement. Education has been a profound part of my experience and has afforded me a snowballing opportunity. My family really grounded me – they gave me my history and they gave me my purpose and my aspiration.”
Crowds of all ages attended the annual Wisconsin Science Festival at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID) building this weekend.
People are gathering to combat hate in the Madison area. A non-profit organization called We are Many — United Against Hate hosted an event Sunday at Union South on the UW-Madison campus.
Noted: The main force behind the University of Koinadugu is a man who could have used it decades ago. Alhaji N’Jai managed to go to college in Michigan only after escaping his country’s civil war. Eventually he joined a post-doctorate program at UW-Madison. It was here, on the second floor of the Memorial Union, that he saw a display about the famed Wisconsin Idea.
“Straight then I said to myself ‘this is actually what we need in Sierra Leone,’” N’Jai says.
The treasures in Stuart Levitan’s Madison in the Sixties are not so much buried as strewn. You never know when you’re going to come across a tidbit that amuses, enlightens, or shocks.
The next Science on Tap in Minocqua is set for Wednesday(10/3/18) in Minocqua.
Marking the end of the months-long Bucky on Parade public arts project, more than 30 statues re-creating the University of Wisconsin mascot were auctioned Saturday, raising more than $800,000 for cancer research and other causes.
For seven years, the Wisconsin Science Festival has been engaging communities of all ages to learn and discover scientific theories and principles in Wisconsin. Now in it’s eighth year, the festival hopes to bring even more knowledge, creativity, innovation to our local residents by taking educational science events to Capitol Square and all around Wisconsin.
First year high school students enrolled in the Personalized Pathways program from East, West, La Follette, and Memorial high school got a personalized tour of UW-Madison’s campus and its health science related disciplines throughout the week.
Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations at UW-Madison, will be presented with the Hispanic Achievement of the Year at La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon.
Noted: Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations at UW-Madison, will be presented with the Hispanic Achievement of the Year at La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon.
Reuben Sanon, coordinator of the Badger Volunteers program, talked about the 10-year-old program, which works out of the Morgridge Center for Public Service in the Red Gym on Langdon Street, and how he caught the volunteerism bug.
Art and science joined forces as part of a recent collaboration among area high school students, UW-Madison physicists and Madison-based writers and visual and performing artists.
As the sun sets behind Dejope residence hall, Aaron Bird Bear stands before a group of students seated around the building’s sacred fire circle, a gathering place and monument honoring Wisconsin’s Native American tribes. First, he greets them in Ho Chunk, the language of the mound-builders whose history in Madison dates back thousands of years. Getting no response, he tries Ojibwe, the language used for trade in the Great Lakes region; then French, the language of the fur trappers and missionaries who came to Wisconsin in the 1600s; and finally English, the language of the colonists and the Americans who attempted six times to forcibly expel the area’s indigenous people from their ancestral homeland.
It was all worth it. That is, the recently concluded Bucky On Parade program, aka a giant gauntlet of latter-day Hummel figurines, aka let’s decorate different versions of the same sculpture 85 whole times and place most of them within a few blocks of each other, but also put a real scary one all by its lonesome in Sun Prarie, was worth it because it gave us Visible Bucky.
A four-month public art display of 85 colorful, life-sized Bucky Badger statues wrapped up this week in Dane County. Bucky on Parade encouraged families throughout the city, and state, to see all 85 Bucky statues.
As summer winds down, so does Bucky On Parade.
MADISON, Wis. – Wednesday, one of Madison’s most successful public arts projects comes to an end with the conclusion of Bucky on Parade.
Wednesday is the final full day for the public art project, created by the Madison Area Sports Commission and the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau.
It took me 33 years to make it to Madison, Wisconsin, and I grew up a state away in Michigan. To be fair there is a giant lake between us. Why now? Madison has momentum.
The UniverCity Alliance project is starting its third year trying to connect local communities to the brainpower of UW Madison. We talk to the director of the program about what they’ve accomplished and what the project will look like in this next year.
MADISON, Wis. – Mayor Paul Soglin says Madison is not in recovery mode yet, and won’t be until the city goes a week without rain.
Quoted: “There’s a lot people can do to benefit wildlife, even in a relatively small space,” said David Drake, UW-Extension wildlife specialist and UW-Madison professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. Drake will lead an “Urban Wildlife Workshop” on Sept. 15 at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee.
Villager Mall, on Madison’s south side, will be the place to be on Thursday night, August 30, as a community-wide celebration will mark the third anniversary of the UW South Madison Partnership group and celebrate all of the organizations that have made their initiative work.
An exchange of blows to the body, a taste of tear gas and a peaceful protest turned violent — this is how the Day of Dow in Madison is remembered.
Days after historic rains caused massive flooding in Dane County, many highways and streets remain closed due to high water or damage, and it could take weeks or even months for some roads to reopen.
WAUSAU – In the early 1970s, they were two long-haired guys with hippie tendencies and a shared craze for bikes.
