Noted: She’s African-American and queer, and when Waithe addressed the crowd at Union South Tuesday night as the keynote speaker for the university’s Black History Month celebration, she made it clear that she views neither as a barrier to her success. They’re her hard-won birthright, and she uses them to her advantage — especially in white-dominated spaces.
Lena Waithe, an Emmy award winning screenwriter, producer and actress, spoke as the Black History Month keynote speaker, fielding questions on her experience in the entertainment industry and identity as a queer woman of color.
Noted: Dialogue is the centerpiece of what Upper House, a Christian nonprofit group located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, aims to do in Madison. The group considers itself broadly Christian and has both evangelicals and non-evangelicals on its board of directors. It hosts events on a variety of Christian faith issues, often looking at how it informs other disciplines.
“We were raised for generations that in polite society, you don’t talk about politics or religion because they’re polarizing,” said Jon Dahl, a campus minister at UW, who is on the boards of Upper House and Blackhawk Church. “We’re living with the consequences of that sort of attitude because what it means is that we don’t know how to talk about politics or religion constructively.
1966: UW-Madison names a building after an African-American for the first time. The Van Hise Refectory is renamed Carson Gulley Commons in honor of the longtime dormitory chef who practiced his trade in the building. It was renovated and renamed the Carson Gulley Center in 2013.
For the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work, the call to reach out beyond the borders of campus comes not only from the Wisconsin Idea that animates the university community to public service, but also a professional code of ethics.
As they consider whether to merge, the Deer-Grove and Cambridge EMS Departments are weighing the financial impact of such a move.
Part of the UW-Madison School of Education, Tandem Press is one of only four professional art presses in the U.S. affiliated with a university. Graduate students can work there alongside master printers and visiting guest artists.
The UW-Madison Arboretum began its 50th annual Winter Enrichment series in January. The event began in 1968 when professors from Wildlife Ecology, such as Joseph Hickey, Robert McCabe, and Robert Ellarson (who were graduate students under Professor Aldo Leopold) gave weekly winter presentations to Arboretum naturalists in an old Civilian Conservation Corps barracks.
Following heightened concerns over alcohol-related problems, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is proposing a moratorium on new alcohol licenses downtown.
A generation of newsroom protocol—the kind I trained under and teach at UW–Madison—mandates that reporters remain free of conflicts of interest.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has released its final report of a two-year study on young adults in Wisconsin communities.
Wausau,Wis.(WSAW)– While gun deaths continue to rise in Wisconsin a new Study by researchers at UW Madison show nearly three of four gun deaths are suicide by white men ages 45 and older in rural parts of the state.
A distraction from the daily worries was a welcome one for the Raven family of Belleville. That’s some of what UW teams hope to provide with their Wish Upon a Badger program, where kids facing life-threatening illnesses or long hospital stays have a chance to interact with athletes.
The city has more than 850 stationary cameras at points east, west, north and south, with an especially heavy concentration of police cameras in the State Street and Downtown areas.
Since passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the global Palermo Protocol defined trafficking and set protections for victims in 2000, identifying human trafficking has increased.But University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor Lara Gerassi said with the heightened awareness came an “everyone at risk” model, which does not recognize that certain communities are at increased risk and should be targeted for identification, prevention and intervention.
Body discussed $90,000 budget increase request for homelessness issues.
Noted: City staff will also get assistance on this work from academics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and partners of the “Green Tier” sustainability program.
Is there a robot in your future? That and other questions related to robotics and artificial intelligence are the focus of the next Science On Tap Wednesday in Minocqua. WXPR’s Ken Krall spoke with Dr. Bilge Mutlu, associate professor of computer science at UW-Madison. He leads a research program that builds human-centered methods and principles for designing robotic and other interactive and intelligent technologies…
The Native American Center for Health Professions, Kids Forward emphasized importance of collaboration, partnership.
Among the grants: UW Foundation will receive $10,000 toward a scholarship fund in honor of Marion Brown who is retiring from the Foundation and serves as a director of the Evjue Foundation.
Noted: The Urban League has put on an IT Academy for seniors the last few years in partnership with UW-Madison Continuing Studies. Anthony got the idea after giving his mom an iPad and watching her connect to friends and family members on social media. (So much so that her grandkids blocked her on Facebook, he joked.) The Urban League also takes senior trips to American Players Theater, with golf carts available to transport patrons up the long hill to the stage.
Leslie Orrantia was not yet director of community relations for UW-Madison in April 2016, when leaders of Madison’s communities of color demanded accountability from Chancellor Rebecca Blank and then-Police Chief Susan Riesling for what they felt was poor treatment of minority students on campus.
Leslie Orrantia was not yet director of community relations for UW-Madison in April 2016, when leaders of Madison’s communities of color demanded accountability from Chancellor Rebecca Blank and then-Police Chief Susan Riesling for what they felt was poor treatment of minority students on campus.
For some Badgers, both current and alum, being a part of the community means serving in it.
This year, around 19,000 tickets were sold, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. That number is down from roughly 30,000 in 2016 and 34,000 in 2015.
Central Times talks with a UW-Madison professor who led a three-year grass study using different lawn care approaches on sports fields at a Stoughton park.
A Taco Bell that also serves margaritas is slated to open in the campus area this winter.
Swastikas were carved onto the hoods of more than 20 vehicles in an outdoor lot at a Madison car dealership.
Wisconsin Badgers basketball head coach Greg Gard and his wife, Michelle, issued the challenge and UW-Madison students answered. At the sixth-annual “Swish Upon A Cure,” UW students helped raise the Gard’s donation to $20,349 in the fight against cancer.
UW-Madison students joined in some fun and philanthropy at the Kohl Center on Monday
Wisconsin basketball head coach Greg Gard and his wife, Michelle, issued the challenge and UW-Madison students answered. At the sixth-annual “Swish Upon A Cure,” UW students helped raise the Gard’s donation to $20,349 in the fight against cancer.
In a one-year partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dane County will attempt to harness the university’s resources by working with students and professors to develop possible solutions in four challenging areas the county faces.
With UW-Madison’s Homecoming Week upon us, the Wisconsin Homecoming Committee’s events are once again set to benefit charities and organizations across the country.
Jeffrey Lewis, an outreach specialist for under-served communities at the University of Wisconsin Extension, will retire Nov. 3, after being recognized next week as a “distinguished prefix,” a title reserved for a small number of high-level academic staff “whose superlative accomplishments are evidenced by widespread peer recognition.”
UniverCITY is designed to tap the expertise on campus to help local units of government address specific issues affecting the community.
Local area hospitals have plans in place to prepare them for emergency mass casualty situations.
Madison ranked #1.
Sigurd Olson – loyal guardian of northern lakes and waterways – has been selected to represent Ashland and Bayfield counties as part of an ad campaign launched by UW-Madison known as Project 72 with the new slogan, “Thank You!”
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the Madison community came upon swastikas spray painted on a historic site near the Gates of Heaven Synagogue in James Madison Park.
Agritourism is pretty popular right now, with farmers trying to add a little extra cash to their corn cribs by inviting the public to the farm to hang out in pumpkin patches, take haunted hay rides, pick apples, pet goats and pig out on pizza. One of the most popular draws, however, are corn mazes, which seem to get more and more elaborate each year. This fall, one of the best is a stunning maze in Wisconsin that is a tribute to the science of geology, with a fossil trilobite as the centerpiece, reports Christine Mlot at Science.
Expensive clothing stores and high-end espresso bars unaccessible for broke college students.
Madison Police are investigating the latest hate incident in the state, which comes hours before the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
After swastikas were found spray-painted on a historical marker near a synagogue at James Madison Park early Wednesday morning, UW-Madison leaders and student organizations were quick to denounce the vandalism.
More than 1,300 people pedaled through Sun Prairie Sunday as they took part in the second annual Carbone Cancer Center fundraiser known as “The Ride.”
UW Madison’s world-famous Babcock Hall ice cream will be given out on Wausau’s 400 Block Friday during the kick-off of the Wisconsin Ginseng Festival.
UW Madison’s world-famous Babcock Hall ice cream will be given out on Wausau’s 400 Block Friday during the kick-off of the Wisconsin Ginseng Festival.
A contagious disease was found in many dogs at the Dane County Humane Society this week, but the University of Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program is working to diagnose and stop its spread, officials said.
UW students, alumni feel as if City Council ’does not care’ about student population.
US Africa Energy Summit postponed indefinitely.
Noted: Ebert holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also received a bachelor’s degree in political science from UW-Madison.
Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are eager to tell the public about their work and how it benefits the state, said Patrick Brenzel, a staff member in the Department of Sociology.
The sessions will be on Saturday, Sept, 23, and Sunday, Sept. 24, at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., and will go over fundamentals of court interpreting, such as ethical conduct, legal terminology, court procedure and basic legal interpreting skills.
Noted: It’s part of Indigenous Arts and Science, a summer program where students learn about the environment and Ojibwe culture and traditions. The program is put on by the tribe and receives funding from the Earth Partnership program of the University of Wisconsin Madison.
In 2016 the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched Project 72, an initiative aimed at recognizing the powerful partnership between the university and the state’s 72 counties. This year, the university is elevating that message.
MADISON — Impressive contributions to Wisconsin and the world have come from people who lived in all 72 of the state’s counties, a highly visible University of Wisconsin-Madison campaign says.
Get ready to ’Cha Cha’ on Halloween.
While this year’s lineup isn’t as impressive as years past, there are still a handful of performances you’d be a fool to miss.
Madison Area Technical College will buy the soon-to-be-vacated state office building at Park Street and Badger Road, officials announced Monday, and turn the site on the historically underserved South Side into a new campus.
Madison businesses anticipate busy times as students return.
If you happened to be walking down State Street in Madison in May of 1920, you may have been confused about what you were witnessing. You may have seen more than a dozen young men wearing their finest suits and top hats while pushing baby carriages up and down the street.
