Davis was a jazz professor at UW-Madison for nearly 40 years. He retired in 2016.
New Madison street named after long-time UW jazz professor
WKOW-TV 27
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New street named after former UW Madison music professor
WISC-TV 3
Richard Davis Lane is off of Darbo Drive in downtown Madison and runs one block near the Salvation Army of Dane County.
New city street honors ‘legendary’ bassist, former UW music professor Richard Davis
Wisconsin State Journal
A brand new city street has been named in honor of legendary bassist, jazz master and retired UW-Madison music professor Richard Davis.
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.
Longtime local liaison Brenda Gonzalez new UW director of community relations
Wisconsin State Journal
Brenda Gonzalez, the current diversity manager at Agrace Hospice and Palliative Care, will begin her new job Aug. 5, taking over for Leslie Orrantia, who became deputy mayor of Madison.
Paul Fanlund: Cap Times Idea Fest is back with another outstanding lineup
The Capital Times
Leading UW-Madison researchers will speak to the future of fighting Alzheimer’s disease in a panel organized and presented by the Wisconsin Alumni Association … UW-Madison Professor Armando Ibarra, a dynamic speaker from UW’s School for Workers, has organized a panel on Latinos in Wisconsin.
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.
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery to bring scientific street art to Madison
During September workshops, UW-Madison scientists and local and national streets artists will design murals on themes including molecular structure, astrophysics and diversity in science. The exact number of murals will depend on how much money WID is able to raise.
UW-Madison raising pride flags over Memorial Union, Union South
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison will raise pride flags Thursday at both student unions, likely marking the first time that the rainbow-striped flag has flown outdoors on the main campus.
Madison refugees form group to advocate, share stories, welcome new arrivals
On Thursday, June 20, JSS and Madison Refugee Union will host a “Refugee Town Hall” and panel discussion and Q&A on the experience of settling in Madison as a refugee. The free event runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the UW-Madison Hillel building, 611 Langdon St., with registration online.
Researchers recruit Wisconsinites to contribute to massive biomedical database
Capital Times
The UW-Madison, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Marshfield Clinic are spearheading a statewide effort to help the NIH build a national biomedical database of unprecedented depth and scope.
Stingl: Book club helps students embrace reading, confront tragedy in their own lives
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: Nastassia Satahoo has helped with the club. The recent UW-Madison grad was assigned to the school this year by Public Allies Milwaukee through AmeriCorps. She is known for encouraging students to write by offering to bake brownies.
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.
UW-Madison researchers’ study highlights voices of immigrant parents, students in public schools
Madison.com
A group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are analyzing data to better understand the challenges faced by Latinx and Hmong immigrant parents in Dane County school districts.
Former Badgers back Melvin Gordon hopes to make football more fun for next generation
Wisconsin State Journal
Gordon is set to co-host a youth football clinic June 15 at UW’s McClain Center along with former UW teammate James White, who’s fresh off another Super Bowl victory with the New England Patriots.
Helen Sarakinos: Madison and its anchor institutions can do more to build a healthy food system
Capital Times
By leveraging a small part of its purchasing power, UW Health has been building a system that upholds community health, minimizes pollution of air and water that diminishes health, and improves economic well-being of our rural residents.
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.
Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation gives $1.8 million to area nonpofits and UW-Madison
The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times, has announced that its directors have approved $1,812,000 in grants to Madison-area nonprofits and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
E-scooters are cruising into many cities, is Madison next?
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. – Electric scooters are becoming a common fixture in many major cities. Could Madison be next? The state Senate is looking at advancing legislation that would make them legal on Wisconsin roads.
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.
Milwaukee Pride helped this Kenosha native fight for his rights as a trans person. Pridefest lets him reunite with supporters.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
UW-Madison student Ashton Whitaker has been looking forward to Milwaukee’s Pridefest for months. He’s ready to enjoy entertainment at the dance pavilion, meeting with people at the vendor booths and, of course, the Pride parade.
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.
The Secret To Safe Swimming: Traffic Lights?
Wisconsin Public Radio
For many Wisconsinites, summer means swimming in the region’s freshwater lakes. But in some places, it can also mean danger — especially from rip currents.
Sound it out: Why are Madison students struggling to read?
Isthmus
Quoted: Mark Seidenberg, a UW-Madison professor and cognitive neuroscientist, has spent decades researching the way humans acquire language. He is blunt about Wisconsin’s schools’ ability to teach children to read: “If you want your kid to learn to read you can’t assume that the school’s going to take care of it. You have to take care of it outside of the school, if there’s someone in the home who can do it or if you have enough money to pay for a tutor or learning center.”
From astronomy to zoology, UW-Madison science talks inform public
Wisconsin State Journal
Wednesday Nite @ the Lab, which started in February 2006, allows the public to hear campus scientists — and occasionally researchers from other universities — share their expertise.
Black women’s health and wellness center to open in Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
The organization received a boost in funding last fall from the Healthy Dane Funders, made up of Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, SSM Health, UnityPoint Health-Meriter and UW Health.
Graduation 2019: Which cities are best for college grads?
USA Today
Madison is #1. Many of the top 10 cities that received A-minus to A-plus grades were also home to sizable colleges, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, North Carolina State University and Texas Tech University.
New sculpture installed on Library Mall
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. – After part of it was covered with blue tarps for months, a new sculpture was completed on Library Mall.
Welcome to campus
Isthmus
In mid-March Madison learned that a much-maligned spire will disappear from Camp Randall. But lost in the excitement is news that it’s part of a plan to renovate the nearby Field House and create a large, new, outdoor gathering place.
MGE targets carbon-neutral electricity by 2050; Madison utility says new technology will be needed
Wisconsin State Journal
The company said the plan will rely on “significant” new renewable-energy resources and reducing the use of fossil fuels, as well as helping customers become more energy efficient. MGE said it will work with scientists at UW-Madison to evaluate the goal and ensure it is consistent with the IPCC assessment.
Rhinelander grads win ‘Wisconsin Idea Fellowships’
Rhinelander Star Journal
Two Rhinelander High School graduates have been awarded 2019-20 Wisconsin Idea Fellowships (WIF) for undergraduate projects at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In its 21st year, WIF are awarded to UW-Madison projects working to solve issues identified by local or global communities.
Crime victims get chance to confront perpetrators through The Restorative Justice Project
60 Minutes
When we heard about The Restorative Justice Project, it was hard to believe and we certainly didn’t understand it. The program at the University of Wisconsin Law School introduces victims of violence to the convicts who committed the crime. Our first reaction was “who would want to do that?” And to what end? It was only after we met these families and the convicts that we could see what a life-changing experience could come from the most unlikely of meetings.
UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty joins nework to fight opioid addiction
Capital Times
The opioid epidemic is such a massive problem, it would probably be impossible to tackle without a collaborative solution, said Barbara Wolfe, professor emerita of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison School District plays the ‘long game’ in training students to become teachers
Wisconsin State Journal
The joint effort by the Madison School District and UW-Madison School of Education is part of a larger collaboration between the organizations, known as Forward Madison, that also includes new teacher mentoring, principal coaching, a student-teacher component and an effort to fully certify special-education teachers.
More than a meal
Isthmus
It’s a typical Wednesday evening for Slow Food UW volunteers in South Madison. Children enrolled in the Odyssey Explorers program are playing a board game while their parents attend classes in the UW Odyssey Project, a college humanities program for adults facing economic barriers.
Wisconsin Union, Porchlight ‘all in’ on jobs partnership
Behind the scenes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s bustling Union South, where many students are taking shelter from a rainy afternoon, Bret Kuhn is busy wrapping up a shift washing dishes in the lower-level kitchens.
Edgewood High students’ science project launches into space
Wisconsin State Journal
Kiley and Pashaj worked with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and the UW-Madison Molecular Structure Laboratory to devise an experiment to be done at the station based on the optimum growing conditions for their crystal.
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Serena Williams Inspired This 19-Year-Old to Run for Office—and Win?
Elle
When you hear the phrase “the future of politics,” they’re talking about people like Avra Reddy. At just 19, this Illinois-native University of Wisconsin-Madison student has become the first woman in 26 years—and the first woman of color—to represent District 8 on Madison’s City Council. And like many women who’ve sought to be the first, she faced sexism and doubt along the way. Here, she talks about the women who helped pull her through and the steps to take to follow in her footsteps.
Back Porch Serenade: Music, Memory And The Shoah
WORT FM
Almost a year ago, a viral photograph of high school students mugging for the camera with a Nazi salute after a prom in Baraboo caused a worldwide scandal. Since then, some prominent Madisonians have joined with residents of the Sauk County town in public education efforts about the grim realities of fascism and the legacy of the Holocaust. Among these is Teryl Dobbs, associate professor and chair of music education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Music. Having long studied the music of Eastern European Jews under Nazi occupation, Professor Dobbs will share her research with the public at the Baraboo First United Methodist Church on Thursday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm.
UW law clinic helps victims attain restraining orders
Capital Times
To support survivors of domestic violence, the UW Law School created the VOCA Restraining Order Clinic, with attorney Ryan Poe-Gavlinski as director. Since January, the clinic has trained students to represent or advise about 25 clients seeking restraining orders.
Baraboo church hosts music from the Holocaust program for Remembrance Day
Baraboo News Republic
Noted: Teryl Dobbs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison music professor, will present the free community event “Music, Remembrance, and Repairing Our World: Lessons on Yom Ha’Shoah” on Thursday at First United Methodist Church. Through her work, she has interviewed Holocaust survivors and studied testimony and oral history, with a focus on how they made music while undergoing hardship and oppression.
Bucky’s Classroom introduces middle school students to UW-Madison campus
Wisconsin State Journal
Bucky’s Classroom is designed to increase college opportunities for all students, in part by giving them access to the UW-Madison campus. Presented through the new UW Connects statewide outreach program, the program also establishes a “classroom to campus” connection by having university students teach pre-college preparedness and career exploration at the middle schools through a curriculum developed by the UW-Madison School of Education. The college student ambassadors also develop relationships with the younger students.
To divert wasted food, the city looks into digesters, returns to composting
Capital Times
Several initiatives around wasted food in the Madison/Dane County area have seen recent progress. Last fall, a trio of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergrads and a communications coordinator at FairShare CSA Coalition created a food waste recovery guide on behalf of the city and county, now available as a spiral-bound print copy and online at UW-Extension. Magnets that say “Got food waste?” with a picture of an apple core include a short link to the guide.
Leslie Orrantia named new deputy mayor in Madison – WISC
WISC-TV 3
Since 2016, Orrantia has been the director of community relations on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor.
Know Your Madisonian: Former Badgers, NFL receiver Donald Hayes returns to community center of his youth
Wisconsin State Journal
The former University of Wisconsin and NFL wide receiver played a key part in that expansion and is now back to help the children it benefits. The EMCC hired Hayes, 43, as a youth worker after he moved back to Madison in August to finish his degree in Afro-American studies. He’s set to graduate from UW-Madison on May 11.
Sabrina Madison’s Black Women’s Leadership Conference to make space for mental health
The 2019 BWLC will take place on Thursday and Friday, May 2 and 3, at UW-Madison’s Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard St. This is the fourth annual conference, which aims to empower and equip black women and girls through education, networking and leadership training.
Local partnership helps give back to the community
NBC-15
The relationship between Porchlight, a nonprofit that works with the homeless, and the Wisconsin Union started about a year and a half ago. Both groups said so far, it has been a huge success.
Alder-elect first woman to represent district 8 in over 20 years
NBC-15
The 19-year-old freshman at UW-Madison is studying philosophy and political science. Reddy said she had heard the District 8 seat might be opening before she arrived at UW, and after encouragement from a friend, decided to run.
Bucky’s Classroom helps increase college opportunities for young students
NBC-15
Middle school students got a sneak peek at life on a college campus at UW-Madison. The UW-Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom program aims to increase college opportunities for young students.
Passion pushes women to provide agricultural training around the globe
The Country Today
Quoted: “We make a great team,” added Karen Nielsen, who heads up Global Dairy Outreach in Madison. “Even though she’s in Vermont and I’m in Wisconsin, we’ve worked a lot to help those in the dairy industry.”
Report seeks to highlight health needs, strengths of Madison Latino community
Members of the Madison Latino community and the health issues they face “tend to be invisible for many reasons,” according to Dr. Patricia Tellez-Giron, co-chair of the Latino Health Council and associate professor in the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Aaron Yarmel: Classrooms — and society — need balance of structure and freedom
Noted: Aaron Yarmel is the director of Madison Public Philosophy and a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fixer uppers
Isthmus
Noted: Tonight’s workforce is another layer of the “skin in the game” model: volunteers who are interested in giving back but who also want to learn how to fix a bike. Wheels is one of the most popular destinations among UW-Madison students enrolled in the Badger Volunteers program. UW grad student Alex Lai will end 12 semesters of service here this summer when she completes her doctorate in environmental chemistry and heads to the west coast.
Local Voices Network: Madison residents discuss climate change concerns
Noted: The conversations are led by volunteer facilitators, recorded on a “digital hearth,” then transcribed and posted on the LVN.org website. In Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer, author of “The Politics of Resentment,” is a partner in the effort.
Madison alder wants to see Mifflin Street party safe again this year, public meeting Thursday
Wisconsin State Journal
The Fourth District council member is having a neighborhood meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St., to discuss ways to keep the April 27 party a safe success.
Arts center apologizes for calling off discussion panel on ‘Miss Saigon’
NBCNews.com
“We had said that education was really important in contextualizing the play so when people go to see it they have a sense of this history and they understand why Asian Americans have organized to protest it in the past,” Lori Lopez, an associate professor of Asian-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who helped organize the panel, said by phone.
The panel that wasn’t
Isthmus
“This is not how I thought today was going to go,” said Timothy Yu at the “teach-in” he helped organize on the sidewalk outside Overture Center on March 27. With the poster for the blockbuster musical Miss Saigon in the background, Yu, a UW-Madison professor of English and Asian American Studies, looked slightly chagrined as he surveyed the crowd that was gathering to hear concerns about Asian representation in the touring show, which is scheduled for eight performances, April 2-7 in Overture Hall.
After Overture cancels ‘Miss Saigon’ panel, Asian American scholars host ‘teach-in’ on street
Capital Times
Leslie Bow, a professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had signed on to moderate the panel. She prepared for it during spring break like she would have for a class.
Overture Cancels Panel on Asian American Representation in Miss Saigon Over “Inflammatory” Questions
Madison365
The panel was to be moderated by University of Wisconsin Professor of English and Asian American Studies Leslie Bow and was to include Josephine Lee from the University of Minnesota, Lori Kido Lopez from the University of Wisconsin, Nancy Vue Tran from Freedom Inc, Sarah Marty from Four Seasons Theater and Gajic.
500 attended a vigil at the Islamic Center of Milwaukee for victims of the New Zealand mosque attacks
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison students Ufaira Shaik and Yaseen Najeeb read the names and ages of the victims to the crowd gathered for the vigil. The recitation of the dead was followed by 51 seconds of silence. One second for each person cut down by hate.