Andy Mendez, who will be a junior at McFarland High School this fall and is interested in becoming a pharmacist, said his eyes were opened when he attended the UW-Madison Pharmacy Summer Program.
Hundreds of people who converged on UW Space Place at noon Thursday were disappointed to find that all 250 pairs of solar eclipse-viewing glasses were sold out before they were even scheduled to go on sale.
Though still mired in the roar of construction, UW-Madison’s Alumni Park will soon offer a stunning view of Lake Mendota on one end, and the social center of the campus on the other.
Noted: So I was thrilled to read that at least one of his former schools has stepped up to recognize his accomplishments. The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently singled out Eddie in its “Thank You 72” campaign that chose a UW graduate from each of the state’s 72 counties to spotlight.
Derrick Tindal loves comic book superheroes.
On Tuesday, Organic Valley will celebrate its participation in the University of Wisconsin’s Project 72 Campaign, which celebrates the state’s 72 counties with stories and events. The project features a 1957 International Harvester delivery truck handing out ice cream treats to residents as a token of gratitude to them for helping make UW a world-class institution. The truck will be at Organic Valley’s Cashton location from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday to distribute treats to employees and others who attend.
“They’re a hook and they’re powerful,” said Yorel Lashley, who runs the Drum Power Drum and Dance Camp, which wrapped up last week at UW-Madison.
At a small cafe in Randolph, Wis., James Tinjum found himself surrounded by a dozen rapt diners, intrigued by the dedicated cyclist on a mission to promote wind energy.
Noted: All of the estimated 75 students in the program will also be enrolled in a pre-college enrichment program operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the university, the Milwaukee Police Department and the group Community Advocates will be partners in the program.
Willy Street has also teamed up with the UW Health Northeast Family Medical Center, which screens for food insecurity. The center distributes a six-month package of $124 worth of food vouchers to Willy North.
“It’s goggles, gloves and lab coats right now,” Dan Murphy, outreach coordinator for the Morgridge Institute for Research, shouted, rallying participants in Summer Science Camp at the Institutes for Discovery on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus earlier this week.
One University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is touring the Midwest on his bike to promote wind energy.
The UW Trout Lake Station in Boulder Junction will be holding its 6th Annual Open House on Friday, August 4th from 1-5. The open house showcases much of the research done at the station as well as events for all ages, as interim station director Susan Knight describes.
In an effort to connect black-owned businesses in Milwaukee and Madison, the Heymiss Progress Business Expo and Job Fair returned to Madison late July, this year featuring a University of Wisconsin student’s clothing line which drew headlines for its controversial message.
UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health is another agent in moving health care toward a holistic model. As the first school in the nation to integrate medicine and public health in 2005, the school has recognized that care goes beyond a diagnosis.
A master plan for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus adopted by the City Council this week gives the university an expedited process of review for its development projects.
Noted: Before heading out, check wave conditions around the caves at wavesatseacaves.cee.wisc.edu, a service of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that posts real-time wave data at the caves, which can be different from the conditions at the launch point.
Nearly a third of Wisconsinites – 29 percent – live in one of the state’s many rural areas, but only 13 percent of the physicians in Wisconsin have rural practices. The Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM), a program to recruit doctors to serve in rural areas of the state, is having success and getting national recognition.
Typically, in such classes, she must watch the instructor and an American Sign Language interpreter, if one is provided. But in the new class at UW Health, the instructor teaches in sign language.
Adena Rissman studies the ways human interaction with ecological systems can be harmonious or ruinous. As part of a $4.9 million National Science Foundation project, the UW-Madison professor delved into people’s attitudes about government policies that rely on voluntary anti-pollution measures and those policies’ failure to rid lakes of unnatural bacteria, algae and weed growth.
MADISON (WKOW) — UW-Madison students could soon be shaping local policies and helping with county projects after a bill passed Thursday night.
Albee Messing is director of UW-Madison’s Waisman Center, a hub of nearly 60 faculty members who do biological and behavioral research on conditions such as autism, Down syndrome and Parkinson’s disease.
MADISON –Two students from Menomonie will participate in a sought-after rural medical education program through the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Whether you’ve seen the musical, or just listened to the cast album on repeat in your car, “Hamilton” has a way of taking over your life. Now, a new summer class at the UW Division of Continuing Studies, “Hamilton: A Cultural Revolution,” offers both undergraduates and lifelong learners the chance to dive deeper into “Hamilton.”
Among the many examples of the Wisconsin Idea in action in our state today, one we find especially valuable is the University of Wisconsin-Madison partnership with Literacy Network to help immigrants achieve U.S. citizenship.
Madison Area Care of the Homeless, also known as MACH OneHealth, hopes to start the project by September, said Dr. Ann Catlett, a palliative care specialist at UW Hospital and a leader of the effort.
Julie Fisher Mead will discuss the impact of voucher schools on public schools at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 26 t the Waupaca Area Public Library.
If you’re looking for a different frosty way to cool off this summer, consider the Bofanna Bar. Produced in Madison, the distinctly different ice cream bars launched last October.
Jessie Vetter traces the origins of her annual golf outing to when she was a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin.
It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited from rural voters. But Democrat or Republican, they usually tell Katherine Cramer – who has spent a decade visiting residents of small-town Wisconsin – the same thing: it’s the cities that get all the breaks, and then have the gall to look down on them, too
People naturally open up to their hairdressers, said Andrea Nino De Guzman Ramirez, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When Hannah DePorter’s plant breeding and genetics lab at UW-Madison grows beets, only a fraction of what the students harvest winds up being used for research.
Noted: The students also met with Lesley Sager, assistant faculty associate in the design studies department of the School of Human Ecology at UW Madison, and some university students who took part in the study-abroad program, UW Design Studies in Kenya, which she led. The college students talked about their experiences there and the East students did an exercise that involved cutting out magazine pictures that depict things teenagers value.
Every day while working in a university lab, biology student Hannah DePorter sees produce grown for research wasting away in compost piles.
LAKE MILLS — Three white tents offered tepid relief to several UW-Madison anthropology students as temperatures approached 90 degrees on a cloudless Tuesday afternoon.
Madison ranked No. 10 on a list of top 25 tech cities, and much of it has to do with a highly educated workforce, according to a report by commercial real estate services firm, Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
About 600 people attended the two-day Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at Union South.
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health is joining the Medical College of Wisconsin and five other medical schools in a new effort to transform medical education, as health care focuses more on population groups as well as individual patients.
A pre-college program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that partners with schools to help prepare minority and low-income students for college is narrowing its focus to Milwaukee and Madison public schools, the university announced Monday.
Noted: In Wisconsin, we are fortunate to have researchers who study effective ways of reducing crime at the Remington Center at UW Law School and at Marquette University Law School.
The conference component, to primarily be held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Gordon Commons, will be packed with seminars on topics ranging from social media strategy to composition techniques. It currently boasts a roster with speakers and educators like Vig, the rocker Kip Winger, jazz pianist Ben Sidran, and president of Warner Bros.’ music operations Paul Broucek.
A local hip-hop-boosting group, along with a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology researcher … (is) wading into a nexus of music, race, science and politics to undo the damage hip-hop’s reputation has suffered in Madison throughout the years … “Because of the poor relationship the city of Madison has with hip-hop as a whole, and the lack of performance space for so many talented artists, we have taken on this research project that looks at the relationship between music genre and violence, as seen through police calls for service,” reads an initial draft of the study, led by UW-Madison sociology professor Randy Stoecker.
A Madison artist is teaming up with researchers to challenge beliefs about the connection between hip-hop and violence at local music venues.
[T]he University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Child and Family Well-Being organized the “Prenatal to Five Initiative,” a collaborative effort among teachers, researchers, practitioners and communities across the state to enhance brain development in order to reduce racial disparities in poverty and achievement. The initiative kicks off with a summit on Friday, June 2, at Gordon Commons, 770 W. Dayton St., on the UW-Madison campus.
Halverson is an assistant professor in the UW-Madison School of Education, director of education for Theatre LILA and — as the kids like to call her — mayor of Whoopensocker City.
In UW-Madison’s rural health care immersion program, disaster and crisis response is a key piece of the curriculum. But instead of discussing hypotheticals, the program’s nursing students gained hands-on experience last week as they aided in northwestern Wisconsin’s tornado relief effort.
BARRON COUNTY (WKOW) — A team of UW-Madison nursing students is assisting in tornado relief efforts Saturday in northwest Wisconsin.
In 2006, dozens of colorful cows took over Dane County, appearing on street corners and at popular destinations. Now it’s Bucky’s turn.
Go to any major Madison event and Bucky Badger is likely to be there. Starting next spring, the image of University of Wisconsin’s mascot will be almost impossible to miss around town.
After a series of teasing press releases hyping a “big announcement” about a “huge event” coming to Madison next spring, officials from the Madison Area Sports Commission unveiled their plans Wednesday morning. Well, we do live in a university town. And we do adore our beloved mascot, Buckingham U. Badger.
The two grants are part of nearly $1.5 million that is being awarded for 82 community projects and causes and another 30 programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Discovery Channel and movies such as “Twister” turn storm chasers into folk heroes, so it’s only right that Hollywood make heroes of UW-Madison professor Susan Paskewitz and her crews for fearlessly hunting Wisconsin’s disease-spreading deer ticks.
The 2017 commencement at UW-Madison drew thousands of guests to watch the ceremony. And as the graduates toss their caps, their friends and family members are tossing dollars into the local economy.
The Madison Transit and Parking Commission was unsatisfied Wednesday with a proposal to ban parking mopeds citywide on sidewalks and terraces with some exceptions.
Conflicting interests caused Arboretum dispute.
Noted: Erisman, an infantry officer who served 10 years in the Marines, including two tours of Iraq, learned of the reading group through a University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni newsletter. His first meeting was at last month’s book group to discuss “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko.
When she first moved from Monona to Madison’s East Side, 14-year-old Avenna Pickett felt like she didn’t know anybody — until another girl told her about Performing Ourselves.Avenna joined the dance group, which is taught by students from the UW-Madison Dance Department and meets weekly at East Madison Community Center and elsewhere.
Gardeners are already digging in the dirt, and UW-Madison’s Family Gardening Day is designed to help new gardeners get started and energize longtime gardeners. Also, there will be gardening swag.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is celebrating a milestone with one of its new programs.
UW political science professor Ken Mayer asked a group of kindergarteners to come up with the toughest question they could think of. Here’s what they asked
