The next Science on Tap in Minocqua is set for Wednesday(10/3/18) in Minocqua.
Science On Tap, OC-WHIP Both Talking Invasive Species This Week
WXPR-FM, Wausau
Category: Community
Bucky on Parade comes to an end in finale auction party, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
Mapping Contagion Clouds at the Wisconsin Science Festival
WORT 89.9 FM
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.
“Personalized Pathways” Program Offers Glimpse of Health Science Majors
Madison365
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.
La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon Will Celebrate Hispanic Achievements
Madison365
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.
La Movida’s 8th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon Will Celebrate Hispanic Achievements and Contributions
Madison 365
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.
Q&A: Reuben Sanon helps Badger Volunteers learn how to be happy for the rest of their lives
The Capital Times
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.
Students, scientists and artists collaborate for exhibit
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
The story of this land
Isthmus
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.
The Bucky we’ll miss
Tone Madison
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.
Dane County Bids Goodbye To Bucky On Parade
Wisconsin Public Radio
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.
Gotta See ‘Em All: Group visits all 85 Bucky statues in one day
NBC-15
As summer winds down, so does Bucky On Parade.
Editorial: Keep Bucky on Parade going
WISC-TV 3
MADISON, Wis. – Wednesday, one of Madison’s most successful public arts projects comes to an end with the conclusion of Bucky on Parade.
Last chance to bag a badger: Bucky on Parade ends Wednesday
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
Why Madison, Wisconsin Attracts More Millennials Than Any Other City
Inc.com
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.
Project Putting UW Resources To Work For Local Communities
Wisconsin Public Radio
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.
‘We all wish this would end’: Soglin says Madison will stay in crisis as long as rain is predicted
WISC-TV 3
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.
Urban wildlife workshop coming to Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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.
UW South Madison Partnership to Celebrate Anniversary with Community Cookout
Madison365
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.
Police, Students Clashed on the “Day of Dow”
Madison365
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.
Traffic at a standstill on East Washington due to flooding of Lake Mendota
Wisconsin State Journal
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.
Wisconsin bicycling: How two Madison hippies helped build a culture
Wausau Daily Herald
WAUSAU – In the early 1970s, they were two long-haired guys with hippie tendencies and a shared craze for bikes.
Dane County: Future of Flood Preparation
WORT 89.9 FM
What can Dane County do to better prepare for floods in the future? For that, W-O-R-T producer Nina Kravinsky spoke with UW Madison flood expert Shane Hubbard.
Stanley native pedals for solar energy fundraiser for Puerto Rico
chippewa.com
James Tinjum’s hands ache with blisters. His arms have peculiar tanlines.
Girls get crash course in AI and robotics through Maydm summer program
LaShya Washington, an 11-year-old Mendota Elementary School student, sat with a laptop in a classroom in the School of Human Ecology building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Tuesday afternoon, typing instructions to a robot.
Milwaukee’s African-American community should use healing behaviors to address trauma, author says
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Noted: A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that neglect, abuse, violence and trauma endured early in life can ripple directly into a child’s molecular structure and distort their DNA.
Paid internship program allows local high school students to explore careers
NBC-15
The Madison Metropolitan School District partnered with UW-Madison to give kids in high school a chance to explore a future career in health care and veterinary medicine.
Paid internship program allows local high school students to explore careers
NBC15
The Madison Metropolitan School District partnered with UW-Madison to give kids in high school a chance to explore a future career in health care and veterinary medicine.The LEAP Forward internship program is part of the district’s Personalized Pathways initiative, designed to let kids try out their interests through a summer internship at one of seven campus sites, including the School of Veterinary Medicine and University Health Services.
Just Look Up! Program At Wisconsin State Parks Teaches Public About Astronomy
Wisconsin Radio Network
And while a small telescope or binoculars can expose Jupiter’s moons and Saturn’s rings, a group of astronomers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is encouraging amateur sky watchers to revel in its dotted canvas from one of Wisconsin’s state parks.
21-year-old college student bypasses bigger opportunities to take reins at small hometown Mondovi newspaper
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Some college kids come home for summer and wait tables, paint houses or grab internships. Nash Weiss is serving as interim editor of his local weekly newspaper, the Mondovi Herald-News. He’s 21 years old, an incoming senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he’s studying journalism.
Genetic Screening To Be Tailored For Amish Newborns In Wisconsin
Wisconsin Public Radio
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Wisconsin’s Amish and Old Order Mennonite, collectively known as Plain sect communities.
Elitist? Callous to state students? UW-Madison tries to smooth image
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If you’ve heard it’s next to impossible for Wisconsin kids to get into the University of Wisconsin-Madison, here’s the scoop.
Cycles of incarceration hit African Americans, children especially hard
WI State Journal
“We know that in many instances men and women enter the prison system with mental illness and histories of trauma,” said Dr. Pajarita Charles, assistant professor of social work at the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty and Center for Child and Family Well-Being.
Public health approach seeks to cure violence by healing trauma
WI State Journal
Quoted: “It’s very important for us to tackle the root causes and continue to challenge ourselves to look upstream when discussing possible solutions,” said Dr. Jasmine Zapata, a pediatric physician at UW Health, author and health educator.
Madison team to help coordinate approach to gun violence
WI State Journal
The group includes representatives from the mayor’s office, police officers, school officials and UW Health representatives.
UW Health population health project manager to be appointed to Dane County Board of Supervisors
Wisconsin State Journal
Huong Nguyen-Hilfiger, a population health project manager for UW Health, is being nominated to fill a vacancy on the Dane County Board of Supervisors until a spring special election.
Young leaders from Africa visit Columbus through UW-Madison African Studies Program
Madison.com
The Mandela Washington fellowship works in correlation with the African Studies Program at UW-Madison.
Cook a meal, invent a game, imagine a new world of food at the Sustainable Meal Hackathon
Capital Times
Noted: Clark and Peterson, two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors known in their collaborative artistic work as Spatula & Barcode, planned a Sustainable Food Hackathon for about two dozen people on a recent weekday.
Coffee shop on East Campus Mall to close this week
WISC-TV 3
After almost a decade, CoffeeBytes will shut down Friday.
UW-Madison audiology department promotes ear protection at tractor pull
Tomah Journal
To promote safe hearing practices, the audiology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison traveled to the Budweiser Dairyland Super National Truck & Tractor Pull Friday to hand out ear protection and raise awareness of sustained exposure to loud noises.
‘Citizen scientists’ often provide first warning of threats to Madison-area lakes
Wisconsin State Journal
In partnership with Public Health Madison and Dane County, the city of Madison, Dane County and the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, the Clean Lakes Alliance has provided data for other local sustainability efforts as well.
UW ‘boot camp’ addresses health disparties
Wisconsin State Journal
Olayinka Shiyanbola, an assistant professor in UW-Madison’s School of Pharmacy, is developing programs to encourage black people and veterans who have diabetes to take their medications as prescribed.
Moe: The Madison Reunion ramps up
WISC-TV 3
One late afternoon last fall, I was chatting with Ken Adamany, the long-time Madison music impresario, for an article I was writing on the 50th anniversary of Otis Redding’s fatal plane crash into Lake Monona.
Federal transportation grant passes Madison by for third time as rural projects get priority
Capital Times
On its third attempt, Madison Metro Transit failed to score a federal grant that would have been used to build a satellite bus garage.
Stoughton eyes whitewater park for paddlers as part of Yahara River redesign project
Wisconsin State Journal
The city is working with UW Extension and UW-Madison on an economic impact analysis to determine any financial benefits for the city and surrounding businesses.
Wisconsin Badgers associate head coach Mark Osiecki has high hopes for inaugural charity fishing event
Wisconsin State Journal
Osiecki said his goal is to raise $25,000 for the UW Carbone Cancer Center and American Family Children’s Hospital in the inaugural outing. Muskie fishing takes place on Lake Monona and Lake Waubesa during the day, with a dinner and auction at the East Side Club afterward.
Officers respond to attempted homicide on State Street
Badger Herald
36 year-old male transported to hospital with gunshot wounds to head and arm.
The 10 best cities for new grads starting out
MarketWatch.com
Madison is #1. Wisconsin’s capital has lots of young educated adults, in part because it’s home to the state’s flagship campus, the University of Wisconsin. Combined with its low unemployment rate and high percentage of workers in management, business, science or arts jobs, Madison vaults to the top. Though its median income for those 25 and older with bachelor’s degrees, $46,275, is average among other cities in the top 10, the median gross rent, $981, is relatively affordable. As a result, rent as a percentage of income, 25%, is among the lowest in the top 10, and about average for all cities in this analysis.
Conservation Tour exposes students to ecology
The Kewaunee Comet
Nearly 300 sixth-graders from area schools spent May 16 shuttling among six sites in the annual Kewaunee County Conservation Tour.
Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation awards $1.6 million to UW, area nonprofit agencies
Capital Times
The three are included among 85 grants totaling $1,223,500 to community organizations in Dane County plus another $370,500 for 30 projects and programs on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
UW-Madison competing for former Google CEO’s cash in a bid to boost middle-class income
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Can the University of Wisconsin-Madison discover innovative ways to boost the incomes of 10,000 people in Dane County over the next two years?
Madison Community Foundation marks 75th year with $1.1 million Madison schools grant
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison’s Office of American Indian Curriculum in the School of Education received $65,000 to establish Native American heritage sites with educational materials in the area.
UW-Madison joins former Google chairman’s group to boost incomes in Dane County
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison is partnering with community groups and a philanthropic venture of former Google chairman Eric Schmidt for an initiative to devise — and potentially implement — proposals to boost the net incomes of Dane County families on a broad and likely unprecedented scale.
UW-Madison will partner with community to raise incomes of 10,000 Dane County families by 2020
Capital Times
On Wednesday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that it was chosen as one of four universities across the nation tasked to achieve that goal, in partnership with the community, by 2020. They’re looking for creative ideas from throughout the community to build up the county’s middle class and hopefully narrow racial inequities.
UW-Madison Plans To Increase Families Incomes
Wisconsin Public Radio
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty will spend the summer collecting data and trying to identify community members’ needs in an effort to raise 10,000 Dane County families’ incomes by 10 percent in two years.
Schnabel’s Bucky is at Madison library
Cambridge News / Deerfield Independent
Looking for Cambridge artist Kathryn Schnabel’s Bright Idea Bucky, that’s one of 85 life-sized Bucky Badger statutes now in place around Dane County?
Wisconsin Idea Fellowship Winner Rethinks Farmer’s Market’s
StudyBreaks.com
A student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chloe Green is working with farmer’s markets to bring a new wave of food safety to local communities. Green, a dual-major student in dietetics and community and environmental sociology, takes pride in her work for bettering low-income areas with the proper nutritional needs in order to further growth. Originally from California, Green has been able to experience different types of ideologies while still being an activist in a new town.
Bucky on Parade: ‘Lucky Bucky’ statue shines with 11,759 pennies
Green Bay Press Gazette
Emily J. Wirkus didn’t just see a different side to Bucky Badger this spring, she saw him from every side.
Mentors advocate for students who think differently
Wisconsin State Journal
Eye to Eye, a national organization run by and for people with learning and attention issues, is based on the power of spending time with others like you. The UW-Madison chapter, which is the largest in the country, was started in 2014 when members began working with Wright Middle School students.
Are There Enough Young People In Rural Wisconsin?
Wisconsin Public Radio
Alana Voss, 25, grew up on a family farm in Mauston. Like a lot of young people, she left her town to go to college at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. And right after she graduated, she moved back.