Category: Community

A Madison area non-profit will now run on solar energy, thanks to the work of UW-Madison students.

MARATHON COUNTY, Wis. — There are ginseng farms in this remote corner of Wisconsin where phones are answered in Mandarin. Others have opened storefronts or retrofitted spare rooms to welcome busloads of Chinese tourists and business people.

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — A University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Senior Project was the focus of an open house at Wausau’s City Hall on Tuesday.

Madison: The big draw in this Midwestern city is the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The major research university is home to about 44,000 students, many of whom decide to stay and work and start businesses locally. That’s partly why unemployment is so low here, at just 2.5%, more than a percentage point and a half under the national rate.

Bucky’s Classroom visits Cherokee Heights Middle School.

Noted: Hmong education students at UW-Madison are hired over the summer to work with the HLCEP and get workforce experience. “We also partner with the UW School of Education where students majoring in secondary education come in the summer program to work as tutors,” Her says. “These are non-Hmong-speaking students who want to learn how to work with ESL students and use this culturally relevant teaching model, so when they go on and start teaching they have a great experience under their belt.”

Collaboration between a beer producer and a university garden is not your typical pairing, but Levi Funk and David Stevens have been determined to make it work.Funk, proprietor of Funk Factory Geuzeria, has become a bit of a Wisconsin beer superstar over the last few years, but Stevens is most likely unknown to beer people. He’s the curator of the Longenecker Horticultural Gardens at the UW Arboretum.

UW-Madison’s Black Cultural Center also held a private viewing at the same cinema as part of its Black History Month celebrations. Program coordinator Karla Foster said “Black Panther” fit this year’s theme of “Reclaiming Blackness” because it lets black characters shine in roles of power.

The Wisconsin Singers have big plans for their 50th anniversary, including one performance only in Waunakee Friday, Feb. 23, that promises to pull out all the stops.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Local area hospitals have plans in place to prepare them for emergency mass casualty situations.

Madison ranked #1.