Category: Community

The Mandela Washington fellowship works in correlation with the African Studies Program at UW-Madison.

After almost a decade, CoffeeBytes will shut down Friday.

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.

On its third attempt, Madison Metro Transit failed to score a federal grant that would have been used to build a satellite bus garage.

36 year-old male transported to hospital with gunshot wounds to head and arm.

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’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.

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.

Emily J. Wirkus didn’t just see a different side to Bucky Badger this spring, she saw him from every side.

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.

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.