There’s not a lot to like about the stout, spiked branches of the aggressively invasive buckthorn tree. “Buckthorn is spreading actively across the landscape, facilitated by birds eating the berries and spreading seeds,” says Mark Renz, assistant professor of agronomy at UW-Madison and a UW-Extension weed specialist. “The way it is changing the forest understory is really an epidemic in the upper Midwest.”
A UW veterinarian who has pioneered pet therapy has now started a new program that is raising the spirits of pediatric patients at American Family Children’s Hospital.
Chanting as they moved, thousands of protesters marched Thursday night from Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to State Street and on to the state Capitol.
Fire up, University of Wisconsin football fans, with a homecoming parade from 5-6:30 p.m. Friday prior to the Badgers’ game vs. Illinois on Saturday.
Noted: Neil Heinenis joined by Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Rev. Alex Gee, a pastor at Madison’s Fountain of Life Covenant Church and founder of the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership and a part of the Justified Anger Coalition.
Franklin County Commissioners plan to hire University of Wisconsin researchers to review procedures at the county dog shelter following the distemper outbreak in September that forced officials to euthanize 100 canines.
Madison community leaders are calling for a review of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s stadium policies and for a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racist behavior on the university’s campus.
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County CEO Michael Johnson says he’s not pleased with the university’s response to an offensive costume shared on Twitter, showing President Obama in a prison garb with a noose around his neck.
The study’s findings, recommendations and future steps will be the focus of a panel discussion from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Festival Room of Memorial Union. The talk is hosted by the UW-Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Tenant Resource Center.
The UW-Madison Black Graduate and Professional Student Association will host a college fair on Thursday to showcase historically black colleges and universities for students.
Thanks to a four-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the University of Wisconsin will increase the number of resident physicians in underserved rural areas in an effort to close the gap of health disparities.
Wollersheim Winery owners Philippe and Julie Coquard presented a $25,057.60 donation to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fermentation Sciences program at an event held at the winery Oct. 12. The donation represents the grapes, production, and all proceeds from the sale of Red Fusion wine, collaboration between UW, Wollersheim, and other wine and grape industry partners, to provide an educational experience for students exploring interests in viticulture, enology, and the fermentation process.
Since the first gathering in 1977, Halloween in Madison has meant partying on State Street. Jay Messar graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. “It’s a night to basically be anybody who you want to be.”
In order to combat the divisive political resentment separating Milwaukee and Madison from the rest of the “outstate” this election season, Wisconsin needs more respectful communication between its rural and urban populations, according to Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
The beat of melodies and rhymes is a sound that’s catching the attention of hundreds of classrooms across the nation.
Millennials get a bad rap. They’re labeled narcissistic, self-absorbed and apathetic. (Just look at their nicknames: the selfie generation, generation me, the unemployables.)
With nearly 15 percent of children in the U.S. suffering from childhood poverty, a group of nine professors, including University of Wisconsin’s Timothy Smeeding, have created a proposal that would provide monthly allowances to families with children.
Faculty members from the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the University of Wisconsin Law School hosted a town hall meeting at the Sheraton Madison Hotel focusing on health care policy, climate change and criminal justice.
UW-Madison and University of Iowa fraternity chapters are teaming up to run a football all the way to the Badgers-Hawkeyes game to raise money for local military families.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives will host its annual Passing the Mic event this weekend that will celebrate the transformational potential of hip hop arts in the Madison community and on the UW-Madison campus. This is the 12th annual Passing the Mic event, which is one of the truly diverse, multicultural events that the city of Madison will see.
It’s difficult for adults who live at or below the poverty level to attend college. That’s something Emily Auerbach wants to change. Auerbach, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, serves as the director of the Odyssey Project, which provides a free college course for adults who are overcoming adversity. That one course, she says, followed up with practical help toward completing a college education, has transformed many lives. “We have students who have gone from being homeless to having UW master’s degrees, who were incarcerated and are now working in the community,” she says.
Richard Davidson and his team want to help create a kinder, wiser and more compassionate world. And it all started in 1992 when Davidson met the Dalai Lama. Davidson, founder of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, focuses his research on why some people are more vulnerable to life’s challenges than others. The Dalai Lama suggested shifting away from studying things like anxiety and depression to studying kindness and compassion.
When a storm caused flooding, electrical outages and washed out roads in northern Wisconsin in July, Patty Loew showed her students how journalists pivot quickly to cover breaking news. Loew, a professor in the department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was teaching at her annual summer program on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe reservation when the devastating storm hit.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team forward Nigel Hayes joined the crowd of students at ESPN’s College GameDay Saturday to protest the lack of pay for athletes and to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County.
Noted: Canon is a professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at UW–Madison. Susan Yackee is a professor of public affairs and director of the Board of Visitors of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison.
Wisconsin teammates Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig met earlier this year for a frank discussion that had nothing to do with basketball.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the eligibility of two student organizations — Working Class Student Union and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán — to get funding from student segregated fee.
The hosts of the event may have changed, but Greg and Michelle Gard picked up right where things left off hosting the fifth-annual “Shooting Down Cancer” event with the Wisconsin men’s basketball program at the Kohl Center on Monday.
Noted: “Seventy-five percent of it stays right here in south central Wisconsin,” Heitzinger said. “The remaining 25 percent funds national breast cancer research, including breast cancer research at the UW-Madison.”
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building on the UW-Madison campus will be a hive of activity Oct. 20-23 during the 6th annual Wisconsin Science Festival, where thousands of people will engage in science, often in unique ways.
When veterans seek out legal help from the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Veterans Law Center, Laura Smythe says they often tell the lawyers and students they’re working with, “I don’t even know what my first step should be.”
Andrew Strother is a poster boy for the great outdoors. An image of the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison junior is featured, larger than life, on a billboard facing northbound Interstate 94 traffic just north of the Highway E overpass, where he is shown tying a fishing lure to his line on the shores of a Kenosha County lake.
La Crosse attorney and community leader Brent Smith is the local face of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty will hit the road over the next few weeks to host town hall meetings about election issues in Appleton, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities.
With the elections a hot topic of discussion, UW-Madison professors will be taking the talk on the road in October in a series of town hall gatherings.
Growing up in Appleton, Stephanie Harvey listened to her father. He told her that getting an education tells your employer you know how to learn. (Project 72 coverage.)
Rescue Divas has been selected to represent Ashland County as part of a new ad campaign launched by UW-Madison known as Project 72 with the slogan, “Boundless Together.”
Seven and a half hours of boredom, plus 30 minutes of terror. That’s how Dr. Michael Spierer, a Madison-based psychologist, describes the typical police officer’s shift. Eight hours of paperwork and petty crime, with the knowledge that a high-pressure and dangerous turn of events may be just around the corner. Chronic stress is inherent to the job, he says.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are gathering opinions about drones and other technologies available to journalists, and The Post-Crescent will host two focus groups in October.
Every fourth Thursday of the month, the front corner room of Porchlight Inc. turns into a makeshift law office.
Cris Custer is a proud University of Wisconsin graduate, but also a dedicated nurse practitioner at Mile Bluff Clinic.
On Sunday morning a simple ceremony will be held at the Madison gravesite of an obscure man who was a visionary pioneer at the University of Wisconsin.
After five months of analyzing the state of retail on the one-mile downtown stretch, Tangible Consulting Services, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm, released its preliminary results of the downtown area’s current market to the Downtown Coordinating Committee Thursday evening.
The Middleton City Council on Tuesday approved a plan for a $9 million UW Pharmacy Enterprise Building on Deming Way.
“When does the suffering stop?” Community leader Minister Caliph Muab’El asked City Council members and officials this question Tuesday evening when he and a group colleagues presented their 15-point plan aimed at reducing racial disparities, violence and recidivism in Madison.
Dane County is teaming up with UW-Madison to study how and if the implementation of Wisconsin’s voter ID law affects voters during the first time it’s used for a presidential election, county officials said in a statement Monday.
Carol May is being recognized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her contributions to health care in Sauk County. The recognition is part of the university’s new ad campaign intended to celebrate the work of Badger alumni across the state.
Noted: Sandi Torkildson, who helped found A Room of One’s Own in 1975, has invited a representative from the UW-Madison Center for Cooperatives to give an informational presentation Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the bookstore, located at 315 W. Gorham St. Torkildson, who announced in June that she was putting the store up for sale, said she has had several customers inquire about the feasibility of a co-op, but there was no organized effort. The meeting is simply a way to bring those interested in a co-op model together and to learn about that type of business model.
When Tsela Barr and her husband were in the market for a Madison home where they could raise their two sons, all it took was a drive through the Regent neighborhood, with its streets lined with mature trees and turn-of-the-century homes, for Barr to realize she had found the right neighborhood.
Dr. Jenna Sebranek, a freshly minted doctor at Richland Medical Center, entered a room to greet one of her first patients — and paused, because she recognized the face.
UW Madison is responding by launching the country’s first ever OBGYN rural residency program.
For more than 130 years, men and woman have been attending University of Wisconsin-Madison to take the Short Course at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. A series of lectures and hands-on classes, the Short Course is a 15-week program that gives young farmers an opportunity to further their careers and learn some of the essentials of agriculture from some of the top instructors in the country.
UW-Madison kicked off a new program aiming to connect the campus community with the needs of cities in Wisconsin with a meeting Wednesday night at the Leopold Nature Center in Monona.
Some students at UW-Madison got free coffee to start their day while meeting with the school’s police department.
Noted: A group of East educators recently attended a reading institute titled “Literacy by the Lakes,” coordinated by the Literacy Education faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On Thursday, Wisconsin Operation Lifesaver will be providing presentations to people in Madison and on UW-Madison campus.
If you want to get your hands dirty next week you can get some food for yourself and benefit local food pantries. The UW-Madison Agricultural Research Station east of Rhinelander, along with the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association and area food pantries host a ’A Night On The Farm’.
Many Americans have been noticing that local police and sheriff’s departments have become more and more militarized over the past decade. More and more, students are worried that this is starting to occur in police departments on college campuses, too. The UW Blackout Movement will host an event Wednesday night on East Campus Mall in hopes of starting a conversation with students and to encourage the UW-Madison police and police nationwide to be more transparent about the military-style equipment they have access to.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is poised to begin a committee this fall that will share information with and seek insight from various leaders in the community regarding diversity and inclusion.
A Reedsburg Area High School graduate has seen the effect of her first community service project. Jordyn Schara, who launched the campaign to create 24/7 drug drop boxes in the area, returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her senior year this fall.
