The Wisconsin football team’s equipment truck will have some special packages to go along with the helmets, shoulder pads and cleats it will be transporting to Lambeau Field for the Badgers’ game against LSU on Saturday. Thanks to generous donations from 100 Black Men of Madison (in conjunction with the United Way of Dane County) and ASPIRE, the truck will be transporting supplies to help the victims of the recent flooding in Louisiana.
Saturday’s weather forecast for Madison is mostly sunny skies with the temperature expected to reach the upper 70s, ideal conditions for the University of Wisconsin to open its 2016 football season at home.
Noted: Months later, she enrolled in UpStart, a free 11-week entrepreneurial program for women and people of color developed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and taught by instructors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Small Business Development Center.
Noted: The University League, Inc. is a nonprofit membership organization open to all who are interested in supporting the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The program is a collaboration of Public Health, the Madison School District, UW-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center, the Dane County Immunization Coalition and Culver’s restaurants.
“I’m having all of these introductory meetings across the city, the county, and campus and all of these people I’m meeting are visionaries,” says Leslie Orrantia. “Whether its leaders of faith communities, leaders on campus, civic leaders … these people are saying that Madison has it. We can make it in Madison. That makes me very excited.”
Noted: Biluge, who was born in the Congo, said she knew just three words of English — yes, no and maybe — when she immigrated with her family to Milwaukee four years ago. This summer, she told the crowd, she took part in a University of Wisconsin-Madison program for gifted students and an NAACP competition in Cincinnati.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and online retail giant Amazon have struck a deal for a pick-up location on campus, but not everyone in Madison is excited for it.
It was a phone call that Laura Smythe was tired of receiving. Every week, Smythe was fielding numerous calls from veterans or their family members or their friends, all with a similar refrain. While they had heard about the University of Wisconsin’s Veterans Law Center and were in need of its help, they lacked a means of transportation to get to one of the monthly clinics the center held in Madison.
The campaign chairs for this year’s Partners in Giving fundraising campaign for state employees, including UW-Madison and UW Health employees, held their orientation meeting Tuesday to get ready for their work encouraging their co-workers to support some 520 charities and it was an impressive event.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers want to help police officers decompress.
Noted: Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl said early voting will start in her city on Sept. 26. Officials are hoping to make voting available to people around the city, including at public libraries and on the campuses of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College, she said.
Classic rock songs played in the background of an iD Tech lab on the UW-Madison campus as rows of children and teenagers sporting navy T-shirts sat in front of laptop computers where they were designing their own video games.
This summer Jane Schmieding biked 650 miles — 10 for every year of her life — on a red hand bicycle. It’s yet another athletic accomplishment the biking, skiing and paddleboarding multiple sclerosis patient from Madison credits to a UW-Madison program geared toward training people with disabilities to find ways to get and stay fit.
Field Day Lab, a team of developers, researchers and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, wants to change that. By working with middle school science teachers across the state, the team developed nine video games, released this week, that better suit student and teacher needs.
Noted: Prange, a UW-Madison journalism and public relations graduate, is almost three years into her role as the executive director. Prior to her time at the zoo, she spent more than 10 years working for the American Cancer Society and worked a variety jobs in Washington, D.C.
Noted: Technology of all types is still the No. 1 theme, but this year, new events include a talk on “Earth Futures” by Paul Robbins, director of the UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Code Madison Forward, where student teams compete to create an interactive website; and Microbrews for Microfinance, a fundraiser hosted by Madison nonprofit Wisconsin Microfinance to raise awareness and funds for entrepreneurs in Haiti and the Philippines.
Noted: Locally, Twitter activity using the #TheRealUW hashtag spiked in April, following a series of race incidents on the UW-Madison campus and the arrest of a student whom police entered a classroom to question about anti-racist graffiti.
Noted: Today, it’s easy to picture the 25-year-old University of Wisconsin–Madison doctoral student with deeply carved dimples, llama-like eyelashes and dark, swishing ponytail as the kindergartner she once was. What’s hard to imagine is the journey itself, which certainly didn’t stop at the border and—like that of so many thousands of other Mexican immigrants—led to Wisconsin.
Come Sept. 5, a billboard featuring attorney John Hawley will be erected on 14th Street and Niagara Avenue in Sheboygan.
Soybeans can be sent for testing to the UW-Madison Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic and the Wisconsin Soybean Association will pay for the testing, Johnson said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students began moving in and out of off-campus housing over the weekend, meaning there is plenty of curbside trash, or for some — treasure.
For those in the midst of moving days in downtown Madison, there is a place where one person’s junk can become another person’s treasure. That place is the UW-Madison We Conserve program’s temporary drop-off donation site located on Lot 45 at 165 N. Mills Street.
Partnering with UW-Madison, the city will use the money to gain “robust intelligence” of how such a policy could work, said Ald. Maurice Cheeks, 10th District.
This year’s Africa Fest, also supported by UW-Madison’s African Studies Program and Central Park Sessions, will be 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday in Madison’s Central Park, 202 S. Ingersoll St. Admission is free; donations are welcome.
Veterans coming home from overseas wars face challenges in adapting to life as a civilian, and many of those challenges involve legal questions. That’s why the UW Law School opened the Veterans Law Center in 2012. Today, at the Appleton Public Library, the Center has a mobile unit staffed with attorneys, paralegals, and volunteers to help veterans with their legal questions.
Noted: Nate Moll @natemoll UW-Madison social media guru. Nate is the voice of @UWMadison, which was ranked fourth for most popular university Twitter handle by HubSpot. Through creative posts, Moll engages with a huge social media following, including students, alumni, Badger-fans and more in just under 140 characters.
Noted: The cost to build the network — short of the lines connecting individual users — would be about $150 million. How much of that funding would fall on the city depends on how much private companies would be willing to invest in the project and how much funding the city can get from the federal government, said Barry Orton, chairman of the Citywide Broadband Subcommittee and a professor emeritus at UW-Madison.
With a view of Lake Mendota and terrace chairs on either side of them, people practiced yoga during Terrace Yoga at the UW-Madison Memorial Union Terrace on Sunday.
Managing editor Deidre Green coordinates this year’s summer writing workshop program, an effort to reduce the academic “summer slide” for students. Her instructors include graduate students from UW-Madison. Green grew up in the Simpson Street neighborhood and now attends grad school at UW’s School of Education. She has worked for Simpson Street Free Press since she was in eighth grade.
Roberto Rivera earned a degree in Social Change, Youth Culture and the Arts – a major he built for himself – from the University of Wisconsin in 2004. He went on to earn a master’s degree in youth development from the University of Illinois – Chicago and is now a doctoral candidate back at UW. He is also the President and Lead Change Agent of The Good Life Organization, which publishes multimedia educational tools and trains educators, youth workers, and parents in connecting positive youth development to community development.
Students from high schools in rural Wisconsin are stepping into the shoes of UW Madison scientists for the week. They’re working hands-on with projects related to research projects that are currently going on at the university.
The group — which includes University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, Urban League president Ruben Anthony Jr. and local NAACP head Greg Jones — filed official complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Tuesday via John Vaudreuil, the district’s U.S. attorney, to challenge the “systemic use of excessive force and to create fundamental change” within the MPD.
If you don’t think that Madison history doesn’t feature a whole lot of mystique, let it be known: There’s a “Lost City” hidden in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.
“If you close your eyes, and I say ’Seattle,’ you’ll probably be able to come up with a few words to describe the business community there, and the quality of life there,” said Brandon, the president of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce.
Flooding in northern Wisconsin has been devastating for many who live in the area but a group at UW-Madison is offering some help.
There is a unique clinic in Madison that is helping moms stay active after baby arrives.
The Badgers will hold their annual Wisconsin Football Family Fun Day from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 7, at Camp Randall Stadium.
Noted: Mathis brought his growing family to Madison in 1959, lured here because Michigan State University did not have an astronomy department and UW-Madison did and it was a very good one, he said. A theoritician, Mathis’ move turned out fruitful, for both sides. Five children and a 36-year career at the university — not counting the extra decade up to 2006 as a research-busy emeritus — later, Mathis heard of a volunteer teaching spot that “sounded like fun.”
The University of Wisconsin football team will hold its annual Family Fun Day from 3-5 p.m. on Aug. 7 at Camp Randall Stadium.
Sagashus Levingston is a single mom of six but made time to chase her dreams of receiving a PhD. She decided to take her struggles as a single mom and channel them into empowering others in similar situations. As she is finishing up her studies at University of Wisconsin – Madison, she is writing a book called, Infamous Mothers. The book showcases 22 inspiring stories of single moms in Wisconsin, eight of which live in Madison.
Quotes from UW-Madison Ph.D. student Mehmet Ergun, whose family lives in Turkey, and retired UW-Madison professor Kemal Karpat, who taught Turkish politics and history at the school for 37 years.
A deadly attack in Nice, France is turning a day of celebration for the French community into a day of mourning around the world.About 175 people gathered for a Bastille Day celebration at the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus Thursday night. As they enjoyed each others company and some traditional French foods, the group had the dozens of victims of the attack on their minds, too.
Students from high schools in rural Wisconsin are stepping into the shoes of UW-Madison scientists for the week. They’re working hands-on with projects related to research projects that are currently going on at the university.
Quoted: As many continue to deal with the aftermath, Professor Patty Loew from UW-Madison says things have actually taken a turn for the worse.
UW-Madison has chosen the assistant director of an on-campus education research group to lead its office of community relations, the university announced Monday.
UW-Madison has selected Leslie Orrantia as the university’s next director of community relations, according to a Monday press release.
When Ashley Thomas graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012, she found herself at a crossroads.
Classes typically offered at Madison Area Technical College’s campus on the city’s west side will be scattered among other facilities this fall while a new facility is prepared for occupancy in spring, staff members say.
Noted: UW basketball coach Greg Gard and his family joined in to honor of his father.
Hundreds of Madison area residents gathered at Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus for a march to the Capitol.
Protesters filed down State Street from the UW-Madison campus to the state Capitol, waving signs and chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, these racist cops have got to go,” and “Black lives matter!”
Noted: The class that starts this fall at the Consortium’s 18 schools — expanded from the original three, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington University in St. Louis, and Indiana University-Bloomington — will be a record 490 students strong, up from those original 21, says Consortium Executive Director and CEO Peter Aranda. Thirteen members of that first class graduated with their MBA; this year the number was 411.
In Dane County, several initiatives and programs are underway that attempt to blunt the impact of generations of poverty on children and their parents.
Five-year-old Naja Tunney’s home is filled with books. Sometimes she will pull them from a bookshelf to read during meals. At bedtime, Naja reads to her 2-year-old sister, Hannah.
Noted: The report, called “Strong roots: Building economically stable families mobilization plan,” is the combined effort of a group of more than 40 community leaders co-chaired by University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank and former Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.
According to one estimate, there are about 23-million pets in America that have no access to veterinary care. A non-profit associated with the University of Wisconsin is working to do something about that in Dane County.
The Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus is one of this city’s cultural gems. But it’s a lousy location for a bus depot.
Barry Alvarez, UW-Madison Athletic Director, said the university has a long history with the zoo and helped make the space possible.
Nearly 120 youth gathered at the recent University of Wisconsin-Madison for Badger Dairy Camp. This year’s camp attendance was an almost 30 percent increase from previous years, which usually totaled 85 to 95 youth.
