UW-Madison social media specialist Nate Moll: The UW and the city go hand in hand for me: you can’t have one without the other. At UW-Madison, I strive to build affinity and establish a digital sense of place through the voice and tone I carry online and through visual media. Two of the things that allow me to do that are Bucky and the Terrace chairs.
The money from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Smart Policing Initiative will pay for a community-wide program in Madison, involving not just police but treatment providers, UW-Madison researchers — to measure and analyze the program’s effectiveness — public health officials, Dane County Human Services, the nonprofit organization Safe Communities Madison-Dane County and other partners. The grant also will buy about $21,000 worth of the overdose antidote Narcan, now provided to police by pharmaceutical company donations.
Noted: A new University of Wisconsin-Madison initiative to help boost urban sustainability in Wisconsin landed its first partner: the city of Monona.
Jordan Foley and CV Vitolo-Haddad of the UW-Madison debate team: As the director and assistant director of debate at UW-Madison, we have big ideas for 2017: To solidify and build UW-Madison’s competitive program, reinforce high school debate participation and enhance inter-community political discourse through public debates.
Letter to the editor: To end the year on a positive note, I’d like to express my gratitude to UW for offering the senior guest auditor program.
Last year at Madison365, a nonprofit online magazine, we published our first Black Power list, naming 28 of the most influential African-Americans in Wisconsin.
The set pricing is used for UW-Madison athletics events, concerts, plays and other occasions drawing in a large amount of people at one time. The city lists what ramps will have a special event rate for certain events.
A residency program could help bring more doctors to Sauk Prairie and other rural areas, thanks in part to a four-year, $675,000 grant.
UW-Madison students learning about philanthropy also learned a big life lesson on Monday.
An organization run by students called “Connect Wisconsin” gave out $10,000 grants to five local non-profits. Students say it was the culmination of a semester’s worth of work to find the right organizations making an impact in the community.
With the Wisconsin cold settling in, many UW-Madison students are cozying up indoors. However, not all students have the luxury of a home on winter nights.
Noted: Garcia grew up on Milwaukee’s south side and attended WPCA’s youth arts programming. She is an alumna of Milwaukee Public Schools. Before joining WPCA, Garcia served as a program director at Partners Advancing Values in Education. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in English.
Oakwood took the actions to reduce falls as part of its participation in the Wisconsin Coalition for Collaborative Excellence in Assisted Living. The coalition, formed in 2009 by the state, UW-Madison and Wisconsin’s four assisted living associations, is designed to help facilities in good standing with the state improve their quality of care, while state inspectors focus more on troubled facilities.
Instead of writing traditional pen and paper letters to a pen pal in an elementary school classroom, school kids can connect with college athletes with software provided by the Chins Up Foundation in Madison.
South African scholar Mathodi Motsamayi arrived at UW-Madison in early November with hopes of networking with other scholars and raising awareness of his research during his one-month residency. With one week left, he said he believed his visit has been successful.
When the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a five-year contract in August to allow online retail giant Amazon to put a package pickup point on the UW–Madison campus, among the deciding factors were convenience and the minimum of $100,000 per year in commissions the deal would bring to the university. Under the plan, packages with campus ZIP codes would be dropped off at a single pickup site, which is expected to open by spring 2017.
The event featured a presentation from an infectious- disease specialist who works in the Cook County jail and other resource centers.
The simmering frustration from in both rural and urban areas has boiled over. This turbulence, whether evident through community demonstrations or election results, conveys an urgent message of discontent rooted in social and economic inequities that result in health disparities.
A well that pumps more than 750 million gallons of water near the UW-Madison campus has reached a “critical contamination threshold” of sodium and chloride due to road salt, with chloride levels doubling since 2000.
A new student organization is looking to inspire a love of science in middle school students around Madison by connecting them with University of Wisconsin student mentors.
Local families hosted international students from UW, so that they could enjoy new turkey traditions.
As part of a national day of action, University of Wisconsin students and Madison residents marched to the steps of the State Capitol Tuesday to show solidarity with Standing Rock protestors.
The holidays are just around the corner and for some families, gift giving may not be possible.That’s why Nigel Hayes, UW-Madison student athlete and the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County teamed up to help local families by taking them on a shopping spree. Life hasn’t been exactly easy for the Schultz and Keaton families.
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.”
