Category: Community

Noted: The event was organized in part by Wunk Sheek, a Native American student group on the UW-Madison campus. In March, the group made news after an incident of intolerance on campus, when students mocked a Ho-Chunk Elder, shouting stereotypical war cries during a Native American ceremony.

Diana Peterson, a UW-Madison grad student and Menominee Nation member, said incidents like this show the challenges Native Americans and other minority groups face from discrimination.

“It’s not just with the native peoples, but it’s representatives with other cultures as well,” Peterson said. “It’s frustrating sometimes to see these things on campus.”

Peterson said she hopes to work with UW staff to include more representation from all cultures.

Noted: “We got a Baldwin Grant to do this and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies is helping us. It’s working out really well,” Pierce said. “We got a guy right now and we’ve been teaching him all about urban agriculture and we’re giving him a space at the farmer’s market to sell his stuff. We’re working with him. Trying to teach people how to grow their own food.”

Noted: The “Our Waters, Our Future” contest was a collaboration of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Water Sustainability and Climate project and Center for Limnology, Madison Magazine, Sustain Dane, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.

Noted: Taking a page from Doors Open Milwaukee, our city is holding its own Doors Open Madison tour on April 24. Most site tours are self-guided and include several UW–Madison buildings—the Education Building, the Observatory and the Carillon Tower—plus other places like the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the YWCA and guided tours at the MGE cogeneration plant and Bascom Hill.

A community space in South Madison enables University of Wisconsin affiliated programs to tackle issues of poverty and mental health through educational courses and informational meetings.

Noted: The video features Dr. David Drake, who runs the Urban Canid Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With the help of graduate student Marcus Mueller and community volunteers, Drake tracks the movement of coyotes throughout Madison.

Anyone can volunteer via Drake’s website, and tracking season runs through April. Drake has encourages citizens to report coyote and fox sightings via iNaturalist.

A milestone was reached for a UW-Madison outreach efforts.

Tuesday, the UW South Madison partnership celebrated its 1 year anniversary.

The partnership is a space in the Villager Mall on Park Street that connects the university with people who live on Madison’s south side.

Starting on Monday, Madison East High School will be the home of a new food pantry. The first of its kind in Madison. A group of volunteers came together and believed that a high school was the perfect place for a food pantry. The pantry will provide nutritional support to students and their families in need.

However, the volunteers needed help in keeping the food pantry stocked. This is where assistance from UW Hospital was critical. “The UW Hospital at the American Center,graciously offered to keep our pantry stocked through the end of the school year,” stated Joel Wish, one of the pantry’s volunteer coordinators.

Super Bowl 50 doesn’t kick off until Sunday night but people in Madison are getting a taste of Souper Bowl XX Saturday at West High School.

The fundraiser for the UW-Madison chapter of Habitat for Humanity of Dane County brings out tens of thousands of people every year. Donations, in exchange for soup, go towards a home for a family in need.

A new effort to deal with urban coyotes is underway in Milwaukee County.

The county parks department is collaborating with University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife ecologists to trap and tag coyotes beginning Monday. The coyote management project continues through the end of next month along Underwood Creek Parkway.