For example, a group of graduate students in UW-Madison’s Science Hall have been swapping lunches — or meals — for years. Francis Eanes, a 28-year-old doctoral student at the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies, joined the group last October when there was an opening.
Police officers and staff from the UW-Madison Police Department started the Special Olympics Torch Run on Wednesday.
AZTALAN — Ancient Aztalan was a prehistoric Native American village in southern Wisconsin occupied by Mississippian and Late Woodland peoples 800 to 1,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence suggests it was an ethnically diverse community — some residents were local to the area, but others were newcomers who brought their exotic beliefs, practices and ways of living with them.
Professional golfer Andy North and his friends raised $1,002,000 million for the UW Carbone Cancer Center at a dinner and golf tournament this week.
Junaid was one of more than 50 middle school, high school and college students invited by the UW-Madison Muslim Student Association and three Madison-area mosques to a community-wide, honorary graduation ceremony for Muslim students on Sunday in Verona — the first of its kind in Dane County.
Madison will be thrust into the national sports spotlight as the PGA Tour Champions descends on University Ridge Golf Course for the American Family Insurance Championship. The inaugural event held June 24-26 features a 54-hole format and $2 million purse for the Champions Tour, which is comprised of professional golfers age 50 and older.
There are thousands of new college grads in the Madison area looking for work. According to a new study, they may not have to look farther than the city limits. The financial site, NerdWallet, looked at the 100 largest cities in the country and ranked Madison number two in the best cities for college grads to find jobs.
Consider the stories a bowling pin from Antigo’s Vulcan Corporation might have to tell. While the average person might think in terms of the confines of a single bowling alley, another might consider its role in Wisconsin’s lumber industry, Milwaukee’s former title as “The Bowling Capital of America,” and Japan’s mid-20th century bowling boom.
The UW-Madison grants, which include a $29,800 grant for the university’s Odyssey Project that gives low-income adult students a chance to attend college, totaled $300,000. The 94 community grants totaled $930,500.
Just in time for National Beach Safety Week and Rip Current Awareness Week June 4-11, beaches on lakes Superior and Michigan will be safer thanks to continuation of two projects, according to a press release from Wisconsin Sea Grant.
Officers with the UW Madison Police Department helped seven ducklings.
An eighth grader from Wausau, with dreams of playing in his high school band, is getting some help from a group of engineers at UW-Madison.
A pack of Sherman Middle School students gathered in a circle at Warner Park to share their constructions of cattails, grass, mud and sticks.Anke Keuser, a doctoral candidate in the Nelson Institute’s Environment and Resources program at UW-Madison, pulled out boxes of blue, pink and yellow candy Peeps, saying she thought they made a fitting prize for a bird-nest-building competition.
A high school student from Fond du Lac and a team of middle school students from Berlin grew the best overall crystals in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s third annual crystal-growing contest.
Noted: Laugen’s presentation to the commission showed a clear intent to make Madison’s BCycle program an indispensable part of the city’s transit system. And to do that, the bike share has to expand. Currently anchored by UW-Madison and downtown traffic, BCycle wants to embed itself on the larger community.
Noted: The town of Westport, UW-Madison engineering staff, MG&E and the sewage district collaborated on the project.
A day after announcing his return to the University of Wisconsin, Nigel Hayes is giving back in a big way.
School is almost out for summer, but that’s not stopping a Madison non-profit from raising awareness about wellness in education communities. Breathe for Change started as a passion project for UW Madison Ph.D. student, Ilana Nankin. Now it’s helping educators in Madison and around the world.
Two UW-Madison students have created a new fitness tracker that’s quickly being adopted by local football coaches.
UW-Madison took the top spot because of its famous party atmosphere in and around Camp Randall, Jump Around and Fifth Quarter, according to the ranking.
Hundreds of low-income high school students across south-central Wisconsin could attend Madison Area Technical College without paying for tuition under a new program that officials hope will help more young people see that college is open to them.
The series is a partnership between the UW Arts Institute (which sponsors the Wisconsin Film Festival) and the UW School of Nursing, the UW School of Medicine and UW Health. Called “Through the Hollywood Looking Glass: PTSD and Beyond,” the series features three movies looking at soldiers coming home from three wars.
Editor’s note: The Water Sustainability and Climate project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison collaborated with other groups to launch the Our Waters, Our Future Writing Contest in January. The group—including the UW–Madison Center for Limnology, Sustain Dane and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters—sought short stories reflecting visions for positive futures for the watershed. This is the winning piece.
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing everything from mandatory diversity classes to a board game to address issues of race and discrimination on campus.
Offering mandatory courses in cultural studies, improving campus housing security and formally addressing the larger community about bias incidents are a few of the ideas put forth for improving the climate on the UW-Madison campus, according to proposals released Thursday by university officials.
Noted: In addition to the Habitat bike program, Pacific Cycle has partnered with the Wisconsin Bike Federation on various local rides and programs, including the UW-Madison Department of Human Oncology/Carbone Cancer Center on the first ever “The Ride”, scheduled for Sept. 16.
Memory loss impacts the lives of more than 5 million Americans according to the Alzheimer’s Association. To address the growing need for care, the University Of Wisconsin School Of Nursing has begun teaching students how to utilize music and memory.
Noted: The keynote speaker for the event will be Gail Ford. Over the past 13 years, Ford has worked in non-profits and post-secondary institutions to advocate for systematic changes to better align K-12 education programming with college-ready expectations. In March of 2015, she was asked to serve as the Interim Assistant Director for the Pre-College Enrichment Program for Leaning Excellence (PEOPLE) at UW-Madison. Her work with youth and professionals afforded her the opportunity to attend First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Beating the Odds Summit” at The White House in July 2015.
While there is much concern over the balance of retail and bars, restaurants and coffee shops on State Street, a big addition to the retail scene opened its doors Thursday.
UW-Madison sophomore Tyriek Mack was among those who introduced recommendations.
If you come out to the Union South Varsity Hall tonight for the University of Wisconsin Odyssey Project’s graduation ceremony, you will hear some amazing life stories. Be prepared to laugh, and probably cry.
Tamara Thompson Moore was at a crossroads in her life when she was pressured, she says, to apply for the Odyssey Project. Like many of this year’s grads, she knew people who had gone through the program and was familiar with its quality. A counselor at the Parental Stress Center long ago encouraged her to consider her own goals in life, as well as the needs of her children. At last she has done that.
Every parent wonders at some point: How do you get kids to eat their vegetables? The answer: You make them grow the vegetables too!
Quoted: “Madison has had African Americans in prominent leadership positions before — two police chiefs and I believe at least two school board presidents,” said UW Professor of Education Gloria Ladson-Billings. “However, none of that matters without the backing of other decision makers. The President of the United States is a Black man who has been stymied at every turn. More important than ONE person’s election or appointment is the mobilization of an electorate who will get behind the person and their agenda.”
Bill Mulligan, a valedictorian and Eagle Scout, from the Lake Mills High School Class of 2012 was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Rhodes Scholarship. The Rhodes Scholarship is an extremely competitive award. It is the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award in the world. Each year only 32 students from the United States are selected as Rhodes Scholars. These Scholars are chosen for their outstanding scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others, and potential for leadership. UW-Madison is allowed to submit two students for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.
Madison Area Technical College trustees voted Wednesday to begin the process of leasing the land beneath the college’s downtown facility and investing in a comprehensive campus in south Madison.
Noted: Student volunteers make this an even unique experience. The 11 volunteers are mostly PT and occupational therapy students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison but there are also students from Madison College and other community members. . . Sarah Mattingly, a first-year PT student, will soon hold a class on her own through Madison School & Community Recreation. This will in fact be the first class to branch off from the program.
“I’m interested in taking my skills as a teacher and implementing them in [fall prevention]. In particular I like working with older populations. We’ll have student volunteers, and we need as many as we can,” Mattingly said.
My colleague David Dahmer from Madison365 and I were talking about the many individual efforts to address racial disparities in Madison and we both mentioned the Odyssey Project as one particularly successful effort.
In 11th-hour fashion, Mayor Paul Soglin is telling Madison Area Technical College officials they should retain their Downtown campus in addition to expanding on the South Side.
Noted: Yet another study commissioned by the DOT found that on 12 Wisconsin highways that were expanded from two to four lanes, crashes were reduced, according to Andrea Bill, a research program manager for the Transportation Operations and Safety Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
If you’ve ran the Crazylegs Classic before you’d know it’s a lot of work. But at the fourth mile, there’s a group that’s been putting a little pep in your step for the last 30 years.
Quoted: When talking about the sense of community with alumni, Chong Moua, the UW humanities fellow behind the study, says people recall positive experiences with race equity efforts. “They were really young when they went through some of these programs, but now that they’ve had some time to look back, that’s really what they really remember,” says Moua. “[Those] things make for really powerful language, that you can talk about impact and give us a way to talk about evaluation.”
When, as they have in recent years, 15,000 or more people show up Downtown for the annual Crazylegs Classic, they stand (then move forward en masse) as representatives of the unofficial start of the running season in the Madison area.
Since a violent 2011 block party on Mifflin Street spurred Madison officials to crack down on the unsanctioned event, police costs have declined.
As part of the UW-Madison’s campus wide Day of Service, the first ever UW student food pantry, Open Seat, collected donations in exchange for herb and vegetable plants.
If students donated a non-perishable food item or a hygiene product to the pantry, they were given a basil or lettuce plant to take home and grow.
Video: University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College students partnered with the nonprofit magazine “Literacy” to deliver more than 600 copies of “Highlights” magazine to Midvale Elementary School Wednesday.
Noted: Friday’s event will include a lecture about the progression of the Hmong people over the last 40 years from Yang Sao Xiong, an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in Asian American studies, as well as a special performance with a traditional Hmong instrument.
Noted: Best of all, this event is not about selling tickets: Saturday’s Gala is sold out. Rather it’s to acknowledge the generous gifts of funds raised to the UW’s Information Technology Academy, and the supportive collaboration of Quarles and Brady and the Urban League in making Madison truly inclusive.
Noted: Soon after that, with support from fellow students and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Polynice created an initiative that still is helping families become self-sufficient in Haiti more than six years later.
UW-Madison marching band director Mike Leckrone said he’s often compared to a coach. It’s a parallel he agrees with.
Professor Dipesh Navsaria of UW-Madison is the state medical director for the program. He says there’s more to it for doctors and nurses than just handing over books. He says they have to give advice to parents, on how to interact with their kids in a loving and nurturing way.
Since 1969, students have taken to the streets for the biggest block party of the year. This year, police have a plan to keep everyone safe this year on Mifflin Street.
Madison’s police chief says he wants the annual Mifflin Street Block Party to be a thing of the past.
UW-Madison leaders met with community members Monday night at the Urban League of Greater Madison on Park Street. The goal of this community Q&A session was to address recent hate and bias incidents at UW-Madison and to also come up with ways to improve the racial climate on campus.
University of Wisconsin-Madison campus leaders responded to community concerns at a forum Monday night following incidents of racial discrimination culminating in campus protests over the past few months.
Despite a recent stretch of toned-down, relatively tame celebrations, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is worried that this year’s Mifflin Street block party on Saturday may be a bad one, and increased police presence is planned as alternative programming put on by UW-Madison to divert attention from the spring party shrinks.
The concept of “two Madisons” separated by race and class divisions that has shadowed civic discourse in recent years now has entered the debate around whether Madison Area Technical College should close its downtown facility and expand in south Madison.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party will likely see an increase in police presence, coinciding with a scaled back music festival sponsored by the Wisconsin Union. Koval said the police department will continue efforts to downsize and eventually eliminate the event, saying the unsanctioned block party has “all the earmarks of a very real public safety concern.”
City officials should seriously consider creating a pedestrian mall the entire length of State Street, from the UW-Madison campus to the Capitol Square.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is worried that this year’s Mifflin Street block party may be a bad one.
