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.
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.
