Bobbie Kelsey-Grayson, the former UW Madison women’s basketball coach, will join Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County as the interim vice president of corporate and wellness programs, the organization said.
UW leaders have initiated a community conversation on the recent stories of racial climate challenges on campus. We take this as a serious effort by the UW to learn and understand and commit to demonstrable change. It’s an open invitation to the community to discuss campus climate Monday from 6 to 8 at the Urban League. We look forward to the dialogue.
Bobbie Kelsey-Grayson, fired from her position as University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach last month, is staying in Madison and joining the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County.
Former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Bobbie Kelsey has been hired by the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County as the interim vice president of corporate and wellness programs and will start May 9. A press release from the organization said Kelsey will help fundraising efforts and aid partnerships to support its programs. She will help the organization in its relationships with the UW athletic department, the Green Bay Packers and the Milwaukee Bucks.
Kaleem Caire wrote an open letter with his wife, Lisa Peyton-Caire, both of whom are alumni of UW-Madison; Caire is the former head of the Urban League of Greater Madison. They said they’ve watched with growing concern the response of campus leaders to racially charged incidents and believe the incidents should be handled much differently.
Dr. Patricia Téllez-Girón knows what having your world turned upside down feels like. When she moved to the U.S. after completing medical school in Mexico, she was an immigrant in a place where she couldn’t speak the language and had little money. “I was cleaning houses and caring for people and doing what all of my community has to do initially … I’ve seen discrimination and unfairness,” says Téllez-Girón, associate professor with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So I decided if I was able to have a position where I would be able to help others, I was going to do it.”
Noted: Another part of what the Madison Black Chamber of Commerce does is develops collaborative relationships that result in reaching organizations with rich resources and like-minded goals. Since 2004, they have collaborated with more than 25 Wisconsin businesses and agencies such as CDBG with the city of Madison, BMO Harris Bank, WARF, Summit Credit Union, Madison College, UW Small Business Administration and Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative (WBIC).
Dr. Patricia Téllez-Girón knows what having your world turned upside down feels like. When she moved to the U.S. after completing medical school in Mexico, she was an immigrant in a place where she couldn’t speak the language and had little money.
Noted: The students are part of nationwide group called Love Your Melon (LYM), an apparel brand run by college students across the country on a mission to give a hat to every child battling cancer in America. The organization reserved more than 45,000 hats to donate to children battling cancer in the United States. LYM college student ambassadors dress up as superheroes as part of a way to help children laugh and cope when visiting with them.
“I enjoy being Super-girl especially when I see faces like Keegan’s light up,” Anne Murphy, president of LYM at UW-Madison said.
(Video) As part of the UW-Madison athletic department’s “Badgers Give Back” initiative, athletes hosted a special event Friday with patients from the American Family Children’s Hospital to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The “Badgers Go Bald” event ended with haircuts for some players with a little extra help from special guests…
Video: As part of the UW-Madison athletic department’s “Badgers Give Back” initiative, athletes hosted a special event Friday with patients from the American Family Children’s Hospital to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The “Badgers Go Bald” event ended with haircuts for some players with a little extra help from special guests.
The garden — it is singular — at Babcock and Observatory Drives may be the most accessible classroom on campus, with the most diverse syllabus. Even on a recent chilly Sunday, the walkers in the 2.5 acres surrounding the vintage 1896 Agriculture Dean’s House ranged from an old man and his dog to curious children to students from the nearby Lakeshore dormitories.
(The clinic) was started by Dr. Mary Landry, a UW School of Medicine and Public Health obstetrician-gynecologist who works at Meriter Hospital and UW-Madison’s University Health Services, and Dr. Katherine O’Rourke, an OB-GYN resident at UW.
Supporters of a Madison Area Technical College proposal to bring a new, comprehensive campus to the city’s South Side are hoping they can convince members of the college’s board, who punted on a similar plan last year, to vote in favor of a shift toward the diverse but historically under-served area.
The MATC south campus would be very close to UW and Edgewood College in a developing residential, business and medical corridor. It would be located in neighborhoods where students, professional workers and families are thriving and is very accessible to transportation routes.
A former Madison heart surgeon finds new life after retirement teaching medical students at the UW-Madison.
Doctor Louis Bernhardt worked as a heart surgeon in Madison, mainly at St. Mary’s hospital, from 1971 to 2004, when he retired.
Since then, he has been teaching courses at the UW-Madison medical school. It’s the same school he graduated from in 1963.
Jonathan Barry, who has served on the Wisconsin Technical College System board and the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents … has joined with former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley in calling for the college to instead stay in the Downtown campus, make a smaller expansion on the South Side and more thoroughly study its space needs.
“Bringing Bucky Home”. That’s the idea behind a joint effort between UW-Madison and Henry Vilas Zoo.
Wednesday zoo officials, Dane County officials and the UW head men’s basketball Coach Greg Gard came together to announce a new Wisconsin heritage exhibit.
The latest project at Dane County’s zoo will showcase the state animal. In a news conference, Henry Vilas Zoo representatives said Wednesday afternoon that its new exhibit will showcase the badger, which is also the mascot critter for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a football scholarship and graduated with a nonprofit leadership degree in 2014. He returned to Vera Court as a volunteer and helped expand Life as a Boy to include middle school boys before moving on to Kennedy Heights last June.
Badgers, which have long been as synonymous with Wisconsin as cheese, will soon be burrowing into a new home at Vilas Zoo.Zoo, Dane County and UW-Madison officials announced plans Wednesday for a larger exhibit to house the zoo’s two current badgers, with a tentative goal of opening in time for the fall football season. Fundraising efforts are underway for the Wisconsin Heritage Exhibit, with $350,000 of the required $650,000 already collected.
Former UW-Madison chancellor Donna Shalala will be keynote speaker at a global summit for women at the university.
Supporters of newly elected Dane County Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell made a joyful noise Tuesday evening, joining with him as he called on them to renew their commitment to making Dane County a place where “everybody is somebody!” Mitchell, director of community relations for University of Wisconsin-Madison, pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church, community activist and former assistant Dane County District Attorney, ran unopposed. He spoke to a crowd of some 80 supporters at the Goodman Community Center, recalling how in a recent interview he was asked how it was going to feel “working for the man,” sitting on the bench in Dane County Circuit Court and meting out justice. “I’m not going to be working for the man. I am going to be working for the people,” Mitchell told the crowd.
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.
The presidential race has brought a lot of excitement and debate to Wisconsin this week, but for the law enforcement agencies charged with keeping everyone safe at these events, the visits have also created a lot of extra work.
Jonathan Barry, a former president of the Wisconsin Technical College System, and John Wiley, former chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison, met with MATC president Jack Daniels and raised concerns about the wisdom of selling the facility at 112 N. Carroll St.
Noted: McDonell said all poll workers have undergone training in the hopes of making the process as smooth as possible; however, some analysis done with the UW-Political Science Department found that taking an extra 10 to 15 seconds to check IDs could add a wait time of 40 to 50 minutes for those in line – especially after work.
If the Beltline seems to be smoky on Tuesday, don’t call 911. The smoke is from a prescribed burn at the Arboretum.
Noted: He earned his doctorate from UW-Madison in 2012. He also has a master’s degree in educational administration and bachelor’s degree in elementary education from UW-Madison.
Noted: The UW Canid Project currently tracks and traps coyotes on the West Side but can’t do the same on the East Side. Last October, a community meeting was held after four dogs were killed on the east. At the meeting, hosted by the city of Madison and Dane County, the UW Canid Project said they could help by monitoring problem coyotes and then having them euthanized by the DNR, but that plan fell through.
“We are constantly struggling to fund our project,” said David Drake, a UW professor who heads the project.
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 relationship between city police and area social services agencies is hardly new. But there was a time “when if a police officer showed up at the mental health clinic, they were the enemy,” says Ronald Diamond, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of psychiatry and former medical director of Journey (then called the Mental Health Center of Dane County).
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 possible pilot study would investigate the effects of mindfulness training on Madison police officers. MPD Chief Mike Koval says he’s working with the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin to plan the project to determine how mindfulness training affects a police officer’s physical and mental well-being.
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: Dr. David Drake starts his mornings when the campus is just lit by a few headlights and street lamps. He’s on the look out for coyotes, the animals you hope you don’t see in your backyard. He leads the UW-Canid Project. “At least with some of our preliminary data, the coyotes are concentrating a lot of their time and activity to green spaces within the urban landscape,” said Dr. Drake.
We just never get tired of this one. Every year the more than seventy-one hundred employees at state agencies in Dane County, the UW and UW Hospital participate in the local component of the State Employee Combined Campaign to support non-profit charities.
(Video) Camp Kesem is a college student run camp at UW Madison for kids whose parents have cancer. Camp counselor Joey Seliski visited News 3 This Morning to talk about it.
Noted: Other speakers included members of UW-Madison’s Blackout movement, a group formed last year to raise awareness of racial issues on campus.
Noted: UW-Madison Police: Last year, the number of officers who received crisis intervention training increased to 72 percent from 5 percent of the 60-officer agency, Chief Sue Riseling said.
Quoted: “It greatly reduces the use of force, if we know the reason someone isn’t complying is not because they’re being belligerent but because they’re ill,” said UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling, who co-chaired the local task force. “That’s a huge psychological shift for an officer. We generally want to help those who are ill and control those who are belligerent.”
Kenneth Cole began his activism at UW-Madison last fall, when he organized a march in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri, whose protest over race issues on campus ousted two top administrators.
During the course of a professional friendship spanning more than two decades, UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson has had many opportunities, formally and informally, to discuss his research with the Dalai Lama.
There are several events planned in Madison to mark the anniversary of the Tony Robinson shooting, including a rally Friday afternoon (4 p.m. on Library Mall).
One of the organizers of the event is UW Blackout Movement, a student group formed in November in response to issues of racial tension on campus and in the community.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.” With those words from conservationist and author Aldo Leopold, the start of the Foreword to “A Sand County Almanac,” naturalist Kathy Miner will kick off the annual Madison Reads Leopold event Saturday at the UW-Madison Arboretum.
Quoted: “I’m excited to be able to share their voice, their vision, their creative abilities with a wider audience,” Jose Vergara, a volunteer instructor at Oakhill, said. “I really wanted to get this writing and art out because a good chunk of it is really impressive. And I feel it should have a wider audience. Not simply because it’s made by inmates but because it deserves to be seen–it’s worthwhile art.”
Vergara is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Slavic languages and literature. He started teaching courses at Oakhill Correctional Institution in 2011 after receiving a grant from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities.
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.
Noted: As strong supporters of the Madison Commons, we also love the partnership with the UW School of Journalism and the Commons, and the support of the Madison Community Foundation and MG&E.
Noted: Humanities courses taught by volunteers at Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon form the core of the project. The classes are taught mostly by UW-Madison graduate students and faculty members. And like the teachers, inmates choose whether to participate.
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.
Quoted: Mike Wagner, associate professor of journalism; Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service and political science professor; Donald Downs, professor emeritus of political science, law and journalism; John Sharpless, history professor.
I’ve only been to a couple of Chicago City Council meetings in my journalistic career. I distinctly remember just one, a debate over whether elephants should be barred within city limits.
Last year, when Gov. Scott Walker’s administration tried to erase the “Wisconsin Idea”—a principle rooted in the progressive era of the early 1900s—howls of protest rose across the state.
Noted: “We invite over 35 local celebrities and UW athletes come and they help out and they act as our servers,” says Ellen Breunig with UCP.
Noted: Coyote meeting, chat: A public meeting on the Milwaukee County coyote trapping and tracking project will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at Wil-O-Way Underwood, 10602 Underwood Parkway, Wauwatosa. Researchers from the UW-Madison Urban Canid Project will discuss coyote ecology, coyote-human conflict and behavior modification as well as ongoing monitoring and management efforts. Representatives of the Milwaukee County Parks Department and DNR also will be on hand.
Quoted: “We’re trying to make the campus more accessible as a destination for the best and brightest students in our state,” said Ilia Guzei, director of the X-ray crystallography lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the organizer of the contest.
Noted: According to a UW study, nearly 90% of Wisconsin’s immigrant dairy workers are from Mexico. Some of them have come here from other states, such as Arizona, that have passed laws cracking down on undocumented workers.
The parents of a slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student are renewing their plea that anyone with information about the 2008 homicide contact police.
Two local brothers who didn’t speak to each other for 50 years have been re-united through their shared love of Badger Basketball.
“It’s a lot of time that we can’t get back,” 86-year-old Dick Deering said about the troubling family squabble that’s just ending. “But we can try to make up for it!” Deering said as his brother, Bob, smiled.
