Noted: We will encourage our bedrock civic institutions; the UW, United Way, the Madison Community Foundation, Urban League of Greater Madison, Centro Hispano, 100state, Young, Gifted and Black, and more to collaborate and be held accountable for real, innovative, measurable problem solving.
Noted: A cardiologist from Oconomowoc and 50 undergraduate students from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia affiliated with the Global Brigades program also accompanied the doctor.
Jonny Hunter: “To me, the most exciting thing in food is that plant breeders are starting to look at flavor instead of production agriculture. The work at Dawson Lab [Julie Dawson, assistant professor of horticulture] has the opportunity to transform how we use vegetables in our diet.”
What he’s doing: Head of the Underground Food Collective, Hunter is working with a University of Wisconsin–Madison horticulture program that teams up farmers, breeders, students and chefs to grow new and more flavorful vegetables.
Noted: After graduation from Washington High School, John Galanis earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — money from his father helped him make ends meet — and he got his law degree from the University of Michigan.
Quoted: And, according to Andra Ghent, associate professor in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics at UW-Madison’s School of Business, baby boomers will be flooding the market in five to 10 years, creating even more demand.
Noted: Ervin is excited that all of the organization’s endeavors will soon be directed from an office in downtown Madison, under a new name: Blumont, Inc.
“It is a great place to live, so employees will want to come here. We have access to the University (of Wisconsin) and all the research capabilities that are offered here, and a very dynamic and technology driven private sector,” said Ervin.
Ervin knows he has a good base of homegrown talent here, primarily due to the high number of UW students who join the Peace Corps.
Quoted: “It’s an important topic to show that we are not abiding, supporting or even sympathizing with ISIS or ISIL,” said Madinah Community Center member and University of Wisconsin Microbiology Professor Adel Talaat.
Nearly 400 people attended the panel, many of them non Muslims.
“This is actually a good thing.. when you see a lot of non Muslims coming here,” Talaat said.
(Video) Lily’s Luau is known for its tropical food, music and attire, but it’s all for a great cause. The event raising money for epilepsy research on the University of Wisconsin campus is this weekend. Quoted: Antoine Madar, research assistant in neuroscience; Mathew (Matt) Jones, associate professor of neuroscience.
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, and an ethical and moral leader to many more, is scheduled to visit Madison on March 9 to participate in a panel discussion at Overture Center’s Capitol Theater. … The Capitol Theater event, titled “The World We Make,” will be a gathering of world leaders in science, health care and the media, according to sponsor the Center for Healthy Minds at UW-Madison.
In addition to musical performances, the 2016 Heritage Awards — honoring work in social justice — were presented. This years winners were the YWCA Every Town girls camp and the internationally celebrated musician Richard Davis.
The spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior was alive and well on the UW-Madison campus Friday night.
The King Coalition hosted its 29th annual free community dinner at the Gordon Dining Center on campus.
Quoted: “The reason we formed was we noticed there was an absence of input from Black professionals and we wanted to help groom, recruit and retain Black professionals in this community,” says Dawn B. Crim, [Madison Network of Black Professionals] president for the 2016-18 term and associate dean for external relations in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Crim says Madison can be a transient place. People come here for school, graduate and decide to stay and enter the workforce. But for some African Americans, they become the one Black professional there. “So we thought it made sense to try to build a network across the city so professionals feel supported and connected as well as informed on what’s happening in the community.”
Also: Madison Magnet has partnered with the University of Wisconsin–Madison to join its new graduate student resource fair.
Dick Lathrop, a UW-Madison expert on fresh water systems who served as one of the study’s principal investigators, comments.
Feature story on a exhibition at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery at the UW School of Human Ecology. Exhibitions titled “Marianne Fairbanks: Impractical Weaving Suggestions” and “Kevin Ponto: Protean Guise” are on display through Feb. 21.
A six-hour movie. An Ingmar Bergman retrospective. And an Italian film that UW-Cinematheque director Jim Healy calls “the king of the difficult films.” In other words, the spring 2016 UW-Cinematheque series is not for moviegoers who want to go back to see “Ride Along 2” a second time to catch all the plot points they didn’t understand the first time. The free on-campus film series shows independent, foreign and classic films that otherwise would not likely make it onto the big screen in Madison … The series kicks off at 7 p.m. Friday at 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., with the Madison premiere of the documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut.”
Every year, the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences give out an award to those who have outstanding work in the agricultural industry.
Associate Dean of External Communications Heidi Zoerb says the awards have been given out for more than 100 years.
Noted: The conference and city will partner locally with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems; Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection; and Community GroundWorks bring broad farm to cafeteria and on-site garden experience, workshop and training expertise, and local perspective to the conference planning committee.
In the basement of the Villager Shopping Center on Madison’s south side, eight children are hard at work trying to pick up tiny candy insects and other familiar small sweets meant to mimic seeds. They are wielding popsicle sticks banded together like tweezers to simulate bird beaks.
Noted: Griffie graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in economics and spent three years training high school volunteers to do home repairs in Appalachia.
Schmidt, 40, elected in the spring of 2009 to represent the 11th District on the West Side, is a researcher with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the Space Science Engineering Center at UW-Madison.
(Video) Eden Checkol gets a preview of the UW Wonders of Physics Show which is looking at the physics of superheroes this year.
Noted: Lukas, who was struggling to do his homework, said he has realized that many students could do better at school if they just finished their assignments. Now, he gets help twice a week staying on task and understanding his assignments better from his tutor, Andrew Meyerhofer, a UW-Madison student. Meyerhofer volunteered for the program after hearing about it from his fraternity, Alpha Sigma Phi.
How are those New Years’ resolutions coming? Looking for ways to keep going? Need some new ideas?
Yoga and resiliency classes highlight the community winter wellness programs UW Health at The American Center is offering, starting in late January. They are designed to help people live a healthier and balanced life.
The skating rink at the Edgewater Hotel in Madison kicked off its opening day today with help from the UW men’s hockey team.
Dane County Circuit Judge candidate Everett Mitchell has racked up more than 450 endorsements from government officials, attorneys, judges, law enforcement officials, pastors and community leaders in the two months since he announced his candidacy.
Wisconsin Companion Animal Resources, Education and Social Services, or WisCARES, is a partnership between UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Social Work. For about a year and a half, WisCARES has been operating a clinic that provides basic care to pets and social assistance to their owners.
A developer is proposing a roughly $10 million mixed-use project on Monroe Street near Camp Randall Stadium, continuing a trend of more density on one of the city’s trendy commercial thoroughfares.
University of Wisconsin veterinary staff have bid farewell to a young sandhill crane they saved from possible death.The crane, then a sick baby, was spotted in late July in Cherokee Marsh, a wetland in Dane County, Wis. The bird walked with difficulty, drawing the attention of an observer and a team from the Humane Society’s Four Lakes Wildlife Center.
A little more than sixteen years ago, the cover of Madison Magazine featured a group of Madison leaders including the mayor, fire chief, Dane County executive and district attorney, presidents of Madison Area Technical College and the University of Wisconsin System and others in positions of prominence. All were women. Every one. It was a vivid and powerful image of a historic, cultural change. Mentions Aaron Olver, Everett Mitchell.
Noted: The $5.25 million grant will span four years. The money will support research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the Institute for Research on Poverty, officials said.
Noted: In the summer of 2015, MMSD and the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, in a partnership known as Forward Madison (supported in part by a $1.2 million grant from CUNA Mutual Foundation), launched its TEEM Scholars program, in which eleven high school sophomores are preparing to enter UW–Madison and become teachers, with guaranteed employment at MMSD when they return. The program also provides mentoring support for every new teacher in the district plus leadership coaching for new principals. And with its planned Personalized Pathways program, intended to expose students to viable careers, coursework has been revamped.
Those profiled with UW ties include Aaron Olver, managing director of the University Research Park, and Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, director of community partnerships at UW Health.
Not believe in research funding! You might as well not believe in coconut shrimp! You might get your friends to watch their mailboxes for invitations to Lily’s Luau on Jan. 23 at Union South, but even if they did not see an invitation, what would that prove? We can’t send printed invites to everyone, but that is no sign that there is no luau and no groundswell of support for epilepsy research right here at UW-Madison. The most real things in the world are those that are explained on our website at http://lilysfund.org/luau.
Noted: UW limnology professor John Magnuson says Mendota could soon go the way of other large lakes in the region and occasionally miss winter freezes.
B-cycle stations around Madison will begin operating according to a winter scheduled on Monday. That means the majority of the city’s 39 bicycle sharing stations will be closed for the season.
Starting Monday, the following (university-area) stations will remain open: Lake St. and University Ave.; UW Union South; UW Natatorium.
All other B-cycle stations will be closed.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking on projects that represent, at least for now, long-range dreams for the city while also offering ideas worth discussing outside the classroom.
Noted: City and county governments, the nonprofit community, the public school system, the media, philanthropic entities, the University of Wisconsin, faith-based organizations, the private sector and the arts community have all demonstrated a deepened commitment to helping.
Families are invited to experience the campus holiday event at a new matinee held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Sunday at Union South. Children can dress up, sing out and revel in old English traditions given a kid-friendly spin.
Noted: Artists from the group “Dane Arts Mural Arts” worked with students from the Student Achievement through Individualized Learning (SAIL) program at Madison West High School on the painting. Their artwork is currently on display at the UW-Madison Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic[.]
If you like your lager or ale served with a side of science, you might want to head up to Minocqua in the coming months.
Noted: The Dane County Sheriff’s Office, and police officers from Fitchburg, the City of Madison, Maple Bluff, Middleton, Monona, Oregon, Town of Madison, Waunakee, and the University of Wisconsin, participated in the event.
(Video) Quoted: Amy Wendt, professor of electrical and computer engineering; co-director, Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute.
Quoted: Dr. Julie Walker with small animal emergency and critical care at the UW Veterinary Clinic said emergency case load has increased by 40 percent in the past few years, making a solid blood supply even more important. She said the clinic is performing as many as 15 transfusions in a typical week.
“The blood donor program is something that only the people who have had a pet involved in receiving or maybe donating blood are currently aware of,” Walker said.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors voted 32-2 in favor of a resolution for UW-Madison to modify their student ID cards to have a two year expiration date to comply with voter ID criteria.
Currently, students at UW-Madison cannot use their Wiscards for voting purposes. While in-state students can use their government issued driver’s licenses, out-of-state students do not have a readily available ID to take to the polls, as out-of-state driver’s licenses and other IDs are not valid voter IDs in the state of Wisconsin.
The Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Badgerland Council is looking to help hundreds of young ladies find their calling with a hands-on expo called “ACTIVATE”.
Experts from science, technology and engineering programs at UW-Madison set up stations at the Monona Terrace in Madison to show girls the importance of stem programs.
Two Madison hospitals will be lit up this holiday season in memory of thousands of loved ones in our area.
St. Mary’s Hospital and UW Hospital both held their annual love light ceremonies Sunday evening. It’s a way for the community to remember those who have passed away or who are serving in the military this holiday season. At UW Hospital, the Love Lights donation goes to grants to support patient and family programs and services.
You can learn proper CPR techniques on your lunch break today. The Madison Fire Department is teaching “Sidewalk CPR” on UW’s campus.
“Sidewalk CPR” is today from 11 to 2 at Gordon Commons on the downtown Madison UW campus.
Noted: On the University of Wisconsin campus, the Hoofer’s Club held its annual snowboard and ski re-sale. Organizer Mitchell Beres said fewer people have stopped by to buy with no snow on the ground.
“It’s definitely a little difficult to have that mentality and that preemptive mindset,” he said.
Last year, the sale raised more than $400,000. Beres estimated the organization would bring in around $350,000 this year.
A grant will fund collaborative research between Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction and the University of Wisconsin-Madison [WCER] to narrow gaps in student opportunity and achievement levels, according to a release.
The $5.2 million U.S. Department of Education grant will fund research on data from all state public schools over the next four years, officials said. The goal of the research is to identify proven techniques that teachers can use to narrow gaps in student opportunity and achievement levels across all racial and ethnic backgrounds and family incomes.
A new website has been launched to help educators teach their students about Wisconsin’s Native American tribes.
Wisconsin has won a competitive federal grant to study why some state schools have had more success than others in narrowing achievement gaps across racial lines and income levels. The $5.2 million U.S. Department of Education grant will fund joint research over the next four years between the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, part of UW-Madison’s School of Education.
In an unprecedented collaboration, the state and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will work together to identify classroom practices proven to narrow gaps in student opportunity and achievement levels, the UW-Madison news service reported.
To longtime Madison residents, the city seems to be experiencing an apartment building boom like never before, yet a recent report from city planners says more than 1,000 new units will be needed each year to keep up with current demand.
Students in the UW-Madison’s Department of Geography, home of the nationally renowned Cartography Lab, which was founded by a man who headed the Office of Strategic Services’ mapping division during World War II, started Maptime Madison as a way to study industry concepts outside the classroom.
Op-ed from Jeffrey Russell, vice provost for lifelong learning and dean of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
The state capital joins Boulder and Fort Collins, Colo., Davis, Calif. and Portland, Ore. as the only cities to earn that distinction. The University of Wisconsin-Madison reached gold status in the league’s Bicycle Friendly University program earlier this month.
UW-Madison alumni, staff and students weighed in on the nationwide discussions about racial prejudice at an event Wednesday evening.
Quoted: “Our stories are just four among the many stories we could tell about our region’s future,” said Stephen Carpenter, a principal investigator on the WSC project and director of the Center for Limnology. “This contest is an effort to encourage all of us to think about the future we want to live into and how we could get there.”
Romel Santini knew his time in the Air Force made him a stronger candidate for any job. He said in his 20 years in the military, he acquired leadership skills, learned how to communicate clearly and became a better team member.
But he never had to interview to get a job in the military, so when he returned home, he had to figure out how to show those skills all over again.
At a cranberry marsh where more than 2 percent of the world’s cranberries are grown, Wisconsin’s officially designated state fruit sat in two bowls available to guests.
