Category: Community

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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: 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.