Noted: Through the humanities, the students [in the Odyssey Project] earn college credits, gain confidence in their abilities to succeed, and an opportunity to find a career path. In other words, they find hope.
There’s a gathering next Thursday night at the University Club on campus for those interested in supporting the Odyssey Project. We think it is so worthy of support.
When Gene Delcourt was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a visit with teachers and students from Malcolm Shabazz City High School ended up altering his career path.
The University of Wisconsin System is seeking community input during strategic planning listening sessions this week in Madison and next week in Milwaukee.
Today, United Way’s “Health Connect” program accepted a $1.3 million gift from UW Health. This gift is specifically targeted to assist low-income residents in Dane County. United Way will use the money to pay health insurance premiums for those living between 100 to 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
Noted: Autumn’s falling leaves can often run off into lakes and streams, where they release phosphorus into the water. That helps more algae bloom, according to Steve Carpenter of UW’s Center for Limnology.
“[Algae] can be toxic, [making] people sick or pets sick,” he says.
Earlier this semester, members of the UW-Madison administration revealed the results of a survey taken by students last spring surrounding issues of sexual assault. The UW-Madison Sexual Assault Climate Survey Task Force continued this conversation Monday, focusing on what the results mean for LGBTQ+ community members.
UW-Madison students will step up efforts to bring fresh healthy food to South Madison neighborhoods — including delivery by bicycle trailer — with the help of a grant to Slow Food UW.
Experts say conflicts with coyotes seem to be on the rise in the last couple months in Wisconsin.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Madison Urban Canid Project say recent reports of those conflicts, and in some cases attacks, have come from Madison, Milwaukee, Neenah and Mequon. Some coyotes have attacked and killed dogs, or even followed residents who were walking their dog.
Noted: The event Sunday, October 25 is from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Stylists are offering haircuts, colors, manicures and pedicures and all of the proceeds and tips will be donated to the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
Science in Madison’s backyard and beyond will be in the spotlight for a weekend as the fifth Wisconsin Science Festival begins on Thursday. A huge range of what science is will be on display – from the foods and drinks produced here, to games, nature, disease, hands-on science and scientists talking about what they do. The festival has moved throughout the state, too, with more than 70 other events happening across Wisconsin.
In 2007 John Maniaci decided to start volunteering and taking pictures for students at La Follette High School. In 2009, Maniaci started working for UW Health and the hospital encouraged him to continue his project, giving him free days off work to take the pictures, and they encouraged him to expand it to all four Madison schools.
Now dozens of students are able to get their senior pictures taken each year, when they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to.
Fitchburg city staff is enlisting the help of UW-Madison graduate students for two of the city’s latest planning efforts.
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied blaze pink’s visibility for Milroy and Kleefisch earlier this year, told the committee that pink stands out better than orange against Wisconsin’s orange-brown fall landscape. He also said deer have an easier time seeing blaze orange than blaze pink.
Several downtown streets will be closed Friday afternoon for the University of Wisconsin Homecoming parade, according to a release.
The parade starts at 6 p.m. and will close Langdon Street, Wisconsin Avenue, West Gilman Street and North Lake Street, officials said.
It was another record-setting day at the fourth-annual “Shooting Down Cancer” event hosted by Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan and his wife, Kelly.
It took place at the Kohl Center Monday.
This year the UW-Madison student body helped raise Ryan’s donation to the American Cancer Society to $60,147. Combined with matching donations, the 2015 grand total was $694,117.
In just nine days, five people were injured on the UW campus while walking or biking. On Friday UW Police released surveillance video of two of those crashes.
“The videos are a little tough to watch but they bring up a really good point about safety on our campus.,” said Marc Lovicott, a spokesman for UW-Madison Police.
Noted: UWPD police Chief Susan Riseling said the frequency of crashes and injuries is an indicator that bikers, pedestrians and motorists aren’t following laws, “and people are getting hurt.”
“Safety on our campus roads is everyone’s responsibility,” Riseling said.
The department said it plans to increase bicycle enforcement patrols on campus.
Chin Ups, an organization dedicated to fostering relationships between athletes and kids, was founded by Israel Lopez, a UW Law School grad. When Lopez was in middle school, Wisconsin Badgers football star Donnel Thompson sent him a box around Christmastime. That box included an autographed picture. “I never lost it. It had a tremendous effect on my life. Someone like that, someone who I was watching on TV, believed in me, for whatever reason … it changed my life.”
GREEN LAKE – The surface of the state’s deepest natural lake was flat last week as Capt. Marty Valasek slowly piloted the 60-foot Escapade dinner boat 150 yards off Green Lake’s shoreline.
Noted: UW officials said in a statement that they offer a separate ID for voting, but there are concerns with revising their regular student ID cards.
“Adding the signature, as is required to be voter ID compliant, in combination with other information on the card increases the identity theft risk to students,” the statement said.
MANITOWOC — There are stories hidden below the water of Lake Michigan. That includes shipwrecks – hundreds of them.
GREEN LAKE — Keeping water healthy in and around Green Lake, was the goal of an environmental field trip Monday.
Last summer, 11 students … were chosen as the first cohort of T.E.E.M. Scholars. Throughout their high school and college years, the students will participate in summer and academic year coursework, job shadows and hold teaching internships. They will also meet regularly, work with MMSD and UW-Madison staff, and take part in school activities to gain experience working in Madison schools.
Noted: Friends and family held an event Sunday at Mid Town Pub in Middleton to raise money for a memorial scholarship set up in their name through the UW Foundation.
Kotila says she hopes to raise at least $25,000, to support two freshmen every year in memory of the Dorresteijns.
(Video) UWPD drug detection dog Casey checks the News 3 studio for narcotics to promote this Sunday’s Dog Jog on the UW campus.
Those with UWPD say it’s no secret, a late start adds extra hours of drinking and usually means more work for officers.
“Night games bring a unique challenge to us,” UWPD, public information officer, Marc Lovicott, said.
A challenge those UWPD say they’re ready for.
“It could lead to and we’re expecting to lead to a few more fan issues inside the stadium,” Lovicott added.
(Video) University of Wisconsin police focus on safety during Badgers’ first night football game of the season.
Q&A with Jackie Davenport, the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department’s new community relations director, meaning she’s responsible for coordinating service activities for the hundreds of Badger student-athletes.
While many mothers says they’d do anything for their child, it couldn’t be more true for one who’s balancing grad school, working full time, a wife, and a mother of two.
Alysia Hanson is a trauma nurse at UW-Hospital.
The free course, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 28, is open to the public and entitled “Forests and Humans: From the Midwest to Madagascar.” The course will focus on an exploration of forest ecosystems from the Midwest to Ecuador and Madagascar. Participants will learn about the ecology, geography and economic significance of the world’s forests, and how humans interact with these environments on a daily basis, according to a description from the university.
Nearly 3,000 people deeply affected by the brutal rape of a UW-Madison graduate student on the Capital City Trail participated in a “Take Back the Bike Path” march Thursday night, getting caught in a heavy downpour.
UW-Madison and the City of Madison will join more than 20 other city-university partnerships as beneficiaries of a $1 million grant to launch a program coordinating efforts of research and funding between academic institutions and their communities.
The White House announced the MetroLab Network, funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in a statement Monday along with other “Smart Cities” initiatives.
VIDEO: Sarah Bolser with Joggin for the Noggin talks about their event this weekend in Madison that will benefit the UW Carbone Cancer Center’s Brain Cancer Research Program.
University of Wisconsin System leaders are continuing to travel throughout Wisconsin to build stronger connections between businesses, citizens and higher education.
Madison officials are prepared to consider condemning a handful of Downtown properties in an effort to get more park space in the booming UW-Madison campus area.
The year-long reign as Miss Wisconsin-USA was coming to a close Sunday for Haley Denise Laundrie, 22, of Lake Mills.
Two top leaders within the University of Wisconsin System are hitting the road this fall to make new connections and strengthen existing relationships between Wisconsin businesses, residents and the public higher education system.
One of the last, large, vacant lots in Madison is now the site of the city’s newest development.
Union Corners, between East Washington Avenue and Winnebago Street at Milwaukee Street, will be home to a UW Health clinic, among other things.
“This transformation is going to be quite a difference for this area in particular,” Dr. Peter Newcomer with UW Health said.
Newcomer was one of many to help break ground on the Union Corners Clinic, a facility at the center of the new multi-use development on Winnebago Street. The new clinic will replace the East Towne Clinic, offering services in urgent care, primary care and OBGYN.
I moved to Madison in the fall of 2001. I was an 18-year-old freshman who was excited to go to class, ready to make new friends and worried about fitting in with Madison’s alcohol-heavy culture. I adapted to the alcohol culture really fast.
Scientists are still trying to figure out how a changing climate affects walleye and other species of fish. Most don’t expect the walleye to be a winner. As global climate change continues delivering warmer temperatures and heavier rains to Minnesota, lakes and their inhabitants will feel it. “One of the places you expect climate change to make a big difference is in changing the mix of species that do best in a lake,” said John Magnuson, director emeritus of the Center for Limnology — the study of inland waters — at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sun Prairie High School sophomore Harish Prabaharan proudly lined up three small plastic replicas of the Taj Mahal — each one aimed to achieve the perfect representation of the famous mausoleum — that he made through a printable programming course. The course was designed by Krishnan Suresh, a mechanical engineering professor at UW-Madison, as a fun and tangible way to teach visual thinking, creative problem solving, programming and 3-D printing to students. The objective is to model real-world objects like airplanes, architectural models, teddy bears, Lego parts and musical instruments. Ultimately, students can print their models using a 3-D printer.
MediaTrackers, a right-wing website, is filled with gotcha stories aimed at the University of Wisconsin’s flagship Madison campus.
The young philanthropist is the son of Seth Pollak and Jenny Saffran, both psychology professors at UW-Madison.
Progress on cleaning up lakes Mendota, Monona, Wingra, Waubesa and Kegonsa has been slow, despite fifty years of settled science on what’s causing the problem and significant effort invested in trying to improve water quality. Freshwater ecologist Stephen Carpenter, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Limnology, has long wondered why.
The UW-Madison Arboretum offers 17 night walks a year, including one on each month close to the full moon, walks near the summer solstice and other changes of season, and one on New Year’s Eve, outreach and education manager Molly Fifield Murray said. On average, about 40 people attend each walk — accompanied by two naturalists funded by Friends of the Arboretum — though weather is a factor in attendance. The walks are free.
The year-old Allied Community Cooperative submitted the only proposal with strong support from the Willy Street Co-op and the UW-Madison Center for Cooperatives.
Pollinators will be the focus of the next “Science On Tap” presentation at Minocqua Brewing Company. The first Wednesday of most months the public gathers to hear the latest from UW researchers who also listen to questions from the public about specific topics.
A Dodgeville man is facing several charges after he allegedly ran away from an officer when he was getting handcuffed following a traffic stop early Saturday morning, according to a release from the UW-Madison Police Department.
The incident happened around 2:05 a.m. at the intersection of South Park Street and Chandler Street.
Students are heading back to the UW-Madison campus this week. A number of streets will be closed to accommodate the more than 7,400 students moving in. The big move-in days are Thursday, Aug. 27, Sunday, Aug. 30, and Monday, Aug. 31.
Everett Mitchell, director of community relations at UW–Madison, made comments critical of prosecuting shoplifters at “big box” stores. Mitchell, a pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church and a former prosecutor with the Dane County District Attorney’s Office, made the comments on Aug. 18 during a discussion on best policing practices at Vilas Hall, which also featured former Madison Police Chief David Couper and Young Gifted and Black organizer M Adams.
At first glance, it often looks like a giant birdhouse on a post in someone’s yard.But upon closer examination, you will notice it’s a miniature library and it’s stocked with books. Children’s books, self-help books, novels, historical features — a variety of reads for a variety of ages.
The Dane County Boys and Girls Club awarded a $100,000 scholarship to a Madison high school student. West High school senior Cristhabel Martinez was one of three finalists. Cristhabel wants to go to UW-Madison to study social work and eventually become a lawyer.
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Everett Mitchell, director of community relations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on Tuesday received the Difference Maker Award of the Madison chapter of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute. Mitchell – an attorney, pastor and community leader – brings varied experiences to his work of bridging the gap between the university and the community.
Despite Saturday’s heat and humidity, hundreds of people exercised outside to help kids with asthma in the Madison area.
The Allergy, Asthma, and Pulmonary Research Unit at UW-Madison put on a run-walk on Saturday to raise money for a one-day camp for elementary school students with asthma.
Noted: Sanders grew up in Chicago before attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his bachelors degree in history and economics in 1971 and a masters degree in urban and regional planning in 1973. Sanders worked at the Chicago-based American Planning Association and as a consultant before the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning hired him as an instructor in 1993.
The 7th Annual Mama Goose Memorial 5k Run/Walk to benefit the UW Carbone Cancer Center will take place on August 15th, 2015 at Veterans Park in Verona.
The event was started six years ago to honor Margaret “Peggy” Giesfeldt who was known as Mama Goose.
A decade’s worth of creating will come to life Monday at UW Health at the American Center, when the first patients visit. Before that happens, developers wanted to make sure their hospital would be one that would last for years to come.
This week, beekeepers, farmers, pesticide operators and state agriculture officials met at the Agricultural Research Station in Arlington. It’s the first of several meetings to come up with a plan protecting bees and other pollinators.
