Two Madison men were arrested Friday morning in connection to a string of downtown burglaries overnight, police said. Anthony Williams and Taris Henderson, both 18, threatened residents on Langdon Street with a knife before creating a disturbance inside a University Avenue store, which led to their arrests, according to a police report.
Quoted: Krause believes connections between the generations, particularly old and young, make everyone’s life richer. Barbara Bowers, professor and assistant dean of research at the UW-Madison School of Nursing, said that sentiment is supported by research.
“In general, there is pretty good evidence that interacting with–not just young people–but across generations is beneficial for [everyone],” she said.
Robert Pierce, director of the South Madison Farmers’ Market, in partnership with Anthony Cooper, director of reentry services for the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development, Growing Power, Inc. Milwaukee, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, will provide an underemployed group of men with the skills to create a business feeding an under served population.
At a press conference Thursday, Soglin said the proposal is needed because the city’s posture of compassion with no rules toward the homeless and drifters leads to behavior problems including violence, drunkenness, drug use and trading sex for drugs. The problems are interfering with the use of public space and straining emergency and other resources, Soglin said.
Of the approximate 85,000 students in Wisconsin involved in high school athletics, it’s estimated that two to five percent don’t have health insurance to pay for the sports physicals required by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. To help those athletes out, the Dane County Sports Medicine Council is partnering with the UW Health Sports Medicine and UW School of Medicine and Public Health to offer free sports physicals from 6-9pm on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
Technology originally designed to study homes and heath with UW-Madison’s School of Nursing is now being used at crime scenes. Researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery are hoping 3D scanning will make some of the most complicated crime investigations more efficient. Quoted: Kevin Ponto, assistant professor of design studies; Ross Tredinnick, systems programmer at the Living Environments Laboratory.
(Video) 91 Wisconsin Badger football players helped build frames for walls for a house for Habitat For Humanity Friday.
After Jeff Shaver survived a devastating fall in 2010, he and his wife reevaluated their lives. They felt he’d been given a second chance, and they wanted to make the most of it by contributing something meaningful to the world. Their son Lee, 30,a UW-Madison graduate student in electrical engineering, had an idea. Years earlier, as a new college graduate seeking a purpose, he had joined the Peace Corps at his parents’ urging. He suggested they do the same.
Researchers at the UW Center for Limnology Trout Lake Station near Boulder Junction are inviting the public to their annual open house Friday afternoon.
Noted: Last year, a UW Police detective claimed in an email to her chief she was avoiding relying on a summons for a defendant to appear in court and arresting suspects instead because cases were taking too long to be reviewed.
When Ann Trachtenberg joked that she wanted to be escorted out of her last chemotherapy treatment by a marching band, little did she know her niece would contact the University of Wisconsin Badger Marching Band to make it happen.
And it’s already gone viral within a day of the UW Carbone Cancer Center in Madison sharing it, with over 190,000 views and 4,000-plus shares on Facebook alone.
Features high tech camps happening here on campus.
The University of Wisconsin Band escorted a Madison woman out of her last chemotherapy treatment Monday. Ann Trachtenberg joked about the escort, but little did she know that her niece actually contacted the band.
July in the United States is about barbecues. July is also the month for an important birthday in America — passage of the Morrill Act, on July 2, 1862. The act established the land-grant college system, which would eventually include the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois, Purdue University, Iowa State University, University of Minnesota and many more.
Stem cell research at UW-Madison typically aims to create skin and organs; this summer, its goal is to create scientists.
Twenty small-town Wisconsin high school students and teachers, alongside UW-Madison students and researchers, donned lab coats and blue plastic gloves at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery to experiment with cryopreservation and live human stem cells.
Noted: The county is most concerned about indirect impacts of a $250 million cut to UW-Madison and level K-12 funding, said Josh Wescott, chief of staff to county executive Joe Parisi. Over time, a lack of investment in education, job training and other areas creates “a risk to stunting the growth we’ve seen here locally,” he said.
When University of Wisconsin researchers study stem cells, they typically seek to create skin and organs. This summer, they seek to create scientists.
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that 22 small-town high school students and teachers joined UW-Madison students and researchers in donning lab coats and blue plastic gloves to experiment with live human stem cells. The four-day experience was part of a program that encourages science careers and aims to give small-town students chances they wouldn’t ordinarily get.
With the 2015 season approaching fast, your first chance to meet this year’s Badgers squad will be at the annual Wisconsin Football Family Fun Day at Camp Randall Stadium. The event is set for Sunday, Aug. 9, from 3-5 p.m.
A group of students at UW School of Medicine and Public Health are taking some time out of the classroom to help kids in the greater Madison area. Their seventh student-run pro clinic offers pediatric care. UW students from the medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy and physician assistant programs man the clinic, as well as social workers from the CFF and UW medical faculty.
Madison Water Utility is monitoring a well in the area of the University of Wisconsin campus for radium. The utility said Thursday that recent testing on a well on North Randall Avenue showed radium levels exceeding the federal standards.
Noted: “Madison has a really strong talent pool coming out of (UW-Madison),” agreed Forrest Woolworth, chief operating officer of Madison gaming company PerBlue, and co-founder of local industry group Capital Entrepreneurs.
Madison Water Utility officials say they will keep a close eye on a water well near the UW-Madison campus after recent tests showed radium levels higher than federal limits.
Well 27 on North Randall Avenue tested at 6.2 picocuries of radium per liter, exceeding the federal maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 5 picocuries per liter, officials said Thursday.
Noted: Also at a press conference this afternoon, coalition members will announce the aging unit is receiving a research grant through the University of Wisconsin-Madison to start a tai chi fundamentals class in the spring.
Noted: According to UWPD spokesman Marc Lovicott, more officers means higher price tags.
“It’s a holiday, you’re talking about double pay for officers we call in, in addition to the double pay that the officers are getting for working that day. So it’s an expensive event for us and the city of the Madison Police dept who brought many officers in as well so when you’re talking dollar amount wise, it costs us quite a bit of money,” added Lovicott.
However, the bigger issue lies not within the dollar amount, but within operational costs. This means fire fighters and paramedics can’t respond to other 911 calls while they deal with false alarms.
Special camps coordinated by UW-Extension’s 4-H Youth Development program help military kids connect. “I like the sense of camaraderie with the other military families,” said Madelynn Newmann, 12, a seventh-grader from Whitewater. Madelynn was attending the weekend-long Wisconsin Military Kids University camp last month on the UW-Madison campus with her sister, Leah, her mother, Dana, and her father, Cory, who is serving in the Wisconsin Army National Guard.
Madison police are searching for a man who allegedly entered a UW student’s off-campus apartment Sunday morning and attempted to sexually assault her there, an incident report said.
(Video) News 3 This Morning learned more about Universe in the Park which is put on by the UW Madison Department of Astronomy. Guests: astronomy grad students Arthur Eigenbrot and Jenna Ryon.
Noted: Q&A with Mandy Hyde, clinical research coordinator for the Asthma, Allergy, and Pulmonary Research Group, about the group’s work and the upcoming “Out Run Asthma” 5K scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 15.
The Summerfest grounds were covered in Badger red on Friday. Members of the UW marching band paid a visit to the Milwaukee music festival. The pep rally is just one way people could celebrate their Badger pride.
5 years after his time at Wisconsin he’s back to host the 2nd Blake Geoffrion Classic. The game brings in some of the biggest names in hockey. But more importantly, it brings in funds to help young patients at UW Hospital.
“You know it’s a great cause here at the UW Health Burn Center. It’s kind of a niche thing, a lot of people aren’t aware that it happens and how many kids are affected every year. So I thought it was really cool and unique,” said Geoffrion.
(Video) The items you put out on the curb each week come trash day are one man’s source of inspiration. Photojournalist Jeremy Nichols shares how the artists pieces are giving hope at [the new UW Health at American Center].
Some of the stars of the past from Badger hockey will play in the Blake Geoffrion Classic at LaBahn Arena Friday night to benefit the UW Health Burn Center. Last year’s game drew over 2000 fans and ticket sales are brisk for this year’s event.
“My wife is the person who is most honest with me and my biggest critic when she needs to be,” Geoffrion said. “And last year even she was like, ‘Man, that was unbelievable.’ … I wasn’t expecting that.”
Geoffrion promises things will be even better when the event is held for the second time on Friday at 6:30 p.m. at LaBahn Arena.
For the sixth time in the past seven years, the Badgers set aside the day to give 300 of their female fans a closer look at the football program while raising money for the fight against breast cancer.
“The passion that people have for Wisconsin football, it’s a chance just to help facilitate something valuable,” Chryst said. “I think it’s good for (the women) and good for our players to interact. But everyone appreciates why we’re here.”
(Video) Football 101 is a fun evening for women to go behind the scenes of Badger football, in the locker room and on the field at Camp Randall Stadium. The event is a fundraiser for Susan G. Komen South Central Wisconsin.
Bo Ryan is a man in high demand since leading his Badgers on back to back trips to the Final Four. Ryan loosely estimated he’s signed 10,000 autographs for charities since Wisconsin’s latest trip to the Final Four in April. Sunday Ryan made a stop at the Capital Brewery in Middleton to help promote the 2nd annual Rock & Read Fundraiser to benefit summer reading clubs in the Madison area.
Morgridge Center for Public Service director’s letter to the editor thanking the Evjue Foundation for its support of the Badgers Volunteer program.
Profile of UW-Madison director of community relations Everett Mitchell, who is also pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church.
For the past seven summers, UW professor Kathy Cramer has visited rural gas stations, small cafes and bait shops on off-the-beaten-path county highways that snake their way around the state. In those places, she interviews the locals who gather on weekday mornings.
Noted: Comments from Everett Mitchell, pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church and director of community relations at UW–Madison.
This year instead of houses, the buildings featured in the group’s annual tour are landmarks of the UW-Madison campus. Part of the reason is to throw a spotlight on a campus threatened with budget cuts, said Historic Madison board member and program chairman Barbara Essock. Saturday’s self-guided tour: University Club, Wisconsin Historical Society, Music Hall, Bascom Hall, Carillon Tower, Washburn Observatory, Science Hall, Memorial Union and the Armory and Gymnasium, more commonly known as the Red Gym.
UW Health’s American Center is about two months away from its grand opening. The new facility is striving to promote sustainability in Wisconsin’s environment. In order to do that, they’ve handpicked artists to make special pieces for the center, reflecting that mission.
Noted: Impossibly, he’s everywhere, at all times, at the Silver Spring Neighborhood Center. Perhaps it is a skill he picked up when he covered receivers and chased down running backs as a safety on the University of Wisconsin football team in the early 90s.
The Lake Rescue Team assisted divers from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and officials with the UW-Madison’s Life Saving Station in searching for a 22-year old man reported missing on Lake Mendota on Saturday evening.
Noted: Cows on one side of the Square came from several farms in Jefferson County, while cows on the other side were provided by the UW-Madison Department of Dairy Science.
Noted: The alerts are a response to the 2011 accident that killed a longtime UW-Madison Library employee who was hit in the crosswalk by a Metro bus as she crossed University Avenue. As part of a safety initiative, Metro also has repositioned its buses’ rearview mirrors to eliminate blind spots.
This will be about 120 miles,” said Officer John Deering. A team of officers from UW-Madison’s Police Department are trading in their typical uniforms for running gear. They are running relay-style from the steps of the Capitol to Stevens Point.
Noted: Brost, a Waunakee resident, earned a bachelor’s degree from Mankato State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees from UW–Madison.
Noted: The event, which replaces Rhythm & Booms, will feature live music with headliners Shovels & Rope and Charles Bradley, performances by the UW Marching Band and Mad Rollin Dolls and a bike polo exhibition.
(Video) On Wednesday, Connie Eibergen and Jessica Cederquist, from UW Madison Dairy Herd along with her cow, Planet, joined us on Wake Up Wisconsin.
Noted: A coalition working group co-chaired by professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, a nationally noted education expert at UW-Madison, and Dawn Crim, the dean of external relations in the UWs School of Education, proposed four goals:
Quoted: If the offender chooses to take part, he or she will have to admit to the crime — anyone contesting a charge would go through the normal court system, said Jonathan Scharrer, director of the UW-Madison law school’s Restorative Justice Project. From there, Johnson and others will meet with the offender and any victims of the crime, and assign the case to a team of trained neighborhood residents who will help resolve it.
The Evjue Foundation has donated more than $44 million to UW-Madison and area nonprofit organizations since 1989. Heres a look at the grants in that time, updated with more than $1.4 million distributed in June 2015.
The Capital Times’ charitable arm, The Evjue Foundation, announced Wednesday that its directors have approved more than $1.4 million in grants to 86 area nonprofits plus funding for 27 programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Heroes serving heroes was the theme of the first inaugural “Hero Games” hosted at the Tomah VA Monday afternoon.
Craig Jansen, a lieutenant with the Manitowoc Police Department, will graduate June 5 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Law Enforcement Command College, a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Two central Wisconsin police lieutenants will graduate June 5 from a University of Wisconsin course designed to help law enforcement officers become better leaders and managers.
Noted: For example, one day, the district has invited Bucky Badger and representatives of the University of Wisconsin athletics program to meet the children. The district has also contacted the Milwaukee Brewers Racing Sausages for a visit.
The Champions Tour golf tournament, coming to University Ridge Golf Course June 22-26, 2016, is expected to carry with it an economic impact of $10 million to $15 million. The tournament, the American Family Insurance Championship, will include 81 players competing for a share of $2 million in prize money. Three rounds of play broadcast on Golf Channel will follow two days of Pro-Am competition. The tournament is confirmed for 2016, 2017 and 2018 with an option for 2019.
Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham said a motion from the Joint Finance Committee that would authorize the UW System to create independent charter schools is an “alarming sign” of the Legislature prioritizing private schools and politics over public education.
