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.
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.
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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.
