Category: Community

Two years after the City of Madison stopped sponsoring the 46-year-old University of Wisconsin tradition, Mifflin saw an increased turnout.

UW-Madison’s Indian and Nepali student groups came together Saturday to raise money for the victims of the Nepal earthquake.

For the past 17 years, Bethany United Methodist Church has leased space to UW-Madison for the UW Preschool Lab, bringing the church $90,000 per year. That business relationship will soon end. In January, the university announced it will be consolidating its two preschool sites at its campus location on Linden Drive.

Though the disease can be a difficult battle for the person that’s diagnosed, it’s also a trying time for the kids. That’s why a group has stepped in and created Camp Kesem and they have a chapter here in Madison run by UW students. On Saturday a fundraiser was held to raise money to send kids to Camp Kesem for a week free of charge.

A penguin, a fox and a bear were among the animals that received care that ranged from top-notch to over-the-top Sunday as the UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine opened its doors to the public.

Some of the food that goes unused in UW-Madison dining halls will now be nourishing people in need as part of a national movement that’s found its place on campus. Campus Kitchens-UW-Madison is the 45th chapter of the national Campus Kitchens Project.

Department officials have been researching the cameras for about two years, and several officers have been sharing a camera for more than a year on a trial basis.

A $25,000 grant will help the University of Wisconsin and Madison police departments crack down on bike and pedestrian safety violations on campus, according to a release. The grant will help cover specialized training for officers and increased pedestrian safety enforcement, officials said. Classroom and hands-on field training will take place Tuesday and Wednesday at UWPD.

Steve Brown, 67-year-old developer and campus-area landlord, said he wanted to leverage those assets for the long-term good of the community. The result was the Stephen and Laurel Brown Foundation, started with his wife in 2013. This week, the most tangible and ambitious project of the foundation, a religious gathering spot called UpperHouse, officially opens at 365 East Campus Mall.

The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries event runs from April 15 through April 18, in Room 116 of the university’s Memorial Library, 728 State St.

Coates, senior editor and national correspondent for The Atlantic, spoke Tuesday at the Wisconsin Union Theater.

Noted: UW-Madison is among the campuses with a strong InterVarsity presence. There are more than a dozen InterVarsity chapters there, serving a variety of demographic groups.

Profile of Riley Balikian, a UW-Madison graduate student studying sustainable community development and water resource management and one of 12 members of the steering committee for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action.

Moving from its first to second phase, the Memorial Union Reinvestment project will focus on exterior changes, like reviving Alumni Park and “overhauling” the Terrace, causing it to close from the beginning of September until summer 2016, Marketing & Communications Coordinator for the Memorial Union Reinvestment Anna Johnson said.

Anna Johnson, marketing and communications coordinator for the Memorial Union reinvestment project, told News 3 that the west end of the terrace adjacent to the remodeled theater will remain open during the project, and the new terrace area will open early in the summer of 2016.