A new pilot program called “Build Up,” a collaboration between Nehemiah and UW-Madison, aims to support people transitioning back into society after incarceration.
Traffic on State Street will decrease starting Monday as the city begins construction on two bus rapid transit stations, closing the city’s best-known thoroughfare to a single, westbound traffic lane.
Persistent, unseasonably warm weather has prompted the Wisconsin Union to cancel the Winter Carnival’s snow- and ice-based events this week over concerns that the ice is too thin to be safe.
“It can tell us about the virus without us needing to stick anything up anyone’s noses or even know who was in a space,” said Dave O’Connor, a UW-Madison researcher involved in the surveillance. “Air sampling should be something that lots of schools bring on board to understand what the respiratory virus transmission risk is.”
Monitors have been at seven schools in the Oregon School District for two years, where air sampling last school year tracked flu and COVID-19 activity as reliably as student absences, rapid tests at school and regular tests from samples collected at home, UW-Madison researchers recently reported. That research was part of a UW study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that has analyzed respiratory illness at Oregon schools since 2015.
As city leaders consider eight specific locations for an Amtrak train station — ranging from downtown on the isthmus to the old Oscar Mayer plant — residents will have a chance to get information and share their thoughts at two public meetings.
The event is hosted by former Marquette University basketball greats Steve Novak and Travis Diener, as well as former University of Wisconsin-Madison football player Travis Beckum and current running back Chez Mellusi.
Seniors at Madison’s four largest high schools will graduate at the Alliant Energy Center this year. The new location is a shift from the ceremonies’ usual venue at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Kohl Center.
When Verline Gee first began at UW, a Black Studies program was in its infancy. The university created the program as a result of student protest.
“Mom was one of the inaugural students in the Black history program,” Alex Gee said. At the time it, he said, was “the only Afro-American department in the Big Ten.”
The decision comes after UW Athletics announced the renovation of the Kohl Center ice hockey rink floor. Currently, UW leadership is unaware if the construction will take place before or after the scheduled graduation ceremonies this June.
The pavilion arrived in Wisconsin in 2001 as a gift to UW-Madison from the government of Thailand and the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association as a gesture of international friendship. Constructed in Thailand and then flown to the U.S. in sections, the pavilion was assembled by Thai artisans who were on one of the last planes to land in Chicago after the terrorist attacks.
The fund works to build housing for the workers of Dane County, UW Health explained. The housing is designed for people who make 50-80% of the county’s median income, while also being close to work.
Madison roads that are still packed with snow and ice a week after two winter storms hit the city are expected to remain slippery and dangerous into next week.
The pavilion arrived in Wisconsin in 2001 as a gift to UW-Madison from the government of Thailand and the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association as a gesture of international friendship.
With efforts to bring passenger rail service to Madison once again gaining momentum, the city has identified eight potential sites for a rail station, located along three corridors Downtown, near the coming Madison Public Market and by the former Oscar Mayer plant.
One of his big fights, which he eventually lost, but really won, was against the UW-Madison’s decision to take a piece of Bascom Hill’s John Muir Woods to build a new social sciences building just north of the hill’s celebrated Carillon Tower.
Covering Wisconsin, a program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, helps people sign up for and understand their health insurance.
The program’s GetCovered Connector Tool can connect you with a local health insurance expert via Zoom, phone, or in person. The experts can provide advice on applications, appeals, coverage issues and more.
“What an exciting opportunity for softball in the state of Wisconsin,” UW-Madison head softball coach Yvette Healy said in a statement. “We’ve had a lot of Badgers play in summer collegiate softball leagues the last few years, flying all the way to Florida to see great competition over the summer.”
A program in Milwaukee County is growing and strengthening the life skills of inmates at the Community Reintegration Center in Milwaukee County.
The Building a Path to Success workshop is hosted by My Way Out, a re-entry organization in Milwaukee. The six-week workshop is a collaboration between My Way Out, University of Wisconsin-Extension and Milky Way Tech Hub.
Imagine lower State Street in Madison as a Christmas market every December. Colorful lights adorn the trees and illuminate the street from above. Festive huts sell ornaments, crafts and holiday treats to streams of passersby. A student quartet plays holiday songs.
Verona Area High School (VAHS) students Maitri Patel and Hannah Mason attended the University of Wisconsin’s “Great Biology Bake-Off” on Friday, Nov. 17, bringing the process of DNA replication to life using cake and cupcakes.
Six potential station corridors were presented to the public in late 2022, and the study team is now finalizing corridor evaluations and identifying potential station sites, Callin said. The corridors are near the Dane County Regional Airport, Oscar Mayer, the Near East Side, First Street, Downtown and the UW-Madison campus.
A group of about 20 men marched from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the state Capitol building in November, carrying flags with swastikas and shouting antisemitic rhetoric. They wore shirts labeled “Blood Tribe,” which is a growing neo-Nazi group that believes in white supremacy, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
It is considering six potential areas: near the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, downtown near Monona Terrace, on First Street and East Washington Avenue, on the near east side to the west of Fair Oaks Avenue, the site of the former Oscar Mayer plant, and lastly, near the Dane County Regional Airport.
As housing prices in Madison have continued to rise, developers have proposed several large housing developments responding to student housing needs.
Officials with the city of Madison, the state, UW-Madison and other groups have condemned the march.
There is no room for this hate in Madison or any community, and I’m heartened to see how many of you weighed in on our coverage of these hate groups. Community leaders from the mayor to the UW-Madison chancellor are quick to call out haters for who they are.
The 1,600-bed complex, which includes a small amount of lower-income rent prices, would see four buildings erected on the block bounded by Johnson, Gorham and Broom streets. Given the moniker “Johnson & Broom,” the latest development from Chicago-based Core Spaces features another agreement between the company, the city and UW-Madison to give some future student tenants lower rents than they’d get in other market-rate apartments.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said: “The presence of this hateful group in Madison is utterly repugnant. I am horrified to see these symbols here in Madison. Hatred and antisemitism are completely counter to the university’s values, and the safety and well-being of our community must be our highest priorities.”
Dear Editor: I completely agree that Madison Metro should not close the bus stop in front of the Hamel Music Center. Nor should Metro close the bus stop in front of the Witte Residence Hall. These two stops, Numbers 0670 and 0435, are heavily used and strategically located.
A neo-Nazi group protested in downtown Madison Saturday afternoon from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the state capitol building, carrying flags with swastikas and shouting antisemitic rhetoric.
BAM Fest was founded in 2019 by University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna , actor, artist and award-winning poet Shasparay Irvin.
Instead, Bah came to the United States to study physics, eventually moving to Madison where he now works part-time as a research scientist at UW-Madison.
In partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and the Morgridge Institute of Research, this was the most anticipated event among the week-long celebration of science and innovation with many opportunities in the greater Madison area to participate.
Labracke has been part of the project as a graduate student studying water resources management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute. The project, led by UniverCity Year, is aimed at creating a watershed plan to improve the impaired waterway and reduce the creek’s flooding.
In 2018, the UW-Madison’s Division of Extension received a $2.5 million five-year grant from the CDC’s High Obesity program to address obesity in Menominee County. The funding led to the Kemāmaceqtaq: We’re All Moving initiative, which worked with county and tribal government and community groups.
Gauthier, who helped lead the initiative, said the last five years of work have focused on changing policies and making environmental improvements to support healthy choices. The initiative has helped local government buildings, schools and community groups adopt new nutrition policies, supported a local farmers market program and led a walking audit of the county to identify how to improve infrastructure for walking and biking.
Amber Canto is director of the Health and Wellbeing Institute with the UW-Madison’s Division of Extension and project director for the High Obesity Program grant funding. She said they’ve received another five-year award to continue their work in Menominee County and begin work in Ashland County, which now also has an obesity rate of more than 40 percent.
Canto said they’ve tracked increases in healthy food options and recreationally-accessible miles, but the bigger impacts are harder to quantify this early on.
“That data has shown, from a theory perspective, that if these opportunities are present that the behavior and therefore the health outcomes will shift over time,” she said at Monday’s hearing.
With the city’s approval, there could be an option for some low-income students at UW-Madison to find a room at a discount.
The Free Palestine Rally marched down State Street to Library Mall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where a “Shabbat in Strength” rally showed solidarity for Israel wrapped up less than an hour earlier.
“There was a general feeling nationally that incarceration needed to be about punishment and deterrence, and that was going to be ultimately the key to reducing incarcerated populations in the country,” said Peter Moreno, director of UW-Madison’s Odyssey Beyond Bars and the Prison Education Initiative. “In the past 20, 30 years, people were coming to prison and many, many of them were returning to prison after they had left because they weren’t prepared for success when they got out.”
The festival is headquartered out of the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin campus and is a collaborative partnership with campus researchers and other community organizations.
Not a moment too soon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has chosen a paradigm-shifting book on truth, persuasion and social change for its 2023-2024 Go Big Read common reading program.
“How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney (Penguin Random House 2022) tackles the psychology that drives our bitterly divided, tribal politics, and sheds light on the path to a more civil, democratic and constructive future.
A Milwaukee nonprofit and Froedtert Health are launching a new initiative to improve health outcomes for pregnant people and infants by offering prenatal care in a community setting.
Funded by a grant from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Penfield Children’s Center will be offering group pregnancy care sessions. Participants with similar due dates will meet regularly at the nonprofit’s location for pregnancy-related classes and to get an individual prenatal check-up through a new maternal mobile clinic operated by Froedtert. They’ll also be able to access postpartum care at the mobile clinic and work with a social care navigator at Penfield to access additional support.
The evaluation, conducted by the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, comes days after Kids Forward released an updated Race to Equity report that shows continued gaps in the experiences of white and Black Madisonians, including in education.
If you’re a science educator, professional development sessions and lectures on timely topics are often included in science festivals to enrich your curriculum. Take the Badger Talks series from University of Wisconsin-Madison for example, where professors will speak on topics like sustainability, psychedelics research and weather monitoring.
Madison Public Library is also partnering with UW Space Place to host a solar eclipse viewing party from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at 2300 S. Park St. where telescopes with solar filters will be set up outside the Atrium to view the eclipse.
Students face a lack of available and affordable housing as UW-Madison ponders solutions with private developers.
Soldner said for the actual number of students enrolled, there is an increase of 17 in 3K special programming, 58 fewer students in 4K, 14 more in kindergarten and 48 more in grades 1-12. He said staff will work with the district’s data and research team and outside consultants at the UW Applied Population Lab, which does population projections, to better understand how this affects the overall trend.
As an English major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she spent her first fieldwork internship at the Shorewood Library in 1982, where she’s worked ever since.
In a fashion only fitting for the Dairy State, Wisconsin’s flagship university is celebrating its 175th birthday with a new ice cream flavor.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison created four new flavor ideas and is asking the public to vote for its favorite by Friday. The winner will be available at campus Babcock Dairy stores in early 2024.
The festival will include 25 cheese companies in the state and involvement from local chefs, authors, brewers, distillers, sommeliers and chocolate makers. One event teaches how to create a cheese board, another focuses on cooking while others offer up instruction on how to pair cheese with wine, chocolate, beer or bourbon. One event is a mini course in cheese science at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison and includes a luncheon with certified Master Cheesemakers.
Metro has scheduled an online public hearing on Wednesday evening on the next set of changes, which will go into effect Dec. 3.
University Research Park, with 250 acres at the intersection of Mineral Point Road and Whitney Way, is also in the process of urbanizing, with a plan a few years ago to build 400,000 square feet of new construction, housing, a hotel, lab, offices, a food hall, a climbing gym and parking. The project is called Element Collective.
UW’s Odyssey Project plays a key role in helping returning prisoners and other disadvantaged learners overcome economic, social and educational barriers.
The Odyssey Project was founded in 2003 and has six programs spanning all age groups.
He said the system needs about 170 drivers each day when buses are running and UW-Madison and Madison schools are in session. Currently it has 288 on staff and as of last week had 21 vacancies. There also were 16 drivers in training — three of whom are expected to be on the road on Oct. 1, another three on Oct. 15 and another 10 on Nov. 12.
In a procedural vote, the City Council unanimously decided Tuesday night to direct city staff to start planning an experimental blocking off of the 400 to 600 blocks of State Street, which feed into the State Street Mall near UW’s campus, to nonemergency vehicle traffic.
The 700 and 800 blocks of State Street already function as a pedestrian and bicycle mall, commonly known as State Street Mall by the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but feature several buildings that can be accessed from other streets.
Since then, the all-volunteer organization has grown to include more than 80 people with representatives from more than 30 local organizations, from the Black Men Coalition of Dane County, to the Christ Presbyterian Church, to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Odyssey Project, which provides low-income and formerly incarcerated adults access to accredited English courses.
Prior to voting on items for the museum, the commission unanimously passed other items that would create more housing and make a big change to the UW-Madison campus.
Under a demolition permit passed by the commission, an auto repair shop at 1233 Regent St. would be razed to build a $13 million, five-story, lower-cost housing project proposed by the Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp. The redevelopment would have 50 units and 1,500 square feet of commercial space.
(Arianna Barajas) took a leap of faith and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and became a wildlife ecology major. This summer Barajas landed an internship designed for people of color at the International Crane Foundation’s headquarters in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and stepped into a new world.
The promotion of civil discourse is one of the most urgent actions the La Follette School can take going forward.
Co-authored by Susan Webb Yackee is a professor of public affairs and director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. Curt S. Culver is the non-executive chairman of MGIC Investment Corp. and its principal subsidiary, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), the nation’s leading private mortgage insurer. He is a founding member of the La Follette School’s Board of Visitors.
There are plenty of museums in the area, and many of them like the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison are free. Or go see dinosaur bones at UW-Madison’s geology museum.
