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.
Madison City Council District 8 Ald. MGR Govindarajan said in an email statement to The Badger Herald that the District 13 County Board seat is important because it is typically held by a student.
The CDC established the National Wastewater Surveillance System with Wisconsin and five others as founding members. Wisconsin demonstrated the value of having an academic, public health and state lab all working together on the effort, said Martin Shafer, a senior scientist at UW-Madison and the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene.
“It was an amazing couple of years where close to 70 or 80 different jurisdictions (were getting started),” said Shafer, adding, “Everybody kind of did something a little bit different. So that spurred a lot of innovation.”
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway talked about some of the potential changes earlier in August, mentioning that some routes were running late. She also said there were complaints about a lack of direct service from the west side to the UW Hospital area.
The sport of golf isn’t always approachable or accessible, especially for people of color. A group of friends and former Wisconsin Badgers athletes started an organization to expand the game of golf and reduce the assumptions and misconceptions involved.
Downtown Madison can expect to see the worst of off-campus student moving over the weekend and into early next week. With virtually every off-campus student housing lease turning over between Aug. 14 and 15, streets near campus quickly become congested as students and their families park all along the streets for moving days, the curbsides become temporary landfills, and the city of Madison Streets Division attempts to mitigate it all starting with 4 a.m. shifts.
Ald. Amani Latimer Burris, 12th District, introduced a resolution at Tuesday’s council meeting to create a task force including members of multiple city committees, four council members and a representative from UW-Madison’s Division of University Housing.
“The affordable housing crisis is something we’ve got to attack,” Latimer Burris said. “We have a lot of committees. We spend a lot of time studying stuff. In the meantime, prices are getting out of hand. What’s the answer? I don’t know.”
UW-Madison Professor Keith Findley, who co-chaired the Body-Worn Camera Feasibility Review Committee, said despite the pilot program’s differences, it largely reflects the committee’s recommendations.
“It’s taken so long to get to this point we can’t keep dragging our feet on this,” Findley told the Civilian Police Oversight Board on Monday. “I think Madison has fallen behind on the times.”
Wisconsin sports fanatics are hearty and a little nuts. Moreover, UW-Madison is the only school in the country to draw more than 8,000 fans for three different women’s sports programs. That includes 16,833 people at the Kohl Center last fall for volleyball.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Sustainability recommends downtown residents pack smart, using things like suitcases or reusable containers to store and move belongings rather than buying new cardboard boxes. Clothing and other fabric items can serve as packing material for fragile items, and kitchen items should be packed last to avoid creating waste from additional takeout meals.
The initiative is headed by an advisory council consisting of officials from Public Health Madison and Dane County, members of UW-Madison Student Services, nonprofit leaders, business owners and city officials. It combines Safer Bars training with increased surveillance, better lighting in the city-owned Buckeye parking lot and other safety measures.
“Smart Growth believes there are many areas in and near Downtown and near the UW-Madison campus where it would be appropriate to encourage greater housing density and taller buildings than was contemplated in the Comprehensive Plan and earlier neighborhood plans,” executive director Bill Connors said. “Those earlier plans were adopted before it was fully apparent that Madison has a persistent housing shortage, which is causing rents and house prices to skyrocket.”
Tomorrow is University of Wisconsin-Madison’s demisemiseptcentennial anniversary as the University of Wisconsin System’s flagship campus celebrates its 175th anniversary. To honor the milestone, the university will be holding a free celebration with music, fireworks, and of course, free ice cream.
University Health Services in fall 2020 started its own mental health response team called the co-responder program. The University Police Department contacts Health Services for calls related to mental health, and the team will send two counselors to join UW officers at the scene.
Sarah Nolan, director of UW Mental Health Services, said that program has made a big difference on campus but is challenged by limited hours of service: from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Core Spaces said the Johnson & Broom project will include affordable student housing in the same style as another project Core is building on State Street called oLiv Madison.
The oLiv project will have 386 units with over 1,000 beds, and 10% of the beds will be set aside for discounted rates for students receiving financial aid, through an agreement between Core Spaces and the University of Wisconsin.
A boutique-style apartment complex planned for the current Vintage Spirits & Grill location has students and community members worried about Madison’s growing affordable housing crisis.
UW Health started screening ER and hospitalized patients for food insecurity in 2017, and screens children at clinic visits, spokesperson Emily Greendonner said. Patients needing food get food packages at discharge.
One in 12 Wisconsin families can’t afford the food they need, according to data before the COVID-19 pandemic, said the Wisconsin Food Security Project at UW-Madison. Food insecurity can contribute to chronic disease and poor mental health, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The master plan for “Taking Shape, Our Triangle” would take a phased approach to demolish five dated and worn low- and high-rise residential buildings and the grocery store for new construction in multiple structures ranging from three to 12 stories. It would extend the East Campus Mall through the site to Lake Monona.
The luxury apartment development was proposed by Chicago-based developer Core Spaces, which has worked to develop several properties around the city in the past. Under the proposal, affordable rental units would have been demolished to build a 12-story luxury apartment complex.
The main complaints about UW Hospital service are being addressed with fixes planned for August, Rusch said. “Some of the concerns people have are because they are still learning how the new system works, and it’s a bit different from what they’re accustomed to,” said Dar Ward, commuter solutions manager for UW-Madison Transportation Services. “It appears Metro Transit’s proposed service adjustments are directed at addressing the complaints.”
Chicago-based developer Core Spaces proposed the construction of a 12-story, 232-unit market-rate apartment building dubbed “Johnson and Bassett” at 221 N. Bassett St., 430-444 W. Dayton St. and 437-445 W. Johnson St., but the council voted 13-6 in June to reject zoning changes that would allow the project to be built. Several council members said they opposed the apartment development because it lacked affordable housing units.
Among today’s major recipients is the UW’s longtime Odyssey Project, which received $35,400 for the college classes it offers in south Madison to adults who never had a chance to attend college and $50,000 to Access Community Health’s efforts to bring dental care to people without insurance coverage.
The reversal of last month’s controversial decision by the council to deny rezoning an area just east of UW’s campus will pave the way for the 12-story development from Core Spaces of Chicago, who have put up other student housing projects in the city like HUB and The James.
During Monday’s meeting, alders heard from current UW-Madison undergraduate and graduate students, along with representatives from Core Spaces.
The Carey Group, of Madison, is proposing to raze Vintage Spirits & Grill and its busy outdoor patio for the 12-story building offering 33 market-rate units and 110 beds, with 1,450 square feet of commercial space and no vehicle parking on a tiny one-tenth-acre site at 529 University Ave.
Core Spaces, of Chicago, which has built and is planning multiple student housing projects in the city, wants to raze 10 residential buildings for the six- to 12-story project with 232 market-rate housing units on the 400 block of West Dayton and Johnson streets and 200 block of North Bassett Street.
“As research extensively documents, racial disparities in wealth accumulation are systemic, of which historic public policies and private practices sustain,” said Melody Harvey, UW-Madison assistant professor of consumer science in the School of Human Ecology.
Black communities are likely to be what Harvey called “banking deserts,” meaning there are few, if any, mainstream financial institutions. They are also more likely to have concentrations of high-cost alternative financial services such as payday and auto title lenders, Harvey explained, asking “Where does one begin when even the most basic of financial services may not be readily available and accessible?”
Under the proposal, affordable rental units at 437-445 W. Johnson St., 430-444 W. Dayton St. and 215-221 N. Bassett St. would be demolished. District 8 Alder and University of Wisconsin student MGR Govindarajan voted against the proposal, due to the displacement of students it would cause.
Core Spaces signed an agreement with the city of Madison and the University of Wisconsin to provide discounted rates for qualifying students who receive financial aid for UW, but rates have not been decided upon yet.
MGR Govindarajan, a Madison’s District 8 alder who just finished up his junior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be a special guest of Congressman Mark Pocan as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes an address to a joint session of Congress today.
The Madison City Council late Tuesday refused a rezoning for a 12-story student housing redevelopment, citing a lack of low-cost units, but the decision could threaten the project and is raising questions of legality and precedent.
AUW-Madison choir group founded in the late 19th century that brought together students, alumni and community members has been disbanded as the university seeks to shift resources to more student-centric offerings.
Madison’s Plan Commission unanimously approved a proposal from Chicago-based Core Spaces to develop a 12-story student housing complex on West Johnson Street, despite concerns about a lack of affordable units.
A new chief diversity officer hired by the University of Wisconsin System will start just weeks after Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called for eliminating DEI staff at the state’s 13 universities.
UW-Madison students may see small differences in service, but because the campus already gets high levels of service the impacts will be limited, officials said.
Michael, a native speaker (which is what the group calls its English-speaking volunteers) mentions how inclusive the organization is to volunteers as well. Students at the University of Wisconsin, referred to as Badger speakers, often join these events to help in any way they can.
The documentary also will be broadcast at 7 p.m. June 20 on PBS Wisconsin, and will be featured in a free Madison screening at 7 p.m. June 17 at the Barrymore Theatre; register at barrymorelive.com.
Neighborhood House was founded when a UW-Madison student proposed the creation of a community center to serve the city’s rapidly growing Italian, Jewish and African American communities. His senior thesis inspired city leaders to create Madison’s first settlement house, Neighborhood House.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway has made bus rapid transit a pillar of her platform during her tenure in office. The city broke ground on the east-to-west route in December which will run along East Washington Avenue through the city’s center and the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and end at West Towne Mall.
