Katie Wall Ujdaka, international grants coordinator at Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., has been named a member of the inaugural class of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.
Falk Elementary has been renamed for Milele Chikasa Anana, a Madison community leader and magazine publisher who died in May 2020.
SSM Health, the Urban League of Greater Madison, Operation Fresh Start, and J.H. Findorff & Son have teamed up to give trainees real-world construction experience in south Madison.
In partnership with Associated Bank and American Family Insurance, StartingBlock Madison announced the acceptance of applications for its third Social Impact Cohort.
The 2021 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest entries are due by 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 31. Initial entries of 250 words will be accepted online and there is no cost to enter.
A total of $45,000 in Spectrum Digital Education Grants will be given to the Urban League of Greater Madison and the organization 100 Black Men.
The Milwaukee Bucks and New York-based nonprofit The Lonely Entrepreneur (TLE) announced their selection of the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP) as a partner in their initiative to connect Wisconsin Black entrepreneurs with business skill-building tools and resources to help them advance their businesses.
Dane County Judge Everett Mitchell, American Family Insurance, and the city of Madison have teamed up to preserve the murals painted on boarded-up businesses this summer.
The local observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday will include a keynote from Eddie S. Glaude, New York Times bestselling author and chair of the Department of African Studies at Princeton University.
A decision announced by the Madison Metropolitan School District will keep Madison public school students in online-only classes for the start of the third quarter.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and City Council President Sheri Carter have introduced a resolution to provide $250,000 for the initiative from the city’s $2.5 million Small Business and Equity Recovery program.
Joel Baraka, a fourth-year University of Wisconsin–Madison student, has started the company My HOME Stars and created a board game to help children in Uganda learn in an engaging way.
Results from a survey of Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) posted to a member’s Facebook page show that 94% of the approximate 1,000 respondents are opposed to returning for in-person classes in the third quarter.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has received 1,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and plans to complete vaccinations for its highest priority group within two weeks.
A team supported by the organization 100 Black Men of Madison has won the national 2020 Virtual Dollars and $ense Youth Investment Competition.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health applications are outpacing the national trends, which are also up.
The state of Wisconsin Building Commission approved approximately $350 million in key projects across the state this week, paving the way for renovation and expansion of buildings for University of Wisconsin students.
Public Health Madison and Dane Co. changed its opinion on in-person learning and now says it can be safe.
States with controlled tuition at their public universities are not feeling the squeeze as badly as the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The infancy through eighth-grade program, which is provided on a 10-acre campus at 3276 S. High Point Road, has been in operation for 25 years.
