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Aaron Bird Bear named UW–Madison’s first director of tribal relations
Aaron Bird Bear, a skilled administrator with extensive professional experience on Native Nations issues, has been named to the newly created full-time position of tribal relations director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “Strengthening our relationships …
The Future is Waiting for Entrepreneurs: Let’s Think-Tank
Nearly 250 participants attended a two-part Leadership In the New Economy (LINE) event in October, where alumni and community leaders come to meet and mentor Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement (DDEEA) scholars through …
Gail Ford chosen to be new PEOPLE director
Gail Ford, pictured far right above, has been named Director of the Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) to launch the next chapter of the program’s 20-year history. Ford is a longtime PEOPLE …
Annual reception celebrates growing faculty of color
The University of Wisconsin-Madison annual fall Faculty of Color Reception this year welcomed more than 60 newly-hired faculty of color to the campus and recognized more than two dozen others who were promoted at assistant …
REGENTS DIVERSITY AWARDS 2020 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
REGENTS DIVERSITY AWARDS 2020 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (Due Tuesday, October 29, 2019) We are pleased to request nominations of UW-Madison faculty, staff, departments, or units for the UW System’s 2020 Regents Diversity Awards. Please feel free …
Opinion — Like clockwork: racial erasure hinders students’ of color experiences
Image By: Max Homstad By Sam Jones and Kavitha Babu | October 10, 2019 7:00 am Diversity has become a phenomenon where institutions feel the need to advertise and, at times, even glorify their members …
Morgridge Center to hold Wisconsin Idea Fellowships Information Sessions
The Morgridge Center for Public Service will be hosting Wisconsin Idea Fellowships (WIF) information sessions on October 22 and 28. WIF is an exciting funding opportunity for undergraduate students working with community partners to solve problems. WIF …
Q&A: UW prof Duane Lee Holland, Jr. locks into a new space for hip hop
Duane Lee Holland, Jr. is thrilled to be the first hip-hop faculty member at the first university in the United States to grant degrees in dance. “It goes along with the legacy of why the …
Hofacker named director of UW–Madison’s Posse scholarship program
Emilie Hofacker’s memento-filled office at UW–Madison reveals a couple of important things about her: She’s been a Badger for a while, and she’s deeply committed to student success. Many of the items on her shelves …
Coming home: First Wave’s new director was transformed by the program as a student
Sofía Snow, a member of the 2007 inaugural cohort of UW–Madison’s groundbreaking First Wave hip-hop scholarship program, is returning to campus to lead the program she says changed her life. Snow will begin Oct. 15 …
Painter, Muralist Jenie Gao Celebrates Studio Grand Opening
Madison-based artist Jenie Gao held a grand opening to her new studio on East Main Street on Friday, October 4. Gao, who is also a full-time creative director and entrepreneur, celebrated her new studio with …
9th Annual Hispanic Heritage Luncheon Celebration
La Movida Radio will host the 9th Annual Hispanic Heritage Friday, Oct. 11, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, 1 John Nolen Dr. Registration starts at 11 a.m., the program/lunch starts …
Latino Art Fair – Art Heals
Latino Art Fair – Art Heals will take place Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St. Art in all its forms has the power to heal, empower, share stories, …
DIP Raffle Winner-Aaron Bird Bear
Congratulations to Aaron Bird Bear the winner of this week’s DIP raffle prize! Aaron submitted multiple initiatives including the Summer Education Research Program, the School of Education Graduate Assistant Orientation, and Education Graduate Research Scholars. …
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‘These spaces are sacred’: Ho-Chunk speaker urges mindfulness, reverence of campus indigenous sites
Politics and social structures tend to divide us, but our shared reverence for the land and its history can be the bond that unites us, Samantha Skenandore, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, told a …
Laboratory of Genetics Fall Colloquium Series 2019 featuring Katrina Claw on October 9th
Voting on UW-Madison campus up in 2018
September 24, 2019 By Mike Klein The University of Wisconsin–Madison today reported that student voting on campus was up in last year’s election, increasing to 52.9 percent in 2018 from a rate of 35.6 percent …
Director hired to lead UW–Madison’s Public History Project
September 24, 2019 By Doug Erickson Kacie Lucchini Butcher, a public historian and award-winning museum curator who works with marginalized communities to tell their stories, has been hired as director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s …