Connecting Campus and Community through Community-based Service, Learning, and Research
The Fall 2016 Public Service Fair is Tuesday, Sept. 27 from 3:00-6:00pm at Varsity Hall in Union South (second floor). All UW–Madison students and alumni are invited to explore volunteer opportunities, internships and jobs with local and national nonprofits. Come and go as you please. Over 60 organizations will be at the fair (see the …
By this point, we probably all have a few questions we’d like to ask the presidential candidates. And that’s exactly the premise behind the 2016 College Debate, a first-of-its-kind, non-partisan program with the goal of giving a voice to college students across the country during the three presidential debates that will take place this fall. …
“If you had one story to share with the world, what would you say?” Join fellow Badgers for an interactive storytelling experience and portrait shoot onTuesday, Sept. 20 when the Dear World College Tour makes a stop of UW–Madison. Dear World is an interactive, award-winning portrait project that explores the subtle and powerful connections between …
Registration for Badger Volunteers, UW–Madison’s largest student volunteer program, opens Friday, Sept. 9 at 12:01am. Badger Volunteers connects students to community organizations in the Madison area. You commit to volunteering in a team of students with that partner once a week for the fall semester. Registration is open to any UW–Madison student through Sept. 15 …
If anyone knows the UW–Madison campus from one end — (think Eagle Heights) to the other (think the Art Lofts) — and all points in between, it’s Associate Vice Chancellor and UW Chief of Police Sue Riseling. Heading the campus police department since 1991, Riseling has chosen to devote her professional career to university law …
Imagine his surprise. When Mark Meloy, CEO, First Business Bank, sat down for a community outreach breakfast at the Morgidge Center for Public Service, he was simply being the engaged business leader he has always been. He did not expect to see his niece, a UW–Madison student at the time, as one of the presenters. …
Concerts on the Square The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (WCO) is seeking volunteers to help with an audience survey project during their 2016 Concerts on the Square season. Volunteers must commit to at least one Wednesday evening performance during the 2016 Concerts on the Square season. For more information, contact Mae Saul atmaesaul@wcoconcerts.org. To learn more, …
Where most of us see creepy crawlers, UW–Madison senior Marjorie Kersten sees the solution to global malnutrition. We’re talking about eating insects—or “entomophagy” if that word makes the idea easier to stomach. And Kersten, a 2015-16 Wisconsin Idea Fellow with the Morgridge Center for Public Service, believes that insect micro-livestock farming could be a nutrition …
It wasn’t the dry heat of the Arizona sun that Alex Arriaga found surprising. The UW–Madison senior, traveling south from Wisconsin to collect stories of recent immigrants, found a diverse and complex world in communities that sit right on the border. She saw firsthand what makes up the unique fabric of border communities and realized …