By Kaine Korzekwa It’s easy to make a difference through an award that’s named after the Wisconsin Idea, and Jacob Olson is doing just that. The biochemistry and environmental studies major traveled to Rwanda this …
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Morgridge Center for Public Service Celebrates 10 Years of Badger Volunteers
Badger Volunteers is a semester-long program that pairs teams of students with community organizations to volunteer 1–4 hours each week at the same organization. The program was designed to foster meaningful and consistent connections between …
VoteFest Week Encourages Students to Early Vote
In an initiative to educate students and encourage early voting, UW-Madison is holding VoteFest, a weeklong series of events to engage students with resources about voting. VoteFest aims to empower students to become more civically …
First Cohort of Morgridge Fellows Selected
Ten faculty and instructors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been named “Morgridge Fellows” in a new professional development program of the Morgridge Center for Public Service. The fellows were selected through a juried process to …
Celebrating 10 Years of Badger Volunteers
In 2008, the Morgridge Center for Public Service launched Badger Volunteers to foster civic engagement among students through volunteer work. Ten years later, past and current student and staff celebrate and share what makes this organization …
Fall 2018 Public Service Fair
UW-Madison will be hosting its annual Fall Public Service Fair on Sept. 17 from 3 to 6 p.m. in Varsity Hall at Union South. Students from across campus are encouraged to attend and learn how …
F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture Bridges the Gap Between the Farm and the Dinner Plate
School is starting back in just over a month, and the vacant seats at the UW dining halls will soon be filled with new students eating dinner with their roommates, parents and new friends. They’ll …
Morgridge Fellows Program to Support Community-Engaged Scholarship
The Morgridge Center for Public Service is thrilled to announce a pilot program that will be launching in the fall to give faculty members and instructors an opportunity to further their own community-engaged research and …
C.A.M.P. Bayview Wins 2018 Community Volunteer Award
Joining a collection of nonprofits and community volunteers making change in the community, C.A.M.P. Bayview received one of the United Way of Dane County 2018 Community Volunteer Awards. Award recipients, of which there are four …
Casey Hines-munson: A Message to Future Badger Volunteers
The past three years of volunteering with Badger Volunteers (BV) has had a huge impact on my college experience and how I view my role not only on campus, but also in the Madison community …