Category: Community

UniverCity Year named finalist for 2022 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award

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UniverCity Year is a regional winner of the 2022 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award.

Four APLU Universities Selected as Finalists for 2022 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award

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APLU | Sept. 21, 2022

How Will Milwaukee Mitigate the Danger of Future Heat Waves?

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Milwaukee Magazine | Anna Marie Zorn | Sept. 15, 2022

Chancellor Mnookin meets with leaders in central Wisconsin

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Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin met with Wausau and Marathon County leaders at lunch on Thursday, Sept. 8 and discussed UniverCity Year.

Racine County uses ‘resource library’ to inform best practices

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Youth Development and Care Center superintendent Antonio Chavez said the feedback from UniverCity Year has been “priceless.”

UniverCity Year helps Marathon County get less salty

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Marathon County worked with three University of Wisconsin–Madison courses to evaluate the county’s use of road salt.

Outagamie County devotes ‘unprecedented’ ARPA funds towards youngest citizens, fighting child care crisis

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Appleton Post-Crescent | Madison Lammert | Aug. 25, 2022

Heat is the top weather-related killer in the US. Why ranking heat waves could save lives

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USA TODAY | Ashley R. Williams | Aug. 25, 2022

Watch: Child care centers in the Fox Valley are struggling

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NBC 26 | Olivia Acree | Aug. 19, 2022

Madison, Milwaukee study new approach to prepare communities for intense heat

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Three University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate students are working with climatologist Larry Kalkstein on a new tool that would alert communities to dangerous heat levels.