Union Council Will Hold Open Forums on Porter Butts Gallery, Fredric March Play Circle

July 6, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact Information:

Shauna Breneman, Communication Director
Office: (608) 262-8862
Email: sbreneman@wisc.edu

UNION COUNCIL WILL HOLD OPEN FORUMS ON PORTER BUTTS GALLERY, FREDRIC MARCH PLAY CIRCLE

Forums to be held July 11 and 12 at Memorial Union

MADISON – Union Council, the governing body of the Wisconsin Union, will host open forums July 11 and 12 at Memorial Union regarding the names of two spaces in Memorial Union, called the Porter Butts Gallery and the Fredric March Play Circle.

The Council will hold the July 11 forum in the Capitol View Room noon to 1 p.m. The July 12 forum will be held 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Old Madison East. Both forums are open to the public. To ensure Council members hear from a variety of voices within each timeframe, each person who wishes to speak will be given three minutes.

This effort is in response to a recent campus study group report and to concerns expressed by some members of the campus community regarding the individuals for whom these spaces are named, Porter Butts and Fredric March, participating in a former student organization called the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s while they were University of Wisconsin-Madison students. The Council is considering whether the names should be removed.

Each forum will include an update from Union Council on their decision-making effort, which will be followed by time to hear from members of the community. Council members will take the feedback from the forums into consideration in their decision.

“We are actively seeking out feedback from our community on these names,” said Susan Dibbell, Wisconsin Union deputy director and Union Council member. “We want to hear what people are feeling, information they would like to share, and their thoughts.”

Feedback can also be sent to union@union.wisc.edu or submitted online at union.wisc.edu/about/union-council/openforum.

Individuals requesting sign language interpretation or captioning should contact the Wisconsin Union by 5 p.m. Monday, at 608-262-8862 or union@union.wisc.edu.

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About the Wisconsin Union

The Wisconsin Union enhances the lives of members and visitors through recreational, cultural, educational and social opportunities. Formed in 1907, the Wisconsin Union is a membership organization that blends study and leisure to create unique out-of-classroom opportunities. Learn more about the Union and its tradition of providing experiences for a lifetime: union.wisc.edu.

NRSSH Launches to Combat Hunger

Looking to join a premier networking group focused on giving back to the community, professional development, and volunteering? NRSSH (pronounced NOURISH) is your answer!

Join us for the launch of NRSSH – aka the Next Rising Stars of Second Harvest – an organization comprised of young professional members making a difference in the fight against hunger in Southwest Wisconsin while expanding our professional development and gaining an understanding of board membership at the non-profit level.

More information at https://www.secondharvestmadison.org/donation-pages/nrssh-launch-party

Pre-registration fee: $20 / At the door fee: $25
Fee will be waived when you apply for membership

Membership fee prior to and during event: $50

Date:
June 14, 2018
Company:
Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin
Contact:
Laura Gaffney
Phone:
608-216-7205

LauraG@shfbmadison.org

Datica Celebrates 5th Anniversary as a Compliance and Security Leader for the Cloud

MADISON, WISC. AND SEATTLE — MAY 31, 2018

Datica™ announced today that this month marks the company’s 5th anniversary since carving out a niche market in 2013 when it first addressed compliance and security in the cloud. Today, Datica’s Platform for healthcare continues its evolution in one of the most highly regulated industries in the U.S. and has become an enabler for cloud-based strategies.

Last year, the company launched its first international pod and will be adding more in 2018. Getting in front of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been a driving force for Datica over the past year and a half. In 2017, the company began a GDPR audit process of its Platform, a move that soon makes the Platform compliant with the regulations of HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR and GxP.

Other milestones Datica (originally founded under the name Catalyze) has had since its May 2013 launch include:

Raised $12.5 Million in funding since inception
First to make the Kubernetes technology for deploying containerized workloads HITRUST CSF Certified
Selected as a premier healthcare speaker at AWS re:Invent 2017, and featured in the main keynote at the 2018 Microsoft Build conference
Pioneered the Digital Health Success Framework, leading to industry-wide acclaim, including presenting at Health 2.0 and SXSW
Embraced a virtual workforce in 2013, tapping top healthcare technology talent across the nation
“Since 2013, we’ve put an emphasis on supporting customers by controlling growth, and in the first half of 2018 we’ve continued that company focus by spending all available resources on engineering and servicing customers, “ said Travis Good, MD, CEO and chief privacy officer. “When I think back to the start of the company, it’s humbling to see how our customer base has expanded from early-stage startups, then to mature healthcare vendors, and finally to the Fortune 500 mix of enterprise customers. It’s the compliance and security aspects that bring these customers to Datica; it’s core to our mission, so we ensure the Platform remains first and foremost secure.”

As Datica celebrates the past five years, it’s also a time to look to the future. Though healthcare has, up until now, been a core focus of the company, Datica’s newly introduced Cloud Compliance Management System will open a host of new opportunities for organizations to manage the compliant state of their entire enterprises in one actionable view — across multiple clouds and within multiple industries. “As we expand our partnerships with Microsoft Azure and AWS, and on to Google Cloud, Datica will explore offering end-to-end compliance beyond healthcare,” said Good.

About Datica
The Datica Platform is designed for those who store, manage and share protected health information (PHI) in the cloud and manages all ongoing compliance and security burdens found within the exacting standards of HIPAA, HITRUST, GDPR, and GxP. Customers can license and deploy cloud-native applications on their own cloud account, or tap Datica’s cloud account to receive compliance, security and electronic health record (EHR) integration expertise to launch and manage applications. Datica’s Kubernetes-enabled platform customers include mid-to-late stage startups to Fortune 100 companies across the healthcare spectrum: solution providers, hospital organizations, pharmaceutical giants and nationwide health insurance payers. For more information, go to Datica.com.

RMR Financial Advisors, LLC re-brands as RMR Wealth Advisors, LLC

RMR Financial Advisors, LLC has modified their company name to RMR Wealth Advisors, LLC.

RMR Press Release

Starion Bank presents Kindness Cash to Habitat for Humanity

Starion Bank presented Habitat for Humanity of Dane County with a $250 Kindness Cash donation.

Madison Kindness Cash donation