🌱 UW‒Madison Self-Healing Bandage + Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced

Happy Friday, neighbors! Let's get this day started off right. These are the most important things happening today in Madison.

First, today's weather:

A wintry mix in the afternoon. High: 38 Low: 32.

Here are the top stories today in Madison:

1. After several years of exploration, UW‒Madison researchers are one step closer to finalizing a rapid self-healing bandage. According to the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, research that led to the creation of this bandage began back in 2018 at the helm of Xudong Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison. (WeAreGreenBay.com)
2. A 52-year-old Chicago man, Michael C. Henderson, was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine in the Madison area. Henderson was also sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to forfeit nearly $23,000 after pleading guilty in July to a charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. (Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3)
3. Madison police officers investigating a report of shots fired on the city's southwest side early Thursday morning recovered shell casings and blood on a road but no victims in the area. (Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3)
4. In an effort to create social change and to increase sustainability on campus, Helios and Enactus, two student organizations at the University of Wisconsin, are planning to install solar panels on the roofs of campus bus shelters. (UW Badger Herald)
5. Even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Santa Claus found a way to connect with Madison children's hospital patients and ask what they're wishing for this Christmas. (WMTV - NBC15)

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Today in Madison:

• Fuel Your Hustle Nutrition Ribbon Cutting & Grand Opening (8:00 AM)
• IMA Board Meeting - Isthmus Montessori Acad Public (9:30 AM)
• CI Pediatric Therapies Storytime - Middleton Public Library Children's Events (10:00 AM)
• Job Club - Resumes & Interview Skills (10:00 AM)
• FT (VANS): Colleen & Kids' Books @ Madison Children's Museum (1:25 PM)
• Talk With Santa - Fitchburg Chamber Visitor & Business Bureau (5:00 PM)
• Cookies with Santa - East Branch YMCA (5:30 PM)
• Candy Cane Hunt - Middleton Chamber of Commerce (6:00 PM)

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— Sean Peek

About me: Sean Peek is a writer and entrepreneur with a degree in English Literature from Weber State University. Over the years, he has worked as a copywriter, editor, SEO specialist, and marketing director for various digital media companies. He currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.