Spectators want more than a show. They want to witness UW Bands director Mike Leckrone’s last “last”: the sold-out concert series — slated for Thursday, Friday and Saturday — that will cap an end to a storied 50-year career before he retires this academic year.
Former athletes including Melvin Gordon III, Carey Lohrenz and more posted tributes to the university in support of the fundraiser.
Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US have developed a spectrometer so small and simple that it could integrate with the camera of a typical cellphone without sacrificing accuracy.
Noted: The Chronicle caught up before the meeting with Harry Brighouse, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who wrote the paper. We discussed his ideas and how they’ve been received so far. The following conversation has been edited and condensed.
UW officials say the increase could indirectly help with a key university mission–research.
Noted: The appointments include ones on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, the Public Service Commission and the Labor and Industry Review Commission.
The more high-profile members Evers removed include Scott Beightol, Walker’s pick for the UW System Board of Regents, and Ellen Nowak, who served on the Public Service Commission.
Executive order requires college campuses to protect free speech, but implementation still unclear.
UW System officials and Wisconsin’s 12 Native Nation tribes are at the beginning of an effort to increase enrollment and improve graduation rates of indigenous students.
Noted: Lawmakers approved resolutions to honor the Milwaukee Brewers; proclaim April as Donate Life Month, Kidney Month and Women’s History Month; and recognize the service of Mike Leckrone, the retiring longtime director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band.
Those who were not reappointed include Public Service Commissioner Ellen Nowak and University of Wisconsin Regent Scott Beightol. The Evers’ administration denied Nowak access to her building when she tried to return to work. The Regents took a different approach, allowing Beightol and student Regent Torrey Tiedeman to attend the board’s meeting last week.
Evers voided 82 appointments made during the lame-duck session and later reinstated 67 of them. Fifteen positions, including a spot on the Public Service Commission and University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, were not reinstated.
Next came a $100 million gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a venture fund, and competitions to design the innovation centers, with fast turnarounds — just two weeks to submit proposals — and plans to open in just months.
The Badger Invitational Sale dates to 1983 when it began as “a means to apply in actual practice what was being taught in the UW-Madison Dairy Science Department classroom, such as dairy pedigrees, sire evaluation, performance indexes and business principles.”
For 71 years each April, students in the campus Greek community have staged the competitive, juried musical variety numbers. The cast members from the fraternities and sororities also compete to raise the most money for a local non-profit.
UW panel encouraged physicians, scientists, journalists to promote public health.
Noted: Reading Monica M. White’s new book, “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement” (University of North Carolina Press), I couldn’t help but think about the family farm my mother grew up on, and the supportive community of black farmers our family was a part of in Florida’s Panhandle.
Noted: Among the researchers was Daniel Vimont, a University of Wisconsin atmospheric and oceanic sciences professor who serves as the director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research.
Noted: Michael Rizzo lived in Kenosha, graduated from St. Joseph High School, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, according to his obituary.
