A humble gentleman and scholar, Glenn defined the field of Rural Population, and was a founder of the WIS Applied Population Lab. Yet his personal inspiration came from “his students,” now professors, authors, and mentors alike.
In 1974, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty as Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and headed the Division of Endocrinology. During his career, he was instrumental in pioneering research on hypertension and hormonal regulation in pregnancy, significantly advancing the field. Dr. Ehrlich’s legacy includes the establishment of the “Great People Scholarship” at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, a tribute to his mentorship.
Bernard Cohen, a professor of political science who served in many leadership roles at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, including a year as acting chancellor, died on January 9. He was 97.
After a year at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he was recruited to UW-Madison’s Department of Rural Sociology where he taught and conducted research from 1972 to 2001.
In 1979, he, Ellen, and their son, Jeremiah, moved to Wisconsin, where Marshall joined the Journalism Department and the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1988 until his retirement from UW in 2009, he helped to create and taught annually at a variety of workshops and retreats including the Weekend Retreat for Novelists, the Writer’s Institute, and Write by the Lake. In 2003, Marshall joined the fledgling UW Odyssey Project where for the next 18 years he passed along his enthusiasm for language and writing to nearly 600 Odyssey students.
Jack served in the U.S. Army. He earned his bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison and went on to earn a master’s degree in journalism from UW-Madison in 1953. After earning his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan, Jack joined the UW faculty in 1962. He served as a Journalism and Mass Communication professor for UW-Madison for 38 years, where he taught graduate students from all over the world.
After receiving a master’s degree in 1965, Linda continued her studies and also began a long career as an academic advisor in the history department. She later joined the School of Education Academic Services office, serving as assistant dean and advisor. In 2000, Linda received the school’s Ann Wallace Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award.
Jim enlisted in the army in 1947, and served until 1949. After discharge, he worked at Ray-O-Vac for three years, then was the assistant registrar at UW-Madison for ten years. He then took a role at UW-Madison’s Administrative Data Processing (now DoIT) where he worked in management for 28 years, retiring in 1987.
He spent his entire career as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, endearing himself to thousands of students. As they say frequently, “He taught me to think.” He retired as Professor of Political Science and as the Herbert and Evelyn Howe Professor of Integrated Liberal Studies.
Bernie joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1959, chairing the Department of Political Science from 1966-1969. He served as associate dean of the Graduate School from 1971-1975, as vice chancellor for academic affairs from 1984-1986, and as acting chancellor in 1987.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Mr. Jones taught from 1988 to 1997 and was a professor emeritus, he was part of “one of the most distinguished political science faculties in the country,” Mr. Baker said.
After a post-doctoral fellowship at UNC, Dr. Adams joined the Sociology faculty of University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965. For nearly 50 years he taught courses on Social Theory and large lecture classes on Marriage and the Family, reaching some 20,000 UW students.
Cohen, who studied foreign policy and mass media’s role in shaping it, spent three decades at UW-Madison, first joining the faculty in 1959 and later serving as chair of the political science department. Cohen later transitioned into administrative roles, including associate dean of the Graduate School in the 1970s and vice chancellor of academic affairs in the 1980s.
Dr. Jones, an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, devoted decades to explaining the American democratic process — why citizens vote as they do, how politicians wield or fail to wield their power while in office, and how the branches of government interact.
Following his Air Force service Paul worked at the University of Wisconsin School of Business in Madison and was a program director at the Fluno Center.
He received a PhD in 1961 from the University of Wisconsin in Electrical Engineering and taught for 34 years at UW-Madison. A highlight was receiving a Fulbright Scholarship in 1968 and spending an adventurous year in Germany with Elaine and 4 young children.
Harry worked in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the UW-Madison from 1961 until retiring as an Associate Professor in 1995, at which time he was honored with an Emeritus appointment.
Jim worked as a Network and Systems Engineer in various locations, most recently at the University of Wisconsin Department of Information Technology.
At his core, Jon was always a farmer and a statistician, vocations he passionately pursued throughout his life. He became an Assistant Professor of Agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976.
He attended the University of Wisconsin before dropping out and enlisting in the Army during World War II.
Herb Kohl, the former U.S. senator, Milwaukee Bucks owner and retail shopping magnate, died Wednesday afternoon at the age of 88 after a brief illness.
Kohl’s death was announced by the Herb Kohl Foundation.
Kohl’s giving also touched his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he roomed with future Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. Kohl’s name graces the school’s basketball and ice hockey arena after a $25 million gift to the project and he gave extensively to the university’s LaFollette School of Public Affairs.
She worked as a visiting nurse in Kenosha, Wis., and spent the greater part of her nursing career in Madison as the coordinator for UW-Extension Wisconsin Inactive Nurse Studies (WINS) program until her retirement in 1996.
He worked and retired for the UW -Madison at Arlington where he helped to take care of the cattle.
He retired from the University of Wisconsin Chemistry Department where he was a contributor to their department’s annual pig roast, aptly named the “Snout Out.”
She studied history at Sarah Lawrence College. While taking summer courses at the University of Wisconsin in 1950, she struck up a conversation with another campus visitor, Marshall Goldman; she was impressed that he was reading Thorsten Veblen’s “The Theory of the Leisure Class.”
She worked at the UW vet school for over ten years working with various animals in critical care and surgery, which was her passion.
She started her working career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an administrative assistant in the Medical College and followed that with many years as a Legal Secretary with several law firms in the Madison area.
Nerad was born in Marinette, grew up in Kenosha, studied at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, then transferred to UW-Madison, where he got a bachelors and masters in Social Work.
She started her working career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Administrative Assistant in the Medical College and followed that with many years as a Legal Secretary with several law firms in the Madison area.
She was a waitress, a telephone operator, picked pickles, worked at the Larsen canning company in Cambria WI during the bean and corn packs, made socks at the Portage hosiery, clerked at various departments within the UW-Madison campus over 8 years, and also lived in LA for two years working at a law firm.
She served in leadership positions in the athletic departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Oklahoma, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and most recently, as the Assistant Chancellor and Director of Athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
Dennis enjoyed a successful career as a Professor with the University of Wisconsin Extension and earned the title of Professor Emeritus by the UW Board of Regents upon his retirement.
In 1959, Bob became an instructor in the newly created Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where he remained until his retirement in 2014. Bob liked to teach and taught “General Genetics” to undergraduates, “Medical Genetics” to medical students, and created new courses (e.g., “Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics” and “Genetics of Cancer”).
Walter and Marylu moved to Madison to begin their life together. After the birth of the first of four children, Walter joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School where he taught for four decades until retiring in 1998. In addition to teaching, he authored four books on property law and became involved in law school admissions. He served as president of the Law School Admissions Council, where he helped develop the Law School AptitudeTest (LSAT) as well as serving on the Real Property question drafting committee for the Multistate Bar Examination.
She lived in Madison for the rest of her life, where she spent most of her career as a research scientist in the UW Biochemistry Department. Jean retired in 1990 as a Senior Scientist (emerita).
He joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Radiology in 1975. He served as chairman of the Department of Medical Physics (1987 – 1998), Associate Dean for Research and Graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (1998 – 2000), Vice Dean of the Medical School (2000 – 2009) and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009 – 2014). During his long career, Paul held an appointment as professor in the departments of medical physics, radiology, human oncology, engineering physics and physics.
Committed to social justice, she participated in political and social activism throughout her life, as well as continued to welcome many more international friends, both as a volunteer ESL tutor and in her work as building manager at the La Follette School of Public Affairs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Upon completion, he started work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Physical Plant Steam-Fitters Shop where he worked for 40 years until his retirement.
She was born an ordinary little girl in Mississippi, to the Gambrell family, and she became an extraordinary scholar and researcher at the University of Wisconsin, focusing on the application of effective instructional practices. Sara was a tireless advocate for evidence-based teaching methods and her legacy in this area continues to grow.
In March of 1983, he was called back to Madison and the University of Wisconsin, which was building a new School of Veterinary Medicine, as the Director of Pharmacy. Don was there for 25 years until he retired.
Mary Ann worked 32 years as a statistical typist for the University of Wisconsin Madison, retiring in 1994, at the age of 62.
After grade school and high school, Cannon later attended the National University of Ireland (Galway) and the Sorbonne in Paris, before graduating from Marquette University. He later graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Tom was employed for a few years as a lab technician at the University of Arizona in Tucson then returned to UW-Madison, earning a Ph.D. in molecular biology at McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research in 1985. He continued to do research in several labs on campus and particularly enjoyed exploring starch synthesis and corn genetics in Oliver Nelson’s lab. Before retirement, Tom was a member of Bruce Klein’s research group that investigated various aspects of blastomycosis.
Upon graduation, she attended the UW-Madison and was employed by the Memorial Library on campus. She spent 37 years working for the library system; a place she loved and where she met many life-long friends.
She had a long and successful career with the University of Wisconsin.
Loran was then employed at the University of Wisconsin food services until 2013 when he retired.
Kevin began his career in epilepsy and neuroimaging in the Department of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2004. Kevin became an integral part of the UW Epilepsy Research group collaborating with researchers in neuropsychology, neurology, and radiology.
He joined the faculty of the Educational Psychology Department, in the School of Education, at UW Madison in 1965, and retired in 1994. He was an internationally recognized authority in the areas of human creativity and gifted education.
In 1974, Joel and Connie moved their family to Madison where he worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a certified concert piano tuner, responsible for more than 250 pianos at the School of Music, the dormitories, and other campus buildings. He initiated and taught piano technology classes at the UW.
After earning degrees from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Wageningen Agricultural University’s institute of genetics, and the University of Cambridge, he turned down a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin.
After completing his fellowship in gastroenterology at Boston University Hospital, he moved with his wife Peg (whom he met in a downhill ski club while Peg was a nursing instructor at Boston City Hospital) and their three children (Eric, Edward, and Julia) to Madison, WI, where he became a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. He served as Head of the Gastroenterology Section, as well as Chief of the Gastroenterology Section at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans’ Hospital.
During his 42-year career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he instructed thousands of undergraduates, mentored dozens of graduate students, collaborated with colleagues, and produced a steady stream of innovative research. Pat’s area was analysis, the complexity of which is reflected in the title of his most cited paper according to Web of Science: “A theorem of Brown-Halmos type for Bergman space Toeplitz operators.”
She graduated from Central High School during the weekend of June 1960. That following Monday she started her job at the UW Sociology Department Center for Demography, where she worked for 43 years.
In 1977, however, a call came that transformed the second half of Davis’s life. The University of Wisconsin in Madison wanted a bass teacher, and he took the post, not just because the examples of his childhood tutor Walter Dyett, and of Martin Luther King Jr, had inspired a love of teaching in him, but because he was ready to ease the pressures of being a freelance musician.
Kerdiles was selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the second round of the 2012 NHL Draft. He played two seasons with the Ducks between 2016 and 2018, according to hockeydb.com. He attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he played with the Wisconsin Badgers.
He played in college for the University of Wisconsin, whose hockey program also mourned Kerdiles on social media, posting about his “great spirit as part of our Badger family.”
MURA then became part of the University of Wisconsin, known as the Physical Sciences Laboratory, and Carl worked there as a research tech until his retirement fifty and a half years later. Carl was a member of the University Academic Staff and his title was Distinguished Senior Instrumentation Technologist Emeritus.
Ken’s professional and personal interests led him to a career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he spent over 30 years conducting research and teaching. Ken’s research was centered around fluid dynamics, combustion, air pollution control, and renewable energy. In 1995, Ken was chosen Department Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. In 1999, Ken’s career was recognized by UW-Madison with Emeritus status.
Davis was a massively influential professor, musician and civil rights activist in the city of Madison and throughout the country.
