During his years of not speaking, Francis earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied oil spills. Then in 1989, after the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil, the U.S. Coast Guard asked him to help write new pollution regulations.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Muslim student collaborated with Jewish Social Services, the Alpha Lambda Rho Muslim interest sorority and campus student services offices to pack essential items for newly arrived refugees.
Before being elected mayor, Rhodes-Conway was a senior associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy — a progressive think tank — and was the managing director of the university’s Mayors Innovation Project. She was also treasurer of her neighborhood association and sat on numerous city committees addressing transportation and the environment.
One resource people can turn to for their own healing is the Healthy Minds Program, Davidson said. The free, evidence-based app was created by Healthy Minds Innovation, a nonprofit affiliated with UW-Madison’s center.
For his part, after helping to pass Colorado’s Amendment A, Allen decided to enroll in law school. He’s now in his final year at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
“Part of my reason for coming here was to answer some of the legal questions we had about our campaign,” he said. “In hindsight, I see how misinformed people are … One of the things we made very clear in the 2018 campaign is that our biggest opposition is a lack of clarity.”
Hamilton was born in Waterloo to a family of dairy farmers in 1954 and grew up listening to Earl Gillespie call Milwaukee Braves games in the 1960s. He later worked alongside Gillespie calling University of Wisconsin football games. Hamilton is a seven-time Ohio Sportscaster of the Year.
Huang earned his master’s in computer science from the University of Wisconsin and interned at Microsoft in both Beijing and Seattle before beginning his career at Google in the U.S. in 2004. This was when Google really started taking off.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor called incoming U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “moron” during a recent lecture to students.
The app was created by Eddy Connors and Briana Boehmer while in college in Colorado. However, Boehmer is a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad and said she knew their team wanted to expand into the Badger State.
Fusion energy’s potential to produce abundant, clean energy to fuel industry and power advancements in artificial intelligence is no longer a matter of if, but when.
AUW-Madison student was the only survivor in a single-vehicle crash of a Tesla Cybertruck that killed three college students in Northern California last week.
It’s been 50 years since Jerry Ringlien, an Eau Claire native and UW-Madison graduate, wrote what would become one of the best known jingles in advertising history.
The commercial was for Madison-based Oscar Mayer, where Ringlien was the company’s vice president of marketing, and featured 4-year-old Andy Lambros who, while sitting on a boat dock, taught the world how to properly spell B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
During a Friday interview with CBS News Bay Area reporter Da Lin, the mother of the sole survivor of the terrible collision identified her son and the three victims who died in the crash.
The mother, Samantha Miller, said that her son Jordan Miller was back in surgery late Friday morning. She confirmed that he is a 20-year-old sophomore at University of Wisconsin.
On the crisp afternoon of Oct. 22, Shanglin Yang walked down State Street, a route he had taken countless times since beginning his computer science studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Martzke graduated from the University of Wisconsin and worked for a few newspapers and ABA teams. (He liked to tell people he helped hire Bob Costas at the Spirits of St. Louis.) Eventually, he ended up at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York, before moving to the D.C. area to help launch USA Today.
While students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Abrahams and his friends Jerry and David Zucker and Dick Chudnow started the comedy group Kentucky Fried Theater, which combined video satires of TV commercials and a stage show.
To be considered frozen over, lakes Wingra and Monona must have at least half ice cover. Mendota, the largest of Madison’s lakes, is subject to another rule developed by limnologists Edward Birge and Chancey Juday in the early 1900s because of its odd shape: The lake is considered frozen when you can’t row a boat between Picnic Point on UW-Madison’s northeast side to Maple Bluff.
The University of Wisconsin marching band already was in game mode despite more than 10 hours remaining before kickoff of the Badgers’ football game against No. 1 Oregon.
LENS will collaborate with eight universities, including Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Maryland, University of Rhode Island, and a few others.
Jill Underly, the incumbent who has been in the position since 2021, is running for a second term. She was previously the superintendent of the Pecatonica School District and has held roles as a principal, teacher and academic advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Babcock Dairy, an ice cream and cheese plant housed within UW–Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in Madison, is voluntarily expanding its recall on Orange Custard Chocolate Chip ice cream that may be labeled as Chocolate Peanut Butter.
UW-Madison’ Babcock Dairy is expanding its recall on Orange Custard Chocolate Chip ice cream that may be labeled as Chocolate Peanut Butter, the dairy said Tuesday.
Now, new studies say retailers’ charging efforts may well be paying off: One peer-reviewed study by researchers at Boston University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison published this year looked at the impact of nearly 1,600 Tesla Supercharger stations in more than 800 U.S. counties and found a 4 percent increase in monthly visits for retailers within 200 meters of chargers after they were installed. The effects were most pronounced for retailers within 150 meters. The researchers also found a 5 percent increase in spending.
A University of Wisconsin Survey Center poll conducted in the weeks before the Nov. 5 election correctly projected the outcomes of a city of Madison referendum and two Madison school district ballot measures — from the narrowest margin of victory to the widest.
A DNA profile was completed in May, but it did not match any profiles in the national Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS. Additional skeletal remains in the possession of the University of Wisconsin were found to match the skull, however, leading to more evidence.
But many of those who could be affected by the overturning of Obergefell say a ballot proposal is a worthy endeavor. Acadia Bradley, a junior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, found Trump’s win devastating, especially given the hope she had felt for the election over recent weeks. During Trump’s presidency from 2016–20, Bradley felt homophobia was emboldened—as if Trump “almost [gave] them a free pass, or a little bit more courage to act on their hatred towards us.”
Originally scheduled as a four-stop jaunt, Kirk’s tour ultimately swelled to 25 colleges, including the University of Wisconsin, Kansas State University and the University of Georgia, where he engaged undergraduates on topics ranging from the economy to immigration to liberal bias in academia.
University of Wisconsin–MadisonIn June, the Universities of Wisconsin system Board of Regents approved a proposal to expand and establish greater supports for student veterans on campus. The university will allocate funds for a University Veteran Services staff member to lead student success initiatives for military-affiliated learners and will form a task force on student veterans’ financial support.
Tuesday’s election was a fight for votes across battleground Wisconsin, including college campuses scattered across the state.
As for the University of Wisconsin’s politically super-charged Dane County, naturally it produced more Democratic votes. But it was modest by its standards — just 7,200 votes more than in 2020.
Charlene Huynh (she/any), 20, senior studying sociology and communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
“One of the main reasons [Harris] lost is because she really abandoned the left.”
Honor Durham (she/her), 21, senior studying political science at UW-Madison
“The only thing that the Democrats could have done differently is to actually have Joe Biden step aside earlier.”
The UW-Madison student body makes up close to 18% of the population of Madison, a key part of Wisconsin’s electorate.
“People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to eggs or Yellow #5 run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reactions if they consume these products,” the press release said.
Babcock said in a statement Orange Custard Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Peanut Butter were recalled for people who who have an allergy to eggs and run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.
The Babcock Dairy Store at the University of Wisconsin has voluntarily recalled approximately 41 half-gallon cases of ice cream, according to a statement released by the company. Mistakenly labeled as chocolate peanut butter, the cases actually contain orange custard chocolate chip ice cream.
The creators of a new podcast want to tell the history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that people won’t hear on a campus welcome tour.
Trump performed the best he ever has among student voters at UW-Madison, according to an analysis of vote totals from the 12 Madison precincts containing the majority of on- and off-campus housing for UW-Madison students, while Harris performed than worse recent Democratic candidates among the same group.
Babcock Dairy said Tuesday it is voluntarily recalling Orange Custard Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream due to mislabeling and an allergy risk.
“I’m supposedly the jerk from California. Yet, I’m born and raised here in this state, spent my last 12 years living where you grew up,” Hovde said. “I’m a [University of Wisconsin] grad, you’re not.” Baldwin responded that she was. “Law school, not undergrad,” Hovde shot back.
Students made their way to Memorial Union, Lowell Hall and other campus polling locations between classes to cast their vote.
Ballots cast at University of Wisconsin-Madison early voting locations including Memorial Union, Union South and Health Sciences Learning Center comprised nearly one out of every five in-person votes from Oct. 22 to Nov. 1 amid record citywide early vote turnout.
ABC News’ Deb Roberts reports from the University of Wisconsin campus where she’s been speaking with young voters.
While visiting a poll location at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gov. Tony Evers was serenaded by students wishing him a happy birthday on Election Day.
The committee is eager to turn out young voters and Black voters across the battlegrounds. It is putting up 300 digital kiosks across college campuses that include the University of North Carolina and its affiliated campuses, Michigan State University, Temple University, Marquette University, and the University of Wisconsin.
Erin Warner is a Badger mom who learned the hard way how difficult the housing market can be to navigate.
Years ago, before Warner became the off-campus housing specialist for UW-Madison’s University Housing Division, her own daughter found herself accidentally locked into two different off-campus housing leases. It took months to resolve.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a consultant to help boost bookings at the school’s event, lodging and conference spaces after experiencing a decline in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison encampment organizers created a “People’s Kitchen” open to everyone, supplied by donations from local restaurants, community members, organizations and supportive UW faculty.
The campaign has invested in youth organizing in Wisconsin, hiring seven full-time campus organizers and a youth organizing coordinator. To broad applause, Ty Schanhofer, a first-time voter and student at the University of Wisconsin, introduced Harris and encouraged students to vote early.
While Harris’ team specifically targeted young voters from the University of Wisconsin on Wednesday, Trump’s campaign had a garbage-themed day.
For Sadie Rosenthal, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, choosing to vote in the US swing state rather than her native Maryland was a no-brainer.
Singh has a law degree from Georgetown University and a master’s in business administration from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her resume includes stints as Dohmen Co. Foundation president and Burke Foundation chief executive officer.
Kamala Harris will be at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday, while former President Barack Obama rallied the liberal base in Madison last week.
Hovde could be one of the richest senators – if not the richest – if he’s elected. After growing up in Madison and attending the University of Wisconsin, Hovde helped build his family’s real estate empire and took ownership of $3 billion Sunwest Bank.
Career centers: Matthew T. Hora, professor of adult and higher education and founding director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transition at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says that many colleges realized around 2010 that their centers for teaching and learning and faculty development “needed to shift from an optional, pseudo-professional unit to a more well-resourced and skilled service unit.” That didn’t just mean “nice buildings, fancy software or more money,” he continues, but also “more skilled and well-paid professionals.”
Democrats saw their biggest gains in the Green Bay area and Dane County, the latter of which is home to Madison and the University of Wisconsin.
And although applications from underrepresented minority students increased by 102 percent after the school went tuition-free, the proportion of Black students declined slightly over the following years, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges and provided by Jared Boyce, a medical student at the University of Wisconsin.
Baldwin received her undergraduate degree from Smith College in Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Hovde received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hamas attacks and the Israeli response. Colleges and universities around the country are reconsidering their neutrality policies in the wake of such positions adopted by the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Southern California, Harvard, Stanford, and many others. Schools are balancing, on the one hand, whether they put student rights or voices at risk when they take sides on controversial issues or whether they have a moral obligation to address societal wrongs.
For the Democrats, the strategy entails running up the numbers in Milwaukee and Dane County, home to Madison — the state capitol and the University of Wisconsin. Biden won more than 75% of the vote there in 2020. Democrats are also trying to stanch the bleeding in rural swaths that have swung heavily towards Trump.
After earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Milbourne became a policy advisor to Gov. Pat Lucey − later serving as state budget director.
