Neighborhood House was founded when a UW-Madison student proposed the creation of a community center to serve the city’s rapidly growing Italian, Jewish and African American communities. His senior thesis inspired city leaders to create Madison’s first settlement house, Neighborhood House.
Emma Vos spent much of her childhood feeding calves and milking cows on her family’s 120-herd dairy farm. Now, she’s a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying agriculture business management with plans to run the family farm in Maribel, just south of Green Bay, after graduation.
Noted: As the test batches for their ultimate quick meal starter grew and they got more serious, they worked out of the USDA-inspected meat processing facility at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery building. Initially, the Meyers tested the market in Madison and Milwaukee. Last year, JBS bought the brand and product name, allowing the Meyers to grow to national distribution.
University of Wisconsin System graduate assistants and postdoctoral researchers who have a child while in their programs often are taking a risk: Like faculty and staff, they aren’t offered paid family leave. But unlike faculty and staff, they often aren’t protected by the federal Family Medical Leave Act, which means they risk losing their teaching, research or project assistant positions if they take a leave, even if it’s unpaid.
Memorial Day is about remembering and honoring the American service members who died while serving in the armed forces, but tens of thousands of those fallen heroes are unidentified. A group at UW-Madison is working to identify those service members’ remains, recover them and bring them back to the United States.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin, also founded in 1848, took on a higher calling in 1905 when President Charles Van Hise said he would “never be content until the beneficent influence of the university reaches every family in the state.” The UW has since served as a laboratory of social and scientific innovation helping people within and beyond our borders thanks to an idea, the Wisconsin Idea, formed in Wisconsin.
Noted: He earned a Ph.D. in food science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972.
It was also used in a 1970 bombing on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus that led to one death and several injuries, and in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people.
Noted: Data from the Department of Children and Families’ 2022 Child Care Market Rate Survey showed that in Milwaukee County, the average annual child care cost for a 4-year-old is $12,142; for an infant, it’s $16,236.
Comparably, the annual tuition cost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2022 to 2023 was $9,273.
The public has voted and three peregrine falcon chicks at the Oak Creek We Energies power plant will be named Ollie, Ember, and Bucky.
The names honor local mascots, Ollie for Waukesha County Technical College, Ember for Carthage College, and of course, Bucky for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Iva Petrova, 21, Madison, WisconsinPetrova stayed in Madison, Wisconsin after graduating from the University of Wisconsin in May 2022 to work at the state capitol as a legislative assistant. She is attending law school at UW Madison in the fall.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate has made his gift with other languages and accents a selling point in his career in Hollywood as a film and television actor. He says on his Instagram page that he specializes in “foreigners, villains and crazy people.” He’s played a German engineer on “Better Call Saul,” a French war hero on “TURN: Washington’s Spies” and a Norwegian candy smuggler on Netflix’s “Grace & Frankie.”
That’s OK, because Madison’s economy isn’t dominated by state government and UW-Madison the way it used to be. Technology companies such as Epic Systems and Exact Sciences employ thousands of young professionals, many of whom live Downtown.
At 46 years old, Eich decided to go back to school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become a physician’s assistant.
Mary Papageorge is a testament to putting her classroom learning to use. As one of the 70% of UW-Madison students who have a job offer in hand by the time they don their caps and gowns for commencement, Papageorge will take what she learned in class and on her portable Irish dance platform to improve consumer relationships.
Former Wisconsin Badgers linebacker Chris Borland is launching his own athlete storytelling company, ByUs Media. He and his co-founder, Olivia Hancock, join us to share why they started the platform and what they’re hoping to accomplish. Then, a sports media professor joins us to explore what we gain and what when miss out on when athletes tell their own stories, instead of relying on traditional media.
On a beautiful Friday night there was a gaggle of young kids tossing around a football behind the stands at Feuerstein Field. This being at Pewaukee High School, most of the youngsters were clad in jerseys of the Watt brothers: a Derek fan in an old No. 34 San Diego Chargers jersey tried to wrestle the pigskin away from a ball-carrier sporting T.J.’s No. 90 in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ black and yellow. There were several No. 99s looking on, representing J.J.’s time both at the University of Wisconsin and the Houston Texans.
The Governor’s Fishing Opener was started by Gov. Warren Knowles in 1966. Knowles, a Wisconsin native, graduate of the University of Wisconsin’s law school and World War II veteran, served three 2-year terms as governor from 1965-71.
As her college graduation approached in the spring of 2022, Natalie Lobo wrestled with how to pursue a business career. A graduate business degree “would really set me up for success down the line,” she says, but the University of Wisconsin senior couldn’t imagine starting a career and then interrupting it to pursue an MBA.
A former University of Wisconsin football player was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive life sentences for the 2020 killings of two women, although his sentence gives him a chance to eventually seek early release.
J.J. Watt and Kealia Watt are getting further into the soccer business, and they’re not the first Wisconsin-connected athletes to take that particular jump.
Noted: Directed and developed by Rachel Chavkin, the musical “Hadestown” has two important Wisconsin connections. University of Wisconsin alum André De Shields won a Tony for originating the show-stopping role of Hermes on Broadway. And in Mitchell’s 2010 concept album version of “Hadestown,” Orpheus was sung by Justin Vernon, aka Mr. Bon Iver.
The Wisconsin Muslim Project is part of a larger collaboration between PBS Wisconsin, We Are Many – United Against Hate and the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition. It aims to connect both Muslim and non-Muslim communities, encouraging audiences to better understand the experiences of Wisconsin’s Muslim population through storytelling.
The early bird gets the worm, as the old saying goes. To which University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Hernán Ballard might add another corollary — the early filmmaker gets the documentary.
The organization’s partners include UW-Madison.
The Native Art Market, by contrast, has provided support in the form of stipends (an assist from UW-Madison) and free or reduced housing for participants.
Midwestern Madison is not only Wisconsin’s capital city, but it is also a charming college town, home to the flagship University of Wisconsin campus. But those college-aged Badgers aren’t the only generation enjoying Madison. The city is also considered one of the most beautiful places to retire in America, as well as one of 15 places to retire where health care is good.
Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age by Paul S Boyer (University of Wisconsin, £20.50)
Smith, who’s lived in Madison since 2009, first heard the story of Dr. William F. Lorenz from Lorenz’s grandson, William F. Lorenz III. Smith said that Lorenz’s grandfather, after whom Lorenz Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute is named, was the first person to observe, in 1916, that chemistry could treat the mentally ill. He was a professor of neuropsychiatry at UW-Madison and developed the school’s psychiatry department.
The special “Wisconsin Life” episode features the stories of Muslims throughout Wisconsin, including UW-Madison law professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes. Saran, who is Muslim herself, said one of her favorite things about working on the project was getting to shed light on the contributions of Muslims throughout the state.
At a population of 269,000, Madison is the home of the University of Wisconsin and dwarfs Missoula, at 73,822, and Pullman, which hosts a Washington State University campus.
Between classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sorority sisters Avery Byrnes, 19, and Paige Mikkelson, 18, stopped for smoothies at a food truck outside the school’s 70-year-old Memorial Library.
James Skibo, Wisconsin’s state archaeologist and a well-known figure in the field, died recently in a scuba diving accident in Lake Mendota. He is being remembered for his curiosity and enthusiasm.
“If we run bad fiscal and monetary policies, if we close ourselves off, if we do idiotic things like default on debt and cause confidence to be lost in America, or if we excessively and unilaterally use financial sanctions, the dollar could see its role more quickly diminish,” he (Mark Sobel) said during a recent appearance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, video of which has been shared on the website of the school’s European Studies program.
One of the biggest “Jeopardy!” winners of all time, Amodio, a native of Medina, Ohio, earned a master’s degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017. He won 38 contests on the show in July through October of 2021, and returned in 2022 to play an exhibition match against fellow mega-winners Amy Schneider and Mattea Roach before bowing out in the semifinals in the 2022 Tournament of Champions.
You’re in a time crunch with a decision in front of you: Should you help your neighbor with her chickens on the loose or rush into work to help your local newspaper cover an historic flood?
As the state’s archaeologist, he was an ambassador of antiquity, sharing history and artifacts with community groups and members of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Skibo, who took on the role in 2021 after a distinguished career with Illinois State University, also worked closely with other archaeologists and the state’s Indigenous communities, especially after the remarkable discovery of two ancient canoes in Lake Mendota in 2021 and 2022.
Chief Kristen Roman was recognized as the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executive’s Woman Law Enforcement Executive of Year.
They returned to Madison on the anniversary of Sarah’s death to sponsor the Out of the Darkness Walk for suicide prevention.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and freshman Jessica Randall started a project collecting clothes for sexual assault survivors.
Competing for the University of Wisconsin, he won two N.C.A.A. wrestling titles, including one over John Smith, arguably America’s greatest wrestler. Mr. Jordan says he applies the lessons he learned from wrestling to his current role.
According to Deadline, former CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl and Cannonball Productions principals Sean Hanish and Paul Jaconi-Biery are behind the project. Hanish, who is directing the docuseries, grew up in Brookfield and studied film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kahl, who was born in Burlington, also is a UW-Madison alum.
In November, ESPN explored the origins of the tradition in a 6-minute documentary, which was nominated for a Sports Emmy award Monday.
When Jane Goodall spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently, Dean Robbins was in the audience at Shannon Hall. The former Isthmus editor and current co-editor of On Wisconsin magazine had to camp out for hours to get a rush ticket to see the 89-year-old naturalist and author speak.
The nonprofit news publication chose 12 former and current students and employees of UW-Madison, to make up their list of influential leaders for this year.
Noted: Considered by many to be the father of wildlife ecology and the United States’ wilderness system, the Iowa-born Aldo Leopold was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose non-fiction book, A Sand County Almanac (1949), helped inspire and inform the environmental movement.
Noted: Roychowdhury served as a research assistant while a doctorate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his degree in May 2022. “He is no longer affiliated with the university,” a spokesperson with UW-Madison said Thursday.
KEITH: Let me just tell you, as I was in Wisconsin right before the election, I went and interviewed voters. Now, admittedly, I was interviewing voters at a student union at the University of Wisconsin. So, you know…
At 22 years old, (Michael) Mell now earns roughly $36 an hour plus benefits in his fifth year of his apprenticeship while taking classes at Madison College. He starts his work day around 6 a.m., installing electrical and lighting components at buildings such as the new Bakke Recreation and Wellbeing Center at UW-Madison.
Board members expressed excitement about the upcoming decision, as well as an update on the district’s Early Literacy and Beyond Task Force recommendations, a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison that began in December 2020.
MGR Govindarajan is now seeking to make change at the local level as a candidate for City Council. He will appear on the April 4 ballot alongside two other UW-Madison students, including his District 8 challenger Charlie Fahey and Maxwell Laubenstein, who’s running against longtime alder Mike Verveer in District 4. All three said they want to bring youth representation to the 20-person council.
Noted: Although the badger has long been associated with Wisconsin and shows up in things like the coat of arms, state seal and as the University of Wisconsin’s mascot, students in four Jefferson County elementary schools were shocked to find the badger wasn’t the official state animal; in 1957, they lobbied to get a bill introduced to declare the badger to be the state animal.
The Verona resident, who also teaches food law at UW-Madison, may like mustard an inordinate amount, but who can blame him? He successfully argued a U.S. Supreme Court case with mustard in his pocket. He met his wife at a mustard-tasting event. He used the condiment as a crutch when his beloved Boston Red Sox lost the World Series nearly 40 years ago.
Noted: Cloutier received an award for her efforts, and a photo was published in the newspaper. She left Manitowoc to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, married Daniel Cloutier and moved to northern California.
The nighttime images come from a satellite named after Verner E. Suomi, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin who pioneered early satellite cameras. Suomi is run jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Previously, the satellite’s night sensor has captured images of wildfires, gas flares, lava flows, light pollution and power outages from hurricanes.
Noted: Donohue, who is seventy-three years old and has curly chestnut hair, grew up in Sheboygan. She has been a community-minded activist since high school, when she won the Young American Medal for Service, which L.B.J. put around her neck in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. After college, she and a friend took a ten-month trip across the country in a 1960 Volkswagen bus that they called the “flying tomato,” and then she applied to an auto-mechanics program at a technical college and to the University of Wisconsin Law School. She was rejected by the technical college but got accepted to law school. She eventually returned to Sheboygan to work on cases involving domestic-violence victims, tenant disputes, and disability benefits, among other things.
Noted: Born Helen Celia Schubert in Wisconsin, Schubert grew up outside Cedarburg, just north of Milwaukee. She received a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and journalism in 1952 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also wrote for the student newspaper.
DNA found in a half-eaten burrito helped exposed a former Wisconsin university research assistant now accused of firebombing a pro-life center last Mother’s Day.
Noted: After college at UW-Madison, they went on different career paths. Kirsten went into the family restoration business, Ungerman, while Lindsey spent 12 years in corporate America at Target. Then came an offer.
We caught up with the acclaimed ethologist and conservationist before her talk on UW-Madison’s campus, where she reflected on her time in Tanzania and our shared climate future.
