But all hope isn’t lost. After all, it’s the University of Wisconsin − not Harvard, Princeton or Yale − that boasts more current Fortune 500 CEOs than any other school in America. The world’s top companies don’t care where their CEOs went to school, and you shouldn’t either
Noted: She’s going to UW-Madison, majoring in Biochemistry. But before she left high school, she completed one of her most important projects. She created and ran a camp called “Little Scoopers” during the summer of 2022 at an intermediate school in Oconomowoc. It taught first and second graders ways to lead better, more healthy lives. Her efforts netted her $10k in scholarship money. Her award money will go toward paying off her tuition.
Noted: Meir visited Milwaukee a number of times before she became prime minister, from promoting a Bonds for Israel fundraiser in 1951 to coming back home after receiving an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960.
The first member of the Menominee to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, the first woman to serve as tribal chair, the first Native American woman to run for statewide office in Wisconsin and the second Native American woman to bid for Congress, she would eventually become the first woman to head the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs — where she ushered in a new era of respect for tribal sovereignty.
She earned a degree in French at the University of Wisconsin, studying at the Sorbonne in Paris for a year. (“One of the first things I did was find the street where Belmondo died at the end of Breathless.”) She took a film class, watching everything from Jacques Tati to French New Wave to German expressionism. “The world opened up.”
Deer became the first member of the Menominee Nation to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1957 and was the first Native American to receive a master’s in social work from Columbia University. She returned to UW-Madison as a lecturer and later as director of the American Indian Studies program in the early 2000s.
The oldest of five children, Deer first visited UW-Madison as part of Badgers Girls State, a government and leadership program for high school students. She later returned to campus as a student on a tribal scholarship.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin honored Deer as a “brilliant educator, dedicated social worker and fierce advocate for Native American rights.”
“She inspired, and will continue to inspire, so many & I’m so grateful to have met her several times this last year,” Mnookin wrote in a Wednesday Twitter post.
She was also the first Menominee citizen to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the first Native American to earn a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Thomas is not the only justice who has failed to report sporting event tickets on their disclosures. Justice Elena Kagan attended a University of Wisconsin football game – sitting in the Chancellor’s Box – in 2017 that went unreported on her disclosure for that year, according to a Fix the Court review.
A University of Wisconsin- Madison student returned to campus Friday after witnessing her hometown of Lahaina being burned to the ground.
At about 4 p.m. Tuesday, Olivia Bozich looked outside her friend’s home in the Ka’anapali hillside to find “a big cloud of black smoke” and much of Lahaina, Hawaii, destroyed.
He’s also partnering with Alhaji Njai, founder of a Madison nonprofit, Project 1808, to build a college in Njai’s native Kabala, Sierra Leone. Njai, who has a doctorate from UW-Madison, is a research fellow in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the African Studies Program.
The sport of golf isn’t always approachable or accessible, especially for people of color. A group of friends and former Wisconsin Badgers athletes started an organization to expand the game of golf and reduce the assumptions and misconceptions involved.
In 1957, she became the first Menominee citizen to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a bachelor’s degree in social work. Deer went on to become the first Native American to earn a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Naomi Livesay was a mathematician who had been told by the University of Wisconsin that she could not pursue a PhD in math because, as one of the professors in the math department put it, “there is no place in higher mathematics for any woman, however brilliant,” according to the book, “Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project.”
From age four, Angelina volunteered at Shabbat services for a local nursing home, which she continued to do until her graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May. When she was younger, she would hand out grape juice or challah to participants. As she got older, she would play Chanukah songs on the violin. When in college, she led services herself and played the guitar. At a bittersweet final Shabbat service, Angelina received an award for the “largest percentage of one’s life as a volunteer.”
He began broadcasting in Appleton, including at Appleton Foxes baseball games, and spent time broadcasting University of Wisconsin football games. He latched on with a Columbus radio station in 1986, the first step toward his current gig in Cleveland.
Brian Schimming practically grew up on a college campus. His parents both worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lived on Lathrop Street for 37 years, less than a block from Camp Randall Stadium. He spent a lot of his time wandering the rolling hills and historic buildings on campus or trekking over to bustling downtown Madison.
Laura Monahan’s gifts go far beyond just the bare bones.
As the associate director and curator of osteology — bones and skeletons — for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum, she manages outreach programs, exhibitions, specimen collections, internships, tours, events, skeleton collections, grant writing and fundraising.
She went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, because it had been (in 1926) the first American university to offer a degree in dance. After she graduated, she moved to New York City — to be a dancer.
Several developments are taking shape on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, after the COVID-19 pandemic brought delays to some construction projects.
Nic Lewis: Naomi Livesay was born in 1916 in Montana. She went for a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell College in Iowa. Then she tried to pursue a PhD in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, but the department there wouldn’t let her.
McDonald retires this month after 35 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Imperial Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Through his rehabilitation, Capt. Church graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and he later earned a law degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He and Bella applied for and were granted a home from the foundation.
Mad City or Madtown might appear to be just plays on its name, but it also says something about its quirkiness. This is a town, after all, that has a National Mustard Museum and named the plastic pink flamingo as its city bird. The latter happened after the University of Wisconsin’s quad was plastered with a thousand plastic pink lawn flamingos overnight in 1979. That flamingo-bombing became an annual tradition and the city’s official bird.
I see you studied molecular biology as an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Did you always want to work on vaccines?
-No, absolutely not. When I first started out I was an academic purist and thought you should study knowledge for its own sake. I was fascinated by molecular biology.
Miss America 2023 talks about her experiences in pageantry and nuclear engineering studies at UW-Madison relate to the cinematic phenomena that fans are calling “Barbenheimer.”
The Madison Mallards and the Wisconsin Alumni Association are teaming up to bring “On Wisconsin Night” to the Duck Pond on Aug. 10. The first 1,000 fans through the gates at Warner Park will get a reversible hat with the Mallards and UW-Madison logos. In addition to the giveaway, there will also be appearances from Bucky Badger, the UW Spirit Squad and the UW Marching Band.
Noted: It also educates people and prevents schools from making mistakes like one experienced last year by Bang’s son, who was stopped from walking in his Evanston Township High School graduation ceremony because of what he was wearing. Miskobinis, who is now a freshman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said the day after the graduation ceremony, the school’s dean and dean of students hand-delivered his diploma and apologized for what had happened.
Noted: Protesters frequently targeted information technology, not only because of its role in the Vietnam war but also due to its association with the imprisoning forces of capitalism. In 1970, activists at the University of Wisconsin destroyed a mainframe during a building occupation; the same year, protesters almost blew one up with napalm at New York University.
The Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison has a Barbie collection dating back to 1961. That’s two years after she originally debuted in the same iconic black-and-white-striped bathing suit. The museum also has a Barbie dressed in a University of Wisconsin-Madison cheerleader uniform.
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer team is poised to make history in Australia and New Zealand with a chance to win the FIFA World Cup for a third time in a row. And Wisconsin businesses are taking advantage of the hype.
While today’s researchers are surprised, former faculty member and eventual dean of UW-Madison’s School of Engineering Morton O. Withey, wouldn’t be. The results being found are in tandem with the predictions he calculated by hand 90 years ago.
UW–Madison alum Aomawa Shields recounts her alternative career path in a new memoir about life, space and motherhood.
After netting a Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for writing a book about evictions in Milwaukee, Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond sought to tackle a broader lens: Why is there so much poverty in a nation as wealthy as the United States?
In his new book releasesd this year, “Poverty, by America,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison alum argues one underlying reason for poverty is that many Americans benefit from it.
Rose Lavelle, a star for the U.S. in the last World Cup four years ago, will be once again in the mix. The Cincinnati native played college soccer at the University of Wisconsin.
UW Health started screening ER and hospitalized patients for food insecurity in 2017, and screens children at clinic visits, spokesperson Emily Greendonner said. Patients needing food get food packages at discharge.
One in 12 Wisconsin families can’t afford the food they need, according to data before the COVID-19 pandemic, said the Wisconsin Food Security Project at UW-Madison. Food insecurity can contribute to chronic disease and poor mental health, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Noted: Amorphophallus titanum, the flower’s official name, is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Domes received a gift of a dormant corm — similar to a bulb or tuber — about 15 years ago from the University of Wisconsin and have since grown 10 corpse flower corms from the original.
Speaking of food, a pair of University of Wisconsin food science graduate students won “The Amazing Race 25,” winning the globetrotting contest that featured 11 teams.
Grace Stanke, who studied nuclear engineering at UW-Madison, tweeted Thursday morning that she’s looking for a “crossover feature,” considering her unique background.
Editor’s note: People of UW is a human interest series produced by features editors and associates. The series — published online and on our social media accounts — aims to highlight a student at the University of Wisconsin making an impact on the campus community. These Q&As are lightly edited for clarity and style.
(Image) Saharan dust is transported along the Saharan Air Layer. Note how few clouds develop in the area it sits. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
They’ve shared a household, a Pewaukee High School legacy, an NFL football field and now a cereal box.
Wheaties, the iconic brand that’s pictured prominent athletes on its orange cereal boxes since the 1930s, will release a new box that features J.J. and T.J. Watt on the front. The University of Wisconsin standouts have combined for four NFL Defensive Player of the Year trophies, and J.J. has been busy in his first offseason of retirement, recently announcing he’d be joining the NFL on CBS crew in the fall.
It was not an isolated push. As Sotomayor prepared for commencement weekend at the University of California, Davis law school, her staff pitched officials there on buying copies of signed books in connection with the event. Before a visit to the University of Wisconsin, the staff suggested a book signing.
“We’re doing it for the Carbone Cancer Center out at the University of Wisconsin. We’re both University of Wisconsin graduates. His sister died a couple of years ago, then my sister died this year on Palm Sunday of cancer, so we now had a cause and that’s when we decided let’s do this for cancer,” said Schmelter.
Ross Freshwater has a PhD in education leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a masters degree in teaching and curriculum from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Ohio State University.
The Milwaukee music festival said early Sunday that Yung Gravy, the rapper and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum who headlined Summerfest’s Generac Power Stage Friday night, will perform at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater at 7:30 p.m. July 6. Admission to the concert will be free with general admission to Summerfest.
Mr. Reed, who is 74, took out $3,300 in loans in the early 1970s to fund his studies at the University of Wisconsin. He worked for decades as a journalist, musician and fund-raiser for nonprofits, cobbling together a living off what were often low-income jobs. He paid $9,000 on his loans over the years — but interest and fees kept his balances ballooning, preventing him paying off his debt. Now, half a century after his college years, he owes $4,600 — more than he originally borrowed.
J.J. Watt is back in the NFL, but this time at the analyst desk.
The Pewaukee native and former University of Wisconsin defensive end announced on Twitter Thursday that he’ll be joining CBS Sports as an NFL studio analyst this fall on a multiyear deal.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin System has recently faced scrutiny from Republicans in the state Legislature over DEI efforts. Last week, GOP lawmakers voted to cut state funding for the UW System by $32 million while forcing the system to eliminate nearly 190 DEI jobs.
In December 2020, the district and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education announced an Early Literacy Task Force to look at how to teach students how to read and how to prepare teachers to do so. That task force published a 104-page report in December 2021 outlining 28 recommendations for the future of early literacy instruction in MMSD and in UW-Madison’s teaching preparation program.
Roots4Change, a Madison-based cooperative of Latina or indigenous doulas that started in 2018, has received grants from the state and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to expand its services, train new doulas and help medical providers better understand various Latino cultures. Another UW medical school grant has helped families get fresh food.
I’m headed out to Wisconsin – my dad went to the University of Wisconsin – this summer to go hang out with some of his teammates. It’s sort of like a mass family vacation… Taking that time to make sure doing things he would have really appreciated. I’m excited to do that this summer and be there with the people that I love.”
She holds a BS in Environmental Sciences and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
According to a release from the Miss Wisconsin Scholarship Organization, Szyryj (pronounced “sherry”) graduated last year from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication.
Ankita Bharadwaj joined UW–Madison’s Office of Human Resources as BIPOC Employee Retention Specialist in November 2022.
Dr. Shobhina G. Chheda is associate dean for medical education at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Victoria Solomon is Associate Professor in Community Development with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension.
Szyryj is a 2022 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Szyryj serves as an associate producer at NBC15 and was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022.
