Dane Demo Farms, a collaboration between local farmers, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Dane County Land & Water Resources Department, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, provides opportunities for farmers to directly research local impacts of conservation practices.
In the U.S., about 1.5% of natural gas is converted into chemicals that are used to make plastics and other consumer products, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There is a strong foundation for growth. The UW-Madison College of Engineering has one of the nation’s few remaining teaching and research reactors. It ranks No. 2 among all U.S. public universities in undergraduate and graduate education in “engineering physics,” a term that captures most nuclear energy programs.
At UW–Madison, Faulkner took a course about computing in medicine that was taught by a pioneering physician, Dr. Warner Slack, one of the first people to recognize the promise of the technology within health care.
Koepp said he never forgot his time growing up in Wisconsin and attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Koepp cited a “pretty terrific childhood” in Pewaukee as one of the things that led him to where he is now.
After returning to Wisconsin in 1963, he worked at the University of Wisconsin for over 30 years, first at the Primate Center and then at the center of Limnology, where he built testing equipment and maintained the research boats. He loved being near and on the water. Upon retirement from the University, he worked as a lock tender at Tenney Locks, where he made every boat patron smile. After fully retiring, Glen tended to all the local squirrels and birds, making sure they were fed every day. He often went fishing, even enjoying ice fishing.
Jerry graduated from Goodrich High School in Fond du Lac in 1965, before attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He left school after about two years to enter the workforce; however, returned to UW at age 43 when he completed his B.A. in 1994. He went on to earn his M.S. in Social Work at the Madison campus.
Beginning in 1979, Jerry began a concurrent career in law enforcement as a part-time police officer for the Village of Shorewood Hills. He rose to Lieutenant in 1981 and was appointed Chief of Police in 1996 where he remained until he retired in 2004. Jerry then moved to the UW-Madison Police Department, where he served for three more years, retiring again, as Assistant Chief in 2007.
She attended Luthor College in Decorah, Iowa, before transferring to UW-Madison, graduating in education. She was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. After graduation, she taught at Randall Elementary School and then at Midvale Elementary School in Madison. Later, she continued her education at UW, getting her master’s degree while working as a UW instructor supervising student teachers.
After graduating high school, she attended horticulture classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advancing her knowledge for running her own flower shop.
Edith Noriega never intended to become a teacher. But after working with students, Noriega transitioned to a bilingual resource specialist role at Schenk Elementary School on the city’s east side. She also enrolled last year in the school district’s new Grow Your Own program.
The program provides tuition, a $17,000 stipend and benefits for Madison Metropolitan School District staff to work toward an associate’s degree from Madison College. Participants are then guaranteed admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to work toward a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and teaching credentials.
Brown has critiqued some of the ways DEI has been carried out. When he read an audit of Universities of Wisconsin DEI programs conducted by the Legislative Audit Bureau on behalf of the Legislature, he was struck that there seemed to be no consistent definition throughout the system for DEI.
But he also considers the anti-DEI wave a backlash to the protests in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd. “That woke up the world,” Brown says. “There was a coming together, and it wasn’t even politicized like that.”
Hannah Berner never set out to be a comedian.
The 33-year-old stand-up originally had her sights set on tennis. She played all four years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduating, Berner gravitated towards making funny videos on social media. From there, she eventually found a passion being on stage and making people laugh.
Tinder may be a surprising place to start looking for a job in wealth management, but it worked for Lillian Turner, who now runs her own firm, Daring Greatly Wealth. While a finance major at the University of Wisconsin, Turner struggled to find anyone who would talk to her about wealth management, so she turned to the online dating app.
He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for two years, then entered the Naval Academy, graduating in 1952. After serving as a Navy test pilot, he was selected in September 1962 as a NASA astronaut in a group that would be trained for Gemini and Apollo flights.
Money was tight, so he applied for, and was accepted on, the navy’s Holloway plan, which gave him two years of a free engineering course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, plus flight training, sea duty and a commission. After two years it also led a senior officer to suggest to Lovell that he should renew his application to Annapolis. He was accepted, wrote his thesis on liquid fuelled rocketry, graduated in 1952, and soon afterwards married his childhood sweetheart, Marilyn Gerlach.
In 1967, Gorence completed journalism school at Marquette University and was a graduate student in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin Pickleball Club, which started two seasons ago, has become so popular that a second on-campus pickleball group has formed.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alum and journalist Alec Luhn, who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park, has been found alive, Luhn’s wife, Veronika Silchenko, told CBS News.
Another project cancelled by the Trump administration is a $3 million grant meant to help researchers at the University of Wisconsin work with the Brothertown Indian Nation to restore wild rice habitat in the Lake Winnebago watershed and study the effects of that restoration on the lake’s water quality.
Her is Hmong and came to the U.S. from Laos at age 4. Her family settled in Appleton, Wis., and she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The flower was received as a donation from UW-Madison in 2002, and last bloomed in 2023.
Susan Monarez, who was confirmed to the role by the U.S. Senate on July 30, grew up on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin and holds bachelor’s and doctorate degrees in microbiology and immunology from UW-Madison. She has drawn some attention as the first person to take on the job without a medical degree in more than 70 years, but she has spent her career in the health field.
Monarez, the first CDC director without a medical degree since 1953, holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focused on developing technologies to diagnose, treat and prevent infectious diseases.
Like the Skobot, most new A.I. technologies developed by Native scientists are designed for a specific language community. Jacqueline Brixey, a computer scientist formerly at the University of Southern California and now joining the University of Wisconsin, created a chatbot called “Masheli” that can communicate in Choctaw. Drawing from a collection of animal stories, the chatbot can listen and respond to users in both English and the target language, helping conversational skills.
True, the Tesla Resistance didn’t have the revolutionary romance of yesteryear: running through tear gas at the U of Wisconsin Dow Chemical demo (it made napalm) hand in hand with my then-girlfriend, Judy, who would soon leave me for a history grad student and break my heart. It didn’t have the grit of the People’s Park sieges in Berkeley in ’69, getting kicked in the stomach by Alameda County sheriff’s deputies on the way to the Santa Rita jail, throwing debris at the Northside home of H-bomb avatar Edward Teller. It didn’t even offer the thrill of marching across the Brooklyn Bridge during Occupy Wall Street and seeing the beacon of the 99 percent beamed onto the blank corporate slab of the Verizon Building, proclaiming ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE.
The bill was introduced following a report by news platform Wisconsin Right Now, which found that the University of Wisconsin System employs nearly 500 foreign workers on H-1B visas, with salaries totaling almost $43 million annually. The report also noted rising tuition rates at the same institutions.
Universities did great things during the 20th century. Presidents and faculty found strength and legitimacy through relevance. They helped in the all-out effort to win the Second World War. Universities anticipated the needs of the Cold War. Research labs produced products that improved people’s daily lives. The University of Minnesota patented Honeycrisp apples. The University of Wisconsin patented fortifying milk with vitamin D.
If there was a word to describe the essence of 2023 UW-Madison MFA graduate Meg Kim’s Invisible Cartographies, it would be lush: in language, in landscape, in memory, in longing. The winner of the 2023-2024 New Delta Review Chapbook Prize, Invisible Cartographies is rooted in place—geographies both physical and psychic made visible only by Kim’s careful practice of excavation, bred by her “mass of wanting.”
Hardtke said the department recognizes the importance of education and books as part of rehabilitation and maintains libraries at all institutions, offers books on electronic tablets and has educational partnerships with the University of Wisconsin System and the state’s technical colleges.
Among his losing battles was the 1970s fight over merging the University of Wisconsin in Madison with other state campuses to form the UW System. He was against it, as were his constituents on the Madison campus. He fought enacting a state lottery and opposed building the so-called SuperMax prison that Tommy Thompson later admitted was a big mistake.
Researchers at Northwestern University, Northeastern University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison analyzed the careers of 12,000 U.S.-based faculty across 15 disciplines, including business, sociology and chemistry.
They evaluated publication outcomes over an 11-year span, which includes the five years before and after those scholars got tenure. Last week, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America published the results of that analysis in a peer-reviewed paper, “Tenure and Research Trajectories.”
“Two hundred million dollars is not a lot of money when you have billions at stake, and any corporate person will tell you that,” said Donna E. Shalala, who was health secretary under President Bill Clinton and has led four schools, including the University of Miami and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Basically, they’re cutting their losses and ensuring their future — for at least a short period of time.”
Tso spent the rest of her childhood in India. In 2009, she moved to the United States with her husband, whom she met in India. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 with a nursing degree and has worked in healthcare ever since.
Henderson brushed off the experience, hoping it was a fluke. But after matching into residency at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, she overheard a medical student lamenting about their housing struggles and something clicked.
“The lightbulb went off in my head,” Henderson said. “I realized I think this is a nationwide issue and then really started to look into it from there.”
The conservative outlet Wisconsin Right Now reported that there are 495 staffers in Wisconsin’s university system who have the visa, which comes with roughly a $43 million annual price tag for salaries.
Two other well-known Blue Moon ice cream makers, both based in Madison — Chocolate Shoppe and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Babcock Dairy — didn’t respond to interview requests.
Snapshot Wisconsin, a community-based program utilizing cameras to monitor wildlife, was created a decade ago to involve community members in monitoring wildlife throughout Wisconsin. It was initially supported by a NASA community science grant received by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013.
She approached Tim with the idea and he encouraged her to do more research. So she enrolled in an ice-cream making course at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at the University of Wisconsin Madison and took a course from the University of Florida in Gainesville on how to run a successful ice cream business.
Before he became president, Usinger IV was studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has given back there over the years, helping build a Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery Building, which just opened in 2020.
Dr. James Ircink, the nonprofit’s current medical director, first became involved through the Foot Care Clinic. As a medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ircink began volunteering at the clinics and remained committed to the organization.
Earlier this year it was announced that the Wisconsin basketball legend would be honored for his accomplishments on the hardwood as a member of the 2025 University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame. He’ll be back in Madison for the induction ceremony during the weekend of Sept. 5-6.
And Kaminsky will be inducted as a first-time dad. Kaminsky, along with his wife, Ashley Brewer, announced on Sunday, July 20, the birth of their first child, Francis Stanley Kaminsky IV.
Three weeks after the incident, Kaus is reportedly back at work, according to the local outlet. While she is not yet guarding beachgoers, the college student is reportedly checking for beach badges as she prepares to head back to school at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Luis Hernandez, strategic communications director and associate athletic director for the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said the school has come up with other ways to fund its $198.9 million athletics budget, including new corporate sponsorships, such as adding the Culver’s logo to the Kohl’s Center basketball court.
They’ve also scheduled events like concerts and the chance to play indoor golf at Camp Randall Stadium. The upcoming Morgan Wallen and Coldplay concerts at the stadium are the first to be held there in nearly 28 years, Hernandez said.
UW students don’t pay athletic fees, and the university plans on spending the full $20.5 million on athletes that is allowed, he said.
Wisconsin’s new budget boosts some of the funding available to local communities, including those that are home to state buildings.
State buildings are exempt from property taxes, but Wisconsin does compensate the cities, villages and townships where those facilities are located. The increased funding will affect hundreds of communities that house state facilities ranging from prisons to universities to office buildings.
Gaitsgory, together with Dima Arinkin at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, made this relationship more precise in 2012; then, working alone, Gaitsgory followed up with a step-by-step outline of how the geometric Langlands might be proved.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Roselyn Pacheco spoke about the attacks immigrants are facing from the administration.
Former University of Wisconsin football player Nate White died last month after “a medical event that disrupted his breathing and heart functions,” according to a news release from police in Brookings, South Dakota.
Coon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad who performed with the Madison Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Renaissance Theaterworks, was nominated in 2017 for lead actress in a limited series or movie for “Fargo,” and in 2024 for lead actress in a drama series for “The Gilded Age.”
One study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found there are “no official statistics on the number of unauthorized immigrant dairy workers.”
“Estimates range from 46 percent; to as high as 90 percent, with the most used estimate being 70 percent,” the report said on Page 11.
A grave long marked only as “Unknown Soldier” in a quiet corner of Restlawn Memorial Park in Wausau was opened last month, as part of a statewide effort to identify missing service members through DNA technology.
The exhumation, carried out June 6, is part of the Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center. That project works to identify remains of service members declared missing in action, many of whom still have living relatives.
Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region have all the pieces to build a fusion industry here. UW-Madison is one of the top two fusion energy research universities in the country (MIT is the other). Amazingly, UW-Madison has spun out three of the world’s 45 fusion companies: SHINE Technologies; Type One Energy and Realta Fusion. And UW-Madison alumni work at all the major U.S. fusion companies that use magnetic (as opposed to laser) plasma containment.
Daniel Wright, a 6-foot-9 pitcher, was taken in the 10th round by the Chicago White Sox. In 2020, he walked on to play quarterback for the Wisconsin football team, then returned to baseball in 2022 at Iowa Western Junior College, before landing at Houston, then Iowa.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates founded Forage Kitchen in 2015, opening their first location on Madison’s State Street.
Riley graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BA in history and the University of Missouri with an MA in journalism.
In August, Metro Transit plans to collaborate with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Disability Cultural Center to help students on campus, including those with disabilities, to feel comfortable using the bus, added Dentice.
In addition to an established relationship with the local power company, he said the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the area’s “skilled workforce” made the county an attractive location.
“I just come here and try to be me and try to help Toby give us the best opportunity to win, whether we’re talking during the week, working on setups, different ideas,” said Majeski, who studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin before fulltime racing called.
Earlier this year, Dean Robbins brought his zeal and skill for succinct communication to his first book for adults, “Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State, the World and Me” (Wisconsin Historical Society Press).
Author Kashana Cauley began her career as an attorney before shifting to writing for TV (including the animated Fox series “The Great North” and “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”) and as a novelist.
“I’m a first-generation college student, so nobody in my family really knew what college was for, how to get there or what it is you might do with such a degree. I don’t think that’s uncommon among Black American families; only two or three generations of us have been going to college. So I did my undergrad in economics and political science at the University of Wisconsin, but I had no idea how you got a job because I didn’t know you were supposed to get jobs through your friends’ parents; my parents sent me to college so I didn’t have to work on the assembly line at General Motors like my dad, so I was completely confused.”
