Category: UW-Madison Related

Evers presented 20-year-old Grace Stanke with a certificate of recognition Saturday for her time as Miss Wisconsin, as a Nuclear Engineering student at UW-Madison and her accomplishment of winning Miss America.

He spent three years in the Army Air Forces, teaching radar operations, mostly in Madison, Wis. There he met Evelyn Basse, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.

Grace Stanke will be in town for several events, including a meet-and-greet Friday at a special homecoming event at Shannon Hall Lobby at the UW-Madison Memorial Union. UW-Madison staff, students and the public will get the chance to meet and take photographs with Stanke from 4:00-6:30 p.m. The event is free.

Raised in Stevens Point, Payne grew up learning how to fish, trap and hunt from his father along the Wisconsin River. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in communications and urban and regional planning.

A golden retriever whose story captured the hearts of Super Bowl viewers three years ago will be honored again this Sunday.

Ryan will be speaking at UW-Madison on February 22nd. His speech will cover some of the topics he seeks to address in his book, including ways to maintain the nation’s social contract.

According to UW-Madison spokeswoman Kelly Tyrrell, the university tries to minimize its salt use to protect the city’s waterways. Some of those efforts include closing redundant sidewalks and steps, removing snow prior to salting and using a liquid brine solution before snow falls.

Klingelhoets, 72, a former UW-Madison tennis coach, grabbed his auger and made a quick dash to the exhausted and panicked Keenan, who was fighting for her life. While holding the blade end of the cork-screw auger, Klingelhoets extended the handle end to Keenan, who grabbed hold, and then, at the urging of Klingelhoets, began kicking her feet as Klingelhoets pulled, his boots planted in the snow to give him leverage. Working together, Keenan was finally able to slide on her belly onto thicker ice, then crawl and ultimately walk away from the open water.

When I left the University of Wisconsin in 2011, I’d borrowed around $30,000 in student loans. I don’t know the exact balance, because I didn’t think about or look at the debt for at least four years. When a woman from the university’s financial aid office finally got me on the phone in late 2014, she let me know my loans were (obviously) in default. She also explained how to get out.

The New York Times writer then said that if Netanyahu “wanted to speak tomorrow” at the University of Wisconsin, “they’d have to bring out the National Guard,” arguing the prime minister couldn’t address the campus due to large-scale opposition.

Exhuming a Wisconsin State Journal editorial from Jan. 19, 1923.

At the University of Wisconsin, according to Foerstel, agents watched a Soviet national reading the Russian newspaper “Pravda” and then asked a librarian if that copy “had been marked up.”

Starting his successful career at 14, Skilling was hired by WKKD in Aurora while attending West Aurora High School. He went to Madison in 1970 to study meteorology at the University of Wisconsin. This year marks his 45th anniversary at WGN.

Columbia College Science Professor Natalie Gosnell is making headlines for an interview she did which addresses how racism plays a strong role in her field. Gosnell, who received her doctorate in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, gave an interview with Colorado College’s student newspaper in which she shared her thoughts.

Randle El is charged in the February 2020 deaths of Brittany McAdory and Seairaha Winchester.

Kay LeClaire, a Wisconsin artist and activist accused of faking various Native American identities, resigned as the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s first ever community leader in residence at the School of Human Ecology and the Center for Design and Material Culture, WPR reported. The university said in a statement that LeClaire worked there from March through last month and received stipend payments totaling $4,877, all from private gifts and grants. Critics say LeClaire is white with no Native American ancestry.

School board members, dressed in business casual and carrying black folders, stuck out amongst the bathing suit clad families at the Great Wolf Lodge during a recent December weekend. While children streamed past, running towards the water slides, the school board representatives from across Wisconsin and other midwestern states walked past a “UW-Madison Department of Political Science” sign into a reserved meeting room.

Noted: Many say LeClaire took pride in their heritage. They served on the state Department of Justice’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force, earned speaking gigs and had a paid residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sami Schalk, a UW-Madison associate professor of gender and women’s studies, called the news “deeply disappointing.”

“It just makes no sense to me why someone would do it,” Schalk, who identifies as Black, said. “Because there’s so many ways to be an ally to a community and be very involved in creating change for a community that you believe in, to be a part of a community without claiming something that you’re not.”

They apparently attended the University of Wisconsin and in the summer of 2018 married fellow Hamilton alum Adam Pagenkopf, a research specialist at UW, it was reported.

LeClaire, who has identified as “two spirit” — a term many Indigenous people use to describe a non-binary gender identity — also had a paid residency at the University of Wisconsin and membership on the board of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force at the Wisconsin Department of Justice. The group is working to end abduction and homicide against indigenous women in the state.

LeClaire, under the byline nibiiwakamigkwe, authored a commentary article for Tone Madison in November 2021 about the raising of the Ho-Chunk Nation flag on the UW-Madison campus. We can no longer stand behind this commentary, because in the piece LeClaire falsely presents themselves as an Indigenous person. By publishing this article, Tone Madison presented LeClaire as a credible voice on the experiences of Indigenous people in Madison and on the UW campus. We apologize for our role in creating this harm.

In addition to becoming a member and co-owner of giige, LeClaire earned several artists’ stipends, a paid residency at the University of Wisconsin, a place on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force and many speaking gigs and art exhibitions, not to mention a platform and trust of a community – all based on an ethnic identity that appears to have been fully fabricated.

Now an English and Asian American studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nguyen teaches others how to shape their own thoughts and experiences into meaningful stories. “Find that perspective,” she encourages them. “Meld into it. Use it.”

Noted: “I’m really delighted that my small contribution, because I have a face and because I’m loud because I can talk, that we made a difference.” He goes on to list some of his achievements which included getting SeaWorld to change their policy on orca whales, releasing cats that were allegedly being mistreated at the University of Wisconsin (he was arrested at both protests). He’s also satisfied if a protest ends up in just one person changing their habits after learning about animal cruelty.

Noted: Payne received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in communications and urban and regional planning.

Noted: Raised in Stevens Point, Payne grew up learning how to fish, trap and hunt from his father along the Wisconsin River. He now lives in Plymouth with his family, and is still an avid outdoorsman and conservationist. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in communications and urban and regional planning.

Payne holds bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in communication and urban and regional planning, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin-Madiso