Category: UW-Madison Related

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and freshman Jessica Randall started a project collecting clothes for sexual assault survivors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

After developing pelvic nerve pain in November 2021, Yvonne Pawlowicz said she waited five months to see a neurologist at UW Health and another four months to see a gynecologist.

UW-Madison doesn’t have an esports program, but it does have an official esports club with more than 1,500 members and competitive teams for 10 different esports, said club president Michael Verban.

A graduate of UW-Madison, Sue Patterson sits on several university boards and is excited for her event with the Wisconsin Book Festival.

If you’ve never heard of Mildred Harnack that’s about to change. By any measure, the free-thinking young woman from Wisconsin is an American hero.

Harnack was born in Wisconsin where she studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to Germany.

Secondly, the University of Wisconsin explains that baking soda is effective for cleaning “because it is a mild alkali and can cause dirt and grease to dissolve easily in water for effective removal.”

Thomas went on to earn two degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one in psychology and one in English. He says he uses both when doing readings.

Noted: Randy Melchert, the founder and leader of the Academy of Excellence, is a graduate of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, a widely known conservative Christian school. Melchert, who has a law degree from the University of Wisconsin, has also been active in Republican politics and in legal organizations, primarily as an advocate for religious causes.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, Hermes moved to the Motor City from Oklahoma City, where he covered politics and did a recurring fact-checking segment for the 2018 Oklahoma governor election, according to his WDIV biography.

The Braggs dramatize Sharpe’s pinball life, starting with his early days as a pinball wizard, as a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1971. The character—call him Roger—is played by Mike Faist, in his first-released film since his breakout role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” and the new film gives him the time, the space, and the pace to deliver a far subtler and richer performance.

Quoted: “There are many local legends of Al Capone in Wisconsin, most of which I suspect were not true,” said Robert Ritholz, who has history degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and takes friends on informal tours of Chicago mafia sites, sometimes in his antique Rolls-Royce.

“There really is very little evidence that Capone spent a whole lot of time in Wisconsin, and when he was in the state, he seems to have behaved himself,” Ritholz said.

Noted: After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Tardy began working with UW-Whitewater and Mount Mary University before returning to Milwaukee.

Aldo Leopold, the famed conservationist and professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin believed that moral beliefs evolve over time to become more inclusive of the natural world. And what’s happening in Colorado suggests Leopold was right.

Lydia Zajichek, a student organizing fellow with Rise, which advocates for making college more affordable, waited until 3:30 a.m. with some of her schoolmates to get the 52nd spot in line. Though she got a scholarship to attend the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she’s a sophomore, her parents have over $100,000 in student loan debt.

Born to working-class parents in Toledo, she was the first in her family to go to college, graduating from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1968. She earned her master’s degree and pursued doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Not bad for a Polish-American kid from Toledo.

She worked at local shops and attended a course on ice cream at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in 2018 formed Koolfi Creamery, becoming the brand’s chief ice cream engineer while Anji helps run the business as a co-founder.

While some people speaking during the council’s public comment period Tuesday night made comparisons of the situation today to that of the 1960s, the report says those considerations do not take into account changes to UW enrollment and that there are significantly fewer non-UW campus area housing options available.

Across the country, 43 million Americans, including students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are waiting to see if some or all of their student loans could be forgiven as the U.S. Supreme Court started hearing arguments about President Joe Biden’s program’s legality.

When Sara Nelson agreed to come to Madison, Wis., to discuss the future of labor at an ideas festival on the University of Wisconsin campus in the fall of 2021, it was supposed to be just another appearance by one of America’s most engaged and energetic labor leaders. Then, Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, ended up having a pair of surgeries that required her to use a wheelchair for several months. Of course, she could have canceled the trip. But that’s not how Sara Nelson rolls.

Walter Mirisch, a 1942 UW-Madison graduate and Oscar-winning producer of films like “In the Heat of the Night” and “West Side Story,” died Friday at 101.

Ingolia learned Spanish in school, taking classes starting in the fifth grade in her native Louisiana and continuing through her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In the last few days, the University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering student answered questions and played the violin during an appearance at her college campus, unveiled her crown, sash and other items for “A Woman Who Can” exhibition in Oshkosh, and attended a meet-and-greet at Point Beach Nuclear Plant in Two Rivers.