Category: UW-Madison Related

(John) Jaeggi, who works at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison, is one of 42 judges from around the country charged with evaluating 2,249 entries in 113 classes in the contest, which concludes Thursday and is only open to U.S. dairy producers. The World Championship Cheese Contest is held on alternating years at Monona Terrace in Madison and, like its name indicates, is open to dairy producers around the world.

Danny Szydlowski, who is now working on a Ph.D. in freshwater and marine science at UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology, said that the declines could be caused by a fungal disease and by crayfish destroying their own habitat. The result has allowed native plants, snails and bluegill to recover, helping restore the ecosystems in several lakes.

I became a nuclear engineering PhD student at the University of Wisconsin. And the rest is history. I became a postdoc at Berkeley, a professor at the University of Illinois. I had no aspirations for a career in government, but someone put my name in the hat, and here I am in this administration, as a political appointee.

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.