Afederal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit brought against the University of Wisconsin System over its decision to reinstate former Wisconsin Badgers football player Quintez Cephus without seeking input from a woman who alleged she was sexually assaulted by Cephus.
Noted: Since March, there have been a number of high-profile suicides of college student-athletes across the U.S., including Katie Meyer, a goalkeeper on Stanford’s soccer team; Sarah Shulze, a top runner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lauren Bernett, a standout softball player for James Madison University, and Arlana Miller, a star cheerleader at Southern University and A&M College in Louisiana.
Noted: The company will contribute materials from its Mandiant Academy courses, she said, and plans to use the platform to recruit candidates who will be familiar with the company’s tools and able to staff its response jobs.
Four academic institutions—New York University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin—will be part of the initial launch.
Noted: Like Willingham, Brown said he did everything possible to avoid becoming a victim of gun violence. He got good grades and test scores, and he went out of state for school, too, to the University of Wisconsin.
“I don’t have to lean towards the streets and be involved in nonsense that I don’t need myself being a part of,” he said.
An IT manager for UW-Madison’s Laboratory of Genetics, the 39-year-old has tried to channel his online hobby toward a good cause, too. He and local attorney Zeshan Usman have donated about $600 to causes around Madison since the Italian beef reviews kicked off.
“I must say that it is an exploratory project,” said UW-Madison graduate student Maitreyee Sanjiv Marathe. “I will not claim by any means that this is the solution for energy access for people experiencing homelessness or underserved communities, but it is definitely one of the pieces of the puzzle.”
The idea was generated in a UW-Madison competition called the Solympics in summer 2021. The task was to create kiosk prototypes for the Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps, an organization out of Racine that serves young adults and military veterans.
Richard Goodkin’s novel “Mourning Light” is a book 30 years in the making.
Or 84 years, if you consider its connections to Daphne du Maurier’s classic 1938 Gothic novel “Rebecca,” a book that haunts “Mourning Light” like the memory of a lost loved one.
Goodkin, a French professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has also published another novel in French, began working on the first draft of “Mourning Light” in 1993. It was two years after his partner had died in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, and the novel is also about a UW professor coming to grips with his grief.
NASA is releasing new images from deep space thanks in part to a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate.
Doctor Ken Sembach is the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute and helped launch the James Webb telescope back in December. Sembach stood with President Joe Biden while the first images from the telescope were released Monday night. Sembach graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992.
Noted: For this effort, Parr will draw from his master’s degrees in water resources management and public policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He will also build upon his past work implementing the Flood Resilience Scorecard, a community assessment of flood risk and resilience.
Unusually for a young woman in the early 20th century, Anna self-funded her education abroad, earning both an undergraduate degree and a Master’s degree in education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Anna was inspired by America’s democratic freedoms and education system, which she came to believe was crucial to progress and the healthy functioning of a free society.
Alexandra Villa has spent her summer examining rocks on the ocean floor in order to learn more about carbon dioxide in the sky.
Villa, a UW-Madison geoscience graduate student, is a scientist on board the International Ocean Discover Program’s Expedition 393. Her research will help examine ways to help combat climate change and make predictions about the Earth’s future climate.
Noted: A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed that adults’ habits also heavily influence how their kids behave, especially around technology.
Noted: “You’ll know you’re in the tension zone when you’re heading north and … oaks that are dominant in southern Wisconsin, such as bur, black and white, meet up abruptly with red and white pine as well as paper birch and tamarack swamps that are more characteristic of the north,” writes David Mladenoff in the Fall 2012 issue of Grow magazine, a publication of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Noted: Crim previously served as the assistant state superintendent for student and school success at the Department of Public Instruction, and before that, worked for two decades at the University of Wisconsin System in various roles, including assistant coach for women’s basketball and director of community relations for UW-Madison.
Noted: His Wisconsin connection arose through the UniverCity Alliance, which aims to connect the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s work with people around the state.
When a lecture he was slated to give got canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, UniverCity Alliance managing director Gavin Luter said he pulled together local government staffers to discuss Kalkstein’s work — which “snowballed” to form the partnership including Milwaukee city and county, Dane County, the city of Madison and the state health department.
James Edward Mills frequently writes for his website, joytripproject.com, which includes an “Anti-Racism in the Outdoors” (ARITO) resource guide. And he teaches “Outdoors for All,” an undergraduate course on diversity, equity and inclusion in outdoor recreation and public land management for the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Brown told us he made sure to have good grades and test scores. And like Willingham, he went out of state to the University of Wisconsin in part to escape gun violence in Chicago.
Shortly after my husband and I married, and before 1973, I found I was pregnant. We were just starting our doctorate studies at the University of Wisconsin. We drove to Pennsylvania in the dead of winter for an abortion by a real physician, Dr. Robert Spencer, whose obituary later appeared in Newsweek and Time.
The franchise was eventually sold to John Fisher and Lew Wolff. Wolff attended the University of Wisconsin with then-MLB commissioner Bud Selig; the two reportedly were fraternity brothers. Lacob went on to buy the Warriors with Peter Guber in 2010.
A devoted Badger fan, she decided she needed an alpaca sweater that would rep her team. She grabbed a notebook and sketched the design she wanted — a red and white sweater with “Wisconsin” across the chest — and showed it to one of the artisans knitting at the market. In her bare bones Spanish, she asked if the woman could make it.
As a young woman, Essinger had funded herself through several years of study at the University of Wisconsin and believed that through education, humanity could progress. All this was in jeopardy when Hitler came into power in 1933. After reading Hitler’s autobiography, “Mein Kampf,” in the 1920s, Essinger believed Germany would plunge into an abyss under him. Well before the first racial laws were introduced in April 1933, she could see that the hatred and violence openly promoted by the Nazi Party stood in opposition to everything she was trying to show her pupils about tolerance, respect, justice and compassion.
Noted: But there are lessons to learn from the little-known story of the one school that escaped Nazi Germany. The principal, Anna Essinger, or “Tante Anna” as she was known to her pupils, outmaneuvered Hitler’s regime and smuggled her entire school to the safety of Britain. Her success rested in part on her shrewd judgment, prompt action and firm commitment to freedom of thought inspired by the American educational system.
As a young woman, Essinger had funded herself through several years of study at the University of Wisconsin and believed that through education, humanity could progress.
Noted: The program was organized in 2021 by Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Milwaukee Water Commons, Milwaukee Community Sailing Center, Coastline Services LLC and University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. That pilot effort has been renewed this summer.
The “doodle” on Google’s landing page Wednesday, created by Alanah Astehtsi Otsistohkwa (Morningstar) Jewell, a French First Nations artist from Oneida Nation of the Thames, honors the comic on what would have been his 71st birthday.
More than 20 years ago, the University of Wisconsin at Madison apologized for digitally adding the face of a Black student into a photograph of students cheering at a football game, which was featured on the cover of an admissions brochure. In 2019, a local TV-news station reported that York College of Pennsylvania edited two minority students into a billboard for the college.
In honor of the Cubs playing at American Family Field this week, I’m featuring the music video for “Swing State,” the title track from the new album by Wisconsin musical legend, pianist Ben Sidran. (Although one born in Chicago, I should add!) If you’re not familiar with Sidran’s career, he was in a band at the University of Wisconsin—Madison with Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs when they were all students there in the early-to-mid sixties. But when Miller and Scaggs left Madison to earn their fame in the Bay Area scene, Sidran stayed behind and finished his degree. He’s since been a sideman and even a producer for both of those rock stars (and several others) on occasion in the years since, but mostly he’s released his own well-regarded jazz albums as a side pursuit to his career as a music scholar, writer and educator.
At age 11, Hill moved to the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s reservation where his father had grown up. As a young boy, he was particularly inspired by Dick Gregory, a comedian who supported the Native American civil rights movement through activism and comedy. Hill wanted to do the same thing, so he later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied drama and speech.
At age 11, Hill moved to the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin’s reservation where his father had grown up. As a young boy, he was particularly inspired by Dick Gregory, a comedian who supported the Native American civil rights movement through activism and comedy. Hill wanted to do the same thing, so he later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied drama and speech.
The medical director of UW Health’s immunization program, Dr. James Conway, says the goal is to get to a point where we can continue to update the vaccines in response to the circulating variants, just like we do with the yearly flu vaccine.
Noted: Now, Schram, Perr and Granados attend Fox Valley Technical College; Retzlaff goes to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Roeper is a student at Ripon College.
Shekeba Samadzada and Dan Hess are chefs at UW Health who have a very special recipe for a traditional Afghan stew called vegetable korma.
Colley told the Free Press Thursday that the group is also targeting The Cleveland Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas A&M, The University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for use of animals in biomedical research.
Ravid is no stranger to broadcasting. Growing up in Chicago, he aspired to become a Top 40 deejay or a Cubs play-by-play guy. As a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he served as a deejay and then music director for the school’s radio station in the early 1970s.
The Leopold Shack journals, housed at Steenbock Memorial Library at UW-Madison, will be digitized so they can be shared virtually around the world. The digital work will also include virtual tours of the Shack, redesigning self-guided, in-person tours of the Shack and holding more “Shack-focused events.” The efforts will bring more people to the Shack either through the foundation’s website or in-person.
The explosion, which attracted attention throughout the Near West Side neighborhood, came while facilities staff were completing a safety check at the plant. The device malfunctioned after staff attempted to turn off steam in the area near Charter and Spring street.
Home to the University of Wisconsin, renting can become competitive when school is in session, which has driven up demand and costs. Still, the Wisconsin state capitol offers breweries, festivals and numerous James Beard Award-winners helping to elevate the city’s already popular food scene.
Newman, a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has offered support for a $15 minimum wage and the Green New Deal, has disputed certain aspects of the allegations and the House Ethics Committee investigated the alleged scandal. In a unanimous vote, the Office of Congressional Ethics signaled there was reason to believe Newman had made the employment promise.
UW-Madison’s 2015 campus Master Plan called for both buildings to eventually be demolished — so when the announcement came last fall that the buildings would come down, it was “not a surprise,” Wilson said.
Noted: The Kern Institute collaborates and shares ideas on new approaches to medical education with a number of other schools through what’s called the Kern National Network.
The other founding members of the network are the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
The Madison Forward Fund is partnered with the coalition along with the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty and the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research.
He never gave up trying to improve public education, particularly for disadvantaged and struggling children. He served on school panels. He was involved in his neighborhood, at his church and on the UW-Madison campus. He was part of the state racial disparities task force that led to historic police reforms in Wisconsin. He connected our news organization to sources we didn’t have before.
Noted: The new HEXWAVE system will be tested this summer at a Hindu temple near Atlanta, the University of Wisconsin and the Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Noted: The June 16 news article “Study: Air pollution reduces global life expectancy by more than two years” made the startling point that breathing dirty air has more of an impact on global life span than alcohol, cigarettes, terrorism or conflict. Think this is just a problem for the more crowded and less-developed parts of the world? A study conducted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison showed that eliminating air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels would prevent 50,000 premature deaths and provide more than $600 billion in health benefits each year in the United States.
Noted: She started producing music, drawing equally from her childhood opera training and love of noise, while in college at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her debut, The Spoils, was released by Sacred Bones in 2009, when she was still a student, after which she moved to Los Angeles. After time in the Northwest and the Northeast, and four more albums later, she moved into a house she built with her two uncles, a contractor and an electrical engineer, on the land where she grew up.
Noted: Last September, NIAID awarded approximately $36.3 million to three different institutions — the University of Wisconsin, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and Duke University — to conduct research and develop the all-in-one coronavirus shot.
Noted: Patterson spoke to Fox News Digital while on his book tour — among other places, he was stopping in Madison, Wisconsin, for a book event just a few days ago.
And he said he had to grab some ice cream from the student union at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he said. (His wife attended the university.)
After graduating from Illinois State University and the University of Wisconsin Law School, Brown began her career at the Division of Business and Professional Regulation. “I learned so much working in an environment with so much variety,” she says. “It was a lot of fun.”
Cities can conduct a climate assessment internally or partner with a local college, university, nonprofit, or disclosure organization, like CDP, for analyses and planning help. Price said Madison is working with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to map the city’s urban heat island effect and help the city develop a plan to minimize these effects in an equitable way and promote community health and well-being.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Carbon-Negative Ready-Mix Concrete Building Components Through Direct Air Capture – $2,256,250
Noted: Haanstad graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2000 and was named U.S. Attorney in 2016. He held the post until 2018.
Noted: Despite those artistic influences and alluring drama, Schultz first pursued his dream of being a jet pilot or astronaut when he headed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study astronautical engineering.
Born in Ulm, Germany, Essinger was the oldest of nine children. At the age of 20, she accepted an aunt’s invitation to join her in America and eventually enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, where she received her master’s degree in education. During her stay in America, she became so drawn to the humanitarian values of the Quakers that at the conclusion of World War I she joined a Quaker relief mission and returned to Germany as a liaison officer in charge of organizing hundreds of school kitchens to feed hungry children.
Funding for the restoration will come from Madison and UW grants.
Noted: Mitchell, who lives in Windsor, is the presiding judge of the juvenile division in Dane County and oversees cases within the county’s high-risk drug court program. He is a former prosecutor for the county and was the director of community relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before first being elected judge in 2016.
Having studied in the late 1960s at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where his first child was born, Mr. Kasai could be counted on for a robust defense of Japan’s alliance with the U.S. and skepticism about Beijing’s motives.
He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School in 2010. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School where he teaches a course in juvenile justice.
Wisconsin residents age 60 or older may audit classes for free at colleges in the University of Wisconsin System. Enrollment is dependent upon availability and approval by the instructor.
At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Catholic student center tried to keep as many community programs going as possible even during the pandemic’s darkest moments, said its director, the Rev. Eric Nielsen.
On May 19, Øverby was inducted into the Folk Alliance International’s Folk DJ Hall of Fame, joining a rarified list of broadcasters around the world, including BBC’s Bob Harris, the CBC’s Holger Peterson and Radio Nacional de España’s Manolo Fernández.
Noted: Golla earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, one in political science and the other in history. He also earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Marian University. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership and policy analysis at UW-Madison.
