Category: UW-Madison Related

My favorite bourbon, J. Henry & Sons Patton Road Reserve, comes from a family-run distillery just outside my hometown in Madison, WI. Third-generation farmers, Joe and Liz started distilling bourbon in 2008 and use an heirloom red corn, developed at the University of Wisconsin in 1939.

Atechnical issue caused Wisconsin Public Radio to go off the air in the Madison area from about 5:30 to 9 a.m. Tuesday, network representatives said.

Between now and when the canoes and fragments are removed from the tank, Thomsen, along with Sissel Schroeder, a professor of archaeology in the anthropology department at UW-Madison, will be evangelizing about the canoes. Two of their talks will be during Canoecopia at the Alliant Energy Center, one on March 7 and the other March 9.

The rest of the top ten lobbying spenders in 2024 are rounded out by the Wisconsin Property Taxpayers Association, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ATC Management Inc. – a transmission lines company, the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, according to the report. All of these organizations spent at least $350,000 lobbying state officials in 2024.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Jan. 20 designed to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs beyond the federal government, and it alludes to potential legal action against private entities with DEI programs.

The program, Bucky’s Pell Pathway, gives Pell-grant eligible Wisconsin residents enrolled in on-campus programs grants, scholarships and work study “sufficient to meet their full financial needs,” according to UW-Madison.

Sam Bartel, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and Chinese studies, aims to help change that. He’s now director of racing and operations at the Lake Minnetonka Sailing School in suburban Minneapolis.

After most recently working as the adult faith and evangelization coordinator for St. Christopher Parish in Verona and Paoli — part of Divine Mercy Pastorate — where she is also currently a parishioner, Swanke has accepted a position at the Lumen Center, an ecumenical think tank on the UW campus. The Lumen Center, an initiative of the Stephen & Laurel Brown Foundation, has a mission to influence the university “at the level of ideas,” Swanke explained.

Schroll, 31, got the idea for Fetch as a 20-year-old studying business at UW-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion has been removed from his position after an internal review found “concerns about financial operations and fiscal judgements,” according to the school.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison removed its chief diversity officer from his position after an internal financial review sparked concerns, university leaders announced Wednesday.

Dr. LaVar Charleston, who has led the division for the past three years, will leave his role as vice chancellor and return to his backup appointment as a clinical professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the School of Education.

Current DDEEA staff will report to Isbell on a temporary basis and day-to-day operations will be overseen by a four-person leadership cabinet, according to the email. Fiscal authority for the division has been moved to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration.

Dr. LaVar Charleston removed from role for ‘concern about financial operations, fiscal judgments in division,’ will return to backup position as professor.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison removed Dr. LaVar Charleston from his position as chief diversity officer due to “concern” about Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement “financial operations and fiscal judgment.”

On Trump’s proposal for mass deportations, Evers pointed to an April 2023 survey by UW-Madison’s School for Workers that found more than 10,000 undocumented immigrant workers in the state perform an estimated 70% of the labor at Wisconsin’s dairy farms. The researchers behind the survey said, without those workers, “the whole dairy industry would collapse overnight.”

Several wildfires continue to burn in California, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate and leaving thousands without homes, including two UW-Madison graduates.

He was also a prolific painter, musician and print artist who came to Madison every summer starting in the late 1990s and developed a long-term collaboration with UW-Madison’s Tandem Press, then-director Paula Panczenko recalled in 2022.

“We are watching all of those things very closely to ensure that we’re meeting Wisconsinites where they want to consume public media,” said Jordan Siegler, interim executive director of the Division of Public Media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which along with the Educational Communications Board oversees PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio.

“I put it together and then we talk about it. It’s not like we have an architect,” said Anderson, who shared the design with his classmates in an MBA program he’s in at UW-Madison. “The comradery we have in our leadership corps really helps in our construction process. But our volunteer firefighters are really what makes this happen.”

Since the fires started, roughly 200,000 have received an evacuation notice. Among those who chose to leave their home were UW Madison Alum Raleigh Harris and UW Madison freshman Clementine Harris.

Founded in 1998, the Wisconsin Innocence Project is a law clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s law school. Students and staff work to exonerate Wisconsinites who claim innocence in primarily serious cases, such as sexual assault and homicide, Burg said.

Now, Patterson will take over for the time being. But Patterson is no stranger to Madison. In addition to serving in his current role for about six years, he’s also been captain, lieutenant and sergeant for the Madison Police Department. In total, he’s spent over 26 years with the department, his LinkedIn page indicates. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“On Oct. 7, I was visiting my daughter, Lexi, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,” says Sachs. “Our phones started lighting up with messages and then we started to see the horrendous videos that were being put up on social media. And I think like so many in the Jewish community, we felt gutted.”

Whether the pause will affect employment in the area isn’t clear either. Microsoft did say that goodwill projects in the area, like the “AI Co-Innovation Lab” the tech giant is building with the University of Wisconsin, will continue.

When de la Torre began her doctoral work in the mid-1990s, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the renowned primatologist Charles Snowdon, she thought she would study how tamarin habitats affect their vocalizations, but she soon switched to pygmy marmosets. Their smaller home ranges—often less than 2.5 acres—made it easier to collect data.

Under UW-Madison’s current policy, employees can use accrued sick leave, vacation days, banked leave or personal holidays after a family member dies. A new proposal encourages the university to add a separate, paid bereavement leave category for all employees, including faculty, staff, graduate student employees, postdoctoral fellows and others.

Photo caption: Former President Carter talks about his anti-poverty program, the Atlanta Project, in Madison in 1994. More than 1,000 people came to hear Carter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Union Theater.

Siva’s journey into entrepreneurship reads like a Silicon Valley dream turned into crypto reality. After earning his Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Siva began his tech career at Oracle in India, later interning at Amazon during his graduate studies. His pivotal role at Google Cloud’s Sunnyvale office marked the start of a promising corporate career.

Dr. Torsheika Maddox is senior operations officer and chief of staff for the UW-Madison Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement (DDEEA). She has worked for the university for over 18 years in a number of roles supporting contributions towards efforts to improve access, empower inclusive community, and enhance diversity, belonging, and equity for the university and greater Madison community.

The 193 absentee ballots were left uncounted across three wards on the west side of Madison, near the isthmus and in the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus area.

Grill is also a Credentialed Manager and University of Wisconsin-Madison Certified Public Manager with a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Concordia University.

During his years of not speaking, Francis earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied oil spills. Then in 1989, after the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil, the U.S. Coast Guard asked him to help write new pollution regulations.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Muslim student collaborated with Jewish Social Services, the Alpha Lambda Rho Muslim interest sorority and campus student services offices to pack essential items for newly arrived refugees.

Before being elected mayor, Rhodes-Conway was a senior associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy — a progressive think tank — and was the managing director of the university’s Mayors Innovation Project. She was also treasurer of her neighborhood association and sat on numerous city committees addressing transportation and the environment.