Category: UW-Madison Related

Noted: Born in 1902, Mildred Fish grew up poor on the west side of Milwaukee in a series of boardinghouses, the youngest daughter of an unreliable father. After his death, her mother took her daughter to Maryland for a few years. But Mildred returned here to attend the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and taught English as a grad student. At UW she also met Arvid Harnack, a visiting scholar from Germany working on his doctorate. They married in 1926.

His passion for travel started as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when he had the opportunity to study abroad in Prague in 2012. He decided then to make seeing the world a priority.

Noted: Schmelzer has a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in recreation resource management and also served 14 years in the United States Air Force and the Wisconsin Air National Guard.

Noted: Mr. Thomas, 43, said he got a taste of running a business while attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He was captain of his college bowling team for two years, and organized an on-campus league five nights a week. “I would call that my entry into entrepreneurship,” he said.

Noted: Mildred Fish was born in Milwaukee in 1902; her husband, Arvid Harnack, was German. They met as graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, and eventually settled in Berlin.

Noted: A native of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Dolinsky, 53, worked for stations in Escanaba, Michigan, and Davenport, Iowa, before joining CLTV as a general assignment reporter in 1992.

Noted: Malone has a master of arts in business from the Wisconsin School of Business at University of Wisconsin–Madison and a fine arts degree from the University of Southern California. He and his wife and their two daughters, all Midwest natives, will move to Minneapolis this summer.

Noted: The attraction probably wasn’t our recent swampy weather; Gunkel was born and raised in Waukesha County, and went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ron Jetty, a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota and Turtle Mountain Chippewa, is executive director of Information Technology Academy at the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Assistant Director of DoIT Academic Technology.

Christopher Kilgour is tribal programs manager for the Information Technology Academy at the UW-Madison, where he coordinates efforts to bring Lac du Flambeau and Oneida youth into IT programs at UW.

Noted: Public-sector graduate student employee unions are much more advanced than their private-sector equivalents, Herbert said, after the first contract was ratified in 1970 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While state laws differ, in general their efforts have been more stable.

Since the beginning, their friendship has grown out of simple gestures. The best friends met when Greg Klatkiewicz, now 71, started bumming cigarettes from Gary “Zooks” Bezucha, 70, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where they were both physical therapy students in the 1970s.

“Through negotiation with the UW we were able to get Tom his graduate school certificate. So at that ROTC ceremony, he was given that and he broke down and cried, as a bunch of us did.”

Finn McCarthy, 22, of Elmhurst, said Chicago would be well-served with a Deer District equivalent. The recent University of Wisconsin at Madison graduate planned to spend his evening at the Mecca Sports Bar and Grill, a full court heave away from the arena, and said he wished Chicago teams offered public places that generate the same energy.

Noted: Pérez-Wilson is a 2019 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who earned a bachelor’s degree in legal studies and plans to pursue a law degree at UW.

The story of Harry Harlow, the book’s finest moment, is the story of an abusive Iowa man driven by fame whose lasting contribution to science is our understanding of how mothers and children bond. Harlow, a University of Wisconsin researcher, in one experiment, infamously separated newborn monkeys from their mothers and raised them at the bottom of inescapable enclosures. Harlow himself was treated with electroshock therapy for severe depression, and later accused of blurring the line between research and torture.

Noted: Phillips lived and worked a life of firsts. She was the first black woman to graduate from the university of Wisconsin law school. She was the first black woman on the milwaukee common council. Phillips was the state’s first black woman judge. In 1978, she was elected secretary of state, the first female, nonwhite person so elected. Her statue will be a legacy to not only her own work, but the product on gg work propelled by the racial justice movement. Phillips’ son was there on tuesday. He said his mother’s statue will help ensure her legacy.

Alessandro Monachello, 46, a cook at Osteria Papavero since it opened in 2006, and Chris Guglielmo, 48, a radiologist for UW Health, both regularly stopped for a drink or some food at RED sushi when it used to be on King Street.

Noted: Benjamin Reid and Lauren Marinaro met in high school in Minnesota, but their relationship didn’t spark until college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I skipped orientation to watch Shark Week, so Lauren picked classes for us,” said Mr. Reid, 32, a biochemist at Quanta Therapeutics in San Francisco.

Noted: An integral part of it all is Anna Metscher, farm manager at Clare Gardens. Metscher studied agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a degree in soil science.

Phillips was also the first African-American woman to graduate from the UW-Madison law school.

Noted: Elorbany speaks Arabic and Spanish and is an alumna of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She starts July 26.

Noted: All of the corpse flowers The Domes have are genetic matches of each other because they are tuber offshoots from a flower at UW-Madison. Because they’re genetically identical, none of them can cross-pollinate the others.

Noted: In 2016, Amann competed and won “Team Ninja Warrior: College Madness” with two teammates while she was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Two Republicans, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Ryan Owens and Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney, are also running.

For Schmidt, it was the service opportunities that interested her. Throughout her experience, Schmidt would volunteer for the American Diabetes Association’s Wisconsin’s office for eight years and after her graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ADA offered her a full time position as their donations manager.

To make headway in her agenda, Hong has built coalitions with grassroots organizations, including the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of Wisconsin, the Hmong Institute, the University of Wisconsin BIPOC Coalition, and Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.

She was sentenced to three days in jail, placed on probation for two years and ordered to pay a $30,000 forfeiture. She applied to the University of Wisconsin Law School while she was still on probation, but noted on her application that the charges had been dismissed.

Steve Miller told PEOPLE of his 1968 tune, “I had come out of a radical environment at the University of Wisconsin in the early ’60s. I had been a Freedom Rider in the Civil Rights campaign and then I got involved in the Vietnam War demonstrations and debates.

Gatekeepers of Wisconsin’s legal profession say it was her cover-up, not her crime, that makes Abby Padlock unfit for admission to practice law.

But Padlock, a 2019 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, denies she covered up her 2015 arrest for transporting marijuana. She disclosed it — albeit not with all the details — on her application to law school and to the Board of Bar Examiners.