Category: UW-Madison Related

In August, nine student groups at the University of California, Berkeley, voted to refuse invitations to speakers who support Israel or Zionism, effectively banning the vast majority of Jews. In September, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, someone chalked on campus grounds: “zionism is racism” and “zionism is genocide” and that campus “Zionist” organizations have “blood on their hands,” explicitly naming Chabad and J Street. The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on campus released a statement maintaining this was perfectly acceptable discourse.

Steenbock’s on Orchard, an upscale restaurant inside the Discovery Building on the UW-Madison campus that closed for almost two years during the pandemic, has started drawing customers with its happy hour.

“It would be nice to have a few more youngsters in D.C.,” Mr. Buttigieg, 40 years old, told those gathered in a hotel ballroom just east of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus.

Hilarious and surprisingly heartwarming, Big Shot stars John Stamos as Marvyn Korn: an intense, well-decorated basketball coach. During one of his games at the University of Wisconsin, Marvyn flips out and ends up fired.

Twain will be playing at the Kohl Center on May 16, 2023, promoters said.

Legendary showman takes center stage in new Overture production.

Electric vehicles are becoming popular because our engineers have finally created a battery that can store energy almost as efficiently as million-year-old dead plants can. And by 2035 it’s reasonable to expect this battery technology will even be superior to gasoline, which would make electric cars the financially obvious choice to the ordinary Californian.

—Walker Bigelow, University of Wisconsin, finance and data science

Vang eventually completed a degree in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, got married, started a family and moved to Minnesota to teach Hmong classes for five years.

Monica Kim, an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

In 2015, Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker stumbled gracelessly into this debate when he tried to alter the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin by deleting the words that called on the university to “search for truth” and “improve the human condition.” In their place he wanted to substitute words calling on the university to “meet the state’s workforce needs

The Maine Monitor (Maine) — Rose LundyLundy is a health reporter with the Monitor, a nonprofit, online investigative news outlet that informs Mainers about the issues impacting their state. Before joining the Monitor, Lundy covered local government for The Daily News, a newspaper in Washington state. She has written award-winning stories about price-gouging in mobile home parks, heat and food insecurity, achievement gaps during the COVID-19 pandemic and nursing home closures. Lundy earned a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, she moved to Portland, Maine, to cover the pandemic as a member of Report for America. The Monitor was also a member of the Local Reporting Network in 2020; the reporting project, “Defenseless,” investigated how Maine handles legal services for the poor.

Few figures in the conservation world are considered as wise and prophetic as Aldo Leopold.

The former University of Wisconsin-Madison professor helped pioneer the field of wildlife management in the 1930s.

He’s also the author of “A Sand County Almanac,” the 1949 book of essays published after his death that is now revered worldwide for its smart and poetic passages, including on the relationship of humans to the environment.

Noted: The Social Security program emerged from discussions in the economics department at the University of Wisconsin, which also developed programs such as unemployment insurance, workers compensation, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and other social programs. Prototypes for national legislation on these topics first passed in the state of Wisconsin.

Current and past students were invited to submit short essays, poems, songs and artwork designed to persuade others to vote. Some will be showcased on Oct. 12 at UW’s Memorial Union for Odyssey’s nonpartisan “20 Years of Amplifying Student Voices and Celebrating Voting” in-person and online event. Partners for this event include the Cap Times, the League of Women Voters, the Madison Public Library and the Urban League of Greater Madison. The mayor has proclaimed Oct. 12 “Odyssey Day” in recognition of its 20th anniversary.

When March was a senior at the UW, he belonged to an honorary inter-fraternity council called the Ku Klux Klan. There is no evidence that the campus group engaged in racist practices or was affiliated with the national white supremacist group of the same name, but based on this, the Union Council removed March’s name from the theater in December 2018.

Noted: Both of Brooks’ attorneys are with the State Public Defenders Office in Waukesha County. Perri graduated in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Kees graduated in 2009 from Marquette University Law School.

Waukesha County District Attorney Sue Opper leads the prosecution.  Former Governor Scott Walker appointed Opper to the position of district attorney in 2015, replacing Brad Schimel.  Opper earned her Juris Doctor degree from Marquette University Law School and her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Najuf Malik, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a second-generation immigrant. In the span of a week, she and members of the multicultural sorority Sigma Psi Zeta, the Pakistani Student Association and other student groups helped raise nearly $6,000 for Akhuwat, a nonprofit based in Pakistan. Malik’s parents knew the founder of Akhuwat, she said, which gave them faith in the organization.

“It’s kind of crazy if you think about it — that’s enough (money) to rebuild a house,” she said. “We really didn’t expect this much money.”

Still, she considers herself lucky her extended family is not living in the areas hit hardest in Pakistan.

Big Shot is a comedy-drama starring John Stamos as coach Marvyn Korn. After being fired from the University of Wisconsin as their men’s basketball coach due to controversy surrounding his temper, he relocates to California to coach a girls high school basketball team. Soon after, his daughter joins him in California, and Korn adjusts to coaching girls while trying to manage his temper on the court.

As the seat of state government and the home of the flagship University of Wisconsin, Madison has two primary characteristics that stabilize a local job market during a recession.

Yasmin Schamiloglu, 25, doesn’t know when her case of long Covid will allow her to return to work.

She contracted Covid in January and had relatively mild symptoms. She was able to do her job helping researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with community engagement remotely for a while, and then started trying to go back into the office. Her managers were understanding, but every hour at work was exhausting, and the fatigue soon became too much to bear.

There are many ways to experience the phenomenon. You can follow the monarchs’ surge at the Journey North website, a project of the University of Wisconsin at Madison Arboretum. You can also keep an eye out for orange wings when passing flowering plants such as zinnias, visit a nature preserve with monarch-tempting wildflowers or attend one of the region’s many monarch festivals.

The new trailer gives us our first look at the continued work of Marvyn Korn (Stamos) the hot-tempered former University of Wisconsin basketball coach who, after having been fired from his high-stakes job, finds a chance at redemption coaching high school basketball at an all-girls school. The first season explored Korn’s relationship with his daughter, who is also one of his new pupils, as well as his journey to self-improvement as he learns to coach on a smaller scale.

Noted: The state has a dire need for teachers; the University of Wisconsin-Madison even pays for tuition and fees for teacher education students who agree to work in the state for several years. But there’s little agreement on what qualifies a teacher to impart reading to youngsters.

The man who is at the helm of the AHA is James Sweet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and he is the latest public academic figure to debase himself in a Cultural Revolution style apology for saying perfectly normal things.

No. 18. Wisconsin’s capital is a “hotbed of the healthcare, information technology, and manufacturing industries,” said a local expert. The area is also home to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, providing hundreds of jobs in education.

Dr. Barbara Knox left Wisconsin and Alaska amid allegations of workplace bullying and wrongful diagnoses of child abuse; she now practices in Florida.