Noted: “We don’t like to speak about mortality, but it’s a fact of life,” said Henning, who has worked in language preservation for his tribe since graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics. “We’re going to get to a situation where I’m going to be saying, … ‘I wish I would have asked when they were here.’ “
The report analyzed data from the Wisconsin Retirement System, which covers most state and local government employees — including teachers, police officers, prison guards and university employees.
For tax associate Kai Brito, the $20,000 in forgiveness would completely wipe out the debt he owes for the bachelor’s degree he earned at UW-Madison in 2017. Even with a Pell Grant and other scholarships, Brito took out about $22,000 in loans to pay for college. After paying some of the outstanding balance during the student loan moratorium, Brito has $13,000 remaining in debt.
Noted: Anthony Polentini, the eldest of the three and a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was crowned this year’s champion, outlasting his lifelong friend, Tanner Hallett, in the final. Anthony still finds it surreal that 12 years after starting in the sport he is at the pinnacle of a sport with international competitors.
Lynn Hunt, a data analyst in Portland, Oregon, is a Pell Grant recipient who borrowed somewhere around $45,000 to $50,000 to attend the University of Wisconsin and has paid back about $15,000 but still owes $70,000 because of interest.
“I know (Biden) mentioned, you know, $20,000 for Pell Grants, but the people that had Pell Grants had to take out the most loans,” Hunt said. “So $20,000 isn’t helping most of those people in any substantial manner. And the thing that happens every time when we get one of these half measures is, the can gets kicked for another decade.”
Poem by Paul Tran, a poet and an editor whose debut collection, from which this poem is taken, is “All the Flowers Kneeling” (Penguin Books, 2022). They are an assistant professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As Wisconsin heads into the 2022 midterms, the Wisconsin Main Street Agenda project is trying to get past soundbites and polarizing political coverage go straight to voters to see what is on their minds.
In that spirit, we recently spoke with six voters from across the state to get a sense of their concerns.
This project is a collaboration between the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Without enough teachers, nursing schools are unable to enroll more students, said Susan Zahner, associate dean for faculty affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Nursing. On top of that, classroom space is often limited due to budget constraints, and schools are struggling to provide enough clinical sites to train students.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, addressing the climate crisis begins at the Office of Sustainability. But what, exactly, does “sustainability” mean?
Barbara Ames didn’t write “Hamilton.” She hasn’t won the EGOT. And she didn’t create the upcoming podcast “Arts Educators Save the World.”
Without Ames, though, the world may not have the Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert Lopez and Erica Halverson that did.
Ames taught each of the three renowned artists when they attended New York’s Hunter College Elementary School. Halverson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education professor who is an expert in how people learn through the arts, is hosting the new podcast.
Raymond Medina found robotics internships through counselors, affording him the experience to apply for and win a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Wisconsin to study mechanical engineering.
Q: How does Farm to Flavor fit in with that?
A: I’m so excited about this event in Madison — it’s one of the most producer-oriented events that I’ve been a part of. It’s really exciting to have that conversation between growers and end users, like chefs or manufacturers … or direct to consumer, to be breeding plants with an emphasis on flavor.
University of Wisconsin has been leading that charge for so long. And it’s really just inspiring to see how it’s growing and continuing.
Goldrick-Rab moved to Temple from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2016, after criticizing changes to Wisconsin’s tenure law and additional controversy surrounding her Twitter activity.
Noted: Burns lives in Rhinelander and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, New York University and the University of Wisconsin Law School. She has deep ties to the community, having raised her family in Rhinelander, served on the boards of the Northern Arts Council and ArtStart, and volunteered for many local organizations.
Noted: When President Franklin Roosevelt worked with his New Deal team to design Social Security, our forebears — Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins — looked especially to Wisconsin for help. Their top aides included University of Wisconsin professor Edwin Witte and UW graduate Arthur Altmeyer.
When a second generation of New Dealers in Congress created Medicare in 1964, Wisconsin also played a decisive role. Milwaukee-born Wilbur Cohen, another UW graduate, was among Medicare’s lead architects.
The Littletons’ legendary son, Harvey, would go on to found the world-renowned studio art glass movement and the first studio hot glass program at an American university: UW-Madison.
Noted: Sabor said her PhD in Forest Ecology and Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison would also help her make responsible decisions on the board.
Noted: He ran a successful restaurant for five years and then went to work for the University of Wisconsin- Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, where he was part of the DreamUP Wisconsin initiative, a community-University collaboration to expand economic opportunity.
Orrin took a position at UW in the Department of Wildlife Ecology, serving as advisor, teacher, researcher and department chair.
Jackson Walker, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, finds investments and short-term expenses do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Peripatetic, or traveling from place to place, aptly describes Dre’s life, as it does his creator’s. In his zig-zagging career, Wright, now a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a former co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, has seldom taken the safe route and has been, literally and metaphorically, all over the map.
UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin hosted an ice cream social Thursday afternoon.
The event was Mnookin’s first official day on the campus. All UW-Madison students, staff, and faculty were invited to the social.
Noted: Beyond Usona, the Midwest has been waking up to psychedelic medicine’s potential. UW-Madison and University of Michigan both started research centers for psychedelic drugs in 2021. Ohio State launched such a center earlier this year. University of Chicago has a leading researcher in the field in Harriet de Wit. And the Medical College of Wisconsin has one of the best serotonin-based pharmacology researchers in John McCorvy.
“And in the middle of his tenure as governor, there was a huge controversy because he actually pushed to change the language of the University of Wisconsin’s mission statement to take out the idea that the goal of the university is the search for truth.”
The votes are in, and the winning design for the 15th annual The Red Shirt competition features Bucky flashing the iconic “W” gesture … Every purchase of The Red Shirt will go to support students on campus by funding scholarships for need-based students.
Officials with the UW-Madison-based Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and the Department of Justice’s crime lab — which do the vast majority of toxicology tests used in state prosecutions — acknowledge that they don’t have the equipment needed to distinguish between two isomers, or forms, of methamphetamine.
That’s when Martin and his colleagues — Joanna Bundus, a biology post-doctoral fellow at UW-Madison, and Susana Wadgymar, an assistant professor of biology at Davidson College in North Carolina — founded Project ENABLE (Enriching Navajo As a Biology Language for Education), an online dictionary of biology terms translated from English to Diné Bizaad, a Navajo language.
She was also a project assistant with the university’s RISE program, which still runs to this day. The program creates an employment pipeline for UW-Madison students of color seeking internships. Assefa went on to serve in various directorial and advisory roles for UW-Madison, all in an effort to promote DEI on campus.
Most notably, Assefa was previously the director of the African American Student Academic Services department and an adviser to the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship program out of the Multicultural Arts Initiatives office, where she eventually became the director.
Padron and 27 others just graduated with certificates in tribal court legal advocacy from the National Tribal Trial College. They’re now scattered across the country to litigate cases ranging from divorce to domestic violence to child support.
The six-month program that concluded last week at the University of Wisconsin Law School is the only one of its kind in the country, according to National Tribal Trial College dean Hallie Bongar White.
Letter to the editor: I recently experienced the fortunate happenstance to cross paths with several college students on the path to Picnic Point on the UW-Madison campus. As an older active woman walking the path with my husband, I fell. Not only was there a physicians assistant who had been traveling through Madison with his family immediately checking on me, but several other young male students jogging through the trail also stopped to offer aid and support.
UW-Madison’s police department is mourning the loss of a retired K9 officer. Casey spent 10 years with UWMPD and has been retired for the last 5 years.
“Heat 2” is the first of three planned novels (one of which may be related to “Heat”), and an ambitious literary beginning for a man who had never attempted a work of fiction before. He majored in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with thoughts of becoming a teacher, but decided that would be “really immensely boring.”
Noted: “Heat 2” is the first of three planned novels (one of which may be related to “Heat”), and an ambitious literary beginning for a man who had never attempted a work of fiction before. He majored in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with thoughts of becoming a teacher, but decided that would be “really immensely boring.” Asked to cite literary influences, he mentions John le Carre, but otherwise says he doesn’t read crime fiction. Instead, he looks to “primary sources,” the various killers, crooks, law enforcers and government agents he has met and befriended and whose stories he adapted for “Heat,” “Thief” and other films.
Noted: Battino is a radiologist from Wausau and a former University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Medicine fellow who worked in a variety of South American and Caribbean countries including Nicaragua and Guyana.
Noted: It’s true the U.S. does not guarantee parental leave. And multiple studies have found the average cost of daycare in Wisconsin can cost as much as in-state tuition at a University of Wisconsin school, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Noted: Cheney was born in the liberal college town of Madison, Wis., in 1966, while her parents—Nebraska-born Richard and Wyoming-born Lynne—were graduate students at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Jerry himself became a student at the University of Wisconsin School of Music after high school, graduating with bachelor’s degree in music education in 1958. He played in local dance bands and began working as a music teacher in the Madison area.
Noted: When assisting farmers, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation partners with the AgrAbility program, a collaboration that includes University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension, to assess needs and provide adaptive technologies.
Noted: Khalif graduated from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and worked with his father in different entities including a foster-care agency and a group home. Que graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison, moved to Chicago and Dallas for a while, and then returned to Milwaukee.
Noted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, his background was in health care technology and music. And like Deshpande, he’d been a diligent saver for years.
Noted: Djamali became a nephrologist himself and spent more than two decades practicing at the University of Wisconsin Health Transplant Center in Madison.
That’s where he met Jartz, among hundreds of other patients.
Late last year, Djamali decided to leave the UW Health Transplant Center to take a job at Maine Medical Center. But he made another decision around the same time. He would donate his kidney to Jartz.
Jones, a photography professor at UW-Madison, is having an especially big year. This summer alone his artwork — steeped in his perspective as a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation — is part of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. On Saturday, the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend will celebrate the opening of his first major retrospective, “Tom Jones: Here We Stand,” featuring some 130 works from 16 series that span his career.
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.
