Category: UW-Madison Related

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.

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.’ “

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.

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.

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.