Category: UW-Madison Related

Thomas went on to earn two degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one in psychology and one in English. He says he uses both when doing readings.

Noted: Randy Melchert, the founder and leader of the Academy of Excellence, is a graduate of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, a widely known conservative Christian school. Melchert, who has a law degree from the University of Wisconsin, has also been active in Republican politics and in legal organizations, primarily as an advocate for religious causes.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, Hermes moved to the Motor City from Oklahoma City, where he covered politics and did a recurring fact-checking segment for the 2018 Oklahoma governor election, according to his WDIV biography.

The Braggs dramatize Sharpe’s pinball life, starting with his early days as a pinball wizard, as a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1971. The character—call him Roger—is played by Mike Faist, in his first-released film since his breakout role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” and the new film gives him the time, the space, and the pace to deliver a far subtler and richer performance.

Quoted: “There are many local legends of Al Capone in Wisconsin, most of which I suspect were not true,” said Robert Ritholz, who has history degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and takes friends on informal tours of Chicago mafia sites, sometimes in his antique Rolls-Royce.

“There really is very little evidence that Capone spent a whole lot of time in Wisconsin, and when he was in the state, he seems to have behaved himself,” Ritholz said.

Noted: After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Tardy began working with UW-Whitewater and Mount Mary University before returning to Milwaukee.

Aldo Leopold, the famed conservationist and professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin believed that moral beliefs evolve over time to become more inclusive of the natural world. And what’s happening in Colorado suggests Leopold was right.

Lydia Zajichek, a student organizing fellow with Rise, which advocates for making college more affordable, waited until 3:30 a.m. with some of her schoolmates to get the 52nd spot in line. Though she got a scholarship to attend the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she’s a sophomore, her parents have over $100,000 in student loan debt.

Born to working-class parents in Toledo, she was the first in her family to go to college, graduating from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1968. She earned her master’s degree and pursued doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Not bad for a Polish-American kid from Toledo.

She worked at local shops and attended a course on ice cream at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in 2018 formed Koolfi Creamery, becoming the brand’s chief ice cream engineer while Anji helps run the business as a co-founder.

While some people speaking during the council’s public comment period Tuesday night made comparisons of the situation today to that of the 1960s, the report says those considerations do not take into account changes to UW enrollment and that there are significantly fewer non-UW campus area housing options available.

Across the country, 43 million Americans, including students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are waiting to see if some or all of their student loans could be forgiven as the U.S. Supreme Court started hearing arguments about President Joe Biden’s program’s legality.

When Sara Nelson agreed to come to Madison, Wis., to discuss the future of labor at an ideas festival on the University of Wisconsin campus in the fall of 2021, it was supposed to be just another appearance by one of America’s most engaged and energetic labor leaders. Then, Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, ended up having a pair of surgeries that required her to use a wheelchair for several months. Of course, she could have canceled the trip. But that’s not how Sara Nelson rolls.

Walter Mirisch, a 1942 UW-Madison graduate and Oscar-winning producer of films like “In the Heat of the Night” and “West Side Story,” died Friday at 101.

Ingolia learned Spanish in school, taking classes starting in the fifth grade in her native Louisiana and continuing through her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In the last few days, the University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering student answered questions and played the violin during an appearance at her college campus, unveiled her crown, sash and other items for “A Woman Who Can” exhibition in Oshkosh, and attended a meet-and-greet at Point Beach Nuclear Plant in Two Rivers.

(John) Jaeggi, who works at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison, is one of 42 judges from around the country charged with evaluating 2,249 entries in 113 classes in the contest, which concludes Thursday and is only open to U.S. dairy producers. The World Championship Cheese Contest is held on alternating years at Monona Terrace in Madison and, like its name indicates, is open to dairy producers around the world.

Danny Szydlowski, who is now working on a Ph.D. in freshwater and marine science at UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology, said that the declines could be caused by a fungal disease and by crayfish destroying their own habitat. The result has allowed native plants, snails and bluegill to recover, helping restore the ecosystems in several lakes.

I became a nuclear engineering PhD student at the University of Wisconsin. And the rest is history. I became a postdoc at Berkeley, a professor at the University of Illinois. I had no aspirations for a career in government, but someone put my name in the hat, and here I am in this administration, as a political appointee.

Evers presented 20-year-old Grace Stanke with a certificate of recognition Saturday for her time as Miss Wisconsin, as a Nuclear Engineering student at UW-Madison and her accomplishment of winning Miss America.

He spent three years in the Army Air Forces, teaching radar operations, mostly in Madison, Wis. There he met Evelyn Basse, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.

Grace Stanke will be in town for several events, including a meet-and-greet Friday at a special homecoming event at Shannon Hall Lobby at the UW-Madison Memorial Union. UW-Madison staff, students and the public will get the chance to meet and take photographs with Stanke from 4:00-6:30 p.m. The event is free.

Raised in Stevens Point, Payne grew up learning how to fish, trap and hunt from his father along the Wisconsin River. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in communications and urban and regional planning.

A golden retriever whose story captured the hearts of Super Bowl viewers three years ago will be honored again this Sunday.