Category: UW-Madison Related

Delgadillo, a Latinx pediatrician at UW Health’s 20 South Park Street clinic, cares for children from infancy through their early 20’s. She is one of a few Spanish-speaking providers in the Madison area, and about 20% of her patients are from the Latino community, who still face barriers to healthcare. She came to Madison for medical school and never left, and has been practicing since 2010.

The New York City native, with the accent to prove it, graduated first in her class from Indiana University Law School in 1956, three years after her marriage to Seymour Abrahamson. The couple moved to Madison and her husband, a world-renowned geneticist, joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty in 1961. He died in 2016.

Noted: Christensen is a Chicago native who attended UW-Madison and now lives in Sheboygan.

Dr. Cheryl B. Gittens was named interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Diversity & Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Wisconsin in the summer of 2020. S

Duane held great strength in his ability to relate to anybody, said Greg Gard, the UW-Madison men’s basketball coach and a long time friend of the family.

Noted: Those funds are used to improve Wisconsin’s wines through education and research, Franzoi said. Recipients of Vintners donations have included the University of Wisconsin-Madison to hire an enology instructor and a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee project to map the state’s wineries and gather soil samples to learn more about the terroir of Wisconsin vineyards.

Payton Wade is the communications coordinator at the office of Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

After graduating from Delavan-Darien High School, he got a bachelor’s degree in bioethics at UW-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has fired an employee about one month after a viral video showed him driving a motorcycle through a group of protesters in Capitol Square in Madison on Nov. 6.

An introvert who isn’t usually a big office party enthusiast, Nicole Senter, an administrator in the German, Nordic and Slavic language department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the low-key feel of this year’s festivities come as something of a relief. Earlier this year, she had tried to host a Zoom cocktail hour for the 50-odd members of her department.

The Trump campaign challenged ballots only in Milwaukee County and Dane County, which includes Madison, the state capital and home of the flagship University of Wisconsin campus. The two counties are the largest and most Democratic in the state.

Dane County, which includes the city of Madison and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin, found that 260,094 votes were cast for Mr. Biden, while 78,754 were cast for Mr. Trump. Compared with earlier results, the final tally included 91 fewer ballots for Mr. Biden and 46 fewer for Mr. Trump — a net gain of 45 for Mr. Trump.

Noted: Groups like We Need Diverse Books and accounts like The Conscious Kid have pushed for diversity and inclusion on children’s bookshelves and promoted stories written by and featuring Black and Indigenous people and other people of color. Only 46 out of 4,035 books for children and teens reviewed in 2019 were by Indigenous authors, according to data compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Thomas-Greenfield’s aim will be to diversify ranks of Biden foreign policy team.

Thomas-Greenfield is a University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna who has worked with the Young African Leaders Initiative on campus.

The Biden Transition team noted in a news release that Thomas-Greenfield earned her bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University and her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. She also worked toward a PhD at UW Madison.

Thomas-Greenfield earned a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1975 and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from UW in 2018, a year after she retired following a 35-year career in foreign service.

The two large counties that will conduct recounts—Milwaukee, the state’s major urban center, and Dane, the home of the state capitol and the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus—were chosen to amplify the lie that large pro-Biden votes from historically Democratic counties were somehow fraudulent.

It required Peckham to rise at 1 a.m. It was six hours later in England. Peckham showered, got on Skype, and told the unlikely story of how a bunch of former University of Wisconsin–Madison student radio geeks lured a wonderfully eccentric British radio legend named Deke Duncan to their internet radio station.

Milwaukee County is the state’s largest, home to the city of Milwaukee, and Black people make up about 27% of the population, more than any other county. Dane County is home to the liberal capital city of Madison and the flagship University of Wisconsin campus.

More recently, Donna Shalala came to the job after serving as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She returned to academia to helm the University of Miami, and in 2018, she ran for Congress and was elected to represent Florida’s 27th District. (Shalala lost her seat in 2020.) Sylvia Mathews Burwell was the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget prior to her tenure at HHS and is now president of American University. The incumbent secretary, Alex Azar, served as general counsel and deputy secretary of the department in President George W. Bush’s administration and then was president of the US division of drug maker Eli Lilly and Company.

The ESC has worked to design this collective impact since 2017 after reviewing data and local strategy with United Way of Dane County. After meeting with UW Madison and learning about approaches to housing, the ESC determined a social investment fund was the focus they would take.

According to data from UW Health and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, more than two-thirds of high school athletes surveyed since the pandemic reported feelings of anxiety and depression at levels typically requiring medical intervention.

Born Nov. 10, 1920, VandeBerg’s story begins in rural northwestern Wisconsin where he grew up the fourth of five children. He graduated from UW-Madison and taught for a couple of years before becoming a UW Extension agent. VandeBerg eventually earned the nation’s first doctoral degree in Extension Administration. He held a number of leadership positions during his 38-year career with UW Extension.