Noted: Bubolz, Christenson, 87, and Falk, 70, each earned law degrees at the University of Wisconsin but took different paths to affect conservation in the state.
Under the deal, Madison gets the Alliant Energy Center, UW Arboretum, commercial properties and several neighborhoods. Fitchburg will gain the high-tech Novation office park, Zimbrick auto dealership and the Town Hall at 2120 Fish Hatchery Road.
Ablind UW-Madison professor requested to teach online this fall semester. She had the support of her department, documentation from her doctor and a long history of receiving disability accommodations from the university.
Noted: With a new building, the Burlington Area School District needed a new middle school principal. Nick Ryan’s the man for the job.
Before landing in Burlington, Ryan taught in Oconomowoc and Watertown. After receiving his master’s degree from UW-Madison, he ventured back to his birth state, Wyoming, to serve as an assistant principal before taking a similar job back in Watertown.
Noted: Blumenfeld, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, has been involved in the Madison Jewish community for most of her adult life. She is a former president of the Jewish Federation of Madison and served as a board member there for 17 years.
Kelly Hanlon, a 22-year-old University of Wisconsin student, says she took the actuarial exam on probability—one of the tests required to become an Associate—in July 2020
“When I studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, it was the humanities classes that I had put to the side that ultimately started me on this path of thinking about creativity in a much more cultural context — not designing for design’s sake, but connecting design to the rhythm of what’s happening in the world.”— Virgil Abloh, designer, born 1980 (Read the obituary.
Noted: Nearly 12,000 people gathered in the University of Wisconsin Field House to hear Desmond Tutu in 1998 and gave him a “thunderous standing ovation,” according to a Milwaukee Sentinel article from the time.
Speaking about racism toward Wisconsin’s Native American population, Tutu urged the crowd to “be committed to racial justice here as you are committed to racial justice in South Africa.”
Tutu, who had won the Nobel Peace Prize four years earlier, also detailed why Americans should not support apartheid, calling it “as evil, as unacceptable, as immoral as Nazism.” He encouraged people to see each other as brothers and sisters and to find strength in diversity.
“Brothers and sisters sometimes disagree, and disagree violently, but they still remain brothers and sisters,” he said, according to the Milwaukee Journal.
Noted: “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”: In this franchise reboot, Carrie Coon plays the daughter of OG (original Ghostbuster) Egon. After he dies, Coon, who got her start at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in Madison-area theater, brings her kids to his rural Oklahoma house and discovers the ghosts are coming back.
“Enemies of the State”: Oscar-winning documentarian and University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Errol Morris is executive producer of this true tale of a family that caught up in intrigue when their hacker son is targeted by the federal government.
NASA is getting ready to launch a new and powerful telescope into space that will be able to see billions of light years away. The man who is heading up the project is a UW-Madison graduate.
While in Madison, Tutu stayed with then-UW-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala, a longtime friend, quipping at one point that “she knows a good thing when she sees it, that’s why she came here.”
Noted: Abrams said his organization also is working with the University of Wisconsin System to provide a $500 tuition credit to UW students who work in a health care facility over winter break, which is typically a month in length.
Noted: Zuckerman dedicates nine pages to Jon Wolff, an mRNA pioneer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Medicine. In 1990, Wolff and several colleagues published an article about “the first successful use of mrna” that could be used as a vaccine, as it ultimately was for Pfizer and Moderna.
Noted: A recent count by Cooperative Children’s Book Center School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found that “books about white children, talking bears, trucks, monsters, potatoes, etc. represent nearly three-quarters of children’s and young adult books published in 2019.” In other words, vegetables, animals, monsters, and aliens had more visibility in books than brown or black characters.
Noted: “Just Be Claus” is Joosse’s 55th book published for kids. Originally from Grafton, she started telling stories in grade school and later studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After having her own children, she was inspired by them to write children’s books.
Watkins studied English at Stanford University and earned a Master’s from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz after attending segregated schools before college.
In 1973, Watkins graduated from Stanford; as a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, she had already completed a draft of a visionary history of Black feminism and womanhood. During the seventies, she pursued graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Casavant, 34, who has a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded the company in 2012 with his UW lab-mate Erwin Berthier, 38, who is the company’s chief technology officer. They had studied microfluidics, which deals with the behavior and control of very small volumes of fluids in networks of channels, in the lab of UW-Madison professor David Beebe.
Noted: Berens, who grew up in Elm Grove and New Berlin with 11 siblings, studied journalism and environmental geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a previous Journal Sentinel report.
After graduating in 2009, he spent time working as a production assistant, news reporter, host and producer. In 2013, he won an Emmy while reporting in Dallas.
PHOTO Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 28, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. Scott Olson/Getty Images
With a six-sentence resignation letter wishing UW-Madison all the best, engineering professor Akbar Sayeed left behind “a career-long string of victims” and a department that failed time and again in responding to his bad behavior, according to a newly released investigative report.
“It’s at the state level that these issues matter the most, and Wisconsin is already such a restrictive environment for abortion, so we’re quite concerned about potential impact of these lawsuits on our state,” Jenny Higgins, UW-Madison professor and director of the UW CORE (Collaborative for Reproductive Equity), said.
Abloh graduated with a degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. But everyone who knew him knows he was a true, free-spirited artist at heart.
Jake Wood was a few months out of the Marine Corps in 2010 when a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti. On the spur of the moment, he and a few other veterans headed to Port-au-Prince and started looking for ways to help. With no organization and no supply chain, it was a haphazard response. “The only thing we got right is that none of us died,” he said.
Noted: Jake Wood is a Wisconsin School of Business alumnus and played football for the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Watt is a defensive end for the Arizona Cardinals and a Waukesha native who went to Pewaukee High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He offered to cover the funeral costs, local media reported.
Watt played college ball at the University of Wisconsin. According to one tweet of his, he considers Waukesha a part of his “home.”
According to her biography on the Cornell Law School website, Omarova received an undergraduate degree at Moscow State University before getting a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin and a law degree at Northwestern University.
Quoted: Garcia earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She recalls taking American English classes and only learning about white male authors.
She remembers thinking: “America is more than these old dead white dudes.” She decided to minor in Chicano/Latina studies and American Indian studies, where she saw herself reflected in the stories she learned about.
“It brought me back to that feeling of empowerment, of feeling seen,” she said. “This was something that was me.”
On Thursday, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R.-La.) went full Joseph McCarthy in his questioning of Saule Omarova, a Cornell University law professor nominated to be the nation’s top banking regulator. She has a distinguished resume: a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a J.D. from Northwestern University Law School, a stint at a white-shoe law firm, and service in President George W. Bush’s Treasury Department. According to another law professor, Omarova is “widely regarded as one of the top financial regulatory scholars in the world.”
Omarova earned an undergraduate degree from Moscow State University before emigrating to the U.S. in 1991 and continuing her studies. She earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a law degree from Northwestern University. She then worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a top New York firm, where she focused on corporate transactions and advising financial industry clients on regulation. She also served in the Treasury Department of Republican President George W. Bush’s administration as a special adviser on regulatory policy.
Omarova said that her dissertation, the topic of which she says she did not choose and was assigned to her, was written on a typewriter and she did not bring a copy of it to the United States when she permanently left the Soviet Union to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991.
When she began her Ph.D. program, she chose to study American democratic theory. And when the Soviet Union collapsed while she was on exchange at the University of Wisconsin, she opted to stay in the U.S., she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes last year.
If confirmed, Omarova would be the first woman and first person of color to lead the 158-year-old agency. Since arriving in the United States , she has compiled a diverse work history. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a law degree from Northwestern University, she worked as a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a top New York firm, where she focused on corporate transactions and advising financial industry clients on regulation. She also served in the Treasury Department of George W. Bush’s administration, as a special adviser on regulatory policy.
The Millers, who met at a Maranatha campus ministry while students at the University of Wisconsin, pastored a church in Madison for years before starting Cornerstone. They moved about an hour west to Spring Green, a small town that’s home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin estate, after feeling God’s call to plant a new congregation. They hoped to build a church that had close ties to the community.
Though the world’s first distance learning institution was established in 1906 by the University of Wisconsin, the first learning management system was developed only in 1924 when Sidney L. Pressey invented the first “teaching machine.” Learning management systems have since gone through significant improvements and during this evolution and the arrival of e-learning courses to verify skills, the most integral part of a learning ecosystem has been forgotten, and instead, we began focusing on course completions.
Noted: Much of that growth connects them to Wisconsin, where several generations of the Hamel family have attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They are true Badger backers: They have season tickets for football and basketball, and their donations helped fund UW-Madison’s Hamel Music Center, which opened in 2019.
Racine attorney Mark Richards is leading Rittenhouse’s defense. He’s a courtroom veteran, earning his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987. He served as an assistant district attorney in Racine and Kenosha counties in the late 1980s before he opened his own firm in 1990 that specializes in criminal defense.
Southern Wisconsin was particularly rich in such sites. A number of the mounds stand on what’s now the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. But many no longer survive today, as Europeans who settled in the area often destroyed the mounds in the process of building homes, farms and quarries.
#15: The capital city of Wisconsin, Madison’s Middleton High School is rated the best public high school in the state and the second best for science, technology, engineering, and math in the state. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum offers walking paths and jogging tracks for all, with numerous educational opportunities in its garden settings. Families will also enjoy Henry Vilas Zoo and the Wisconsin Historical Museum
Vel Phillips, Wisconsin’s first Black secretary of state, will be honored with a statue on state Capitol grounds, a state board decided Monday. The Capitol and Executive Residence Board voted unanimously to erect the statue of Phillips, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Phillips, who died in 2018, broke a number of gender and race barriers throughout her career: She was the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison School of Law and the first woman, as well as Black person, to serve on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a Wisconsin judge.
The state Capitol will have its first statue commemoration of a prominent Wisconsin African American trailblazer with a vote Monday to honor Vel Phillips.
Phillips represents many firsts for Wisconsin, including being the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin- Madison Law School and to be elected to a statewide office in Wisconsin and the entire nation. She also served as the first female and African American elected to the Milwaukee Common Council, as well as the first African American judge in the state of Wisconsin.
Noted: She earned both an undergraduate and law degree from the University of Wisconsin, and is a former president of the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association. She said she is “grateful, honored and humbled” by Evers’ appointment.
Young voters make up the margins in Dane County, Wisconsin. The state capital and home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dane is a solidly Democratic bastion of liberalism. President Joe Biden won the county by some 53 points in 2020.
The term GOF didn’t have much to do with virology until the past decade. Then, the ferret influenza studies came along. In trying to advise the federal government on the nature of such research, the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) borrowed the term — and it stuck, says Gigi Gronvall,a biosecurity specialist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. From that usage, it came to mean any research that improves a pathogen’s abilities to cause disease or spread from host to host.
Lee majored in molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a Doctoral Degree in Toxicology and Molecular Pharmacology.
Racine attorney Mark Richards is leading Rittenhouse’s defense. He’s a courtroom veteran, earning his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987. He served as an assistant district attorney in Racine and Kenosha counties in the late 1980s before he opened his own firm in 1990 that specializes in criminal defense.
Vel Phillips was the first Black woman to graduate from the UW–Madison law school, become the Secretary of State of Wisconsin and to become a Wisconsin judge.
Nationally, one in six children miss 15 or more days of school in a year and are considered chronically absent. Education officials have lamented that all this missed instruction has for years constituted an attendance crisis in U.S. elementary, middle and high schools.
Noted: Kigeya is an outreach specialist for the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, and a special projects manager with The Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness. She has served as an intern for United States Sen. Russ Feingold and is currently the co-chair of the Middleton Police Commission. She has also served as commissioner for the Dane County Equal Opportunities Commission, according to a press release, and has been with the City of Madison Affirmative Action Commission.
Federman knew he was in the right spot when he found the Badger Hunting Club, bringing new hunters together with the more seasoned. “Hunting’s always been something I’ve really enjoyed with the idea that you really have to have every detail right,” he said.
The one-year return rate for the year ending June 30 brought the total endowment to an all-time high market value of $3.98 billion, UW Foundation spokesperson Tod Pritchard said. Past one-year returns over the previous four years have ranged from 1.2% to 14.2%.
“I was an undergraduate student at Moscow State University and there was at the very end of the Gorbachev era an exchange program between Moscow State and University of Wisconsin Madison,” she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. She attended Madison for a semester in 1991 and while there “the Soviet Union fell apart. So there I was, a student without anywhere to go back.”
As the United States shifts its focus to the larger strategic threat of China, US policymakers would be wise to seek détente with Russia. Such an effort would start by taking Ukrainian and Georgian NATO membership off the table.
-Sascha Glaeser is a research associate at Defense Priorities. He focuses on US grand strategy, international security, and transatlantic relations. He holds a master of international public affairs and a bachelor’s in international studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The UW Board of Regents earlier this month approved a general framework agreement allowing UW-Madison to sell its land to University Research Park, which would in turn lease the land to developers to build housing, retail or commercial space. Revenue from rent would flow into an endowment, a percentage of which UW-Madison would receive each year for university operations.
Noted: “I was an undergraduate student at Moscow State University and there was at the very end of the Gorbachev era an exchange program between Moscow State and University of Wisconsin Madison,” she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. She attended Madison for a semester in 1991 and while there “the Soviet Union fell apart. So there I was, a student without anywhere to go back.”
Noted: Combat Blindness International was founded in 1984 by Rajpal’s father, Suresh Chandra, an ophthalmologist and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus. Before founding the organization, Chandra traveled the developing world — including his home country of India — performing complex, technologically advanced retinal surgeries and training other doctors to do the same.
Noted: In 2004, Feiring graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in psychology. After studying abroad in Scotland her junior year, Feiring fell in love with the country and its culture. She decided to return to the country and attend the School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Noted: An example of a protein is an antibody — you have to make sure that antibody is attacking the right disease or cancerous human cell, explained Choudhury, who is originally from Bangladesh, and received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UW-Madison in 2017.
