Another Wisconsin speaker in Tuesday’s event, Cris Peterson, is a dairy farmer from Grantsburg and a member of the University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents. She praised Trump’s trade policy and said her farm and others have seen conditions improve after a period of sustained low milk prices that drove hundreds out of business.
Just after 10 p.m., a group of around 200 protesters began to march near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Trammell earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Protests in Wisconsin’s capital city started around 9 p.m., drawing out hundreds of protestors who were largely peaceful. The group marched up and down State Street and other streets near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, drawing students into their ranks, according to tweets from Emily Hamer, a reporter with the Wisconsin State Journal.
“People just wanted to forget about it and move on. There was nothing they were proud of, nothing they accomplished. They were just victims,” said former UW chancellor John Wiley.
Linda Plutchak recalled the morning of August 24, 1970. She was a graduate student in UW’s school of education at the time.”I drove on to University Avenue at about seven in the morning,” she said. “There was smoke everywhere and there were fire engines everywhere, and it was just an absolute mess, and I had had no idea what was going on.”
While UW-Madison rebuilt Sterling Hall, the Wisconsin Historical Museum has collected several artifacts over the years from bombing. One of those is part of the engine that was inside the van that contained the bomb and blew up.
Fifty years ago, a bomb blasted through a UW-Madison building in the early morning, reverberating across the city, killing a university researcher, injuring several others and forever changing the anti-war movement.
Fifty years ago, a bomb blasted through a UW-Madison building in the early morning, reverberating across the city, killing a university researcher, injuring several others and forever changing the anti-war movement.
Michael Molnar credits a faulty vending machine for saving his life.
This friction did not slow Dr. Harris’s professional rise, and he was granted tenure first at the University of Wisconsin and then at Stanford University. Dr. Harris’s 1978 book, “Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution,” is dedicated “to Kamala and Maya.”
Phillips was the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison School of Law, the first Black woman to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and the first to become a judge in Wisconsin. She served one term as secretary of state, from 1979 to 1983, and died in 2018 at the age of 95.
Biden’s last in-person campaign stop in Wisconsin was on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Oct. 30, 2018, in the waning days of the midterm election. He has hosted virtual events and was supposed to accept the presidential nomination at the convention on Thursday, but due to COVID-19 will instead deliver his speech from his home in Delaware.
Quoted: “We were really, really close two years ago and then the number ticked up in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” said Sarah Paige, a former post-doctoral fellow from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who now works at the CORE Group Polio Project dedicated to eradicating the disease. In 2019, the number of polio cases rose to 94.
Noted: Harris briefly lived in Madison when she was young in the late 1960s. Her father, Donald Harris, was an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer researcher there.
Peng Her is the Community Relations Coordinator for UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, and the director of the Hmong Institute.
The University of Wisconsin System wants nearly $100 million more in the next state budget to cushion COVID-19’s financial blow to campuses and cover tuition for Wisconsin students whose families earn less than $60,000 a year.
Noted: The College Democrats of the University of Wisconsin-Madison are hosting a series of remote, online watch parties this week for the convention with a plethora of political guests.
On Tuesday night, the group will be joined by former state Senate District 26 candidate Nada Elmikashfi and Madison Ald. Max Prestigiacomo, who is also a UW-Madison student.
Gabe Javier, originally from St. Louis, Missouri, and the son of immigrants from the Philippines, was appointed as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December 2019.
The fastest-growing part of the state is also its most reliably liberal, with a genuinely left-wing political culture growing up around the state capital and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. When Scott Walker referred to D.C. as “68 square miles surrounded by reality,” he was taking a phrase he’d applied to Madison and updating the area size.
3. With campus life diminished, why pay for “glorified Skype?”That’s how one incoming freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison put it as he starts his fall semester remotely. With in-person learning put on hold for many, college students and their parents are demanding tuition rebates, increased aid and leaves of absence. Above, a deserted Northwestern University.
Noted: That was the year the doctoral student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison packed her bags and headed west for an unknown school, then called the Southern Regional Division of the University of Nevada. “I wanted to do something different for a year,” Campbell said, explaining how she got here.
Noted: Vel Phillips was a civil rights activist who smashed racial and gender barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin law school, the first woman to be elected to Milwaukee Common Council, the first appointed female judge in Milwaukee County and the first Black person ever elected to statewide office in Wisconsin.
Born in Keshena, Wisconsin, in 1935, Ada Deer grew up in a log cabin on a Menominee Indian Reservation. She was the first Menominee to earn an undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin and the first Native American to receive a master’s in social work from Columbia University. Deer also was the first woman to chair the Menominee Tribe in Wisconsin.
Foxconn Technology Group gave no money to UW-Madison over the past year, renewing questions about the company’s commitment to its $100 million pledge to the university nearly two years ago.
Over 150 people attended a Zoom town hall Wednesday evening to voice concerns about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Smart Restart opening plan, calling instead for a fully online, “moral restart” this fall semester.
Noted: I grew up in New England with no family ties to China, and started learning Mandarin in grad school at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the 1980s out of a curiosity about an Asia that was on the rise. I benefited from scholarship money, and spirited teachers like Arthur Chen and Clara Sun. The Chinese language is a wide window into one of the world’s most influential civilizations, richest economies, largest military forces, and biggest populaces; it’s also a country whose ambitions aren’t about to go away.
Noted: Gopalan and Harris separated when Kamala as just five, according to the BBC. The reason, per Kamala’s book, The Truths We Hold: Harris took a professorship position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Developed by University of Wisconsin students in 2018, the music discovery streaming app launched for Apple’s iOS In July 2019, growing to about 100,000 users, 200,000 song uploads and 15 full-time employees in the year since.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Greene earned his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees, he was deeply influenced by jazz piano teacher Joan Wildman, who died this year. “It hit me pretty hard,” says Greene. “She was fiercely creative and always encouraged me to do my own thing.”
Noted: University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have captured video of invasive round gobies eating invertebrates amid mats of gooey green nuisance algae called cladophora, which grows in abundance offshore of Sleeping Bear. When the algae dies, it creates oxygen-depleted areas that are a perfect breeding ground for type-E botulism spores.
Noted: Lauren Yoder, vice-chair of the College Democrats chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has more of a formal role with the convention, as a delegate.
Yoder, who is 19 and going into her second year at UW-Madison, said that before the pandemic hit “there was a lot of interest in volunteering … because we are in such close proximity to Milwaukee, being only an hour and a half away, we were definitely planning on getting people together … to bring together a lot of these young, progressive voices in one spot.”
As we have seen in the health care system, even temporary changes such as reimbursement for telehealth visits will be hard to reverse. The educational system would be wise to implement even temporary policies such that they leave the door open for the future. Unfortunately, it will likely take another global pandemic to create a similar window of opportunity for change.
Jennifer Lacy received her PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She teaches high school science in Kansas City, Missouri, and is the director of Education for American Daughters.
Shi, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at UW-Madison, has been studying the complementary demand concept of a grocery store and food court and has seen its popularity growing in the U.S. in the past five to 10 years.
Timothy McVeigh used two tons of ammonium nitrate to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, leading to the deaths of 168 people. It was also used in a 1970 bombing on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus that led to one death and several injuries.
Noted: Nay Hinain was one of the many Lebanese citizens packed the city of Beirut on Aug. 4, rushing to stock up on supplies before the country went into a second lockdown after a rise in the country’s COVID-19 cases.
Hinain, who was born in Lebanon and graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019, was picking out nail polish colors with a salon employee when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the nearby Beirut port.
On Thanksgiving weekend 2018, a University of Wisconsin student visiting the area with his parents walked into Mar-a-Lago by mingling with a group that was entering. He was arrested and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.
Dr. Jenkins received a Master of Science in Educational Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
But that “do something,” that’s what got me. That was Dr. Campbell summed up in a two-word cypher. This was a woman who, after getting her BA in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, decided to join the Marines, just to show she could do it. She was part of the first class of women officer candidates and, once she proved she could hack it, decided it wasn’t something she wanted to do after all and resigned her commission, heading back to academia.
The lead mechanical engineer for a recently launched Mars rover mission is a UW-Madison alumnus who, for the second time, is playing an integral role in the search for life on the Red Planet.
With five weeks left in summer break before the start of fall classes, hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, graduate workers and academic staff say they are uncomfortable returning to campus, citing confusion about reopening policies and lack of clear communication from administrators.
Noted: When they were at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker and future ComedySportz founder Dick Chudnow launched the Kentucky Fried Theater comedy troupe.
For instance, University of Wisconsin President Fred Harrington was hesitant to engage in collaborations with black colleges because he felt desegregation would negate the need for black colleges. He believed black colleges would become extinct, and the black talent on those campuses was better served at Wisconsin or other similar universities. Harrington went as far as attempting to recruit Samuel DeWitt Proctor, the president of North Carolina A&T, to lead an institute at Wisconsin.
In June, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced UW Madison students, faculty and staff will be welcomed back to campus this fall after careful consideration with public health experts.
Noted: Black came to Wisconsin to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first job at Summerfest was as administrative assistant to then-Summerfest director Henry Jordan in 1974-75. At the time she was named executive director of Summerfest in October 1983, she was a member of Mayor Henry Maier’s staff.
After graduating in 1969 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Black taught in the Milwaukee school district and later became executive director of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, according to the Republic.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday that they will be reopening Arboretum Drive starting July 31, according to a news release.
Noted: Taft’s interest in weather began in the U.S. Air Force, which he joined as a 19-year-old radar technician. He eventually became a combat pilot, spent a year in Vietnam, taught aviation and flight planning, and earned a degree in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1969.
Noted: To understand what’s really going on, we spoke to a dozen experts and dove deep into the data. Working with data provided by William H. Frey, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Diversity Explosion, we looked at twenty years of migration by state, and compared that to changes in presidential voting patterns using data from the website 270toWin. And finally, we studied migration patterns by age from a database at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Around 6 p.m., Angela Rowe, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was running the day’s operations, radioed from the ops center that several storms were tracking on a northeast bearing toward the triangle. Soon those of us who were in the field watched as the skies before us transformed. Clouds along the leading edge of the northernmost storm flattened, sending down graying tendrils of haze that brushed along the ground. Far above, the blackening core of the storm started bubbling, roiling skyward like an overflowing pot of pasta.
Noted: Montgomery went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she soon met Floyd, who would become her husband of nearly 47 years.
Ben Belzer, 25, had worked as Evers’ personal assistant since February 2019. He was raised in La Crosse and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Belzer lived in La Crosse until attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to the governor’s office. He worked as Evers’ personal assistant since February of 2019.
Noted: The first collective bargaining agreement for teaching assistants was reached at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the spring of 1970; in the 50 years since, there have been only about 40 more, covering just one in five graduate student workers, according to the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College.
Noted: If one is trying to dominate your picnic as well, Dr. Jandt suggests playing along. “Let it land, let it do its thing,” she said. When she collected data for her master’s thesis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she shared a P.B. and J. with her research subjects every day, an experience she said helped her learn to appreciate the insects’ personalities, and “really forced me to be calm all the time.”
Young Ella wanted to become a farmer. However, he took up a job in Bayer to support his family economically. Scholarships enabled him to pursue his master’s at the University of Hawai’i and his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also had a stint at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, as a teacher and researcher.
A recent UW-Madison grad used his stimulus check to start a clothing brand that benefits Feeding America.
Kaul announced Wisconsin is joining 18 other Attorneys Generals in the lawsuit against. The lawsuit includes nearly 200 declarations from institutions, including The University of Wisconsin – Madison, Milwaukee, Stevens Point and Stout.
Noted: Then: Sept. 26, 1986, The Milwaukee Journal. I wrote a story that focused on the sharply differing levels of educational success of kids in the suburbs and kids in the city. I quoted John Witte, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor: “To the extent that education achievement is equated with life chances, these two groups face very unequal opportunities.”
UW-Madison students demand protection for the international student community after federal authorities called for deportation under certain circumstances.
University of Wisconsin — Madison students started two petitions online in a call for action from Chancellor Rebecca Blank to implement a one-credit in-person course to protect international students from having to leave the country.
