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.
Noted: James graduated in May from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in finance and economics. Chris graduates in December with a degree in statistics. The Kardatzkes grew up in Spring Green. James scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. Chris scored a 35.
The team of researchers was selected in a two-round process. In the first part, the IFCN staff analyzed each proposal to make sure all the requirements were fulfilled. Then a committee composed of three professors — Lucas Graves, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Steen Steensen, professor at OsloMet; and Bente Kalsnes, associate professor at Kristiania University College — evaluated the approved proposals and selected the top submissions. The winners came out of this group.
She went on to earn a PhD in food science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she took classes in food chemistry, food engineering, protein chemistry, and dairy chemistry.
DOA spokeswoman Molly Vidal said the Evers order applies to roughly 35,000 executive branch employees throughout the state but not to those in the Legislature, the court system or the University of Wisconsin System … A similar mask rule was already in place on the UW-Madison campus, where employees are required to wear masks inside all campus buildings unless they are alone in a lab or office.
The 18th century botanist invented the system for classifying species, including Homo sapiens, which he categorized based on race, assigning negative social traits to nonwhite populations. “For those of us who have ever been called Black, brown, or yellow, Linnaeus’s legacy lives on every day,” says Taylor Tai, an entomology graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-author of a petition to rename the games.
Naturally, such scrutiny evades professors who cheer on violence and property damage. When vandals in Madison, Wis., pulled down a statue of famous abolitionist Hans Christian Heg, who died fighting against the Confederate army, Sami Schalk, professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, cheered the lawless rioters on. “Destroy them all,” Schalk tweeted, adding, “People over property. Always.”
Nearly everything that has happened in Hong Kong recently was unimaginable a year ago, much less when Schneider first caught the journalism bug at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the early 1980s.
In Away We Go, Burt and Verona set off on a tour of the US in search of the best place to raise a family. Start off in Phoenix, AZ, and visit the Phoenix Park N’ Swap before heading to Tucson for a stay at The JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa. Make your way up to Madison, WI, and take a tour of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, known for its lovely arboretum.
Pinduoduo appointed Chen Lei, its chief technology officer, as chief executive. Mr Chen was a classmate of Mr Huang’s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked alongside him on several ventures including gaming studio Xinyoudi.
Widespread criticism has rained down on those who led a night of destructive protestsin Madison on Tuesday night after the arrest of a Black protester.
Many on the left and right were left baffled and upset that rioters toppled two iconic Capitol statues — one of an abolitionist who died during the Civil War and the other a female figure representing the state motto “Forward.”
But one state Senate candidate, Nada Elmikashfi, defended the destruction in no uncertain terms.
Finally, Elmikashfi, a 24-year-old recent University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and a Muslim immigrant from Sudan, said, “I’m glad my future colleagues in the legislature are getting a good introduction of how nice I’ll be in the Capitol when it comes to their anti-blackness.”
The disparities in Madison are stark. The capital city is one of the wealthiest in the state and home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the country’s premier research institutions. The city is a liberal bastion with a history of political activism dating back to the Vietnam War era. The district attorney, Ismael Ozanne, is Black. So are some city council members.
The agency is investigating multiple cases associated with businesses near UW-Madison’s campus. For example, photos on social media last week showed a long line of unmasked students waiting to be let into a bar.
It led to a PhD in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a career with the pharmaceutical company Merck in the US – he still lives in Massachusetts.
Its founder and chief executive, Colin Zheng Huang, who earned his master’s from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later worked at Google, is now China’s third-richest man, behind Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba.
Noted: Before becoming an attorney and moving to the Harlem neighborhood in New York City, Adkins, 30, completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It was weird having a best friend who was white and still feeling so isolated and uncomfortable by the whiteness on the campus,” he said. “I still enjoyed my time there very much, but I’m just talking about having to grapple with my double consciousness in a very real way.”
When Fannie Lou Hamer spoke to a predominantly white audience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971, the civil rights icon spoke of the time when she was 13 and asked her mother a seemingly innocent question.
“How come we wasn’t born white?”
It was the question of a young teenager growing up in the heart of the South, when ruthless racism was the norm.
As the University of Wisconsin prepares to issue health and safety guidelines for the fall, UW System leadership discussed logistical details at a meeting Thursday, especially regarding the use of the word “require” for facial coverings on campus.
Many colleges and universities now have a one-book program, too. In Madison, the University of Wisconsin’s Go Big Read program will feature Dave Cullen’s “Parkland: Birth of a Movement” in 2020-’21. Past Go Big Read books include “Just Mercy,” Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted” and Malala Yousafzai’s memoir “I Am Malala.”
Dondieneita Fleary-Simmons, Wisconsin 4-H program manager, said they’ve been following state and University of Wisconsin-Madison guidelines.
Early Saturday morning, several hundred health care providers and advocates rallied at the state Capitol in Madison. The Student National Medical Association chapter at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health organized the event, called “White Coats 4 Black Lives.”
Twenty-two-year-old Erica Hill also feels lucky. A geological engineering major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hill recently started an internship with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT).
Column by Kinzley, an associate professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cascio, a assistant professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, moved one floor down in his building to a two-bedroom apartment. Aside from his unit number, Cascio’s Madison street address and ZIP code stayed the same.
One year later, as he planned to participate in Wisconsin’s April 2020 primary, a reporter notified him he was on a list of voters set to be removed from the state’s rolls — news Cascio called upsetting.
Rhodes-Conway was the Managing Director of the Mayors Innovation Project and a senior associate at the COWS (Center on Wisconsin Strategy) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 13 years.
Mohammed Ahmed: During my time at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Ferguson riots happened, and they had an indelible impact on how I thought about my interaction with the police. I’ve only been stopped by the police once.
In 2016, my teammates and I went back to Madison to do some heat and humidity training before the Olympics in Rio. We were staying in Middleton, which is 15 to 20 minutes outside of Madison. I asked if I could take the car to State Street and reminisce some of my old days. I went and dined at my favorite restaurant and walked around. When it was time to go back, I took a glimpse of Camp Randall Stadium and my old neighborhood from my five years in the city. I pulled over and slowly drove through my neighborhood for 10 minutes or so. Then, I got on the road and left.
For now, researchers caution against reading too much into the available studies. J. Wesley Pike, a biochemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there is not enough proof yet to suggest a meaningful relationship between vitamin D and COVID-19. Researchers will need to conduct further studies to determine if that vitamin is effective in combating the coronavirus. “There’s simply no evidence that taking vitamin D will protect you,” Pike said. “But again, we don’t know. The answer is it’s possible.”
Noted: Ashley is a graduate of Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, DePaul University and the University of Wisconsin Law School. She joined the state bar in 2012, and worked in criminal defense at Alex Flynn & Associates for three years before joining Legal Action.
He plans to study sports management at the University of Wisconsin, his stepdad’s alma mater. But for now, he sits and looks at his empty high school field.
Q: How things are going out in Madison right now? What have you seen and experienced over the past week?
A: As you alluded, up until today we’ve had five days of peaceful and powerful protests downtown, largely on the Capitol Square. The first three nights of those were followed by some violence and looting of businesses that are also located close to the Capitol. There’s a retail street that connects [the University of Wisconsin–Madison] campus with the Capitol called State Street. It’s an automobile-free street, and that’s where most of the looting and damage to property has taken place.
Noted: The court sought input from law deans at Marquette and the University of Wisconsin, the state bar, the board of bar examiners, who all opposed the idea.
Noted: Mensah worked for less than two years at both the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department before he was hired by Wauwatosa police in January 2015.
Mensah was the subject of one citizen complaint while on the UW-Madison police force, but his supervisors determined he had acted appropriately. A student said Mensah unnecessarily drew his Taser when officers responded to break up fights at a fraternity’s dance party, records show. Mensah did not fire the Taser.
The complaint was not upheld after other officers and witnesses described the chaotic scene and the student who filed the complaint did not return voice messages. The phone number eventually was disconnected.
Private school or state school? University or straight into work?Public [state] school my whole life. My undergraduate degree is from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, the same place I teach now. Both my master’s and PhD are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Yaa Ampofo, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was one of many participating in the caravan. She said she was there to keep up the momentum.
Noted: “He was first and foremost a journalist with a strong sense of social justice and a pen that could be withering at times,” said Patricia Loew, professor at the Medill School of Journalism and co-director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University, who worked with Rolo as a colleague and a student. “He was fiercely loyal, as he was in sheltering and playing dad to his teenage nephew. I advised him as a graduate student, an experience that was both exhilarating and exasperating. He could be acerbic and suffered no fools, as his cohorts sometimes complained, and as his own students learned when he became a UW-Madison lecturer.”
A sense of déjà vu swept over me this week. It was 51 years ago when, as a member of the Wisconsin National Guard, my unit was activated to help keep the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus open.
Noted: Last spring, Milwaukee teenagers Dana Sharqawi and Sumaya Abdi organized protests after mass shootings at mosques in New Zealand.
On Wednesday, they brought people together again at the Islamic Society of Milwaukee — this time to remember George Floyd and to protest police violence. They said they were guided by their Muslim faith.
“Our religion tells us that if one part of your body’s in pain, then the whole body’s in pain,” said Abdi, now 19 and a student at UW-Madison. “So if our black brothers and sisters are in pain, we’re in pain, too.”
Raised in Madison, her dad played basketball for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s. Her parents later moved back to Wisconsin Rapids, where they grew up, after a period in Los Angeles so Brey could pursue acting.
White, a native Oklahoman, taught high school math in Dallas before he left for law school at UW-Madison in 2005. He continues to teach as an adjunct professor of law at UW-Madison, where he teaches trial advocacy and coaches mock trial.
Because digital talks are easier attend, they may reach larger audiences, says Brett Ranon Nachman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is autistic. For the meeting in Montreal, Canada, last year, he co-organized a special-interest group on higher education for autistic adults. This year, the group will present as part of a webinar series called the INSAR Institute, organized by INSAR.
We have to wait another year to cheer on Wisconsin athletes in the summer Olympics, but at least we can ride one high from 2016. In those games in Rio, Jorgensen became the first American to win gold in Olympic Triathlon, after she had dominated the world triathlete circuit over the previous three years. Jorgensen, a Waukesha native, didn’t start doing triathlon until she was recruited by USA Triathlon as a collegiate runner and swimmer at the University of Wisconsin, then began training while she worked as a CPA in Milwaukee. Jorgensen retired from triathlon in 2017, had a baby and announced a new goal: pursuing Olympic gold in track and field and eventually marathon.
Each May the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Camp Randall Stadium fills with thousands of soon-to-be graduates and their family and friends — all celebrating the culmination of their college careers. But for the class of 2020, commencement, like so many other aspects of daily life, was anything but normal.
Noted: Madison is both a college town and the state capital. State Street, which extends from the capitol to the University of Wisconsin, is usually jam-packed with people on the weekends. COVID-19 changed all that. Students were sent home to finish their semester online. Restaurants and bars have been closed. No farmers market on Capitol Square on Saturdays. The capitol building itself has been locked for weeks.
Born and brought up in Patna, Bihar, Ranjan earned his degree in engineering from Regional Engineering College, Trichy followed by Masters and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been teaching at Georgia Tech for the last six years.
Brian Pinkerton, a 1986 UW-Madison graduate with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, will digitally return to Madison as the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference early next month.
With face-to-face campaigning no longer an option, Koerth, 22 and a 2019 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said she steered young voters toward a strategy of relational organizing, which involves having volunteers contact their own social network to mobilize and persuade voters. Relational organizing has been a part of the DPW’s work from the start, but was put into overdrive when the pandemic hit, said Koerth.
Pearson-Green enrolled in City Year two years ago, while in his junior year at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: Since there are no veterinary clinics in those areas, the Wisconsin Humane Society is working with the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine to offer tele-medicine appointments for sick and injured animals owned by Pets For Life participants, said Speed.
According to its filing with the state Public Service Commission, MGE has contracts with the state of Wisconsin, UW-Madison, the city of Fitchburg, Placon Corp., Promega Corp. and the Willy Street Co-op to buy about 85% of the project’s energy output. The company said it plans to contract with others for the remainder.
The Journal Sentinel’s report said the graduates’ request acknowledged health hazards associated with holding Wisconsin’s bar exam this summer in light of social distancing barriers and asked the state to expand its “diploma privilege” policy instead. In Wisconsin, diploma privilege allows those who graduated from one of the state’s two law schools, University of Wisconsin and Marquette University, to practice law in-state without taking the bar exam.
Noted: After he left the military Bakko earned a geology degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then joined the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 105th Cavalry Regiment, serving from 2010 to 2016.
Noted: Although Halleman is a web developer by trade — he currently works at Watermark Insight in Milwaukee’s Third Ward — his time at UW-Madison was spent majoring in Spanish and international studies. Still, he said the pandemic motivated him to use the coding skills he picked up in his mid-20s to help others.
Because there’s so much traffic on Arboretum Drive right now, the University of Wisconsin plans to close the road to vehicles temporarily altogether.
By the time he and Carolyn were both students at historically black Tougaloo College near Jackson, Miss., they had decided to get married; they honeymooned at a local Holiday Inn. A year later, the first of six children came: Andrea in 1970, Stacey in 1973, Leslie in 1974, Richard in 1977, Walter in 1979 and Jeanine in 1982. Stacey and Leslie were born in Madison, Wis., because Robert and the family resided there for a couple of years so that Carolyn could get, with the help of a fellowship, a master’s degree in library science from the University of Wisconsin.
The iconic comfort food was created by Waukesha County native and UW-Madison graduate Donald Goerke after he was asked to develop an easy-to-eat meal for children while he worked at the Campbell Soup Company.
Rebalanced-Life Wellness Association, has hosted virtual support group meetings during the pandemic. The groups have included Alvin Thomas of UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology, Logan Edwards from UW-Madison’s Department of Kinesiology, Dr. Jonas Lee from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and Darryl Davidson of the city of Milwaukee’s Health Department.
I’d been thinking about Burt anyway, as the 50th anniversary of the day that made him infamous fast approaches.
Noted: To get started, McGinnis turned to the website of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s face shield project. It offered nearly everything his team needed, including a list of materials to make face shields and a pattern to use for assembly.
Noted: American Girl’s lead designer for the Girl of the Year series, Rebecca DeKuiper, lived near Monona Terrace in 2014, and Walkowicz’s attorney believes she and other American Girl employees attended Walkowicz’s talk and were inspired to use Walkowicz as the basis for a new doll.
In October 2016, Walkowicz was back in Madison taking part in Space Place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and led activities for parents, and did more outreach in Trempealeau and LaCrosse.
