On Saturday afternoon, hundreds gathered outside the Capitol for a historic moment: the unveiling of a sculpture honoring a Black woman. The first of its kind on state Capitol grounds. The woman is Vel Phillips, a Milwaukee native whose decades-long career as a community leader, judge and politician paved the way for countless others.
Duranceau was born and raised in Merrill, Wisconsin, where she graduated Merrill High School and still lives. She served in the U.S. Air Force National Guard from 2011 to 2018 and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2016 and also attended other UW campuses.
Lawns that consist solely of turfgrass provide little-to-no resources for pollinators, according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison extension division of horticulture. Also, letting lawns grow for the month of May and then mowing more than one third of the height is stressful to the turfgrass.
Lindsay resides in Cedarburg with his family and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to his legal career, he worked in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel from 2006 to 2008.
A new sculpture on the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds was unveiled Saturday afternoon, honoring Vel Phillips, a trailblazer for civil rights in Wisconsin, and the state’s first Black Secretary of State.
In the primary, she won thanks in part to the strength of a huge turnout at the University of Wisconsin campus. The newspaper headline the next day was “Youthquake.” And she went to Congress. She did a great job there.
Dr. Scott received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 1967. He taught for several years at the University of Wisconsin, where he was active in the antiwar movement and acquired a deeper interest in Southeast Asian rural peoples.
The Madison UW Campus Ghost Walk comprises the bodies buried beneath Old Abe, civil war soldiers who stuck around Camp Randall and a printer at the Daily Cardinal, who, even in death, enjoys his favorite beer in Vilas Hall.
On Saturday evening, the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council, to become a judge in Wisconsin and the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin became the first person of color represented in statue form at the state Capitol.
In 1951, she became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
As the 2024 Olympics get started in Paris, many Wisconsinites will get their chance to shine on the international stage. Will any come away with medals, like Kenny Bednarek’s silver or Molly Seidel’s bronze in 2021? Perhaps it will mark the second straight Olympics with a Wisconsin-connected athlete winning gold in men’s basketball after Bucks players Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday turned the feat in 2021, mere weeks after winning the NBA crown.
Kinship with the more-than-human world is both the philosophy and the feeling that guides Swan’s work today as an award-winning eco-poet and creative non-fiction writer, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches environmental literature.
After years of effort, Saturday will mark history for Wisconsin as the first statue commemorating a Black leader will be unveiled on the Capitol grounds in Madison.
Phillips holds significance in Wisconsin as a trailblazing Black woman who had a lasting impact on the state’s legal and political history.
The Harmonic Hospitality Group plans to open a restaurant (The Stuffed Olive), an ’80s-to-’00s-themed dance club (Roxxy) and an arcade bar (Double Tap Beercade) on the 300 block of State Street within oLiv — a student housing building located near the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
When Nikhita Steward-Trivedi searched for academic programs this summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) caught their eye.
Jerry was a county extension agent and a professor of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for about 30 years. After his retirement in the early 1990s, he pivoted to writing full-time and penned more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books.
The City said students can provide a certified housing list from UW-Madison or Edgewood College, but must also show college ID. Staff at the City Clerk’s office will assist with any voter needs.
Phillips broke a long list of barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a judge in Wisconsin. Then she became the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin, serving as secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. She died in 2018 at age 95.
Phillips broke a long list of barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a judge in Wisconsin. Then she became the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin, serving as secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. She died in 2018 at age 95.
The latest research, which comes from a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows the virus can be transmitted by respiratory droplets in ferrets, but inefficiently. Amie Eisfeld, an author of the study, says their lab has not seen this kind of transmission event with any other version of highly pathogenic avian influenza that they’ve isolated from the natural world and tested in ferrets.
Alum Robin Tamachi: So the first time I went out storm chasing was in 2001. I was in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time. And we went out in a van for a week to the Great Plains to just observe storms and document them and collect whatever data we could using kind of some basic handheld instruments. Well, I’ll tell you, I learned more about meteorology in that one week on the road than I did in the previous, you know, three to four years in the classroom.
“When I was five, my family moved to Madison, where my father got a job teaching economics at the University of Wisconsin and my mother worked as a breast cancer researcher,” Harris wrote in a 2020 Wisconsin State Journal op-ed. “It was a brief moment — but for a little while, we called Wisconsin home.”
That heated debate drew University of Wisconsin-Madison officials to select the memoir as the university’s 2017-18 Go Big Read book. A shared reading program, Go Big Read distributes free copies of a recommended book to first-year students and encourages professors to incorporate the book into coursework.
Both of Harris’ parents worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during her childhood.
Prosecutors dropped and amended charges against one of the four people arrested and charged during pro-Palestine protests on UW-Madison’s campus in May.
She spent long days playing with her younger sister, Maya. They posed for cheerful, hand-in-hand photos, which were taken by her parents, a pair of politically engaged scholars who divided their time between home and work on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Former UW-Madison student Brian Peck had a strong heart.
That’s how his younger brother, Colin Peck, a UW-Madison senior studying computer engineering, describes him. An adoring older brother, Brian nurtured a love of technology in Colin similar to his own and had a summer internship lined up at Medtronic, a Minneapolis-based global medical device company, where he thought he could improve people’s lives through technology.
When she created the newly released indie video game Garage Sale, Amelia Zollner drew inspiration from the garage sales her family would have.
“I always loved that,” said Zollner, who is Garage Sale’s lead writer and director. “It’s super fun to have your driveway turned into a little store. You meet people through that.”
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee were asked to provide housing, but the RNC withdrew those requests.
The UW-Madison and Memorial Union are listed.
Another 15-story student housing development could go up on the corner of North Frances and West Johnson streets Downtown.
Chicago-based Core Spaces announced plans Thursday for 392 apartments, a rooftop pool and other “premier” amenities at 305 N. Frances St., where the Saxony Apartments stand today.
All of the extra police officers need to stay somewhere. The city of Milwaukee requested 4,000 dorm rooms but has said that not all of them will be filled with officers. The city requested rooms at Concordia University Wisconsin, Carroll University, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Mount Mary University.
Hatch said the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a network of people who want to see small producers succeed.
“There are so many resources in Wisconsin, you just need to start introducing yourself and asking questions,” he said.
Lo would ultimately escape the abuse and get back on her feet with help from The Women’s Community, Inc., a Wausau-based nonprofit that serves domestic violence and trafficking survivors. Her life would come full circle years later. She would go on to earn a master’s degree in social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before returning to Wausau to help Hmong women through challenges like she faced.
A mother and her 14-year-old disabled child are demonstrating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after the school notified them of unenrollment from a summer program.
Juniper’s journey in the indie video game Garage Sale in some ways mirrors the journey of its lead writer and director, University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student Amelia Zollner. She started the game on her own while in high school isolated during the pandemic. Then she found a community of like-minded students around her on a quest to bring it to completion.
James Tinjum, an engineering professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison who said he had concerns about Biden’s energy levels during the debate, was reassured Friday. He said he has faith in Biden’s ability to “get things done” and noted concerns about Trump’s age, as well. Trump turned 78 last month.
“He had more confidence, more strength in his voice and a positive message that I’m looking for,” Tinjum said.
Olivia Saud, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who came to the rally at Sherman Middle School to see Biden in person, said she watched the debate and “I understand the concern.”
“I also understand the concern of Trump being president,” she said, adding, “I’m one of those people who subscribes to anything that’s blue I’m going to vote for at this point.”
Charlie Pietz, a 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate joined the Student Seats team as Chief Marketing Officer two years ago. He helped Student Seats grow to over 5,000 users in Wisconsin with his work on campus and social media.
As someone who grew up in Milwaukee, attended school here and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and took some of my first swings at investigative reporting as an intern at the Journal Sentinel in 2021, I take great pride in coming to work every day.
Emma Corrado tries to be conscious of her electricity usage, both as an aspiring biosystems engineer with a focus on natural resources and a self-proclaimed “broke college student” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But on the tail of a record-breaking heatwave that swept the Midwest and Northeast, she’s finding it difficult to keep costs down.
Four Badger women’s rowing alumni will go to the Olympics this summer. We talk with the program’s head coach Vicky Opitz about the secrets to elite rowing success and introducing novices to the sport. Plus, we go over the basics of rowing for new spectators.
Pocan is proposing to double the size of need-based Pell Grants, a federal assistance program that began in the 1970s. Pocan received Pell Grants himself when he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Duck Donuts, the North Carolina-based doughnut shop franchise known for its unique menu offerings and build-your-own donuts, is opening its first Wisconsin location near the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer. According to the shop’s Facebook page, it plans to open in late July at 3308 University Ave., Madison.
I recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Life Sciences Communication. With the opportunity to serve as Alice in Dairyland, I am so excited to travel across Wisconsin for a memorable and rewarding year, connecting communities with agriculture and learning more about this diverse industry across our state.
Years before upcoming “Bachelorette” and former “Bachelor” contestant Jenn Tran was looking for love on TV, there was something else she was trying to find:
A college with “a lot of school spirit.” She’d find it — in Wisconsin.
Sanders’s rally is part of a weeklong campaign swing in the Badger State. The Daily Cardinal, the University of Wisconsin’s student paper, provided audio of the Stevens Point event.
“It was a painful experience to sit through. Neither candidate inspires our country,” Anders said. The Madison resident soon to start law school at the University of Wisconsin said the debate left him with concerns about Biden’s cognitive abilities but that he also questions Trump’s mental abilities.
Born Velvalea Hortense Rodgers in Milwaukee in 1923, the influential public figure was ahead of her time.
She received a scholarship to attend Howard University, in Washington D.C., where she obtained her bachelor’s degree. Phillips continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School and was the first African-American woman to graduate there. She and her husband then opened a Milwaukee law firm.
He said it’s one of the main reasons he sought to call Shorewood home in 1987 after obtaining a master’s degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and moving to Milwaukee County in 1975.
Still, the overall increase of food prices in the United States in 2024 is expected to be about 2%, down from an average of 3% annually, Andrew Stevens, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Reuters.
“Yes, food prices are increasing, but they’re not increasing as much as they have in recent years, and they’re even a little below the long-run average,” Stevens said.
It’s been quintessential to the college experience of Parthenon Gyros’ co-owner, Erin Vranas, in ways far more personal than most. As a new college student at UW-Madison in 2006, the Black River Falls native was still adjusting to a world where people outnumbered cows when she met her now-husband, Dimetri, outside his parents’ restaurant on State Street. At the time, nothing Vranas was studying at UW-Madison felt right — interior design, consumer science and astronomy all piqued her interest but ultimately didn’t offer what she wanted.
Decades earlier, Whitehorse began mentoring Gene Delcourt, then a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on his wood sculpting craft. He encouraged Delcourt, who is Abenaki and Filipino, to attend symposiums in Europe dedicated to the art form. Each time Delcourt returned from a symposium, he thought, “I’d really love to put one of these on.”
This State Journal report ran on June 23, 1854:
This engraving represents the university as it is to be when completed. At present, only the first dormitory building at the right of the central building is completed. The first one at the left is in the process of construction and will be finished the present season.
Dr. Kaiping Chen is an Assistant Professor in computational communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication.
Dr. Nathaniel Chinis medical director and Clinical Core Co-Leader for the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) and medical director for the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP).
Chundou Her is a graduate student in Curriculum & Instruction at UW-Madison, researching the intersection of storytelling, youth activism, art, transformative justice, and participatory methods.
Sirinda Pairin is an Engagement and Communications Manager at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Pasha Thao is program manager for diverse alumni engagement at the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association, where she coordinates and supports a number of affinity groups for University of Wisconsin Alumni.
One of the most compelling series of stories last summer concerned the evacuation of two apartment buildings contaminated by cancer-causing chemicals, and the discovery that some Milwaukee officials knew residents were living there – yet said nothing.
What made the work especially remarkable was that it was largely reported by two college interns, Yash Roy from Yale University and Sophia Vento from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Catherine Chan is the assistant vice provost for high impact practices in the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement at UW-Madison, where she provides administrative, operational, and strategic leadership for the DDEEA’s high-impact educational efforts.
Susan Tran Degrand currently serves as the Director for Equity, Inclusion & Employee Well-Being for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Human Resources.
Dr. Ryan Tsuchida is Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs for Health Professions Learners and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
One of Delcourt and Levin’s main goals in creating the festival was to prevent Whitehorse’s work from being forgotten. Whitehorse, who was born in a wigwam in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, studied anatomy at UW–Madison, fine arts at the Arthur Colt School of Fine Arts in Madison and welding at a local technical college. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Whitehorse returned to Madison where he experimented with many different kinds of art, including metalwork and custom car design, before landing on wood carving in the 1980’s. He died in 2017 at age 90.
On June 7, Cinder found his forever home with a family deeply involved in animal care. The family’s daughter is studying veterinary medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, ensuring that Cinder will continue to receive excellent care.
