“They’re not letting us party,” said an irate Allie Shoman, 21, a junior at the University of Wisconsin. Her friend, McKenzie Feyen, chimed in, saying the virus doesn’t scare her at all: “There’s more cases where we go to school than here. We might as well stay and get hammered.”
Noted: While at the University of Wisconsin, Brian met Mary while washing dishes at Barnard Residence Hall. The two were married for 62 years and have five children, 26 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
Pat Hanrahan was a young biophysics student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s when he decided to give up his work with microscopic insects and join a small group of computer scientists in their quest to make a movie.
In Madison, Erica Kauten, a retired former program director at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, wore disposable rubber gloves while she was out for a walk.
The Sheboygan Lutheran boys basketball team’s coaches had the film already rolling for Randolph, its scheduled opponent in Saturday’s sectional final.
Noted: Wetselaar, who was 33 when he died in the Molson Coors shootings Feb. 26, grew up in the Milwaukee area. He graduated from Pius XI High School in 2005 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a degree in political science. He met his wife while at UW-Madison, where they both worked at a restaurant.
Elizabeth Pulvermacher, a University of Wisconsin student, arrived Saturday at O’Hare from Madrid, where she had been studying and spent hours in line. The customs process made her feel “unsafe,” she said.
Kai Linsenmeyer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior who had been studying in Germany, landed late Sunday afternoon expecting to be held up after seeing online what other passengers had experienced. Instead, he got through customs, had his temperature taken and grabbed his bags in about an hour.
Kai Linsenmeyer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior who had been studying in Germany, landed late Sunday afternoon expecting to be held up after seeing online what other passengers had experienced. Instead, he got through customs, had his temperature taken and grabbed his bags in about an hour.
Aaron Bird Bear, a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Diné nations, is the first tribal relations director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Mr. Spiegel, 33, is a co-founder and the chief operating officer of Highfield, a creative agency in New York. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
Danielle Yancey, a member of the Menominee/Santee Nation, is the director for the Native American Center for Health Professions at the School of Medicine and Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Letter to the editor: These systems highlight that impact matters regardless of intention. These forms are not so that we can tattle to “nanny campus bureaucracy.” They allow us to enact the change we want to see.
Letter to the editor: It appears that sufficient time has passed to comment on the bothersome fact that not a single review of the UW Faculty Exhibition at the Chazen Museum, which began Feb. 1, has appeared in any of the local media.
Many biosafety officers rank their involvement in research, albeit in a supporting role, as one of the key attractions of the job. “One of the things I’ve loved most about this job is that I’m still involved in and helping the research community,” says Andrea Ladd, assistant director of the environment, health and safety office at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Anderson earned his PhD at MIT and went on to teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was the chair of the meteorology department. The American Meteorological Society has named an award for Anderson, recognizing work promoting diversity in the atmospheric sciences.
Wetselaar began working at Molson Coors in 2018, according to his LinkedIn page. Before working at the brewery, Wetselaar worked on nuclear submarines as a member of the U.S. Navy. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 with a political science degree.
Smith is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Florida and President of ElectionSmith, Inc. He is a nationally-recognized expert on direct democracy, campaign finance, and voting rights in the American states. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his B.A. in History from Penn State.
Omer Poler has spent most of the past decade as an outreach specialist for the UW-Madison Information School, supporting tribal librarians, archivists and museum curators across the state.
He had also worked as a manager at a pizza company and as a Health Care Services account manager. He had a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in political science and government. He spoke Dutch.
Trevor Wetselaar, 33, of Milwaukee, was an engine room operator at the brewery.He grew up in the area, graduating from Pius XI High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He started at MillerCoors in 2018, according to his LinkedIn page.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association is recognizing seven graduates’ achievements across the globe, from national security reporting to criminal justice reform, with its 2020 Forward Under 40 awards,
The Wisconsin Alumni Association says Trevor Wetselaar, one of the five victims in the Molson Coors workplace shooting, was an alum of the UW-Madison.
Founded in 2003, the UW Odyssey Project offers UW-Madison humanities classes for adult students facing economic barriers to college, such as single parenthood, homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, incarceration, depression and domestic abuse, according to their website.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is connected to the state capitol by State Street, home to boutiques, restaurants and food carts.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is connected to the state capitol by State Street, home to boutiques, restaurants and food carts.
On the other, her studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focused on contemporary African art, she’s been dealing with and making connections with lots of important contemporary artists for a decade (700 is the number cited in the press release), and that $4 million budget is triple what it was when she took over leadership of the center. (She also doubled the staff.)
We are a group of academic faculty and staff who oppose the use of facial recognition on college campuses. We believe it is our duty to protect our campuses as learning environments where our students, fellow staff, and community members are safe, and that the constant surveillance of facial recognition threatens our human rights and privacy.
Panelists representing three tribes spoke Tuesday night at the Wisconsin Energy Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to highlight their sustainability efforts.
Virgil Abloh, the founder of Off-White and the men’s wear designer of Louis Vuitton, is the kind of fashion figure that seems to demand comparison.
Appleton native and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Brenda Rae will be singing the role of Poppea in Handel’s opera “Agrippina” on Saturday at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The performance will be broadcast live over the NPR News and Classical Music Network of WPR beginning at 1 p.m. that day. It will also be live streamed at many movie theaters around Wisconsin.
Noted: Holzman worked there after school and on weekends. When he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1953, Holzman’s career as a full-time furrier began. He took over the business from his dad in 1972.
UW-Madison art professor Tom Loeser used the ash wood to create seating areas, which consist of benches and desks.
And mindfulness does, indeed, relieve suffering to some degree. When my friend Richard Davidson—the psychology professor who founded the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—and I reviewed the best of peer-reviewed scientific studies of meditation in our book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, we found that even beginners benefited from mindfulness by becoming calmer, less easily upset, and more focused, among many other benefits.
Noted: Heiden said afterward he didn’t relish the idea of being on cereal boxes or other forms of publicity. He did what he could to return to a quiet life and obtained his medical degree. He first attended the University of Wisconsin and then completed his undergrad work at Stanford University before completing his medical degree in 1991. He became an orthopedist like his father, Jack Heiden.
Noted: Assembly lawmakers early Friday also approved a bill that would require the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study dangerous long-lasting chemicals in groundwater and soil and mandates the Department of Natural Resources to develop standards to use to certify labratories to test for such chemicals.
After spending a year at the University of Wisconsin and a year at Northwestern University, Lynn Kay moved to St. Louis. While there she played roles in regional theater productions and taught at a summer theater program.
The results of a new UW-Madison poll energized some Democratic grassroots activists Sunday while it had others feeling defiant.
Noted: The late Cheryl Rosen Weston, a law professor at UW-Madison, made a significant donation to support the program, but the United Way did not disclose the amount.
Doug began his 45 year career at the UW Hospital in the early ’70s where he worked in several departments but was especially proud of his work in the Worker’s Compensation Division.
Doug Erickson, a university relations specialist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been in a co-ed seven-person book group for 12 years. The most important part of a book club for him is the members. “You need to approach the membership of your book club with the precision, pragmatism and ruthlessness of the NFL draft. You can’t be sentimental. Be extremely wary of the overtalker and the mansplainer,” he says. “One blowhard can ruin the whole thing.”
Steck, 20, is president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Fishing Team. He’s been juggling classes and preparation for the College Fishing National Championship in Central Florida, a three-day bass competition starting on Feb. 26.
Noted: The 2012 University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Science graduate joined the guard 3½ years ago because she wanted to serve in the military. There are no veterinarian jobs in the Wisconsin National Guard — only in the reserves and active duty military — so she opted to enlist as a medic.
The University of Wisconsin System wants to double the number of students in its online programs over the next five years as part of a strategy to offset a projected decline in the number of traditional college-going students.
Allen Lawrence, a retired electrical engineer, enrolled in astronomy courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. In 2013 he began studying a system where two galaxies interact; a larger galaxy called NGC 4490 (dubbed “the Cocoon Galaxy” on account of its shape) and NGC 4485, a smaller galaxy.
Anew book reveals President Donald Trump had a lot of questions about badgers in the early months of his presidency, according to a report from Business Insider.
Target released a statement apologizing for some misprinted onesies bearing the name “Minnesota Badgers” in the familiar University of Minnesota maroon and gold, releasing a statement to WCCO-TV.
“Color us red,” the statement began. “As a Minnesota-based company, we know we are home to the Gophers.”
Eighty-thousand rabid fans pack into the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Camp Randall Stadium for games during college football season. If you’re not wearing Badgers red from fall to winter, it’s because you’re wearing Green Bay Packers green on Sundays.
If you’re from either Minnesota or Wisconsin, you know there’s zero confusion over who’s who, where’s where, and which one has the better world-class university.
Under a newly extended Title and Total Compensation timeline, staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will hear updates regarding potential changes to job descriptions and pay ranges at a series of forums beginning Tuesday.
Phillip’s life was a series of firsts. The first African American woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison law school. The first to win a seat on Milwaukee’s City Council. The first to become a judge in Wisconsin. The first to become Secretary of State of Wisconsin.
Clark Street describes itself as a “laboratory for innovative education.” As such, the school works closely with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop programs and evaluate its approaches to learning.
The 12th cohort of Outstanding Women of Color awardees will be honored at a reception on Thursday, March 5, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center, 716 Langdon Street. The event to celebrate this year’s honorees is open to the campus and community.
Cecilia Miao graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 — and currently lives in Beijing. She said the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is taking a toll. Normally crowded streets, she said, are now empty.
Danez Smith was born into a devout Baptist household in St Paul, Minnesota. Smith’s grandmother still lives there, in one of only two black households on a street that was mixed but is becoming increasingly white. Smith grew up, on this border between the blacker areas and the white middle-class enclaves of the city, as a black, queer, God-fearing child.
The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership is hosting its second event about increasing independence for people in Wisconsin with disabilities on Friday, this time focused on services for children.
“Wisconsin is no less a swing state than Ohio,” said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, who has developed a new battleground state polling project in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania through his Elections Research Center.
The Statue of Liberty tradition began with a prank in 1979 by the Pail and Shovel Party, which was led by UW-Madison alumni Leon Varjian and Jim Mallon ’79. Varjian and Mallon made a campaign promise that, if elected to the Wisconsin Student Association, they would bring the Statue of Liberty to Madison.
The University of Wisconsin has again been named a best value college by the Princeton Review.
Looks like Starship’s delivery robots may be blocked from roaming the city streets of Madison, WI. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the local Transportation Policy and Planning Board there unanimously recommended a measure yesterday that would prohibit the delivery robots everywhere in the city except for the University of Wisconsin.
