Category: UW-Madison Related

I grew up in northern Wisconsin, and this was the first “real book” my father read aloud to me. Later I had the opportunity to study Wildlife Ecology in the University of Wisconsin–Madison department that Aldo Leopold himself had founded. I was so impressed with the practical route Leopold took in his career. Before writing A Sand County Almanac, he wrote Game Management on the mathematics and statistics of wildlife population control through hunting.

Despite her rookie status in Congress, Shalala is an experienced Washington hand, having served as secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton. Among the other positions on her long resume: chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, president of the University of Miami and president of the Clinton Foundation.

Latham holds a master’s degree in crop genetics and a Ph.D. in virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to having published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, toxicology, genetics, and genetic engineering, Latham is the director of the Poison Papers project, which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Recently, I interviewed Latham to discuss his work on COVID-19.

Birx also talked about schools reopening and gave a warning to UW students about large gatherings during the upcoming Labor Day holiday.

She is a student at UW-Madison exploring her interests in law and healthcare but took some time off in the spring to focus on an internship at the Capitol and other roles, including creating the youth-led group Impact Demand.

Aldo Leopold wore many hats in his life. A writer, professor, member of the forest service, and conservationist, his development of what is called land ethics, or ecocentrism, continues to influence modern environmentalists today. Leopold, who spent time working for the Forest Service before a professorship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was an early proponent of a holistic approach to wildlife conservation that trumpeted biodiversity and a need for humans to understand the impact they had on the land around them. As a professor, he worked to create the UW Madison Arboretum, which continues to work on restoring original Wisconsin landscapes today.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday that they will be reopening Arboretum Drive starting July 31, according to a news release.

Noted: Montgomery went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she soon met Floyd, who would become her husband of nearly 47 years.