Category: UW-Madison Related

WeatherTech dedicated its Super Bowl spot to the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine, which saved its chief executive’s dog, Scout:

The WeatherTech CEO, David MacNeill, put money on a national buy thanking the University of Wisconsin Veterinary School of Medicine who helped save his dog from cancer. Fast Company listed this as one of the worst ads from Super Bowl LIV stating that it seemed a stretch to tie in a Wisconsin vet school to a manufacturing company. I think that the ad was both a personal touch of gratitude, but also does appeal to many consumers that would be their target market. I remember thinking during the holiday commercials, “I didn’t know they had dog bowls and supplies,” when that was in the mix of the ever-advertised phone cup holder.

School of Veterinary Medicine dean Mark Markel reckons the advert will go a long way in promoting everything they do. He said: “This is an amazing opportunity not only for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the School of Veterinary Medicine, but for veterinary medicine worldwide.

Noted: Red Arrow first welcomed campers in 1922, with the boys taking trains from Milwaukee and Chicago. To help launch the camp, Razz brought on Paul Waterman, the business manager for MCD, as his co-director, and Rollie Williams, the University of Wisconsin’s first nine-letter athlete, as the athletic program director. For counselors, he hired athletic young men from MCD and UW.

The deadline to put your name in the bun is Jan 31. In fact, an Oscar Mayer spokeswoman tells Fox News that the Wienermobile that got pulled over was on its way to The University of Wisconsin-Madison for a recruiting event. She added that the company reiterated the importance of always driving within the law to the current drivers following the infraction.

VerStandig grew up in Bethesda and attended Georgetown Day School, where he was a “chubby kid with not a lot of friends,” he says. A sense of alienation turned him into a teenage right-winger, an ideology reflected in his opinion pieces for one of the University of Wisconsin’s student newspapers. As an undergraduate, he railed against abortion and gun control in writing that now makes him “blush pretty hard,” he says.

Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin, has so long been the epicenter of liberals in Wisconsin that a former Republican governor in 1978 dubbed it “30 square miles surrounded by reality.”

But it’s still rare enough to see a gay love story sung in this way that Rothstein, a Minneapolis-based theater artist who earned an MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, finds the story especially moving.

Noted: Before she was a mathematician, before she earned a doctorate in abstract algebra at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before she began teaching math at Carthage College in Kenosha, Jensen was a little girl learning to knit from her grandmother.

Lori Lopez (WI), Associate Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Working with the University of Wisconsin, Hansel helped to create and distribute about 300,000 “Liberty” elms that were based on trees from the Midwest. Those trees were named for Boston’s “Liberty Tree,” a giant elm.

Shakeel started his YouTube channel in 2008. He decided to take the platform seriously in 2015 while in college. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison last spring with a degree in information systems. He formed an LLC in 2019.

Democrats know that to defeat President Donald Trump they need to do a better job motivating young voters like University of Wisconsin junior David Pelikan, one of about 40 students being trained this week to become organizers for the eventual presidential nominee.

The Metro system is the 16th most-used transit network in the country, and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison contribute high bike and pedestrian commuting scores.

Democrats know that to defeat President Donald Trump they need to do a better job motivating young voters like University of Wisconsin junior David Pelikan, one of about 40 students being trained this week to become organizers for the eventual presidential nominee.

Schools in rural and northern areas of the state say they’re most affected by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s administrative rules guiding licensure, which require certification through one of three school social work programs at Wisconsin universities. The programs are offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Green Bay.

Charlie Berens, the UW–Madison alumnus and comedic mind behind the wildly popular “Manitowoc Minute” series, has shared a Green Bay Packers-inspired remix of  Lil Nas X’s smash hit “Old Town Road.”

In this context, we the undersigned, academics and administrators, from across international institutions of higher education call for (a) the immediate resignation of Vice-Chancellor Kumar and (b) the appointment of a non-partisan Investigative panel to identify the criminals who broke into the campus and (c) a judicial initiative from the Supreme Court to hold the Delhi Police to account for their actions against students as well as non-action against criminals.

227.  Dr Nicole Louie, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Noted: Polack, who grew up in Racine and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, served at the U.S. Treasury Department as an intelligence analyst and policy adviser under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

The Green Barn Door is a CBD store near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus which expects some customers will be shopping not only for themselves, but for their dogs.

Companies infamously have embarrassed themselves through haphazard diversity-boosting attempts, Photoshopping a black man into an all-white crowd, as the University of Wisconsin-Madison did on an undergraduate booklet, or superimposing women into group photos of men.

Noted: Later, soon after she earned her degree in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Giorgio saw an episode where John Boy’s professor told him he was becoming a “real literary lion.”

Five years ago, ecologists Carly Ziter and Rose Graves baked a forest fire cake to celebrate the successful PhD defence of forest ecologist Brian J Harvey at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The most striking feature of the cake are the large flames made of melted hard candies, which engulf a wafer roll forest.

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank often says that the university, with more than 22,000 employees and about 44,000 students, is larger than the population of the city of Janesville. That means there’s no shortage of stories for me to tell.

In another Mar-a-Lago trespassing case, a University of Wisconsin student was arrested in November 2018 after he mixed in with guests being admitted to the club. He pleaded guilty in May and received probation.

Noted: Debra Shapiro is a University of Wisconsin librarian and instructor in Madison and is a freelance cook and cooking teacher with extensive restaurant experience. She helps prepare monthly breakfasts for 60 to 70 diners at a community center. She shares recipes at debslunch.com/blog and conducts occasional cooking classes.

A gallery of notable alums.

Quoted: Ozanne earned his undergraduate degree in political science from UW–Madison in 1994 and later enrolled in the university’s law school. “I saw myself, at least when I started law school, as potentially a defense attorney,” he remembers. “But then I realized you could effectuate more change and have more of an ability to protect the community on this side.” In 1998, he landed a job as a Dane County assistant district attorney.

Noted: Before settling into his current career path, Wexler had ambitions of getting involved in the music business, specifically of being a DJ—his @wex1200 Twitter handle was inspired by the legendary Technics SL-1200 turntable. The Chicago native entertained the idea while attending the University of Wisconsin, eventually giving up the wheels of steel in favor of party promoting.

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order designed to crack down on what he sees as rising anti-Semitism on college campuses. The order, which comes less than a year after his administration issued another order aimed at protecting free speech, drew mixed responses, with skeptics seeing the potential for conflict between the two measures.

Sheridan Blanford joined the University of Wisconsin Athletics Department Diversity & Inclusion staff in August of 2017 and was named the Director of Inclusion in 2018.

Noted: Lubar grew up near Sherman Park and then in Whitefish Bay, the son of a Milwaukee woman and a Russian immigrant who was “a two-fisted man’s man and a very hard worker.” He was a “B” student in high school, and it was a given that he and his sisters would go to college. The logical place, at $40 a semester when Lubar enrolled in 1947, was the University of Wisconsin.

Gia Gallimore is the director of diverse alumni engagement at Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association. One of her core goals is to connect alumni of color with the alumni association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.