Letter to the editor: A couple of weeks ago I was startled to hear the new name, “PBS Wisconsin.” I first heard it one morning as I was making coffee. I turned to the TV on the kitchen counter and said out loud, “What the hell?”
Noted: Even as an accomplished Wisconsin Badgers defender, Biegel spent some of each summer working at the marsh.
“Harvest was my favorite. Harvest is when you see the fruits of your labor come to fruition,” Biegel said. “It’s sort of like when you get a sack.”
In a sample taken in August, the radium concentration was above the federal drinking water standard in Well 19 near Picnic Point, the primary water source for most of the UW-Madison campus, including the American Family Children’s Hospital.
Foxconn also had intended to invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at UW-Madison to help fund a new building for the College of Engineering if the university raised the same amount.
The 2,000 tickets to UW-Madison chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri’s two free holiday science shows this year were snatched up almost immediately.
Within days of the announcement that UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone would step down at the end of the 2018-19 school year, PBS Wisconsin producers approached him with the idea to follow him around his 50th and final year on campus and create a documentary.
The nutrition major then walks into a lecture hall in the Bronx’s Lehman College to attend a talk, “Addressing Students’ Basic Needs,” by Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University.
Patty Gallagher Marchant travels around the state speaking out about her experience of being sexually abused by her parish priest in Monona, Wis., in 1965. She says a conversation in July with Madison Bishop Donald Hying brought about “relief and peace that I thought I would never have.” She was photographed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on July 2, 2019. Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch
Noted: Johnson originally set her sights a little further than the farm. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in agricultural journalism and took a sales job with two radio stations in Janesville.
When the discomfort didn’t pass, Zapata—then a medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—phoned a triage line, where a nurse assured her she was experiencing false labor pains. Then she noticed blood trickling between her legs.
“In an election that could come down to a point or two either way in Arizona or Wisconsin, turning out voters at ASU, University of Wisconsin-Madison and other college campuses in these states could easily make the difference,” said Andrew Baumann, a pollster for Global Strategy Group, a consulting firm that spent 2018 trying to figure out what makes the would-be college voter tick for Tom Steyer’s NextGen.
“In an election that could come down to a point or two either way in Arizona or Wisconsin, turning out voters at ASU, University of Wisconsin-Madison and other college campuses in these states could easily make the difference,” said Andrew Baumann, a pollster for Global Strategy Group, a consulting firm that spent 2018 trying to figure out what makes the would-be college voter tick for Tom Steyer’s NextGen.
And when I found myself back where I started on my path, with the rain dying down around me, I encountered a set of near-complete sensations of peace and communion with myself, looking forward to a new faith journey I knew I’d actually been on all along.
Adele McKiernan is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they studied history and integrated liberal studies. They are now a second-year Loretto volunteer in St. Louis working at Missouri Health Care for All, as a grassroots organizing fellow.
In 2016, Business Insider spoke with former drag racer Stephen Ciatti to get to the bottom of this widespread myth. Ciatti has a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked on combustion engines for nearly 30 years, so he knows a thing or two about how to best treat your car. And he says that idling your machine in the cold only leads to a shorter lifespan for your engine.
This year’d finalists attend the University of South Carolina, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
On this week’s “Center Stage” political podcast Milfred and Hands play audio from and comment on the recent debate between President Donald Trump booster Stephen Moore and never-Trumper Max Boot on the UW-Madison campus.
The award-winning UW–Madison Odyssey Project can claim another accolade. They set a fundraising record at the Madison Club’s annual Charity Gala, raising more than $200,000 to provide educational access to adults living at the poverty level and wraparound services to empower them and their families to transform their lives.
On this week’s “Center Stage” political podcast Milfred and Hands play audio from and comment on the recent debate between President Donald Trump booster Stephen Moore and never-Trumper Max Boot on the UW-Madison campus.
But while Babcock Hall at UW-Madison is undergoing renovations, Babcock ice cream is being made by the Chocolate Shoppe, and flavors have been scaled back.
UW-Madison has paid $850,000 to the family of a windsurfer killed in 2017 in a collision with a UW Lake Safety lifesaving boat, settling a wrongful death lawsuit the family filed earlier this year against the UW Lifesaving Station and four of its employees.
Professionally, Dr. Hoekstra was on faculty in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1954 until his retirement in 1990.
Between 2011 and 2018, the 264 independent local NPR stations (plus 150 unaffiliated) added 1,000 full-time and part-time journalists, having started that timeframe with just over 2,000 journalists. At the same time, newspaper newsrooms were shrinking to half their peak size and local digital startups, with a few exceptions, are making do with well-focused but tiny staffs. Highlights Wisconsin Public Radio as an example.
A University of Wisconsin instructor in Madison, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of backlash for speaking about politics as a public employee, said that recent political squabbles have damaged the state’s conviviality. “There is fatigue from all the chaos. Norms have been broken. Families are not speaking to each other. Friends are not speaking to each other.”
Also the co-editor-in-chief of The Black Voice on campus, Coley is a journalism major with certificates in African American studies and studio art. She expects to graduate in May 2020 and eventually pursue a PhD in sociology, though she wants to take a year or two to focus on research without the school part involved.
Noted: Bresciani was born on August 24, 1948 in New York City. He received his BA in Philosophy from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970, his law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1975, and then went on to start a practice in San Francisco.
Noted: The Nature Conservancy hired Alex Rosenflanz, a senior studying forest science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to get its drone work off the ground.
It was a lot of trial and error at first, Rosenflanz said, but he eventually wound up with raw images to produce video, still photos and highly detailed maps.
Wisconsin lawmakers from both parties are drafting a bill that allows college athletes to hire outside agents and profit from their status starting in 2023, a change that could upend the state’s college sports landscape.
Wolyn grew up in New Jersey and studied plant science at Rutgers University and then earned his masters and PhD in plant breeding and plant genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1988, he came to the University of Guelph, taking over the already decade-old Asparagus Breeding Program from the previous professor who died.
“The consequences are pretty significant, affecting some of the most important aspects of somebody’s life, like their housing, education and employment,” Southerland said. “You know, those are pretty much the building blocks of a successful life. Talk about the punishment not fitting the crime. It’s a tremendous, life-altering change that’s permanent for a very temporary and fleeting criminal offense.”
This story was produced as part of an investigative reporting class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication under the direction of Dee J. Hall, Wisconsin Watch’s managing editor.
Noted: This past spring, she earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies. In the fall she will be taking a one-year position as a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Davis. Next fall, she will be an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Geography and American Indian Studies Program.
Noted: Balachandran, who earned a PhD in economics and computer science from the University of Wisconsin and enjoyed a distinguished academic career in India, married a Mexican woman and had a daughter. His younger sister Sarala, a retired obstetrician who lives outside the coastal city of Chennai, never married. The youngest, Mahalakshmi, an information scientist who worked for the government in Ontario, Canada, had an arranged marriage but bore no children.
You can find all-women organizations on UW-Madison’s campus. Sororities come to mind, but there’s one organization that’s been around since 1917.
Having an office in Madison allows Google to leverage the talent at UW-Madison, Naughton said. A former UW-Madison professor of computer sciences, he earned his bachelor’s of science degree from the university in 1982.
Not long after Foxconn Technology Group announced plans to build a massive manufacturing facility in southeast Wisconsin, the tech giant began making promises to share its model for economic development across the entire state. But 18 months after purchasing its first building in downtown Milwaukee, there is little evidence that what Foxconn calls its innovation centers are moving forward.
In Madison, Foxconn has said it intends to use part of the nearly century-old, six-story office building at 1 W. Main St. to serve as its off-campus hub to collaborate closely with UW-Madison faculty and students on research in medical, material, computer and data sciences.
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn’s promised Wisconsin “innovation centers,” which are to employ hundreds of people in the state if they ever get built, are officially on hold after spending months empty and unused, as the company focuses on meeting revised deadlines on the LCD factory it promised would now open by next year. The news, reported earlier today by Wisconsin Public Radio, is another inexplicable twist in the nearly two-year train wreck that is Foxconn’s US manufacturing plans.
Noted: UW Health in Madison does about 250 tests a week that use Tc-99m, said Scott Knishka, manager of nuclear pharmacy services at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Its Mo-99 comes from nuclear reactors in Europe.
Dr. Johnson currently serves as the Assistant Director for Engineering Outreach for the UW-Madison College of Engineering’s Diversity Affairs Office.
Kichaven, a University of Wisconsin-Madison honors grad, previously worked at CAA and Universal McCann. “Given my past relationship with Lewis and Joe, Kovert has always been an agency I’ve kept my eye on,” Kichaven said in a statement.
An avid football fan and alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mr. Liedtke oversaw the company’s brands during a revamp of Adidas’s approach to American sports, including a move not to renew its outfitting contract for National Basketball Association uniforms.
Noted: McKinney, meanwhile, headed west days after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to, in a sense, take advantage of her situation. Having just earned her environmental science degree, her next moves were unclear. She knew her obligations were minimal. She didn’t immediately want to start her career — the general to-do list society has a way of pressuring people into was instead going to be put on hold.
Oconomowoc native Steven Sievert moved out to Los Angeles in 2016 with dreams of making it big.
Along with him went about $80,000 of student loan debt from his time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The DPI provided two new analyses, one involving researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and one researcher from UW-Madison, that found positive results for schools using the current approach to teacher effectiveness. One found that schools following the practices were seeing student gains equal to several extra weeks a year of instruction in math and language arts.
Noted: She said she did not even know about the field until she enrolled in her first class through her medical technology undergraduate program — now called medical laboratory science — at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An enthusiastic teacher inspired her, she said.
To Pape, the ten years of testosterone trouble for Semenya and other women in sport meant that she over time changed her position on the issue. After ending her career in 2010 with an injury, the Australian moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S. to pursue a PhD in Sociology, which led her to reflect critically on that period of her life, and ultimately to a position of support for the participation of women with high testosterone in her sport.
For one magical night last week, she shared that moment with Madison. And in that moment, we all got to shine — but perhaps no one more than Sami Schalk, an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Nancy Worcester of Madison, Wisconsin, is an activist and professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in gender and women’s studies and continuing studies.
Noted: Faulkner said that she first worked on an electronic health records system as a project when she was pursuing a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The one-hour “Big Ideas for Busy People” event at the UW-Madison Discovery Building will teach attendees about the impact of climate change on hydrologic cycles, plastic in the ocean and “water justice.”
Soon, she and her husband formed a nonprofit organization called Walnut Way Conservation Corp., named after a main thoroughfare in Lindsay Heights. Sharon, who at the time coordinated service projects for the University of Wisconsin, and Larry, a contractor and electrician, found no shortage of residents who wanted to help them turn around the neighborhood.
Ahmed Samatar, who came to the U.S. from Somalia in 1974 to attend the University of Wisconsin, told WCCO that Minnesota is particularly enticing to refugees because of its strong economy and reputation as “a kind and progressive place.”
Since 2010, there have also been at least 134 cases of missing or murdered indigenous girls and women in the state of Montana. We speak with Grace Bulltail, Kaysera’s aunt and an assistant professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Up to 800mm of rain is forecast south and west of Tokyo, while the capital may see 600mm from tomorrow morning to Sunday morning. Image/ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Amish end their formal education with the eighth grade. Some Mennonites also end their formal education with eighth grade, but others continue their studies. Some Mennonites, for example, have gone on to teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
A donation from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has put the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s veterinary school past its private funding finish line for its latest building expansion project.
Noted: After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs in 2005, Sanders didn’t find a huge market for policy analysts in Milwaukee. She found work in the nonprofit sector, in which she had worked and volunteered throughout college.
Noted: They coaxed Charli onto the sanctuary property and gave her food and water. They found two gunshot wounds: to the neck and to a leg, which didn’t break any bones or do major damage. When Helmer and others took Charli to the UW-Madison veterinary hospital, she received some antibiotics and ointment and an “all-clear.”
Noted: Amish end their formal education with the eighth grade. Some Mennonites also end their formal education with eighth grade, but others continue their studies. Some Mennonites, for example, have gone on to teach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take a case requested by UW-Madison’s patent-licensing arm that could have awarded it about $506 million in damages from Apple, effectively ending the case.
Noted: In a related hire announced this week, Hannah Mills, a Chicago native and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, was named press secretary for the host committee.
