The UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Oversight and Advisory Committee violated the laws when it denied former health policy analyst Kevin Wymore’s request for records from a 2016 committee meeting discussing applicants for Community Impact Grants, which fund large-scale projects aimed at improving the overall health of the state.
Category: UW-Madison Related
Madison School District facilities plan recommends selling Downtown administrative building
The property, 545 W. Dayton St., holds the two-story, landmark-designated Doyle building and part of a parking lot shared with UW-Madison.
Summerfest live: Fans pack Harley-Davidson Roadhouse for Lizzo as rain subsides
Noted: Quinn XCII posted a video of him taking a bow with his tour mates to the University of Wisconsin game anthem “Jump Around” at the end of his show at the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard stage.
Fashion, Design, Art and Music Converge
Abloh attended University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineeringthere. He also received a Master of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
André De Shields’ Early Career At UW-Madison Set Him On Path To New York
Before he was a Tony award-winning actor and ahead of becoming a Broadway legend, André De Shields was cast as Tiger Lily in a “Peter Pan” play on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that caused a stir for its nude depictions of sirens.
Inspired by his grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s, a New Berlin man went from living in his car to med school
Noted: After graduation, Steck received a full ride to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he will attend medical school this fall at the School of Medicine and Public Health.
Dane County Airport to add nonstop flight to Columbus for Wisconsin Badgers football game
The Dane County Regional Airport is adding a Columbus, Ohio, nonstop flight and a bigger plane for the Oct. 26 University of Wisconsin Badgers vs. Ohio State University Buckeyes game.
Madison School District taps Jane Belmore (again) to serve as interim superintendent
She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and served as the dean of Edgewood College’s School of Education prior to her first stint as interim superintendent in Madison.
Former UW-Madison student’s serial killer boast doubted in Chinese scholar case
A former UW-Madison student on trial for killing a visiting scholar from China searched the Internet for basic instructions on committing murder before the woman vanished, which one expert on serial killers said may be a sign that his boast to have killed 12 other people is false.
Wisconsin Assembly OKs drunken driving bills
Connie Ihm said she lost her daughter Alexandra after a drunk driver hit her in January of 2017. Ihm said her daughter was 21-years-old and attending UW-Madison.
Cuttlefish Arms Are Not So Different From Yours
In an influential paper, Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cliff Tabin of Harvard University speculated that flies and vertebrates — and other animals with appendages — inherited this network of genes from a common ancestor.
The Deciders: Inside the Reuters Series on Some of America’s Most Politically Competitive Places
Reuters gathered its data from state elections offices; the U.S. Census Bureau; the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank; and the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Once fleeing for their lives, they now call Madison home: What it’s like to be a refugee
Today, there are more than 15,000 refugees living in Wisconsin. Odds are, you’ve probably met some of them and don’t even know it. That’s the premise behind a town hall-style conversation happening Thursday at the Hillel building on the University of Wisconsin campus, which is located at 611 Langdon Street.
‘Run Outside’: How football is helping one Madison family find joy in battle with Alzheimer’s
Jes loved football — watching Ron Dayne at Camp Randall on Saturdays and cheering on Brett Favre on Sundays.
Wisconsin bar, law schools to honor Abrahamson
The Wisconsin State Bar Association along with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Marquette University law schools are preparing to honor long-time state Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson.
Badgers United nonprofit aims to advocate for UW-Madison
Badgers United launched Monday to advocate for UW-Madison in the midst of a state budget process that has brought ups and downs for the University of Wisconsin System as a whole.
Badgers United launches to lift tuition freeze, advocate for UW-Madison funding
A new nonprofit advocating for UW-Madison aims to shore up more state money for the flagship campus, reverse the university’s slide in national rankings and lift the longstanding tuition freeze for undergraduate resident students.
Gov. Tony Evers makes first judicial appointment, will need 71 more to match Walker
Noted: Graham, an associate at the firm, graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2008. Before joining Quarles & Brady, Graham served as a law clerk to state Supreme Court Justice Anne Walsh Bradley.
Credit chancellor for UW’s record on unrest — State Journal editorial from 50 years ago
This State Journal editorial ran on June 13, 1969: The end of the school year at the University of Wisconsin has come, and this is a good time to assess the student unrest and the success or failure with which the university has reacted.
Madison author brings his heroes to life in children’s books
Author (and On Wisconsin co-editor) Dean Robbins likes to write about his heroes — be they spunky civil rights leaders or virtually unknown software coders.
Canine teams from the Midwest are training in Wisconsin this week. Here are 9 things to know about explosive-sniffing K-9s
Noted: A UW-Madison police sergeant who helped the ATF host this event said they want to get as many Midwest teams as possible certified before the next election cycle ramps up because agencies get busy using these dogs at political events.
Stingl: Book club helps students embrace reading, confront tragedy in their own lives
Noted: Nastassia Satahoo has helped with the club. The recent UW-Madison grad was assigned to the school this year by Public Allies Milwaukee through AmeriCorps. She is known for encouraging students to write by offering to bake brownies.
Remembering the late artist Nancy Metz White, who made playful steel giants in Enderis Playfield and near Miller Park
Noted: Born in Madison, Metz White earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from UW-Madison and moved to Milwaukee, where she taught creative arts at Urban Day School.
More research labs are retiring monkeys when studies finish
More research labs are retiring primates to sanctuaries like Primates Inc., a 17-acre (7-hectare) rural compound in central Wisconsin, where they can live their remaining years, according to the sanctuaries and researchers. For some monkeys, it’s their first time hanging out in the fresh air.
Are Deonna McNeill and Gregory Okotie From ‘MAFS’ Still Together Today?
Greg seems to be interested in the exact same things: He owns his own learning center, the Mathnasium of Lake Wylie, which tells us he’s successful, smart, and enjoys helping others as well. In fact, he also has a Masters — his is in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
25 years ago today: Gray D.C. bureau chief talks the O.J. Simpson trial
This event changed the life of an Appleton native and UW-Madison alumna, then-NBC15’s D.C. bureau chief Greta van Susteren.
Madison immigration law center seeing positive results, expanding
In 2017, CILC and the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $100,000 Safe Cities grant from The Vera Institute of Justice. The funds allowed CILC to hire Olivarez to provide pro-bono deportation defense.
Kanye West checks out Virgil Abloh exhibit at MCA
Abloh and West go way back, to the artist/designer’s days as a grad student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where in 2002 the two met. Abloh would go on to become West’s creative director.
Wearing Their Hearts on Their Graduation Caps
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned during my time at UW-Madison, and specifically the journalism school, is to seek truth. If something doesn’t seem quite right, there’s probably more to the story. Regardless of the political climate and what people might say about the future of journalism, there will always be a need for truth and for people to search for it.— Izabela Zaluska, 21, from Madison, Wis., graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a B.A. in journalism and a minor in criminal justice.
Andre De Shields Will Host LPTW’s Rachel Crothers Leadership Award Luncheon
In a career spanning fifty years, André De Shields has distinguished himself as an unparalleled actor, director, choreographer and educator. Mr. De Shields is an esteemed alumnus of both the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004 Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa) and New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Stingl: He grew up in Wauwatosa but now is raising 11 Texas longhorn cattle just for fun
Noted: This lover of longhorns was raised in Wauwatosa and educated at UW-Madison. His grandfather and father were livestock brokers and that’s now his job as he commutes to a farm alongside I-94 in the Jefferson County Town of Concord about halfway between Milwaukee and Madison.
Ag tourism brings locally produced goods to the forefront
Noted: Will Hsu, president of Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises in Wausau, grew up on the family farm doing his share of weeding and picking seeds. A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate in finance and Chinese literature who later went on to earn his MBA from Harvard, Hsu joked he’s likely the only farmer out of his 800 MBA classmates. His father started the business in 1974 and today they farm hundreds of acres, all in Marathon County.
Virgil Abloh at Museum of Contemporary Art in his debut museum exhibit
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Abloh went on to earn his master of architecture degree at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a House That’s Now Wisconsin’s Most Popular Airbnb
The most popular Airbnb rental in Wisconsin isn’t something crazy like a giant potato-turned-luxe destination or a fanciful mushroom dome—it’s actually a gorgeous home designed by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright. The famous architect has some history in the Cheese State—he was born in Richmond Center and was an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, so it’s no wonder that this particular listing is booking up fast on Airbnb.
A year after he was hit by a fleeing car, a Glendale cop is bouncing back with a K-9 companion
Noted: Bechler never expected to find himself in harm’s way when he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison four years ago. He had earned a degree in food science, and after college, he took a job supervising a food manufacturing plant in Michigan.
Judges Give Both Sides a Grilling in Youth Climate Case Against the Government
“It’s not just these 21 young people across the United States,” said Mr. Barrett, who is now 21 and a student at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s about highlighting young people all over the United States, and the work we’re doing and the work we’re continuing to do to hold the government accountable for putting our future in jeopardy.”
E-scooters are cruising into many cities, is Madison next?
A UW official tells News 3 Now that electric scooters are banned from campus and not viewed favorably because of safety risks, and the fact they can be dropped anywhere.
Cap Times’ Evjue Foundation gives $1.8 million to area nonpofits and UW-Madison
The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times, has announced that its directors have approved $1,812,000 in grants to Madison-area nonprofits and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Know Your Madisonian: Wisconsin Union wedding director ‘executes people’s love stories’
Hattie Paulin was not one of those little girls who grew up dreaming of her wedding day. But that’s what she gets paid to do for others as the Wisconsin Union’s wedding director — coordinating catering, arranging tastings, setting up seating charts and so much more.
UW archivists working to digitize early recordings of public radio in Wisconsin
Archivists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are embarking on a mission to digitize, and make public, some of the oldest public radio recordings in the United States.
Safe, affordable: Precision Veterinary focuses on spay and neuter services
Other low-cost spay and neuter services exist in the Madison area, but veterinarian Meghan Schuh has made a specialty of these operations in her new clinic, Precision Veterinary.
Schuh graduated from UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 2016, where she interned with both the UW’s Shelter Medicine program and the Dane County Humane Society, helping to standardize best practices for surgery, care and rehabilitation of animals. Her career inspiration came early on: “I adopted a malnourished kitten from a free box when I was 5 years old and took her straight to the vet. I fell in love and decided I was going to nurse her back to health.”
A Teen Sneaked Into Mar-A-Lago While Trump Was Staying There
Lindblom pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to unlawfully entering or remaining in a restricted area. The teen, who is majoring in business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was sentenced to a year of probation and a $25 fine.
FREEDOM behind BARS
Meanwhile her book will soon be translated and published in English. Tyrell Haberkorn, an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand”, will take on the translating work.
How Stevens Point’s Ruby Coffee Roasters Built A Company Out Of Great Coffee
Jared was born in Stevens Point. After he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 2000s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he started working at Intelligentsia Coffee, a Chicago-based company that had just opened its first West Coast location.
Dean Strang of ‘Making a Murderer’ uses platform to speak about the legal system around the world
One afternoon shortly after the first season of “Making a Murderer” began streaming on Netflix in December 2015, Madison attorney Dean Strang returned to his downtown law office?—?he’d been in court?—?and found an unusual voicemail message. Someone calling himself Alec Baldwin wanted to talk to him and had left a number.
12th man on moon says it’s time to go back
Harrison Schmitt barely had time to stand up from his chair during a space conference in March before he was swarmed by a group of researchers eager to talk, hug and take photos with the only scientist to walk on the moon.
Mark Lindblom pleads guilty to sneaking past Secret Service into Mar-a-Lago while Trump was there
Lindblom, reportedly a business student at the University of Wisconsin, was sentenced to a year of probation and $25 fine after prosecutors acknowledged he had no ill intent, that he only intended to take pictures on his cellphone.
College Student Pleads Guilty to Sneaking Into Mar-a-Lago
University of Wisconsin student Mark Lindblom apologized Tuesday and received a year’s probation after federal prosecutors agreed he meant no harm when he sneaked into the Palm Beach club.
Teen pleads guilty to sneaking into Mar-a-Lago
A spokesperson for the University of Wisconsin-Madison confirmed Lindblom is a student there and recently finished the second semester of his freshman year.
A College Freshman Waltzed Right Past Secret Service and into Mar-a-Lago
“I wanted to see how far I could get,” Mark Lindblom, an 18-year-old business major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the judge presiding over his case, according to the Palm Beach Post.
College student got into Mar-a-Lago using restricted tunnel during Trump trip
The Palm Beach Post, which first reported Tuesday’s plea, wrote that Lindblom is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Court documents say Lindblom was born in 2000.
College student got into Mar-a-Lago using restricted tunnel during Trump trip
The Palm Beach Post, which first reported Tuesday’s plea, wrote that Lindblom is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Court documents say Lindblom was born in 2000.
Intersectionality, explained: meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term
To understand what intersectionality is, and what it has become, you have to look at Crenshaw’s body of work over the past 30 years on race and civil rights. A graduate of Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin, Crenshaw has focused in much of her research on the concept of critical race theory.
JJ Watt is engaged
He was the spring 2019 commencement speaker for University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Juvenile bald eagle found on ground to be released Tuesday
The first flights of bald eagles often leave the bird stranded on the ground, but their parents generally keep feeding them until they fly again, according to the Journey North citizen science center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.
UW-Madison Police Begin Boat Patrol At Upham Woods Outdoor Learning Center
Upham Woods Outdoor Learning Center is an education center for youth and families on the Wisconsin River, located about an hour away from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. But now, the waters around the center will be patrolled by officers from the UW-Madison Police Department.
Why becoming a Wienermobile driver is harder than getting into Harvard
Though applicants come from across the country — the incoming class includes graduates from Texas to Connecticut — the company actively recruits at four colleges: the University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Texas at Austin and Pennsylvania State University.
Madison looks to restrict entry to more Downtown bars late on weekend nights
If the City Council approves their license renewals in June, bars subject to the no-late-entry policy would include several bars near campus.
Millennials flock to Madison for jobs and affordability, says report
Employers in Dane County play a role, as does the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
How Debra Katz became one of the nation’s top #MeToo lawyers
Noted: In the early 1980s, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Katz landed a fellowship that allowed her to work on the landmark case Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, in which a bank teller named Mechelle Vinson alleged harassment at work. The case advanced to the U.S. Supreme Court and led to the justices ruling to recognize sexual harassment as a category of workplace discrimination.