Category: UW-Madison Related

Employers in Dane County play a role, as does the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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.

Noted: She has strong links to Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison while also cutting her political teeth as an intern with the state Democratic Party.

Here is a look at some of the commencement speakers who have spoken, or are scheduled to speak at commencement events this season: University of Wisconsin: NFL star JJ Watt

“I had a great experience at [the] UW. There was one woman in particular, Dr. Colleen Capper, who really left an impression on me, and I will never forget her class. It has the most impact on me,” Greendeer explains.

Born in Rockford, Illinois U.S.A. in 1980 – Virgil Abloh is an artist, architect, and fashion designer. After earning a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed a Master’s degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Lynsey Addario graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995 with a degree in international relations and Italian. With no formal photography training, she started taking pictures a year later.

As a vigorous complex of thunderstorms barreled southeast through central and southern Wisconsin Thursday morning, it was fronted by a menacing, wicked-looking cloud formation. Includes a tweet from UW–Madison’s Sarah Griffin and images from SSEC/CIMSS.

The online hospitality company said this was the second largest surge of guests to Madison in the history of the platform, only behind the Crossfit Games in August.

Dahlquist has ties to UW-Madison. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art from the university in 1980.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s attorney, Liam Dixon, said Tuesday that Summerwill is “devastated” and has the support of his family members, who are “disappointed” in the charges. Dixon says the woman’s death was a “horrible accident.”

Scholz, who will be the chief academic officer of the university and the second-ranking deputy under Chancellor Rebecca Blank, said in a campus announcement that he is “grateful and honored” to be selected.

Noted: There’s also a mural of O’Keeffe and one of Carson Gulley, an African American who was the head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1927 to 1954. He also led the Madison branch of the NAACP for many years. Another mural shows Art Mautz testing paint colors.

Noted: Tony Leys has worked at the Des Moines Register as an editor and reporter since 1988. He has been the newspaper’s main health care reporter since 2000, with a strong focus on mental health and health care policy. He also helps cover politics, including Iowa’s presidential caucus campaigns. Leys grew up in the Milwaukee area and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a national board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists.

She went to college at the University of Wisconsin, got married and worked as a teacher and real estate agent in La Jolla, Calif., where she lived for three decades.

A professor in University of Wisconsin–Madison’s department of agricultural chemistry (which later became the department of food sciences), Babcock began teaching at the school in 1888. His accomplishments include developing a test to determine butterfat content in milk processing and the recognition of nutritional science as a course of study.

Madeleine Pape was an Olympic runner for Australia who once competed against Semenya. She’s now a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And she told us about when she competed against Semenya in 2009 at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin.

In Dane County, visitors strolled around the state Capitol, biked the hills around Mount Horeb and came from around the world for events at Monona Terrace, UW-Madison, Alliant Energy Center and Epic Systems Corp. in Verona. And all of it helped Wisconsin to its ninth straight year of positive gains in tourism, one of the pillars of the state’s economy.

In the U.S., there are several locations with direct descendant trees, including at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brown University and Vanderbilt University.

“I think it’s hard to draw a biological line around the female athlete category,” said Pape, now a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin. “I want to make sure people understand the complexities and relate to these women as real people.”

The 2019 BWLC runs Thursday and Friday, May 2 and 3, at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard St. This is the fourth annual conference, which aims to empower and equip black women and girls through education, networking and leadership training.

The weather meant a long-time tradition near UW-Madison wasn’t quite as popular this year.

This year marks 50 years since the initial protest, which in 1969 brought hundreds of UW-Madison students to the 400 and 500 blocks of West Mifflin Street and resulted in a three-day riot during which police used tear gas and night sticks to try to break up the crowd and protesters hurled bottles and rocks at police.

Jack Pawlik, 22, who has seen what a mobile app has done for coffee behemoth Starbucks, has created his own app that allows users to purchase coffee with their smart phones — but not from just one shop. The Drip app, created by Pawlik and Avery Durant, a 20-year-old developer in Boston, allows customers to order before they arrive and accrue loyalty points collectively from the shops and redeem the points at any of the shops on the app.

Noted: He studied journalism and environmental geography at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he graduated in 2009.

Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Winter Tangerine, Callaloo and The Offing, and has been anthologized in The BreakBeats Poets Vol 2.0: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books, 2018). Hiwot earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was part of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community.

Aldo Leopold was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his legacy is carried on by many people, one being Stanley Temple.

Dieter Kowalski, 40, had just arrived at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when suicide bombers set off bombs at luxury hotels and churches in the island nation off the southern tip of India.

By the time Tobin got her research fully up and running again, Shade had completed her doctorate in microbiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and found a faculty position at Michigan State University.

At 23, she graduated the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a doctorate in biophysics in Dec. 2017.

Noted: In the spring of 1966, an 18-year-old campus activist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison named Margery Tabankin was approached by a high-school girl who’d just found out she was pregnant. She was terrified.

Noted: Nelson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School who served first as the assistant district attorney and corporation counsel of Iowa County for 17 years, the statement said. Nelson was appointed district attorney by Gov. Jim Doyle in 2006.

By the time Tobin got her research fully up and running again, Shade had completed her doctorate in microbiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and found a faculty position at Michigan State University.

Frederick J. Meyer put himself through college by selling salty tidbits called “Korn Parchies.” After graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1932, he, along with his wife Kathryne Meyer—who was an equal business partner—decided to expand his distribution of packaged foods.

Noted: After two years at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Mr. Wolman returned to Madison and his beloved University of Wisconsin. There he majored in philosophy, earning a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1972.

There was also a strong labor theme to the event. Sara Trongone, the co-president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants Association, introduced Sanders, emphasizing how union-busting in Wisconsin and across the country contributed to the erosion of the middle class.

More than 600 students from around Wisconsin convened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison  on Saturday to vie in the state competition for National History Day.

Esther met Joshua Lederberg shortly before she graduated from Stanford. They married months later, when she was 23 and he was 21, and soon headed off to the University of Wisconsin, where they would begin years of fruitful collaboration and she would earn a Ph.D. Joshua, by all accounts a brilliant thinker, became famous for his big ideas. Esther, meanwhile, developed expertise as an experimentalist, doing the often tedious work of testing big ideas in the lab.

Other than Leckrone himself, no one may be more aware of how many minutes are left before the curtain rises than Lois Levenhagen of Beaver Dam.

UW administrators have taken (Terry) Fritter seriously, especially as the technician with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has advocated for strengthening the role of the University Staff Congress. The Congress is the largest representative shared governance body for university staff at UW-Madison.