Category: UW-Madison Related

Journalist and historian Stuart Levitan said his latest book, “Madison in the Sixties,” is in many ways really about the role UW-Madison has in shaping the city.

Donald Harris joined Stanford in 1972. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He was named a professor there “three years after graduating from the University of California (Berkeley),” his bio says.

“Habanero Hayley” hails from Wisconsin and studied marketing and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“Even on the coldest days I’d rather be climbing above crashing waves instead of sitting on my couch,” she says. The 28-year-old data analyst started rock climbing in high school and discovered ice climbing while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

History academic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wang Yu-li (???) gave a short speech entitled “Taiwan’s one unfulfilled quest,” in which she explored the significance and boundaries of the Taiwanese identity throughout generations in light of the 228 incident.

It is all evidence, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Dr Jonathan Pauli, of “a new reality for some ecosystems”, as they are being re-engineered by humans, and by what we grow, raise and throw away.

Noted: Neubauer was a political science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time and had taken a course in constitutional law.

Rhodes-Conway, managing director of the Mayors Innovation Project at UW-Madison’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy, who served three terms on the City Council, was upbeat and welcomed a contest of ideas.

Bucky (not to be confused with the sweater-wearing caricature of the same name who peps up crowds at University of Wisconsin-Madison sporting events) is the resident education badger at the Henry Vilas Zoo. He goes on field trips and teaches kids about nature, so it seemed likely he could have some answers.

Noted: Nelson and Steele both started their journalism careers at the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at UW-Madison.

“I practiced in front of my girlfriend at home last night,” Watt said. “She gave me the thumbs up, so we’re good to go guys.”

He spent five years conducting research, outreach and grower education for the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Noted: He took classes at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then worked with cheesemakers, including Gary Grossen, Andy Hatch and Bob Wills.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said he will “fully fund” a tuition freeze for University of Wisconsin students in his first budget.

Georges is a New Yorker with a BA in Sociology and African Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison and was recently selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law and Policy, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and an American Express Emerging Innovator.

Noted: Craven, 70, is a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Wildlife Ecology at UW-Madison. In a more than 40-year association with the university system, including as UW-Extension wildlife specialist, he advanced the public’s understanding and appreciation for Wisconsin’s wildlife and natural resources, WCHF officials said.

Her parents separated after Donald Harris took a professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Oriel has more than 20 years of experience in the University of Wisconsin health care system, but now runs a private practice, Oriel Medicine, in Madison.

When Inside Edition visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently, Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Guerrero found a plethora of students dressed for a night on the town, but often the students left their coats behind despite the subzero weather.

As Jessica Tighe of Milwaukee CBS 58 affiliate explained at the time, the exhibit featured 2,000 bobbleheads ranging from a three-foot version of University of Wisconsin-Madison mascot Bucky Badger to historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mahatma Gandhi.

Neutrinos are as elusive as they are interesting – they hardly ever interact with mass and so are very challenging to observe. Which is why the ambitious $280 million experiment IceCube, located at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, was built. Buried in the ice nearly a mile below the surface are 60 detectors designed to look for neutrinos and explore the highest-energy phenomenon in our Universe.

Noted: A group of girls who assisted in the task are sophomores at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and they’ve handed out the Losar rice and tea ever since they were little, they said. They said the rice is made with cashews, pistachios, almonds, raisins, butter, pecans and droma, a special root found in Tibet.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ms. Garcia began her career as an intern at the Department of Sanitation.

The case that received the most attention was at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which used a photograph of cheering Badger fans at an athletic event, and added a black student in the process, for use on the cover of its admissions booklet for prospective students.

A Republican state lawmaker in Wisconsin complained to a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison about his description of President Trump — copying the university system’s Board of Regents and president and Madison’s chancellor, along with the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee and other groups.

Wisconsin Union President and University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Mills Botham led this year’s effort to create the inflatable version of the Statue of Liberty.

As Wisconsin temperatures dive to lows we haven’t seen in more than two decades, we remember a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad who kept us warm, even in the harshest winter weather.

In fact, Cheney’s parents were F.D.R. Democrats, and Cheney was pretty indifferent to politics coming into the University of Wisconsin. He definitely started leaning conservative during those years, when there were protests on campus.

But in 1961 a young freewheelin’ Dylan made a vital stop in Madison, WI, where he checked out the folk scene and hung out with Marshall Brickman and Eric Weissberg. Brickman became a noted screenwriter, winning an Oscar for cowriting “Annie Hall” with Woody Allen; Weissberg went on to record the “Dueling Banjos” theme for “Deliverance.” Through the Madison folk scene Dylan caught probably one of the most pivotal concerts of his young life — Peter Seeger at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Rozman, 23, applied for the job to be a Hotdogger during her senior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated with a degree in marketing and a certificate in Spanish.

Ingham was a faculty member in the UW-Madison-Department of Food Science and a food-safety specialist for UW-Extension.

There’s dueling viewpoints from the Assembly over a UW-Madison professor’s modern politics course.

Noted: Ableman’s Gorge State Natural Area, on Highway 136 north of Rock Springs, features a nearly mile-long L-shaped cliff of quartzite and sandstone. Nearby is Van Hise Rock, a 15-foot monolith named for geologist and former president of UW-Madison Charles Van Hise, who used the rock to demonstrate how rocks change when mountains are formed.

The Brewers deal is just the latest sports partnership for Madison, Wis.-based American Family. The company entered the sports marketing world in 2014 when it aired a Super Bowl spot featuring former University of Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson.

Noted: In his speech, Evers gave a nod to retiring University of Wisconsin-Madison Band Director Mike Leckrone and praised the Wisconsin Idea, the UW mission statement that says the university’s purpose is to improve people’s lives beyond the classroom.

A UW-Madison kinesiology major is the latest area resident to compete on a network athletic competition. Jack Kwan, 20, is scheduled to appear in “The Titan Games,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, on NBC at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Nov. 23, 1965: King made stops in Milwaukee and Madison on the same day, speaking to students at both schools and giving an impromptu press conference at Mitchell International Airport.

Rising temperatures and habitat destruction at the butterflies’ breeding sites in the United States and Canada are the major drivers of monarch declines, says Karen Oberhauser, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Although “it’s not a fun time to be in the dairy industry, I’m excited about where it could be in 3 months, 3 years, 5 years,” John Goeser told the attendees. A western Sheboygan County dairy farm native, Goeser is the director of nutritional research and innovation for Rock River Labs in Watertown and an adjunct professor of dairy science at UW–Madison.

niversity of Wisconsin limnologists conduct science experiments about water. Fat-tire bike racers compete at dark and on ice. Runners and walkers wend their way through a 5-kilometer lake course.

After graduating high school, Stanford Taylor started college at a nearby Mississippi school. But her brother, a student at UW-Madison, convinced her to come to Wisconsin. Stanford Taylor received her bachelor’s and master’s from UW-Madison. She was a teacher and principal in the Madison school district before joining the staff at DPI in 2001.

Quoted: Yi Fuxian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has written that China’s government has obscured the actual fertility rate to disguise the disastrous ramifications of the “one child” policy. According to his calculations, the fertility rate averaged 1.18 between 2010 and 2018.

Tyson now a senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will share stories of his early days as an educator in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and how his Emmett Till book helped bring justice to the black community.

Noted: Once he arrived at UW, he studied some political science and earned a degree in sociology in 2014. He then went into Teach for America, where it became clear that education was going to be his venue for social change. But he knew he’d need more education for himself first.

The UW Veterinary Care’s Special Species Service was able to come in and evaluate his wounds.

Not so, according to new research from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jihae Shin, assistant professor of management and human resources at the school, together with Katherine L. Milkman of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted a series of experiments that challenged the conventional wisdom that holds backup plans in high regard.

Noted: Wisconsin’s love affair with booze dates to statehood. Milwaukee has served as home to some of the country’s biggest brewers, including Pabst, Schlitz, Miller and Blatz. The Princeton Review in 2017 rated the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the school with the most beer. And last year the U.S. Centers for Disease Control released a survey in which one in four Wisconsin respondents reported binge-drinking at least once in the past month, the second-highest rate among the states behind only North Dakota.

Noted: She was located after Jeanne Nutter, who was walking her dog, heard a young girl yelling for help. “I’m just so glad that she’s safe,” said Nutter, who retired as a social worker with Child Protective Services but still works as an adviser to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s social work program.

UW-Madison’s beloved Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone, who is retiring at the end of the academic year, has a new bobblehead and this one plays a familiar tune to Badger fans.

Born and raised in Copley, Ohio, she received her B.A. from the University of Mount Union and her M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband and creative collaborator, Tracy Letts. They have one son.

Sue Riseling, the former police chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is now executive director of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, on Wednesday said part of the review team’s report has been misinterpreted.

Noted: Students are referred to the program by school counselors, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the UW Odyssey Project and Dane County’s neighborhood intervention program.

After stints in Switzerland and Canada, Khorana found a research position at the Institute for Enzyme Research, a “vanguard of chemical biology” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.