Category: UW-Madison Related

Stacey J. Lee is the Frederick Erickson WARF Professor of Educational Policy Studies and a faculty affiliate in Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Kevin Wong is program coordinator for the Asian Pacific Islander and Desi American (AAPIDA) Student Center at the UW-Madison, which hosts academic, professional, and social programs throughout the year to enhance the student experience, support student success, and foster a sense of belonging for students from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Dr. Wajiha Akhtar-Khaleel is the assistant director of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, which drives statewide health equity initiatives throughout Wisconsin.

Leopold was the author of Sand County Almanac, a pretty famous environmental text, and he was involved in the University of Wisconsin Madison Prairie Restoration Project in the 1930s.

Rossell said student loan debt from getting a four-year college degree and then completing law school are also a challenge in getting more people to join the legal profession. Even at the state’s public law school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, student debt can range from $150,000 to $200,000, he said.

Fadel, a three-time Olympian in his origin country of Egypt, opened his training facility in 1996 and his son competed in track at the University of Wisconsin. Fadel is considered one of the best fencing coaches in the world, and that’s what drew Guzzi Vincenti to the area.

“Wisconsin is going to be a hugely important element of what I think will be the bringing of the next generation of forward thinking and important technology to the United States,” Pritzker explained of the partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and institutions in Illinois. “Quantum technology, if the Chinese win at this, will mean that the United States will become a second-tier power, but if we win, and I think we will, it will be the Midwest that carries the day.”

For her part, Zimmerman, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered Kennedy on YouTube and was instantly inspired.

Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.

“We don’t see that policy signal yet,” said Greg Nemet, an environmental policy expert at the University of Wisconsin and another lead report author. “And we think that’s a really important lacking area that needs to be changed from a policy perspective.”

Oconomowoc native and University of Wisconsin graduate Yuven Sundaramoorthy finished a career-best ninth.

In Wisconsin, a handful of precincts in Madison around the University of Wisconsin saw at least 40 percent of voters cast their ballots for “uninstructed.”

Aho was an accomplished tennis player at Waukesha North High School where he graduated in 2015. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019, and in 2023 combined his passion for sports and business to launch his direct-to-consumer company.

Around the same time, James Kardatzke, an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, started scraping up congressional data. In 2020, he launched one of the first websites that tracked trades disclosed by Pelosi, whose venture capitalist husband, Paul, is a successful investor. (The former speaker has long maintained that she does not personally own any stock and has no knowledge of or involvement with her husband’s investments.

First-year University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students Marian Azeem-Angel and Rusal Ferus were sitting at the Memorial Union terrace when they saw the news of the guilty verdicts.

In particular, Karabell questioned why Act 10 gives motor vehicle inspectors a “favored designation” as public safety employees while, at the same time, the law classifies state conservation wardens, Capitol police and University of Wisconsin police as “general” employees who saw their labor rights curtailed.

Amorphophallus titanum is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Domes received a gift of a dormant corpse flower corm — similar to a bulb or tuber — about 16 years ago from the University of Wisconsin and have since grown more than 10 corpse flower corms from the original.

Behnke, 63, who grew up in Madison and went to college and law school at UW-Madison, was nominated in February to be ABA president. If confirmed in a vote in August, she will be president-elect for a year before becoming president next year.

But this is still a chatbot. In just a week, Google users have pointed out all kinds of inaccuracies with the new AI tool. It has reportedly asserted that dogs have played in the NFL and that President Andrew Johnson had 14 degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

This is just one of many mistakes cropping up in the new feature that Google rolled out broadly this month. It also claims that former US President James Madison graduated from the University of Wisconsin not once but 21 times, that a dog has played in the NBA, NFL, and NHL, and that Batman is a cop.

After earning master’s and doctoral degrees in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Loew became a professor at UW-Madison in 1999. She is professor emerita in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and served as the inaugural director of NU’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research before retirement.

Wisconsin students study abroad at dozens of universities globally every year, while the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the top producers of Peace Corps volunteers. Other eligible voters might be temporarily in another country for their job.

Ben Brussat, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 11, is one of those feeling confident about his job prospects. After narrowing down his focus to business-development and sales-development roles, he sent out about 30 applications and received six positive responses so far. He said he is currently in the final round of interviews with one employer, about a month after submitting his initial application

The Teaching Assistants’ Assn. at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which grew out of the anti-draft sit-in and campus demonstrations against Dow Chemical for its role in production of napalm and other weapons for the Vietnam War, is the oldest graduate union still in existence in the U.S.

Terrace enthusiasts can add a new mini Terrace chair to their collection as a new limited edition chair has been unveiled.

There’s a chance that not everyone in the audience made the connection between the guitar-playing singer churning out cover songs and the many other hats that Vince Sweeney wore.

That play list includes being a former Cap Times sports editor, a University of Wisconsin athletic department administrator and a founding vice chancellor for university relations.