The United States Senate passed legislation on Nov. 16 designating the U.S. Post Office located at 2650 North Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Drive in Milwaukee as the “Vel R. Phillips Post Office Building.” Phillips graduated from UW–Madison.
She returned to school to study veterinary oncology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and followed that with a doctorate in immunology from Harvard.
Joe is originally from Iowa City, Iowa. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown University.
The story uses as its main example a course, “The Art and Science of Human Flourishing,” that she observed at the University of Virginia (it’s being co-developed with, and also taught at, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison).
Outside of government, Shalala has been a longtime educator, serving as president of Hunter College and then as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The federation has multiple educational offerings for staff members, including certificate programs for managers provided through the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Evers also announced Wednesday Carrie Lynch, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s strategic communications specialist, will lead communications for Evers during the transition period.
He was appointed to the Dairy Science faculty at UW-Madison in 1959. . . . Under Allan’s leadership, Wisconsin became the leader in development of the somatic cell testing program in cooperation with DHIA.
Noted: Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from University of Wisconsin-Madison and has studied poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality and ethnography. (“Evicted” was the 2016-17 Go Big Read selection.)
Noted: The genesis of the Kubly Foundation, in its current form, began at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1950s when four undergrad students began a lifelong friendship — Michael Kubly and his wife-to-be Billie Wenger, and Michael Schmitz and his wife-to-be Jeanne Berry.
More than one professional photographer usually attends the event, according to Alisyn Amant, 19, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who graduated from Baraboo High last year. The junior prom is held each year in the school gymnasium; there is no senior prom.
On Oct. 10, surgeons at UW performed the rare transplant surgery on the mother and daughter.
Evers, who as state superintendent is a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, supported continuing the tuition freeze for in-state students another two years. He was more vague about funding levels for UW and technical colleges and never released a plan.
Widder, a graduate of UW-Madison who served in the Army Reserves, continues to practice law at his firm in Madison. Beginning with Reynolds, who graduated in 1915, Widder was the third generation to attend the university after both of his parents attended. His daughter became the fourth.
“Education in the family was a given,” Widder said. “It began with Ed.”
At exactly 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1943, Mildred Harnack (née Fish), Milwaukee native, UW-Madison alum and former UW-Milwaukee instructor, was beheaded.
In a move reminiscent of the “fake news” peddled in the lead-up to the 2016 elections, a conservative Madison-based group blasted out a story on Election Day that falsely claims UW-Madison is giving out documents that, by themselves, allow non-citizens to vote.
Shalala served as Clinton’s secretary of Health and Human Services for his entire presidency and has made health care a centerpiece of her agenda. She was president of the University of Wisconsin before that, and after Cabinet service she ran the University of Miami until 2015.
Even more generally, the Foxconn deal isn’t shaping up to be the hallowed deal Walker promised. The Verge found that University of Wisconsin-Madison students worry about intellectual property and academic freedom, as the University and Foxconn agreed on a research partnership that’ll result in “Foxconn-sponsored” but UW-Madison-owned facilities on the engineering campus.
Quoted: “Alex Smith’s work is extremely exciting and I think still yet to be fully studied and appreciated,” said Melanie Wood, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor has won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 27th District.
Democrat Donna Shalala, a former Cabinet secretary and University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor, Tuesday won a U.S. House seat in Florida that had been held by a Republican.
Shalala was HHS secretary under President Bill Clinton. She also was president of the universities of Miami and Wisconsin and of the Clinton foundation.
“I want to be changing things day in and day out,” Morgan, a University of Wisconsin freshman, said. “You can’t complain if you don’t contribute.”
Noted: EatStreet, founded in a University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm room in 2010, is in more than 250 cities nationwide with more than 15,000 restaurant partners.
University President Ruth Watkins said Friday that two former commissioners of the Utah Department of Public Safety, John T. Nielsen and Keith Squires, and former University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling will investigate campus police policies and the handling of McCluskey’s case.
Evers and his wife also have seven grandchildren. According to his DPI bio, “Born and raised in Plymouth, Wisconsin, Dr. Evers graduated from Plymouth High School and earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree in educational administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Huggett graduated from UW Madison in 1981. He practiced as a Urgent Care Physician with Dean Urgent Care Centers in Madison from 1988-1990.
Noted: After receiving a bachelor’s in fine arts from UW-Madison in 2011, Pino launched Veteran Print Project to encourage dialogue among veterans, artists and the general public. Now the printmaker is curating and coordinating In Good Company: An Exposition of Emerging Veteran Artists, a citywide showcase for veteran artists.
Youngquist exhibits her work widely and co-owns Gallery Two in New Orleans’ French Quarter, where she spends a few months out of the year. She holds a master’s degree in art education, which she earned at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after studying biology as an undergraduate at North Park University in Chicago.
Speaking to a crowd of more than 1,000 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Biden addressed Saturday’s shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people, and the series of pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats last week, describing them as “forces of hate that have terrorized” Americans. Investigators said two packages with the explosive material were addressed to Biden.
Slideshow of famous scientists, actors and politicians who graduated from or attended UW-Madison.
Former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden called for more civility and dignity in politics during a rally with Wisconsin Democrats on Tuesday, offering a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump while telling college students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus they can “own” next week’s election if they vote.
By late August, less than three months before the election, Foxconn announced more bells and whistles: it would contribute $100 million to create a new research facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and use $25 million for a new state venture capital fund. That $125 million total represented just 3 percent of the $4.1 billion subsidy the company stood to collect.
Evers weighed in on the measure during a campaign stop on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. His remarks come amid another resurgence in conversation about gun laws following the shooting death of 11 people Saturday at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Polls show Evers and Walker to be in a tight race. Former Vice President Joe Biden was coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and a Milwaukee union hall on Tuesday for early voting rallies. His visit comes after former President Barack Obama was in Milwaukee on Friday.
Noted: While Tsai, a 2014 graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School, was arguing, Borowski cut him off and took umbrage at some of Tsai’s non-verbal reactions after the judge ruled for the state by imposing a $2,500 cash bail.
New Delhi: After the unceremonious arrest of prominent Bangladeshi photographer Dr. Shahidul Alam, triggered by an interview with Al Jazeera, a group of scholars and lawyers has released a petition demanding his immediate release.
Student groups send record number of messages.
Even after winning the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and being named a MacArthur Fellow, photojournalist Lynsey Addario still gets nervous when she takes on a new assignment.
Despite the Trump administration’s stance, some schools have taken steps to accommodate transgender students, including opening all-gender bathrooms and housing. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Brown University are just some of the schools that place free menstrual products in some gender-neutral and men’s bathrooms to help transgender students.
Colin Huang, founder of China e-commerce site Pinduoduo, made a big splash this year with a U.S. IPO that raised $1.6 billion. It made a less welcome splash soon afterward on complaints of alleged fakes among its potpourri of items (Pinduoduo says it is working to crack down on fakes ). Shares of the Sequoia VC-backed company stabilized, giving it a market cap north of $23 billion and leaving Huang, who owns 47% of the business, with an $11.25 billion holding that ranks him, at No. 12, the highest newcomer on this year’s rich list. Forbes spoke to 38-year-old Huang, a serial entrepreneur who started two businesses before setting up Pinduoduo in 2015, in Shanghai earlier this year about his days in the U.S. as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, work in Silicon Valley and China for Google, and business lessons learned. Excerpts follow.
Cottrell has lived in Niles all his life except while attending the University of Wisconsin at Madison as an undergraduate and law school at New York University in Manhattan, Yeadon said.
This modest state of some 5.8 million people has nevertheless built one of the top research universities in the world—the University of Wisconsin-Madison— and a public education system with one of the highest graduation rates in the nation. Eighty-eight percent of Wisconsin high school students graduate, above the national average of eighty-four percent.
Last year, scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Virginia, and Harvard — including one of the IAT’s three creators — examined 499 studies conducted over 20 years and found “little evidence that changes in implicit bias mediate changes in explicit bias or behavior.” One of the researchers told the Chronicle of Higher Education, “There’s not necessarily strong evidence for the conclusions people have drawn.”
To compile these stories, she reached out to those she had met in UW-Madison’s Odyssey Project — a humanities course which studies topics such as the constitution, art and the literature of Emily Dickinson.
The board elevated deputy executive director Marta Bechtol to lead the state agency, which owns the majority of broadcasting licenses for Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television in partnership with UW-Madison.
The board elevated deputy executive director Marta Bechtol to lead the state agency, which owns the majority of broadcasting licenses for Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television in partnership with UW-Madison.
“Many people believe that the left has a monopoly on women in politics. However, that’s not true,” Alesha Guenther, a twenty-year-old student at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the communications director for the College Republicans, told me.
Howard Bender, Chef and CEO of Schmacon Products, is determined to build that future. Bender studied economics and psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before changing tack and enrolling at the Culinary Institute of America in New York.
The War at Home: This is a 4k restoration of a 1979 documentary about Vietnam War protests at the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus. Directed by Glenn Silber.
Katherine Benton-Cohen has done the typical historical documentary thing before. The 2002 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and Georgetown University professor is an expert on Western history, and was invited to appear in a PBS “American Experience” documentary about Wyatt Earp. It was the usual mix of talking-heads interviews and old photos that people expect when it comes to films about history.
In 1999, the pressure on Nike intensified after student activists took over buildings at Duke University, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin, and staged sit-ins at many other schools. Just before Christmas in 2000, student carolers strode through the halls of Harvard University’s administrative buildings singing “Away in a Sweatshop.”
After the failure of the Fisher case, Blum found new targets: Harvard, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He formed websites like harvardnotfair.org, inviting students who believed they had been denied admission to the three universities based on their race to get in touch.
That same year he also removed from state law tenure protections for University of Wisconsin professors, a move that educators warned would hurt the school’s ability to retain and attract talented faculty.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Their playoffs hopes are all but gone. The defense is banged up. The offense struggled in a blowout loss to Michigan.
Two women said they have their faith renewed in humanity and the justice system after a jury ruling earlier this week.
A jury of eight is awarding the two University of Wisconsin employees $780,000 in damages following a federal judge’s ruling saying the state can’t ban insurance coverage of transgender health care including gender reassignment surgery.
Both grew up in Janesville, a blue-collar city of 50,000 about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Madison, and attend the same Catholic church. Both hail from prominent families. Ryan’s father was a federal prosecutor; Steil’s grandfather served as a University of Wisconsin System regent and as the first chairman of the state lottery board.
A Wisconsin brewing company and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working together to create the first wild lager brewed in North America, according to a company official.
In April 2014, Blum launched a series of websites calling for students to send him their stories of being rejected from Harvard, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Each site featured a photo of a pensive-looking young East Asian, along with the question “Were you denied admission? It may be because you’re the wrong race.”
And even when schools verify misconduct, if the offender has been hired elsewhere, many opt not to notify the new employer for fear of a defamation suit. Only recently have some started drafting policies requiring such disclosure, including the University of Wisconsin.
