Category: UW-Madison Related

Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Following an unsatisfying grad-school stint at the University of Wisconsin, Rossiter transferred to Yale, which is where she found herself, on Friday afternoons, surrounded by pipe smoke, beer and history of science professors and students, nearly all male.

Noted: The Queen isn’t the only old oak the Meyers have on their property. The farm is home to a dozen oaks that are at least 200 years old, Tizza said. In 1988 a group from the University of Wisconsin collected bore samples from 12 trees on the farm. They were studying weather changes in old trees, Tizza said, and ended up finding the champion tree and other centuries-old oaks in the process.

But many oaks did not survive European settlement and subsequent development and fire suppression, and Tizza said because Wisconsin was logged, big trees like the Queen are rare in the state.

Take, for example, the 300-year-old bur oak on the UW-Madison campus known as the President’s Tree that was taken down in 2015.

JT Roach, a Madison Edgewood High School and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, won Wednesday night’s season finale of NBC’s “Songland.”

Noted: Schulz stayed in Germany until the fall of 1945, arriving home in Clintonville by Christmas. He used the G.I. Bill to earn a degree in business administration and an MBA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he met his wife, Eleanore. They raised five sons.

Fultz is an emeritus professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He received his Ed.M. and Ed.D. at Harvard Graduate School of Education and taught there in the Administration, Planning and Social Policy program for three years before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.

Northwestern Wisconsin has become more deeply entrenched as Republican territory, while southeastern Wisconsin has become less friendly to the GOP. The city of Milwaukee and Dane County, home to Madison and the University of Wisconsin, remain the biggest and most important vote producers for the Democrats.

Like so many musicians, Schyvinck also proved to be adept at maths and ended up at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Noted: Sam was the youngest of three children raised by Charles and Laura Waisbren. He attended Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Nicolet High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then moved to New York City, where he worked in software sales for CB Insights.

It is on the edge of Hoyt Park in the Sunset Hill neighborhood, less than 10 minutes southwest of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and downtown.

Kaptur was born in Toledo in 1946, the granddaughter of Polish immigrants. Her father ran the family grocery store and her mother worked for auto-parts maker Champion Spark Plug, a company that helped build Toledo but dissolved its last operations there in 2010. The first person in her family to go to college, Kaptur graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and returned to Toledo to work in city planning.

Brenda Mayrack never intended to become an unclaimed-property czar. Even among legal specialties, the field is particularly obscure: During law school at the University of Wisconsin, she remembers hearing only a 10-minute lecture introducing the topic at the end of her trusts-and-estates class. But as the director of Delaware’s unclaimed-property office, Mayrack now oversees a fund of $540 million a year, forgotten by people from Paris to San Francisco and then held temporarily by the state.

The first person in her family to go to college, Kaptur graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and returned to Toledo to work in city planning.

Noted: Madison’s public high schools do not have master plans, while UW-Madison does. In its federal complaint, Edgewood lists 11 facilities that it says UW-Madison uses for activities not specified in its master plan.

Noted: In more recent years, the house, at 130 E. Gilman St. in Madison’s Mansion Hill District, was home to UW-Madison students in the Knapp Memorial Graduate program.

The house — where guest rooms are named after Bull, Kohler, La Follette, Thorp and others connected to the property over the years — was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and a year later was designated as a city landmark. It was placed on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989. Students left the Knapp House in 2012 and since then the house, just up the hill from the UW Lifesaving Station, had been empty.

Noted: Waisbren graduated from UW-Madison in 2012. He was working as an account executive at CB Insights, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Noted: Clark was one of seven astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. She died when the spacecraft disintegrated on re-entry just 16 minutes before it was due to land in Florida on Feb. 1, 2003. Clark was 41.

Clark grew up in Racine, graduating from Horlick High School in 1979 before heading to Madison, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1983 at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in medicine in 1987.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Sam Waisbren graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.

A UW-Madison graduate and Wisconsin native is dead following an elevator accident in New York City.

Noted: A statue of Abraham Lincoln at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been targeted repeatedly for removal because, as one protester from an indigenous student group explained: “Let’s be real. He owned slaves . . .and ordered the execution of Native men.”

Noted: JSR’s decision to get into that market was bold but Mr Koshiba seemed like the right person for the job. He’d spent two years studying materials science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a Rotary Club scholarship, was one of the few English speakers at the company and was eager to work abroad. In 1990, JSR sent him to Belgium to set up a photo-resist joint venture with the country’s biopharmaceutical giant UCB. The goal was to target the American market.

He was known fondly as Dr. Dirt. He used his extensive knowledge of Wisconsin’s soils and his warm personality to help farmers and protect the state’s environment. Dr. Dirt, University of Wisconsin–Madison emeritus professor Fred Madison, died June 3 at the age of 82.

In college, he was the managing editor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism’s Curb Magazine, where he created two projects related to Wisconsin breweries.

Foxconn issued a statement saying only that Liu was meeting with Evers, state and local officials, and members of Wisconsin’s higher education community. UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said Liu participated in an “introductory meeting” with university officials about “future partnership opportunities” Wednesday. Lucas declined to elaborate.

Noted: Cody Splitt of Appleton was one of the first women to serve in the U.S. Navy during the war and one of five women to receive a law degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in her graduating class.

A complete list of the publicly available Buckys and where you can find them.

Noted: The Glow Float has been the nascent program’s most popular trip and has sold out the past two years. Wayfarers (which means travelers, usually by foot) paddle 6 miles from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace on Lake Mendota to Picnic Point for a bonfire and a talk about the history and significance of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve (which the point is part of). On the paddle back to the Terrace, Wayfarers adorn their kayaks with lanterns and glow sticks. This year’s trip is from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 17 and costs $55 (includes kayak rental).

Dr. Jonathan Foley, 50, executive director for Project Drawdown, joined me for a discussion about climate change … With a PhD in atmospheric sciences from the University of Wisconsin and having spent three decades doing and managing research into climate change, he is certainly qualified on the science.

Micah Potter has made his case to the NCAA. About all the junior forward on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team can do now is patiently wait to hear back from the organization.

A second fire at a substation near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a couple of miles to the west, prompted the evacuation of nearby buildings. No injuries were reported as a result of that blast, either.

Much was written after Kamala Harris’s and Joe Biden’s spat at the first Democratic debate about how Harris was the benefactor of integration by busing. But no one pointed out how much white students benefited just as much from her presence.

Alexandria Millet is a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Public School Shakedown intern at The Progressive.

Potter, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, started at the New York Fed in 1998. As head of the markets desk, he oversaw the end of the Fed’s massive bond-buying program known as quantitative easing, as well as the unwind that began in October 2017.

Other advisers include senior adviser and policy director Josh Orton, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, law school who previously worked for Senator Harry Reid and President Obama.

Noted: Other advisers include senior adviser and policy director Josh Orton, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, law school who previously worked for Senator Harry Reid and President Obama.