Category: UW-Madison Related

Shalala, former president of both the University of Miami and the University of Wisconsin, is banking that her experience is seen as an asset by voters.

The rain has caused long-lasting problems on Madison’s isthmus, a narrow strip of land that runs between lakes Mendota and Monona and is home to the Capitol building and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Shalala, former president of both the University of Miami and the University of Wisconsin, is banking that her experience is seen as an asset by voters. The Democratic candidates take similar positions on most key issues — tackling climate change, reducing gun violence, improving health care, overhauling immigration — but none of the others can match Shalala’s lengthy record or familiar name.

Noted: John Stevenson, associate director of the UW Survey Center at UW-Madison, called Polco more of a “public input platform” and online “bulletin board.”

Noted: Egan’s book was also selected as one of The New York Times’ 100 notable books of 2017 and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Go Big Read book for 2018. Copies will be distributed to all first-year students for the 2018-’19 school year and the book will be incorporated into some classes.

And so it is that Bryce, one of the most intriguing figures of the 2018 elections—the Democratic prototype for hyped midterm candidates—seems closer to a nadir than a peak. As of the primary results in Wisconsin Tuesday night, his opponent is another Janesville native, Bryan Steil: a lawyer, a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, a 37-year-old with little political baggage, and a seemingly normal conservative Republican.

In Wisconsin, the contested Democratic gubernatorial primary “drew about 20 percent more voters than [the] contested Republican primary for U.S. Senate, even though the GOP race was more competitive and generated far more television advertising,” according to state political expert Craig Gilbert. Especially striking, Gilbert noted, was the fact that the “ultramobilized blue” bastion of Dane County” — including the University of Wisconsin college town of Madison — “produced 40 percent more votes than ever before in a Democratic primary for governor or Senate.”

Engebretson holds a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has focused on child custody cases.

The Wisconsin Alumni Association brought their own ice cream truck to hand out free Babcock ice cream and melt away some myths for in-state students about getting accepted to UW-Madison and affording school.

Watch the Republican primary here, too: The GOP will probably nominate University of Wisconsin Regent Bryan Steil, a former Ryan aide who has earned the speaker’s endorsement.

OutReach LGBT Community Center board member Jill Nagler told the Wisconsin State Journal that LGBT community members voiced concerns about feeling unsafe with officers participating armed and in uniform. OutReach announced Friday that event organizers are rescinding parade applications from Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison police and Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney.

The following is an satellite image brought to us by the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  This images shows us the the smoke drift trajectory across the state of Michigan.  You can actually see the smoke partially obscuring lake Michigan and Superior.

Noted: Salas served briefly as executive director of United Migrant Opportunity Services and has been involved in numerous Latino civil rights issues throughout his life. He earned an undergraduate degree in education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He went on to teach social science at Milwaukee Area Technical College and Chicano and Latino studies at UWM and UW-Madison, and is a former member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

Noted: When Fink became a mom, soup became her go-to for getting more vegetables into her meals, too. A graduate of Nicolet High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she has a background in business and human resources. Food was her fun and family time, not her career.

The UW Police Department responded: “We are disappointed in today’s decision by OutReach — in particular because of our continued efforts to find a method of participation that was acceptable to all of our community members (such as marching in the parade without uniforms or police vehicles),” the statement said.

UW-Madison astronomy graduate students give a presentation at 8:30 pm, then will be setting up their telescope for viewing and to answer questions.

Soglin’s ad says shows Walker toppling the Abraham Lincoln statue at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times,” published this year by the Wisconsin History Society Press, draws on Apps’ diaries from the 38 years he spent as a professor of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and as an administrator for UW Extension.

Wisconsin high school students are planning a protest from the UW campus to the Capitol Saturday, where they’ll push for stricter gun laws.

A Professor at UW-Madison is biking more than 1,200 miles to raise awareness for solar energy and money to create a solar project in the U.S. territory with a stop in La Crosse Thursday.

Mitchell promises to raise wages, fight racism and return money that “Walker stole from our schools.” Mitchell spokeswoman Kirsten Allen says he’s referring to a $250 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System in the 2015-17 state budget and an $800 million cut in public school funding in the 2011-13 budget.

A few months ago Weiss, a 21-year-old journalism major at UW-Madison, received a phone call from the Herald-News’ normal editor, Beth Kraft. She was going on maternity leave, she told him, and wanted to know if he would fill in for the summer while she was gone. Weiss decided to give it a go.

Huang was admitted into the prestigious Zhejiang University as a child prodigy and graduated with a degree in computer science. After leaving the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, he spent three years working for Google.

Pinduoduo was founded by ex-Google engineer Colin Huang (born Huang Zheng). The serial entrepreneur who graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison was taken under the wing of famed venture capitalist Li Kaifu to establish Google offices in China early on. The son of a Chinese factory worker, 38-year-old Huang could soon be worth more than $8 billion after the company goes public.

The National Transportation Safety Board released a report on a small plane crash in Lake Erie that left a pilot and five passengers dead. Among the victims was a UW student.

Summer draws campers to the great outdoors, and people sleeping under the stars have a unique opportunity to observe the wonders of worlds far away. UW–Madison’s Eric Wilcots and Julie Davis explain how people in Wisconsin parks can learn about the universe and view astronomical objects firsthand.

Noted: Biegel says his involvement with Special Olympics comes from his wife, Sarah Biegel, who studied rehab psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and now works with people with disabilities.

Rhodes-Conway works at a UW–Madison think tank center on Wisconsin strategy.

In his talk at Lockdown, a cybersecurity conference organized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s IT department, Hagen discussed the security “event” that he learned about over that secure phone line: Online agents had hacked the campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, stealing thousands of emails and documents in the process.

This summer’s internship is actually Jackson’s second internship in as many years. Last summer she worked as a research assistant at UW-Madison as an intern with Rural and Urban Scholars in Community Health, a program developed by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

If anyone thinks he can keep the moderates and the Trumpians together, it’s Jake Lubenow. The 22-year-old just spent his senior year at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as chair of the College Republicans — a serious job in a serious political state. Lubenow disapproves of Trump’s rhetoric, his tariffs and his wall. But he has always dreamed of a career in politics, and he’s not ready to give it up. “I think there’s a middle ground between the Never Trumpers and the Trumpians,” he told me.

The former Wisconsin Badgers football star donated $10,000 to the family of the firefighter who died in a Sun Prairie explosion,

“I’m a nurse at UW and these are our people — fire, first responders, police — and we feel honored to give back.”

Noted: She previously served as UW-Madison’s director of prevention and campus health initiatives.

As a way for individuals to be a part of the new Hamel Music Center, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is kicking off a new seat-naming campaign.

Rebecca Comfort recently began her new duties as the American Indian Nation Liaison at the Wisconsin Historical Society, housed on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

A 2004 infrared composite image of the two hemispheres of Uranus obtained with Keck Telescope adaptive optics. Credit: Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory. (Image)

Short spoke with the Cap Times about the universe, diversity at UW-Madison and tapping a market niche.

Noted: She said the district has hired the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to begin a formal assessment of the program.

For Benjamin Futa, the director of Allen Centennial Gardens, “gardening is a constantly evolving timeline, with moments that come and go, surprise and delight,” he says.

“We have to be very responsible and try to resolve the situation in Mexico,” said Urzua, who describes himself, and Lopez Obrador, as fiscal conservatives.Urzua, a 62-year-old University of Wisconsin-trained economist, spoke to Reuters along with two other advisers to Lopez Obrador, fellow economist Gerardo Esquivel and World Bank governance official Arturo Herrera.

ordan is wrestling royalty. Born and raised in Champaign County, Ohio, he was a four-time state wrestling champion. Competing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he won NCAA titles in 1985 and 1986.