Category: UW-Madison Related

Richard Winton is a crime writer for the Los Angeles Times and part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011. Known as @lacrimes on Twitter, during 20 years at The Times he also has been part of the breaking news staff that won Pulitzers in 1998 and 2004. He won the ASNE Deadline News award in 2006. A native of England, after getting degrees from University of Kent at Canterbury and University of Wisconsin-Madison, he began covering politics but chose a life of crime because it was less dirty.

The Mendota Rowing Club was founded in 1975 by a group of UW-Madison alumni. It has since evolved into an organization that gives men and women of all ages the chance to get involved with the sport of rowing.

She left gymnastics for pole vaulting after her junior year, and committed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 2018. During college, she was a three-time Big Ten champion and two-time All-American, among many other accolades.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Entomology is hosting the two-day event featuring a wide variety of talks, workshops and activities at the Kemp Natural Resources Station in Minocqua. The festival starts Friday and goes through Saturday.

An explosion and fire around 7:40 a.m. Friday sent a plume of thick, black smoke rising over the city’s east side. A second fire Friday morning at the East Campus substation near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus also sent a cloud of black smoke into the air and caused police to evacuate Ogg and Smith halls and the UW Safety Building.

According to his LinkedIn page, Bernthal spent time in the Midwest as a college student. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison

“One of my favorite hats is a red University of Wisconsin Badgers hat,” said Corey Looby, 31, a database manager from Madison, Wis. “But when I traveled, I would regularly notice glares from people I passed on the street. I don’t want to be associated with MAGA, even mistakenly, so I stopped wearing it.”

The first and larger of the two fires appears to be at the MG&E property at 1722 E. Main St., just off on East Washington Avenue. A second fire could be seen at the substation behind Ogg Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

The Foundation also is allocating nearly $14 million to support existing programs at the following five universities: Indiana University; Stanford; University of Texas at Austin; University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Yale, both the Thurmond Arnold Project and Project on Governing the Digital Public Spher

To help women learn to love their voices, and learn to love using them, Rueckert (a national media relations specialist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison) has written her first book, “Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free.”

Hollywood producers were in town last week — not to shoot a movie, but to litigate over one that never got made, despite a $1.3 million investment from the late Milwaukee philanthropist Albert “Ab” Nicholas.

This is one of those life moments when less is more. In thinking about this post, I reviewed some college webpages and what they say to help students and parents plan for move-in day, and I was struck by the phrasing at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They preface the checklist: “Remember, along with packing the essentials, your student should be sure to bring a sense of self, a sense of purpose, and a sense of humor.” I think that’s spot on.

He was a shy young man at Franklin Elementary and Central High School before graduating in 1961 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Bachelor of Science degree. He returned to UW–Madison to earn a doctorate in educational administration.

It was 13 years ago when a south Florida high school senior named Liz Gilbert visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison, got out of the car, briefly soaked up the atmosphere and declared that she was Wisconsin bound.

Gilbert said her mother told her: “You haven’t even seen anything, you haven’t talked to anybody.”

“I said, ‘I just feel it.’ ”

With no college aspirations and eager to see the world, Mr. Wolfram thought the SEALs would be a good fit. Violent antiwar protests had already flared at the University of Wisconsin, about 30 miles from home. Still, he felt enlisting was the right thing.

The article used the Quacquarelli Symonds rankings of universities worldwide and mentioned that just three German universities were ranked in the top 100 (two in Munich at 61 and 62, and one in Heidelberg at 64). Well, I went to the source for comparison, and the rankings of these U.S. universities were similar: University of Texas at Austin, 65; University of Wisconsin at Madison, 56; Brown University, 57; Georgia Tech, 72 — none of which are tuition-free.

Mildred Fish Harnack was born in Milwaukee and studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she met her husband, Arvid, an economist born in Germany. The Harnacks moved to Berlin as the Great Depression took hold. Arvid took a job with the German government while Mildred taught and completed her doctorate.

Milwaukee musician Trapper Schoepp released a music video featuring over 60 Wisconsin personalities for his song “On, Wisconsin,” which he co-wrote using Bob Dylan’s lyrics.

Born in England in 1958, Stone grew up in both Europe and the United States. After graduating with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin Madison, he moved to New York City in 1983, determined to pursue a career in filmmaking. He gained considerable recognition for his first film, “Radio Bikini,” in 1987, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

A Dane County circuit judge recently ruled that UW-Madison broke the state’s public records and open meetings laws — violations that may cost the university more than $40,000.

According to his Stanford bio, Donald is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He attended the University of California Berkeley and worked at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) before coming to California.

These incidents stretched across different time periods and regions ranging from a 1970 attack by the New Year’s Gang that blew up the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s physics department instead of the Army Math Research Center on the floor above, to a 2014 attack by Boko Haram in Nigeria in which a suicide bomber mistakenly detonated an explosive-laden vehicle next to a fuel depot in Lagos City.

The UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Oversight and Advisory Committee violated the laws when it denied former health policy analyst Kevin Wymore’s request for records from a 2016 committee meeting discussing applicants for Community Impact Grants, which fund large-scale projects aimed at improving the overall health of the state.

The property, 545 W. Dayton St., holds the two-story, landmark-designated Doyle building and part of a parking lot shared with UW-Madison.

Noted: Quinn XCII posted a video of him taking a bow with his tour mates to the University of Wisconsin game anthem “Jump Around” at the end of his show at the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard stage.

Abloh attended University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineeringthere. He also received a Master of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

The Dane County Regional Airport is adding a Columbus, Ohio, nonstop flight and a bigger plane for the Oct. 26 University of Wisconsin Badgers vs. Ohio State University Buckeyes game.

She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and served as the dean of Edgewood College’s School of Education prior to her first stint as interim superintendent in Madison.

A former UW-Madison student on trial for killing a visiting scholar from China searched the Internet for basic instructions on committing murder before the woman vanished, which one expert on serial killers said may be a sign that his boast to have killed 12 other people is false.

Connie Ihm said she lost her daughter Alexandra after a drunk driver hit her in January of 2017. Ihm said her daughter was 21-years-old and attending UW-Madison.

In an influential paper, Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cliff Tabin of Harvard University speculated that flies and vertebrates — and other animals with appendages — inherited this network of genes from a common ancestor.

Reuters gathered its data from state elections offices; the U.S. Census Bureau; the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank; and the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

Today, there are more than 15,000 refugees living in Wisconsin. Odds are, you’ve probably met some of them and don’t even know it. That’s the premise behind a town hall-style conversation happening Thursday at the Hillel building on the University of Wisconsin campus, which is located at 611 Langdon Street.

Jes loved football — watching Ron Dayne at Camp Randall on Saturdays and cheering on Brett Favre on Sundays.

Badgers United launched Monday to advocate for UW-Madison in the midst of a state budget process that has brought ups and downs for the University of Wisconsin System as a whole.

A new nonprofit advocating for UW-Madison aims to shore up more state money for the flagship campus, reverse the university’s slide in national rankings and lift the longstanding tuition freeze for undergraduate resident students.

Author (and On Wisconsin co-editor) Dean Robbins likes to write about his heroes — be they spunky civil rights leaders or virtually unknown software coders.