It was a snowy day in Wisconsin.In the middle of May, about 6,800 of University of Wisconsin’s 2016 graduating class, myself included, filed in to the outdoor Camp Randall football stadium to graduate.
The study noted that as the home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, college students were likely contributing to the city’s overall excessive drinking rate – but the Badgers didn’t make the top three.
While a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s, Jordan was an NCAA Division I wrestling champ. The Urbana, Ohio, native later served as an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University before winning seats in the Ohio General Assembly and Senate. Like McCarthy, Jordan came to the nation’s capital in the small GOP class of 2006 — when Democrats seized control of Congress.
From a solar eclipse to a sun dog, UW-Madison community members captured weather-related events across the world.
“Did you ever feel this way, Mom?” I’d ask. “Do you now?” Had I missed a huge piece of her emotional life? She shared her stories about being on the UW-Madison campus before the height of the Vietnam War protests, about how difficult it was to work and raise two children at the same time.
An artist who attended the University of Wisconsin will show off her version of the school’s beloved mascot as part of a free public art display in Madison.
hope to feel that same comfort this Mother’s Day, a day I am already specifically planning out hour-by-hour in hopes of minimizing my pain. To all mothers like me — those who have buried a child — I wish you comfort, peace and acknowledgment on Mother’s Day.
Jill Wieber Lens is an associate professor of law at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) School of Law, where she teaches torts, remedies and related subjects. She received her B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and her J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law.
It will be a while before there’s a decision on whether to remove the names of University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni from the Memorial Union facilities Porter Butts Gallery and Frederic March Play Circle.
Thanks to a relatively low cost of living (median rent is $950), an efficient public transportation system, and an average commute of just over 20 minutes, Madison makes the cut and takes the No. 1 spot. The city, home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, also ranks in the top 10 for lowest youth unemployment.
He played football at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There’s no shortage of Badger pride here! The former football player was the first male in his family to graduate.
The family of a prominent UW-Madison alumnus, Porter Butts, is pushing back against plans to cover his name on a campus art gallery because he belonged to a 1920s-era student social group that, for a time, was called “Ku Klux Klan.”
Two years before Duke Ellington died at 75, he spent a week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with his orchestra, teaching and performing in concert. Among the indispensable members of his entourage was a lean, legally blind 20-year-old pianist from New York to whom Ellington referred students in his master class.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials declined to release an administrative review that led them to shift the management of a Lake Mendota rescue service scrutinized after the death of a windsurfer in a collision with a rescue boat a year ago.
A whopping 36 states will hold gubernatorial elections this November. Charles Van Hise, who served as president of the University of Wisconsin from 1903 to 1918 — exactly a century ago, one might note — said of the Wisconsin Idea, “I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every family of the state.”
Another reviewer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. candidate Sohad Murrar, praised the episode for showing what happens when you take the time to meet people from different backgrounds:”…the message is simple and powerful: It is difficult to dehumanize and stereotype other people when we get to know them on a personal level.”
Julia Stiles starred in this 2004 drama about an ambitious pre-med student who falls for a mysterious coed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Take a single interchange in Madison Wisconsin. Last fall — when rooms were at a premium during the University of Wisconsin’s football season — NBC5 Investigates found six separate chain-affiliated motels at that one interchange listed as housing a total of nine sex offenders, convicted for such crimes as sexual assault of a child; aggravated child molestation, child pornography, and rape.
Last year, Gina Heeb of the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s The Daily Cardinal found that over a dozen popular rap artists—such as Drake, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye West—had been deleted from the TouchTunes listings of prominent, campus-adjacent bars.
One thing is certain: Of the four men suspected of planting a bomb in the Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall on the UW-Madison campus in August 1970 — the resulting blast killed a young researcher — Burt is the only one who was never captured.
It’s graduation season, and UW-Madison alums Anthony Wright and Brian Allen are promoting #BlackandHooded to black recipients of advanced degrees, inviting them to share photos celebrating their accomplishments.
The only claim that Circuit Judge Frank Remington left standing is one that Buckeridge has made against UW Health, an allegation that it failed to maintain the confidentiality of his medical records and failed to properly supervise Lucey.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison employee has been charged with stealing nearly $114,000 from the school.Kevin O’Donnell, 54, faces 12 felony and two misdemeanor charges accusing him of stealing the money while working as a purchasing manager for the Division of University Housing, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
King originally moved to the Madison area in the early 1980s. About the time the “Barbaro” project came along two decades later, she was also finishing up her art degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, parenting her three children, and creating the statue of a veterinarian, using her daughter Nicole as a model, that stands outside the UW School of Veterinary Medicine.
Joseph had one of the most complicated heart conditions his doctors had ever seen. To plan his surgery, they 3D-printed a copy of his heart. Features physicians at UW Health.
“I probably enjoy it a little bit more now,” said Lukas, an Antigo native and UW-Madison graduate who has earned more than $278 million lifetime and won 4,804 races, including 14 Triple Crown starts.
On May 15-17, about 1,000 state and local officials will participate in Dark Sky, a full-scale training exercise simulating a long-term mass power outage in Wisconsin.
While Bucky is a common sight at UW-Madison athletic competitions, ceremonies and other public events, 85 life-size Bucky Badger statues decorated by 64 local and regional artists are about to swarm Madison and Dane County as part of a new public art project.
While working on his master’s in education at UW–Madison, Lukas was a student basketball coach under head coach John Erickson. The lessons he learned — the importance of strong observation skills and the fact that good coaches are also good teachers — were invaluable. Lukas uses those same principles when training horses.
After three years of dreary or rainy weather on the unofficial day of drinking for UW-Madison students, the Mifflin Street Block Party was graced with bright and sunny skies — and thousands more partiers descended on the Downtown street Saturday.
See how the annual Mifflin Street Block Party has changed in the decades since it began as a rallying point for the anti-war movement in Madison in the spring of 1969.
WISC-TV reports police are working with the Sauk County Coroner’s Office and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Anthropology Department to evaluate the bone fragments.
Jake Lubenow, who heads up one of the largest College Republicans chapters in the country, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says he regularly hears from prospective students and their parents who are worried about liberal indoctrination. He tells them that he and other Republicans on campus find being immersed in a liberal environment has taught them to better articulate their views.
Former Wisconsin and San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland credits Ann McKee with saving his life in a piece that he wrote for Time’s “The 100 Most Influential People of 2018.”
There are several Wisconsin connections to ‘Time’s’ list of the 100 Most Influential People of the year, including Megan Twohey, who worked at the Journal Sentinel, Oprah Winfrey, J.J. Watt, fashion designer Virgil Abloh and neuropathologist Ann McKee.
In remote northern Kenya, the Samburu Girls Foundation is a safe harbor for girls who have fled child marriage and female genital mutilation. The foundation was formed by one of their own, a Samburu woman who escaped child marriage herself. In Madison, a pediatrician, the Hip Hop architect, a University of Wisconsin professor and her students are eager to chip in.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced a multi-pronged effort Thursday to acknowledge the history of racism on campus, but she put aside a decision on whether the names of students with ties to the Ku Klux Klan a century ago should be removed from campus facilities.
While Republicans sort out which candidate among the four running will be on the June ballot, Democrats have quickly united behind Ann Groves Lloyd, a University of Wisconsin academic adviser and granddaughter of a former Progressive Party state legislator.
Phillips spent her life fighting for the freedom of marginalized people in the state of Wisconsin. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School in 1951, according to the university. (She even has a building named after her on campus.) After graduating, Phillips won a seat on the Milwaukee Common Council in 1956, another first, both for a woman and an African-American, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Conservative Chief Justice Patience Roggensack and liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, meanwhile, questioned whether McAdams had different First Amendment protections at Marquette than he would at a government campus like the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vel Phillips, the Wisconsin civil rights activist who died Tuesday at age 94, was confronted with the kind of housing discrimination she would later fight tenaciously when she moved to Madison to attend law school in the early 1950s.
Phillips was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin law school.
Noted: The only Democrat in the race is Ann Groves Lloyd, a Lodi alderwoman and University of Wisconsin-Madison academic adviser.
A report published this month by a lab at the University of Wisconsin found 36 percent of 43,000 students attending two- and four-year colleges who were surveyed in 20 states had trouble getting enough to eat, threatening the academic success that’s key to overcoming poverty.
That leaves University of Wisconsin Regent Bryan Steil (STYLE) as the only other Republican still publicly considering a run in addition to two other announced Republican candidates.
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, state Rep. Samantha Kerkman, and University of Wisconsin System Regent Bryan Steil are among the names being speculated about as potential candidates.
Noted: After high school, Walsh studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she wrote for The Daily Cardinal newspaper. After college, she worked as a reporter and an editor for the Santa Barbara News and Review, and then she wrote for a progressive political magazine in Chicago called In These Times.
But Bryan Steil, Ryan’s former personal driver and a member of the University of Wisconsin board, has started wooing donors and talking to the state’s GOP delegation, according to CNBC. Steil would be a top candidate if he enters the race.
Wisconsin’s southeastern counties have the highest eviction rates in the state, according to a new database compiled by Princeton University researchers.
Ryan Wagner was named the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey most valuable player Saturday at the team’s postseason banquet.
Republicans who may run for Mr. Ryan’s seat include Robin Vos, the Wisconsin state assembly speaker; Bryan Steil, a member of the University of Wisconsin board of regents; and Dave Craig, a state senator from Waukesha County. Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus also lives in the district.
Other Republicans considering a run in Ryan’s district in addition to Vos include: state Rep. Samantha Kerkman; state Sen. David Craig, a former Ryan aide; and longtime Ryan friend Bryan Steil, an attorney and University of Wisconsin Board of Regents member.
Steil currently is the general counsel and secretary at Charter NEX Films Inc., an independent producer of polyethylene film used for food and consumer packaging. He also is on the University of Wisconsin System’s board of regents.
A number of other Republicans are still considering running for the seat, including University of Wisconsin System Regent Bryan Steil.
University of Wisconsin Regent Bryan Steil and state Sen. David Craig are both considering running, but haven’t yet announced.
Noted: White was teaching high school math in Dallas when he left for law school at UW-Madison in 2005. “I didn’t know anybody up here, had no connections to Madison,” he said. Fortunately, that’s changed with time, and White now has friends to brunch with on weekends and is active in professional organizations. He’s also an adjunct professor of law at UW-Madison.
Noted: Holtzman assembled a team of friends with varying experiences to form Torq Labs’ group of six co-founders. The team first met in November 2015. By the beginning of 2016, they had a prototype and established a company, Torq Laboratories Inc. Five of the six co-founders graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The sixth went to UW-Milwaukee.
Among those mentioned by Republicans as possible candidates are Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, attorney and University of Wisconsin Board of Regents member Bryan Steil and state Sen. David Craig.
In Wisconsin, Republicans had no obvious successor in waiting. The most likely GOP candidate for Ryan’s seat is state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Republicans in the state said. Another Republican mentioned as a potential candidate is longtime Ryan family friend and backer Bryan Steil, an attorney and member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Other Republicans considering a run in Ryan’s district include: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos; state Reps. Tyler August, Samantha Kerkman and Amy Loudenbeck; state Sen. David Craig, a former Ryan aide; and longtime Ryan friend Bryan Steil, an attorney and University of Wisconsin Board of Regents member.
Dr. Jo Handelsman is currently the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Previously, she served President Obama for three years as the Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Molecular Biology and has served on the faculties of UW-Madison and Yale University. Dr. Handelsman has authored over 100 papers, 30 editorials and 5 books. She is responsible for groundbreaking studies in microbiology and gender in science.
