Noted: A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral students proposed ideas for the Bellevue depot that include a coffee shop or a brewpub, both of which would draw regional interest.
Noted: New Jersey isn’t alone. Food insecurity is a problem on college campuses across the country. Nationally, more than a third of university students and 42 percent of community college students reported food insecurity over a 30-day period, according to an April report from the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, a group of researchers based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The survey included responses from more than 43,000 students at 66 higher education institutions.
Noted: List includes The Soft Life by Bridget Talone. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Granta, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2016 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at University of Wisconsin–Madison and is the founding editor of The Atlas Review.
Noted: Schimel, 53, received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a law degree from the UW Law School. He joined the Waukesha County district attorney’s office in 1990 and was elected Waukesha County district attorney in 2006. In 2014, Schimel was elected attorney general.
Noted: Lovell, 90, grew up in Milwaukee, graduating from Juneau High School where he met his future wife Marilyn in the cafeteria lunch line. He studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for two years and then earned an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. He earned his pilot’s wings and was a Navy pilot and test pilot before being selected in 1962 for the space program.
It was the year we left the heliosphere for the second time ever, and the year we got closer to the sun than ever. A year of biomedical breakthroughs and deadly disease outbreaks. It was a year in which humanity broke some crucial climate records (and not in a good way). IceCube is among the year’s top science stories, though Washington Post does not mention UW–Madison.
In an unusual move, NIH officials approached a University of Wisconsin researcher who works with so-called humanized mice from tissue left from infant heart surgeries to see whether he might be interested in expanding his research, according to another scientist familiar with that interaction.
My oldest daughter, Mara — who lived in Denmark during her junior year at the University of Wisconsin and for some time after she graduated — always brings the sweet-sour red cabbage (another recipe from the Dale Brown book) in sufficient quantity that there is plenty for everyone to take home.
We have seen Foxconn make plans for “innovation centers” here in Racine, in Madison, Green Bay, Milwaukee and Eau Claire to support its high tech plant plans; we have seen it partner with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with local universities and colleges to enhance training and skill development for workers and system processes; we have seen Foxconn pledge to mitigate environmental impacts by developing a zero liquid discharge wastewater treatment system that will more than halve its water needs at the Mount Pleasant campus — a state of the art system that was not required in its contract with Wisconsin.
Tara Tschillard and Lydia Roussos, employees at Wisconsin Public Radio and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were also thrilled to rediscover the show had a second life online. They recently reminisced over some of the show’s quirky details.
More than twenty years after it was first discovered, an analysis of a remarkable skeleton discovered in South Africa has finally been published – and the specimen suggests we may need to add a new species to the family tree of early human ancestors. According to a study led by Travis Pickering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Little Foot had an arm injury. He suspects she fell onto an outstretched hand during her youth, and that the resulting injury troubled her throughout her life.
UW-Madison’s Suicide Prevention Council, started in 2013, tries to assist students who need help and improve well-being on campus, Donovan said. Overall, college is considered to be “protective” against suicide, but “there are significant stressors,” she said.
Noted: When she got a degree in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she was the first in her family to go to a four-year college, and one of the few women studying the subject at her school. While in college, she called Douglas again to land an internship. “A great experience. I learned a lot. And I realized this wasn’t for me,” she says of television. “I knew it wasn’t my cup of tea.”
If the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are left unchecked, the Earth’s climate will be similar to how it was 50 million years ago by 2150. This period, known as the Eocene, was characterized by an ice-free Earth and an arid climate across most of the planet. This is the conclusion of new research published by UW–Madison researchers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that used leading climate models and archaeological data to compare Earth’s future with its past.
Clarke says Little Foot’s features most closely match A. prometheus, a species proposed in 1948 by anthropologist Raymond Dart. Yet the designation drew swift condemnation from paleoanthropologists Lee Berger, also at the University of the Witwatersrand, and John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In a paper slated to be published this week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the pair argues that the name A. prometheus was originally poorly defined and shouldn’t be used to classify the remains.
At the rate we’re emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we could turn the geologic clock back 50 million years over the course of a mere 200 years, according to a study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published Monday in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.
UW–Madison alumna Velvalea “Vel” Phillips was the first woman judge in Milwaukee County and the first African American elected to the Milwaukee Common Council and to statewide office in Wisconsin.
Noted: Why Hunt? A Guide for Lovers of Nature, Local Food and Outdoor Recreation was published earlier this year by The Aldo Leopold Foundation. Aldo Leopold, the former University of Wisconsin professor, author of Sand County Almanac and considered by many as the founder of the modern conservation movement, was an avid hunter.
In attempting to focus on Wisconsin residents, UW risks discouraging out-of-state applicants.
Noted: The founder and chairman of Lubar & Co., a private investment company in Milwaukee, Lubar was president of the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents, president of the Milwaukee Art Museum, trustee and acting chairman of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board and in 1991 served as co-chairman of the Governor’s Conference on Small Business.
Noted: Among the jobs sought by Mariani Packing Co. in Wisconsin Rapids is a position for food science technician, a job requiring a science background and a bachelors degree. The last three hired by the company have come from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Thomas is a Milwaukee native who went to MPS’ 65th Street School and graduated from Rufus King High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined Teach for America, the program that recruits college grads to teach in high-needs schools. As a high school teacher in Atlanta, he was named the Teach for America national teacher of the year a decade ago.
Jeremy LaGoo studied atmospheric science at UW Madison, from where he graduated in 2010. He now works at the KTVA-TV in Anchorage, which suffered widespread damage from an earthquake.
Noted: In the case of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the institution reviewed data on student participation in internships to further conversations about the definitions of internships across majors, such as who qualifies, who participates and how students connect their experiential learning to their professional development, the survey said.
Noted: Sleep “cleans up” the brain. When you sleep, your brain removes information you don’t need and consolidates what you learned that day. This makes room for new learning. After all, do you really need to remember what socks you wore, the joke you heard during first period, or what you ate for breakfast? Neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin found that many of our synapses shrink at night as the brain weeds out or “forgets” information that it no longer needs. And it’s not just memories that need to be cleaned up. According to the National Institutes of Health, sleep also flushes out toxins that accumulate during the day.
Noted: They are connecting with the children through an organization called, The Memory Project and it was actually started by a UW-Madison student back in 2004, with a goal to let youth facing hard times know that somebody cares about their well-being.
Noted: Kidd got his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 1992. After completing a residency program in anesthesia at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Kidd joined the anesthesiology group in Appleton and began practicing at Theda Clark in 1998.
Mr. Esquivel had initially been tapped to be a deputy finance minister, one of a roster of high-ranking economic officials that also includes Carlos Urzúa, an economics professor with a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as finance minister.
This recent push for more veterans at some of America’s elite schools can be traced to James Wright, a former Marine who served as president of Dartmouth from 1998 to 2009. The son of a bartender who fought in World War II, Wright joined the Marines after high school, later earned a PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and started teaching at Dartmouth in 1969.
This twin-tower lakefront hotel, located just blocks from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, beams with Badger pride. The inn has its own ice rink, marina and offers game day extras, like stadium shuttles, tailgate fare and post-game broadcasts.
Two races were targeted. Vaezi, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin, focused on Grant’s race in California, and Charlotte Robertson, a recent graduate of Ithaca College, targeted the seat of Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. in the northern suburbs of Milwaukee
Tara Roach, a student at the University of Wisconsin, sent us a problem to figure out:I’m graduating this May and have lived with the same group of friends since my freshman year. We’re going different directions next fall and I’m already preoccupied about how different my life will be without seeing them every day. What’s your advice for appreciating the time we still have together without worrying about the future?
Later, when I was teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my nephew Nick lived with me while attending high school. Each Thanksgiving, I would invite my brothers for the weekend.
~Sheltreese McCoy (she, her, hers) Bowling Green State University 04, University of Wisconsin Madison 11 MS 18 PhD”
Try things on. Be prototypical with yourself…if something doesn’t feel like it works or fits, that’s ok…try something new, even if it’s only kinda slightly maybe new. Wear whatever the f*ck you want, including red lipstick and giant earrings. Question all the things, especially the rules if they are hurting you. All the things are for you despite them treating you like they’re not (study abroad, student government, internships, scholarships, student orgs, majors)…ALL. OF. IT!”
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.
