Noted: I went to UW-Madison, planning (to be a) veterinarian. Plans changed. I got my undergrad in animal science and I minored in meat science and business. I always showed cattle in 4-H and I loved the cattle side of things. When I decided against veterinary medicine, I decided on meat science.
28 year old Brendt Christensen, a UW-Madison grad, pleaded not guilty in July to one count of kidnapping in connection with Zhang’s disappearance.
The “Thank You 72” campaign is traveling across the state as the university aims to show appreciation for support, according to the release.
The release highlighted Walworth County residents and UW-Madison graduates Debra Alder and Jeffrey Scherer as examples of people doing good work for the community.
“I was ready for a change and wanted to get back to Wisconsin,” he said. “I had this idea and figured I’d give it a shot.”
He still has a full-time job so for the time being brewing beer is a sideline. He teaches at the Farm and Industry Short Course at UW-Madison and is associate director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the university.
Along with the traditional items like alphabet borders, illustrations of cursive writing, teachers put up word walls, post “standard operating procedures” for tasks such as lining up, and “I can” statements, such as “I can identify a numerator and a denominator” or “I can write a number in expanded form.”
Noted: It argued that “efficient government required control of institutions by the voters rather than special interests, and that the involvement of specialists in law, economics, and social and natural sciences would produce the most effective government,” according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. The child of poor Irish immigrants in Boston, McCarthy arrived at UW-Madison to study for a Ph.D. In addition to his studies, he took a job to support himself: coach of the UW men’s football team.
Noted: “It’s like an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging machine, used in medicine) at nanoscale,” said Kelly, whose research as a UW-Madison engineering and material science professor led to development of Cameca’s LEAP, or Local Electrode Atom Probe, specialized microscope.
Noted: Since 2005. MTS has been gathering tango aficionados and novices alike. The organization began as a student-run group at UW-Madison, but after the founding members graduated it became a separate organization. UW-Madison does currently have its own tango organization called Tango Club UW.
Hundreds of people who converged on UW Space Place at noon Thursday were disappointed to find that all 250 pairs of solar eclipse-viewing glasses were sold out before they were even scheduled to go on sale.
Last year, UW-Madison launched Project 72, which aims to recognize and thank Wisconsin’s 72 counties for contributing to the university’s success. Part of the project includes a red and white truck that travels the state to dispense free ice cream, according to the release.
James Watson was among the astronomers and scientists who traveled to America’s West to observe a total solar eclipse in 1878, shortly before he was named the first director of the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Noted: The funds would go to the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, a UW-Madison master’s degree of business administration program with a focus on arts administration, to partner with the village.
Noted: Neis points to GE Healthcare, which employs 6,800 people and has 870 suppliers in Wisconsin, supporting another 21,000 jobs. GE has worked closely with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he noted, and executives have left the company to start their own ventures, including TomoTherapy, NeuWave Medical and Healthmyne. Foxconn could have the same halo effect.
Noted: Berens studied broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to work with MTV on their election-season “Choose or Lose” campaign.
When asked if he thinks the Trump administration might try to dismiss or suppress the (climate change) report, one of the study’s lead authors, James Kossin, a physical scientist with National Centers for Environmental Information (and a scientist at UW’s SSEC), says “there’s nothing to suggest that has happened or will happen.”
Noted: The state sells these products to prisons in Wisconsin and Minnesota. It also sells some cream to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the university’s famous ice cream at Babcock Hall.
Susan Carpenter has been the University of Wisconsin Arboretum’s expert on the rusty-patched bumble bee, which joined the endangered species list earlier this year.
A new video game is in the works for Wisconsin students, teaching about the Wisconsin Capitol. It’s in honor of the Capitol’s 100th anniversary and thanks to a partnership between the Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin Public Television, and Field Day, a games lab for education at UW-Madison.
Noted: Like several other sources, Gonzalez pointed to UW-Madison as an important factor for Foxconn in considering Dane County. In addition to the research there, UW is also an alma mater for executives and scientists in Taiwan who are connected to Foxconn, sources said.
Noted: In another local connection, the head of the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently met with representatives of the medical equipment division within Foxconn about potential collaboration with cancer researchers in Taiwan. “I will hope and expect that there will be a give and take … such that patients in Taiwan would benefit and patients in Wisconsin would benefit,” Howard Bailey, the center’s director, said in an interview.
Colleges across the country are giving students common reading assignments. Some campuses go against the liberal trend. At least four schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have chosen a best seller written by a young conservative: J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which explores issues of social breakdown among working-class whites, such as drug use and child neglect.
The doors of University Book Store opened July 17 in its new, smaller space that includes an east-facing main entrance that overlooks a courtyard with green grass, benches and patio tables with umbrellas. Inside, the store is no longer a two level shopping experience. Inventory, that overwhelming favors the Wisconsin Badgers, is now on one level with better lighting and flat screen televisions that stream sporting events.
Apple is being ordered to pay $506 million to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, according to federal court records.
At the reception, Lori Christianson, an admission counselor from UW-Madison, announced a partnership between the school and Madison College designed specifically for Scholars of Promise students. Christianson said the Scholars of Promise Transfer Plan will provide “UW-specific benefits.” If students follow certain courses and guidelines, they will “have the opportunity to transfer to UW-Madison.”
One of those people McDowell says helped trailblaze a path for her was her mom, Candace McDowell, the founding director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Multicultural Student Center.
Noted: Carrie Coon, who after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison performed with the Madison Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Renaissance Theaterworks before moving to Chicago, was nominated for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie for “Fargo.”
An estimate from the University of Wisconsin System said it cannot predict the bill’s impact on the System’s budget.
Noted: Lorraine had a keen interest in business, receiving a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree in teaching of social science and history from Columbia University in New York.
Now a junior at UW-Madison, the 20-year-old Harris has several championships under her belt and is the current College Miss Majorette of Wisconsin — which involved winning a pageant event involving a solo baton routine, a strut or dance routine as well as a modeling and interview portion.
Several people affiliated with UW-Madison are featured.
The Altons’ farm was one of the properties hit hardest by June 28’s tornadoes, which caused well over $700,000 of property and business damage in Green County according to Green County Emergency Management. Fortunately, friends and relatives came to assist over the weekend — and this week, they found out even more help was coming in the form of Team Rubicon, a national organization of veterans who provide rapid response after natural disasters.
Prosecutors say the suspect in the kidnapping of a University of Illinois scholar from China attended a vigil for the victim a day before his arrest.
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal courthouse Monday as a former UW-Madison student suspected in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois made his first appearance since being arrested last week.
Scholarly publishing isn’t facing a crisis, but it is in flux, said Dennis Lloyd, director of the University of Wisconsin Press.
A former University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm custodian fired for inappropriately touching co-workers and making sexual remarks about female students wants his job back.
Q&A with Earlise Ward, a licensed psychologist and a professor in the UW-Madison School of Nursing
The Twin Cities campus will have the greatest tuition increase compared to other system campuses, with a two percent hike for incoming state residents and Wisconsinites as well as a 12.5 percent increase for out-of-state residents who don’t have reciprocity.
A Hmong-American who recently received his medical degree plans to return to Madison, Wisconsin, to pursue research on using stem cells to treat chronic pain.
Literacy Network and the Madison Path to Citizenship will receive a 2017 Community-University Partnership Award that highlights exemplary partnerships that get to the heart of the Wisconsin Idea.
In just five short years, the Aly Wolff Foundation has raised $700,000 to make groundbreaking research possible at the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
Drew Binsky, a travel blogger and UW-Madison alum, has visited about 110 countries — including North Korea.
Three University of Wisconsin men’s hockey players were among 42 selected for USA Hockey’s evaluation camp for the World Junior Championship.
UW-Madison was leery because of the cost, but even when private funds were raised, the project kept getting delayed.
Noted: The plaintiffs are 12 Democrats, including activist Bill Whitford, a retired University of Wisconsin Law School professor.
Jessie Vetter traces the origins of her annual golf outing to when she was a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Screnock lives in Reedsburg with his wife, with whom he has three adult children. He received an MBA from Eastern College in Pennsylvania and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
People naturally open up to their hairdressers, said Andrea Nino De Guzman Ramirez, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: He plans to return next year to UW-Madison, where he got his bachelor’s degree, to do a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at UW Health. He will also pursue research on using stem cells to treat chronic pain.
Noted: The students also met with Lesley Sager, assistant faculty associate in the design studies department of the School of Human Ecology at UW Madison, and some university students who took part in the study-abroad program, UW Design Studies in Kenya, which she led. The college students talked about their experiences there and the East students did an exercise that involved cutting out magazine pictures that depict things teenagers value.
Noted: Screnock has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MBA from Eastern College in Pennsylvania and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin.
The H7N9 bird flu virus has influenza scientists on edge, due to an unexpected surge of human infections — hundreds of cases — caused by the virus this spring. Some new scientific findings aren’t likely to ratchet down those concerns. Refers also to unrelated work at UW–Madison.
The attorney for the family of the 43-year-old windsurfer killed on Lake Mendota last month said Tuesday morning he will file a motion this week to receive information related to the investigation into the death, according to a news release.
State, county and university officials will be asked to turn over key evidence in the case of a windsurfer who died when he was struck from behind by a UW-Madison rescue boat May 31 in Lake Mendota.
For twin brothers Cogan and Cole Kirchenwitz, joining the U.S. Marine Corps continues a family legacy, but the road ahead is the result of decisions they made entirely on their own.The Pardeeville brothers, 22, received their commissioning certificates in May in a ceremony after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Reserve Officers Training Corps. They were among 35 graduates who completed ROTC training, and in the military they will follow in the footsteps of their father and grandfather.
After dedicating his ride at the 2016 Ride to Farm to the two men, Ann and Merle came up with the idea of creating a bicycle ride around Bloomer that focuses on farm safety.
Just over two years after the accident, on July 8, the Tour de Farm Safety Awareness Ride will visit five Chippewa County farms for presentations on the safety precautions taken on each of the farms.
Proceeds from the ride will go to the UW-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course’s Ram and Jeremy Seibel Scholarship fund and to participating FFA chapters. Jeremy was a graduate of the short course.
Noted: “The way people are doing murals now is wanting to get their work out there as an artist,” said Buie, a 2010 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MFA program. “They’ll find a building, they’ll find a space, they’ll put up a mural. But it’s not reflective of the community.
Noted: The latest crop of contest finalists will present Tuesday at the 15th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at Union South in Madison, where 500 or more people will gather to hear speakers, panel discussions and more over two days ending Wednesday afternoon.
Noted: Nass earned a degree in art education from UW-Madison. Along with having artwork featured in corporate, museum and gallery collections, she also teaches colored pencil classes nationwide.
Noted: In Wisconsin, we are fortunate to have researchers who study effective ways of reducing crime at the Remington Center at UW Law School and at Marquette University Law School.
Noted: The magazine article focuses on the history of the BrainPort, created in the 1960s by the late UW-Madison professor Paul Bach-y-Rita, and how mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer uses the device.
