Category: UW-Madison Related

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.

This month, nearly 1,000 former students met at an organized reunion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, where there were anti-war demonstrations and student strikes in the late 1960s. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield spoke with some of the attendees about their reflections, half a century later.

Noted: When he’s not teeing it up, he’s serving on multiple boards of directors, including UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, and he continues to be the non-executive chairman of MGIC. He’s also one of the family co-owners of the Culver Franchising System Inc., based in Prairie du Sac. Culver’s restaurants are among the hottest franchises in the country. The chain has grown to more than 680 restaurants across 25 states.

In 1965, while a resident at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he digitized the medical history questionnaire, branching out beyond yes or no answers with follow-up questions.

Noted: Also realize this: Those were mostly Olson’s outside interests. After graduating UW-Madison in 1931, he spent 42 years in Madison’s public schools, including 20 as a science teacher and nearly 23 years as principal of Midvale elementary school.

Noted: Hauser studied at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee (1927-29), where he developed an interest in sculpture and studied art history at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1929-30), according to the biography.

Noted: Bowhan both grew up in Madison and received his undergraduate degree (in sociology) there, at University of Wisconsin-Madison. During this time, his interests in both clothing and shopping were there, but laid dormant; he recalls after-school shopping trips with his mom that turned painful because he was so picky about his clothes. “It was always something I enjoyed in terms of getting my outfits right and looking to stand out,” he says. “But it was never was something I took on as a hobby.”

Noted: In 2007, Roche bought NimbleGen Systems, a Madison maker of molecular biology tools started by University of Wisconsin scientists, for $272.5 million. The next year, Roche acquired Mirus Bio Corp., a Madison biotech firm focused on RNA interference and gene therapies, for $125 million. Roche sold the Mirus Bio assets in 2011.

She was the first African-American woman to graduate from UW’s law school and had a big impact on the university.

Flashing back to the U.S. political scene of the early 1970s, the country was in revolt amidst the Vietnam War, the Watergate crisis, and an oncoming recession and gas shortage. One of the flash points for protest was liberal college campuses, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison being one of the most vocal.

Fifty years later, the people from 1960s Madison meet again. The Madison Reunion, a brainchild of residents Ben and Judy Sidran, invites former students and teachers to campus this weekend to “revisit old haunts and meet old friends,” according to their website.

But other pursuits will keep Collins active after her reign. Two days after passing on the torch to the next Miss Wisconsin, she is to begin an internship with Channel 27 WKOW and then resume classes at UW-Madison, where she is studying communications.

Noted: One of four corpse flowers at Olbrich, this 16-year-old plant was started by seed from UW-Madison’s “Big Bucky” Titan arum. Consuelo Lopez, an Olbrich volunteer and professor emeritus at UW-Madison, remembered lines of students that wrapped around South Hall and down Bascom Hill when that Titan arum first bloomed in the university’s Botany Greenhouse in June 2001. Some students even wore T-shirts to commemorate the event.

Noted: Isaiah Gordon, who graduated from Golda Meir High School and earned a full ride to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gave a special shout-out to “Miss Liz” — college and career adviser Elizabeth Mueller — calling her “one of the biggest supporters of my high school career.”

Noted: But Dasal, now a graduate student in pediatric audiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, knows of the oppression faced by her parents in their native country.

The School for Field Studies in South Caicos sustained heavy damage when Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit back in September. Eight months later, two former UW-Madison students are doing their part to rebuild the center they love.

The chicks are named after ice cream flavors from UW-Madison’s Babcock Dairy.

The company also holds vacant land outside its manufacturing campus, and has talked about research and development partnerships with UW-Madison.

Addie Lathers plans to wring every last molecule of knowledge out of her professors at UW-Madison.

Noted: In Assembly District 42, Republican Jon Plumer, a Lodi Town Board member and owner of karate schools, is running against Democrat Ann Groves Lloyd, a Lodi alderwoman and University of Wisconsin-Madison academic adviser.

After graduating in 1939 from Brigham Young University in his home town, he studied biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, where he received a master’s degree in 1941 and a doctorate in 1943. He then did postdoctoral research at Stanford University before joining the Navy late in World War II.

Berlin was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, receiving a Ph.D. in history in 1970. His books included “Generations of Captivity,” ’’Slaves Without Masters” and “Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America,” for which he won the Bancroft Prize. He also wrote the introduction for a tie-in book to the acclaimed movie “Twelve Years a Slave,” and was an adviser for HBO’s documentary about former slaves, “Unchained Memories.”