Dot Earth Blog talks to Jacquelyn Gill, a former graduate student at UW-Madison and now young faculty member at the University of Maine, about some of the pathbreaking work she did at UW and why it matters to this day.
Scientists finally worked out what killed a group of the creatures stranded for millennia on an island no bigger than Disney World. Yue Wang and John Williams from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, looked for mammoth-related clues: spores from three fungi that grow in the dung of plant-eating animals.
Noted: Last month, the DNR completed scope statements designed to update manure-spreading rules in light of widespread drinking water contamination in Kewaunee County, UW-Madison-led research on airborne hazards of spraying manure and other related state and federal rules.
Noted: Roelli credits John Jaeggi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research with helping him develop and perfect the Little Mountain cheese. He also credits his milk supplier, Cernek dairy farm in Gratiot — “the milk is the star,” he said — for providing a stellar basic ingredient.
Noted: She grew up in Wauwatosa, earned a journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, married and later was divorced from Clyde Bauer.
Noted: Allison Markoski is a lawyer with a nontraditional career path that includes lots of nonpartisan work. Markoski has served the state of Wisconsin at the Department of Public Instruction, the Department of Corrections, and UW-Madison. Soon, she’ll be serving the nation as one of the few Parliamentarians of the U.S. Senate.
Noted: A 1983 Racine Park High School graduate, Kaiser attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on an Air Force ROTC scholarship before transferring after his freshman year to Marquette, where his twin brother, Bob, was an Army ROTC student. One of Kaiser’s favorite instructors was Father Michael Zeps who taught military history at Marquette. Zeps stayed in contact with Kaiser and traveled to Racine to attend the funeral of Kaiser’s father after he returned from Iraq.
About 30 years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor Seymour Abrahamson was involved in a car crash that put him in the hospital with a serious leg wound.
Wisconsin’s two pages this year are Benjamin Kind, 21, a UW-Madison student from Neillsville, who was a last-minute substitution after serving as a page at the 2012 convention in Tampa, Florida, and Regan McCoshen, 21, a University of Iowa student from Madison.
Noted: Badgers have another reason to cheer: Forbes ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the 10th best public college in the United Statesbased on outcomes.
Noted: According to her obituary, Arsnow was a graduate of Arrowhead High School, where she won the John Philip Sousa Award, and a music graduate of the UW-Madison. She studied and taught music in India.
Noted: Mathis brought his growing family to Madison in 1959, lured here because Michigan State University did not have an astronomy department and UW-Madison did and it was a very good one, he said. A theoritician, Mathis’ move turned out fruitful, for both sides. Five children and a 36-year career at the university — not counting the extra decade up to 2006 as a research-busy emeritus — later, Mathis heard of a volunteer teaching spot that “sounded like fun.”
The photos drew the attention of emeritus professor James Bennett, a lichenologist at UW-Madison who just happens to lead a lichen field trip to Devil’s Lake annually.
Among the new board members is R.D. Nair, a UW-Madison professor of accounting and information systems.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison 2015 graduate is being honored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association in a national campaign. Haley Frieler is one of ten people with Muscular Dystrophy who are featured in the “Live Unlimited” summer campaign.
The list of nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards with Wisconsin ties has a number of repeaters — and “Making a Murderer.”
Six days shy of turning 22, Seymour, Wisconsin native Ty Majeski is already racing into the right rooms with the right people.
Tony nominee Carrie Coon will soon join Ewan McGregor in the third season of FX’s hit anthology series FARGO, according to TVLine.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on WISC-TV’s “For the Record,” Riseling said she can separate her tenure into segments — the 10 years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the nearly 15 years since.
Noted: The number of rides on Route 80, which serves the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and is typically dependent on bad weather, Beck said, was down 25 percent in the first five months of 2016.
Where to begin with Boris Frank? His 84 years have been full of adventures that have included an eclectic childhood, a brief baseball stint at UW-Madison and a long career in television.
Noted: Rivera joined the department in 2013 and was most recently assigned to the Central District. He worked as an officer for UW-Madison Police from 2008 until he was hired by the city.
Noted: Madison Police say Rivera has been with the department since 2013. He was previously an officer with the UW-Madison Police Department from 2008-2013.
Noted: But the site, led by Milwaukee architect and preservationist Richard Perrin and UW-Madison landscape architect Bill Tishler, opened in 1976 in time for the national bicentennial. It has continued to endure despite state budget cuts, a damaging 2011 tornado and competition from other tourist attractions like water parks and amusement rides.
Noted: He said Schumacher graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison but soon after he finished his mental illness began to manifest itself. He said he was legally prohibited from disclosing Schumacher’s medical diagnosis.
Noted: Crimes committed in Wisconsin have landed six men plus Minor on the most wanted list. Four were added the same day, Sept. 4, 1970, for the bombing of the Army research center at Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that killed a researcher, Robert Fassnacht.
Noted: And the Hamels are serious UW-Madison boosters.Pamela and George Hamel Jr., (UW B.A. ’80) have made a gift of $15 million for the upcoming performing arts center, with groundbreaking expected this fall. The Hamel Music Center will be next to the Chazen Museum of Art.
According to one estimate, there are about 23-million pets in America that have no access to veterinary care. A non-profit associated with the University of Wisconsin is working to do something about that in Dane County.
Noted: Silatronix got its start in Venture Investors’ Venture Igniter program, which was formed to encourage and support academic and student-led start-ups from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The company is based on technology developed by chemists at UW-Madison, Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and Quallion LLC, a Palo Alto, Calif., battery maker.
Dr. Craig Kent, surgery department chairman for eight years at UW-Madison, starts Sept. 6., subject to trustee approval.
An essay by an incoming UW-Madison doctoral student suggesting that violence might be the proper response to Donald Trump is drawing concern within the university’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Noted: Giorgio, who went on to earn degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Vermont College of Fine Arts, not only writes every day, she teaches daily, too, through the AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop she founded in Waukesha; her faculty includes her husband, mystery writer Michael Giorgio.
While most smaller cities may never become information hubs, some clearly will. For the most part these will be either university towns such as Chapel Hill (home to the University of North Carolina), Provo-Orem (Brigham Young) and Madison (University of Wisconsin).
It was late April in 1959 and Madison, a hotbed of amateur boxing due to the University of Wisconsin’s hugely successful program, was hosting the boxing trials for that summer’s Pan American Games.
After months of uncertainty, UW-Madison’s riding club and equestrian team will officially have a new place to call home.
Noted: Nate Pokrass has logged some 10- to 12-hour days in his job as tournament director for the American Family Insurance Championship. No stranger to event administration, Pokrass worked various jobs in the athletic department at the University of Illinois and was a senior director of development at UW–Madison.
There are thousands of new college grads in the Madison area looking for work. According to a new study, they may not have to look farther than the city limits. The financial site, NerdWallet, looked at the 100 largest cities in the country and ranked Madison number two in the best cities for college grads to find jobs.
Wednesday morning David Blauzvern was out for a jog when he saw someone who needed help. As a former lifeguard, he knew exactly what to do. “If you look in the water you see this big guy flailing his arms he was clearly not able to swim so I jumped in.”
A UW-Madison graduate is one of three people being called a hero after jumping into New York’s East River to save a man.
At first Giselle wasn’t sure what to put on her medical school application. She wanted to be a doctor, but she also wanted people to know about her own health: years of depression, anxiety and a suicide attempt. (We’re using only her first name in this story, out of concern for her future career.)
Noted: The tales of duck rescues continued over in Madison, where University of Wisconsin-Madison officers on Sunday saved another seven ducklings — not from a storm drain this time, but from the middle of a city street.
Noted: The process of collaborating on a novel is unusual enough that Pauls and Solomon will be guests at the Write-By-The-Lake writers’ retreat in June, talking about their process at the Pyle Center as part of the UW Center for Continuing Studies.
Noted: “40: Collages by Kevin Henkes” is the first exhibition of its kind for him. Henkes’ need to be productive with his hands between books yielded 40 abstract paper collages in four years. Components of the collages were created from paper he saved from the 1980s when he was an undergraduate at UW-Madison working with Walter Hamady.
A pack of Sherman Middle School students gathered in a circle at Warner Park to share their constructions of cattails, grass, mud and sticks.Anke Keuser, a doctoral candidate in the Nelson Institute’s Environment and Resources program at UW-Madison, pulled out boxes of blue, pink and yellow candy Peeps, saying she thought they made a fitting prize for a bird-nest-building competition.
Noted: After graduating from Monroe High School in 2002, and later UW-Madison, Jeremy Beach took a job as a statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Portland, Oregon, a region of the country bursting with craft beer. In 2009 he returned to UW-Madison for a master’s degree in rural sociology and then in 2011 returned to the USDA but at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. where he was a survey methodologist.
Noted: One might not expect to see an innovative gaming company in Wisconsin, but that’s exactly where you can find PerBlue. It grew from its roots on the UW-Madison campus to become the first mobile gamer to use GPS technology for a location-based, role-playing game.
Noted: The company already has scored two significant cash awards on the UW-Madison campus. WeightUp won the Perkins Coie Innovative Minds Challenge, with an $11,000 prize, beating out seven contenders.
Noted: Both Hoffmann and Borowski obtained undergraduate degrees from UW-Milwaukee and law degrees from UW-Madison, Hoffmann in 1991, Borowski in 1990.
Noted: Laugen’s presentation to the commission showed a clear intent to make Madison’s BCycle program an indispensable part of the city’s transit system. And to do that, the bike share has to expand. Currently anchored by UW-Madison and downtown traffic, BCycle wants to embed itself on the larger community.
Noted: The town of Westport, UW-Madison engineering staff, MG&E and the sewage district collaborated on the project.
School is almost out for summer, but that’s not stopping a Madison non-profit from raising awareness about wellness in education communities. Breathe for Change started as a passion project for UW Madison Ph.D. student, Ilana Nankin. Now it’s helping educators in Madison and around the world.
Recognize: Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s speech at UW-Madison
Noted: He also co-founded Sharendipity, a programming environment for non-programmers that failed in the recession in 2009; UltraVisual Medical Systems, a radiology imaging system maker that merged with another start-up and had a $400 million public offering in 2005; and Geometrics, which commercialized radiation treatment planning software Gehring developed at UW-Madison and is now owned by Philips.
Noted: The company is among a growing number of start-ups bringing technological innovations to the grocery industry. Fetch was founded in 2013 by Wes Schroll, who was a University of Wisconsin-Madison student at the time.
With the aim of helping make electricity more available in rural parts of India, a team of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has designed a wind turbine that could provide power to cellular phone towers.
Slichter’s familial link to UW-Madison ran deep. He was great-grandson of Charles Sumner Slichter, a mathematician and physicist, and namesake for Slichter Hall on the UW-Madison campus. Slichter graduated from the university in 1980 with a degree in mathematics and having been first chair violist of the UW orchestra.
Metro level data was aggregated from county level data provided by County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program.
Noted: The spotlight remains on local governments when it comes to equity. Madison and Dane County are still reeling from the very damning Race to Equity report published nearly three years ago. Violence among people of color has reared its head recently. Tension between communities of color and police remain high. Incidents of hate and bias on the University of Wisconsin campus continue, to say nothing of the near-constant microagressions students there report.
Meet the largest neutrino detector in the world. IceCube, located at the South Pole, uses 5,160 sensors distributed over a billion tons of ice to spot high-energy neutrinos from extremely violent cosmic sources like exploding stars, black holes, and neutron stars.
UW student and 21-year-old Seymour resident Ty Majeski has formally signed on with a NASCAR team. Area media report Majeski is joining Roush Fenway Racing as a development driver, with expectations that he will make his ARCA Racing Series debut for Roulo Brothers Racing next month.
