Category: UW-Madison Related

Noted: Broekema grew up in Neshkoro, Wisconsin, a town of about 400 people about 90 minutes north of Madison. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and moved to New York to pursue a career in fashion journalism. He and his fiance Eric Riley are featured in a “Love first” campaign for J.Crew.

Don Pratt wasn’t supposed to be in a glider soaring over the English Channel in the early morning hours of D-Day, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison alum wanted to be with his men.

Family and friends gathered on the shore of Lake Mendota Thursday evening to remember windsurfer Yu Chen, who died exactly one year ago out on the water. Chen died May 31, 2017, after a collision with a UW Lake Safety boat on Lake Mendota.

“Whenever I feel nervous about anything, I’m like, ’OK, take a step back here and remember that the men who were doing this were your age,’” said Miller, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an undergraduate degree in history and a master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders. “Because when I started this, I was 21.”

Penny S. Pritzker ’81, former U.S. secretary of Commerce and past Harvard Overseer, and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin, president of Amherst College and former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will become the newest members of the Harvard Corporation in July.

University of Wisconsin–Madison alumnus Sergio Fajardo is running for president of the South American country of Colombia. According to a release, Fajardo studied probability theory, earning a master’s degree in mathematics in 1981 and a Ph.D. in mathematics with a minor in economics in 1984.

The results of an annual collaboration between students at UW-Madison and Wisconsin Brewing Co. in Verona has hit store shelves.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership spent a fraction of what was anticipated to bring speakers to UW System campuses in its first year, and left more than one-quarter of its $1.5 million overall in public revenue unbudgeted.

A Madison man who spent years in prison for sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin-Madison student in an apartment building stairwell will be moving to Fitchburg.

“The Bachelor,” the ABC television dating franchise, seems to be in a love affair with contestants who have Wisconsin ties.

The merits of using stylists for public health is gaining wider recognition, and Perry was featured on the Megyn Kelly show last year. A separate initiative, organized by University of Wisconsin-Madison students and the Latino Health Council, trained five Latino hairstylists to bring up breast cancer awareness with their clients.

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.

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.

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.

“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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.