Sara H. Quirt Sann, 43, had been a lawyer since 2011, according to her LinkedIn profile, which also lists that she graduated from UW-Madison with a journalism degree in 1996.
Noted: About 15 UW-Madison students participate in a local chapter of the Food Recovery Network, launched more than a year ago after students noticed cafeteria leftovers being shoveled into the trash.
Column by John Raymond, Sr., president and CEO of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. (The leaders of UW-Madison, Marquette, UW-Milwaukee and Versiti/BloodCenter of Wisconsin signed on in support of Raymond’s column.)
Photo gallery of some of the notable people who graduated or attended UW-Madison.
Noted: The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty regularly uses the state open records law, said Tom Kamenick , deputy counsel. Examples include the group’s efforts to learn about the content of courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and attempts to compare the performance of public and voucher schools.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison showed up on several of the lists and typically was the highest ranked Wisconsin university.
Noted: Katie O’Phelan, a UW-Madison student from Minnesota, started Madison’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1998, when it had a committee of one. Her father, John O’Phelan, had organized a St. Patrick’s Day parade in St. Paul, and she was determined to do the same in Madison.
Noted: Risch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science major who had been DFI’s deputy secretary since mid-2015, also previously worked as government relations director for the Wisconsin Bankers Association. In addition, he worked for state Sen. Alberta Darling and former state Sen. Cathy Stepp.
Misa Sato was well on her way to medical school and becoming a doctor. The Whitefish Bay native was majoring in medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and had taken the medical college admission test.
Two lucky UW-Madison students will be brewing beer with Wisconsin Brewing Company.
Noted: After graduating from Waukesha North High School in 1999, Viall started college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ran for the track team. He later transferred to UWM.
Noted: Now in “Transparent,” I’m still putting lessons learned at the Rep to work on the show. I also can’t seem to get away from people with connections to the Badger State. I’ve reunited with Judith, and our cast includes two graduates of UW-Madison, Jill Soloway and Amy Landecker, as well as Madison native Brad Whitford. Now if they’d only bring brats and cheese curds to the set, I’d be one happy guy!
There is a waiting list from around the country for Little Mountain and only a few half-pound chunks are available at the Roelli Cheese Store next door to the cheese plant. Little Mountain was developed beginning in 2012 with the assistance of John Jaeggi at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison.
Profiles of important women in state history provided courtesy of the Wisconsin Women Making History, a partnership of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Media Lab, the University of Wisconsin Women’s Studies Consortium and the UW Gender and Women’s Studies Library.
Noted: Carusi works at UW-Madison in its Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. She said her top issue is creating “just and equitable schools for all children.”
Noted: The council is one of six organizations jointly presenting the award.The others are the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, the Madison Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Noted: “Those WHO statistics are just from some very specific health outcomes where we have some known working equations and models to do it,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who participated in the meeting.
“Science and technology play an enormous role in our society, but many media outlets have been forced to reduce their newsrooms and their coverage. There is a great need to promote a better understanding of science and how it works,” said Sean B. Carroll, vice president of HHMI’s Department of Science Education. “We’re proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with the world’s most respected news organization to ensure that the best evidence around important scientific topics is presented clearly and distributed widely.”
Spending time in Nairobi, Kenya teaching young adolescents about the importance of reproductive health care may not seem like a typical day for most, but for Susan Gold, it’s just that. Gold, who works at University of Wisconsin as an HIV nurse, recently received the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders for her work in with reproductive health.
The government will pay more than $750,000 to a man who was imprisoned for a University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s death for 25 years before his conviction was overturned.
The League of Women Voters has joined those who are fighting against the use of criminal background checks as part of the admissions process at University of Wisconsin campuses.
Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy, called President Donald Trump’s travel ban “scary” and mentioned Japanese internment and Hitler’s treatment of Jews while criticizing the policy.Van Gundy coached the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team in 1994-1995.
Noted: For instance, The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic focused on entrepreneurship in the food and beverage sector, whereas the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Foundation’s initiatives pertained to health care.
The Dalai Lama met and addressed around 500 Tibetan students studying at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Delhi, Indraprastha University, Indira Gandhi Open University, Ambedkar University and others at the TCV Youth Hostel. Professor Richard Davidson from the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave a talk on “Relationship and Function of Brain and Mind” after the address of His Holiness.
A group of 14 UW-Madison students piled into a nine-person van this weekend and crossed the country to join nearly half a million people near the Capitol building for a solidarity march meant to unite the world in social justice movements.
A report released Thursday highlights Wisconsin’s severe racial disparities spanning measures of poverty, unemployment, educational attainment and incarceration.
Letter to the editor: The Student Multicultural Center, which includes the Men’s Project, appears to offer a safe place for students to exchange ideas and concerns in a safe environment.
UW-Madison awarded more Ph.D.s than all but two other universities nationwide in 2015, according to a survey officials announced last week.
Wisconsin ranks among the worst states in the country for racial disparity in key economic and societal measures including unemployment, poverty, education and imprisonment, according to a report from a national think tank based at UW-Madison.
When climatic conditions favor a lot of hurricane activity, they also create a buffer zone that weakens the storms as they approach the coastal United States.“It’s an incredibly lucky phenomenon,” said James Kossin, an atmospheric scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the author of the study, published Wednesday in Nature, which looked at hurricane data from 1947 to 2015. Kossin is based at UW–Madison, which is not mentioned in the story.
Lisa Mazzie, a Marquette law faculty member, and University of Wisconsin law professors Tonya Brito and Martha Gaines joined the other signatories on the letter.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is postponing planned compensation increases for lower-paid salaried workers after a federal court blocked an order by the Obama administration, but other colleges around the country are proceeding, a survey shows.
For the fourth year, Cap Times reporters have asked several Madisonians to share “bright ideas” they have for the coming year. This submission is from UW-Madison engineering student and inventor Calvin Cherry.
University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor Dante Fratta was unlike most tourists visiting the site. He brought ground penetrating radar and electrical resistivity equipment. He brought his camera, too.
Dave Cieslewicz, the head of the Wisconsin Bike Fed and a former Madison mayor, said he’s putting together a conference on the automated car, with a focus on cyclists, pedestrians and “urban form” — the impact cars have on the city. To be held with the support of the UW Urban and Regional Planning Department, the details haven’t been worked out. But Cieslewicz hopes to hold the conference in the spring.
Republican state legislators’ warnings to University of Wisconsin-Madison over a class on white privilege threaten the free exploration of ideas that is a bedrock value not only of the University of Wisconsin, but the nation as a whole, says the local leadership of a national advocacy group for academic professionals.
Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that a University of Wisconsin-Madison class titled “The Problem is Whiteness” is “goofy” and “unusual,” but he stopped short of saying offering it should put UW’s funding in jeopardy.
A controversial class offered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring promised readings on issues of race by noted writers of the past and present. But an evaluation of those course materials wasn’t apparent as Republican legislative leaders this week threatened funding to the university over its content.
Noted: Wilde was born in Milwaukee but he lived most of his life near Madison. He studied art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning bachelor and master’s degrees from the institution. He taught studio art courses there from 1948 until retiring in 1982.
More than 1,000 former UW-Madison Law School applicants could be at risk of identity theft after hackers tapped into a Law School database last month.
A database within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School that contained Social Security numbers and name pairs corresponding with 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-’06 was hacked last month, the university announced Tuesday.
About 60 UW-Madison band members became ill during Saturday’s Big Ten Championship football game in Indianapolis.
Quoted: Dr. Pamela Ruegg, a veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said young calves and cows that have just given birth are more susceptible to the bacteria.
The simmering frustration from in both rural and urban areas has boiled over. This turbulence, whether evident through community demonstrations or election results, conveys an urgent message of discontent rooted in social and economic inequities that result in health disparities.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history professor David Hoeveler has written a new book on John Bascom, who was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887
On an August evening in 2015, a group of about 80 video game industry insiders and tech gurus crowded into a lounge on the top floor of the former AT&T Building in downtown Madison. The goal of the meetup, organized by the Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP), was to bring all the key players in Madison’s video game scene — from studio executives to independent developers to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers — together in the same room.
Noted: After graduating from Rufus King High School in 2008, Iglesias got a full tuition scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the First Wave program, an outlet for artistic students inspired by hip-hop. Casal, a UW-Madison alum, was the program’s creative director at the time, becoming “like a big brother of mine,” Iglesias said.
Donal MacCoon at Madison Psychiatric Associates said the vast majority of his clients are talking about the election … noting that he treats UW-Madison staff who are worried about some of their minority students. “It’s affecting their lives personally, but even beyond that, it’s affecting their communities and how they feel. How do they honor their own ethical obligations?”
University of Wisconsin alumnus Brett Holmgren now spends his days working with President Barack Obama and other top government officials to ensure our nation’s security.
Donna Friedsam agreed. Friedsam, a policy director at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, said that prohibiting coverage denials while dropping the coverage mandate could “collapse the individual insurance market” in the United States.
Now living in St. Paul, the Waukesha native and University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate was back in Madison last week as the headliner for the 13th annual Saris Gala to benefit the Wisconsin Bicycle Federation.
Ecologists at University of Wisconsin-Madison led a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Oct 21, demanding Venus flytrap be recorded as an endangered species in accordance with the Endangered Species Act.
The Wisconsin Alumni Association honored three alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards this fall. Racine native Doris Feldman Weisberg, former Food Network producer and educator, was among those honored.
Noted: Cellectar was founded in Madison in 2003 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Jamey Weichert. Following a 2011 merger with a public company, Novelos Therapeutics, the corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts. The company moved back to Madison in 2014.
What started as a prank from a satirical political group, the Pail and Shovel Party Student Government, in the fall of 1979 has turned into an annual philanthropy event for UW-Madison.
Noted: Ashley had wanted to live in Chicago since visiting the city as a high school student at Divine Savior Holy Angels. She majored in journalism and strategic communication at UW-Madison and got her first job at nearby Lindsay, Stone & Briggs.
Indigenous students at UW-Madison are assisting protesters at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota by raising funds and donating items such as lanterns, sleeping bags and firewood.
The last time we heard from Sara Goldrick-Rab, her business cards read “professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.” This time around, she has a different title.
Noted: In 2004, Ripley — a former UW basketball player — was part of the original group of five that opened Lucky’s at 1421 Regent St., when they bought the Oakcrest Tavern out of bankruptcy. In 2010, Ripley bought his partners out. He left the old location in August and two of his former partners now run SconnieBar at the former location.
Noted: I’m a UW grad, so I’m a contributor to the UW-Madison Foundation. We also contribute to Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, where my father received outstanding care. As a company, we are involved with United Way and United Performing Arts Fund along with many other organizations through our Zilber Family Foundation.
