Quoted: “[Trump] has never worked elites in the state,” said Barry Burden, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Elections Research Center. “He has no endorsements, essentially, from any state legislators. He’s tried to talk to conservative talk radio earlier this week and that was a failure.”
Mentioned: Araceli Alonso, senior lecturer in gender and women’s studies and a faculty associate at UW–Madison’s School of Medicine; computer science professor Gurindar Sohi.
Noted: First Tee executive director Joe Loehnis, 31, seems almost blueprinted for the job. He’s an accomplished golfer with a shag bag full of other interests, including the cello. He played with the Green Bay Symphony as a teenager, and studied music at Lawrence University while starring for the golf team. He’s currently working toward a master’s in business at UW–Madison.
Noted: McDonell said all poll workers have undergone training in the hopes of making the process as smooth as possible; however, some analysis done with the UW-Political Science Department found that taking an extra 10 to 15 seconds to check IDs could add a wait time of 40 to 50 minutes for those in line – especially after work.
Noted: He earned his doctorate from UW-Madison in 2012. He also has a master’s degree in educational administration and bachelor’s degree in elementary education from UW-Madison.
At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, infectious disease researcher David O’Connor — who described the reaction among scientists when Zika first made news as, “Oh my gosh, we know nothing about this” — started infecting macaques last month and has been sharing his data online as it arrives.
Hate mail sent through the Internet was printed out on UW-Madison printers last week, part of a cyber assault on campuses across the country, university officials said on Tuesday. The flyers, sent from an off-campus site, were racist, anti-Semetic and anti-gay, and started appearing on campus on Thursday.
Instead of gathering dust in a storage unit, boxes of articles and photos by a late Wisconsin State Journal reporter that detail one of the biggest transition periods for agriculture in Wisconsin are becoming resources for students at UW-Madison.
The furor from the Planned Parenthood sting videos is driving a tide of bills, which range from outright bans on research using aborted tissue to prohibitions on donating the tissue. Story quotes UW-Madison’s Alta Charo and Robert Golden.
A UW student is still trying to make her way home after experiencing the aftermath of the Brussels attack first hand.
Niky Green was visiting a friend studying abroad in Brussels. She was boarding a flight on her way to go skiing, when in a split second, everything changed.
(Video) Three hundred UW student musicians are taking a Mike Leckrone bobblehead on the road with them and sending in photos. Check out where he’s been!
The attacks in Brussels are impacting many all over the world. Closer to home, a UW professor has ties to the area.
UW Geography professor, Kris Olds, says when he heard of the attacks, his mind immediately went to his friends in Brussels and family in Paris.
UW–Madison spent $9 million to keep top faculty from being poached, but the damage has been done.
Sitting on a box in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Geology Museum is a rock. It’s a thin slice, subdued in its color and pattern. It’s not as big, colorful or sparkly as other items on display, but the title above it—“The Oldest Piece of Earth”—certainly catches the eye.
“Intersectionality” may sound like an arcane academic theory, but Keisha Lindsay says the term might be closer to home than many believe. It refers to the way people’s identities — gender, race, class — intersect to shape their experiences, particularly the experience of oppression … Lindsay, an assistant professor in political science and gender and women’s studies at UW-Madison, says her students sometimes are surprised to realize the ways in which it applies to them.
Noted: Roberts, who grew up in Wisconsin Rapids but was in Wausau with Ruder Ware for 43 years after graduating with a University of Wisconsin-Madison law degree in 1973, said government service is a new phase for him but one he’s thought about for a while.
Madisonians throw out names from Wisconsin history daily—and often without even realizing it. We trek to Camp Randall for Badgers game day, skate on the frozen lakes of Tenney Park and trudge up the incline of Bascom Hill. But who are the faces behind the names?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving in the wrong direction, away from making college affordable for low-income students, says a new report by the New America think tank.
A trio of student brewers from a food and beverage fermentation class were named winners Wednesday of the second-annual Campus Craft Brewery contest. The winning beer, an American wheat ale with white and red wheat, will now be commercially brewed and distributed throughout the state by Wisconsin Brewing Co. in Verona, sponsor of the contest, which is designed to prepare students for work in the food and beverage industry.
Suzy Favor Hamilton was back in Madison Tuesday for the first time since her secret life as a Las Vegas escort was revealed.
The former Olympian and University of Wisconsin runner was the keynote speaker for this year’s awards banquet for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Noted: Both University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Terry was a junior majoring in computer science; Cowdrey, a sophomore in business and marketing. Cowdrey’s father, for one, was taken aback, but came to understand why his son did it.
Noted: Favor Hamilton is one of the greatest middle-distance runners in U.S. history, a three-time Olympian who won 23 Big Ten and nine NCAA track and cross-country titles at the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Grigsby graduated from Madison Memorial High School and received a bachelor’s degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hefti will read from the book Friday at A Room of One’s Own.
An excerpt from the first three chapters of “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker,” published by The University of Chicago Press in April, written by Katherine Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service and a professor in the Department of Political Science.
After making an immediate impact with the Badgers in 2002 — being named a second-team freshman All-American — Brandon Williams became one of the leading receivers in the Big Ten as a senior, surpassing 1,000 yards receiving and returning two punts for touchdowns. Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2006, he also played for the Steelers and Rams before returning to Madison. Since then he’s become a financial guru and sports commentator, and host of the popular Gridiron GQ podcast.
Noted: Shane Driscoll retired in 2014 from his job as a detective with the UW-Madison police department. With more time on his hands, he thought about what to do with the old skiff.
The Himawari geostationary satellites, operated by Japan’s meteorological agency, captured the sight of the moon’s shadow traveling across the Earth. Yasuhiko Sumida, a scientist visiting the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, stitched them together into the video above. It was shared on the CIMSS Satellite Blog.
Editor and Publisher, a newspaper industry trade magazine, has recognized the Wisconsin State Journal in its annual issue that highlights 10 newspapers across the country, “That Do It Right.” The accolades come from the newspaper’s marketing partnership with the UW-Madison Athletic Department.
Students enrolled in the AVID/TOPS program in Dane County have continued to show promising results, according to a new report from the Wisconsin HOPE Lab.
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.
Freelancers get flexibility in their schedules, the freedom to travel when necessary and the ability to choose projects they care about. But they also face a constant hustle, all-too-frequent low pay and countless business decisions — from setting prices to filing taxes. Freelance is now a commonly chosen path for journalism students (like freelance photographer Jake Naughton, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s undergraduate journalism program). Unfortunately, it’s not as commonly a part of teaching in journalism schools.
The politics behind Gov. Scott Walker’s defunding of the University of Wisconsin and his moves to curtail tenure are explored in “Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform American’s Public Universities,” a documentary that will have its world premiere March 13 at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
A founder of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, Matthew Braunginn works to close the achievement gaps as a coordinator with UW’s PEOPLE program. He’s also a regular columnist for Madison365.
Noted: A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who learned the business through the Credit Unions Executives Society and gained experience in various credit union executive roles, Sponem is one of the industry’s most visible leaders in the state.
Noted: After high school, she attended UW-Madison to study art on a Ruth DeYoung Kohler Foundation art scholarship. There, she completed a bachelor’s of science in art degree and her teaching certification.
Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson is getting another degree from UW-Madison.
Thompson will receive an honorary degree at the spring commencement
He got his bachelor’s and a law degree from UW in the 1960s.
The university will also give honorary degrees to photojournalist Lynsey Addario and biochemist William Rutter.
Noted: The State Journal also won a Top 10 honor in the special section category for its preview of the University of Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team’s trip to last season’s NCAA Final Four.
Noted: The Madison store will be managed by Taren Mansfield, a UW-Madison graduate who most recently worked as an executive with Target on Madison’s Far West Side.
Noted: EatStreet, which supplies restaurants with software for handling online orders, is one of the state’s fastest-growing start-ups. Howard and his partners started EatStreet in 2010 when they were students at the Unveristy of Wisconsin-Madison. EatStreet raised $15 million of outside funding in late 2015, saying it planned to add 30 employees to its staff of 110 people.
Noted: Fuhrman, who grew up in the former Soviet Union (she was born in 1969), studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in southern California with her family.
Noted: Eventually, Greg Bothwell, Cambridge’s young vineyard manager and a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s horticulture program, plans to help with winemaking too.
Noted: Doughty called the Read Up! funding project “fantastic” and said she and her husband were quickly motivated when they read about the first two years of the Madison summer school program. Wood is a computer science professor at UW-Madison, and Doughty is a former computer database specialist who is “effectively retired” after stepping out of the work world to raise the two boys.
Noted: Sean, 32, and Stacey, 29, are both UW-Madison graduates. They met in 2011 and married in 2014, and have taken over a business with a dedicated customer base and a strong stable of employees, one of which has been with the company since 1979. They had been contemplating buying a business for years but when Sean, who works as a broker connecting business owners with potential buyers, began talking with Bauer about the future of the business, the talks ultimately led to the Scannells making an offer.
Noted: Agencies involved in the project include the Sheriff’s Office, State Patrol, District Attorney’s Office, Wisconsin Hygiene Lab, state Department of Justice and police departments of Madison, Verona, Fitchburg, Stoughton, DeForest, Oregon, Middleton and UW-Madison.
Noted: For more than 20 years, Cook was a research scientist at UW-Madison, specializing in allergic and infectious eye diseases. Cook, 59, retired in late 2013 and was awarded emeritus status in 2014, which allowed her to continue her affiliation with the university.
A former New York Times reporter and UW-Madison graduate living in the Dominican Republic committed suicide, The New York Times reported Friday.
Noted: Among the changes, the DNR would transfer management of some properties to other organizations and turn over work to others. One example would be to transfer genetics forest work to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It might also merge some duties with the state Department of Transportation. DOT handles registration of trailers; DNR registers boats, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles.
Noted: Julie Olson is an engineer at GRAEF, a Milwaukee-based engineering, planning and design firm. She received her degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A computer science major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working towards a degree in computer science, QuHarrison Terry recently quit school to pursue his dream. He’s finding out real quick that being a full-time entrepreneur is an exhilarating – yet intimidating – life decision. His company is supported by Gener8tor.
Video: Stoney Acres Farm, near Wausau, hosts a popular pizza night with ingredients from their farm. (Subjects are both UW-Madison grads who met in class as undergraduates.)
Noted: A UW-Madison School of Nursing graduate, Murphy worked as a nurse for many years at the old Methodist Hospital and in the emergency room at its descendant, Meriter Hospital.
As a basketball player for the University of Wisconsin in the late 1980s, Trent Jackson was in on the beginning of the transformation from Big Ten doormat to Final Four contender. Following a basketball career in Europe, he served as CEO of the Boys and Girls Club and later founded the ROUGH Foundation and ROUGH Sportswear to help athletes and other youth through their journeys, no matter how rough. (Jackson is senior director of development at the UW Foundation.)
A Jewish student is accusing Rutgers University of mishandling a mid-January incident in which one of her roommates taped a swastika to the ceiling of their shared living room. Meanwhile, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is responding to a similar swastika incident by hosting a campus-wide forum on anti-Semitism.
Noted: She received her master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and as a parent came to see food as a great way to get people involved in science.
Leon Varjian, the celebrated Madison prankster who died last year, earned his spot on the calendar Tuesday as City Council members unanimously voted to declare Feb. 23 Leon Varjian Day.
UW-Madison sent more of its students to the Peace Corps this year than all but one other university, again putting the campus near the top for participation in the international program.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is about to take a closer look at the use of nonhuman primates in all federally funded U.S. research labs. ScienceInsider has learned that, in response to a congressional mandate, the agency will convene a workshop this summer to review the ethical policies and procedures surrounding work on monkeys, baboons, and related animals.
Noted: Meissner went on to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and forge a 20-year career at General Motors and Harley-Davidson analyzing the complexities of pickup trucks and heavy motorcycles.
Noted: According to his law firm bio, Hanrahan has extensive experience in commercial litigation and has done work in employment law, shareholder rights, personal injury and divorce. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
