Noted: A Quidditch tournament, which drew hundreds of spectators last year, will also be held, according to Chris Noble, president of the UW-Madison Quidditch Club.
Noted: Steve Morton, who grew up in the University Heights neighborhood, got his doctorate in chemistry at UW-Madison shortly after his parents purchased the property. He said he then moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he taught at Otterbein University before he returned to Madison to work with various scientific projects at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. He stayed there until he retired.
Noted: EatStreet’s funding round follows the company raising $15 million in December and brings to more than $40 million the total amount of outside capital Madison-based EatStreet has raised since it was founded in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. The company will use the money for general corporate purposes, according to the filing.
Trying to nail down why Wisconsin’s state universities have become more expensive for students is kind of like the chicken and the egg dilemma.
Noted: The man who painted “Lumberjack Fight on the Flambeau River,” James Watrous, also painted the Paul Bunyan mural in the University of Wisconsin Memorial Student Union in Madison.
Noted: HealthMyne — which lists among its co-founders Rock Mackie, the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical physicist who developed the technology behind TomoTherapy Inc. — said in late September that it had raised $6.9 million.
Noted: PerBlue, which has about 40 employees, was founded by Beck and Andrew Hanson in June 2008. They funded it themselves, then raised $72,000 from family and friends in July 2009. Both graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with computer engineering degrees in 2009.
Noted: A Navy veteran, Mr. Martin earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin in 1989 and a master’s in information systems at George Mason University in 2004.
In the sea of University of Wisconsin students who returned to campus this fall, UW also welcomed hundreds of exchange students from around the world to begin their study abroad experiences in Madison.
Noted: The partnership is the first gener8tor has forged with a university outside of Wisconsin. About a year ago, gener8tor partnered with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which provided an undisclosed amount of funding for gener8tor to provide coaching and other services to startups.
Noted: Those included a UW-Madison police captain who “ran the registration plate of a woman that he thought might be interested in him” and left a card on her car, according to an email sent by a department official to the state. The officer was suspended, the email said.
Noted: Catlin is a 2011 Marquette University graduate, with a degree in psychology and philosophy. Andersen and Fehrenbach are University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates with degrees in biological systems engineering and geography.
University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Jacquelyn Moss will be listening closely to the first debate Monday night between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
UW-Madison sophomore Skylar Witte was crowned Miss Wisconsin USA 2017 earlier this month after competing against 41 other women for the title.
Noted: Leaders of the state’s two medical schools, UW School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison and Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, oppose the plan for a third school.
Noted: Sandi Torkildson, who helped found A Room of One’s Own in 1975, has invited a representative from the UW-Madison Center for Cooperatives to give an informational presentation Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the bookstore, located at 315 W. Gorham St. Torkildson, who announced in June that she was putting the store up for sale, said she has had several customers inquire about the feasibility of a co-op, but there was no organized effort. The meeting is simply a way to bring those interested in a co-op model together and to learn about that type of business model.
It’s usually pretty exciting to see UW-Madison in a movie, whether it’s recognizing Bascom Hill in “Back to School” or hearing the school referenced in “Away We Go.”
PETA officials are encouraging people to avoid circuses that feature performing animals after a USDA inspection at Circus World in July found that one of its elephants appeared to have trouble walking. Following the USDA inspection, Kurt Sladky, a professor of Zoological Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, was brought in to examine Bunny, but he found little wrong with the elephant.
Few understand what has caused the tuition boom, particularly at the public institutions that enroll roughly two-thirds of all students at four-year colleges. Many commenters, particularly in the popular press, focus on ballooning administrative budgets and extravagant student amenities. Those elements have played a role, to be sure, but by far the single biggest driver of rising tuitions for public colleges has been declining state funding for higher education.
Noted: Among the nominees with Wisconsin ties still in the running for trophies are “Modern Family,” the ABC sitcom created by University of Wisconsin-Madison alum Steve Levitan, up for outstanding comedy series and best supporting actor in a comedy series, for Ty Burrell; and “American Crime,” created by Mequon native and Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley, with four nominations, including outstanding limited series.
Noted: HealthMyne was founded in 2013 by Rock Mackie, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist, and a team of people who previously created three successful imaging-related companies. It has more than 20 employees, a spokeswoman said.
Noted: Elkon grew up here and graduated from the University School of Milwaukee. After graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison, he returned to his hometown. Elkon held various jobs before going to work for his family’s business, Jack Gronik Nut Co. After the business closed, artists repurposed its old building; the Nut Factory Open House became one of Elkon’s regular stops.
As reported in the Sept. 2 State Journal, Georgetown University now acknowledges it obtained profits from the institution of slavery when it sold 272 slaves in 1838, exactly at a time when the abolition of slavery was becoming a highly visible national political issue.
Former Madison Police Capt. Cheri Maples, a one-time finalist for the chief’s job, was the bicyclist hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a van Thursday in Fitchburg.
Noted: He graduated from Madison in 1967. He was in Sigma Chi at the university, and wrestled too. He says triathlons are a lot different than wrestling.
Noted: The move comes as Virent has continued to develop technology originally developed in the chemistry labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create fuels from the sugars found in plants such as beets.
Noted: Born in 1940 in Milwaukee, Randa went to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin Law School. He served in the Army in Vietnam for two years, earning the Bronze Star.
For the general population, satellites are simply there to help watch T.V., text, for the conspiracy theorists, spying or for a Skynet-esque takeover. But for UW-Madison professor Tracey Holloway, satellites are a tool for improving peoples’ lives.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin–Madison continuing studies department has offered a professional life coaching certificate since 2012. The university is the only academic institution in the Midwest with a program accredited by the International Coaching Foundation.
Theresa Duello wanted to flesh out the picture of how state funding cuts are impacting the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Months later, she enrolled in UpStart, a free 11-week entrepreneurial program for women and people of color developed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and taught by instructors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Small Business Development Center.
Noted: The University League, Inc. is a nonprofit membership organization open to all who are interested in supporting the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: The program is a collaboration of Public Health, the Madison School District, UW-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center, the Dane County Immunization Coalition and Culver’s restaurants.
Noted: Biluge, who was born in the Congo, said she knew just three words of English — yes, no and maybe — when she immigrated with her family to Milwaukee four years ago. This summer, she told the crowd, she took part in a University of Wisconsin-Madison program for gifted students and an NAACP competition in Cincinnati.
The professors, Sue Robinson and Kathleen Bartzen Culver, focused their research on Madison, using in-depth interviews (including with me), focus groups and analysis of actual coverage. They track the Madison media landscape from 2011, when a contentious bid by an African-American leader to create a charter school aimed at African-American boys failed.
Today, most young people have no idea what occurred back in those days and some are surprised that right here — Madison and the UW — was the epicenter.
Noted: Ten Eyck grew up working at the orchard but left the farm to get a biology degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-La Crosse. He lived in Wyoming and Alaska after school and even spent two years working at Epic Systems. Spending time away made him realize he missed being a part of the family business.
Noted: One example cited earlier this year would be to transfer forest genetics work to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The DNR could also merge some duties involving boat and snowmobile registration with the Department of Transportation.
Noted: Ankit Agarwal, who founded Imbed in 2010 with five professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the company’s chief executive officer. Imbed raised $683,000 of equity and debt funding in 2014 in a round that was led by WISC Partners LLC.
As it turns out, Bucky is a Libra.
Noted: Prange, a UW-Madison journalism and public relations graduate, is almost three years into her role as the executive director. Prior to her time at the zoo, she spent more than 10 years working for the American Cancer Society and worked a variety jobs in Washington, D.C.
Noted: “UW-Madison professor of arboriculture Dr. Richard Allison has been working with the state to monitor the health of the trees at Capitol Park for over 20 years,” the statement said. “Dr. Allison inspected the tree after yesterday’s incident again, noting that the tree did not exhibit any outward signs of rot or distress.
Nichole Von Haden, a UW grad, is this week’s National Geographic Educator of the Week. She created a comprehensive unit on watersheds that promotes critical thinking across multiple disciplines. The unit uses a local context as a gateway for students to understand global problems. Nichole is an educator mentor in Madison, Wisconsin.
Anderson, who won a Democratic primary election and became the overwhelming favorite to be the next representative from Assembly District 47, moved to Wisconsin from California to attend UW-Madison Law School. The fact that the university is a national magnet for young talent underscores why it must be protected from further funding cuts, he said.
Noted: “It used to be that innovations that spawn or destroy entire industries would happen very infrequently,” said Witek, who has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Now major disruptions that can be life-threatening to industries or companies are emerging almost annually.”
Officials around the globe often seek out the help of Alex Wiedenhoeft, who is the team leader of the Center for Wood Anatomy Research (CWAR) at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory on the UW-Madison campus and one of the world’s foremost forensic wood anatomists and a secret weapon in the fight against illegal logging.
Noted: Stratatech was founded by University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Lynn Allen-Hoffmann in 2001. After watching a surgeon operate on a farmer who had suffered third-degree burns across 95% of his body, she transformed her research into a company that would focus on developing a skin replacement created with actual human cells.
Noted: The team announced Tuesday that training camp will be held at the Nicholas-Johnson Pavilion on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from Sept. 27 through Sept. 30. Six practices will be held.
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.”
