Jeffrey Lewis, an outreach specialist for under-served communities at the University of Wisconsin Extension, will retire Nov. 3, after being recognized next week as a “distinguished prefix,” a title reserved for a small number of high-level academic staff “whose superlative accomplishments are evidenced by widespread peer recognition.”
University of Wisconsin political science professors involved in the creation of a new publicly funded policy center expressed concern that there wasn’t enough balance between Democratic and Republican speakers at its first planned major event, newly released emails show.
Alex Walker graduated last year from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and had been chairman of the college Republicans in Wisconsin.
Sara and Charles Rippey first locked eyes at their elementary school in tiny Hartford, Wis., close to 90 years ago. “They’ve basically been together ever since,” said one of their sons, Mike Rippey. The couple, who were 98 and 100 years old, died together on Sunday in Napa, Calif., when a fast-moving wildfire whipped into their house and they were unable to escape. Both were UW alums.
The Treinen Farm Corn Maze, in Lodi, WI features Wisconsin’s state fossil, the trilobite.
Schuster’s Farm created a mural of Bucky Badger, a football and an arch honoring 100 years of Camp Randall Stadium, which is on the UW-Madison Campus.
After an hour of celebration and exploration of UW-Madison’s Alumni Park, visitors at Friday’s grand opening gathered for the unveiling of the new Bucky Badger statue.
Dreaming big can pay off — if you are passionate and persistent. That was the message from four University of Wisconsin alumni who told their stories to several hundred students Thursday night at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase at Gordon Commons.
Dr. Diego Calderon, a research fellow at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and an immigrant from Colombia, encouraged legislators to attend the upcoming World Dairy Expo in Madison and ask the farmers there how the bill would affect them.
MILAN — In the latest installment of our video series exploring the private working worlds of designers, Virgil Abloh — a designer, D.J. and first-generation American whose parents immigrated to the United States from Ghana — talks about his goal of having his Off-White label bridge the gap between street wear and haute couture, his unlikely path into fashion and the importance of using his platform as a multi-hyphenate Instagram phenomenon to promote messages of tolerance and inclusivity. The interview has been condensed and edited.
For more than two decades, he has been one of the top decision-makers at one of the nation’s most prominent TV networks, determining what shows make it to the airwaves – and which disappear.
As for the name? Gehl and Wright are both UW-Madison grads. And the beer’s name is pulled directly from the Camp Randall tradition of “Wisconsinizing” the popular commercial jingle composed by Steve Karmen with the lyrics “When you say Wisconsin, you’ve said it all!”
Noted: The article credits much of Madison’s reputation as a sports city to the University of Wisconsin-Madison sports teams, mentioning back-to-back Final Four runs in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament in 2014 and 2015.
From famous scientists to accomplished actors and politicians, many notable people graduated or attended UW-Madison. Here’s a sampling.
Podcast: In centuries past, few children other than those of wealthy, aristocratic families received a formal education, certainly not one that had them sitting in a classroom for hours on end, from morning through early afternoon. That all started to change around the time of the Industrial Revolution, according to Andrew Ruis, medical historian at the University of Wisconsin and author of a new book, Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States.
From Marshall Shepherd, who visited UW–Madison on 9/7/17. Includes image from and link to UW AOS: Our weather models tipped us off many days ago that Irma might be a long and dangerous storm. However, there were some things that did surprise me.
Noted: Supporters of the legislation are touting the economic advantages of mining. They’re also going on the attack, with one organization, the newly organized Natural Resource Development Association, using Twitter to highlight the conviction of a leading mining opponent for attempted arson and possession of a fire bomb at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Army ROTC building in 1970.
At University of Wisconsin-Madison, undergraduate tuition, room and board and fees will cost $25,699.60 this year for Wisconsin residents and double that for out of state students. McKinley calls that a bargain compared to other public and private universities.
Noted: Ebert holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also received a bachelor’s degree in political science from UW-Madison.
The audio clips were recorded by fieldworkers with the Dictionary for American Regional English (DARE) in the late 1960’s, as part of a five-year project to uncover regional pronunciations and vocabulary.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison economist who published a positive analysis of the impact of the proposed deal that would bring a Foxconn plant to southeast Wisconsin just opened a think tank on campus funded by the conservative Koch and Bradley foundations.
There is a lifesaving drug that owes its existence to moldy hay, sick cows and rat poison.The drug is called warfarin sodium. It prevents blood clots, and it can be a lifesaver for patients who’ve had a heart attack or stroke. It’s one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world.
Noted: The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau has projected that taxpayers won’t recoup their payments to the company until 2043, even assuming a substantial positive ripple effect in the local economy from the project. Another report by former Walker campaign adviser and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Noah Williams has pointed to other benefits of the project such as the more than $700 million in annual payroll it could bring to the area.
The executive creative director on the work is a Wisconsin native and University of Wisconsin alumni.
The catastrophic rain and flooding in Houston from Hurricane Harvey (now a tropical storm) has left the nation’s fourth-largest city in a state of emergency as the storm is expected to continue for the coming days.
Noted: One of them is gravely ill now. Tim Mickelson, 68, a native of Deerfield who rowed at the University of Wisconsin and later helped energize the Milwaukee Rowing Club, was diagnosed in January with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease).
Noted: I went to UW-Madison, planning (to be a) veterinarian. Plans changed. I got my undergrad in animal science and I minored in meat science and business. I always showed cattle in 4-H and I loved the cattle side of things. When I decided against veterinary medicine, I decided on meat science.
28 year old Brendt Christensen, a UW-Madison grad, pleaded not guilty in July to one count of kidnapping in connection with Zhang’s disappearance.
The “Thank You 72” campaign is traveling across the state as the university aims to show appreciation for support, according to the release.
The release highlighted Walworth County residents and UW-Madison graduates Debra Alder and Jeffrey Scherer as examples of people doing good work for the community.
“I was ready for a change and wanted to get back to Wisconsin,” he said. “I had this idea and figured I’d give it a shot.”
He still has a full-time job so for the time being brewing beer is a sideline. He teaches at the Farm and Industry Short Course at UW-Madison and is associate director of the Renk Agribusiness Institute at the university.
Along with the traditional items like alphabet borders, illustrations of cursive writing, teachers put up word walls, post “standard operating procedures” for tasks such as lining up, and “I can” statements, such as “I can identify a numerator and a denominator” or “I can write a number in expanded form.”
Noted: It argued that “efficient government required control of institutions by the voters rather than special interests, and that the involvement of specialists in law, economics, and social and natural sciences would produce the most effective government,” according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. The child of poor Irish immigrants in Boston, McCarthy arrived at UW-Madison to study for a Ph.D. In addition to his studies, he took a job to support himself: coach of the UW men’s football team.
Noted: “It’s like an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging machine, used in medicine) at nanoscale,” said Kelly, whose research as a UW-Madison engineering and material science professor led to development of Cameca’s LEAP, or Local Electrode Atom Probe, specialized microscope.
Noted: Since 2005. MTS has been gathering tango aficionados and novices alike. The organization began as a student-run group at UW-Madison, but after the founding members graduated it became a separate organization. UW-Madison does currently have its own tango organization called Tango Club UW.
Hundreds of people who converged on UW Space Place at noon Thursday were disappointed to find that all 250 pairs of solar eclipse-viewing glasses were sold out before they were even scheduled to go on sale.
Last year, UW-Madison launched Project 72, which aims to recognize and thank Wisconsin’s 72 counties for contributing to the university’s success. Part of the project includes a red and white truck that travels the state to dispense free ice cream, according to the release.
James Watson was among the astronomers and scientists who traveled to America’s West to observe a total solar eclipse in 1878, shortly before he was named the first director of the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Noted: The funds would go to the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, a UW-Madison master’s degree of business administration program with a focus on arts administration, to partner with the village.
Noted: Neis points to GE Healthcare, which employs 6,800 people and has 870 suppliers in Wisconsin, supporting another 21,000 jobs. GE has worked closely with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he noted, and executives have left the company to start their own ventures, including TomoTherapy, NeuWave Medical and Healthmyne. Foxconn could have the same halo effect.
Noted: Berens studied broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to work with MTV on their election-season “Choose or Lose” campaign.
When asked if he thinks the Trump administration might try to dismiss or suppress the (climate change) report, one of the study’s lead authors, James Kossin, a physical scientist with National Centers for Environmental Information (and a scientist at UW’s SSEC), says “there’s nothing to suggest that has happened or will happen.”
Noted: The state sells these products to prisons in Wisconsin and Minnesota. It also sells some cream to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the university’s famous ice cream at Babcock Hall.
Susan Carpenter has been the University of Wisconsin Arboretum’s expert on the rusty-patched bumble bee, which joined the endangered species list earlier this year.
A new video game is in the works for Wisconsin students, teaching about the Wisconsin Capitol. It’s in honor of the Capitol’s 100th anniversary and thanks to a partnership between the Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin Public Television, and Field Day, a games lab for education at UW-Madison.
Noted: Like several other sources, Gonzalez pointed to UW-Madison as an important factor for Foxconn in considering Dane County. In addition to the research there, UW is also an alma mater for executives and scientists in Taiwan who are connected to Foxconn, sources said.
Noted: In another local connection, the head of the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently met with representatives of the medical equipment division within Foxconn about potential collaboration with cancer researchers in Taiwan. “I will hope and expect that there will be a give and take … such that patients in Taiwan would benefit and patients in Wisconsin would benefit,” Howard Bailey, the center’s director, said in an interview.
Colleges across the country are giving students common reading assignments. Some campuses go against the liberal trend. At least four schools, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have chosen a best seller written by a young conservative: J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which explores issues of social breakdown among working-class whites, such as drug use and child neglect.
The doors of University Book Store opened July 17 in its new, smaller space that includes an east-facing main entrance that overlooks a courtyard with green grass, benches and patio tables with umbrellas. Inside, the store is no longer a two level shopping experience. Inventory, that overwhelming favors the Wisconsin Badgers, is now on one level with better lighting and flat screen televisions that stream sporting events.
Apple is being ordered to pay $506 million to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, according to federal court records.
At the reception, Lori Christianson, an admission counselor from UW-Madison, announced a partnership between the school and Madison College designed specifically for Scholars of Promise students. Christianson said the Scholars of Promise Transfer Plan will provide “UW-specific benefits.” If students follow certain courses and guidelines, they will “have the opportunity to transfer to UW-Madison.”
One of those people McDowell says helped trailblaze a path for her was her mom, Candace McDowell, the founding director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Multicultural Student Center.
Noted: Carrie Coon, who after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison performed with the Madison Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Renaissance Theaterworks before moving to Chicago, was nominated for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie for “Fargo.”
An estimate from the University of Wisconsin System said it cannot predict the bill’s impact on the System’s budget.
Noted: Lorraine had a keen interest in business, receiving a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree in teaching of social science and history from Columbia University in New York.
Now a junior at UW-Madison, the 20-year-old Harris has several championships under her belt and is the current College Miss Majorette of Wisconsin — which involved winning a pageant event involving a solo baton routine, a strut or dance routine as well as a modeling and interview portion.
Several people affiliated with UW-Madison are featured.
The Altons’ farm was one of the properties hit hardest by June 28’s tornadoes, which caused well over $700,000 of property and business damage in Green County according to Green County Emergency Management. Fortunately, friends and relatives came to assist over the weekend — and this week, they found out even more help was coming in the form of Team Rubicon, a national organization of veterans who provide rapid response after natural disasters.
Prosecutors say the suspect in the kidnapping of a University of Illinois scholar from China attended a vigil for the victim a day before his arrest.
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal courthouse Monday as a former UW-Madison student suspected in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois made his first appearance since being arrested last week.
Scholarly publishing isn’t facing a crisis, but it is in flux, said Dennis Lloyd, director of the University of Wisconsin Press.
