Category: UW-Madison Related

Six days shy of turning 22, Seymour, Wisconsin native Ty Majeski is already racing into the right rooms with the right people.

Where to begin with Boris Frank? His 84 years have been full of adventures that have included an eclectic childhood, a brief baseball stint at UW-Madison and a long career in television.

Noted: But the site, led by Milwaukee architect and preservationist Richard Perrin and UW-Madison landscape architect Bill Tishler, opened in 1976 in time for the national bicentennial. It has continued to endure despite state budget cuts, a damaging 2011 tornado and competition from other tourist attractions like water parks and amusement rides.

Noted: He said Schumacher graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison but soon after he finished his mental illness began to manifest itself. He said he was legally prohibited from disclosing Schumacher’s medical diagnosis.

Dr. Craig Kent, surgery department chairman for eight years at UW-Madison, starts Sept. 6., subject to trustee approval.

An essay by an incoming UW-Madison doctoral student suggesting that violence might be the proper response to Donald Trump is drawing concern within the university’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

It was late April in 1959 and Madison, a hotbed of amateur boxing due to the University of Wisconsin’s hugely successful program, was hosting the boxing trials for that summer’s Pan American Games.

After months of uncertainty, UW-Madison’s riding club and equestrian team will officially have a new place to call home.

Noted: Nate Pokrass has logged some 10- to 12-hour days in his job as tournament director for the American Family Insurance Championship. No stranger to event administration, Pokrass worked various jobs in the athletic department at the University of Illinois and was a senior director of development at UW–Madison.

Wednesday morning David Blauzvern was out for a jog when he saw someone who needed help. As a former lifeguard, he knew exactly what to do. “If you look in the water you see this big guy flailing his arms he was clearly not able to swim so I jumped in.”

With the aim of helping make electricity more available in rural parts of India, a team of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has designed a wind turbine that could provide power to cellular phone towers.

Slichter’s familial link to UW-Madison ran deep. He was great-grandson of Charles Sumner Slichter, a mathematician and physicist, and namesake for Slichter Hall on the UW-Madison campus. Slichter graduated from the university in 1980 with a degree in mathematics and having been first chair violist of the UW orchestra.

Meet the largest neutrino detector in the world. IceCube, located at the South Pole, uses 5,160 sensors distributed over a billion tons of ice to spot high-energy neutrinos from extremely violent cosmic sources like exploding stars, black holes, and neutron stars.

UW student and 21-year-old Seymour resident Ty Majeski has formally signed on with a NASCAR team. Area media report Majeski is joining Roush Fenway Racing as a development driver, with expectations that he will make his ARCA Racing Series debut for Roulo Brothers Racing next month.

Milton Pettit Griswold should have walked across a stage in his cap and gown with the rest of his classmates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The land manager at the UW-Madison Arboretum found a tiny painted turtle earlier this week.

According to their Facebook post, painted turtles this small are extremely rare to see. After they took a quick picture comparing it to a quarter, they took the turtle back to the pond.

Column by Lisa Martin, a professor of political science whose research centers on the role of institutions and international organizations in world politics.

Column by John Hawks, a professor of anthropology who studies the bones and genes of ancient humans, traveling to archaeological sites in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Column by John Karl Scholz, the dean of the College of Letters & Science and the Nellie June Gray Professor of Economic Policy.

Column by Barton P. Miller, a professor of computer sciences.

Column by Aliko Songolo, a professor of French and Francophone Studies and a professor and of African Languages and Literature.

Column by Rebekah Pryor Pare´, executive director of the College of Letters and Science Career Initiative.

Column by Jon E. Sorenson, managing senior director of development at the University of Wisconsin Foundation, leading 11 development professionals working on behalf of the College of Letters & Science.