Category: UW-Madison Related

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.

As it turns out, Bucky is a Libra.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.”