Category: UW-Madison Related

Cable network C-SPAN selected Madison as a featured city of its 2014 Cities Tour, showcasing historical and literary aspects of Madison on its nationwide network.

Noted: At Foley, Aprahamian was a litigator in complex civil cases, and the partner in charge of ethics training at the firm.  He graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale Law School and clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prior to joining Foley.

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Christopher Daly started reading every day. He would nag friends with information about environmental and social issues or the food they were eating, eventually spurring the question: So what are you going to do about it? His answer: Run for mayor.

Noted: This safety protocol is more restrictive than what is required of DNR-approved sharpshooters within a chronic wasting disease control zone in southern Wisconsin or at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum where the deer population is controlled to reduce damage to plants, Meyer said.

Center on Wisconsin Strategy was a partner in the report.

John Oliver takes on one of the more boring but insidious scandals in Our Republic today: the phenomenon of civil asset forfeiture. (UW is mentioned.)

Burt, who went to UW-Madison for the rowing and gravitated instead to radical politics, has been sought by the FBI for 44 years, since J. Edgar Hoover was the bureau?s director.Leo Burt could be here or abroad. He could be alive or dead. He could be lucky or smart. All authorities know for sure is that he has eluded their grasp.

Starting at about 3 a.m. at Times Square on a June morning, the UW-Madison graduate students took their sweet science backgrounds in a new direction, starting an international odyssey as teammates on ?The Amazing Race.?

These days, Ben Miller talks higher education issues and multi-million-dollar research with Washington policy-makers as a lobbyist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But as a kid growing up in upstate New York near Cooperstown, Miller dreamed of a career as second baseman for the Mets and was the first in his family to attend college, he recalls. But when, in his junior year at tiny Union College in Schenectady, he landed an internship with U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, it set a course for his professional life.

UW-Madison was not among three public institutions that made the cut in a new ranking of colleges and universities for the economic diversity of their students.

University of Miami President Donna Shalala plans to step down in 2015 … She took over at Miami in 2001 after serving eight years as Health and Human Services Secretary under President Bill Clinton … She also has been the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the president of Hunter College.

Noted: Photos of his day posted by O?Malley on Twitter included a ?selfie? with University of Wisconsin students preparing to go door-to-door on Burke?s behalf.

Virginia Sapiro will step down as dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston University at the conclusion of the 2014-15 academic year, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

Noted: Andrew and Ashlee Steele met when they were 12 in Saginaw, Mich., and later attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison together.

Biographies, mysteries, field guides and another entry from Jerry Apps grace the University of Wisconsin Press fall catalog.

Noted: According to the sisters’ obituaries, Kacee Tollefsbol was studying to be a nurse and held a degree in English from the University of St. Thomas. A mother of four, she had just married Mark Tollefsbol a month before she died. Ashlee Steele, a mother of two, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught three-year-olds at a church preschool.

Noted: Lynch came to Wisconsin in 1958 and helped with the last years of the storied University of Wisconsin boxing program. Over the next decades, training and promoting, he became the face of boxing in Madison.

Noted: The early standard bearer for this tribe was Lewis ?Bus? Topp, who was a barber in the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus for 61 years, starting in 1928. Topp became a barber after the ice wagon he drove in Madison began pulling into driveways of homes that suddenly all had refrigerators. He figured hair would never stop growing and enrolled in barber school in Milwaukee.

Grigsby earned degrees from Howard University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: With a degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master?s from Cornell University?s department of viticulture and enology, the 32-year Spada is one of a handful of independent wine consultants in the state.

University at Albany named Timothy Mulcahy as its interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. Mulcahy, a former vice president at the University of Minnesota, is one of three new members to the university?s administrative team.

Her father, Tefera, did a medical residency at Howard University in Washington, and the family came to Madison when he accepted a position at UW Hospital and Clinics, where he?s a vascular surgeon.

Cape Town – In a letter to the ANC, party stalwart Pallo Jordan apparently resigned from all party positions just two days before the news broke that he did not have a PhD as stated in his CV.

United Way board member Darrell Bazzell says the group?s delegation has seen the figures on minority unemployment and poverty. It has also followed the efforts to start a local conversation around race and decided to shift gears for 2014.

The partnership between UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, announced last November, is aimed at taking some of the most promising campus inventions and helping to speed their entry into the marketplace, boosting the economy and creating jobs.