Category: UW-Madison Related

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed the suit against NIH in 2021 on behalf of Madeline Krasno and Ryan Hartkopf, social media users whose comments had been removed from NIH posts. Krasno told The Washington Post in May that she witnessed animal abuse in a monkey research lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She later began posting online about her experiences, only to find that both Wisconsin and NIH were removing her comments.

Dane County, which includes Madison, is the fastest-growing county in the state, fueled by the combination of the University of Wisconsin and the state capital’s workforce.

Her time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School was formative, as she and her husband experienced housing discrimination in Madison that would shape her efforts to combat the issue while serving in elected office.

On Saturday afternoon, hundreds gathered outside the Capitol for a historic moment: the unveiling of a sculpture honoring a Black woman. The first of its kind on state Capitol grounds. The woman is Vel Phillips, a Milwaukee native whose decades-long career as a community leader, judge and politician paved the way for countless others.

Duranceau was born and raised in Merrill, Wisconsin, where she graduated Merrill High School and still lives. She served in the U.S. Air Force National Guard from 2011 to 2018 and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2016 and also attended other UW campuses.

In the primary, she won thanks in part to the strength of a huge turnout at the University of Wisconsin campus. The newspaper headline the next day was “Youthquake.” And she went to Congress. She did a great job there.

The Madison UW Campus Ghost Walk comprises the bodies buried beneath Old Abe, civil war soldiers who stuck around Camp Randall and a printer at the Daily Cardinal, who, even in death, enjoys his favorite beer in Vilas Hall.

On Saturday evening, the first Black woman to graduate from the UW-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council, to become a judge in Wisconsin and the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin became the first person of color represented in statue form at the state Capitol.

In 1951, she became the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.

The Harmonic Hospitality Group plans to open a restaurant (The Stuffed Olive), an ’80s-to-’00s-themed dance club (Roxxy) and an arcade bar (Double Tap Beercade) on the 300 block of State Street within oLiv — a student housing building located near the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.

When Nikhita Steward-Trivedi searched for academic programs this summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) caught their eye.

The City said students can provide a certified housing list from UW-Madison or Edgewood College, but must also show college ID. Staff at the City Clerk’s office will assist with any voter needs.

Phillips broke a long list of barriers as the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, to win a seat on the Milwaukee City Council and to become a judge in Wisconsin. Then she became the first woman and Black person elected to statewide office in Wisconsin, serving as secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. She died in 2018 at age 95.

The latest research, which comes from a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows the virus can be transmitted by respiratory droplets in ferrets, but inefficiently. Amie Eisfeld, an author of the study, says their lab has not seen this kind of transmission event with any other version of highly pathogenic avian influenza that they’ve isolated from the natural world and tested in ferrets.

Alum Robin Tamachi: So the first time I went out storm chasing was in 2001. I was in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time. And we went out in a van for a week to the Great Plains to just observe storms and document them and collect whatever data we could using kind of some basic handheld instruments. Well, I’ll tell you, I learned more about meteorology in that one week on the road than I did in the previous, you know, three to four years in the classroom.

That heated debate drew University of Wisconsin-Madison officials to select the memoir as the university’s 2017-18 Go Big Read book. A shared reading program, Go Big Read distributes free copies of a recommended book to first-year students and encourages professors to incorporate the book into coursework.

Both of Harris’ parents worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during her childhood.

She spent long days playing with her younger sister, Maya. They posed for cheerful, hand-in-hand photos, which were taken by her parents, a pair of politically engaged scholars who divided their time between home and work on the University of Wisconsin campus.

All of the extra police officers need to stay somewhere. The city of Milwaukee requested 4,000 dorm rooms but has said that not all of them will be filled with officers. The city requested rooms at Concordia University Wisconsin, Carroll University, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Mount Mary University.

Lo would ultimately escape the abuse and get back on her feet with help from The Women’s Community, Inc., a Wausau-based nonprofit that serves domestic violence and trafficking survivors. Her life would come full circle years later. She would go on to earn a master’s degree in social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before returning to Wausau to help Hmong women through challenges like she faced.

A mother and her 14-year-old disabled child are demonstrating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after the school notified them of unenrollment from a summer program.

Juniper’s journey in the indie video game Garage Sale in some ways mirrors the journey of its lead writer and director, University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student Amelia Zollner. She started the game on her own while in high school isolated during the pandemic. Then she found a community of like-minded students around her on a quest to bring it to completion.

Olivia Saud, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who came to the rally at Sherman Middle School to see Biden in person, said she watched the debate and “I understand the concern.”

“I also understand the concern of Trump being president,” she said, adding, “I’m one of those people who subscribes to anything that’s blue I’m going to vote for at this point.”

As someone who grew up in Milwaukee, attended school here and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and took some of my first swings at investigative reporting as an intern at the Journal Sentinel in 2021, I take great pride in coming to work every day.

Emma Corrado tries to be conscious of her electricity usage, both as an aspiring biosystems engineer with a focus on natural resources and a self-proclaimed “broke college student” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But on the tail of a record-breaking heatwave that swept the Midwest and Northeast, she’s finding it difficult to keep costs down.

Duck Donuts, the North Carolina-based doughnut shop franchise known for its unique menu offerings and build-your-own donuts, is opening its first Wisconsin location near the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer. According to the shop’s Facebook page, it plans to open in late July at 3308 University Ave., Madison.

Sanders’s rally is part of a weeklong campaign swing in the Badger State. The Daily Cardinal, the University of Wisconsin’s student paper, provided audio of the Stevens Point event.

“It was a painful experience to sit through. Neither candidate inspires our country,” Anders said. The Madison resident soon to start law school at the University of Wisconsin said the debate left him with concerns about Biden’s cognitive abilities but that he also questions Trump’s mental abilities.

He said it’s one of the main reasons he sought to call Shorewood home in 1987 after obtaining a master’s degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and moving to Milwaukee County in 1975.