Taylor received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. She then attended the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating in 1995.
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Local PhD student to make history in ocean rowing race
On June 7, University of Wisconsin–Madison PhD student Taylan Stulting and two teammates will start a 2,800-mile ocean race, rowing from Monterey, California, to the island of Kauai.
Hunters register more than 50,000 turkeys in 2025 Wisconsin spring season
The project was a partnership of the DNR, the Missouri Department of Conservation and the National Wild Turkey Federation. The University of Wisconsin-Madison also provided assistance.
Please, Democrats, just try to be normal
And Allison Prasch, an instructor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is quoted as saying that “Democrats trip over themselves in an attempt to say exactly the right thing.”
Nonsense. Some Democrats trip all over themselves trying to obscure the meaning of what they say. Take referring to felons as part of “justice-involved populations.” Likewise, the term “undocumented person” implies that the problem is one of paperwork. It simply omits the fact that the person resides in the United States illegally.
Scholarship gives women an opportunity to pursue careers in aviation
Remington, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, was pursuing a career as a pilot when she was killed in a small plane crash near Janesville in 2021. She was only 26 years old.
Knowing their daughter was passionate about teaching and mentoring young pilots, Remington’s parents decided to create the scholarship in her name.
Alf Clausen, Emmy-winning ‘Simpsons’ composer, dies at 84
Clausen was born March 28, 1941, in Minneapolis, but grew up in Jamestown, N.D. He earned degrees from North Dakota State University, the University of Wisconsin and Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He later studied film scoring with Earle Hagen and was a two-year member of Lehman Engel’s BMI Musical Theater Workshop.
The US academic partnership with China, under strain for years, faces its biggest threat
“I do not feel welcome anymore,” said Cao, a student of cognitive psychology at the University of Wisconsin, who was waiting at Seattle’s airport Thursday to board a flight home to China.
Cao spent eight years in the U.S. and once dreamed of staying as a professor. “Now it seems like that dream is falling apart,” he said. “It’s a good time to jump ship and think about what I can give back to my own country.”
The Texas Rangers offense has been awful in 2025. What options are left for them?
Carter will likely begin a rehab assignment Friday for his quadriceps injury. During his most recent IL stint, Seager, who was activated Wednesday, spent a day at the University of Wisconsin, which is a leader in hamstring injury research, consulting on changes he could make to his training.
‘Hippies have never gotten their due’: What to see at S.F.’s new Counterculture Museum
Czeslawski is on a gap year after graduating from the University of Wisconsin. “I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life so I came to San Francisco for the first time, for inspiration,” she said. “Anyone who comes here needs to set aside at least an hour or two,” added Czeslawki. “I’m really excited to look through the book collection. I’m looking for some Joan Didion.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students
University of Wisconsin student Vladyslav Plyaka was planning to visit Poland to see his mother and renew his visa, but he doesn’t know when that will be possible now that visa appointments are suspended. He also doesn’t feel safe leaving the U.S. even when appointments resume.
“I don’t think I have enough trust in the system at this point,” said Plyaka, who came to the U.S. from Ukraine as an exchange student in high school and stayed for college. “I understand it probably is done for security measures, but I would probably just finish my education for the next two or three years and then come back to Ukraine.”
‘Good days are over’: Chinese students despair as US cracks down on visas
“The iron fist has come down,” wrote an anonymous Chinese PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on RedNote on Thursday.
“The good days are over and a new round of hard times will begin for international students.”
This judge’s journey from film school to the federal bench
Peterson wound up in graduate school at UW–Madison after deciding to pursue film studies.
“It’s what really interested me,” he says, and Peterson found a mentor and dissertation advisor in David Bordwell, the legendary UW film professor whom American film critic Roger Ebert called “our best writer on the cinema.”
It was an anxious moment when Peterson told his revered friend and mentor Bordwell that he was leaving film for the UW Law School.
Can bacteria serve as ‘microscopic miners’ of the metals we need?
“We’re creating a new industrial paradigm at the intersection of biology and mining,” said Dennett, who earned a Ph.D in geosciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and went on to work at NASA’s astrobiology program and run data architecture for Amazon Web Services before founding Endolith. “Our goal is simple: reshape supply chains for the most important technology transitions of our lifetime.”
Evers appoints DPI attorney, UW alum to Dane County Circuit Court
Jones, a Monona resident and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin Law School, most recently served as chief legal counsel for theWisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI).
What to know about Ian Vance-Curzan, lead prosecutor in Maxwell Anderson trial
Originally from Milwaukee, Vance-Curzan attended Rufus King High School, where he played baseball. University of Wisconsin Law School, class of 2015.
Country music is dominating Wisconsin’s summer concert season like never before in 2025
28: Years it’s been since Camp Randall Stadium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has hosted a concert tour. Country superstar Morgan Wallen will end the drought June 28, then become the first artist ever to headline the stadium for two consecutive nights, with a second show on June 29.
Board needs to work with community to keep MPS Italian Immersion Program open
When I was a student at Rufus King, I took Spanish and Italian courses. Four years later, my younger brother Michael did the same. After high school, I went on to study Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and studied abroad in Italy. After graduation, I used my Italian language skills and taught 4-year-old kindergarten at the Italian Immersion School during the 2008-2009 school year.
Everything you need to know about the ‘age-reversal’ supplement NAD+
According to Guarente, pellagra is characterized by what are known as the four Ds; dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death. “Pellagra turned out to be a disease of NAD+ deficiency and the molecules that could prevent and/or cure it were termed vitamin B3s,” he says, which Conrad Elvehjem, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, proved in 1937.
National Spelling Bee champions say it set them up for success: ‘You attain a level of mastery’
Joanne Lagatta arrived at the University of Wisconsin in 1995 with a flawless academic record and an achievement on her resumé that she didn’t like to talk about — but that no other undergrad on the sprawling Madison campus could claim: Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.
The bee winner in 1991 at age 13, Lagatta nonetheless struggled adjusting to life outside her rural hometown of Clintonville, Wisconsin — until she got a push from a professor who was a devoted spelling-bee fan.
A big Trump administration cutback went nearly unnoticed
Aaron Perry, a former University of Wisconsin police officer and founder of the Perry Family Free Clinic, said he saw firsthand how Black men were being left behind by the health-care system.
“I would always ask them … what could be different?” Perry said. “And that’s when they would tell me, ‘I’m homeless. I haven’t eaten. I have a heart condition. I don’t have medication.’”
‘It’s finally over:’ Brittany Zimmermann’s mom reflects on the death of her daughter’s killer
The man charged with the death of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student died in prison Tuesday.
Innovative Artists Entertainment ups four to agent
Also recently serving as a coordinator, Jankovich began his career as an assistant to Brian Davidson and later Gary Gersh. He’s a graduate of the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Michael Ledeen, Reagan adviser in early Iran-contra outreach, dies at 83
He received a bachelor’s degree in history in 1962 from Pomona College in Claremont, California. He earned a doctorate in history and philosophy from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 while he was an assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.
These world leaders went to Harvard before Trump’s foreign student ban
Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who won his mandate to lead the city-state with the ruling People’s Action Party earlier this month, received a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2004. He also earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan, respectively.
Reagan admin official who helped America defeat communism dead at age 83
Ledeen was born in Los Angeles in 1941 and authored numerous books on national security, including “Perilous Statecraft: An Insider’s Account of the Iran-Contra Affair.” He earned a Ph.D. in history and philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His academic advisor at Wisconsin was the prominent historian George Mosse, who fled Nazi Germany because of antisemitism.
I joined Meta during its ‘year of efficiency.’ I used 4 strategies to get promoted and grow my salary by $300,000 in 2 years.
In the summer before I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I had the opportunity to intern with Meta. I loved the scale of the projects the company worked on, and I returned to the company full time as a software engineer in 2023 — Meta’s “year of efficiency.”
Permission to be ill
Part of this path to acceptance was to get out in front of audiences and talk again – slurred speech, flailing tongue and all. A pivotal moment came at an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall of 2023, about a year to the day that I began suffering from symptoms. I was terrified of embarrassing myself, but I walked to the podium and, before I began, openly and honestly described my condition to the audience.
Director at HUD appointed as new Madison housing director
Ruppel graduated from UW-Madison with master’s degrees in urban planning and public affairs. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brazil slaughterhouses reduce ties to Amazon deforestation, but cattle laundering remains issue
The audit was part of a settlement agreement reached in 2009. Formally known as Legal Beef Conduct Adjustment Agreement, it aims to stop companies from purchasing cattle raised in illegally deforested areas of the Amazon. It has technical support from civil organizations, such as Imaflora and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
A visit to the architecture biennale: Robots, roofs and a porch
li’s sales and strategy teams are spending three days at what he calls “Meat School,” a Chomps-designed course on meat-stick manufacturing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, learning exactly why Chomps “is a very hard product to make.”
Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
Realta raised $36 million in a round led by Future Ventures with participation from other investors, including Avila VC, GSBackers, Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, SiteGround, TitletownTech, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
The Trump administration pauses a moonshot push to grow biofuel crops with less fertilizer
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ($5.5 million) would work on improving the ability of certain bacteria to deliver nitrogen to crops – and on introducing nitrogen-fixing traits into corn and sorghum.
Defendants in Georgia ‘Cop City’ case say they are in limbo as trial delays continue
“I was there as both a scholar and an activist,” said Kass, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies land struggles and teaches environmental social sciences to undergraduates.
Oshkosh calls for more funding to reimburse municipalities for state-owned properties
State facilities in Madison, home to the state Capitol and UW-Madison, have a property value of more than $8.3 billion, according to the DOA spreadsheet. State facilities account for roughly $10.7 million in police and $10.7 million in fire costs to the city. But the city of Madison’s reimbursement is a little less than $8.1 million.
In a statement, Dylan Brogan, a spokesperson for the city of Madison, said the city’s fire department responded last summer to a large fire at UW-Madison’s Agricultural Research Station, which required firefighters to work “through the night to contain the threat.”
5 Wisconsin venues to experience vibrant spring flowers
The ornate Royal Thai Pavilion & Garden was a gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the Thai government. Along with the pavilion, the Thai garden features large leafed shrubs and bamboos, all giving the area a tropical look.
How do parents raise all their kids to be successful? New book by Yale professor, ‘The Family Dynamic,’ uncovers clues
Now, she says, the two boys could not be more different: One is the social chair of his fraternity at the huge University of Wisconsin, while his other attends a school of 400 where “they basically study ancient Greek and read Aristotle.” And, she adds, “we’ll never know: Were they reacting to each other, or did they just come out that way, and all the parenting in the world wasn’t going to make them more similar?”
UW-Madison faculty seek ‘mutual defense compact’ with Big Ten against Trump administration
Facing what they called “existential threats,” UW-Madison faculty called on their leaders Monday to defend themselves against President Donald Trump’s administration by joining forces with other Big Ten universities.
Madison’s new generation of leaders faces scrutiny, policy hurdles
Professionally, Benford works with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Odyssey Project as its social worker and success coach. He’s also a graduate of the Odyssey Project, which allows adults to pursue higher education without economic barriers, and many of its students are people of color, come from lower-income backgrounds, are incarcerated, or are older.
WPR and PBS Wisconsin sustain Wisconsin democracy
Wisconsin Public Radio has, in varying forms, been an essential part of this state’s media landscape for more than a century. PBS Wisconsin, with roots tracing back to the early days of WHA-TV, has been just as essential for the past 70 years.
Tom Still: Rural health advances may be jeopardized by federal cuts
The National Farm Medicine Center was established in 1981 as a nonprofit entity dedicated to rural health and safety research and service. It partners with Marshfield Clinic Research Institute and the University of Wisconsin Extension on studies that have shown strong results over time.
Wisconsin remains the cranberry capital of the U.S. – a title it’s held for 30 straight years
As the 2025 growing season begins, the state’s cranberry industry remains committed to sustainability and innovation. Each year, growers invest more than $300,000 in research initiatives funded through the Wisconsin Cranberry Board in partnership with researchers from University of Wisconsin and United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Services to ensure continued success for generations to come.
Trump team pauses a moonshot push to grow biofuel crops with less fertilizer
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ($5.5 million) would work on improving the ability of certain bacteria to deliver nitrogen to crops – and on introducing nitrogen-fixing traits into corn and sorghum.
Cuts to US science will take a generation to repair — leaders must speak up now
The United States had a taste of such a gap during the Vietnam War. At the time, academic scientists found themselves caught in the crosshairs of zealous anti-war activists who, despite scant evidence, accused them broadly of collaborating on weapons research in support of the war. In 1970, the situation reached a violent crescendo with the death of Robert Fassnacht, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was working in a building that was bombed by anti-war protesters.
This 22-year-old grad says she’s negotiated every job offer she’s gotten—here’s her best tip for making the ask
Jama, 22, is a business and economics student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and will start an analyst job after graduating in May.
Smith: Rice Lake provides test for anglers and banana superstition at 2025 Governor’s Fishing Opener
The Governor’s Fishing Opener was initiated by Knowles, a Wisconsin native, graduate of the University of Wisconsin’s law school, World War II veteran and avid angler.
Young Americans sour on Trump’s China tariffs despite election-year bump
Benjamin Rothove, a 20-year-old who chairs the College Republicans chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, called Trump’s initial tariff roll-out “shockingly high” and “kind of crazy.”
Lawrence Wong: Who is Singapore’s Prime Minister?
During his childhood, Wong was once bound up and held at knife-point when his home was ransacked by thieves — a story he later recounted as education minister. Years later, he obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan, respectively. He also received a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build
Some of those professors believed so strongly in democratic access to media that they built radio stations with their own hands, including one at the University of Wisconsin. In other cases, professors experimented with performing live drama. Ohio State University broadcast the first educational radio Shakespeare performances in the late 1920s.
Protesters in Milwaukee and Madison rally for worker and immigrant rights
“There are crackdowns on our livelihoods, our communities, our families,” said a speaker who identified himself as a University of Wisconsin-Madison student whose family is from Nicaragua. “These are echoes of the past.
Three assembly members form Wisconsin’s first Legislative Asian Caucus
Maydev is the first South Asian elected to the Assembly and represents the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and other parts of the state’s capital city. She noted that her district is about 17% Asian American and she represents the highest concentration of Asian Americans in the state.
One year later: UW-Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment in photos
One year ago today, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin authorized campus and local police to raid University of Wisconsin Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment on the third day.
‘Lost’ fumbling these 2 controversial characters still makes zero sense 18 years later
Audiences saw Ethan showing up on day one of the plane crash, wearing a T-shirt from the University of Wisconsin. He offered clothes to anyone who had lost their luggage and was just being a nice guy.
Harvard University renames its DEI office as its battle with the Trump administration expands to more fronts
Charleston has been the subject of conservative criticism in the past, facing allegations that much of her academic writing was plagiarized from her husband, LaVar Charleston. Earlier this year, he was removed from his position as the head of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Oconomowoc police shoot sandhill crane, DNR shares tips to address bird nuisances
About 48% of surveyed state residents opposed crane hunting while 35% were neutral and 17.6% supported it, when asked by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center for a 2023 study.
State lawmakers want to pave the way for Wisconsin’s unique nuclear power research
Three of the country’s 25 nuclear fusion companies are located in Wisconsin, with ties to the top-ranked nuclear engineering program at UW-Madison. A package of bills in the state Legislature would pave the way for these companies and others to eventually build fusion reactors in the state.
Why high school seniors’ ‘rejection cake’ trend is going viral on TikTok
Skala, who is attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison and plans to study kinesiology, says things worked out in the end.
“Sometimes admission processes are just a gamble, and your self worth shouldn’t be defined by a school or a decision,” Skala says. “Having other people relate to it makes it easier.”
State joins lawsuit to block Trump administration cancellation of AmeriCorps
“I was completely blindsided,” Parker Kuehni told the Wisconsin Examiner on Tuesday. The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with a degree in global health was in his second year with AmeriCorps, working at a Madison free health clinic and preparing to start medical school in June when he learned Monday morning that the program was canceled.
Feds reveal how immigration squad targeted thousands of foreign students
“You could have sent a letter to all these universities and said, ‘Those people have come up on a hit, you may want to check them out,’” the judge said. Even after the hearing, it remained unclear how deeply DHS officials examined the reasons students had “hits” in the federal criminal justice database run by the National Crime Information Center, or NCIC. The University of Wisconsin student who brought the suit that led to Tuesday’s hearing, Akshar Patel, had faced a reckless driving charge but it was ultimately dismissed.
Judge Hannah Dugan has all-star legal team, including ‘LeBron James of lawyers’
Richard Frohling, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, oversees the federal team. He has spent much of his career as a prosecutor. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School and working as a law clerk and in private practice, Frohling joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Milwaukee in 2000. He was named first assistant in 2015. He has twice been the Acting U.S. Attorney and briefly served as U.S. attorney in 2022.
UW professors discuss attacks on higher education, ‘fragility’ of U.S. democracy
With the 100th day of President Donald Trump’s second term in office approaching, University of Wisconsin-Madison professors and staff met Thursday to take stock of the growing threats to higher education and U.S. democracy and to discuss collective action to push back.