Category: UW-Madison Related

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.

Noted: Gary Sandefur, dean of letters and science and professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has been appointed as provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Oklahoma State University.

Noted: Jordan has no degrees or diplomas from the University of Wisconsin-Madison or the London School of Economics (LSE), the two institutions cited on his CV.

The medical examiner said Wednesday morning that the woman who shot herself in a wooded area on Madison?s west side Tuesday has died.

A bank robber is on the loose and police want to catch him. Authorities say around 6 p.m. a man wearing a red University of Wisconsin baseball cap walked into the U.S. Bank inside the Schnucks on Big Bend in Twin Oaks.

?It leaves us with kind of a hollow feeling when we can?t help somebody, when we can?t get them the medical help, psychiatric help that they need,? University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling said.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found more specific barriers for abuse survivors working to achieve financial independence, particularly when it comes to opening a new bank account. Current laws make it more difficult for consumers to close co-held accounts on their own, for example. And financial institutions often require proof of address or other requisites that may make it more difficult for survivors living in shelters or elsewhere.

Ald. Scott Resnick plans to run for mayor of Madison, a source close to the common council member told the Capital Times.Resnick, 27, is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate who has represented the student-dominated 8th District for three years. He told the Capital Times Thursday he would have a final decision by next week.

The Center for World University Rankings has ranked the University of Wisconsin as the 25th-best university in the world.

Wisconsin?s newest invasive species, the Asian crazy worm, has been found for the first time on the University of Wisconsin campus, according to a release.