Category: UW-Madison Related

Oscar Mayer’s roots date to 1883; the company opened in Madison in 1919, 95 years ago, and the first Wienermobile debuted in 1936 when UW-Madison graduate Carl Mayer, nephew of the company’s founder, Oscar F. Mayer, suggested using a 13-foot metal hot dog on wheels to transport the company spokesman around Chicago.

Noted: How those crystals are heated and cooled can make all the difference, said Rich Hartel, a food-science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies candy-making.

Photo caption from story features UW-Madison students John Baynton, Tony Schmitz, Megan Jass and Katie Schultz slicing and packaging bacon at Bucky’s Butchery. UW meat specialist Sindelar also comments.

Faculty and staff at UW-Madison can apply for $500 grants to spread awareness of the Wisconsin Idea, which aims to ?improve people?s lives beyond the classroom,? Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said in a UW-Madison release Thursday.

Noted: After graduating from the Monona Grove School District, Meinert studied jazz under renowned UW-Madison music professor Jimmy Cheatham.

Noted: A graduate of Memorial High School and UW-Madison (and the University of Michigan), Kennelly has the chops to dish local history and neighborhood knowledge.

Noted: Mr. Bussey, 60, began by copying classic reference books like S. A. Beach?s ?The Apples of New York? and W. H. Ragan?s ?Nomenclature of the Apple,? both published in 1905. But his weekend jags to the agricultural library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began to turn up sources his forerunners had never seen. Almost without planning, he eclipsed them in scope.

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.