Brookfield – He’s the pride of the Packers, Sports Illustrated magazine’s Sportsman of the Year, and a nearly unavoidable celebrity.
On Thursday, Brett Favre’s image even joined the effort to build support for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its ambitions to expand as a catalyst of research, technology innovation and risk-friendly start-up companies.
In a show of support, UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley drove in from Madison to attend the event at the Brookfield Suites Hotel and Convention Center.
Milwaukee cannot thrive without a research complex, Wiley said. UWM needs to expand “as fast as possible, to be the biggest and best research university that it possibly can be,” Wiley said.
Favre is the epitome of the “thoughtful risk taker,” said Colin Scanes, UWM’s vice chancellor for research and economic development.