After spending a short time in industry, he joined the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin in 1965 and retired in 1990. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he taught many different courses in the area of structural engineering and developed special courses in thin shell structures.
Upon graduation, she worked at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Memorial Union.
Dr. Lucille Barash Glicklich Rosenberg accomplished something rare in 1950. She graduated from UW-Madison as a pediatrician.
It was one of many accomplishments throughout her career that contributed to her reputation as a trailblazing woman in medicine in the Milwaukee area.
At a time when autistic children were denied admission to public school, her founding of Los Niños, an early haven of acceptance for autistic children, was a testament to both her empathy and her drive for practical solutions. This same blend fueled her academic achievements – a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a position as a beloved professor and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Robert worked at Ray-O-Vac for 12 years; and later as an Administrator with the UW – School of Medicine and Public Health’s Center for Health Policy and Program Evaluation (CHPPE) and the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute. He retired from the University after more than 30 years in 2009.
For more than 30 years, Mary worked for the State of Wisconsin finishing her career as a program assistant at the UW Carbone Cancer Center where she often joked that she started at the Cancer Center BC (before Carbone).
In 1983, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology with a joint appointment in the Department of Genetics. Al was an international recognized authority on the genetics of host-pathogen interactions.
He joined University of Wisconsin Madison-Extension as an Assistant Professor and Community Development Educator in Sauk, Kenosha and Racine counties. He was promoted to Professor and named Director of UW-Extension Local Government Center in Madison, WI.
Many physicists took to X, formerly Twitter, to pay tribute to Higgs and share their favourite memories of him. “RIP to Peter Higgs. The search for the Higgs boson was my primary focus for the first part of my career. He was a very humble man that contributed something immensely deep to our understanding of the universe,” posted Kyle Cranmer, physicist at the University of Wisconsin Madison and previously a senior member of the Higgs search team at the CMS.
In 1960, Julius returned to the University of Wisconsin as an assistant professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Genetics. There he discovered how bacteria sense attractants and repellants; this research, the study of “Chemotaxis,” was carried out for 40 years. Julius opened up this field; there are now over 1000 scientists, worldwide, studying it.
Lois was employed at Springs Window Fashions, formerly Grabers of Middleton, for several years and later at UW Hospitals and the Physical Plant in Madison as a housekeeper and janitor for almost 23 years. She often spoke with kindness of all the caring people she came in contact with and enjoyed her work very much.
Later in her career she worked both at the UW Medical School and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine doing medical transcription.
She believed that further education would offer new opportunities and so she earned, with honors, an MA in Public Policy and Administration with a concentration in bioethics from The LaFollette Institute at UW and immediately accepted a position as a staff member in the office of the Health Sciences Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University. Shelley’s charm often won the day in vital ethics deliberations.
She attended the University of Denver and later the University of Wisconsin.
After graduating from high school, Mrs. Coopersmith studied at the University of Denver and later at the University of Wisconsin, where she joined the Young Democrats and worked for Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) on his unsuccessful bid for the 1952 presidential nomination.
He was employed by the University of Wisconsin Madison Space Science and Engineering Center for over 30 years. Robert received Emeritus status July 20, 2001.
“His most influential insights, in my view, can be divided into three areas,” says Strier. The first was that
“nonhuman primates are more thoughtful than we thought, in both their cognitive abilities and in their empathy
and morality,” he says, spurring more ethical treatment of primates. The second: Frans’ “fine-grained observations
of individuals in social groups, powerful experimental and analytical designs, and informative comparisons among
closely-related species” showed the scientific community that a tremendous amount can be observed and
concluded about primates through non-invasive techniques. The third, Streir says, is that “through his work we
have gained new perspectives” on the evolution of our own behavior as humans.
He moved to the United States in 1981 to take a take a position at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center in Madison and subsequently lectured at the University of Wisconsin. In 1991, he became a research professor at Emory and later was named director of its primate center.
He and Ms. Marin married in 1980 to make it easier for them to move to the United States as a couple. The next year, Professor de Waal took a job at the Wisconsin Primate Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His interest in math led Ed, as a teenager, to write a book about square roots, and later to study the subject at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1964.
Dr. Bordwell taught at the University of Wisconsin for 30 years and wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books, including “Film Art: An Introduction” (1979), a textbook written with his wife that is widely used in film studies programs.
Qualls, who coached the Badgers from 1976 to 1986, died unexpectedly last month at the age of 76. She was the first Black women’s basketball coach in the Big Ten, arriving at Wisconsin just as women’s sports were trying to find their footing following the passage of the historic Title IX legislation in 1972.
She settled on botany instead. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1948, a master’s from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950 and a doctorate from Yale in 1955, all in botany.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin’s art school in 1943 and accepted a job as a $15-a-week copywriter at Women’s Wear Daily magazine after winning Vogue magazine’s Prix de Paris writing contest.
Born Iris Barrel in 1921 in Queens, New York, she studied art history at New York University and later attended art school at the University of Wisconsin.
Apfel studied art history at New York University before attending art school at the University of Wisconsin. After graduating, she was a copywriter for Women’s Wear Daily, a fashion trade journal. At 27, she met her husband, Carol Apfel, and they married a year later.
Iris studied art history at New York University and art at the University of Wisconsin, worked for Women’s Wear Daily, and apprenticed with the interior designer Elinor Johnson before opening her own design firm.
Before her daily home office was in use, Viola did work for the State of Wisconsin Purchasing Department for many years on the UW campus.
When David Bordwell saw a movie, he preferred to sit in the center of the front row, the screen filling his vision. What he observed from his seat changed the way the world saw film.
David Bordwell, an influential film scholar and longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Feb. 29 after battling a “long illness,” according to the university. He was 76.
Former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Edwina Qualls, the first Black women’s basketball coach in the Big Ten Conference, died earlier this month. She was 76.
Estella Leopold graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1948, received her master’s at the University of California Berkeley and earned a doctorate in botany from Yale University in 1955.
Phil was a professor in the Department of Soil Science at UW-Madison from 1973 to 2007. He skillfully taught graduate courses in environmental chemistry and trained and inspired many graduate students from around the world to conduct research about the soil-water-plant system.
His public broadcasting career included posts as Production Manager of the University of Michigan Television Center, assisting in the development of Hawaii Public Television, General Manager of WHA Radio and Television and Director of Telecommunications for the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Vice President for Telecommunications at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Acting President of National Public Radio.
Former University of Wisconsin center Larry Petty, who played for the Badgers from 1977-81, died last month at his home in Poynette. He was 65.
Undaunted by having no idea where Wisconsin was, in 1949, they caught a train to Madison. Performing well in her graduate studies with Konrad Akert, and after a six month visit to New Orleans (more on that later), she joined the UW faculty. She was drawn to study sports skills.
A humble gentleman and scholar, Glenn defined the field of Rural Population, and was a founder of the WIS Applied Population Lab. Yet his personal inspiration came from “his students,” now professors, authors, and mentors alike.
In 1974, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty as Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and headed the Division of Endocrinology. During his career, he was instrumental in pioneering research on hypertension and hormonal regulation in pregnancy, significantly advancing the field. Dr. Ehrlich’s legacy includes the establishment of the “Great People Scholarship” at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, a tribute to his mentorship.
Bernard Cohen, a professor of political science who served in many leadership roles at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, including a year as acting chancellor, died on January 9. He was 97.
After a year at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he was recruited to UW-Madison’s Department of Rural Sociology where he taught and conducted research from 1972 to 2001.
In 1979, he, Ellen, and their son, Jeremiah, moved to Wisconsin, where Marshall joined the Journalism Department and the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1988 until his retirement from UW in 2009, he helped to create and taught annually at a variety of workshops and retreats including the Weekend Retreat for Novelists, the Writer’s Institute, and Write by the Lake. In 2003, Marshall joined the fledgling UW Odyssey Project where for the next 18 years he passed along his enthusiasm for language and writing to nearly 600 Odyssey students.
Jack served in the U.S. Army. He earned his bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison and went on to earn a master’s degree in journalism from UW-Madison in 1953. After earning his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan, Jack joined the UW faculty in 1962. He served as a Journalism and Mass Communication professor for UW-Madison for 38 years, where he taught graduate students from all over the world.
After receiving a master’s degree in 1965, Linda continued her studies and also began a long career as an academic advisor in the history department. She later joined the School of Education Academic Services office, serving as assistant dean and advisor. In 2000, Linda received the school’s Ann Wallace Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award.
Jim enlisted in the army in 1947, and served until 1949. After discharge, he worked at Ray-O-Vac for three years, then was the assistant registrar at UW-Madison for ten years. He then took a role at UW-Madison’s Administrative Data Processing (now DoIT) where he worked in management for 28 years, retiring in 1987.
He spent his entire career as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, endearing himself to thousands of students. As they say frequently, “He taught me to think.” He retired as Professor of Political Science and as the Herbert and Evelyn Howe Professor of Integrated Liberal Studies.
Bernie joined the UW-Madison faculty in 1959, chairing the Department of Political Science from 1966-1969. He served as associate dean of the Graduate School from 1971-1975, as vice chancellor for academic affairs from 1984-1986, and as acting chancellor in 1987.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Mr. Jones taught from 1988 to 1997 and was a professor emeritus, he was part of “one of the most distinguished political science faculties in the country,” Mr. Baker said.
After a post-doctoral fellowship at UNC, Dr. Adams joined the Sociology faculty of University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965. For nearly 50 years he taught courses on Social Theory and large lecture classes on Marriage and the Family, reaching some 20,000 UW students.
Cohen, who studied foreign policy and mass media’s role in shaping it, spent three decades at UW-Madison, first joining the faculty in 1959 and later serving as chair of the political science department. Cohen later transitioned into administrative roles, including associate dean of the Graduate School in the 1970s and vice chancellor of academic affairs in the 1980s.
Dr. Jones, an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, devoted decades to explaining the American democratic process — why citizens vote as they do, how politicians wield or fail to wield their power while in office, and how the branches of government interact.
Following his Air Force service Paul worked at the University of Wisconsin School of Business in Madison and was a program director at the Fluno Center.
He received a PhD in 1961 from the University of Wisconsin in Electrical Engineering and taught for 34 years at UW-Madison. A highlight was receiving a Fulbright Scholarship in 1968 and spending an adventurous year in Germany with Elaine and 4 young children.
Harry worked in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the UW-Madison from 1961 until retiring as an Associate Professor in 1995, at which time he was honored with an Emeritus appointment.
Jim worked as a Network and Systems Engineer in various locations, most recently at the University of Wisconsin Department of Information Technology.
At his core, Jon was always a farmer and a statistician, vocations he passionately pursued throughout his life. He became an Assistant Professor of Agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976.
He attended the University of Wisconsin before dropping out and enlisting in the Army during World War II.
Herb Kohl, the former U.S. senator, Milwaukee Bucks owner and retail shopping magnate, died Wednesday afternoon at the age of 88 after a brief illness.
Kohl’s death was announced by the Herb Kohl Foundation.
Kohl’s giving also touched his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he roomed with future Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. Kohl’s name graces the school’s basketball and ice hockey arena after a $25 million gift to the project and he gave extensively to the university’s LaFollette School of Public Affairs.
She worked as a visiting nurse in Kenosha, Wis., and spent the greater part of her nursing career in Madison as the coordinator for UW-Extension Wisconsin Inactive Nurse Studies (WINS) program until her retirement in 1996.
He worked and retired for the UW -Madison at Arlington where he helped to take care of the cattle.
