Top schools like Ohio State University and the University of Alabama pulled in nearly $14 million and $12 million, respectively, last year alone from royalties. Other Division I schools like the University of Nebraska and the University of Wisconsin-Madison made more than $3.5 million each.
Gordon then attended the University of Wisconsin where he made campus news reels, using university equipment, that ran in Madison’s downtown theaters. He left college early to join the Army Air Corps. After his military service, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he filmed commercials and documentaries.
Payne received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in communications and urban and regional planning.
Annie Spurley, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, has doubts about the economy heading into next year’s presidential election. The 21-year-old has had to work more bartending hours than she’d like with her coursework in order to pay her rent.
Created by then-UW-Madison students Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (known collectively as The Zucker Brothers), the Kentucky Fried Theater performed the silliest and smartest comedy in town, and ending up being the runway for the trio that would go on to create 1980’s “Airplane!” and 1988’s “The Naked Gun.”
David Zucker, whose daughter is a senior at UW-Madison, revisited the locale on a recent visit to Madison.
Long before he became a household name, Jim Jordan, the divisive Republican representative from Ohio who failed in his third bid to be named House speaker Friday, spent four years as a successful student-athlete at UW-Madison.
Consortium members include GE HealthCare, Rockwell Automation, Exact Sciences Corp., Accuray, Plexus, Employ Milwaukee, Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Milwaukee and Madison area technical colleges, Milwaukee 7 and the Madison Regional Economic Partnership.
It’s not hard to find situations in which forgiveness might make the world better. For Robert Enright, a professor of educational psychology at UW-Madison and pioneer of the scientific study of forgiveness, the first step starts at home. Only by forgiving those close to us who have harmed us can we become strong enough to think about forgiving more distant enemies, Enright said.
Pro-Palestinian students at the University of Wisconsin rallied, chanting, “Glory to our martyrs.” At a pro-Palestine event at the University of North Carolina, WRAL News reports “an Israeli professor was pushed down the stairs.”
Photo caption: Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick had been filming about the invasive quagga mussel in Lake Huron, which is “bordered by the province of Ontario and the state of Michigan,” according to the University of Wisconsin. (Inspired Planet Productions/FOX Weather)
Before he was vying for Speaker of the House (thus far unsuccessfully), Ohio congressman Jim Jordan was one of the most decorated wrestlers in University of Wisconsin history.
As a wrestler at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was a three-time All-American and a two-time NCAA Champion in the 134-pound weight class. One of his championship victories came over Oklahoma State’s John Smith, who went on to become a two-time Olympic champion.
Omar Zaidan is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His parents are from Gaza and the West Bank.
“It is very stressful, just seeing my entire family react,” said Zaidan. “All of them were very stressed, and wanted to reach out to their families back home.”
Twin Texas cities Midland and Odessa led the list of 20 smaller cities Dallas-area apartment software firm RealPage analyzed, posting rent growth of 13.8% last month from a year ago for new apartment leases. The oil drilling cities rival the double-digit rent growth Florida cities were showing in 2021 and into last year. Madison, Wisconsin, home to the University of Wisconsin’s main campus, followed Midland/Odessa with an 8.8% gain.
This article was originally published in April before Jim Jordan was a candidate for speaker of the House and has been updated.
Miss America, Grace Stanke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear engineering student, won the pageant in December and chose to spend her year holding the title to promote nuclear energy.
The lawsuit is filed on behalf of: Julie Underwood, former dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Education; Charles Uphoff, former member of the Oregon School Board; Randy Wendt, former police officer and school counselor in the Arbor Vitae Woodruff School District; Tom Mueller, a priest from Campbellsport; Angela Rappl, a special education liaison for Milwaukee Public Schools; Dustin Imray, a parent from Madison; and Scott Walker, a parent from Prairie du Chien (not the former governor).
Zhong was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges to which he applied: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cornell University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Caltech, University of Washington and University of Wisconsin.
If you’re a science educator, professional development sessions and lectures on timely topics are often included in science festivals to enrich your curriculum. Take the Badger Talks series from University of Wisconsin-Madison for example, where professors will speak on topics like sustainability, psychedelics research and weather monitoring.
Madison, the capital city of Wisconsin, brings a lot to the table in terms of education. Home to University of Wisconsin Madison, this city has one of the country’s lowest high school dropout rates—just 4.56%—and more than a quarter of its residents hold graduate degrees. Madison also boasts the lowest racial gap in education on our top-five list: a 4.33% disparity when comparing degree completion rates among white students versus all students.
Faulkner, a computer programmer with a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded Epic in a Madison basement in 1979 with just two assistants and $70,000. Today, the company employs over 13,000 people.
I didn’t lose those ideals after returning to the States. I joined an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I made friends among Arab, Jewish and Israeli students. We had no political impact, but it gave me hope just to talk about a future, peaceful Palestinian state over a potluck dinner with those smart, funny, impassioned folks.
After grade school and high school, Cannon later attended the National University of Ireland (Galway) and the Sorbonne in Paris, before graduating from Marquette University. He later graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Dozens of Palestinians gathered outside of Library Mall on the campus of UW-Madison Tuesday night to express their support for their homeland and their concern for those currently surrounded by the violence.
On Sunday, both the Jewish student organization Hillel, located on the UW-Madison campus, and Temple Beth El, in coordination with Jewish Social Services and the Jewish Federation of Madison, held vigils.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is blocking pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees unless the university cuts diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) spending by $32 million. UW Madison student Daniel Wise says getting rid of funding for the program would be a mistake. “As a gay man myself, I just feel that it helped me be accepted at UW Madison,” Wise said.
As an English major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she spent her first fieldwork internship at the Shorewood Library in 1982, where she’s worked ever since.
The survey included respondents from five schools: Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Harvard University, New York University, and University of Central Florida. A majority (58%) reported working or receiving grants to help cover the cost of living during school. Fourteen percent of respondents reported both receiving financial aid and experiencing period poverty.
Noted: Wisconsin continues to have the largest disparity between Black and white male incarceration of any state, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The reigning Miss America is preparing to pass on her crown but not before using a bit of its glamour to give nuclear power a PR rebrand.
Grace Stanke, 21, believes the US needs to boost its atomic energy capacity and she’s not alone.
When you’re unclear about the responsibilities expected of you as a graduate student advisee or research assistant, or if you aren’t sure what you can expect from a faculty mentor, consider drafting together a mentee-mentor agreement. (Examples include Mentoring Compacts/Contracts Examples at UW-Madison.)
PBS Wisconsin Education, along with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Act 31 Coalition provide accurate and authentic educational resources for educators, learners and anyone looking to learn more about the histories, cultures and tribal sovereignty of Wisconsin’s First Nations through the Wisconsin First Nations website.
Helen Faith, the financial aid director at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is usually busy this time of year.
Trump, praising Jordan’s wrestling record, said that “while attending Graham High School, he won State Championships all four years, a rarity, and compiled an amazing 156-1 record. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jim became a two-time NCAA Division l Wrestling Champion.”
Philip Salamone is a classical portrait artist, learning the craft at both UW-Madison and Grand Central Atelier in New York City. In 2010 he returned to Madison, and in an effort to cultivate a community, to teach classes and workshops, and to learn from others, he founded the Atwood Atelier—an institution devoted to teaching traditional drawing and painting from life.
Put on by the university’s Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the conference broadcast from the Fluno Center featured a panel of Black intellectuals and activists including Bob Woodson, founder and president of the Woodson Center and Voices of Black Mothers United, and Wilfred Reilly, assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University.
Some of the early results over the weekend included the Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest won by the University of Minnesota, with three Wisconsin schools, UW-Platteville, UW-Madison and UW-River Falls, finishing fifth, seventh and eighth, respectively.
She turned to the internet for help. After a little detective work, she sent off her sample to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was soon confirmed she had a case of Asiatic garden beetle in her midst, the first ever seen in Minnesota.
Vice President Kamala Harris will not visit UW-Madison this week as originally planned, as she will instead travel to her home state of California for funeral services for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last week.
As of 2021, Madison is the fastest-growing city in Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The city is home to and in close proximity to major employers like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lands’ End, Spectrum Brands, American Girl and more.
2023 Miss Wisconsin USA Alexis Loomans, a Waunakee native, is set to graduate from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with a degree in political science. But, she’s taking home a title from Miss USA first.
The State Journal story, dated Oct. 16, 1945, noted that more than a dozen individuals who either taught or studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison spent time at Los Alamos. Three of them — Joseph McKibben, Joan Hinton and Hugh Richards — I found particularly compelling.
UW-Madison will be fairly isolated from impacts of the looming federal government shutdown in the short term.
Carr, a prolific documentary director, has been a fan of the Bling Ring story since her undergraduate days at the University of Wisconsin.
Rerun of a Wisconsin State Journal editorial that first ran on Oct. 1, 1973.
Former University of Wisconsin star Sam Dekker, who just began his second year playing with the London Lions of the British Basketball League, apparently found a charming reminder of his old home in his new one.
As a young scholar, Dr. Swaminathan specialized in potato breeding, which prompted the University of Wisconsin to invite him to spend time as a postdoctoral fellow.
The festival will include 25 cheese companies in the state and involvement from local chefs, authors, brewers, distillers, sommeliers and chocolate makers. One event teaches how to create a cheese board, another focuses on cooking while others offer up instruction on how to pair cheese with wine, chocolate, beer or bourbon. One event is a mini course in cheese science at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison and includes a luncheon with certified Master Cheesemakers.
“The party that puts the first fresh face forward wins this election,” Ryan said at an event on the University of Wisconsin campus organized by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Ryan, speaking at the University of Wisconsin, expressed hope that Republican rivals to front-runner Trump would by then consolidate behind the one showing the most momentum — and deprive Trump of the nomination.
“I am doing everything in my wheelhouse to be able to afford to live,” said Olivia Steele, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree and about $25,000 in debt. “I drive an old car; I don’t go on fancy trips or anything. Having payments come back will ruin me.”
Arturo ‘Tito’ Diaz is director of the University of Wisconsin School of Business Multicultural Center, a center he helped launch in the fall of 2021 as an inclusive gathering place for students in Grainger Hall, making Wisconsin one of the first business schools in the nation to offer a dedicated space to support underrepresented students.
On September 21, you’ll likely hear the famous Earth, Wind, and Fire lyrics somewhere. The upbeat tune has become one of the group’s most famous songs at weddings and parties. What makes UW-Madison students and staff, particularly in the journalism program, excited about the song? The lyrics trace back to a Badger.
The same criticism about a lack of meaningful empirical tests could be made about other theories of consciousness, says Erik Hoel, a neuroscientist and writer who lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, and who is a former student of Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is a proponent of IIT. “Everyone who works in the field has to acknowledge that we don’t have perfect brain scans,” he says. “And yet, somehow, IIT is singled out in the letter as this being a problem that’s unique to it.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison saw its highest overall U.S. News ranking in the past 15 years; it’s the fifth year in a row that the university has moved up the rankings. It’s jumped 14 places since ranking 49th in 2019.
UW’s Odyssey Project plays a key role in helping returning prisoners and other disadvantaged learners overcome economic, social and educational barriers.
The Odyssey Project was founded in 2003 and has six programs spanning all age groups.
Will Hazeltine just wanted free coffee.
One of only four in the world outside of Thailand, the Royal Thai Pavilion arrived in Wisconsin in 2001 as a gift to UW-Madison from the government of Thailand and the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
UW-Madison saw a similar records backlog after the onset of the pandemic, when local and national media, advocacy groups, parents, and local and state officials sought records related to the university’s response, according to UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas.
“Issues of high interest, which can develop at any time, tend to generate a large volume of complex requests that can impact completion times.” Lucas said in a statement.
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit UW-Madison in the coming weeks as part of a monthlong college tour highlighting the Biden administration’s policies, including reproductive rights, climate action and voting rights. (UW-Madison isn’t a sponsor of the event.)
Later, Jordan graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, where he was a two-time wrestling champion of the National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA.
