The University Staff Blog is a collective effort. We wish to raise the general profile of the staff itself within the campus community, a diverse blog helps do that. We also strive to better articulate the role of the University Staff on campus and the people who make it up. We have tried to do that by profiling both the types of jobs they do and the extraordinary effort they put forth. Lastly, we try to show that the interests of the staff are as wide and varied as the staff itself. While we try to pay particular attention to world and historic events that have a tie into working people, the UW, and Wisconsin in general, we also try to cover a large variety of subjects and make the blog a brief stop for people to get a short educational download on a topic they may not have explored before.
Number of posts: 298 on 5/10/2018
A Labor of Love
It was on this day, 10 May, in 1981 that film director Richard Attenbourgh completed work on his masterpiece, GANDHI. A film about the life of the independence activist had been a dream project for …
May 10, 2018The Making of Modern Russia
It was on 7 May, in 2000, that Vladimir Putin first took office for a full term as President of Russia. Putin was born in Leningrad, Russia, in 1952. His mother was a factory worker …
May 7, 2018Uncle Charlie Turns 200
It was 200 years ago, on 5 May, 1818, that philosopher Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany. His 1848 pamphlet, ‘The Communist Manifesto’ and his three volume magnum opus, ‘ Das Kapital’, are still …
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