University Staff Program Associate, Carol Pope, has been volunteering at the Four Lakes Wildlife Center (part of Dane County Humane Society) – its mission is to take in, rehabilitate and release Wisconsin’s Native wild animals. …
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Wagon Train
A lot of people view the summer as a time to visit the community pool, catch up with a good book, or picnic in the park. Members of the UW-Madison Classified Staff however see the …
A Sweet Reward for Serious Service
Member of the UW-Madison classified staff, Academic Department Manager Tina Hunter, was recently honored (see photo) for her service on the Board of Education of the Stoughton Area School District from April 2009 – April 2015, …
An Activist Shaped by War and Study
It sounds like something out of a war comics adventure story, but it is all true. UW-Madison grad John Gilman earned some the highest military honors for bravery in WWII through several heroic exploits. These …
A Senator who would become an ‘ism’…
It has been 58 years since US Senator Joe McCarthy died on 2 May, 1957. He was 48 years old and serving his second term in the US Senate at the time. Senator McCarthy began …
Women’s Leadership and Diversity Framework
Classified Staff was well represented at both events hosted by the Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement (DDEEA): Women in Leadership Symposium and the UW-Madison Diversity Framework Informational Session. For a third year, the Women in Leadership …
UW-Madison Thickens the Plot
Writing a story? Want to make the characters more interesting? Then make one of them a UW-Madison graduate. This weekend will mark the beginning of the last season of the AMC Network television drama, ‘Mad …
From Campus to Congress
On 20 March, 2015, Robert W. Kastenmeier died. A Wisconsin native, Kastenmeier was inducted into the United States Army in 1943, during his service he would visit Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after it had been destroyed …
Honoring Alumni Vel Phillips
We bring you another installment profiling an African-American with a Wisconsin history that made their mark. The first African-American female to earn a Law degree from UW-Madison was Vel Phillips. Ms. Phillips would go on …
UW-Madison Alumni, Hilton Hanna
February is Black History Month so we are going to use this blog to learn a bit more about those who made history in their own way…..people like Hilton Hanna. Mr. Hanna came to Madison …