The Impact of Gifts

When it comes to annual giving, the School of Education’s Board of Visitors (BOV) earns a perfect score. One hundred percent of the 17 members committed to make gifts to the School’s annual fund – a unique feat

Annual fund gifts help UW-Madison professors and students help Wisconsin’s fruit growers.

Thanks to a free tax preparation program, families across the country claim deserved deductions and receive student aid.

A $1.5 million alum gift helps the Department of Mechanical Engineering better prepare students for a dynamic industry.

Fourteen years ago, Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering Gerald Kulcinski sat down for lunch with a fellow member of the National Academy of Engineering, Wilson Greatbatch. That chance meeting led to a decade-long collaboration between Greatbatch and the UW-Madison fusion engineering team.

Alzheimer’s research at the UW-Madison is advancing on many fronts. Passion and concern can be seen in the number of individual and foundation donors backing Alzheimer’s research efforts..

Pianist-composer Johannes Wallmann, formerly director of jazz studies at California State University, East Bay, was hired from a field of more than 140 applicants and started this fall as the John and Carolyn Peterson Professor of Jazz.

Ann Coplan’s grandparents inspire her. “All four of them have shaped my life in various ways, and I would not be the person I am today without them,” she wrote. Coplan, who received the George Koeppel and Frances Z. Combee scholarships, follows two of her grandparents into teaching.