The Impact of Gifts

A gift from Gary C. Wendt means additional sections of popular courses in the Wisconsin School of Business for non-business majors.

Dr. Taryn Bragg celebrated her wedding with her patients at the American Family Children’s Hospital and designated gifts to benefit the institution.

The Center for Dairy Research is at the heart of Wisconsin’s artisan cheese industry. Now, the cheese makers say thanks by supporting a campaign to renovate center facilities.

For the last three years, UW-Madison interns have worked with the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel thanks to support from Sharon Stark.

Pharmacy research targets Central Nervous System Disorders at the source, in the brain. Assistant Professor Robert Thorne studies how to deliver medication across the blood-brain barrier.

With the proceeds from selling two condominiums in Vail, Colorado, Ed Drager created charitable remainder unitrusts through the UW Foundation. The unitrusts help his current financial situation and eventually will benefit UW-Madison.

Abby Kalscheur may never forget following the spry Guatemalan farmer up the side of a volcano to his milpa, a small subsistence farm. Twenty students and three faculty members struggled to keep up with the father of 10, during an international learning trip.

The renovated School of Human Ecology building will be named for Nancy Johnson Nicholas, a 1955 graduate of the school and the major donor along with husband Albert “Ab” Nicholas for the new facility. Nancy Nicholas Hall, opening in 2012, will be the first facility on campus to be named for a female donor.