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.
When Theodore “Ted” Cohen published his first novel, “Full Circle,” he mailed it to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Physics with a check and a note, reading, “In partial repayment of a debt long overdue.”
Ed Irwin’s working to help other consumers (of mental health services) and students who will be social workers.
UW-Madison students were able to experience KlezKamp, a celebration of Yiddish culture, thanks to the William & Marjorie Coleman Fund for Undergraduate Learning Enhancement. The Madison Summer KlezKamp will be held July 10-14.
Pharmacy gives April Jue the opportunity to blend her interest in seeing results for patients with her love of science. Thanks to the Pharmacy Alumni Association (PAA) and several hundred alumni and friends, Jue has another opportunity: She can seriously consider studying in Ecuador this summer.
The land-grant university system, which allows ordinary people to follow their dreams, is vital to democracy, says Robert Spitze, a product of four land-grant institutions including the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With the Robert G. F. and Hazel T. Spitze Land Grant Faculty Award for Excellence in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, he hopes to ensure the land-grant tradition will not be forgotten.
