University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD candidate and first-ever Ouisconsin Scholar Kelly Jakes has focused her research on how and why members of the Resistance used well-known tunes to subvert and battle their occupiers.
Dr. Joshua Medow is finding a way to help children and adults who rely on shunts to drain excess fluid from their brains. A three-year, $300,000 award from The Hartwell Foundation is moving the work forward.
Theodore “Ted” Cohen has authored five novels that share his life experiences—facts wrapped in fiction—that many Badgers will recognize.
While she cannot restore her grandmother’s memories, Ali Brems, a Kenosha, Wisconsin, 18-year-old, wants to help ensure other granddaughters won’t face the same loss. Inspired by an intensive high school course on Alzheimer’s disease, she hosted a Bingo fundraiser for Alzheimer’s disease research as her senior project.
As animal lovers around the world have opened their hearts to help Braveheart, the dog that was rescued from a Kentucky dumpster, compassion and good wishes have washed through the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine.
At the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Baja Wisconsin competition, in Burlington, Wisconsin, university vehicle team members raised $10,000 by running a food stand and serving more than 1,200 attendees. The money has launched an endowment that, with additional alumni support, will preserve the five teams for future generations of students.
As a professor and chair of the Department of Comparative Biosciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, Gordon Mitchell sees the benefits of animal research firsthand- including benefits that save human lives.
I am inspired by all of the nurses I have met through classes and clinical experiences because they embody what I hope to become: a knowledgeable, capable, steady, caring advocate that helps people in need through the medical system in a healing way.
