Samuel O. Regalado, history professor at California State University, Stanislaus, will discuss how baseball helped Japanese Americans develop an identity and bond with America in the Selig Distinguished Lecture in Sport and Society on Tuesday, January 24, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Student Organizations Kick Off Social Media Challenge to Benefit Scholarships
Inspired by The Bucky Challenge, the University of Wisconsin Student Foundation and the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board are raising money for the Great People Scholarship through social media.
Henderson, Harrigan Named Champion Award Winners
Douglass Henderson, professor of Engineering Physics, and Margaret Harrigan, a senior policy and planning analyst in the Office of Academic Planning & Analysis, are the winners of the Women’s Philanthropy Council’s 2011 Champion Awards.
Mellon Foundation Grant Helps Sustain DARE to Completion
The completion of the print and digital editions of The Dictionary of American Regional English is being aided through a recent $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York.
Oscar Rennebohm Foundation made $1 Million Gift to School of Nursing near Spring Game
The secret is out. The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation made its second $1 million gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing in advance of the Badgers’ Spring Football Game. The gift was announced at the May game, but it was anonymous.