A $1.5 million alum gift helps the Department of Mechanical Engineering better prepare students for a dynamic industry.
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Love of Big Ideas Led Inventor to Wisconsin Project
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.
Moving the Student Giving Spirit
By several measures, students giving to support UW–Madison and their awareness of its importance leaped forward in 2011.
Helping One Aids Many
Abby Bernhagen, recipient of a Great People Scholarship, tested wastewater from the Salvadoran community of Nejapa as a member of the student organization Engineers Without Borders–El Salvador.
Why I Give: Russell Has Witnessed What Giving Makes Possible
Jeff Russell has seen what philanthropy can do on campus, and that’s a big reason he and his wife, Vicki, support the UW-Madison.