Tag: impact of gifts

Tax Program Helps Working Poor

Thanks to a free tax preparation program, families across the country claim deserved deductions and receive student aid.

Dream it, Design it, Build it

A $1.5 million alum gift helps the Department of Mechanical Engineering better prepare students for a dynamic industry.

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.

An Upbeat Investment in Young Musicians

Pianist-composer Johannes Wallmann, formerly director of jazz studies at California State University, East Bay, was hired from a field of more than 140 applicants and started this fall as the John and Carolyn Peterson Professor of Jazz.