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.
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Personal Experiences Inspire Alzheimer’s Research
Alzheimer’s research at the UW-Madison is advancing on many fronts. Passion and concern can be seen in the number of individual and foundation donors backing Alzheimer’s research efforts..
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.
Ann Coplan- Inspired to Teach
Ann Coplan’s grandparents inspire her. “All four of them have shaped my life in various ways, and I would not be the person I am today without them,” she wrote. Coplan, who received the George Koeppel and Frances Z. Combee scholarships, follows two of her grandparents into teaching.
A Gift that Goes all the Way to Troy
Gifts to the College of Letters & Science allowed Professor William Aylward to involve students in his archaeological expedition of Troy.