by Sara Raab | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Madison has been my adopted home since I first joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor of chemistry in 1970. I was sworn in as a U.S. citizen in 1974 by U.S. District Court Judge James E. Doyle, the father of our current...
by Caleb D. Whitney | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Kristen (my to-be bride) Peil (daughter to Loren and Annie) called me atwork (a vacated dental office complete with circular carpet stain in the chair space).”Can I get up on your roof (shingled in 1942 by Pat Tishler) to take pictures?””… ah, yeah....
by Judy Kolosso | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
to stutter step the heart. Is it autumn with all of its endings–flowers, grasses, cows gone from pasture, now storm windows, weather stripping or finding the old putty knife you used to clean the disk harrow before it was retired to winter over in the machine...
by Margaret Lewis | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Perhaps the holiday season is a good time to remind ourselves how fortunate we are that Wisconsin continues to have a wealth of luminaries who help improve the quality of our lives by bringing high-paying jobs and economic growth to the state. It is these great minds...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
By the time you read this sentence it will be close to, if not, the beginning of a new year. Glasses will be raised, resolutions will be made, and calendars will be tossed in the trash. But the transition from one year to the next should invite some reflection upon...
by Cristina Springfield | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
In the thirty-five-year history of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) School Bell Award in Public Media, no high-school student has ever won. The award, which recognizes those who make outstanding contributions to education news coverage in the state,...
