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Capturing Conflict Photographer Lynsey ARBITRARY WORLD BY SUZANNE CAPORAEL, COURTESY OF TANDEM PRESS, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Addario ’95 portrays the human toll and hidden Enrich Your Worldview beauty of troubled regions. This summer, join UW alumni and friends in Madison for a unique July 26–29, 2011 learning opportunity — the 2011 International Convocation.

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Features

20 The Eye of the Storm By David McKay Wilson Lynsey Addario’s recent capture by Libyan forces was just the latest in a series of perils for this frontline photojournalist. But she’s never let danger stop her from bringing her unique perspective to coverage of conflict and humanitarian issues.

30 Oh, My Stars! By John Allen Who are the UW’s all-time awesomest alumni? On Wisconsin picks its list of greatest grads (and even one non-grad) in fields ranging from agriculture to technology. 20 36 Seeing Potential By Susan Lampert Smith ’82 Eight other medical schools turned Tim Cordes MD’04, 30 PhD’07 down flat, but the UW said yes — and discovered a remarkable physician who earned “student of the year” honors, created his own biochemistry software, special- izes in addiction, and happens to be blind.

40 The Class of 2011 By Sam Oleson ’11 and Jenny Price ’96 These seven students are becoming diploma-carrying Badgers this year, joining the ranks of more than 380,000 UW-Madison alumni around the world. They have a firm grasp of reality — but also an inspiring take on what’s to come.

Departments 5 Inside Story 6 Letters 8 Scene 40 10 News & Notes 16 Collection 17 Classroom Cover 18 Sports A moment of grief in Sudan: After witnessing 46 Traditions her husband’s murder in Darfur by Janjaweed 48 Gifts in Action militia, a grandmother and her granddaughter fled to the home of the woman’s son. 49 Badger Connections 66 Flashback Photo by Lynsey Addario

SUMMER 2011 3 Where others saw lumber, he saw the forest.

John Muir, Wisconsin alumnus and America’s most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, saw value in protecting our natural treasures. His vision gave us the national park system.

Since 1848, people at the University of Wisconsin have fearlessly dreamed the ideas that transform the world. It’s not a question of if – only when and how – we will next move the world forward.

Keep on, Wisconsin. Keep on.

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Where others saw lumber, he saw the forest. LYNSEY ADDARIO

John Muir, Wisconsin alumnus and America’s most famous and How do editors influential naturalist and conservationist, saw value in protecting choose what will be on the our natural treasures. His vision gave us the national park system. On Wisconsin cover of a magazine? SUMMER 2011 In terms of subject Since 1848, people at the University of Wisconsin have fearlessly Publisher matter, it’s often an easy Wisconsin Alumni Association decision. Lynsey Addario dreamed the ideas that transform the world. It’s not a question of 650 North Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706 ’95, who shot the photo if – only when and how – we will next move the world forward. Voice: (608) 262-2551 • Toll-free: (888) WIS-ALUM • Fax: (608) 265-8771 we selected for this issue, E-mail: [email protected] Website: onwisconsin.uwalumni.com is one of the world’s fore- Keep on, Wisconsin. Keep on. most photojournalists, and Co-Editors Niki Denison, Wisconsin Alumni Association featuring the talent of such Cindy Foss, University Communications an accomplished alumna Addario shot this image in Afghanistan when she encountered a woman about to give birth and her Senior Editor seemed particularly appro- mother. Their borrowed car had broken down, so the John Allen, Wisconsin Alumni Association priate as we recognize photographer gave them and the baby’s father a ride to the hospital. Senior Writer the Wisconsin Alumni Jenny Price ’96, University Communications Association’s 150th anniversary this year. It’s not every day that On Wisconsin gets Art Director Earl J. Madden MFA’82, to showcase such amazing work. University Communications Clinching the decision was the fact that Addario made international head- Production Editor lines in March when she and three other journalists, including fellow alum Anthony Eileen Fitzgerald ’79, Shadid ’90, were captured in Libya while covering the conflict there for the New University Communications York Times. After breathing a collective sigh of relief once the four were released, Editorial Associates the editors agreed that this made Addario’s story even more newsworthy. Paula Apfelbach ’83 and Ben Wischnewski ’05, Wisconsin Alumni Association Choosing which of the photographer’s stunning shots to put on the cover was

Editorial Intern more difficult. As art director Earl Madden MFA’ 82 commented (several times), Sam Oleson ’11 Addario’s range of vision is remarkable. She has an innate eye for composition Design, Layout, and Production and detail, giving much of her work a painterly quality. Barry Carlsen MFA’83; Toni Good ’76, MA’89; Fortunately, a few practicalities helped to narrow down the choices. Cover Kent Hamele ’78, University Communications shots must have space at the top for the magazine’s title. And while the format of Campus Advisers Paula Bonner MS’78, President and CEO, On Wisconsin is vertical, many of Addario’s shots were horizontal. Cropping a hori- and Mary DeNiro, Vice President of Marketing zontal image was an option, but this robbed many of the photos of their artistry. and Communications, Wisconsin Alumni Still, Madden found some images that could be cropped, including a photo Association • Amy E. Toburen ’80, Director, University Communications • Lynne Johnson, of two women in burkas crossing a desolate mountainside (published here); the Senior Director of External Relations, haunting image on page 25; and the shot of the woman and child that, in the end, University of Wisconsin Foundation we chose for the cover. As scenic as the other two photos were, this one was Advertising Representative Madison Magazine: (608) 270-3600 the most powerful. As co-editor Cindy Foss said, the incongruity of the image is compelling, as the eye is drawn to the contrast between the peaceful, sleeping Alumni Name, Address, Phone, and E-Mail Changes • Death Notices child and the grieving woman. It speaks volumes about the empathy of a master Madison area: (608) 262-9648 picture-maker and her compassionate eye. Toll-free: (888) 947-2586 E-mail: [email protected] We hope you agree.

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Makin’ the Scene The Badger football team and its entourage From the Web of ardent fans had an eye for landmark sites I commend the university for having the New in Los Angeles for their pregame rallies. Badger Partnership plan in place [“Bipartisan The panoramic view of the scenic Santa Partners,” Spring 2011]. I graduated and have Monica Beach and its boardwalk [Scene, worked at the UW for a long time, and have Spring 2011], against the idyllic Catalina witnessed the “hoops” and barriers for getting Islands faintly in the background under a things done. With the economy worsening, crispy blue, winter sky, made Bucky Badger I believe this is a true example of “forward and the red-clad hordes such a formidable thinking.” presence before the game. On a day when Debbie Malinowski Meltzer ’76 many Angelenos were probably out of town for New Year’s, throngs of Wisconsinites [“Brave New Blogs,” Spring 2011] is an incred- flooding the area sent a jubilant message ible article. These bloggers are finding voices to alumni such as myself here in Tinseltown through Internet writing, and I am delighted Inspired by Bud’s Story that the Badgers came to play and win it all. that you have started to bring attention to their I want to compliment you on “A Conversation Indeed, a mere two points tantalizingly sepa- efforts. The quotes from each blog were well with the Commish” [Spring 2011]. I’m not a rated the Badgers from the trophy. chosen as well. Excellent, excellent work. big baseball fan, but I really enjoyed learning Shannon Lange about Bud Selig. How wonderful to see someone so passionate about their work Bloggers are finding voices through Internet writing, and their life — very inspirational. Thanks and I am delighted that you have started to bring for bringing us this story. On Wisconsin is a wonderful magazine. attention to their efforts. Don Gallagher MBA’94 Olathe, Kansas The Santa Monica scene recalls another I would love to read more about student and occasion in the ’90s when Wisconsin played faculty experiences with blogging. [“Brave I am not an alum, but I did enjoy the Spring UCLA, the local favorites. The Badgers New Blogs,” Spring 2011]. Keep it up. 2011 issue of On Wisconsin with the interest- adorned the Avenue of the Stars with huge, Yellowhammer ing interview with Bud Selig. I am sure I am bright red roses. Red ribbons wrapped around not the only one to notice the irony contained every lightpost. That year, their powerful Please Update Your Address in the Flashback that, while the commish running game barreled through UCLA’s UW-Madison wants to stay in touch with you. graduated from UW, the university does not in defense repeatedly. The outcome was never To update your contact information, which fact have a varsity baseball team. Too bad! in doubt. is maintained by the UW Foundation, please David Muschler Henry Tse ’76, MA’77, MS’79 visit www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu/survey. To Chicago Rosemead, California log in, use the ID number above your name on the magazine label. This information is shared A Crawfish by Any Other Name ... Thoughts on the New Badger Partnership selectively with other campus units and the After graduation in 1984, I got my first job in “The financial model for public research Wisconsin Alumni Association to ensure that the South and have lived in Louisiana ever universities is broken,” and the UW and alumni information is consistent and accurate. since. The cuisine down here is outstanding, Wisconsin should “rewrite their relationship,” Thank you! including those “tasty invaders” described claims [Chancellor] Biddy Martin [“Bipartisan in the Spring 2011 issue as crayfish [“Tasty Partners,” Spring 2011]. I could not agree Invaders,” News & Notes]. However, you will more. On Wisconsin Magazine welcomes letters never find a recipe for crayfish étouffée, but However … [p]ublic universities across the related to magazine content, but reserves you will find plenty for crawfish étouffée. I country have forgotten their primary mandate the right to edit them for length and clarity. considered myself a Southerner after my wife is to provide quality and affordable education You may send your comments via e-mail (who grew up in Cajun country) declared that to the residents of their states. to [email protected]; mail them the crawfish I boil are as good as any she The UW does not need more money from to On Wisconsin, 650 North Lake Street, has eaten. students, but rather a state directive to reduce Madison, WI 53706; or fax them to (608) Ed (Joe) Metzger MS’84 the cost of an undergraduate education. 265-8771. We regret that we don’t have Slidell, Louisiana Jon Debling PhD’97 space to publish all the letters we receive, Saline, Michigan but we always appreciate hearing from you.

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War Dance Treading among the fallen bodies of her fellow performers, Nicole Sclafani of the Robin Becker Dance Company offers a choreographic interpretation of the Vietnam War in “Into Sunlight.” The performance was inspired by David Maraniss x’71’s book They Marched into Sunlight, which relates the stories of the Dow Chemical protest at the UW and the Battle of Ong Thanh in Vietnam, both of which took place in October 1967. In March, the UW’s Arts Institute hosted the Sunlight Project and Symposium, a three-day event that offered dance, art, history, and film exploring issues surrounding the Vietnam War. Photo by Bryce Richter

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State of Uncertainty The UW’s future is clouded as the legislature considers the budget.

The future of UW-Madison’s gov- purchasing matters, and in set- JEFF MILLER ernance is the subject of debate ting tuition. That flexibility would in the capitol and around the state enable UW-Madison to absorb as Wisconsin’s legislature and losses in state funding, she says, Governor Scott Walker attempt to and improve its ability to compete deal with an expected $3 billion with other research institutions structural deficit. around the world. In February, Walker proposed However, the UW System a budget bill that includes a $250 leadership and members of the million cut in funding for UW Sys- board of regents have opposed tem, with half falling on UW-Mad- public-authority status for UW- ison. To ease the burden on the Madison, expressing concern for university, the bill offers to grant how the split would affect the other UW-Madison public-authority UW System campuses. status — effectively splitting the The discussion of university Madison campus from the rest governance falls at a contentious of the UW System and putting it time, due to heated politics in under a separate governing body, Madison this year. In February, a board of twenty-one trustees. protesters — including members (For more details on the plan, see of UW-Madison’s Teaching In February, UW-Madison’s Teaching Assistants’ Association called budget.wisc.edu.) Assistants’ Association, the union for a “teach out” and marched up State Street to protest against a UW-Madison Chancellor representing graduate-student bill that would remove their collective-bargaining rights. Biddy Martin PhD’85 has employees — descended on the expressed support for the pro- Wisconsin legislature. Demon- a law stripping state workers of bill and UW-Madison’s possible posal, arguing that it would give strations continued for weeks many collective-bargaining rights. public-authority status at press the university increased flexibility, while the assembly and senate The Wisconsin legislature time. particularly in personnel and considered and ultimately passed was still debating the budget Staff

quick takes

UW professor Jamie Thomson, from student fees to Badger Big Red is the most green, long-term ecological change. He’ll the first researcher to isolate and Catholic, a student group that according to TheDailyGreen.com. receive the honor in August, from grow human embryonic stem offered religious activities in its The site gave the UW its Editor’s the hands of Sweden’s King Carl cells, received the Albany Medical programming. A federal appellate Pick as Greenest University due XVI Gustaf. Center Prize in Medicine and court ruled that the UW violated to projects that have seen a Biomedical Research. The award the First Amendment, and the 16 percent drop in greenhouse gas Kathleen Gallagher ’81 of the carries a $500,000 prize, the Supreme Court allowed that emissions and a 29 percent drop in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was largest financial award in the U.S. ruling to stand. per capita water use since 2005. part of a team of reporters who for medical and science research. won the Pulitzer Prize for explan- In May, the UW hosted the UW limnologist Stephen atory reporting in April. The U.S. Supreme Court National Science Olympiad, one Carpenter won the 2011 declined to hear an appeal from of the country’s most prestigious Stockholm Prize, the world’s most Karen Holden, a professor the UW regarding whether the contests in science, technology, prestigious honor for water-related emerita of consumer science, university may deny funding to engineering, and math. Some science. Carpenter directs the served as an adviser for Sesame religious groups. The UW had 120 teams from middle and university’s Center for Limnology, Street in creating its financial argued that, as a state univer- high schools around the country and he’s a leading authority on education initiative, For Me, for sity, it could not provide funds competed during the event. lake food-web dynamics and You, for Later.

10 ON WISCONSIN Little Online Lies Those who post to dating sites fudge the facts strategically.

Catalina Toma knows the off their weight. These fibs, Toma “We’re seeing in online dating in the static, two-dimensional ugly truth about online dating: says, are “the kind of stuff that the same kind of pressures that profile.” people lie. won’t blow you away when you people experience face to face Online daters are not incred- But those looking for love via meet the person face to face.” about making themselves appear ibly harsh judges, because they the Internet can take heart. Toma, Toma has also tested the more attractive,” she says. “So understand the constraints of an assistant professor of commu- accuracy of photographs that I guess the surprising finding is the space, having put together nication arts who studies the daters post to their online profiles. people don’t lie [online] because their own profiles and potentially ways people present themselves While most of the daters in her it’s easy to lie; people lie to satisfy pushed the boundaries of the truth online, says daters don’t tell more study maintained that their photos their interpersonal agenda, which themselves, she says. Still, some lies online than they would when were relatively accurate, a panel is reassuring and nice in a way.” push the promise concept a bit too meeting someone in a bar — of independent judges (a group of Toma’s interviews with online far: one study participant admitted even though technology makes it undergraduate students at Cornell daters about the kind of decep- to presenting herself online as much easier to stretch the truth. University) rated about one- tions they find unacceptable twenty pounds lighter as a way to Online daters lie for the same third of the online profile photos revealed that they cut poten- motivate herself to lose weight. reason they lie face to face: to as inaccurate when compared tial matches some slack when Online communication give themselves a better shot. But with a snapshot taken in the lab. it comes to profile accuracy. doesn’t allow people to observe the deceptions people employ Women daters were more likely to “People think of the online profile nonverbal hints of deception, in online dating are strategic, post older photographs (seven- as a ‘promise,’ ” she says. “It’s a such as eye contact, fidgeting, because they know they will get teen months old on average), promise that you will be a reason- and other anxious behaviors. But caught if they go too far. presenting slightly younger able approximation of your online Toma’s research using linguistic- “Most people go online versions of themselves, and to persona. And if you think about analysis software identified some because they want to find a rela- use retouching techniques or hire it, it’s truly impossible to capture specific cues that online daters tionship partner,” Toma says. a professional photographer. a three-dimensional human being are lying in their profiles. “So presenting themselves “People use fewer

as three inches taller and BARRY ROAL CARLSEN first-person pronouns looking like Brad Pitt is when they’re lying ... the kind of lie that will be They don’t say I as many very easily caught face to times as when they tell face, and that defeats the the truth,” Toma says. purpose.” There is an unconscious For Toma, there’s a need to psychologically science to figuring out who distance themselves from is lying, and sometimes it the deceptive message, involves a scale and a tape she says, because lying measure. Online daters is “something that people lie about their height or normally feel guilty about.” weight, but not their age. In People who lie in their one study, Toma checked profiles also use more the accuracy of profiles by words such as no, not, measuring and weighing and never, and use much daters, and by checking the simpler language than birth date on their driver’s those telling the truth, licenses. Men add about revealing the psychological half an inch to their height burden of lying. “It’s taking on average — a practice a lot more mental resources called “strong rounding to construct a lie and also up” — while women shave Online daters don’t lie about age, but will add about half an inch to their height, to maintain the lie,” she eight and a half pounds shave a few pounds off their weight, and retouch the photos in their profiles. says. “First, you have to

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fabricate something that didn’t they used in the “about me” part Dating sites now exist for a student. “People were really reti- actually happen, and then you of their profiles. multitude of ethnicities, interests, cent to admitting that they had met have to make sure that you don’t In the same study, Toma had and religions. Jewish singles have on Match.com,” she says. “Now contradict yourself, you don’t get judges rate how trustworthy online JDate.com or TheJMom.com it’s become a very acceptable yourself entangled in your own profiles appeared, and found (which invites Jewish mothers venue for meeting new people.” deception.” that they perceived very different to find potential mates for their Still, Toma is not speaking Online daters also make — and false — cues to whether adult children), Ivy League gradu- from personal experience when efforts to compensate for decep- daters were telling the truth. For ates can look for love among their she analyzes online dating tions, so if they lied about their example, they gave higher marks own at RightStuffDating.com, behavior. “I’ve actually never done appearance in some way, they to longer profiles that revealed and music lovers can pair up with online dating myself,” she says. may play up career success more information, believing they those whose iPod playlists match “It’s one of those phenomena or social status. And the more were more honest. their own at tastebuds.fm. where people study what they’re online daters reported lying about “Human beings are incredibly Attitudes about online dating really bad at — in my case, physical appearance, the fewer poor at detecting deception,” she have improved since Toma began dating.” eating- or cooking-related words says. studying the subject as a graduate Jenny Price ’96

Badgers on the Big (and Small) Screen Scriptwriters use creative license to claim connections to Wisconsin.

UW-Madison has a starring role ANDY SCHWARTZ/UNIVERSAL PICTURES as professional ghost hunters, show The West Wing. Moss in movies and on television when attended the UW with Vlad attended the UW for two years writers and producers call on Plasmius, Danny Phantom’s before dropping out to support the university’s graduates, albeit arch-nemesis. Plasmius dubbed her boyfriend while he attended pretend ones, to help tell their Danny “Little Badger” and is a medical school. stories. Here are some of the UW’s huge Green Bay Packers fan, most prominent fictional alumni: too, thanks to writer Steve CARIN BAER/AMC Marmel ’88, who worked on CBS HOME ENTERTAINMENT the show. GETTY IMAGES

• Will Hayes (played by actor Ryan Reynolds), whose life, including his relationship with his ten-year-old daughter, is followed in the movie Definitely, Maybe. He leaves Madison and his college girlfriend to move • Harry Crane, member of the to New York and work on Bill Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce • Allison Parker, one of the Clinton’s 1992 presidential advertising agency on the show tenants on the original Melrose campaign. Mad Men (played by actor Rich Place (played by Courtney • Donnatella “Donna” Moss Sommer). In season one, Crane Thorne-Smith), who got her foot • Jack and Maddie Fenton, (played by Janel Moloney), mentions to Don Draper that in the door at D&D Advertising parents of Danny Phantom, the ever-present assistant to he attended the UW and was by working as a receptionist. the titular character of the Deputy White House Chief a photographer for the school She bragged on the show’s pilot Nickelodeon animated series of Staff Josh Lyman (played newspaper. episode about being an honors about a teenage boy who is half by Madison native Bradley graduate from the UW. ghost. The Fentons, who work Whitford) on the award-winning J.P.

12 ON WISCONSIN Our Brains Made Us Do It BRYCE RICHTER A unique program explores how science plays out in society.

Melding of mind and policy education, prosecution of juve- matters is all in a day’s work nile criminals, health care, and the for the graduate students in the concept of personal responsibility UW-Madison Neuroscience and underpinning the legal system. Public Policy program. The program — the only Since 2005, the program has one of its kind in the country — offered students the chance to is a partnership between the explore the intersection of science Neuroscience Training Program in and society while earning grad- the Graduate School and the La Students in the UW’s Neuroscience and Public Policy program uate degrees in both neuroscience Follette School of Public Affairs. study economics and government in addition to doing research. and public affairs. The goal? It couples a PhD in neurosci- Training a cadre of scientists ence with a master’s degree in MPA’10, PhDx12, who worked that will draw upon their policy well versed in the realms of both either public affairs or international last summer in the Government experiences, possibly in science scientific research and policy. public affairs. Students undertake Accountability Office on the administration, management, As the study of the brain and a heavy course load in neurobi- transparency of government research policy development, or nervous system, neuroscience ology, policy analysis, economics, stimulus spending. curriculum design. holds a unique position for policy and government to work toward He and Lindsay Pascal “This was the only program implications, says Ronald Kalil, the two degrees simultaneously. MPA’10, PhDx12 are the I found anywhere in the country program director and neurosci- They also gain hands-on policy first students to complete the that allowed me to explore my ence professor. “Our brain defines experience through a summer master’s portion of the program policy interests without sacrificing who we are. In so many areas internship at a foundation, govern- and are now continuing their a basic research track,” says impacting human life, policy and ment agency, or other institution. dissertation research in neuro- Pascal. “It’s definitely made me law are predicated upon notions “[Policy is] very different science — Hernandez on think more about what my work of how we function behaviorally from science and academia, functional brain imaging and means [and its] place in the world as humans — notions that may and translation between the two Pascal on the brain’s role in instead of just what it means in be in need of revision,” he says, is often not understood very regulating eating behavior. Both my little scientific niche.” citing as examples childhood well,” says Patric Hernandez students plan to pursue careers Jill Sakai PhD’06

Early Warning System Risk for Alzheimer’s disease could beat symptoms by twenty years, researchers learn.

UW-Madison researchers are Alzheimer’s Prevention, people disease, a number that is as long as twenty years before making strides in the fight against who travel from around the state expected to increase as Baby symptoms develop. Sager says Alzheimer’s disease by studying and the country to take part. The Boomers enter their sixties. being able to identify early people who don’t have it. registry, launched ten years ago, Sager and Sterling changes in the brain is akin to “We want to be able to iden- is now the largest and oldest Johnson, associate professor doctors identifying high choles- tify risk decades before someone study of healthy people with a of medicine and researcher at terol in patients decades before becomes symptomatic, because family history of the disease. The the Geriatric Research Education they develop heart disease. that’s how we’re going to prevent resulting research has shown the and Clinical Center at the William “We know that heart disease it,” says Mark Sager, director significance of family history as a S. Middleton Memorial Veterans is a disease of a lifetime, and that of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s risk factor for the disease. Hospital, recently conducted two people have heart attacks not in Institute and professor of medi- “The entire field is following studies of registry participants their twenties, but in their fifties cine at the School of Medicine our lead,” Sager says. “Everybody who carry a newly identified gene and sixties and seventies,” Sager and Public Health. is talking about earlier, earlier, and an established risk gene for says. “So it’s not unreasonable to The key players are the more earlier.” Alzheimer’s. think that Alzheimer’s disease will than 1,400 dedicated members More than 5 million Their results show that the follow the same pattern.” of the Wisconsin Registry for Americans have Alzheimer’s disease could be diagnosed J.P.

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Me and My Shadow A UW sociologist explores the complicated roles of mothers and nannies.

The most popular portrayals of Macdonald, a UW assistant the relationship between mothers professor of sociology and author and nannies are often extremes of Shadow Mothers: Nannies, — think The Nanny Diaries or The Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics Hand that Rocks the Cradle. of Mothering. But the reality is much more “It is literally impossible for complex. And what makes these mothers to work outside of the At the core of expectations ear, and “let kids be kids.” relationships difficult is how tough home and meet contemporary is the idea that kids’ outcomes Macdonald’s interviews with American cultural norms are on ideals of good mothering,” are entirely contingent upon their nannies and au pairs yielded working mothers, says Cameron she says. mothers’ parenting, “especially both humorous and poignant during that critical birth-to-three accounts of what it feels like to period, after which — if you believe be the cornerstone of a family, yet STUDENT WATCH the advice books — screw up often be denied autonomy and and your child’s an ax murderer,” authority. Some nannies reported Tag isn’t just for elementary school playgrounds she says. being fired when children in their anymore. A new mutation of the game — aptly called And it’s those beliefs about care accidentally called them Humans vs. Zombies (HVZ) — has been popping up at the role of mothers, along with “Mommy.” the serious economic pressures “Mothers expect the nanny colleges across the country. Invented a few years ago facing most families, that result in to be simultaneously present at Goucher College in Maryland, HVZ has taken over controversies such as that ignited and absent, to form a healthy the UW campus in recent years, enlisting close to a by Amy Chua’s recent memoir, bond with the children, but not thousand members, according to its Facebook group. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. get too attached,” Macdonald “You can’t say ‘motherhood’ says. “It’s an unrealistic set of Here are the basics: for about a week, approximately these days in this country without expectations that make even four hundred students play a massive game of tag in starting a riot,” Macdonald says. the most thoughtful employer which “humans” defend themselves with foam darts Economic uncertainty begin to seem irrational and — present when Macdonald unreasonable.” (shot from NERF guns) and socks (thrown) as they conducted her interviews in the That places nannies in a complete “missions,” while an ever-increasing num- late 1990s and early 2000s, and paradox in which they must form ber of “zombies” try to take out the humans by simply an even more pressing concern a bond with the children that is touching them. today — amplified those impos- secure enough to fulfill emotional sible-to-meet expectations about needs, yet at the same time, not HVZ entails one or two weeklong rounds every childrearing. Mothers worried that threaten the primary caregiver semester and draws participants from all different their children might fall behind, role of the mother. backgrounds. The organization’s president, David not get into the right schools, “I want people to understand Bebeau x’12, says that even some members of the and be doomed to downward that the problems that are present mobility. in these relationships stem from men’s basketball team have been in on the action. These strains, along with these outside forces, and that The game is all about having fun and a way to cultural variations, led to differ- it’s possible to move past them,” escape the typical pressures of college, although ences of opinion between Macdonald says. “I don’t think mothers and nannies about how that having more loving adults in academic buildings and residence halls are off limits a child’s day should be struc- a child’s life is a bad thing. But if because of the flying darts and socks. tured. Mothers wanted a highly we believe it’s a bad thing — and “We’re just a growing group of kids who don’t take structured day with socially and moms feel guilty about it, and ourselves too seriously,” Bebeau says. intellectually stimulating activi- nannies or child-care providers ties, even for infants and toddlers. feel undervalued — then that’s a Sam Oleson ’11 Nannies, on the other hand, were self-fulfilling prophecy.” more likely to want to play it by Jenny Price ’96

14 ON WISCONSIN Livin’ on a Prayer Study examines how prayer manages negative emotions.

According to legend, it was Ernie his PhD research, he looked into socioeconomic backgrounds. Seeing prayer as a social Pyle who first said there are no ways that victims of domestic He spoke with them, either in interaction “requires thinking atheists in foxholes, the apho- abuse use prayer to manage person or over the phone, for of prayer as something other than rism meaning that heavy stress negative emotions. between one and six hours each, an individual, private, and intra- causes people to turn to prayer. “Domestic violence victims and found that the victims tended psychological phenomenon,” But for all the repetitions of that experience evil and injustice to use prayer as a social inter- Sharp says, but it offers phrase, no one has really investi- personally,” Sharp says. “Their action to gain “the resources a more nuanced view of the gated how it is that prayer helps abusers use physical violence they use to carry out indi- ways people use prayer in — setting aside theological issues in a pattern of coercion, and I’m vidual emotion-management times of crisis. to explore the psychological interested in how the victims strategies.” Irrespective of others’ benefits. No one, that is, until resist this.” These strategies include religious views, “when social Shane Sharp PhD’11. Sharp conducted in-depth venting anger, building self- actors perceive objects and Before coming to the UW as interviews with sixty-two current esteem, reinterpreting situations interactions as real,” Sharp says, a doctoral candidate, Sharp had and former domestic violence to make them feel less threat- “they are real in their individual, earned a bachelor’s in psychology victims from around the country ening, mitigating anger, and what sociological, and emotional at Alabama and a master’s in reli- who represented a wide range Sharp calls “zoning out” the consequences.” gious studies at Vanderbilt. For of religious, ethnic, and negative stimuli. John Allen

Where the Potty-Mouths Are

What region has the foulest mouths on the Internet? The Southeast does, according to geography lecturer Daniel Huffman MS’10. Analyzing data from Twitter, Huffman looked at the prevalence of six different swear words. (We won’t reproduce them here, as we don’t want to inadver- tently drive up Wisconsin’s cuss-quotient.) Using 1.5 million geocoded public Twitter posts (i.e., “tweets”) as his dataset, Huffman calculated the frequency of swearing — how often one of his six words was used per 500 tweets. Those calculations were the basis for this map. The bright areas indicate the highest rate of swearing. Curiously, Madison appears to fall in an area of relatively clean language. J.A.

SUMMER 2011 15 collection

The Art-Lovers Lane The Chazen receives $30 million worth of modern art.

When the UW’s Chazen Museum of Art opens the doors on its new been shown in the Chazen addition in October, it will offer nearly twice as much gallery space as once before, at an event it did before. And the museum will need that space, thanks in part to that may have helped the donation of Alvin ’40 and Terese Lane — a collection of some inspire the later donation. seventy sculptures and 250 drawings valued at $30 million, making it “In 1995, for the the largest and most valuable art gift in the Chazen’s history. twenty-fifth anniversary The collection includes a roster of the big names in modern of the museum, we did a art: there are five pieces by Pablo Picasso, thirteen by Claes show of the entire Lane collec- Oldenburg, fourteen by Alexander Calder, and sixteen by Christo tion,” Panczenko says. “[Alvin] was and Jeanne-Claude. standing in front of the building, and “Alvin liked twentieth-century art, and so do I,” says Russell told me he used to live around there Panczenko, the Chazen’s director. That common ground was the somewhere on University Avenue. starting point for convincing the Lanes to will their vast collection to the Then he turned to me and said, ‘By UW. Alvin Lane passed away in 2007 at age eighty-nine, and Terese God, you’ve destroyed my house died in March 2010 at age eighty-eight. to build your museum on!’ ” “Alvin had a great loyalty to the UW,” Panczenko says. “He was The Chazen — formerly New York born and bred, and I think he only left the East Coast for any known as the Elvehjem length of time twice in his life — for the four years he spent in Madison Museum of Art — was built and during World War II, when he served in the Navy.” in 1970, and construction Lane might have stayed on the East Coast for college, except that over the last year added he was Jewish. Anti-Semitism at the time led some schools to cap 86,000 square feet to the enrollment for Jews, so Lane left home for Madison. “He always said to original building’s 90,000 me that if it wasn’t for the UW, he probably never would have gotten an square feet. It houses more education,” Panczenko says. than 19,000 artworks repre- The Lane collection will not generally be displayed all at once, senting a wide variety of though for the most part, the museum’s new galleries nine, ten, eleven, cultures and eras. and twelve will be devoted to pieces that they donated. Their art has John Allen

Among the items that Alvin and Terese Lane donated to the Chazen Museum of Art are sketches, paintings, and sculptures by some of the most important figures in modern art. Shown here, from left, are a collage by Christo (illustrating The Umbrellas, a project completed in 1991), a painting by Joan Miró (untitled and undated), and a sculpture by Hans Arp (Petite Torso, 1930).

16 ON WISCONSIN classroom

Been There, Done That A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize shares lessons from the front lines.

You could have called it a master person in Baghdad BRYCE RICHTER class when a dozen UW-Madison who hasn’t had a friend journalism students experienced or relative killed.” an up-close-and-personal session Shadid started with Anthony Shadid ’90 last studying Arabic while fall. Little did they — or he — attending the UW, and know that he’d soon have more he continued when he harrowing tales to tell. Just a went abroad at age few months later, while reporting twenty-five. Knowing for the New York Times, he was the language has captured and held for six days been key to reporting in Libya until Turkish diplomats beneath the surface arranged for his release, along of what govern- with photojournalist Lynsey ments reveal, he Addario ’95 (see story, page 20), said, responding to and two Times colleagues. a student’s question But before students could get about how he finds too intimidated in class that day, sources that others Shadid — who has twice won don’t. a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting “Language is a on the war in Iraq — reminded prerequisite if you them that he started his career have any hope of just down the hall at the Daily getting deeper in the “People ... want to tell you the story,” reporter Anthony Shadid told journalism Cardinal, where he worked as story,” he answered. students when describing his experiences covering war-torn countries. campus news editor while earning “Interviewing is a a degree with majors in journalism question of trust, and in Arabic, and, he says, “we all match reality, but noted that and political science. language is a part of that.” thought it was over.” some reporters in Iraq have the “I always get a little nostalgic Time is another factor. Shadid “How do you deal with fear?” advantage of having been there when I come back to Madison,” recounted spending eight days asked Ward, who was a war longer than some U.S. officials. said Shadid, deputy bureau chief with Iraqi parents who were trying correspondent in Bosnia, during “I’d rather do street reporting for the New York Times in Beirut, to find the body of their dead son. the class. than talk to people at the embassy who most recently covered the His observations filled five note- “I think there are stories any day,” he said. uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and books. “What I find in conflicts is worth getting hurt for,” Shadid Kyle Mianulli x’11, Libya. that people want to bear witness, said. “I didn’t enjoy getting shot managing editor of the Badger Journalism Professor and they want to tell you the in the back, but I think that story Herald, asked Shadid if there is Stephen J.A. Ward, director of story,” he said. “What we do is was worth telling.” one story he wishes he would the Center for Journalism Ethics, worthwhile when we do that.” Shadid also warned students have reported. brought Shadid to campus for a But, he acknowledged, his about the pitfalls of getting too “Absolutely. Abu Ghraib,” public lecture on the Iraq war. But job also is dangerous. When he close to sources, something that Shadid said. before he addressed about three started working as a Middle East can happen in a foreign post, When he was reporting in hundred people attending his talk, correspondent for the Associated where relationships between Anbar province in 2002, Shadid Shadid met with students in J666: Press in Cairo in 1995, reporters reporters and government offi- said, he kept hearing “crazy Professional Responsibility in were regarded as noncomba- cials become very informal. stories about what was going on” Mass Communication. tants. That has changed: Shadid “Have you developed a at the Iraqi prison, but he couldn’t The class picked the brain of was shot in the back of his pretty good sense, when you’re believe U.S. troops would do a reporter who has spent the last shoulder while covering fighting interviewing someone, of when what was rumored. He learned eight years covering conflict in the in the West Bank city of Ramallah they’re trying to manipulate you?” a hard lesson, he said: “Don’t Middle East. in March 2002. Then came his asked Tim Oleson, a first-year believe everything. Don’t disbe- Iraq is a “devastated place,” capture in Libya, when he heard graduate student. Shadid said lieve anything.” he said. “You cannot meet one soldiers shout “Shoot them!” people push agendas that don’t Jenny Price ’96

SUMMER 2011 17 sports

TEAM PLAYER Janelle Gabrielsen With three older sisters named Jessica, Jolene, and Jamie, and parents Jeff and Jill, it’s no wonder everybody who knows Janelle Gabrielsen x’12 drops the J and calls her “Nellie.” The UW’s senior setter has been making a name for herself in sports since high school, where she was a nationally recognized four-year varsity player in basketball and volleyball. Though in high school she primarily played middle hitter (a position respon- sible for blocking opponents’ shots), the UW coaches saw untapped potential in her athletic versatility, sure-handedness, on-court intensity, and proven team leadership — qualities of a talented setter, the player who orchestrates the team’s offense. Once Gabrielsen arrived on campus, head coach Pete Waite wasted no time getting her game action. She started twenty-six matches her freshman year, playing both hitter and setter in the team’s 6-2 offense, in which two players split setting duties. After the season, she began training to run the team in a 5-1 offense and has started all fifty-nine matches as the new offense’s sole setter. “Setter is pretty important, because you touch every single ball,” says the two-time Academic All-Big Ten Badger. “You have to be able to run plays that all the hitters will be able to hit, watch the other team’s defense, and figure out plays.” Last season, she ranked seventh in the Big Ten with 10.35 assists (hits that enable a teammate to score) per set and tallied a career-best sixty-three assists versus Iowa. She’s determined to get the Badgers into the NCAA tournament in her final season, which is no easy feat in a competitive Big Ten conference that saw eight teams make the field in 2010. But with four highly touted recruits joining the team and productive, motivated off-season training, Gabrielsen is sure the Badgers are poised to break out. “We need to improve every single game if we want to play in the NCAA tournament,” she says. “I love the game, I love being competitive, and I love challenges. It’s going to be a lot of fun.” Ben Wischnewski ’05

“Setter is pretty important. You have to be able to run plays that all the hitters will be able to hit [and] watch the other team’s defense.” UW SPORTS INFORMATION

18 ON WISCONSIN JEFF MILLER

From Press to Professor Longtime sports journalist brings an authentic voice to his classroom. If it happened in sports in the last School of Journalism & Mass forty years, chances are Leonard Communication. Shapiro returned Shapiro ’68 was there to cover to the school this spring to teach the story. the sports journalism class he first When the U.S. Olympic taught in spring 2008. hockey team beat the Soviet Shapiro’s first job out Shapiro leads a class discussion, delving into firsthand experience Union in the “Miracle on Ice” at of UW-Madison was high to tell students about the evolution of sports journalism. the 1980 games in Lake Placid, school sports reporter for the Shapiro was among a small group Washington Post. He went on complicated. And from a journal- this year’s games. Shapiro then of reporters who chased after to cover the National Football ist’s point of view, the access was moved the talk to the history Mike Eruzione, who had scored League, professional golf, the so much better.” behind the television coverage the winning goal, in the parking lot Olympics, and hundreds of other Covering sports has changed of the tournament, which turned outside the arena to snare a quote events as a reporter, columnist, along the way, too. While Shapiro that previously minor event into before deadline. When Howard and editor for the Post, producing used to hope that his stories a national pastime — something Cosell made what seemed to be a more than 7,400 bylines between would hold up until his late- he observed as a sports broad- racist comment during a football 1969 and 2010. During those evening deadline — praying that casting reporter. game, Shapiro was there to ask years, Shapiro observed the he wouldn’t get scooped by his “Not only does he teach a Cosell about it, at the expense of evolution of sports — and sports afternoon competitor — sports good course, but he really takes his relationship with the legendary journalism — at all levels. reporters now compete by the the students under his wing sportscaster. And for more than Money has had a significant second on Twitter and blogs. outside the class with office hours thirty straight years, when the influence on athletics, he says. “When do they have time to and making calls on their behalf Super Bowl’s Lombardi Trophy When he started covering the do the reporting?” Shapiro asks. to his connections in the sports was awarded, Shapiro saw the Washington Redskins in the early “I don’t think a lot of papers are world,” Schwoch says. moment in person. 1970s, the average salary was breaking the kind of stories they Shapiro says he relishes “We’re talking about some- about $40,000. used to, because we had the time the give-and-take discussion on body who not only saw the birth “Now that’s tipping money to do it.” sports events and issues in the of modern sports coverage, for most of these guys,” he says. During one of Shapiro’s class news. but participated in it and is a “Money always drives profes- meetings in the heart of college “It’s a very alive kind of atmo- major figure in it,” says Robert sional sports, but a lot of those basketball season, the students’ sphere, as opposed to reading Schwoch ’88, lecturer and guys did play for the love of the discussion turned to the NCAA’s out of a textbook,” he says. undergraduate adviser in the game, and it seemed a lot less decisions about broadcasting Stacy Forster

BADGER SPORTS TICKER The Badger women’s hockey team Bobbie Kelsey is the new coach Sixteen leading athletes from earned more accolades, as it won of the Badger women’s basketball China arrived on campus in another national championship team. The former Stanford assis- March, the start of a nine-month in March, its second in a row and tant was named head coach in stay in Madison. The group fourth in six years. The Badgers April, taking over from Lisa Stone, includes a number of Olympic also completed the season who had led the team from 2003 veterans, including Zhang Yining, without having lost a game since to 2011. one of the world’s best women November 28, a streak of twenty- table tennis players. The athletes In March, swimmer Maggie Meyer five wins and two ties. Coach Mark intend to study English, science, x’11 won the NCAA championship Johnson was named the American leadership, and coaching, and will in the 200-yard backstroke. Her Hockey Coaches Association earn a certificate from the UW’s time in the race — 1:50.76 — set a Division I coach of the year. Division of International Studies. new school record.

SUMMER 2011 19 The Eye of the Storm Lynsey Addario ventures into the world’s most troubled regions and creates stunning photos of pain, deprivation, and beauty.

By David McKay Wilson Photos by Lynsey Addario ’95

20 ON WISCONSIN SPRING 2011 21 PAUL CONROY, REUTERS

Nine days after her release from captivity by the Libyan Army in March, freelance photographer Lynsey Addario ’95 vowed to return to the battlefield, intent on capturing the life- and-death images that have made her one of the world’s leading conflict photographers. “I will cover another war,” Addario wrote in the Lens blog at the New York Times, where she has been a regular con- tributor for several years. “I’m sure I will. It’s what I do.” Addario was among four New York Above: Lynsey Addario (far left) and fellow journalists run for cover during a Libyan Times journalists held in captivity for six bombing raid shortly before Addario’s capture in March. Previous page: An Iraqi woman searches for her husband as she passes a burning liquid-gas factory in Basra, allegedly days. During that ordeal, she was groped, set on fire by looters in the aftermath of the Iraq War. punched in the face while her hands and feet were bound, and taunted by a soldier In Madison, she majored in interna- KIRSTEN JOHNSON who warned her that death was near. tional studies, focusing more on academ- Addario is based in Delhi, India, but ics than her camera. During her junior travels the globe for the New York Times year abroad at the University of Bologna, and National Geographic, finding images she started making photos in earnest. that convey the pain and horrors of war, But it wasn’t until after she graduated, as well as the determination and hope when she traveled to Argentina to learn of those in the developing world to rise Spanish, that she broke into photojour- above the dire circumstances they con- nalism, convincing an editor at the Buenos front each day. Aires Herald to hire her by sneaking onto In 2009, she shared the Pulitzer Prize the set of the movie Evita to get a picture for International Reporting with a team of Madonna. from the New York Times for coverage She later became a regular freelancer of the war in Afghanistan. That year she with the Associated Press, and since 2001, was named a MacArthur Fellow, winning she has worked consistently for the New a $500,000 grant from the James D. and York Times. Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation — Addario’s Libyan experience was by known as a “genius grant” — to support no means her first enounter with danger. Above: Addario on the job in Sudan. her work over five years. O, The Oprah While on a two-month assignment with Right: A woman weeps as she talks about Winfrey Magazine, also named her to its the U.S. military in Afghanistan’s Kor- being assaulted in eastern Congo, where 2010 O Power List. engal Valley, her unit came under mortar women and children have been systemati- cally raped during an ongoing civil war. Addario, who grew up in Westport, attack daily. She was kidnapped in Iraq Connecticut, became enamored of photo- in 2004, and had a brush with death in accident in Pakistan. The car crash came graphic images as a young teen, after her 2009 when she sustained a broken col- just weeks before her marriage to Reuters father gave her a used Nikon FG. larbone and her driver was killed in a car journalist Paul de Bendern.

22 ON WISCONSIN SUMMER 2011 23 “When I am in these situations, I take Over the past year, she’s made four calculated risks and hope I am able to do forays into Afghanistan. For National my work without getting injured, and Geographic, she photographed women for more importantly, without anyone I am an article published in December 2010. working with getting injured,” she says. She went with U.S. troops on assignments “But sometimes these things happen. I from the New York Times. Some of her fin- am generally so focused on the story, and est work has come from the Muslim world, on producing good images, that I don’t where Addario says she has an advantage get scared that often. I believe in fate over male photographers because she has and believe that when it’s time to go, I’m access to both men and women. going to go. And I would rather have a “You become sort of unisex,” camera in my hand when it’s that time.” she says.

24 ON WISCONSIN Above: A Sudanese Liberation Army soldier walks through the remains of a village burned by the Janjaweed militia in Darfur in 2004. Thousands of Africans were forced to flee their homes due to attacks on civilians. Top left: A man floats among the lily pads on a lake in Srinigar in the Kashmir region of India in 2000. Bottom left: A young refugee in a Darfur hospital sits surrounded by mosquito netting. Suffering from a respiratory infection, he is one of many internally displaced persons afflicted by disease and malnutrition.

SUMMER 2011 25 Above: Lebanese citizens walk through the destruction in Beirut’s suburbs on the first day of a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon in 2006. Top right: American soldiers in Afghanistan carry the body of a fallen comrade toward a medevac helicopter after an ambush by the Taliban in 2007. Bottom right: A marine who was fatally injured in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan is pronounced dead.

26 ON WISCONSIN In May, she was in Sierra Leone for McNally says Addario is also an artist a project on maternal mortality, and in with an eye for composition and a jour- February 2010, she traveled to Haiti to nalist who wants to convey the truth. provide a glimpse of life there after an “She has the ability to look at a situ- earthquake killed more than 300,000. ation, and compose a photograph that “I am looking for something different shows the horror of what she’s seen,” in each story, but generally, I am trying says McNally. “And her photos have to convey the reality on the ground, raw much more power because of how she emotion, whatever elements make up the thinks and what’s in the foreground, particular story I am shooting,” she says. middle ground, and background. She Michelle McNally, assistant manag- thinks through every element.” ing editor at the New York Times, says In Haiti, she’d come to look at the Addario is “one of the most courageous long-term effects of the catastrophe. and brave photographers I’ve ever seen.” While visiting a camp of 70,000 displaced

SUMMER 2011 27 Haitians, she came upon a woman in David McKay Wilson is a New York-based labor. She photographed her agonies freelance journalist. during those painful contractions. She chronicled the woman’s trip by stretcher UW Bragging Rights through the camp, the child’s delivery by In addition to Lynsey Addario, UW-Madison an American soldier, and her postpartum boasts more than two dozen Pulitzer Prize life in the tent, where hope was tinged winners, among them Frederick Jackson with uncertainty. Turner 1884, who served as university editor “I’d been attending funerals, talking for this magazine (then called the Wisconsin Alumni Magazine) shortly after it began in to people about their mourning process. 1899. Turner, who is best known for his influ- It was all so negative, and then you wit- ential Frontier Thesis, won the Pulitzer Prize in ness the birth of a baby,” she recalls. “It 1933, not for alumni writing, but for history. was an incredible scene to see a life being Wisconsin Alumni Association: born into all this destruction.” n celebrating alumni for 150 years.

28 ON WISCONSIN Above: A young Syrian woman shops for hijabs in the historic old city of Damascus. Top left: An Afghan woman and 12-year addict smokes heroin in her home in Kabul. Bottom left: Two malnourished children in a feeding center in Bahai, Chad, in 2004 were among thousands of refugees who poured in from neighboring Sudan to escape the war there.

SUMMER 2011 29 StOh,ars! My Meet nine Badgers who shaped the world.

By John Allen

Evidently, you should know the name Brian Strom ’88. Don’t take my word for it — take Kenneth Raffa’s. Raffa, a UW professor of entomol- ogy, lists Brian Strom in his personal, online Hall of Fame, which is devoted to his former undergraduate student workers. Of the roughly two hundred alumni who have labored in his lab and in forests around the country, some twenty have their names recorded there. The first of them is Strom. What’s so special about him? According to Raffa, “Brian was an amazingly hard worker. We used to measure jobs in Brian-hours — in how long it would take him to do them.” Raffa’s website does an important service, not just for Strom and his nineteen co- honorees, but for the rest of us, as well. Without it, I’d have had no idea what to make of the name Brian Strom, except that it’s an anagram for brainstorm. Raffa’s hall offers celebrity for his best students and edification for everyone else who finds it. It tells us what became of those undergrads — Strom, for example, eventually earned a PhD and is a researcher for the U.S. Forest Service. Which makes me wonder: why should such blessings be limited to just those two hundred Badgers who worked for Raffa? Why doesn’t the UW have a similar shrine for its most accomplished former students? Where’s the All-Time, All-Alumni Pantheon? It’s true that Raffa’s not the only person on campus with this idea. The athletic department has a hall of fame for great UW jocks, and the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame is located here, too. But there should be some place of recognition for those alumni who are inclined neither to the gymnasium nor the abattoir and didn’t collect bugs or sample tree chemistry for Raffa. This is where On Wisconsin can help. To celebrate the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s 150th anniversary, we’ve brianstromed a list of the most influential alumnus or alumna in a variety of fields. (Please note that we don’t say graduates — we considered anyone who enrolled in a degree program at one time or another to be fair game. Diploma not required.) Now, we know that some of you won’t agree with the names we’ve selected — you’ll say we should have chosen another person or used different criteria. You’re wrong, of course. But feel free to send us some thoughts on whom you’d include. On Wisconsin would love to see your ideas.

30 ON WISCONSIN ’79 Iajuddin Ahmed MS’58, PhD’62 was president of ’12 Bangladesh from 2002– 09, and Yeshey Zimba ’75, MA’76 was prime minister of Bhutan from 2001–02 and 2004–05. Further, Carolyn Heinrich (director of the UW’s La Follette School of Public Affairs) reminds us that Badgers have their hands in the way we study govern- CHARLES 1912, MPh’27 ment, as well. Her school was founded by Anderson UW professor emeritus e d UCATI o n ROBERT 1879 Dennis Dresang ’64, an authority on state and According to the Office of the Reg- local governments. istrar, between its founding in 1849 La Follette But none of these and 2008 (the most recent year when G O V e r n M e n T people created a major records were posted), the UW awarded American political 335,760 bachelor’s degrees, 117,631 mas- One of the towering figures in Wis- party, as La Follette did with the Progres- ter’s degrees, 40,175 doctorates, 30,258 consin’s political history, “Fighting sive Party — which nominated him for professional degrees, and 436 executive Bob” La Follette left his mark on national president in 1924. (Like most third-party MBAs, for a total of 524,260 earned and state institutions — not least of them candidates, he came in third place, but he degrees. (Ninety-seven of them are men- UW-Madison itself. did take 17 percent of the popular vote tioned in this article, which is exhausting Many UW alumni have played leading nationwide.) but not exhaustive — it’s less than two roles on the stage of global government: La Follette dominated Wisconsin hundredths of a percent of the total.) this campus has educated ten former as its governor from 1901–06, and his In sum, there’s a whole lot of educa- Wisconsin governors, as well as current collaboration with then-UW president tin’ going on here. and former senators (Herb Kohl ’56, Charles Van Hise 1879, 1880, MS1882, So when it comes to determining who Russ Feingold ’75, Charles Robb ’61), PhD1892 helped to produce the Wis- among these many Badgers has had the diplomats (such as Tom Loftus MA’72, consin Idea, the university’s core prin- greatest influence on teaching and learn- former ambassador to Norway and adviser ciple of public service. At the end of his ing, we asked the help of some experts to the director general of the World time as governor, La Follette appointed — the good folks at the UW’s School of Health Organization), cabinet secretar- himself to a U.S. Senate seat, where he Education. There, Dean Julie Under- ies (Lawrence Eagleburger ’52, MS’57 of served until his death in 1925. There, wood and Nancy Nelson MS’72, director the state department; Tommy Thompson he was such a force that, thirty-four of alumni relations, gave some thought to ’63, JD’66 of health and human services), years later, a committee led by John F. the topic and suggested Charles Ander- and one vice president (Dick Cheney Kennedy named him one of the cham- son, the school’s first dean. PhDx’68). Even foreign government lead- ber’s “famous five” most outstanding “Andy” Anderson saw just about every ers have passed up and down Bascom Hill: former members. level of Wisconsin’s public education

SUMMER 2011 31 system over the course of his career. He Actually, four people have done it, but edited a series of elementary-school text- Bardeen is the only Badger on the list. ’22 books and was a high school principal in His competition for most influential Galesville (where he oversaw the instruc- science Badger is stiff. The UW has tion of a young Conrad Elvehjem ’23, produced eleven Nobel laureates, several astronauts (including Jim Lovell x’50 of MS’24, PhD’27, who would be the UW’s the Apollo 13 mission and Laurel Clark president from 1958–62). He served as ’83, MD’87, who died in the Colum- superintendent of schools in Stoughton, bia disaster); MRI-inventor Raymond and president of the Wisconsin Education Damadian ’56; digital computer inventor Association in 1925. In 1926, he joined John Atanasoff PhD’30; Gene Amdahl the UW’s faculty, where he helped create MS’49, PhD’52, who formulated the School of Education, serving as its first Amdahl’s law of parallel computing; chair (1928–30) and dean (1930–47). Jack St. Clair Kilby MS’50, who helped KARL PAUL 1922, MS’23, invent the integrated circuit; Carl Djer- PhD’25 assi PhD’45, who helped invent the birth Link ’28 control pill; Edward Schildhauer 1897, LIF E S CI e n C e s ’28 chief engineer on the Panama Canal dig; and loads of other scientific big shots. As in the physical sciences, several But seriously: Two. Nobel. Prizes. UW alumni in the life sciences have A native of Madison, Bardeen was achieved the status of Nobel laureate: the son of Charles Bardeen, the first Herbert Gasser 1910, for instance, picked dean of the UW’s medical school. He up one of the Scandinavian medallions studied electrical engineering at the UW for his study of nerve threads; Edward before receiving a doctorate in math- Tatum MS’32, PhD’34 grabbed another ematical physics at Princeton. for work on the metabolism of bacteria, Bardeen won the first of his Nobels yeasts, and molds; Erwin Neher MS’67 in 1956 for work he did at Bell Labs with discovered how to study ion channels physicists William Shockley and Walter in cell membranes, and Günter Blobel JOHN 1928, MS’29 Brattain to invent a semiconductor device PhD’67 discovered how proteins move Bardeen called a transfer resistor — or transistor. into the correct places in cells. T E CH n o L O GY This little thingy is a key component in Outside of the Nobel honorees, the all modern electronics, as it’s essential to UW was the center of study for one of The UW has produced many the design of integrated circuits. the great dietary discoveries of the last important scientists and engineers, Bardeen’s second Nobel came in century: vitamins. Conrad Elvehjem, for but this selection was actually pretty 1972 after he, Leon Cooper, and John example, identified niacin (B3); Margue- easy. I was talking with Brian Mattmiller Robert Schrieffer developed the first rite Davis ’26 helped discover vitamin ’86, assistant dean in the College of theory of superconductivity, known as D; and Harry Steenbock 1908, MS1910, Engineering, about who he thought was the BCS Theory (after their initials). PhD’16 and Hector DeLuca MS’53, the UW’s leading technologist, and he Bardeen also taught at the University PhD’55 advanced the means for vitamin offered up one name ahead of all others. of Illinois, where his first PhD student D’s use. And Badger Lynn Margulis “You know about John Bardeen, was Nick Holonyak, inventor of the MS’60 shook up the study of evolution right?” he said. “He’s got two Nobel light-emitting diode, or LED. with her endosymbiotic theory, which is Prizes. I don’t know if anyone else has In anyone’s list of top technologists, too complicated to explain here but net- ever done that.” that’s a tough record to beat. ted her the Darwin-Wallace Medal.

32 ON WISCONSIN That’s just what has already been modern dance respectable. She’d been done. UW alumni are also poised to lead ’10 a phys ed major, and drawing on the many of the life-sciences developments biological principles she’d learned in of the future. Eric Green ’81 is the direc- kinesiology classes, she brought an tor of the National Institutes of Health’s understanding of how the body works Human Genome Research Institute, and to the appreciation of human move- William Gahl MD’76, PhD’81 is that ment. Over the course of her UW program’s clinical director. Steve Landry teaching career, from 1917–54, she PhD’88 is in charge of vaccine develop- guided the careers of a generation ment for the Gates Foundation (a leader of dancers. in working toward the eradication of Oh, and it’s pronounced DOUGH- diseases in poor regions of the globe). blur. But Karl Paul Link holds a unique spot, due to the role his discovery played MARGARET 1910, MA’24 in university — and possibly world — history. A biochemist, he was on the UW’s H’Doubler faculty from 1927 until his death in 1978, A R T S ’14 and he specialized in studying plant car- bohydrates and disease resistance. Big Her name may seem as difficult to deal, you say, and you may be right, but recall as it is to pronounce, but in 1940, Wisconsin farmer Ed Carson Margaret H’Doubler had an enormous brought Link the carcass of a cow that effect on the way we look at dance today. had bled to death after eating spoiled As the creator of the world’s first dance sweet clover. Link and his students exam- major, she elevated the discipline of rug- ined the clover, and he isolated a chemical cutting into a bona fide academic field. called dicumarol, which prevents blood Now, admittedly the arts are a broad from clotting. area, and comparing artists in different Dicumarol turned out to be both use- fields isn’t so much apples and oranges ful and profitable. The Wisconsin Alumni as it is apples and Buicks. The UW can ARTHUR 1914, MA’20, PhD’31 Research Foundation patented it under the count among its grads leaders in the name warfarin and marketed it as a rat poi- visual arts (glasswork legend Dale Chi- Altmeyer E C o n o M ic s son. In the 1950s, warfarin was approved huly MS’67 ), literature (Nobel laureate for therapeutic purposes — by preventing Saul Bellow MAx’37, playwright Lor- blood clots, it helped prevent strokes. raine Hansberry x’52, and novelist Joyce You may not recognize Arthur Through warfarin, Link played a role Carol Oates MA’61), architecture (Frank Altmeyer’s name, but he’s got his fin- with two prominent leaders of the Cold Lloyd Wright x1890), music (Butch gerprints on just about every paycheck War. After U.S. President Dwight Eisen- Vig ’80, Steve Miller x’67, Ben Sidran you’ve ever received. From 1936–55, he hower suffered a heart attack in 1955, his ’67), and even arts administration (cur- headed the U.S. Social Security Admin- doctors prescribed warfarin, making him rent National Endowment for the Arts istration, guiding that entity from an one of the first famous patients to use the chair Rocco Landesman ’69 and former uncertain infancy to a dominant place drug. And in 1953, according to Vladimir National Endowment for the Humanities in government. Pavlovich Naumov and Jonathan Brent, chair Lynne Cheney PhD’70). For several years, the UW has been Soviet leaders slipped a warfarin mickey But H’Doubler accomplished some- bragging about the number of its alumni to Joseph Stalin, thus assassinating the thing none of the others did when she who hold high places in the business increasingly erratic dictator. created that dance major: she made world — Wisconsin boasts more grads

SUMMER 2011 33 who are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies created such TV shows as Happy Days, than any other public university, topped ’18 Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, only by Harvard, Columbia, and Penn. Full House, Perfect Strangers, and These include Yahoo! (Carol Bartz ’71), Bosom Buddies). Halliburton (David Lesar ’75, MBA’78), But it was Nielsen, who had studied and China International Capital (Levin electrical engineering at the UW, who Zhu Yunlai MS’87, PhD’93), not to men- leveraged statistical analysis to develop tion the former heads of ExxonMobil the field of market research and find out (Lee Raymond ’60), Cisco Systems (John how many people tune in to which pro- Morgridge ’55), Harley-Davidson (Wil- grams — first with radio, and beginning liam Harley 1907), and Campbell’s Soup in 1950, with television. In 1957, Nielsen (William Beverly Murphy ’28 — who Senior became chairman of his company, hired a young executive named Donald and Junior became president. Goerke MBA’51, who invented Spaghet- ARTHUR 1918 For more than half a century, while tiOs: the neat, round spaghetti you can the American viewer’s tastes have shifted eat with a spoon). Nielsen from The Texaco Star Theater to Bonanza But for all the reach that these busi- M e d IA to Seinfeld to American Idol, Nielsen has ness leaders have had, none has affected remained king. so many American companies and work- Probably no medium has had more ers as much as Arthur Altmeyer did. effect on mass communication in Altmeyer studied economics under the last century than television, and few UW professor John Commons, and then people, if any, have had more effect on ’70 in the 1920s, he went to work for class- television than Arthur Nielsen, the man mate Edwin Witte ’09, PhD’27 as chief who gave us the Nielsen rating. More statistician on Wisconsin’s state Labor than that, Nielsen also gave us Arthur Commission. During the Great Depres- Nielsen, Jr. ’41, his successor heading the sion, he became an ardent New Dealer, legendary Nielsen Company. and when President Franklin Roosevelt The competition in this field is put together a committee to draft what heavily laden with awards. The UW is became the Social Security Act, he chose famous for its School of Journalism & Altmeyer as the group’s technical director Mass Communication, and university- (with Witte as executive director). wide, some twenty-eight alumni have In 1937, two years after the act’s pas- collected thirty-two Pulitzer Prizes sage, Altmeyer became chairman of the (beginning with historian Frederick FLORENCE MS’70 PhD’86 Social Security Board, a post he held Jackson Turner 1884, MA1888). Addi- (though his title changed to commis- tionally, the Badger ranks include an Chenoweth AG R ICULTU r e sioner in 1946) until 1953. His position Oscar winner for documentaries (Errol was then eliminated early in Dwight Morris ’69) and one of the most prolific Eisenhower’s presidency, and Altmeyer situation-comedy producers in Hol- Agriculture has been at the center lost his job — ironically, just twenty- lywood (Thomas Miller ’62, whose of the UW’s mission since it was seven days before he would have been Miller-Milkis, Miller-Milkis-Boyett, and named a land-grant university in eligible to retire with full benefits. Miller-Boyett production companies the 1860s, and many Badger grads

34 ON WISCONSIN have shaped farming and farm-related the hill it stood on is now called Muir industries. ’63 Knoll.) Classmate Milton Griswold 1863, Some of their roles have been intel- MA1866 gave Muir an impromptu bot- lectual (such as Nobel laureate Theodore any lesson, informing him that the locust Schultz MS’28, PhD’30, who studied tree was a member of the same plant fam- agricultural economics in developing ily as the pea. nations), some are industrial (such as It blew Muir’s mind. “This fine les- Robert Bush ’50, CEO of Schreiber son charmed me and sent me flying to the Foods, the nation’s second-largest cheese woods and meadows in wild enthusiasm,” supplier, or Jim Behnke ’66, MS’68, he later wrote. PhD’72, longtime VP of technology at It also sent him flying from campus. Pillsbury), and some are scientific (such Muir dropped out of school in 1864 and as bacteriologist Edwin Michael Fos- went to Canada (some say to avoid the ter PhD’40, who ran the UW’s Food draft, which would mean he was antici- JOHN x1863 Research Institute and who was a pioneer pating a UW tradition of a century later). in food packaging safety). Like drinking Muir He eventually went tramping off to Cali- milk without contracting brucellosis? e n VI r o n M e n T fornia, where he wrote eloquently about Thank Alice Catherine Evans MS1910, the Yosemite Valley, conducted geologi- who championed pasteurization. When it comes to environmental- cal studies, and advocated for the creation But Florence Chenoweth’s influence ism, the choice for most influential of the National Park System. stretches beyond a particular industry, alum is really a two-horse race, Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Muir crop, or chemical. She’s twice held the according to Gregg Mitman, director of that he was “what few nature lovers are leading agricultural position for her the UW’s Nelson Institute for Environ- — a man able to influence contemporary homeland, Liberia — from 1977–79, mental Studies: “John Muir and Gaylord thought and action on the subjects to n she was minister of agriculture for that Nelson [LLB’42] would be the two obvi- which he had devoted his life.” nation’s president, William Tolbert, ous choices,” he says. and she’s held the same role under The latter, governor of Wisconsin John Allen is senior editor of On Wisconsin, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf since from 1959–63 and U.S. senator from the most influential alumni magazine pub- 2009. 1963–81, is perhaps best remembered lished by a university located on the southern In between (and after complet- as the founder of Earth Day, celebrated shore of Lake Mendota. ing her UW doctorate), Chenoweth since 1970. He was also a counselor for worked to improve agriculture policy the Wilderness Society and is the name- across Africa through positions with sake not only of the UW’s environmental UW Bragging Rights the World Bank and as a director of the institute, but also for a wilderness area in Founded in 1861 under the leadership of UN’s Food and Agriculture Organiza- Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands and a state Charles Wakeley 1854, the Wisconsin Alumni tion. She believes that agriculture is the park north of Madison. Association has connected the UW with its best tool for the advancement of Africa. But Muir has perhaps had the graduates and friends for 150 years. WAA is “Hunger,” she has written, “is the greater influence on the environmen- celebrating its anniversary by honoring the achievements of Badgers around the globe. cruelest and most visible sign of poverty tal movement. As a UW student, he Find out more at uwalumni.com/150, or give … [and] agriculture is, and will remain had a moment of clarity while standing the reasons why you’re proud to be a Badger for the foreseeable future, the main under a locust tree outside of North at uwalumni.com/home/proudbadger.aspx. source of growth and poverty reduction Hall. (The tree, subsequently called the Wisconsin Alumni Association: in many African nations.” Muir Locust, was cut down in 1953. But celebrating alumni for 150 years.

SUMMER 2011 35 36 ON WISCONSIN Seeing potential When the UW’s medical school gave Tim Cordes a chance, he exceeded expectations, teaching others that being blind needn’t destroy one’s dreams.

By Susan Lampert Smith ’82 Photos by Jeff Miller

A morning in the trenches “If nothing at home has changed, He signals for his guide dog, Bella. of the Psychiatry Consultation Service and she has no support, why would Then dog, doctor, and students set off at UW Hospital is like a visit to a we expect things will be better?” asks through the maze of hospital floors to MASH unit of the mind. Cordes, as he uses a computer voice see the patient. program to navigate Google. He’s Medical students scurry out the • • • door to evaluate hospitalized patients looking for a social worker or police who are suffering from both psychiatric officer in the woman’s hometown, “See the patient” is an inadequate phrase and medical illnesses, and then return someone who could ask a judge for an when applied to Cordes, who has been with their observations. emergency hold and keep her hospital- blind since boyhood. Yet colleagues When medical student Tabatha ized for another three days. insist that Cordes, who has an outpatient Williams MDx’12 describes a patient “Hi, this is Tim Cordes, I’m caseload of about one hundred and thirty who attempted suicide after her pain- a physician at the University of patients and oversees psychiatry interns killer prescription was not renewed, Wisconsin,” he says, making the first at two hospitals, has unique insight into Tim Cordes MD’04, PhD’07 reacts with of a string of phone calls before he the minds and bodies of his patients. concern. While the patient is insisting finds someone willing to help on the Williams, a third-year medical student, on going home, both student and doctor legal side. That accomplished, Cordes says that Cordes is an adept listener who worry about another attempt. explains to the students that addiction picks up things from his patients that often is the end result of misguided others rely upon body language or other With guide dog Bella leading the way, Tim Cordes talks with physician Michael attempts to come to terms with visual cues to identify. For instance, she Peterson, left, and medical student emotional pain. The goal, he says, is to recalls, he can realize that a medication is Dhaval Desai, behind, as they do a get the patient to develop “a different creating side effects based on the sound morning round of patient consultations at UW Hospital. relationship with [her] pain.” of a patient’s voice.

SUMMER 2011 37 “His intuition is amazing,” Williams his mother sat at a says. “I’m like, ‘Whoa! You picked up table up front, with on all that, and you can’t even see the his wife, Blue-leaf patient?’ ” Cordes ’97, PhD’04, Dean Krahn MD’80, chief of psychiatry MD’06, and their at the William S. Middleton Memorial two young sons, Veterans Hospital (VA), says that Cordes Peter, now four, and “does excellent physical exams.” Using just Paul, one. his sense of touch, Cordes has discovered Just one of potentially life-threatening blood clots that Cordes’s many others had missed. achievements would But more important, Krahn says, is make most mothers his ability to connect with his patients. glow. He earned At the VA, Cordes streamlined the black belts in jujitsu process of getting a psychiatric consulta- and tae kwon do, tion so that patients could be seen more composed music, quickly, and he is currently researching learned to water- As guide dog Bella patiently waits, Tim Cordes reviews patient better ways to deliver addiction treat- ski, and carried the records and dictates notes, working with Liz Morrison, a retired ment to military veterans in rural areas Olympic torch in nurse and one of Cordes’s visual describers. of Wisconsin. This fall, he will begin a 2002. fellowship in addiction treatment at the Cordes graduated as valedictorian All praised his intense preparation, veterans hospital. of his Notre Dame class in 1998, after which allowed him to place a tube in “Tim is a great role model for earning a degree in biochemistry and a patient’s windpipe correctly the first patients with addiction issues,” Krahn doing research on antibiotics. Then he time. In his third year, he won “student says. “With everything he has had to encountered another group of people of the year” honors from both the overcome in his life, it makes it more who told him he couldn’t achieve his next obstetrics-gynecology and anesthesi- difficult for patients to tell him that they dream: going to medical school. Although ology departments, meaning he was the want to quit, that it is just too hard.” he had a resume that would make anyone top student out of one hundred and fifty else a shoo-in, eight medical schools in those rotations. • • • rejected him. Only the Wisconsin School Wisconsin made a number of modi- Tim Cordes was just a toddler when his of Medicine and Public Health gave him fications for him. The school supplied an mom, Therese, heard from doctors at a chance — and then only after some Optacon, a machine that converts visual the University of Iowa that her son had rather intense debate by the admissions images into raised lines, and a computer a rare genetic condition called Leber’s committee. that reads notes at a frenetic clip of five disease. He will eventually lose all of his When Cordes entered medical school hundred words a minute. The Iowa eyesight, and he will never drive a car or in summer 1998, he was the third blind Department for the Blind, from Cordes’s pilot a plane, they said. And they told her medical student in the United States. home state, hired “visual describers,” to think seriously about putting him in a Not everyone was convinced he should assistants who went through the clinical special school for blind children. be there, including a fellow student who rotations of medical school with him, “My mom cried all the way home,” sidled up to him during his first week and describing what they saw and fulfilling Cordes told the Madison Civics Club, snidely asked, “What are you doing here?” duties such as guiding him into the oper- “and then promptly forgot everything the But Cordes persisted, plunging his ating room while he held his sterile hands doctors told her.” hands into cadavers to pull out and feel aloft to avoid contamination. They also As Cordes gave his speech to an the organs, and earning kudos from accompanied Cordes through his stints audience of about five hundred last year, surgeons and anesthesiologists alike. at rural and specialty clinics, including

38 ON WISCONSIN he has yet to encounter a patient who didn’t want to be treated by a blind physician, but he says he would be fine with a patient requesting another doctor, saying simply, “It’s about them getting the best care; it’s not about me.”

• • • Cordes is a classic Midwesterner, with a low-key style that seems at odds with his drive and accomplishments. So let the numbers tell the story: he was selected for one of 140 spots in the UW medical school from a pool of about 2,300 applicants. The MD/PhD program is even more selective, admitting just eight out of 200 applicants. When Cordes earned his With earphones in place, Tim Cordes listens to computer-translated audio of medical charts as he and a medical team at UW Hospital discuss that day’s caseload of patient PhD in biochemistry, he became one of consultations. 139 blind or visually impaired scientists or engineers in the United States earning neurology and family practice. And when me,” says Krahn, who ranks Cordes first. doctorates, according to the National he was on twenty-four-hour call at the He said the dog was “uncanny” at being Science Foundation. Oh, and when he hospital, they slept there, too. completely alert to any unusual move- was working on his doctorate, he needed Liz Morrison, one of the visual ments in a room, while looking like he a way to describe complex molecules. describers and a retired nurse, was there was totally at rest. Because he couldn’t see them, he wrote the night Cordes delivered his first baby. “I didn’t have to worry that anything a computer program that uses sound The delivery went fine, except that Vance, or anybody would get past Vance,” Krahn — going up and down the scale, and Cordes’s German shepherd service dog, says. “Vance seemed to know when the getting louder and softer — to explain wanted to be in on the action. interview was coming to a close and would the branching arms of a lethal bacterial “Basically, Tim delivered the baby stand, but remain right at Tim’s side.” protein. His software, Tonal Interface to and I held back Vance,” says Morrison, But medical school, followed by Macromolecules — Tim Mol for short, is who still works part time with Cordes, residency, was hard on the old dog, who available to others who might need it. helping him fill out medical paperwork wouldn’t eat when he was at the hospital And his doctoral research helped scien- for his patients. because he knew he was still on duty. tists to better understand the virulence But what Vance lacked as an obstet- Vance retired in summer 2010, and now of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium rical assistant, he more than made up for lives with Cordes’s parents. His new dog, deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis. during Cordes’s psychiatry residency. Bella, a young golden retriever-Labrador If more students could get help Krahn, at the veterans hospital, recalls that cross, has a decidedly different therapy that compensates for their disabilities, he initially worried about Cordes’s vulner- style. She bangs her tail enthusiastically on they could achieve what he has, Cordes ability, because residents can encounter the floor whenever people enter the room. believes. To share that idea, he addressed seriously mentally ill patients who can be And when Cordes gives her the hand the 2010 National Federation of the unpredictable, and occasionally, violent. signal, she rubs her head on his lap, giving Blind’s convention and contributed a He needn’t have worried. him a full body wiggle of affection. chapter to an Association of American “Vance was the second-best observer Cordes says that Bella likes everyone, Medical Colleges guide to making in the room when it was Tim, Vance, and which helps put patients at ease. So far, Continued on page 62

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TheClassof 2011 They’ve taken different paths to chase their dreams, but these brand-new alumni agree about next steps: They’re up for the challenge.

By Sam Oleson ’11 and Jenny Price ’96 Photos by Jeff Miller

It would be understandable if members of the Class of 2011 decided there wasn’t much to be optimistic about as they prepared to receive their diplomas and enter the real world. After all, they were still in middle school when the 9/11 attacks shook us to our core, and the country has been at war ever since. For much of their young lives, the U.S. economy has been on a downslide following the boom years of the 1990s. But they have also lived through an unprecedented era of change in the way people use technology to communicate, learn, and discover. They were born after the Internet came to be. Their world has always moved at breakneck speed, which might explain why they’re more convinced than the rest of us that things can and will get better. “I think that the economy — in the state that it is — is actually going to foster a lot of entrepreneurship,” says Quincy Harrison ’11, who made a name for himself with the “Teach Me How to Bucky” song. “I would rather create a job than take a job.” Forget the conventional wisdom about how to find work, too. To wit, some of the jobs journalism graduate Sammy Ganz ’11 applied for required candidates to submit part or all of their applications through the social networking site Twitter. “They’re having you tweet in 140 characters why you should be the one they pick,” she says. UW alumni who came before them may not be able to identify with that, but many no doubt felt as Nicholas Lillios ’11 did. “I don’t want to graduate,” he said during his last semester before commencement. “College is so great, you don’t want to end it.” But these seven students did end it — or will later this year. They are just some of the new Badger alumni about to make their mark on the world.

40 ON WISCONSIN Nate Cira Hometown: Cedarburg, Wisconsin

Majors: Biology, biomedical engineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology

UW resume highlights: Member of the UW team that engineered “genetic machines” — in this case, to deliver therapeutic proteins to the small intestine to improve digestive health — for an international competition at MIT; volunteer at a local hospital; and tutor with the UW’s Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence

Favorite UW memory? Winning a top prize at the College of Engineering’s Innovation Days competition for a prototype of a backpack that combined essential pieces of camping gear — a sleeping bag and pad, tent, and chair — into one. “We had a blast making it. We learned to sew. Not a skill set I figured I’d pick up, but I suppose a useful one.”

What’s next? Graduate work in biomedical engineering, with a focus on microfluidics research, which involves manipulating incredibly small amounts of liquid inside of tiny channels. “Engineers are in a unique position with their abilities to manipulate and develop devices. To combine that, as well as the engineering way of thinking, with biology to come up with new living systems excites me.”

Dream job? Research professor. “I see what my professors at Madison do and professors at other schools that I’ve been involved with, like Berkeley ... and for me, it’s just ideal.”

What do you consider the most important thing you’ve learned at the UW? “Do things you’re passionate about. ... Figure out what you’re interested in, and when you find it, stick with it.”

SUMMER 2011 41 launched CURB, writing a story about Sammy Ganz a family who lost its six-year-old son in a crash with a drunken driver that was Hometown: River Vale, New Jersey later published on the front page of the Majors: Journalism (strategic Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “I interviewed communication) and international them about three weeks after it happened. studies (culture in the age of To be able to help spread their message globalization track) was definitely one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done.” UW resume highlights: Marketing director for CURB magazine; co-founder, What’s next? swimmingcows.com, a website focused on Job hunting, with the goal of landing at marketing, advertising, and public rela- an advertising or public relations agency tions news in Madison Dream job? Favorite UW Memory? To create an industry game-changer, As one of a close-knit group of twenty inspired by social media’s impact on the Ali Bramson way society communicates School of Journalism students who Hometown: Verona, Wisconsin How has the UW prepared you for the Majors: Physics, astronomy-physics, real world? certificate in computer science Instilling time management and making the most of opportunities. “Being able to UW resume highlights: President, choose what you want to get involved in Physics Club; Undergraduate Research and prioritize to actually go every week and Mentoring fellow ... definitely taught me to see both the Favorite UW Memory? bigger picture and how to be realistic.” Bramson grew up attending UW football games with her father, Todd Bramson Most important thing learned in ’83, and knew from the start that she college? wanted to be a Badger. “I always looked How to become a big fish in a big pond. at the student section and thought, ‘Oh, “Being able to find your own way in a I want to be like them. They’re having really big university like this, finding and so much fun,’ and so I love being part of having experiences that make you stand that atmosphere and the school spirit and out, and getting to know your professors supporting Bucky.” even when you’re in a two-hundred- person lecture hall is a really important What’s next? skill.” Applying to PhD programs in planetary science, with plans to focus on imaging What excites you about graduating at the surfaces of planets this time? “In the advertising and PR world, there Dream job? are so many new opportunities with social Working for NASA. “Ever since I was media. It’s gone from something that five, I always said I wanted to be an astro- was a niche group ... to something that naut. And then I realized I didn’t want to everyone can see is a valuable tool.” go into space, I wanted to study it.”

42 ON WISCONSIN How has the UW prepared you for the real world? Research internships at a Puerto Rican observatory and the Search for Extrater- restrial Intelligence Institute provided invaluable experiences. “You need to be able to do research. You can’t just be book smart, you need to be able to solve problems.”

Most important thing you learned at the UW? Finding her passion and exploring options through research and in the classroom. “The UW has so much to offer ... I took a planetary astrophysics class and said, ‘Man, I really like this stuff.’ ”

What excites you about graduating at this time? “The world’s getting a lot smaller, and some people might be afraid of that, but I think it’s a great opportunity for humans to discover awesome things and make What do you consider your major a shirt that people buy. Write a book that huge advancements.” accomplishments at the UW? people buy. Make a couple CDs. I really Being admitted to the School of Business just like working on a project, doing it was a big deal, but nothing can top the right, and reaping the benefits for a while UW playing the video for “Teach Me afterwards.” How to Bucky” on the Camp Randall How has the UW prepared you for the Jumbotron at the Homecoming football real world? Quincy Harrison game. “Being around so many people who are Hometown: Bloomington, Indiana What’s next? so smart and all actively pursuing that Majors: Business, with a focus on Continue working as a social-media strat- knowledge — it forces me to do the same. marketing and entrepreneurship, and egist for small and start-up companies. It consistently challenges me.” philosophy “I pretty much want to be a freelance What’s the most important thing worker, working for a lot of different you’ve learned while at the UW? Favorite UW memory: companies while also working on my The importance of knowledge. “When Harrison, who uses the stage name own projects. I’d like to be a guy with people are walking through a blizzard, up Quincy Kwalae, loved performing “The just a bunch of different projects without a hill in negative-degree weather to get to Coastie Song” at the Orpheum Theatre having a solid job, as scary as that class, it really drives the point home that on Halloween of his sophomore year. But may be.” going to the Rose Bowl on the heels of nothing stops people from the pursuit of the success of his song “Teach Me How Dream job? knowledge and to keep on learning.” to Bucky” (1.5 million YouTube views To not have a job. “My dream job is to do and counting) takes the cake. things and get paid off royalties. So, make

SUMMER 2011 43 Favorite UW Memory? Traveling to the Rose Bowl was “incredible” and a “good cap-off” to his senior year. But Lillios has a lot of nostalgia for his early days on campus, too. “My first year here was really sweet, because you’re seeing brand-new things that you’ve never really been exposed to.”

How are you feeling about the What’s next? Camea Osborn economy and what it means for your A Truman-Albright fellowship in the career prospects? Office of Rural Health Policy, part of the Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana “It’s scary. Because I’m a person who is U.S. Department of Health and Human Major: English interested in arts and the nonprofit sector, Services in Washington, D.C., followed I’ve always known I wouldn’t make a lot by medical school and residency UW resume highlights: Under her of money ... but, on the opposite side, as stage name “The Promise,” performed Dream job? an artist you know how to multi-task and across the country and abroad with the An academic post, including lab research, do a lot of things at once.” First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble; with time away to work at the National released first CD, Promise Kept, in August What excites you about graduating at Institutes of Health or Centers for 2009; studied abroad in Ghana this time? Disease Control and Prevention. “I want “Our generation is alive at the best to use science to help affect policy. If we Favorite UW memory? moment in time, because we can literally have more people who are educated in Attending R&B singer Janelle Monae’s go anywhere and do anything. ... I think these technical matters, I think it could concert on the Memorial Union Terrace. that is extremely exciting.” result in better policies for our country “It was a pretty nice night ... everybody’s and the world.” on the Terrace. There’s good music. It was just a really good night.”

What’s next? Complete a teacher-certification Nicholas Lillios program, earn a PhD in educational Hometown: Northbrook, Illinois theater Majors: Political science and Dream job? biochemistry Work with children as an arts educator, through a school or organization UW resume highlights: One of just sixty undergraduates nationwide selected How has the UW prepared you for the as a Truman Scholar, an award for real world? students committed to careers in public The rigor of the academic work. “It’s very service. Doing breast cancer research intense, so when I get into the real world, at the UW’s McArdle Laboratory for I’ll know how to manage and finish what Cancer Research, focusing on a subtype I start.” of the disease with no known treatment. “I want to work on cancer, because I think it’s curable.”

44 ON WISCONSIN How has the UW prepared you for the to Library Mall in October 2010. “I just real world? found it an absolutely incredible experi- Leaving the UW as a well-rounded ence to be a part of an institution that’s person. “You get to experience life in all so politically active.” different facets. You get exposed to so What’s next? many different people who don’t neces- Starting a graduate program in sociology sarily share your same viewpoint, or at Harvard. Asad, the son of Palestinian aren’t the same major as you, or don’t immigrants, grew up in a vibrant Arab- care about science, but you get to talk American community and is interested in to them. I think at a lot of other places questions of integration and assimilation. that are smaller, you don’t get that “You see an Arab community that’s quite perspective.” fragmented by generation. The older for the Big Ten Network public affairs Most important thing learned here? generation says, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no — we program, Office Hours. “I find myself How to approach a problem. “When can’t be American,’ while the younger thinking about how to go about saying you work in a lab, you’re in a team and says, ‘How can we not be American? and doing things more efficiently and you’re constantly being challenged to We’re all here.’ ” quickly, because nobody wants to hear find better ideas.” Dream job? like every other word.” What excites you about graduating at To live abroad, speak foreign languages How are you feeling about the this time? every day — whether Arabic or Spanish economy and what it means for your “We’re advancing so fast ... our ability to — and play a role in U.S. immigration career prospects? run experiments that once took us a long policy, inspired by his parents’ story. “The economy is rebounding, so it’s not time, our computing power is just ridicu- “How can we make the process more as bad as it used to be. I’m looking at lous. We’re able to synthesize so much humane and understanding of these the glass [as] half full, as opposed to half information through this technology that people? My goal would be to influence empty.” it’s almost as if we’re knowing what’s policy in that arena while also helping happening as it happens.” people to achieve that dream.” Jenny Price ’96 is senior writer for On Wis- consin. Sam Oleson ’11, who was an editorial How has the UW prepared you for the intern for the magazine while an undergrad, real world? says his dream job is writing for ESPN. Beginning to work at GUTS after Asad Asad looking for an “outside of the ordinary” part-time job; eventually becoming UW Bragging Rights Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin academic match coordinator, leading the The first work-study student at the UW may effort to find tutors and groups for more Majors: Political science and Spanish; have been John Sutton 1860, who earned than five hundred students a semester; tuition remittance ($6 per term) for the job certificate in global cultures and along the way, learning valuable of ringing a bell that hung outside his dorm UW resume highlights: One of only lessons about “maintaining your patience room to call students to class. Today, as the Wisconsin Alumni Association celebrates its twenty U.S. undergraduates selected as a and learning to say no when you have to 150th anniversary, it’s working to tie students 2010 Beinecke Scholar; Greater University say no.” to the UW’s rich traditions and educational Tutoring Service (GUTS) program coor- opportunities through programs such as the Most important thing learned here? dinator; study abroad in Madrid, Spain Wisconsin Alumni Student Board, career The value of communicating clearly and resources, and scholarships. Find out more at Favorite UW Memory? concisely, as taught in political science uwalumni.com. Standing on the stage and shaking professor Ken Goldstein’s course for Wisconsin Alumni Association: President Obama’s hand during his visit which students research and find guests celebrating alumni for 150 years.

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Africa, CostaAfrica, Rica, Greece, Jamaica, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, The colorfulThe carts around from all cuisine feature world: the East, Middle the America. and South

Jenny Price ’96

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Library Mall Food Carts Food Mall Library bit like Epcot theme park, but much easierLibrary Mall is a little on the wallet. and State UW-Madison ends colorful carts parked where The Africa, the world: all around cuisine from begins feature Street Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, the Indonesia, Costa Rica, Greece, America. For those who like their lunchMiddle East, and South also old-fashioned a little closer to home, there’s places from fare. Tex-Mex comfort food, Chicago-style hot dogs, and entertainment comes in the form of bongo drums, Free engaging in comical passionate orators, and student groups their own carts provide Many stunts to raise money for charity. of the music is intended clear that much soundtrack, though it’s a certain piccolo player dressed out the notes from to drown head to toe in blaze orange. for obtaining process The city of Madison has a rigorous ranked based on how long they have are a cart spot. Vendors a panel ratings from been in business, any code violations, and The judges — mostly city employees — taste test of reviewers. day within a weeklongeach one by dining at four to six carts a period each September. part of is taking hold on the southeast culture Street-food the city has established additional vending campus, too, where West Street, by Broom bordered spots for carts in the area and North Randall Avenue, Regent Street, Avenue, Washington University Avenue. but the diehards operate year-round, The carts don’t have lost their leaves; their return is a linger long after trees hopeful sign that spring is finally on its way to campus. As begin to rise, diners lounge on the grass outdoor temperatures their shoes and the Library Mall fountain to remove surrounding on their faces. Others squeeze onto feel Lake Mendota breezes to sit elevated area the mall’s steps surrounding the concrete in the sun, food balanced in laps, and enjoy some of the best people-watching in town. traditions gifts in action

Badgers, All The McBurney Center fully integrates those with disabilities into campus life.

How do you hear a chemistry JEFF MILLER lecture if you’re deaf? How do you read a history textbook when the words look all jumbled up? And most important, can you get to the Rathskeller in a wheelchair? Since 1977, the UW’s McBurney Disability Resource Center has shown students, families, the campus community, and campuses around the country how to provide equal access to education for people with disabilities. Today, the McBurney Center is newly situated in a custom- designed space at 702 West Johnson Street, providing students with a greater variety of services than ever before. Private support has played a pivotal role. It’s a story Blair Mathews ’53, During a meeting at the McBurney Center, comments appear as text on a laptop computer as a MS’54 enjoys telling. stenographer captures the discussion for a staff member who has a hearing impairment. The center In the mid-1970s, Mathews has been at the forefront nationally in providing equal access to education for those with disabilities. served as assistant dean of students. As his work put him in and an advocate for people with family had established a fund with disabilities to develop their contact with high school coun- disabilities. in his memory. Graaskamp own special talents and fully selors and staff at the Wisconsin He got the space. asked if the family would be participate in the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, “I had a ragtag group of willing to allocate the fund as Experience. he became more aware of rehab-psychology graduate seed money for a campus office The McBurney Center, which students with disabilities — and students prepared to help,” to help students with learning is part of the Division of Student just how difficult it was for them Mathews says, “but I needed a and other disabilities. The family Life, is a welcoming commu- to attend UW-Madison. He spoke campus committee to get things agreed, and the center was nity and a resource for students to then-Dean of Students Paul done. Jim was the chair of that named to recognize the first gift, with ADHD; deafness and hearing Ginsberg ’52 about making the committee. Then, of course, I the family’s commitment, and problems; learning disabilities; university more manageable for needed money.” the center’s mission to be a low vision and blindness; mobility, disabled students. Graaskamp knew where campus resource. systemic, psychiatric, or health- “Paul said, ‘Do it!’ ” Mathews to turn. In addition to helping related disabilities; and traumatic remembers. Although Mathews Despite a diving accident establish the McBurney Center, brain injury. The center’s state- had no staff and no budget, he that paralyzed him at age sixteen, Mathews and his wife, Karen of-the-art design, its energy, and found a potential office loca- Mike McBurney ’60, LLB’63 Louise Johnson Mathews the activity of students just being tion in Bascom Hall, a central not only earned an undergrad- MA’99, also established a students — and proud Badgers location close to parking. The uate degree, he finished third in scholarship to honor Trey Duffy, — are constant reminders that space, however, belonged his Law School class. McBurney the center’s second director. disability is only a fact of life, not a to the School of Business. joined his father’s successful law Recently renamed the Wisconsin way of life. Mathews approached James practice and was elected assis- Experience Accessibility For more information, visit Graaskamp, a UW real estate tant district attorney, but he died Scholarship, the fund’s goal is www.mcburney.wisc.edu. professor who was quadriplegic in 1967 before taking office. His to encourage and help students Merry Anderson

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50 Sifting & Winnowing Grandparents Eeeeuw-niversity Caroline (then age twelve) and Jamie (then nine), 51 Alumni Association grandchildren of Joycelyn Rugg, examine a jar of News concentrated Lake Mendota algae and zooplankton in this 2009 photo of Grandparents University. Offered by the Wisconsin Alumni Association and UW Extension’s 54 Class Notes Family Living Programs, Grandparents U is a lifelong learning event that brings children ages seven to four- 59 Calendar teen to campus with their grandparents to share an educational experience. This family studied limnology 61 Bookshelf with Professor John Magnuson. (That’s him in the cap in the background.)

SUMMER 2011 49 sifting &winnowing BARRY ROAL CARLSEN A Table for Five Joy Ann Roddy Downs PhD’80

A small metal replica of a yellow Terrace chair sits on my desk at work in Durham, New Hampshire. It was given to me in 2007, shortly after I attended a nearly thirty-year reunion of five women, all of us graduate students who attended UW-Madison in the late 1970s: Mary Falvey PhD’80, Pat Porter PhDx’81, Chris Dollaghan PhD’81, Jan Bedrosian PhD’81, and me. We had formed our own women’s support group soon after meeting in fall 1977, and we had not all been together since 1980. I wanted to write about the experience, but I soon gave up, feeling that I couldn’t do justice to these remarkable women or to our extraordinary group. But after returning from our second reunion in Madison in 2009, I wanted to try again. We originally came together for support while living far away from family and friends, and facing the daunting task of earning a doctorate. We wanted to Our most recent reunion in June 2009 was also amazing. The explore some basic questions, such as how to balance one’s personal weather allowed for hours on the Terrace, a walk along the lake, and professional life, how to be appropriately assertive, and which and a stroll through a sun-filled farmers’ market. But I think we were role models we wanted to emulate. We talked at the Terrace, weather louder this year. No, I know we were louder this year. We met our permitting. We talked at the Ovens of Brittany (no longer there), the fifth arrival at the airport Thursday evening. As she descended on Nitty Gritty (still there), and at many other Madison gathering places. the escalator, the four of us gathered at the bottom and sang “On, Given how demanding our graduate programs were, I am Wisconsin!” On Saturday morning, just before leaving our hotel, the amazed that we were able to maintain our commitment to the group same woman was last coming down to the lobby with her luggage. to the degree that we did. Pictures from those years, as well as This time, we greeted her by singing, “We are family. … I got all my a journal we kept, clearly document numerous activities: potluck sisters with me!” Those who see us only in our professional roles dinners, cross-country skiing at the Arboretum, running/jogging might have been a bit surprised. together, and Spring Frou 1 and 2 (which was like a spring fling, but These women whom I am blessed to know are bright, kind, funny, fancier), to name just a few. and wise. Although I could list more than twenty adjectives that aptly Talking, connecting, and caring about each other was the heart describe them, doing so would make them sound too perfect, when and soul of our group. We were there for each other, to celebrate the they are, in fact, all perfectly human. We were able to be lost and achievements, to console during the losses, and to listen deeply as confused, or scared and self-doubting, with each other. We brought options were sorted through, paths chosen. In retrospect, it seems we our whole selves to the table during those years, and we still do. That managed to create a little family for ourselves — family at its very best. may well be what makes the group so important to us. Our first reunion in June 2007 was nothing short of exhilarating. We plan to meet again this summer. If you see a group of women We sat at a round table on the Terrace and talked for seven hours sitting on the Terrace, looking like they thoroughly enjoy each other’s straight. Granted, we had many years to catch up on; most of our company, it just might be us. Come on over and say hello. We might contact had been via holiday cards or meeting at an occasional even sing you a song. conference. During our marathon session, we may have taken a few breaks for ice cream, but we mostly talked and laughed, and realized Joy Ann Roddy Downs PhD’80 has been a staff psychologist at the that it was possible to pick up right where we had left off — that, in University of New Hampshire for more than twenty years. She lives spite of career changes, long marriages, and raising children, we were, with her husband and daughter in nearby Madbury. at our essence, the same five women.

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On, Wisconsin Alumni Association! You’re invited to celebrate WAA’s 150th birthday.

For the last century and a half, the national convocation, bringing BRENT NICASTRO (2) Wisconsin Alumni Association has alumni from around the world to been a powerful advocate and Madison July 26–29 for discus- a familiar, friendly voice for UW sions on topics ranging from alumni, students, and the campus global health and technology they love. to the new world economy (see “Being a UW alum means uwalumni.com/international). much more than earning a degree The association also offers its UW Bragging Rights here,” says Paula Bonner Alumni for Wisconsin advocacy WAA has given awards to more MS’78, WAA’s president and group to help alumni to actively than three hundred distinguished CEO. “It means being part of a promote the university and its alumni since 1936, including such global community that includes needs. In May, the group hosted notables as astronaut James inventors, artists, political leaders, some 20,000 Wisconsin grads via Lovell, Jr. x’50; actress Jane and some of the most spirited telephone for a town-hall phone Kaczmarek ’79; environmentalist people on the planet.” conversation with Chancellor Gaylord Nelson ’42, journalist WAA connects the more Biddy Martin PhD’85 to Anthony Shadid ’90; and Yahoo! than 385,000 UW alumni in a learn about the New Badger CEO Carol Bartz ’71. surprising variety of ways. Some Partnership. Susan Houben, Kim Hearn, 16,000 of those alumni live WAA keeps grads connected Bucky Badger, and WAA Chair Wisconsin Alumni abroad, and WAA is helping the to the university’s educational Renee Ramirez enjoy a fish fry Association: celebrating during Alumni Weekend. university shape a global agenda, resources through an array of alumni for 150 years strengthening ties with far-flung Lifelong Learning opportunities, Once they graduate, those graduates through initiatives such from an online marathon class to former students can take advan- as its international chapters and its Made in Wisconsin “grown- tage of special young alumni its Wisconsin Worldview e-news- up field trips” and its Global Hot events to stay connected. Alumni letter. In honor of the alumni Spots lecture series. can nurture their UW roots by association’s 150th anniver- The association’s support for joining one of two dozen affil- dancing. WAA’s colorful 150th sary, the UW-Madison campus is students includes helping to raise iate groups or nearly one hundred banners (above) dot the campus, coming together to host an inter- more than $10 million in schol- local alumni chapters, reading and as a special gift, the associa- arships since 1967. Through the On Wisconsin or WAA’s Badger tion will provide campus with new Homecoming Committee and Insider Magazine, or enjoying street signs that reflect the univer- Nominate an the Wisconsin Alumni Student Badger camaraderie on alumni sity’s red and white colors. Accomplished Badger Board, WAA provides a home for tours to more than three dozen On June 23, a Badger-style Do you know students to develop their leader- destinations worldwide. birthday bash at Alumni Pier on an outstanding ship skills, and it helps them to To celebrate 150 years of the shore of Lake Mendota will UW graduate successfully launch their careers these and similar accomplish- feature a new ice cream flavor under age forty? through a job board, a news feed, ments, WAA’s Founders’ Days, — Mad Grad Medley — created Nominate him or financial seminars, and its Career Distinguished Alumni Awards, specially by Babcock Hall Dairy her for a 2012 Links networking program. First- and other events throughout the for WAA’s anniversary. The year Forward under Year Parents’ Weekend, student year have reverberated with an of celebration will culminate with 40 award sendoffs, and a Fifth Quarter anniversary theme. The associa- an anniversary gala at the new (deadline: event to teach freshmen about tion revamped Alumni Weekend Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery June 30). See Badger spirit are additional ways to include events such as an all- Town Center on October 14. forwardunder40.com. that WAA prepares students to campus board summit and a For more information, visit become engaged alumni. Friday night fish fry with polka uwalumni.com/150.

Share Your Badger Pride Videos: What makes you proud to be a Badger? If you’ve ever wanted to broadcast your Wisconsin loyalties to the world, now is your chance to share what makes your blood run Badger red. Get out your video camera and tell us, in two minutes or less, why you’re proud to be a Badger. Hear the stories of other alumni and share your own at uwalumni.com/proud.

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Celebrating the Past, Shaping the Future Don’t miss WAA’s 150th anniversary archives.

At its inaugural meeting in 1861, the Wisconsin purpose is to substitute organized effort for Wisconsin Union, and the UW Foundation. Alumni Association (WAA) consisted of “a little mere individual good-will. Its keynote is coop- As the halfway point of its 150th anniver- band of university graduates ... keeping alive, eration. Its success depends on what Kipling sary year approaches, WAA is taking a look amidst other excitements, the spirit of loyalty to calls ‘the everlasting teamwork of every back at the moments that shaped both the their tottering alma mater.” Charles Wakeley bloomin’ soul.’ ” association and the alumni experience with 1854, one of the first two graduates of the That statement is especially true today. a special anniversary archives at uwalumni. university, founded the association because From day one to year 150, WAA’s mission com/150. You’ll find fun facts, photos, he was concerned that the Civil War would has been to encourage UW alumni to work in videos, and a “This Week in History” feature threaten the university’s funding, and he felt it concert for the best interests of their univer- in celebration of the alumni association’s was important for alumni to advocate for their sity. Throughout the years, Badgers have sesquicentennial. alma mater. bonded together to create many lasting lega- Meanwhile, you can test your Badger Years later, in 1922, the association’s cies, including the Camp Randall Civil War IQ by attempting to answer the questions board of directors refined its mission further: memorial arch, the Wisconsin Alumni Research associated with the following photos. Visit “[The Wisconsin Alumni Association’s] Foundation, the Homecoming tradition, the uwalumni.com/150 to find out how you did. APPLETON POST CRESCENT

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 On Spirit Day, Badgers around the globe show off their UW pride. When was the first UW Spirit Day?  What is a climbing wall doing on Library Mall?  Why is Bucky holding stacks of postcards?

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40s–50s spirit of hope and achievement.” Inspection Agency’s Ministerial News? Let’s Have It! Acknowledged as one of the Advisory Board. Among them PBS President and CEO Paula world’s foremost experts on meat is Harold Bjarnason MA’66, Do send us the (brief, please) Kerger paid tribute to Lee processing, Robert Rust ’51 PhD’67 of Gimli, Manitoba, a details of your latest achieve- (Lenna) Ferrara Cannon x’48 is a new inductee into the Meat past dean of the faculty of agri- ments, transitions, heroic acts, while accepting an award on Industry Hall of Fame. The Iowa cultural and food sciences at the and other major life happenings behalf of PBS in December. State University animal-science University of Manitoba. He also by e-mail to papfelbach@ Kerger told the audience, “I’ve emeritus professor pioneered sits on the Canada Science and waastaff.com; by mail to Class been wanting to meet Lee the use of technology in meat Technology Museum’s board. Notes, Wisconsin Alumni Cannon for a long time, and I processing, and as the “father of The new scientific research Association, 650 North Lake just met her tonight. ... [She] had meat-science short courses,” he manager at NOW Foods, a Street, Madison, WI 53706-1476; the longest-running home show made the school the first to offer Bloomingdale, Illinois-based or by fax to (608) 265-8771. [Today’s Home] in history on formal classes to the industry. natural-health-products company, We always have many more public television.” Helmut Mueller ’53, is Richard Sharpee ’67. An submissions than we can include, The tri-level competition and MS’59, PhD63 shared news of industry innovator, he developed but don’t stop writing. We do training facility for hockey and four major ornithology awards the world’s first vaccine for feline appreciate hearing from you. swimming that’s being erected across from the UW’s Kohl Center Please e-mail death notices (on the site of the “old” Ogg Hall) “It’s a ball. You feel useful and often and all address, name, tele- will be named the La Bahn Arena, phone, and e-mail updates to appreciated.” — Dennis Loeffler ’69 after lead donors Mary Ann and [email protected]; Charles ’49 La Bahn of Grafton, mail them to Alumni Changes, that he’s received, including an leukemia, and he co-discovered Wisconsin. It’s expected to open Wisconsin Alumni Association, honor for sixty years of operating Coronavirus in cattle. in fall 2012. Charles La Bahn is a 650 North Lake Street, Madison, the Cedar Grove Ornithological Malcolm Gissen JD’68 past UW Foundation director and WI 53706-1476; fax them to Station. Wow! He’s a professor co-manages the five-year-old, a former chair of the Wisconsin (608) 262-3332; or call them in emeritus at the University of North San Francisco-based Encompass Alumni Association board. to (608) 262-9648 or toll free to Carolina in Chapel Hill. Fund, an SEC-registered, no-load John Klement ’51, MS’53 (888) 947-2586. The William I. Thornton mutual fund. In 2009, it ranked was among nine high school Outstanding Faculty Award of the as Morningstar’s number-one Obituary listings of WAA members athletic directors to be inducted International Municipal Lawyers World Stock Fund, and in 2010, it and friends appear in the Badger into the Hall of Fame of the Association has gone to retired ranked number two out of 15,700 Insider, WAA’s triannual publica- National Interscholastic Athletic Madison city attorney Eunice mutual funds. “This is record- tion for its members. Administrators Association in Wiechman Gibson ’56, JD’73. setting, we believe,” says Gissen. December. Klement retired in x-planation: An x preceding a Until 2009, she served on the Congratulations to Alberto 1988 after a thirty-six-year career degree year indicates that the faculty of the Municipal Attorneys Herrera, Jr. ’68, MA’82 on at Monona Grove [Wisconsin] individual did not complete, Institute, a city-attorney training his election as president of the High School. or has not yet completed, that program that Thornton founded. Wisconsin Library Association. The Smithsonian Institution’s degree at UW-Madison. He’s a librarian at Raynor Woodrow Wilson International 60s Memorial Libraries at Milwaukee’s Center for Scholars lauded Marquette University. several Milwaukee-area grad- Bladholms were all the rage at Louis Coloia MA’69 of uates during a May dinner. The Chicago’s Swedish American Palm Springs, California, has ® The Wisconsin Alumni Association Woodrow Wilson Award for Museum early this year — an joined Clint and Dina Eastwood, (WAA) encourages diversity, Corporate Citizenship went to exhibit of artworks in many media inclusivity, nondiscrimination, and Florence Henderson, Carol and by John Bladholm MA’63 and participation by all alumni, students, Sheldon Lubar ’51, LLB’53 Channing, pianist Roger Williams, and friends of the UW in its activities. his family, while Mary Tucker his four talented children, that is. and composer Jerry Herman ’68 and Ted ’69 Kellner The longtime art educator and on the advisory board of the received the Woodrow Wilson second-generation Swedish- Steinway Society of California. Award for Public Service. The American lives in Sturgeon Bay, With support from the Steinway lives of the Lubar and Kellner Wisconsin. Piano Company, the society families were said to reflect The food-safety system provides musical programming to Wilson’s belief that “you are here in Canada is stronger for the California schoolchildren. in order to enable the world to appointment of seven new A December Tampa Tribune live more amply ... with a finer advisers to the Canadian Food story had high praise for the

54 ON WISCONSIN Aldo Leopold Memorial Award Estella Leopold ’48: Carrying on the Leopold Legacy — upon U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) senior scientist Douglas “We can learn plenty from the past,” says Estella DON BURGESS Johnson MS’69. A USGS stat- Leopold ’48. istician who’s based in St. Paul, She should know. As a paleobotanist, Leopold Minnesota, Johnson is a pioneer has spent more than fifty years combing through in applying modeling and statis- pollen fossils to reconstruct the history of climate tics to complex wildlife problems. change and plant evolution on our planet. Now a “Better living through professor emerita at the University of Washington dentistry” just may be the motto in Seattle, she has used her scientific expertise to of Dennis Loeffler ’69. He’s lobby successfully for conservation efforts across the La Crosse Tribune’s 2010 the country. Person of the Year for quietly In recognition of her contributions to environ- spending his retirement as the mental science and protection, the Japanese Expo ’90 dental director of, and the only Foundation last year awarded Leopold its $460,000 dentist at, the nonprofit La Crosse Cosmos International Prize. (Other recipients include Community Dental Clinic, where ecologist Jared Diamond, naturalist George Schaller Estella Leopold’s passion for nature was spurred by her father, Aldo Leopold, one of the founders he fixes the teeth of thousands MS’57, PhD’62, and evolutionary biologist Richard of the environmental movement. of disadvantaged patients. “It’s Dawkins.) Not bad for someone who originally aspired a ball,” Loeffler says. “You feel to study bugs. useful and often appreciated.” “I was quite young, and Father asked what I wanted to be,” the eighty-three-year-old botanist recalls. Happy retirement to Leonard “I said, ‘A bugologist.’ And he said, ‘What?! Why is that?’ And I said, ‘Because everything else is taken.’ ” Rush ’69 of Mequon, Wisconsin. A word of explanation is in order. Father was Aldo Leopold, a UW professor of game management He’s stepped down as chief finan- and perhaps the most influential ecologist of the twentieth century. His land ethic, which holds that human cial officer after eleven-plus years beings are but one part of a larger community comprising all plants and animals, helped to spark the with Baird, an international finan- modern conservation movement. And everything seemed taken because her four older siblings had already cial-services firm. gone into fields ranging from geology to hydrology. (Three of the Leopold siblings, including Estella, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.) Father persuaded daughter to pursue botany instead, and Estella spent her weekends at the shack, an 70s eighty-acre sand farm near Baraboo, Wisconsin, which now houses the Aldo Leopold Foundation, on whose To set the record straight, just board she sits. The shack became an ecological restoration project for the entire family — and the spur to a decade after her first fencing the youngest Leopold’s lifelong passion for nature. class, Madelon Rosenfeld ’71 Early in her career, Leopold used ancient pollen fossils to prove that South Pacific atolls were formed took third, third, and first places on sinking volcanoes — a hypothesis first posited by Charles Darwin in 1839. Later research into plant — instead of three first places fossils from Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and the Rocky Mountains illustrated how the environment has as stated in the Spring issue — responded to climate change over millions of years. at three national tournaments. Her environmental activism has paid equally large dividends. Leopold played a central role in estab- Coming in first in the summer lishing both the six-thousand-acre Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado and the Mount St. nationals made her the 2010 Helens National Volcanic Monument in Washington. And she fought successfully to prevent the construction national champion in the women’s of hydroelectric dams that would have flooded parts of the Grand Canyon and helped to block the burial of 60–69 age group. At the World high-level nuclear waste under Hanford, Washington. Fencing Championship in Croatia, Today, Leopold concentrates her efforts on promoting sustainable agriculture in Washington State, and she was the first-placed American while she’s gratified by the rise in public awareness of environmental issues, she’s deeply concerned about woman in her age category. the lack of exposure many children now have to the environment itself. After all, she traces her own love of The International Society nature — and all that has flowed from it — to her childhood exploring the wilds of Wisconsin. for Quality of Life Research “And without loving nature,” she says, “who’s going to want to protect it?” has bestowed its President’s Alexander Gelfand Award on David Feeny MA’72, PhD’76, a senior investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Northwest progress that Judy Genshaft ’69 taking charge in 2000. She’s also For “distinguished service Center for Health Research in has made as the visionary, deter- chair of the American Council on to wildlife conservation,” the Portland, Oregon. mined president of the University Education and board chair of the Wildlife Society has bestowed Peter Neufeld ’72 is a of South Florida in Tampa since NCAA’s Division I. its highest recognition — the co-founder and co-director of

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the Innocence Project at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Marjorie Liu JD’03: Genre Bender Law, and serves on New York’s

Commission on Forensic Science. The UW’s Law School offers a broad variety of coursework, but there COURTESY OF WUNDERKIND PR The project’s missions are to free are some situations that it doesn’t prepare its graduates to handle. prisoners who can be proven There’s nothing in the family law classes, for instance, to prepare innocent through DNA testing, future Badger attorneys to understand the issues that surround a and to effect substantive reform relationship between a woman and a merman. Criminal law courses in the judicial system. don’t teach students how to handle a murder investigation that We applaud the altruism might involve a woman covered in living, demonic tattoos. (and stamina) of Bill West ’72 Marjorie Liu JD’03 had to learn these things on her own. But of Granada Hills, California, who then Liu is a bestselling author of paranormal-themed novels and raced up eighty-six flights of comic books — her interest is strictly literary, not litigious. stairs (that’s 1,576 steps) in New “I really enjoyed law school,” Liu says. “I loved learning about York City’s Empire State Building the law, [loved] the intellectual challenge. But I found that I didn’t feel in February in an event to raise a“My passion efforts for it as ato career.” get my wife to address me as funds for the Multiple Myeloma In the years since she left Madison, Liu has forged a reputation Research Foundation. ‘Siras a genre-defying Jay’ have author. failed Her miserably.first novel, Tiger’s Well, Eye, launched there’s a A New Zealand Order of ten-book (so far) series called Dirk & Steele. These romance novels Merit has gone to Lewis Evans are set inalways a world of Mom.” mythical creatures,— Jay Sorensenand they’ve been ’84 included MA’74, MS’75, PhD’76, a on the New York Times bestseller list. lecturer, consultant, researcher, Liu has also penned a series of “urban fantasy” novels — works and professor of economics at that incorporate elements of myth and magic into a modern setting. Victoria University of Wellington. The Hunter Kiss series follows the exploits of Maxine Kiss, a demon- Marjorie Liu decided to forgo a career in law to become a In 1998, he established and hunting woman whose tattoos come to life. novelist. ran the New Zealand Institute Between novels, she also writes comic books for Marvel, for Study of Competition and including such titles as NYX, Dark Wolverine, and Black Widow, and she’s the ongoing writer for Marvel’s Regulation, which set a new stan- X-23 series. dard for the nation’s independent Life as an author keeps Liu busy, and next winter she’ll have three novels coming out in quick succes- research organizations. sion: Within the Flame, the next entry in the Dirk & Steele series, is slated for publication in December 2011; The undergrad course in The Mortal Bone, the latest Hunter Kiss novel, is due out in January 2012; and in March 2012, Liu will step digital promotion management outside her established series with an as-yet-untitled mystery about a woman who discovers that her great- that Kirk Hallahan MA’74, aunt was a noted dominatrix during World War II. PhD’95 developed as a professor “I’ve always loved reading, daydreaming, and writing things down,” she says. “Once I sold that first at Colorado State University in book, I faced a decision — I could try to be a lawyer and find time to write on the side, or I could live cheap Fort Collins was among the first on the family farm in Indiana. I chose to live cheap and go all out, taking time to write, and that’s given me a of its kind, and now he’s been career as a novelist.” honored as the Public Relations John Allen Society of America’s 2010 Outstanding Educator of the Year. No doubt, interesting chal- uate of both Oxford and Harvard The highest federal award plant-pathology professor and lenges await Stuart Brotman Universities, the Middleton, for mentoring — a Presidential bacteriology department chair Jo MA’75 as a new member Wisconsin, Democrat has also Award for Excellence in Science, Handelsman PhD’84 — now at of the U.S. Department of formed the grassroots group Mathematics, and Engineering Yale — received the same award. State’s Advisory Committee on Progressives United and is writing Mentoring — went to UW International Communications a book on foreign policy. engineering physics professor and Information Policy. He lives More acclaim has gone to Douglass Henderson MS’79, 80s in Lexington, Massachusetts. the already-lauded UW history PhD’87 at a White House Ronald Fontenot MBA’80 is Leaving the U.S. Senate after professor William Cronon ’76: ceremony in January for his at the helm of National Allergy three terms, Russ Feingold he’s been named president- work to establish and expand Supply in Duluth, Georgia, as its ’75 has begun teaching upper- elect of the American Historical the College of Engineering’s new president and CEO. level law students at Milwaukee’s Association. Cronon is a founder Graduate Engineering Research Badgers making great Marquette University. A Rhodes of the field of environmental Scholars program for underrep- wine: that’s George Hamel, Jr. scholar and an honors law grad- history studies. resented students. Former UW ’80; John Hamel II ’09; and

56 ON WISCONSIN Natalie Eisner ’09 of Sonoma, Following the merger with Association Advocate Eliz Greene over the past twelve years as an Marjorie Liu JD’03: Genre Bender California’s Hamel Family Wines. Comcast, the new chair of Honored with Heart Hero Award English educator at Hong Kong’s George is also a founder and the NBC Entertainment is Robert on Tenth Anniversary of Her Concordia Lutheran High School. COO of ValueAct Capital in San Greenblatt MA’84 of Los Heart Attack,” and here it is: Eliz Thanks to her parents, Barbara Francisco, as well as a member Angeles, a former programming (Elizabeth) Hughes Greene Pitt ’57 and William ’56 Vaitl of the UW Foundation board chief at CBS’ Showtime network. ’89 of Fox Point, Wisconsin, was of Brookfield, Wisconsin, for and the UW College of Letters & He’ll oversee NBC’s prime-time seven months pregnant when she sharing the good news. Science board of visitors. John and late-night programming, experienced a ten-minute cardiac Amanda Stratton (George’s son) and Natalie are business affairs, marketing, PR, arrest, the C-section delivery of Birn-stengel ’92 was the both managers at the winery, scheduling, and NBC Universal her twin daughters, and open- first employee and opera- whose logo features a friendly Media Studios. heart surgery — all on the same tions manager for the Musical badger. “I was honored in November day. The November award Instrument Museum, which Hawaii Governor Neil by the president of Latvia honored her decade of dedica- opened in Phoenix in April 2010. Abercrombie has named as a knight of the Cross of tion to the association since then. A $250 million project, its 190,000 Honolulu attorney Jeffrey Ono Recognition in a ceremony One of the engineering square feet offer striking archi- JD’80, a partner in the law firm in Riga Castle,” shares Jay profession’s highest honors, tecture, a state-of-the-art concert of Galiher DeRobertis Ono, to the Sorensen ’84 of Shorewood, presented by the National hall, educational programs, and post of state consumer advocate. Wisconsin. The award paid Academy of Engineering, belongs instruments from every nation. Thomas Grandine MS’82, tribute to his work with the Kids to Willem Stemmer PhD’86. The next time you put on MA’84, PhD’85 is one of only 63 First Fund, an NGO that he He shared the $500,000 Charles your jockey shorts, think of Boeing Company employees — founded in 1999 to help sexually Stark Draper Prize for 2011 with Dustin Cohn ’92: he’s Jockey out of more than 159,000 in the and physically abused children Frances Arnold for their individual International’s new senior vice U.S. and seventy other countries in eastern Europe. The first cross contributions to “directed evolu- president and chief marketing — to become a senior technical was given in 1710. Sorensen tion,” a procedure used in labs officer. Cohn’s held marketing fellow. The Issaquah, Washington, concludes, “My efforts to get worldwide to guide the creation positions with Optimer Brands, resident is also a U.S. Masters my wife to address me as ‘Sir of certain properties in proteins PepsiCo, and Gatorade before distance swimmer who’s logged Jay’ have failed miserably. Well, and cells. Stemmer is the CEO joining the Kenosha, Wisconsin- more than 1 million meters in there’s always Mom.” of Amunix in Mountain View, headquartered company. each of the past three years. James Nepstad ’85, a California, and the founder of the The new VP of the Wisconsin After twenty-eight years as twenty-seven-year veteran Avidia Research Institute. Screenwriters Forum is Rebecca a journalist specializing in the (thus far) with the National Williams Spindler ’92. She catalog-retail industry, Paul Park Service, has a new job in 90s works with seasoned and Miller ’82 of Somers, New York, Harpers Ferry, Iowa, as super- aspiring screenwriters, helps has become vice president and intendent of the Effigy Mounds The U.S. Chamber of Commerce to sponsor film festivals, and deputy director of the American National Monument — a “very has welcomed attorney Lily Fu provides support for Wisconsin’s Catalog Mailers Association, a special place,” he says. Nepstad Claffee ’90 as its new senior VP, Film Incentives program. The nonprofit advocacy group. is also a fellow of the National general counsel, and chief legal Madisonian is also an author and Emmy Awards from the Speleological Society for his officer. No Washington, D.C., screenwriter herself. National Academy of Television pioneering cave-mapping work at wallflower, she was previously a Hearty congrats to Arts & Sciences now belong Wind Cave National Park. partner at the city’s Jones Day Chicagoan Daniel Goldwin ’94 to two ’80s grads. The acade- It was a happy day at Class law firm, and held posts at the on his new position as Midwest- my’s Chicago/Midwest region Notes HQ recently when Simeon Commerce, Treasury, and Justice region executive director for the has awarded John Stofflet ’83 Chambers ’89, founder of the Departments. What’s more, the Development Corporation for the outstanding news anchor Highlands Ranch, Colorado- Washington Business Journal Israel/Israel Bonds. prize for his work as the 6 p.m. based Replica Toy Fish Company, named Claffee its Top Washington It was a captivating UW film and 10 p.m. news anchor at sent a miniature tackle box full of Lawyer in the Young Guns cate- class that planted the filmmaking Madison’s WMTV. The Rocky toy fish. His very realistic, albeit gory in 2009. seed in Phil Johnston ’94. He Mountain/Southwest region has tiny, versions of fish species are When the chief execu- initially tried working in TV broad- honored Tim Aydelott ’84 of used by natural-resource entities tive of Hong Kong wants to give casting, but finally accepted Albuquerque for excellence in around the country as educational you an award, it’s just good his passion, entered Columbia the informational program cate- aids. As Chambers says, “Know manners to accept it, as Valerie University’s film program, made gory as the producer and director your fish. Teach your family.” Vaitl Pritchard ’91 has done connections in L.A., and is now of Desert Reef, a program about There’s quite a story behind in receiving an Excellence in a friend of actor Ed Helms, who climate change. the headline “American Heart Teaching Award for her work stars in Johnston’s new film,

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Cedar Rapids. Before attending work, head writer Carol Kolb ’95 West Hollywood, California, her Elect a Republican Senate. its Sundance Film Festival world of Brooklyn, New York, says that producing debut. Studio City, California- premiere this winter, Johnston their jokes must combine “that Mica Matsoff ’98 is the based screenwriter Andrew said, “I have to buy some nice journalistic voice we all know, voice of the Illinois governor’s Jacobson ’99 has co-authored shoes — and comb my hair.” with a delivery that’s absolutely office — so to speak — as the his first novel, The Familiars Ever since Mark Osiecki straight.” She’s been with the new director of communications. (HarperCollins Children). Sony ’94 became Ohio State’s men’s Onion since 1997. She was previously the director of Animation and producer Sam hockey coach in April 2010, he’s Former Badger four-year communications for the Quinn for Raimi have optioned the fun been preaching the importance starting quarterback and 1994 Illinois campaign, as well as the fantasy adventure about magical of developing a winning culture. Rose Bowler Darrell Bevell ’96 PR director for Chicago’s Olympic animal companions to witches Among his key mentors has been has moved from his post as offen- and Paralympic Games bid. and wizards to become a 3D UW head men’s hockey coach sive coordinator for the Minnesota The World Wide Web animated film, so we can only Mike Eaves ’78, with whom Vikings to the same role with Consortium has chosen Michael imagine what Jacobson will do Osiecki coached for six years. the Seattle Seahawks. He’s Nieling ’98, MS’03, the founder with his second novel. Disney’s animated movie also worked with the Green Bay and creative director of the The Princess and the Frog made Packers as an offensive assistant marketing firm Ocupop, to devise 2000s a huge splash when it premiered, and quarterbacks coach. the logo and branding for its and Jen Rudin ’94 can take Madisonian Ann Krinsky HTML5 framework. Nieling splits Best wishes to Margaret great pride in receiving the 2010 Imig ’96 was already a popular his time among Hawaii, Colorado, Bogenrief (Bretz) ’00 in her Artios Award from the Casting “mommy blogger” as the writer and Wisconsin. roles as a principal and partner in Society of America for casting it. of Ann’s Rants when she began Devotees of the FLW the new Chicago-based boutique An executive with the Walt Disney advisory and investment firm Company from 2002 until 2009, “My efforts to get my wife to address me called ACM Partners. she now operates Jen Rudin If you’ve ever thought that Casting in New York City. as ‘Sir Jay’ have failed miserably.” pouring beer wouldn’t get you Which Badger was named very far, then Madison bartender one of the Utne Reader’s 25 — Jay Sorensen ’84 Chris Myers ’00 will prove you Visionaries Who Are Changing wrong. Crowned the Stella Artois Your World in its November/ taking her blog on the road. Outdoors television program World Draught Master after five December 2010 issue? He’s Her series of live stage shows should watch for Laura Schara rounds of international competi- Ecological Internet founder and debuted in Madison in 2010, and ’98 of Minneapolis: she’s joined tion, he’s traveling the world this president Glen Barry MS’95, new shows called Listen to Your Jason Harper to host the world’s year, demonstrating his talent PhD’03, who was dubbed an Mother 2011 have hit stages most widely distributed fishing and judging competitions. The “Eco-Rabble Rouser” for his across the country this spring. and fishing-tournament program Belgian beer maker says that the blogging and grassroots activism. Badger legal eagles are flying and to emcee tour events. “Being perfect Stella Artois pour requires Barry lives in rural Wisconsin and around: Adrienne Olson ’97 an avid fisherwoman myself,” nine steps, including the “sacri- has penned the forthcoming book has joined the law firm of Quarles Schara says, “I hope I’ll be able fice” and the “beheading.” New Earth Rising. & Brady in its Milwaukee office, to get out on the water and go UW School of Medicine (Xiaoying) Rachel Duan while Ilana Bamberger Spector fishing with some of the pros!” and Public Health Professor MBA’95 joined an elite group ’06 is new to its Chicago office; Jamie Lynn Fletcher ’99 Molly (Mary) Carnes MS’01 recently: she’s one of fewer than Teresa Maestrelli ’02 is now has recently debuted her first is the happy recipient of a two hundred GE officers world- with Duane Morris in Miami; and orchestral score, a jazz arrange- roughly $2 million grant with a wide as the new president and Paul LaVanway, Jr. ’04 has ment of “Amazing Grace,” with long name: a National Institutes CEO of GE Healthcare China joined Fredrikson & Byron in the Muse Symphony Orchestra of Health Director’s ARRA- in Beijing. She’s spent fifteen- Minneapolis. Look for Katherine at the Seoul [Korea] Arts Center. Funded Pathfinder Award to plus years with GE Industrial and Proctor ’05 in the Madison office A little closer to her Greenleaf, Promote Diversity in the Scientific Capital businesses globally. of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, Wisconsin, home, Fletcher and Workforce. With it, she’ll develop The satirical Onion news- and Ashley Gillard JD’10 in the her trio have also released their an interactive tool that helps paper leaped from the printed Kansas City, Missouri, office of second CD, Just Havin’ Fun. faculty to recognize and correct page to the TV screen in January Bryan Cave. Congratulations, all! Wisconsin Governor Scott biases that limit participation. when it premiered two fake-news The film La Mission — Walker’s chief of staff is Keith The New York Times opined programs: Onion SportsDome starring Benjamin Bratt and Gilkes ’99. He was previously in January that the Big Apple may and FactZone With Brooke directed by his brother Peter — Walker’s campaign manager and soon have a district known as Alvarez. For the shows’ humor to has given Alpita Patel ’97 of had headed the Committee to “Little Wisco,” thanks to restau-

58 ON WISCONSIN rateur Gabriel Stulman ’03 and his three highly acclaimed and Calendar “disarmingly friendly” eateries around Sheridan Square: Joseph Leonard, Jeffrey’s Grocery, and June Fedora. Staffers include “scruffy 23 WAA’s 150th Birthday Party young expatriates from the It’s fun for all ages at WAA’s festive birthday party at Memorial Union, featuring free Mad Grad Medley Badger state” Brian Bartels ’94 ice cream, remarks from special guests, and a Civil War-era-themed band in honor of WAA’s founding and Kaila ’01, Shawna ’01, year. Can’t make it to Madison? Find a birthday celebration being held by your local alumni chapter. and Rachel ’04 Steger. • uwalumni.com Devotees of the UW’s MadHatters a cappella group will remember tenor, busi- July ness manager, and red-shoe 16 Reagan Library Picnic and Tour wearer Steve Beguhn ’06, Join Los Angeles-area Badgers for a UW picnic and an in-depth tour of the Reagan Library and MAcc’07 (that’s a master’s Museum, led by Ken Mayer, UW political science professor. • uwalumni.com/learning of accountancy), who’s now a CPA and auditor at 26–29 UW International Convocation PricewaterhouseCoopers in All alumni are invited back to Madison to reconnect with the university, meet with faculty and alumni, Milwaukee. His golden voice and make business and public-sector contacts from around the world at the International Convocation. wowed the American Idol judges • uwalumni.com/international recently in a regional competition and earned him a “golden ticket” to Hollywood. Sadly, they weren’t August quite as wowed in Tinsel Town. 10 Prohibition Excerpts Viewing and Discussion Erin Cechal ’06 has a Join Minocqua, Wisconsin-area Badgers and friends of Wisconsin Public Television at the Red Crown pretty “racy” new job as the Lodge for a special preview and discussion of Prohibition, a documentary film series directed by Ken director of PR and media services Burns and Lynn Novick. • uwalumni.com/uwforyou for the Braselton, Georgia- based American Le Mans Series. 10 UW-Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair Her prior posts were with Just Take a break from the carnival rides and join Bucky Badger, the Marching Band, and UW alumni Marketing International, working and friends at the Wisconsin State Fair for a day of science demonstrations, performances, athletic on Legends of Motorsports; the contests, and samples of products developed at the university. • uwalumni.com Sports Car Club of America; and Road America. (Notice a September pattern?) Christopher Putre ’06, 9 Fall Day on Campus MS’06 was a big hit at this During this popular program, participants can choose various lectures by renowned UW-Madison year’s Rose Bowl: first, as he faculty, mingle, and explore campus. • uwalumni.com/dayoncampus flew one of four F/A-18 Super 9–10 Class of 1961 Reunion Hornet jets during a pre-kickoff Members of the Class of 1961 are invited back to campus for their fiftieth-reunion celebration, fly-over, and later, as he revealed featuring the Day on Campus learning event, campus tours, the Half Century Club dinner, and the a Wisconsin T-shirt under his Badger football game against Oregon State. • uwalumni.com/classof1961 flight suit when the pilots were honored on the field. His good friend Peter Rusch ’07 — October writing from his navy post in 14 150th Anniversary Gala Japan — shared Putre’s iden- WAA will host its 150th Anniversary Gala on Friday, October 14. This marquee moment, which will also tity and assured us that “there’s mark the centennial of Homecoming, will celebrate alumni from all eras in an atmosphere of spirited quite a Badger following elegance in the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center. • uwalumni.com throughout the fleet.” Among the nine incoming For more information on these events, call (888) WIS-ALUM or visit uwalumni.com. MBA students at Harvard Business School to receive a

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$20,000 Kaplan Life Sciences the 101 young musicians from and act as role models for at-risk Fellowship for 2010 was Martin thirty-three countries chosen children. Josh Pilz MA’05 UW Bragging Rights Grasse ’07. He arrives there on YouTube to play in the 2011 serves as its executive director. In 1941, Lyle Knudson of from medical-device startup YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Nordland, Washington, was called to duty as a naval aviator just two Bridgepoint Medical, where he Led by conductor Michael Tilson 10s used his biomedical-engineering Thomas and other luminaries, final exams short of completing degree to work on the CrossBoss they converged on Sydney, Shaun Aukland ’10 was his bachelor’s degree. He went catheter device. Australia, in March. among the Google employees on to found and run an indus- United States Artists (USA) At the UW, Adam Burish who produced an online video trial-machinery manufacturing and the John S. and James L. ’08 helped the Badger hockey this fall as part of the It Gets business, but Knudson never Knight Foundation fêted New team to win a national champi- Better campaign, following forgot his dream of receiving his York City furniture designer onship. In Chicago, he helped recent suicides among young diploma. Thanks to an appeal to Matthias Pliessnig MA’07, the Blackhawks to win the 2010 gay people. In it, President the business school by his friend MFA’08 as a USA Knight fellow Stanley Cup. Now Burish is in Obama reassured GLBT youth Joseph Battenburg PhD’67, a in December and awarded him Dallas, averaging much more that the isolation and bullying retired mechanical-engineering an unrestricted, $50,000 grant. ice time with the Stars. “I’m so they may experience in high professor, the ninety-four-year- Pliessnig uses 3-D modeling soft- happy with this team,” he says. school will give way to a old Knudson is now a very proud ware to sketch curves, and then In September, Stephen fulfilling adult life. Aukland is a member of the Class of 2010 and handcrafts them using bentwood Delaney ’09 moved to Santiago, San Francisco-based account is thought to be the oldest person strips into body-cradling forms. Chile, to begin work as the manager for Google’s online to receive an earned degree from Sara Sitzer MMusic’07, coordinador de marketing y sales business. the UW. principal cellist with the New comunicaciones with VE Global, Compiler Paula Wagner Apfelbach Wisconsin Alumni World Symphony in Miami whose international volunteers ’83 reminds you that Class Notes Association: celebrating Beach, Florida, was among carry out educational programs are not just for breakfast anymore. alumni for 150 years.

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Historical Society published the work and began researching Reagan’s presidency in receives all proceeds. 2001 as an archival research assistant to presidential historian Richard Reeves. ■ Captive! The Story of David Ogden and the Iroquois (Praeger Publishing) — ■ Plants and trees are the amazing true story of the capture, forced on the minds of adoption, and eventual escape of a sixteen- four Badger authors. year-old Revolutionary War soldier — was The latest from nature originally released as a pulp-fiction booklet and travel writer Can- in 1840. Co-author Jack (John) Harpster dice Gaukel Andrews ’59 of Reno, Nevada, then corrected the ’77 of Sun Prairie, errors and biases and added new, research- Wisconsin — Beyond driven detail to make it one of the first works the Trees: Stories of in the genre to receive that reworking. Wisconsin Forests (Wisconsin Historical Society Press) — blends ■ Two grads have showcased fine world ■ Imagine the almost unimaginable: a boy contemporary observations with historical cuisines in their recent books: Madisonian born into a Dalit family of bonded laborers details, beautiful pho- Ronnie Hess MA’69 has published Eat in India during the 1920s, taking his school tos, archival images, Smart in France (Gingko Press), while lessons sitting outside of the classroom due and maps. Lifelong Sarah Marx Feldner ’98 of Shorewood, to his “untouchable” caste status, arriving gardener Ray Rogers Wisconsin, has served up A Cook’s Jour- in the U.S., and earning a doctorate at MS’79 of North Bruns- ney to Japan: Fish Tales and Rice UW-Madison. That boy became Namdeo wick, New Jersey, has Paddies, 100 Homestyle Recipes from Nimgade PhD’62, and his life story became penned his fourth book, Japanese Kitchens (Tuttle Publishing). It In the Tiger’s Shadow: The Autobiogra- the Encyclopedia of was nominated as one of the top sixteen phy of an Ambedkarite (Navayana). One Container Plants: cookbooks of 2010 by food52.com. section is devoted to his mentor, the legend- More than 500 Out- ary Dalit leader Babasaheb Ambedkar. ■ Despite his many standing Choices for years spent discussing ■ Dread it or not, most Gardeners (Timber Press). Photographer Life’s Big Questions scientists must occa- and speaker Lynn Marquardt Steiner ’80 as a college professor, sionally stand before an of Stillwater, Minnesota, has included several literary scholar, and audience — and thus photos of the UW Arboretum in her book, the host of the daily, the title of co-author D. Prairie-Style Gardens: Capturing the San Francisco-based (David) Eric Walters Essence of the American Prairie Wher- NPR talk show Forum ’74’s book: Scientists ever You Live (Timber Press). And Wiscon- with Michael Krasny, Must Speak, Second sin Wildflowers in 3D (Planert Creek Press), Michael Krasny Edition (CRC Press). It’s by David Tank MA’80 of Menomonie, Wis- PhD’72 still found himself without answers designed to help those consin, comes with 3D glasses to make the to those questions. To wit, he presents in the sciences to make flora practically jump off the page. Tank is a Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Quest (New their presentations more interesting, acces- senior lecturer in journalism and mass com- World Library): a “delightfully personal and sible, and effective. And Walters should know: munication at UW-Stout. wonderfully universal reflection” in which he he’s a professor of biochemistry, molecular ■ “I understand that it “seeks not to convince, but to converse.” It biology, and pharmaceutical sciences at can be queasy business includes a foreword by Krasny’s friend and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and to face this issue,” says fellow author Joyce Carol Oates (Smith) Science in North Chicago, Illinois. MA’61. Treacy Colbert MA’81 ■ The Reagan Files: The Untold Story of about Before It’s Too ■ Examining a large shopping bag full of Reagan’s Top-Secret Efforts to Win Late: What Parents letters — hundreds written by her father to the Cold War (CreateSpace) — based on Need to Know about her mother — compelled anthropologist recently declassified letters and National Teen Pregnancy and Nancy Oestreich Lurie ’45 of Greendale, Security Council meeting minutes — is an STD Prevention Wisconsin, to write Love and Other Letters: unprecedented look at how former President (iUniverse), a book she’s a “special look at Milwaukee and the nation Reagan managed the divide between two co-authored to provide … roughly [during] the period of the gaslight powerful nations. Its author, Jason Saltoun- perspective and advice to parents. Colbert is era to the Jazz Age.” The Milwaukee County Ebin JD’07 of Pacific Palisades, California, a writer and editor in Long Beach, California.

SUMMER 2011 61 Seeing Potential the UW, is pleased to see the shift in trists can help “bring the person up” so Continued from page 39 attitudes. He recalls serving on the admis- the pain is more tolerable, he says. sions committee at Harvard Medical Back at the Psychiatry Consultation medical schools more accessible to School twenty years ago, when, despite Service, Cordes is talking to medical students with disabilities. the impassioned pleas by Albert and other students about having empathy for So far, no blind students have followed members of the committee, the school patients with addiction issues. One him at the UW’s School of Medicine and rejected a “dream candidate” because he student observes that a patient is rejecting Public Health, but the school currently was deaf. Today Albert serves as a mentor any psychiatric care, and seems inter- has two students with hearing impair- for one of the UW’s hearing-impaired ested only in “drug seeking” — obtaining ments: Josh Reiher, who will be in his medical students. another prescription for pain medicine. fourth year this fall, and Steven Tang, who “Not only do these gifted disabled Cordes tells the students that convincing will be a third-year student. To accom- physicians benefit medicine, sciences, patients to seek solutions outside of drugs modate their needs, the school hired three and their patients, but their class- can be the best medicine. sign-language interpreters who have back- mates learn from them,” says Albert, “People with substance-abuse issues grounds in health care. who is also a historian of medicine. always think that the solution to their Patrick McBride MD’80, the “[Classmates] gain empathy for people problem is in the next pill,” he says. school’s dean of students, says that with disabilities, and learn a lesson in “Sometimes we have to help them take a while it is a major — and expensive — courage.” step back. With time and support, they undertaking to work with students with can learn to develop a different relation- • • • physical challenges, he thinks more ship with their pain. medical schools should open their doors Given his achievements, Cordes could “Remember,” he tells the students, because these students teach their peers have gone many directions with his “we’re in this business because we care so many lessons. career. So why pick addiction treatment, about people.” “The legacy of Dr. Tim Cordes still an area with low levels of success and Cordes’s patients see that compassion has a profound impact on our school, high levels of frustration? — along with a gift of intellect — in their faculty, and students,” McBride says. “I think addiction is a good model doctor, a young man who was told repeat- “Tim set an example for all of us that for understanding all kinds of self- edly that he should give up on his dream. we can overcome significant challenges defeating behavior,” he says. “To be a “Fourteen years ago, when I was with determination, dedication, persever- good general psychiatrist, you need to knocking on the doors of medical ance, and the support of others. Students understand addiction.” schools, I heard that all the time,” and I still talk about what he taught us, And, Cordes adds, psychiatry needs Cordes says. “One school opened that especially with his incredible attitude to do better by people who have addic- door, and that was the University of and preparation for his work. Sometimes tion issues. In many cases, he says, they Wisconsin.” n when I get down or think that something are abusing substances because they is too hard to do, I think of how Tim have untreated psychiatric problems Susan Lampert Smith ’82 is a senior media specialist for UW Health Public Affairs. would respond and I just get to work.” that need attention or because they are Because Cordes knew there were in physical pain. some specialties to which he could not “I think we automatically assume aspire, McBride says he approached every that pain equals suffering,” he says. UW Bragging Rights opportunity — whether assisting with the “But that is not always the case. I would Madison’s Veterans Administration Hospital is birth of a baby, helping during surgery, guess that Brett Favre was in pain during named for William S. Middleton, the second or intubating a patient — with a “sense of his last season of football, but was he dean of the UW’s medical school as well as a reverence and wonder.” suffering?” veteran of the First and Second World Wars. Dan Albert, emeritus chair of Rather than always seeking to “bring Wisconsin Alumni Association: ophthalmology and visual sciences at the pain down” with narcotics, psychia- celebrating alumni for 150 years.

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