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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Fall 2007
| D.C. area alumni
and friends Madison area alumni and friends Feel free to attend both events if you're in the area. Information and to RSVP: alumni@lafollette.wisc.edu, (608) 263-7657 |
New students paint the townIncoming students Lauren Benditt, left, and JP Muller paint at the Salvation Army in Madison as part of a volunteer project. The La Follette School Student Association coordinated this and other activities as part of the La Follette School’s orientation for new students. Read more … |
School sees increasing need for fellowship funding
With increasing competition for graduate students and declining state revenues, the ability to provide funding to support students is ever more critical, La Follette School Director Barbara Wolfe says. Read more …
News from alumni and friends
Alumni and friends are taking on leadership roles, having babies, writing articles, earning promotions, teaching classes, and retiring. Read more …
From the Director: Alumni gifts bolster hiring of 3 faculty
This fall, the La Follette School welcomes three talented young scholars to our faculty. Their wide-ranging teaching and research interests complement and strengthen our programming. Read more …
Alum opens doors, advances opportunities
Alum Rob Cramer is all about opportunity, whether smoothing the way for La Follette School interns or changing his own career. Read more …
Wisconsin DOA internship steers alum into public sector
Nonprofit management was the original career goal for Tanya (Wagner) Iverson when she started at La Follette. “I didn’t really have experience with state government,” she says. “I was on a nonprofit tilt.” Read more …
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Grad uses stats to improve quality of health care
Eleven years ago, Debra (Stone) Morse would never have imagined herself teaching quality improvement and data analysis to other people. Read more …
Milwaukee firm names Beyer vice president
Jane M. Beyer, 1986, has been promoted to vice president with the Marshall & Ilsley Corp., a diversified financial services corporation. Read more …
Donation helps cover costs of student internships
Two international public affairs students spent their summers in Washington, D.C., and New York City writing memos, attending meetings and doing research courtesy of a generous donation from Lockheed Martin Corp. to the La Follette School. Read more …
Career development coordinator joins staff
The La Follette School welcomes Mary Russell as its new career development coordinator. Read more …
Incoming associate director wins award, publishes book
Menzie Chinn is the new associate director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, taking over from Karen Holden, who completed her two-year term. Read more …
Wolfe joins National Institutes of Health committee
La Follette School director Barbara Wolfe has been named to the National Institutes of Health's Advisory Committee to the Director. Read more …
State Bar board adopts report that includes students’ analysis
A cost-benefit analysis by La Follette School students is part of a final report adopted by the State Bar Board of Governors. Read more …
Lecture to honor public intellectual Paul Offner
The legacy of former Wisconsin State Senator Paul Offner will be celebrated with a public lecture series sponsored by the La Follette School of Public Affairs. The first lecture and social event will be Wednesday, November 14, at 5 p.m. at the Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read more …
Alum heads to Europe for program on stability in Balkans
After nearly a year of working on bids and proposals for an international development company, Natalie Oldani is ready to re-engage in academic debate. Read more …
Project briefs legislators on university budget
A policy brief by a 2007 alum of the La Follette School provided background and analysis to Wisconsin legislators as they debated the University of Wisconsin System budget. Read more …
Public affairs, public health dual degree gets final OK
The La Follette School’s dual-degree program in public affairs and public health has received final approval from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School. Read more …
2000 graduate wants news of classmates
Julia (North) Boerth, 2000, wants to hear from her classmates, and asks them to e-mail her at . Read more …
Prof’s Cajun band wins award for album
La Follette School professor Karen Holden and her band, Cajun Strangers, have been recognized for producing the best CD by a non-Louisiana Cajun band. Read more …
Four students honored at graduation
Thanks to donations to the La Follette School, four students received recognition at the graduation celebration at the Wisconsin Capitol. Read more …
DOA interns take on energ conservation, job performance
La Follette School students Sean Moran, left, and Justin Martin, right, interned under alum Rob Cramer, center, at the Wisconsin Department of Administration’s Division of State Facilities. Martin attended meetings that tracked the progress of initiatives to bring state facilities into compliance with Governor Jim Doyle’s Conserve Wisconsin agenda. He also worked on environmental issues as an intern with Wisconsin state Senator Mark Miller. Moran tracked the job performance of maintenance mechanics and revised database classifications to better monitor how well the mechanics met performance goals related to corrective and preventative maintenance.