University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Memories

Walking along the outside of Van Vleck Hall

Ted Frost (Ph.D., 1969, Wainger) wrote in 2017, “In my earlier years of graduate work, I expended some of my energy by inventing walking along the outside of Van Vleck Hall on the 7th floor, window to window.  I heard some fellow duplicated that trick some years later.” (Editor:  The windows are now secured against …

1964 Summer Institute for HBCU

Douglas McLeod (Ph.D., 1972, Harvey, M.A., 1965) provided this picture of a 1964 Summer Institute for faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to refresh their skills.   This was TA’ed and staffed by various Math Department faculty and graduate students (including him). It was funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation.  It was …