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Monday, April 22, 2013
 A performer at the UW Drag Spectacular
With the UW's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center, social welfare majors Camden Hargrove and Kara Bissen helped to organize the glittery, fabulous UW Drag Spectacular on April 11, 2013. The show was a great success, drawing a large, enthusiastic crowd.
Read about the show at the Badger Herald and the Daily Cardinal, and view the photos from the event on the Facebook event page.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Assistant Professor Marah A. Curtis is new to UW-Madison -- in this short video, find out why she was drawn to the university, and why she became a social worker and an educator. To learn more about Dr. Curtis' work, see her webpage. |
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Monday, April 15, 2013
 Students and faculty pose with Elizabeth Heller, Executive Director, Ho-Chunk Human Services (on bench) and Valerie Blackdeer, Director of Social Services (standing, left). Photo by Wehuh Helgesen-Cloud.
This year, the Social Work Practice in Public and Private Child Welfare II field unit joined the County Human Service Agencies field unit, for a total of 26 students along with field instructors John Borquist, Ami Orlin-Rodland, and director of field education, Sandy Kohn.
Students were warmly welcomed and fed a hearty traditional meal for lunch, after which they toured the Ho-Chunk human services, court and executive facilities, and watched presentations and engaged in discussion with Ho-Chunk people, including Gregory Blackdeer, Ho-Chunk Nation Vice President and the Ho-Chunk Traditional Court members.
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Friday, April 05, 2013
Dorothy Pearson Distinguished Lecture
on “Equity and Social Justice” 4:00 pm, April 18, Pyle Center
We regret to inform you that the Pearson Distinguished Lecture has been CANCELED, due to weather-related travel difficulties. We anticipate that the lecture will be rescheduled for this coming fall.
Thank you for your understanding!
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013
By Judith Ann Moriarty for Urban Milwaukee
James Dimitri William Topitzes was born in 1966, in a small town (Koroni) on the southern tip of the Peloponnesian peninsula in Greece. Soon after his birth he was placed in an orphanage in the city of Kalamata, famous for its olives. Six months later, he was adopted by first generation Greek-Americans, and brought to Milwaukee to be raised in the Sherman Park neighborhood.
Magdalene, his mom, taught in Milwaukee Public Schools for 30 years, and Dimitri attended MPS through the 6th grade and completed middle and high school at the University School of Milwaukee. There, he had some pretty swell friends: for example, his varsity football and baseball teammate Lane MacDonald went on to become a U.S. Olympiad and United States Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee. And he had some interesting relatives as well, for example, his great uncle, Agamemnon Vaselios (Memo) Topitzes, who died last year at age 90. Sometimes called the “Mayor of Walker’s Point, “Memo” was both a neighborhood activist and a National Avenue seller of penny candy.
The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church on 92nd and Congress, and the Greek community were prominent in James Topitzes’ upbringing. He was accepted by Harvard and initially declared... |
