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Andy Rosengarden ’97

Joe Vericker At a bakery where treats serve the greater good, keeping the fiscal house in order is a sweet gig. Andy Rosengarden ’97 is chief financial officer of the social enterprise that owns Greyston Bakery, most famously known for the brownies in select…

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Cynthia Hornig ’91

Rachel Schultz Ten years after Cynthia Hornig ’91 and her friend Jen Jones left their jobs in 2001 to start a public-relations agency in New York City, they launched a website to fill a critical need. Women You Should Know features a collection of…

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Erik Iverson

Erik Iverson calls himself the consummate outsider: he is not a UW–Madison alumnus and he’s not from Wisconsin. But in 2016, he became the managing director for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), which helps UW researchers take their discoveries to the marketplace. Since then, Iverson has…

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A Matter of Interest

When the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in a decade, Simon Potter MS’87, PhD’90 was in charge of carrying out that change. What’s it like to have a front-row seat to keeping the economy humming?

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2016 Distinguished Alumni Awards

For 80 years, the Wisconsin Alumni Association has honored exceptional alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards. Early recipients include actor Fredric March ’20 of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fame and Helen C. White PhD’24, the beloved English professor whose name now graces College Library. More recently, alumni such as Earth…

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Steven Durlauf

Bryce Richter In 2014, an exhaustive book about income inequality — French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century — became a New York Times bestseller. According to a review in the Guardian, “Many of the book’s 700 pages are spent marshaling…

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Alumni Artists

“There are way too many artists and way too few galleries,” says Barry Carlsen MFA’83. That’s why he started Big Ten(t), an alliance connecting UW–Madison alumni with places to show their work. Carlsen invites Badger artists to participate in shows, and they pay a fee for renting gallery space…

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Private prisons

Istock image. States may not be getting the financial benefits that the $5 billion private prison industry advertises. Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor of actuarial science, risk management, and insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business, conducted what is believed to be the first study comparing public…