A scholarship recipient smiling big with Linda and Thomas Kloosterboer
Impactful Giving
July 13, 2023 VOL 25 NO 2

Family of Badgers Creates Scholarship

With nine University of Wisconsin–Madison degrees in their family, Linda and Thomas Kloosterboer, MD ’82 (PG ’86), are grateful for their education and that of their adult children, who earned undergraduate degrees as Badgers.

Smiling group of scholarship recipients
Impactful Giving
July 21, 2022 VOL 24 NO 2

Scholarship Donors Help Support Future Physicians

Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association matching funds helped create 32 new scholarships and enhance 16 existing scholarships.

Karges family portrait
Impactful Giving
January 6, 2022 VOL 23 NO 4

Karges Family Psychiatry Scholarship Encourages Mental Health Trainees

Steve and Lynn Karges understand firsthand the importance of a community having quality psychiatric providers. Scholarship recipient Raizman Velasquez, MD, aims to expand quality care to the Latinx community.

Mary Lasker
Impactful Giving
October 28, 2021 VOL 23 NO 3

Wisconsin’s Mary Lasker a Driving Force Behind National Cancer Act

Lasker is widely credited as one of the driving forces behind the National Cancer Act.

A clinic entrance
Impactful Giving
August 16, 2021 VOL 23 NO 2

Grateful Transplant Recipient Pleasant T. Rowland Gives Back to UW

A $10 million gift will support creation of the Pleasant T. Rowland Transplant Clinic, which will be located near the main entrance of University Hospital.

Signs along a bike path displaying the names of people the bikers ride on behalf of
Impactful Giving
February 4, 2021 VOL 22 NO 4

The Ride Inspires Participants and Powers Innovative Cancer Research

The Ride attracted more than 850 registrants in 2020, a remarkable accomplishment in a year when many events had to cancel completely.

Scientist Ann Palmenberg
Impactful Giving
April 29, 2020 VOL 22 NO 1

Ann Palmenberg Gives Back After Surviving Cancer

Ann Palmenberg has generously supported UW Carbone Cancer Center after surviving Stage 4 T-cell lymphoma.

Julianne Lee
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November 8, 2018 VOL 20 NO 3

Juliane Lee Establishes Scholarship to Honor Parents and Former Faculty Member

Named in memory of her parents, Kiuck Lee, PhD, and OkSoon Lee, MD, and in honor of Stuart Knechtle, MD, a liver transplant surgeon and former member of the school faculty, Lee says the scholarship is simply her way of “paying it forward.”

Bruce and Judith Harms
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April 27, 2018 VOL 20 NO 1

Professorship Bolsters Next Generation of Surgeons

"Someday, these young surgeons may be taking care of us, and we all want great people taking care of us," says Bruce A. Harms, MD, MBA, about the need to support excellence in research, education and patient care in the field of surgery, and particularly colorectal surgery. To that end, he and his wife, Judith, have established a professorship in colorectal surgery.

Humberto Rodriguez
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January 16, 2018 VOL 19 NO 4

Class of 1982 Honors Humberto Rodriguez With Memorial Scholarship

The scholarship will be awarded to Spanish-speaking students to help increase diversity at the School of Medicine and Public Health and support the school’s goal to improve health equity.

Four donors sitting next to each other and looking at the camera
Impactful Giving
November 22, 2017 VOL 19 NO 3

Scholarships Support Next Generation of Physicians

To honor their 50th medical school anniversary, members of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) Class of 1967 created a Great People Scholarship Fund aimed at easing the debt burden for future physicians.