In her latest book, Ending the Shame: Transforming Public Education So It Works for All Students (RoseDog Books), she asserts that teachers alone cannot ameliorate the nation’s achievement gap or drop-out rate: policymakers must also commit to a leadership role in forging school reform. He received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association in 2012.īarbara Klessig Oehlberg ’54 of Solon, Ohio, has long taught child-assault prevention, is a certified child trauma consultant, and has studied extensively how early trauma alters brain development. Djerassi, of San Francisco, London, and Vienna, is known as the “Father of the Pill” and is an eminent scientist, author, playwright, and Stanford University professor emeritus of chemistry. Middlebrook unexpectedly returned to him in 1984 and became his wife. In the despondent wake of losing his life’s great love came literary revenge: a “poetic volcanic eruption” of brutally open and vulnerable free-verse poems, now collected in both German and English as Tagebuch des Grolls, A Diary of Pique, 1983–1984 (Haymon Verlag).

On May 8, 1983, biographer Diane Middlebrook left Carl Djerassi PhD’45. Donnelly is an associate professor of religious studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Geshé-la, as Sopa is affectionately known, turns ninety this year. The book covers these accomplishments and more, but also his extraordinary experiences in Tibet prior to the Chinese occupation and his flight over the Himalayas into exile. Sopa’s also orchestrated several visits to the Madison area by the Dalai Lama. In 1979, he became the founding abbot of the Deer Park Buddhist Center in Oregon, Wisconsin, and remains one of the greatest living masters of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1967, Sopa was invited to teach in the recently formed UW Buddhist studies program and is now a professor emeritus. In addition to inspiration and encouragement, you’ll find here simple practices for transforming your sleep into something that’s beneficial in entirely new ways, as well as practices for greeting each morning with fresh eyes-and an open heart.įeaturing poetry and prose from sources modern and ancient (including the Buddha himself), Nightly Wisdom is a bedside keepsake, perfect for anyone who has wants to wake up to the entirety of life or bring fresh wisdom into that third of our lives we spend in bed.Like a Waking Dream: The Autobiography of Geshé Lhundub Sopa (Wisdom Publications) is authored with Paul Donnelly PhD’97 and includes a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Nightly Wisdom mines a rich vein of Buddhist teachings on such topics as lucid dreaming, Tibetan “dream yoga”-the art of extending meditation into the boundless world of dreams-and relaxing into restful sleep. Nightly Wisdom Buddhist Inspirations for Sleeping, Dreaming, and Waking Up By: Josh Barto and Gustavo Szpilman Cutz, (Eds.)Ī collection of inspiring bedtime reflections from:

Like a Waking Dream by Lhundub Sopa