John Goodwin Webster

I heard so many wonderful unknown stories about Carolyn after she died. This makes me want to share a special one about John Webster. UW-Madison was the first university to create a Teaching Academy nearly 30 years ago, and John became an early Fellow. The mission of the Academy was to provide a forum to share teaching ideas in the same way research ideas were. Madison had may gifted and outstanding teachers and researchers but little teacher recognition and little opportunity to share...

Trina and I were surprised and saddened to learn of John´s passing. He was a highly accomplished but also family oriented man whose thirty year friendship we both cherished.

Dr. Webster was an integral member of my Masters thesis committee in May 2000 at UW-Madison. My thesis involved the relationships between changes in the physical characteristics and the milking performance of the aging milking liner. My investigation involved not only material characteristics of the liner, but the impact on the cow´s teat and edema it may cause. This relationship between animal and machine is where Dr. Webster´s biomedical expertise was essential to my research. Dr. Website...