Three University of Wisconsin–Madison professors have been named to Sloan Research Fellowships — prestigious and competitive awards given to promising young researchers in the early stages of their careers. Getting early-career support can be a …
Awards & Honors
Professor Laura Kiessling Receives 2016 Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences
For nearly 30 years, remarkable faculty at the University of Wisconsin—Madison have been singled out by their peers for their distinguished contributions to teaching, research and service. Since 1987, these scholars — one from each …
Professor Randy Goldsmith Earns Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award
Professor Randy Goldsmith has received the Benjamin Smith Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching Engineers, an annual award given by the College of Engineering. The Benjamin Smith Reynolds Memorial Fund was established to perpetuate the …
Professor Qiang Cui Receives Kellett Mid-Career Award
Professor Qiang Cui has received a UW-Madison Kellett Mid-Career Award. The Kellett awards are supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) to recognize exceptional mid-career faculty, seven to twenty years past their first promotion to a …
Professor Ying Ge Named 2016 Georges Guiochon Faculty Fellow
Professor Ying Ge has received the 2016 Georges Guiochon Faculty Fellowship, which is given to an individual advancing the field of liquid phase separations who is within 10 years of their first academic appointment. The …
Professor John Moore Wins Van Hise Outreach Teaching Award
Twelve faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators. Chemistry Professor John Moore is among the 12 recipients and …
Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi Named Vilas Associate
Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi has been named a Vilas Associate at UW-Madison. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the Divisional Research Committees …
Alumnus Bradley Ringeisen Honored for Department of Defense Bioprinting Efforts
Bradley Ringeisen (Ph.D. ’00, Nathanson) was recently named Department of Defense Scientist of the Quarter for his breakthrough 3D cell printing process, Biological Laser Printing (BioLP). The technology is a patented laser-printing tool for creating …
Alumnus Lee Latimer Named to ACS Board of Directors
University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. alumnus Lee H. Latimer has been elected director-at-large of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. The head of chemistry at NeurOp Inc. will start his three-year term …
Bowman, Block, TAs Receive Teaching Awards
Matt Bowman, lecturer, and Stephen Block, assistant general chemistry lab director, have been awarded the 2015-16 Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award. There will be an award ceremony on Friday, December 11 at 3:30 p.m. in …