College of Letters & Science
University of Wisconsin–Madison juniors Yi Won (Paul) Chung and Carl Shirley have been named winners of 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholarships, the premier undergraduate scholarship in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering in the United States. Read more: https://news.wisc.edu/two-uw-madison-students-awarded-prestigious-2023-goldwater-scholarships/
A new report out of Olaf Jensen’s lab was published today in Global Change Biology. Read more about it here.
Ashley Trudeau, member of Olaf Jensen’s Lab, writes on the increase in fishing license sales in Wisconsin just after the COVID pandemic began.
Professor of Botany Katherine McCulloh will hold the inaugural appointment created to honor Blank’s leadership and service and to celebrate recently tenured faculty who mirror her commitment to UW–Madison. Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/botany-professor-first-to-receive-new-rebecca-blank-professorship/
Professors Ellen Damschen and John Orrock speak about their study on the long-term value of targeted land management in efforts to restore and repair landscapes impacted by humans.
Twelve faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.
UW–Madison neurobiology student, Paige Alexis Eide, is Miss Wisconsin-bound after claiming her 2023 Miss Madison title Saturday night.
For faculty and graduate students in the Department of Integrative Biology who are studying how the brain works, zebrafish make ideal research subjects. These slim fish are almost perfectly transparent, making it easy to observe their brain activity. L&S undergraduate student, Ella Ruder, gets the scoop in a video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9Yjk9kyUM.