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Teaching

Meet the 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award winners

March 19, 2024

Thirteen 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.

Research

Some lymphomas become resistant to treatment. Gene discovery may offer path to overcome it.

March 15, 2024

Researchers have been trying to understand why and how certain lymphoma treatments often stop being effective. Lixin Rui and his team believe they've found the reason — and a potential alternative treatment.

Clean energy

Q&A with Prof. Steffi Diem, a UW–Madison fusion scientist and 2024 U.S. Science Envoy

March 15, 2024

Diem, a fusion energy expert, specializes in heating the ultra-hot fuel for fusion and confining it within efficient and compact magnetic bottles. Her selection as one of four new U.S. Science Envoys highlights growing recognition of fusion's role in building a clean and renewable energy future.

Recent Sightings

A woman gesticulates as she talks to a man.

Students share ideas, discoveries at Research in the Rotunda On Wednesday, undergraduate students from UW–Madison and campuses across the Universities of Wisconsin gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol for the annual Research in the Rotunda event to present research findings to Wisconsin legislators, state leaders, UW alumni and members of the public. See more

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Featured Expert

Max Besbris: Realtors association settlement

The standard commission for buying or selling a home has been dismantled, after a striking settlement between the National Association… More

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Sustainability

UW–Madison launches Sustainability Research Hub

March 15, 2024

The hub aims to bring significant interdisciplinary sustainability research funding to campus by connecting researchers across departments and targeting major federal research grants.

Commencement

She’s golden — and a Badger: Olympian Meghan Duggan to keynote spring commencement 

March 13, 2024

A former professional hockey player, Duggan currently is breaking new ground as the director of player development for the New Jersey Devils, one of only a few women in hockey operations roles in the National Hockey League.

Awards

NBC News investigation of missing people buried in a pauper’s graveyard wins Shadid Award

March 12, 2024

Jon Schuppe, Mike Hixenbaugh and Rich Schapiro showed how authorities in Hinds County, Mississippi, were unceremoniously burying the bodies of missing people without notifying the loved ones still searching for them.