Stories indexed under: Faculty awards

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  • Professor wins inaugural Schuster Prize May 8, 2008 Timothy Kamp, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has been awarded the inaugural Schuster Prize for excellence in advancing cardiovascular medicine at the school.
  • Stem cell pioneer Thomson elected to National Academy of Sciences April 29, 2008 Pioneering University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell scientist James Thomson was elected today (April 29) to the National Academy of Sciences.
  • UW historian Jeremi Suri to receive outreach excellence award April 28, 2008 The Wisconsin Alumni Association has selected University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Jeremi Suri as the 2008 recipient of the Ken and Linda Ciriacks Faculty Outreach Excellence Award.
  • School of Education honors faculty, staff April 23, 2008 Seven people have been selected to receive 2008 Distinguished Achievement Awards, the highest honor the School of Education bestows upon current faculty and staff.
  • Arts Institute honors faculty, staff for contributions to campus April 17, 2008 The Arts Institute has selected the recipients of its 2008 awards in the arts.
  • Ten faculty receive Distinguished Teaching Awards April 15, 2008 Every year, the Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards honors faculty for teaching excellence.
  • Milestones March 26, 2008
  • History professor part of Oscar-winning documentary Feb. 25, 2008 History professor Alfred McCoy plays a role in "Taxi to the Dark Side," a harrowing film about U.S. interrogation techniques that won the Academy Award Sunday for best documentary feature.
  • Edil receives Turkish science award Feb. 15, 2008 In a January ceremony held at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, and attended by Turkish dignitaries, including the president, president of the parliament, prime minister, cabinet ministers, university presidents, and others, University of Wisconsin-Madison Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Tuncer Edil received the Special Science Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
  • Photo of Dumesic Engineer James Dumesic named to ‘Scientific American 50’ Dec. 17, 2007 James Dumesic, Chemical and Biological Engineering Steenbock Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2007 Scientific American "SciAm 50" award for his innovative alternative fuels research.
  • Women’s Philanthropy Council ‘Champion Award’ winners named Nov. 8, 2007 Jennifer Sheridan, executive and research director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, and Richard L. Barrows, emeritus professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics and former associate dean for Student Academic Affairs, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, are the winners of Champion Awards, presented by the Women's Philanthropy Council of the University of Wisconsin Foundation.
  • Two young researchers win White House science award Nov. 1, 2007 Two of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's most promising young faculty members have received the highest national honor bestowed upon scientists in the early stages of their careers. The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recognize top junior researchers who have demonstrated exceptional potential and leadership at the frontiers of science.
  • AAAS honors five UW-Madison members Oct. 26, 2007 Five University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and staff members are among the 471 scientists, engineers, educators and communicators who have been selected as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The awards are announced in the Oct. 26 issue of Science.
  • Two to receive CALS distinguished service awards Oct. 17, 2007 Biochemist Hector DeLuca and former dean Leo Walsh will receive Distinguished Service Awards from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at an awards banquet on Thursday, Oct. 25.
  • UW-Madison faculty contributed to global warming reports that led to Gore’s Nobel Oct. 12, 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty made significant contributions in developing the reports on the implications of global warming that led today (Oct. 12) to the awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
  • UW historian named one of Smithsonian’s top young innovators Oct. 4, 2007 Jeremi Suri, a University of Wisconsin-Madison historian whose work is reshaping views of how political power is forged in a globally connected age, has been named one of Smithsonian Magazine's "37 Under 36: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences."
  • Wisconsin veterinarian honored by American Association of Bovine Practitioners Oct. 2, 2007 Garrett R. Oetzel, a food animal production medicine veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2007 AABP Alpharma Award of Excellence during the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on September 22, 2007.
  • International research awards announced to faculty, staff Aug. 29, 2007 New research grants totaling nearly $140,000 have been awarded to University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and staff, the UW-Madison Division of International Studies announced today.
  • Milestones Aug. 22, 2007
  • Humanities researchers earn fellowships Aug. 21, 2007 Four scholars in the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were named recipients of the 2006-2007 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowships.