Milestones
Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, has been awarded the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professorship in Jewish Studies from the Weinstein-Mosse Center for Jewish Studies.
Vilas Research Professor Robert M. Hauser, sociology, has been awarded three grants from the National Institute on Aging totaling $31 million to support intensive home interviews and collaborative research in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The study has followed a sample of 10,317 Wisconsin high school graduates of 1957 and their randomly selected siblings for more than 50 years.
Pamela M. Potter, professor of musicology, has been named director of the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, following a term as director of graduate studies in the School of Music.
The School of Human Ecology has given 2009 Excellence in Outreach awards to David Riley, Rothermel Bascom Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and Lynet Uttal, also a professor in human development and family studies and director of the Asian American Studies Program.
UW–Madison named ‘military-friendly’
UW–Madison has been named to the first-ever list of military-friendly schools.
Created by G.I. Jobs, a magazine produced by veterans, the 2010 list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in recruitment, retention and providing services for veteran students. The list is also intended to be a resource for veterans pursuing a college degree.
Currently, UW–Madison enrolls more than 600 students with military experience and is making new outreach efforts to the population.