Tag Student awards
Baldwin grants to fund public engagement
June 5, 2013Ten projects ranging from expanding higher learning opportunities for low-income residents of Madison to designing and constructing a biogas system in Uganda have been chosen as spring 2013 recipients of Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grants.
UW–Madison students receive Fulbright fellowships
June 3, 2013Eleven University of Wisconsin–Madison students have received 2013-14 fellowships from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the country's flagship program for international exchange.
New tech-enhanced grocery shopping experience wins Innovative Minds Prize
May 15, 2013Fetch Rewards LLC, a mobile application designed to reinvent the grocery shopping experience, won the $10,000 Innovative Minds Challenge on May 10 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Chancellor to honor distinguished undergraduates
May 8, 2013This year’s Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards ceremony will recognize 135 UW–Madison winners of the Hilldale Fellowship, the Herfurth and Kubly Awards, the Holstrom Environmental Scholarship and the University Book Store Awards, as well as winners of the national Goldwater, Udall and Truman scholarships and more.
2013 Phi Beta Kappa initiates chosen
May 7, 2013The University of Wisconsin–Madison recently announced the 2013 initiates for the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.
Burrill Business Plan Competition fosters student entrepreneurship
April 30, 2013UW-Madison students will put their entrepreneurial skills to the test Friday in the G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition.
Adult students honored with scholarships and awards
April 21, 2013A total of 24 UW–Madison nontraditional and returning adult students will be honored April 24 with scholarships having a total value of $70,000.
Creative energy harvest and storage ideas top Energy and Sustainability competition
April 18, 2013Rest a laptop computer on your lap for any length of time and you'll quickly appreciate how much heat it generates.
Evans named Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year
April 13, 2013Wisconsin senior Ryan Evans has been named the 2013 Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Inspired by tennis legend Arthur Ashe Jr.'s commitment to education as well as athletics, the Sports Scholars Awards honors students of color who have made academic and athletic achievement a winning combination.
They’re No. 1: Air Force ROTC leads nation in fitness
April 9, 2013While other students still slumber or are just getting their day started, the Air Force ROTC “Flying Badgers” have already worked up a sweat running laps at the Shell on campus.
Obesity policy strategies win national competition
March 26, 2013A team of five students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison La Follette School won first place for their strategies to combat childhood obesity in a national public affairs competition in Washington, D.C., March 22-23.
MFA Student Emily Belknap Receives 2013 Chazen Prize
March 19, 2013Painter and sculptor Emily Belknap has been named the winner of the 2013 Chazen Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student.
Journalism student wins trip with Pulitzer-winning New York Times writer
February 14, 2013UW-Madison journalism graduate student Erin Luhmann is the winner of this year's Win a Trip with Nick Kristof contest, The New York Times announced today.
IAP scholars to help students ‘discover the world and bring it back to Wisconsin’
February 13, 2013International Academic Programs (IAP), the largest study abroad office at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has launched a scholarship program that offers individual awards starting at $2,500 to enable more students to study abroad and then share their experiences with the campus community after they return.
Nominate an adult undergraduate for an Outstanding Returning Adult Student Award
February 12, 2013Each year the Office of Adult Career and Special Student Services recognizes two adult students with the Outstanding Undergraduate Returning Adult Student Award.
Innovation Days showcases undergrad entrepreneurship
February 4, 2013Displaying more than a dozen inventions that could prove useful for individuals, workplaces or even entire manufacturing processes, University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate students will square off in a matchup of creativity, resourcefulness and craftsmanship during the annual UW–Madison Innovation Days competitions, held Feb. 7 and 8 on the UW–Madison engineering campus.
UW student awarded one of nation’s first organic plant breeding fellowships
November 7, 2012The story of how Tessa Peters ended up snagging one of the nation's first graduate fellowships in organic plant breeding begins in an unlikely place: the middle of the ocean.
UW–Madison students, faculty receive 2012-13 Fulbright Program grants
October 23, 2012A group of University of Wisconsin–Madison students and faculty have received 2012-13 grants from the Fulbright Program, the country's flagship program for international educational exchange.
UW-Madison student receives national award for archival studies
August 1, 2012Most people think of archivists sitting in basements or backrooms, poring over dusty old documents.
Outstanding undergraduate writing rewarded by humanities alum
July 3, 2012Sidney Iwanter, an 1971 history alumnus of the College of Letters & Science, likes to say he was too busy dodging tear gas canisters to be much of a student during his tenure at UW–Madison.