Stories indexed under: Faculty awards

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• Romnes Awards honor six up-and-coming professors March 10, 2010 Six of UW–Madison’s most promising rising faculty have been named recipients of this year’s Romnes Faculty Fellowships.
• Ten faculty members honored with Kellett Awards March 10, 2010 Ten UW–Madison faculty members have been honored for their research with Kellett Mid-Career Awards.
• Pecatonica River provides scientific basis for future restoration projects Feb. 23, 2010 Environmental groups annually spend upwards of $1 billion on projects aimed at restoring streams and former wetland ecosystems to their native states.
• Not-so-risky business: New computational models will offer decision support Feb. 15, 2010 A UW-Madison professor has received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to research risk modeling and computational optimization for decision support.
• Scientific society inducts 10 UW-Madison faculty as fellows Dec. 18, 2009 The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced that 10 members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty have been elected fellows of the organization.
• UW's Fiore earns national honor for advocacy work Oct. 21, 2009 Michael Fiore, MPH, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of two physicians in the nation to receive the 2009 Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institute of Medicine as a Profession.
• Database architect wins IEEE award July 30, 2009 David DeWitt, professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been honored for his work with database systems.
• UW-Madison researcher wins White House science award July 9, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologist and evolutionary biologist is one of the country's brightest young scientific minds, according to the White House.
• Expert on relationship between animals and bacteria wins Guggenheim honor June 18, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison developmental biologist Margaret McFall-Ngai has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, a one-year grant that will support her investigation into how animals interact with their natural complement of microbes.
• La Follette School of Public Affairs director wins $3 million federal grant June 18, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs director Carolyn Heinrich has won a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to expand her evaluation of federally mandated tutoring programs in public schools.
• Professor elected to National Academy of Education May 21, 2009 Kenneth Zeichner, the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and associate dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Education (NAEd).
• Cancer researcher wins Shaw Award May 14, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison cancer researcher Jing Zhang received a Shaw Scientist Award last week from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation to support her novel research on the roles cancer stem cells may play in the causes and treatment of cancer.
• Music professor to be honored at gala May 12, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music professor will be honored with one of four awards presented at the 2009 Wisconsin History Makers Gala on Wednesday, May 27, at Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel.
• WAA honors food science professor with Outreach Excellence Award April 27, 2009 The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) has selected University of Wisconsin-Madison food science professor Richard Hartel as the 2009 recipient of the Ken and Linda Ciriacks Alumni Outreach Excellence Award.
• Four UW-Madison scholars recognized by AAAS April 22, 2009 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected four University of Wisconsin-Madison scholars to its 2009 class of fellows.
• Letters and Science announces awards April 22, 2009 Gary Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters and Science, has announced the winners of the 2008–09 College of Letters and Science Academic Staff Excellence Awards, Advising Awards and Classified Staff Excellence Awards.
• French professor named Knight in Order of the Academic Palms April 16, 2009 A UW-Madison professor has been named Chavalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms) by the French Minister of National Education.
• Milestones March 25, 2009
• Four faculty to receive 2009 Hilldale Awards March 24, 2009 Four faculty will receive the 2009 Hilldale Awards, which honor excellence in teaching, research and service.
• UW-Madison composer wins national music award March 24, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor recently was honored with a music award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.