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• From wind turbines to inflatable interim housing: Engineering undergrads display products Dec. 9, 2011 Deriving their inspiration from fields ranging from music and ice hockey to cross-country skiing and wind energy, eight University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduate engineering student design teams will compete Wednesday, Dec. 14 for a top cash prize of $2,500.
• Big Ten Network offering scholarships for outstanding service Nov. 28, 2011 Applications for the inaugural Big Ten Network (BTN) LiveBIG Scholarship for Outstanding Service are now being accepted.
• UW undergraduate Alexis Brown named Rhodes Scholar Nov. 22, 2011 University of Wisconsin–Madison senior Alexis Brown is one of an elite group of American students to be awarded a 2012 Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most coveted honors in the world of higher education.
• Microformer team wins second place in student humanitarian competition Sept. 30, 2011 Three University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering graduate students won second place and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 2011 Distinguished Student Humanitarian Prize for their work on the Microformer, a low-cost transformer built with recycled electrical components.
• UW-Madison undergrads win NASA habitat design competition July 1, 2011 It's an inflatable home fit for an asteroid: Designing a prototype habitat that looks like giant tent for the next generation of space explorers, an interdisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students has won the NASA eXploration Habitat Academic Innovation Challenge.
• Two UW-Madison academic nursing students win $100,000 scholarships May 28, 2011
• Multicultural Student Center presents first McDowell Alumni Achievement Award May 13, 2011 Candace and Charles McDowell have been named as the inaugural recipients of an award named in their honor - the McDowell Alumni Achievement Award.
• Meyerhoff Award recipients announced May 12, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently selected the recipients of the Meyerhoff Undergraduate Excellence Award for academic and service achievements.
• Phi Beta Kappa initiates selected May 11, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison recently announced the 2011 initiates for Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.
• Four UW-Madison students share $50,000 prize in climate contest April 21, 2011 Four undergraduates have won $50,000 in a student competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for innovative ideas to counteract climate change.
• UW-Madison student Steven Olikara wins Truman, Udall awards April 12, 2011 Steven Olikara, a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior from Brookfield, Wis., has won a pair of prestigious national awards, landing both the Truman Scholarship and the Udall Scholarship.
• Engineering students win top honors for electric snowmobile March 14, 2011 There wasn’t much snow on the ground in Madison, Wisconsin, this weekend, but there was plenty in Houghton, Michigan, as a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students continued their tradition of dominance at the 2011 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge.
• UW-Madison student named PR Week Student of the Year March 11, 2011
• Students partner with business to launch iPhone app, highlight Wisconsin-made products Feb. 23, 2011 What if you could enter a grocery store, and with the tap of your finger, determine which products were made in your state? Thanks to three UW-Madison graduate students and their partnership with a local grocery store, you now can.
• 19 students receive Fulbright awards for research overseas Sept. 27, 2010 The Fulbright U.S. Student program, the country's flagship program for international exchange, has awarded fellowships to 14 University of Wisconsin-Madison students. Additionally, five students have received funding from the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program.
• Spring semester Dean's List now online June 3, 2010
• New scholarships boost environmental studies, community service April 29, 2010 Seventeen undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are the first recipients of new need-based scholarships in environmental studies that promote community service.
• UW-Madison undergraduates win prestigious national scholarships April 27, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison juniors Asad L. Asad and Nicholas Lillios have recently been awarded $30,000 each for graduate study. Asad was recently announced as one of only 20 undergraduates in the U.S. to be selected as a 2010 Beinecke Scholar, and Lillios was recently announced as one of only 60 to be selected as a 2010 Truman Scholar.
• Plan to advance wound care treatment takes top prize in Burrill competition April 26, 2010
• Phi Beta Kappa welcomes 173 new members April 26, 2010