Stories indexed under: Student awards

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• Geoffrion named 2010 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner April 9, 2010 Senior forward Blake Geoffrion was named the 2010 Hobey Baker Memorial Award recipient, the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation announced on Friday at the NCAA Frozen Four in Detroit and live on ESPNU. Geoffrion is Wisconsin's first-ever Hobey Baker award winner.
• UW-Madison student wins $250,000 fellowship April 5, 2010 Daniel Lecoanet, who will graduate with comprehensive honors from University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring with a double major in math and physics, has won a five-year, no-strings-attached fellowship to pursue graduate studies.
• Clean sweep for UW-Madison snowmobile team April 1, 2010 For the second year running, the University of Wisconsin-Madison rode to the top of both divisions of the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge held at Michigan Technological University.
• Meyerhoff fellowship to share Wisconsin Experience March 16, 2010 All Meyerhoff Excellence Award-winning juniors and seniors are now eligible to apply for the new Meyerhoff Wisconsin Experience Fellowship.
• Leadership Trust Award to support students’ education, initiative March 16, 2010 Each spring, the Leadership Trust Award, offered by the Letters & Science Honors Program, grants up to two students with awards equal to two semesters of tuition (currently totaling more than $8,000) plus project funds up to $3,000.
• Students awarded scholarships for entrepreneurship March 8, 2010 Jeffrey Vinokur knows a thing or two about being self-taught.
• Fifteen UW-Madison teaching assistants awarded for service Feb. 16, 2010 Fifteen University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching assistants have received awards for their contributions to learning on campus.
• UW-Madison student wins Churchill Scholarship Feb. 11, 2010 A student who has engaged in chemistry and mathematics research on campus since high school is the University of Wisconsin-Madison's third Churchill Scholar - and the first in 30 years.
• Engineers Without Borders at UW-Madison wins United Nations award Nov. 18, 2009 Work on a project to provide a Haitian community with hydroelectric power has won the University of Wisconsin-Madison's chapter of Engineers Without Borders a prestigious United Nations engineering award.
• Entrepreneurship nurtured with seed grants at UW-Madison Sept. 28, 2009 Entrepreneurship is thriving across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and four student-run businesses captured that spirit and have been awarded seed grants to nurture their startups.
• Student named 2009 Jack Kent Cooke Scholar July 15, 2009 For Joel Charles of Green Bay, Wis., choosing a career path is more than calculating income or raking in benefits.
• UW-Madison students receive undergraduate awards May 27, 2009 Numerous UW-Madison students have been honored with the university’s most prestigious scholarships, fellowships and awards for the 2008-09 academic year.
• Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa welcomes 157 new members May 22, 2009 UW-Madison’s Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society has welcomed 157 student initiates for 2009.
• UW-Madison honors returning adult undergraduate students May 21, 2009 Two young women who have shown perseverance and determination in pursing their bachelor's degrees have been named recipients of this year's two University of Wisconsin-Madison Outstanding Undergraduate Returning Adult Student Awards.
• Gates scholars overcome obstacles, settle into campus March 24, 2009 When most people think of Bill Gates, they think computers. But when UW–Madison’s 14 Gates Millennium Scholars think of the renowned computer genius, they are probably reminded of their own promising futures.
• Clean sweep for UW-Madison snowmobile team March 24, 2009 Two University of Wisconsin-Madison student-built snowmobiles swept the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Clean Snowmobile Challenge, winning both competition divisions: the National Science Foundation Award for the best sled in the zero-emissions division and the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association Award for first place in the internal-combustion division.
• Meeting, deadline approach for Kauffman internship program March 6, 2009 Students interested in the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Community Internship Program (KECIP), an innovative opportunity for students to become social entrepreneurs, are invited to attend an informational session on Wednesday, March 11.
• 100-Hour Challenge winners represent campus creativity, ingenuity March 2, 2009 Where else at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would someone find high fashion, conservation initiatives, die-hard partiers and fish in the same competition?
• Graduate student wins national leadership award Feb. 18, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student has received a prestigious national award recognizing future leaders in higher education.
• iPhone sleep improvement application wins at innovation competition Feb. 12, 2009 A software application for the iPhone and the iPod touch that will help people sleep and wake up more effectively won the $10,000 top prize in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual University of Wisconsin-Madison invention competition that rewards innovative and marketable ideas.