Stories indexed under: Student awards

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• Adult students honored with scholarships and awards April 21, 2013 A total of 24 UW-Madison non­tra­di­tional and return­ing adult stu­dents will be hon­ored April 24 with schol­ar­ships hav­ing a total value of $70,000.
• Evans named Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year April 13, 2013 Wisconsin 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.
• MFA Student Emily Belknap Receives 2013 Chazen Prize March 19, 2013 Painter and sculptor Emily Belknap has been named the winner of the 2013 Chazen Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student.
• Nominate an adult undergraduate for an Outstanding Returning Adult Student Award Feb. 12, 2013 Each 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 Feb. 4, 2013 Displaying 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 Nov. 7, 2012 The 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 student receives national award for archival studies Aug. 1, 2012 Most people think of archivists sitting in basements or backrooms, poring over dusty old documents.
• Outstanding undergraduate writing rewarded by humanities alum July 3, 2012 Sidney 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.
• Students win policy challenge with solar energy initiatives May 25, 2012 Two La Follette School students won the U.S. Department of Energy portion of the Startup America Policy Challenge with their proposal about how to make solar energy more affordable.
• UW-Madison student named one of the 2012 Luce Scholars May 15, 2012 Lauren Buckley, a UW-Madison undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, biochemistry and French, was recently named one of this year's Luce Scholars.
• UW-Madison student among winners in UW System essay contest May 11, 2012 Jacquelyn Bonavia is among three winners of the UW System Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship.
• UW-Madison student named to magazine’s “Top 10 College Women” list May 3, 2012 Pictured in the glamorous setting of Manhattan, one of a select few who have a special wardrobe from Ralph Lauren and graced the set of the national "Mo'nique" television talk show as a guest performer, in person Jasmine Mans is disarmingly humble and grounded.
• UW-Madison students to compete for Qualcomm Wireless Prize April 13, 2012 Nearly 30 University of Wisconsin-Madison students will compete, with their smartphone apps and other wireless technology products, for more than $17,000 in prizes in the second Qualcomm Wireless Innovation Prize to be held Wednesday, April 18.
• UW students to represent USA in Hong Kong accounting competition April 12, 2012 A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students has been awarded the national title for the KPMG International Case Competition, and will be representing the U.S. this April when they take on teams from more than two dozen nations in Hong Kong.
• McBurney scholarship deadline is April 15 April 10, 2012 General scholarship applications for the McBurney Disability Resource Center are due April 15 for disabled students seeking financial aid for the next academic year, 2012-2013.
• Student sustainability competition a springboard for local development, global solutions Feb. 15, 2012 The contest is in its fourth year and open to all UW-Madison undergraduate and graduate students. Previously known as the Climate Leadership Challenge, the competition has been renamed the Global Stewards Sustainability Prize to reflect a broader focus on real-world solutions to sustainability.
• Cheap, printable prosthetic hand wins top prize at 2012 Innovation Days Feb. 10, 2012 A prosthetic hand that could be cheaply created on a 3-D printer for amputees in developing countries won the top prize and $10,000 in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, one of a pair of competitions that make up Innovation Days. Held Feb. 9 and 10, the event rewards University of Wisconsin-Madison students for creative and marketable ideas.
• Water filtration, smart phones, LED lights showcased in student invention competition Feb. 2, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate innovators will present 14 inventions on Feb. 9-10 in Engineering Hall on the College of Engineering campus as part of the annual Innovation Days.
• Products for hockey, shelter win engineering design competition Dec. 20, 2011 Under the right circumstances, the undergraduate student teams that won a University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering design competition can either help protect a family from the elements or a hockey team from a scoring play.
• UW-Madison graduate wins Mitchell Scholarship Dec. 16, 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Catherine Skroch is now part of a select group of Mitchell Scholars who will pursue postgraduate study in Ireland and Northern Ireland.