Federal funding changes impact graduate students and graduate research
These are the stories of two graduate students who have been impacted by changing directives and priorities for research funding at the federal level.
Graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
These are the stories of two graduate students who have been impacted by changing directives and priorities for research funding at the federal level.
Gabriela C. Yepes-Rossel has received a Dissertation Innovation Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Her scholarship focuses on women theater and dance performers from the Southern Peruvian Andes who infuse their cultural traditions with new values and purposes to challenge normalized practices of intersectional inequity and violence.
Engagement, Education, and Equity Director at the Morgridge Institute for Research
Distinguished Teaching Faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Postdoctoral and Graduate Program Manager at the Morgridge Institute for Research
Associate Director for Research Mentor Training for the Delta Program in the Graduate School
The Graduate School has recognized three exceptional graduate student mentors in the Peer Mentor Awards.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected 19 graduate and 8 undergraduate UW–Madison students as 2025 recipients of its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in a wide variety of fields and specialties, in the 2025 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
UW–Madison PhD graduate Hongyan (May) Mei has been awarded a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellowship, a highly competitive and prestigious national program that supports “brilliant minds” who pursue innovative, interdisciplinary science.