Graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Twenty-one outstanding graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2022-23 UW–Madison Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their excellence in teaching.
Five outstanding scholars at UW–Madison joined the national Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at an induction ceremony held on March 9.
Twelve graduate students from across campus will compete in the UW–Madison Three Minute Thesis final competition on Friday, Feb. 17. Three Minute Thesis (3MT), which began at the University of Queensland in Australia, is an international research communication competition that challenges students to explain their research to an audience without specialized knowledge in their field – all in three minutes or less.
Abbey K. Thompson has been appointed Assistant Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Funding in the Graduate School beginning December 15. She has been serving as assistant dean in an interim capacity since May 2022.
The Graduate School invites graduate students to attend Winter Welcome Back events, happening January 17 through 23. Ableism, Interrupted Tuesday, January 17 | 11 am – 1 pm Register for Ableism, Interrupted This session will explore the definition of ableism and how it has been institutionalized in higher education. Attendees will learn about the different …
Minimum stipend amounts for graduate student teaching, research, and project assistants will increase by 10% for the 2023-2024 academic year. “This increase continues our investment in graduate assistants, who are integral to the university’s teaching and research missions,” said Graduate School Dean William J. Karpus.
Researchers like Claire Griesbach, a PhD candidate in Engineering Mechanics at UW–Madison, are at the forefront of developing more advanced nuclear technologies that can continue to power the country with clean energy.
Physics PhD student Margaret Fortman received the 2022 Google Fellowship in Quantum Computing, and computer sciences PhD student Shashank Rajput received the 2022 Google Fellowship in Machine Learning.
The Graduate School has published its 2021-2022 Annual Report. Led by Dean William J. Karpus, the Graduate School enrolls approximately 20 percent of the student body at UW–Madison, or over 10,000 master’s and doctoral students, and guides students from application to enrollment to graduation.
Four initiatives have received grants through a new Graduate School program established to nurture relationships between faculty, staff and students at UW–Madison and at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) across the U.S.