Meet the Facilitator: Thomas Browne, MA
Senior Assistant Dean, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Academic Affairs and Student Engagement
Graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Senior Assistant Dean, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Academic Affairs and Student Engagement
Thirty-two exceptional graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2025-26 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching.
Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica’s ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away in the subtropical ocean, according to new research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Graduate and professional students make a broad and diverse set of contributions to UW–Madison and the wider community. As one way of recognizing these contributions, the Graduate School celebrates Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week. The celebration includes fun events in collaboration with schools, colleges, and campus partners; awards ceremonies recognizing graduate student excellence; and stories highlighting the many ways graduate and professional students make an impact.
Clara Cole (BS’17 DVM’21), a second-year PhD student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, is investigating the impacts of H5N1 on mammals, with a particular focus on how the virus affects the mammary glands.
Each year, an estimated 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease — a bacterial infection that can cause rash, fever, extreme tiredness, and joint stiffness, among other symptoms. Karen Fuenzalida, a veterinarian and PhD student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, is among the scientists working to curb that number.
For GRADLINK participants Helenia Quince and Isabella Brown, their meetings with one another to talk about graduate school were the highlight of their week.
Peter Kinsley, PhD, a senior research and policy analyst at the Graduate School for 8 years, passed away peacefully at home with his family on Feb. 12, 2026.
When PhD student Estevan Molina arrived at the airport, he carried a suitcase filled entirely with basketballs. About 40 of them — all different sizes, all donated by UW–Madison’s Athletic Department, and all deflated — were squeezed into a checked bag. The plan was clear: deliver them to youth programs and basketball academies across Senegal.
UW–Madison scientists have pioneered a direct recycling technique that uses electricity and low-cost chemicals to restore batteries.