Graduate Education News

Anne E. Stoner is an interdisciplinary artist and social ethnographer focusing in sonic practice. Her work brings about and coalesces studies in bodily complexities and disability studies, human geography, and psychogeographies, contemporary methodologies in ethnographic archiving and queer anthropology, new possibilities within technology, and studies within human movement and routine, to create a practice with an empathetic methodology that challenges visual standards within 21st century artmaking.

Field work normally ends before dark, but following a long day of dairy manure application in early May 2023, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Josh Mirabella worked late into the night to install his soil greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement equipment.

A fourth-year undergraduate student sits in a classroom on the first floor of the Mechanical Engineering building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, laptop open, chatting with an online master’s degree student and a working engineer. The three are discussing which components of a laser-cutting setup at a manufacturing plant could be responsible for the system overheating.

At its heart, education is a process: Students move step by step through their curriculum and, if all goes well, this results in an end product: Graduates equipped to thrive in the real world. That’s why University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical engineers decided to apply their process systems engineering techniques to the chemical engineering undergraduate curriculum.

Are one in 200 men really related to Genghis Khan? Maybe not, according to a new study from researchers at UW–Madison.

Connor Moreno, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has developed software tools to help leading fusion companies design the first commercially viable fusion power plants.

For PhD student Christopher Barns, choosing the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UW-Madison hinged on three things: great research, great people and a great location. As someone focused on 2D materials and nanoelectronics, he immediately recognized how closely the department aligned with the direction he hoped to take. “The research here is just exactly what I was looking to do,” he said. “It’s one of the best schools for that field.”

A new journal article co-authored by School of Education doctoral student Sky Duke and professor Taylor Odle recommends ways for states to increase older-adult enrollment in college by examining whether a large program in Michigan offering free community college tuition for adults aged 25–64 actually worked.

While nuclear and fusion technologies are rapidly advancing, the future of clean energy also depends on leadership that empowers diverse perspectives.

Jessica Wysocki, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (NEEP), is leveraging her graduate school experiences to strengthen her leadership skills as she prepares to help drive the nuclear field forward.

The Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) is proud to announce the six scholars receiving an IRIS Area and International Studies Award for Incoming Graduate Students.