Winter Welcome Back is here to help you kick off the new semester with fun and focus. Join in for a week of events—from social hangouts to funding seeking strategies and mentorships workshops—designed to reconnect, …
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UW–Madison minimum graduate assistant stipends will increase, consistent with multi-year commitment to stipend growth
Minimum annualized stipends for 50% graduate student teaching, research, and project assistantship appointments will be $35,636 for 2025-26, up from the current minimum of $32,396. This is part of a four-year stipend forecasting plan announced …
New mentorship program offers support, community for Indigenous graduate students
Five PhD students inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in its 15th year at UW–Madison
The Graduate School at the University of Wisconsin–Madison welcomed five outstanding scholars into the university’s chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society this academic year: Virginia Downing, PhD student in Educational Policy Studies …
Announcing new Wisconsin Sloan Center for Systemic Change staff
Jasmia Hamilton has been selected to support graduate students through the Wisconsin Sloan Center for Systemic Change, or WiSC2. Launched earlier this year with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, WiSC2, aims to enhance …
UW–Madison PhD candidate Molinek wins National Academies and Schmidt Sciences Excellence in Sciences Communication award
Geoscience PhD candidate Rudy Molinek has been awarded the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Sciences. These awards …
Delta Program introduces new Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Starting this fall, the Delta Program in the Graduate School offers a Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning that will position the next generation of faculty to use equitable and evidence-based teaching practices within their classrooms, communities, and research spaces.
PhD candidate Hogan receives Smithsonian Fellowship to investigate textile and fiber arts collections
Design Studies PhD candidate Maeve Hogan’s dissertation research at UW–Madison has been driven by unique objects in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the School of Human Ecology. These works have the potential to help revise and broaden the story of craft made and collected in America, Hogan said. However, many of the items in the collection that Hogan studies lack essential documentation, making that task a difficult one.
UW–Madison student-advisor pair Hammond and Marler named to 2024 cohort of Gilliam fellows
UW–Madison PhD student Emma Hammond and professor Catherine Marler have received the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
HHMI’s Gilliam Fellowships recognize outstanding research alongside a commitment to advancing equity and inclusion in science.
Graduate Student Welcome Week 2024
All graduate students are invited to the Graduate School’s Welcome Week, with the events taking place the week before classes begin.