PhD student Chatterjee receives Young Investigator Award to support OCD research
PhD candidate Uma R. Chatterjee has received the 2026 International OCD Foundation Michael Jenike Young Investigator Award.
Graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
PhD candidate Uma R. Chatterjee has received the 2026 International OCD Foundation Michael Jenike Young Investigator Award.
Four UW–Madison doctoral students are among the 35 selected to receive 2026 National Academy of Education (NAEd) and Spencer Dissertation Fellowships.
Of those offered NSF GRFP awards this year, 23 are currently UW–Madison graduate students.
It’s no simple feat to find a better way to detect neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s, Lauren Fields knows. But with support from a 2026 Schmidt Science Fellowship, Fields will build on the research she conducted and skills she learned as a PhD student at UW–Madison to look for a way to tell when patients have early signs of ALS and other diseases.
Pan researches efficient computer architecture, including sustainable computing, in the lab of Joshua San Miguel, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Some of her recent projects include working on improving data compression to create more efficient memory and storage without sacrificing performance.
PhD students LaShanda Harbin and Marino Miranda Noriega have received dissertation fellowships from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation.
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.
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).
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.
Design Studies PhD candidate Maeve Hogan’s dissertation research has the potential to help revise and broaden the story of craft made and collected in America.