Graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Four UW–Madison students have been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Mellon Foundation to support their innovative and creative dissertation research.
Two dedicated UW–Madison staff members have been awarded the 2024 Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Support.
The Graduate School has recognized three exceptional graduate student mentors in the Peer Mentor Awards.
Of those offered awards in the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 19 are currently UW–Madison graduate students.
The Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools has recognized UW–Madison’s Bridge to the Chemistry Doctorate Program with the 2024 Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Education Award. The program provides opportunities for students who may not otherwise be accepted into a chemistry PhD program to earn a master’s degree while also gaining research experience and mentorship that prepares them to continue on to a PhD program in the field.
Two UW–Madison graduate students will participate in the 2024 Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop in Washington D.C.
UW–Madison has committed to increasing minimum graduate assistantship stipends for the next four years in a stipend forecasting plan.
Graduate students at UW–Madison are getting a jump start on funding their humanities work through the Humanities Grant Writing Camp, a partnership between the Graduate School and the Writing Center. The four-day event provides participants with a structured introduction to the nuts and bolts of writing funding proposals to support a wide range of humanities work, from research travel and dissertation writing to public humanities projects.
Thirty-one exceptional graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2023-24 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching.