Graduate Student Welcome Week 2025
All graduate students are invited to the Graduate School’s Welcome Week, with the following events taking place the week before classes begin.
Graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
All graduate students are invited to the Graduate School’s Welcome Week, with the following events taking place the week before classes begin.
As a member of Kyoung-Shin Choi’s chemistry lab, Brian has helped develop a new method to recover valuable chemical elements from used lithium-ion batteries.
PhD students LaShanda Harbin and Marino Miranda Noriega have received dissertation fellowships from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation.
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These are the stories of two graduate students who have been impacted by changing directives and priorities for research funding at the federal level.
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 Graduate School has recognized three exceptional graduate student mentors in the Peer Mentor Awards.
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).
University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in a wide variety of fields and specialties, in the 2025 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
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.