Graduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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).
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.
Graduate students across campus are constantly engaged in work benefitting the state, nation, and world. One program at UW–Madison has helped to connect motivated students and community partners to pursue projects together with positive outcomes for all involved.
The Graduate School has selected two UW–Madison graduate students to participate in the Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop in Washington, D.C., April 6-9. PhD students Cynthia Feng and Martina Rogers will attend.
Thirty-one exceptional graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2024-25 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching.
The judges selected three winners based on the content, comprehension, and audience engagement they demonstrated through their research talks. Audience members at the event also voted for their favorite presentation of the day to win the People's Choice Award.
On February 14, nine graduate students will take the stage to explain their research and win the hearts of the judges and the audience at UW–Madison’s annual Three Minute Thesis competition.
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