PhD students LaShanda Harbin and Marino Miranda Noriega have received dissertation fellowships from the National Academy of Education (NAEd) and Spencer Foundation. The competitive NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship aims to encourage early-career scholars from a range of disciplines to pursue research that can improve education.
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PhD student Yepes-Rossel receives Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
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.
27 UW–Madison students receive Graduate Research Fellowships from NSF
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).
PhD graduate Mei awarded Schmidt Science Fellowship
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.
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.
Five UW–Madison students awarded National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
Five UW–Madison graduate students have received dissertation fellowships from the National Academy of Education (NAEd) and Spencer Foundation. The competitive NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship aims to encourage early-career scholars from a range of disciplines to pursue research that can improve education.
Sutton receives Department of Energy award to study improved hydrogeological modeling
Geoscience PhD candidate Collin Sutton has received the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award, which will take him to Los Alamos National Laboratory later this summer to continue the work he’s done as a graduate student at UW–Madison.
Four UW–Madison students receive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
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.
52 UW–Madison students receive NSF GRFP awards
Of those offered awards, 47 are currently UW–Madison graduate students and an additional five are current UW–Madison undergraduates. Another 19 UW–Madison students were recognized with honorable mentions from NSF.
UW–Madison students awarded Google PhD Fellowships for cutting-edge computing research
Physics PhD student Margaret Fortman received the 2022 Google Fellowship in Quantum Computing, and computer sciences PhD student Shashank Rajput received the 2022 Google Fellowship in Machine Learning.