This summer, UW–Madison launched the Summer Internship Scholarship, designed to support students seeking to advance their professional experience and learning with awards of up to $1,500 to supplement unpaid or underpaid internships. View full article here.
Year: 2024
UW–Madison celebrates selection of 11 Fulbright U.S. Scholars for 2024–2025
The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected 11 scholars from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2024–2025 academic year. View full article here.
What’s wrong with ‘The Most Studied Lake in the World’?
The algae bloom-covered shorelines of Lake Mendota indicate serious lake health issues. How do we right the ship? It starts with science. View full article here.
Creating Glass Models of Deep Sea Creatures
Aquatic invertebrates are often difficult to study when they are living, and some can’t even survive outside their deep-ocean habitats. That’s why, 127 years ago, University of Wisconsin biology professor Edward Birge purchased glass models …
Faculty Research Areas
Faculty Research Areas
Stability relies on dispersal in parasitic relationship between aphids and wasps.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison combined experiments with mathematical modeling to learn that dispersal of organisms involved in parasitic relationships through space can play an important role in balancing the effects of both ecology …
Jacob Kraus spotlight
Jacob is currently a PhD student in the Strier lab. Jacob plans to graduate this summer. His research areas are ecology, animal behavior, and conservation biology. Check out Jacob’s spotlight to learn more about him …
Special Biology Colloquium: Untangling the web of behaviors used in spider orb-weaving.
Thursday May 23, we will haveAndrew Gordus (assistant professor from JHU) speaking at Biology Colloquium. Please join us at 3:30pm in 168 Noland Hall.
Mentor award winners guide undergraduate learning
Alyse Maksimoski, Research Associate in Professor Lauren Riters lab, received a 2024 mentor award from UW-Madison.
Carl Shirley Receives the Goldwater Scholarship and the Premier Undergraduate Award
Carl Shirley is one of three notable UW Graduates who received Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering in the United States. Shirley won the scholarship last year as a junior. Shirley, …