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On April 11, 2025, the Honors Program hosted the 2025 Senior Honors Thesis Symposium—a hallmark event recognizing the culmination of years of research by undergraduate Honors scholars at UW–Madison. Held at Union South, the day-long …

Congrats to Emily Stanley, a faculty member in our department, for being one of this year’s Hilldale Award winners. Read the full article here.

Undergrad Mason Polencheck searches lakes and streams for these reclusive, little-known salamanders, also called waterdogs. What he’s finding could reveal microbial secrets and new ways to protect struggling amphibians across the globe. Read the full …

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced 20 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and …

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) presents the Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award each year to an early career scientist who has made outstanding and balanced contributions to research, education, and society. …

Professor John Orrock led a research project to determine how space and time increase hotspots and coldspots for tick-borne disease. View full article here.

Kirstin Braziunas MS’18, PhD’22, and Nathan Kiel PhD’24, both from the Turner lab created a story map about forest change in a future with more (short-interval) fire, focusing on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in the …

Zoology student Daniela Hernandez is a recipient of the UW Global Gateway fellowship. Read more about her study abroad experience this summer in Tanzania. View full article here.

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.

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.