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  2. Year: 2017
  3. Month: August

Month: August 2017

Announcing: The Tamara Grigsby Memorial Fund for Diversity and Inclusion

Posted on August 31, 2017

The School of Social Work is proud to announce the development of a new fund, named after an alumna, legislator, and advocate for social justice, to advance the School’s priority goals of diversity and inclusion …

Posted in Alumni, Awards & GrantsTagged Tamara Grigsby, Tamara Grigsby Memorial Fund for Diversity and Inclusion, The School of Social Work

Huang named 2017 Phi Tau Phi Scholar

Posted on August 30, 2017

Yen-Ming Huang, a graduate student working under the guidance of Olayinka Shiyanbola, assistant professor in the Social and Administrative Sciences Division, was awarded a 2017 Phi Tau Phi (PTP) Mid America Scholarship from the PTP …

Posted in Awards & Grants, Research, StudentsTagged Phi Tau Phi Mid America Scholarship, Yen-Ming Huang

Scandinavian Studies gains expert on contemporary Scandinavian literature

Posted on August 30, 2017

​New professor Claus Elholm Andersen delves deeply into Knausgård and writes widely on Danish literature and culture.

Posted in Faculty & Staff, LanguagesTagged Claus Elholm Andersen, Department of German Nordic and Slavic, Scandinavian literature

Chinn addresses influential economists, central bankers

Posted on August 28, 2017

Professor Menzie Chinn of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and UW–Madison’s Department of Economics on Saturday presented a paper about global current account imbalances during the influential Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s …

Posted in Faculty & Staff, ResearchTagged Department of Economics, Global Current Account Imbalances, Menzie Chinn

Thorne selected as president-elect of international CNS society

Posted on August 18, 2017

Robert Thorne, assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, KL2 Scholar, University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and Trainer, Neuroscience Training Program, Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program, and Cellular and Molecular Pathology Graduate …

Posted in Faculty & Staff, News, ResearchTagged International Brain Barriers Society, Robert Thorne

R01 renewal allows Li to continue innovative research in food intake

Posted on August 17, 2017

Lingjun Li, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry, Janis Apinis Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, received a 4% ranking on her NIH R01 grant renewal application to continue her innovative research …

Posted in Faculty & Staff, News, ResearchTagged Lingjun Li, mass spectrometry-based technology, signaling peptides

QI Institute brings together world health leaders to work on everyday challenges

Posted on August 14, 2017

“We need quality improvement now more than ever,” Lori DiPrete Brown, director of the Quality Improvement Leadership Institute, told 2017 closing symposium.  for the 2017 Quality Improvement (QI) Leadership Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. …

Posted in Faculty & Staff, NewsTagged Global Health Institute, Quality Improvement Leadership Institute

New Faculty Q&A: Sunny Yudkoff

Posted on August 14, 2017

Sunny Yudkoff, originally from Montclair, NJ, joined the UW-Madison community recently. We took a few minutes to get to know the new Yiddish Instructor.

Posted in Faculty & Staff, LanguagesTagged Sunny Yudkoff, Yiddish language

Sriram Boothalingam joins the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Posted on August 14, 2017

The assistant professor is eager to work among the leaders of hearing research at UW-Madison.

Posted in Faculty & StaffTagged Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Sriram Boothalingam

In Memoriam: Sal Bloomenkranz

Posted on August 14, 2017

Sol Bloomenkranz, age 93, passed away unexpectedly at home on July 7, 2017. He was born in Chicago, IL to Max and Frieda Bloomenkranz on December 4, 1923. As a teenager, Sol traveled to Poland …

Posted in NewsTagged in memoriam
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