University of Wisconsin–Madison
UW–Madison is pleased to announce that 16 Badgers have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for the 2026-2027 academic year, with 15 accepting the grant. Close to 2,000 Fulbright U.S. students—recent college graduates, graduate students, and early career professionals—pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English in schools abroad each year. They are recognized alongside …
This summer marked a major milestone for language education at UW–Madison with the launch of the inaugural WISLI Digital Badge. Offered through the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI), a unit under the Language Program Office, the new micro-credential is the very first to be implemented under the International Division’s broader Global Badges framework. Designed …
Wrapping up the first week of this year’s Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI), a series of five “Global Professionals” panel sessions on June 19 showed current students how their language pursuits could turn into globally connected careers. Leaders from fields in public service, research, and international development shared honest stories about how language skills …
UW–Madison’s Milda Aksamitauskas has been selected as one of only 12 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Alumni Ambassadors nationwide for 2026. Chosen from a competitive pool of over 200 applicants, Aksamitauskas will spend the next two years representing the program at national conferences, hosting webinars, and mentoring future applicants—including fellow Badgers. “I was very honored and excited …
UW–Madison’s Beth Fields, an associate professor of occupational therapy in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award.
UW–Madison’s Thomas S. Popkewitz, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award.
Each year, an estimated 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease — a bacterial infection that can cause rash, fever, extreme tiredness, and joint stiffness, among other symptoms. Karen Fuenzalida, a veterinarian and PhD student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, is among the scientists at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), College …
Jerry Brandell, MSSW ’77, (also PhD, University of Chicago), recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. The award recognizes his “contributions to clinical social work and psychoanalysis” and was presented at its 2025 Biennial Conference held in Austin, Texas.
A School of Education faculty member has earned a Fulbright award to support an Egyptian university as it develops its graduate-level program in adapted physical education.
Near the end of their six-week professional development program in Madison last fall, three members of the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (FTEA) program from the Czech Republic had an idea. They wanted to bring some of what they experienced at UW–Madison to other teachers in Central and Eastern Europe. After months of work and …