UW–Madison alumna Yun-Wen Chan is the recipient of a prestigious award from the Taiwanese government.
Chan, who earned her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 2019, has been awarded the Ministry of Science and Technology’s 2022 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grant for Young Scholars. The purpose of these grants is to encourage the talents of Taiwanese in the humanities and social sciences, and to help them focus on the writing of academic books and dissertations to enhance the quality of academic research and increase their status at foreign universities and academic institutions.