University of Wisconsin - Madison
John Heim, IT system administrator, has been awarded the 2017 Martha Casey Award for Excellence. This competitive campus-wide award celebrates the “unsung hero” of many departments and John certainly qualifies. John has developed several applications to smooth student transitions and administrative processes since he’s started in 2005. John will be honored at a ceremony at …
Assistant Professor Qin Li has been awarded an NSF Career Grant. Her application on Applicable Kinetic Computation with Boundaries and Rough Media will start in September 1, 2018. Congratulations, Qin!
Melanie Matchett Wood has been named as one of the Top 50 Women in STEM, as published by TheBestSchools.org.https://thebestschools.org/features/50-top-women-in-stem/ Congratulations, Melanie!
Juliette Bruce has won a Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Award for Exceptional Service. She is a fourth-year PhD student in Mathematics and has taught classes in algebra, statistics and probability, and calculus. Additionally, she has held a non-standard teaching assistant position with the Madison Math Circle, an outreach program sponsored by the math department, since spring …
Appearing on the PBS program “Nova,” UW–Madison professor and math expert Jordan Ellenberg explained how understanding simple facts about probability can help people in their everyday lives. “Prediction by the Numbers” aired Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.
Autumn Kent was appointed a Vilas Associate through the university’s prestigious Vilas Associates competition. The Vilas Associate appointment is awarded to a faculty with new, ongoing, significant and high-quality research. The Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education chooses the competitive recipients based on a detailed proposal. The …
Samuel Stechmann was appointed a Vilas Associate through the university’s prestigious Vilas Associates competition. The Vilas Associate appointment is awarded to a faculty with new, ongoing, significant and high-quality research. The Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education chooses the competitive recipients based on a detailed proposal. The appointment …
Professor Emeritus Ed Fadell passed away on Jan. 11 at age 91 (almost 92). After graduating from OSU with a PhD degree, he went to Harvard as an assistant professor for three years before coming to Madison in 1955. He stayed at Madison both a distiguished researcher in Algebraic Topology and award winning teacher until …
Sufian Husseini passed away late December 30, 2017 in Salem, Oregon, after months of health struggles. He was a faculty member from 1961 until his retirement in 2001.Sufian obtained his PhD at Princeton under Norman Steenrod and was an instructor at MIT before moving to Madison. His research was primarily in algebraic topology, on topics …