Philip Romero, a biochemistry assistant professor, receives a 2018 Shaw Scientist Awards from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. The awards come with $200,000 in seed funding to support innovative research approaches and the career development of …
WIS alumni
Acknowledging Wisconsin’s Native Histories
Some may not know that the University of Wisconsin-Madison sits on native Ho-Chunk land. The Ho-Chunk Nation is one of 11 federally recognized American Indian Nations in the state of Wisconsin. For millennia the area …
WIS Alumni Team up for Summer Course
Claudia Irene Calderón (left, WIS ’17) and Amaya Atucha (right, WIS ’15) from the Department of Horticulture are teaming up this summer to teach a course on wine and winemaking. The course will be offered …
Uniting Milwaukee’s Latino Community
Al Castro is a passionate social worker who brings humor and empathy to his work as the Health Research Program Director for the United Community Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thousands of individuals benefit from the …
WIS’17 Alum Justin Vandenbroucke Mines Data from the South Pole
As a graduate student, physicist Justin Vandenbroucke helped build the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory, a cubic kilometer of sensors drilled deep into the ice. Now Vandenbroucke is an assistant professor in the Department of …