Learning about the state we serve
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 young investigators. Romero participated in the 2017 Wisconsin Idea Seminar’s River Tour. Read more>>
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 which is now the city of Madison was called Dejope and was a significant cultural and governmental center for Ho-Chunk …
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 this summer from June 18th through August 12th on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-7:30. The course, Horticulture 375: Discovering the …
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 United Community Center, which focuses on serving the Latino population on Milwaukee’s south side. Castro plays an important role in …
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 Physics who works with UW–Madison students to analyze and understand the data that comes from the IceCube. Listen to his …