Caitlin Henning and Anders Gurda, who both secured Annual Fund-supported graduate assistantships, are exploring how to create regional markets and control Canada thistle in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Agroecology Master’s Program.
Gifts help the Department of Political Science recruit and retain top faculty, who examine world issues.
Students in the surgery program will be selected from those enrolled in UW-Madison’s Precollege Enrichment Opportunity for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) program.
Thanks to named professorships, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing is recruiting new faculty to bolster clinical teaching, encourage cooperation among health-care providers and delve deeper into how nurses can best serve families and children.
The UW Student Foundation is focused on raising awareness of how much private support means to the University. “What we want to do is educate students about the alumni and friends of the University and what they are doing to help campus and students,” founder Seamus Fitzgerald said.
Professor Harold Scheub, who has taught on campus for more than 40 years, has established a Great People Scholarship. “My whole life is students,” he said. “I love walking into that classroom.”
Whether judging cattle or investing in students, David Dickson had an uncanny ability to seize the positive and sum it up succinctly. Gifts made since his death will continue to provide for what Dickson valued most—University students.
Many University of Wisconsin-Madison hockey alumni joined with other major donors to assure that future players will have the best opportunity to add to a remarkable story.
