Coming from a family of limited financial means, Ashya Kaderabek-Vela feels fortunate to attend UW–Madison. Her path through the UW has been greatly eased by a grant from the Great People Scholarship fund, which offers need-based grants to fill gaps between various other sources of financial aid.
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CSD Professor, Students Again Make Difference in Guatemala
For the second straight year, clinical associate professor Michelle Quinn and a group of graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders assisted in literacy efforts in Guatemala over winter break.
Share the Wonderful Exceeds Goal, Shows Power of Many
“The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the scholarships I received to attend, changed my life in more ways than one. Contributing to the annual campaign is the least I can do,” says John, who is a student services coordinator on campus.
Internship Program does Students Justice
Allison Gilmore is pursuing a certificate in Criminal Justice and, as such, needed to complete a summer internship. She found one in the Juvenile Court Intake Department of Children’s Court Services in her native Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The experience proved transformative.
Physical Abilities No Match for UW-Madison Researcher’s Dreams
UW-Madison engineering researcher and PhD candidate Craig Schuff was paralyzed from the neck down in a 2011 accident in Lake Monona. That hasn’t stopped him from conducting high level research. He is working on a machine called an inertial electrostatic confinement device, which uses fusion to generate neutrons. Those neutrons are then used to scan packages and detect clandestine materials such as smuggled explosives and nuclear materials.