University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: August 2006

Films in the Field 2006

Over 1,500 people attended the third annual Friends of the Waisman Center Films in the Field featuring “Over the Hedge” on Saturday, August 12, 2006 in the fields adjacent to the Center.  While capturing the magic of an outdoor theatre experience, Films in the Field provides for a unique and fun community outreach opportunity for …

Gamm receives named professorship

Waisman Center researcher David Gamm, MD, PhD has been named the first recipient of the Edwin and Dorothy Gamewell Professorship. The professorship was presented to the University of Wisconsin Eye Research Institute by the Retina Research Foundation of Houston, Texas. The professorship is awarded annually to an outstanding member of the Eye Institute. Gamm is …

Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD, named interim director of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Terry Devitt, University Communications Marsha Mailick Seltzer, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Waisman Center and an internationally recognized scholar of developmental disabilities, has been named interim director of the new Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID). Seltzer’s appointment was announced today (Aug. 8) by UW-Madison Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader. A veteran administrator who for …