The Waisman Center’s premier conference center has been renamed in honor of Chancellor John D. Wiley.
Awards and Honors
School of Education Honors Len Abbeduto
Leonard J. Abbeduto, PhD, was one of seven members of the School of Education who was selected to receive a Distinguished Achievement Award, the highest honor the School bestows upon current faculty and staff. Abbeduto and …
Abbeduto named the Charles J. Anderson Professor of Education; receives Kellett Mid-Career Award
Len Abbeduto, Waisman Center Associate Director for Behavioral Sciences and Director of the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (also at the Waisman Center), was recently named the Charles J. Anderson Professor of Education. …
Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD, tapped to chair search committee for new UW-Madison chancellor
Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Vaughan Bascom Professor of Social Work and Pediatrics at UW-Madison, will chair the search committee.
Axel Junker, MS, recognized by REM Wisconsin
Axel Junker of the Waisman Center’s Community Ties program was recently honored with REM Wisconsin’s 2007 James Grudzynski Memorial Award. REM Wisconsin is the state’s largest provider of residences for individuals with developmental disabilities. The …
ASHA recognizes Lyn Turkstra
This award recognizes distinguished achievement and/or contributions
Brain Storm
The building is locked. Most of the windows are dark. But in a small room on the first floor of the Waisman Center, a group of four is gathered around Richard Davidson.
NIH MERIT Award advances fetal alcohol research at UW-Madison
Susan Smith, a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a prestigious MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health
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 …
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 …