ASHA recognizes Lyn Turkstra
This award recognizes distinguished achievement and/or contributions
Waisman Center
Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
This award recognizes distinguished achievement and/or contributions
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.
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
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 …
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 …
Elizabeth Hecht, senior outreach specialist at the Waisman Center's Children with Special Health Care Needs Program was recently honored for her work on behalf of families.
In a recent announcement by the UW Board of Regents, Seth Pollak, PhD, was awarded a named professorship, along with eight other faculty. Pollak is a professor of psychology and of psychiatry and pediatrics and the faculty co-director of the Waisman Center's Research Participation Core.
In a recent announcement by the UW Board of Regents, Jenny Saffran, PhD, was awarded a named professorship, along with eight other faculty. Saffran is a professor of psychology and the coordinator of the Communication and Cognitive Sciences Group at the Waisman Center.
Robin Chapman, professor emerita of Communicative Disorders and Waisman principle investigator, received the 2006 Career Research Scientist Award on Tuesday, May 22, at its Atlanta, GA. meeting from the Academy on Mental Retardation. The award was made for her outstanding contributions to research in mental retardation and developmental disabilities. On Waisman grants funded by the National Institutes of …
Clive Svendsen, PhD, was honored by the International Academy for Child Brain Development with its highest award, the Statuette with Pedestal. The award acknowledges exceptional contributions to the study of human development and is presented each spring at the annual dinner of the World Organization for Human Potential, held on the campus of the Institutes …