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The Friends of the Waisman Center present seven awards each year to Waisman students, staff, and and family volunteers.
The Waisman Early Childhood Program recently announced that Teresa Hoveland will become the next director of the program. Hoveland is assuming the leadership role after Nancy Saevang, the current director, steps down at the end of August.
After more than two decades at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin and several first-in-the-world stem cell scientific breakthroughs, Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD, professor of neuroscience and neurology, is retiring. He came to the Waisman Center in 2001 as part of the Translational Research-Neurodegenerative Diseases Cluster. Zhang anchored Waisman’s stem cell research program and has …
Thirty-two UW–Madison faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research for 2024-25. The awardees span the four research divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences. These include two Waisman investigators, Andrew Alexander, PhD, and Lauren Bishop, PhD, who were awarded fellowships from the …
One Waisman Center investigator and two graduate students awarded Fulbright scholarships
Wargowski, after three decades of providing exceptional patient care to hundreds of patients in the Medical Genetics Clinics at Waisman, is retiring at the end of June.
14 undergraduate students from the labs of Waisman Center investigators and affiliates were awarded the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, which includes a stipend for students and for their research advisors. Students will have the opportunity to work on their own research project in collaboration with their faculty advisor. Congratulations to award recipients: Evelyn Anton (Margarita …
Kathleen Kastner, MD, associate professor, Division of Developmental Pediatrics and Rehabilitation Medicine, and developmental behavioral pediatrician in the Waisman Center's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic and Newborn Follow-Up Clinic, was selected for a 2024 University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) Dean’s Teaching Award.
The Children’s Resource Center-South (CRC) named Meredith Vitaioli as their new director in April.
Professor of Comparative Biosciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Waisman Center investigator, John Svaren, PhD, is a recipient of a Vilas Distinguished Professorship.
