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In August 2014, Bill MacLean, PhD, will join the Waisman Center as the associate director of the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD)
MADISON – Marsha Mailick, a long time University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty member and veteran of research leadership roles at the university, has been selected by Chancellor Rebecca Blank as interim successor to Martin Cadwallader, who is returning to the faculty. Mailick, who currently serves as the director of the Waisman Center, will formally assume a …
Ruth Litovsky, professor of communication sciences and disorders, has been named a 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar for the East-Asia Pacific Region. Litovsky will collaborate with colleagues in the Bionics Institute in Melbourne, Australia, on the use of novel imaging techniques known as functional near infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS). She plans to learn about ways in which the …
Former Waisman Center Project Coordinator and trainee Aaron Bishop named Commissioner of the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Dan Bier, Associate Director of the Waisman Center’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities received the Association of University Centers on Disabilities 2013 Meritorious Service Award in recognition and honor of his contributions to the organization and to improving the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families.
Stu Levitan, Isthmus Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1963 Cloudy, humid, high 48 President John F. Kennedy begins his last full day in the White House with a Western Union telegram to UW–Madison President Fred Harvey Harrington. Kennedy congratulates Dr. Harry Waisman and his colleagues at the UW Orthopedic Children’s Hospital on that afternoon’s dedication of the …
ASHA Press Release Susan Ellis Weismer, a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Waisman Center Principal Investigator, and Associate Dean in the College of Letters & Science at UW–Madison has been selected to receive ASHA Honors of the Association. This prestigious honor, bestowed by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association places Ellis Weismer among …
More than 450 people gathered at the Monona Terrace on October 17 to celebrate 40 years of the Waisman Center’s groundbreaking research, clinical care and outreach services. Community members, Waisman Center scientists, early education advocates and individuals and families served by the Waisman Center celebrated together as special guest UW–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank lauded the …
It has always been a challenge to describe the Waisman Center on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
The Friends of the Waisman Center Annual Meeting was held on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 in the Waisman Center’s Ziemann Suite to celebrate the previous year’s achievements.
