National Doctors Day is March 30, 2025
Learn more about National Doctor’s Day here. Learn more about the many Waisman Center physicians who provide care as clinicians, who are researchers, or both. Melisa Carrasco McCaul, MD, PhD Pelin Cengiz, MD Peter Ferrazzano, …
March 24, 2025
The Waisman Center welcomes new associate director for finance and administration Steve Marshall
The Waisman Center welcomes Steve Marshall, MS, MSPH, as the new associate director for finance and administration.
August 26, 2024
Friends of the Waisman Center Annual Awards
The Friends of the Waisman Center present seven awards each year to Waisman students, staff, and and family volunteers.
August 16, 2024
WECP Announces New Director
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.
August 16, 2024
Renowned Waisman Investigator Su-Chun Zhang Retires
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 …
August 15, 2024
Waisman Center investigators receive Kellett Fellowship and Romnes Award
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 …
August 8, 2024
Fulbright takes Waisman worldwide: Three Waisman researchers awarded Fulbrights to expand research on a global scale
One Waisman Center investigator and two graduate students awarded Fulbright scholarships
July 16, 2024
Physician, educator, mentor: After three decades at Waisman, Wargowski Retires
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.
June 25, 2024
14 Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship Recipients at Waisman
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 …
June 19, 2024
Kathleen Kastner Selected for 2024 SMPH Dean’s Teaching Award
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.
June 19, 2024- More Awards and Honors posts
Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.