Meredith Vitaioli named new director of the Children’s Resource Center-South

The Children’s Resource Center-South (CRC) named Meredith Vitaioli as their new director in April.

John Svaren, PhD – Slide of the Week

The most common cause of genetic neuropathy, classified as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, is a 1.4 Mb duplication of the PMP22 gene.

Mentor award winners guide undergraduate learning

The nominations for this year’s recipients read like a textbook of great mentoring practices – meeting students where they’re at, getting to know them as scholars and individuals, and guiding their learning with just the right mix of challenge and support.

Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD – Slide of the Week

The myotendinous junction (MTJ) is an integrated structure that transduces force across the muscle-tendon boundary, making the region vulnerable to strain injury.

Audra Sterling, PhD – Slide of the Week

Dyadic caregiver-child interactions are commonly used to examine children's language learning environments.

Former UW SMPH student pens NEJM article about PICU experience

Dr. Erica Andrist, clinical assistant professor at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, was a UW School of Medicine and Public Health student who rotated through the UW PICU between 2011–2012. She is currently a pediatric intensivist at the University of Michigan. Dr. Andrist recently had an experience with a medical student that made her recall her …

After three decades of diverse service in genetics practice and regional outreach, David Wargowski will retire

From his arrival at the Department of Pediatrics in 1990 and for the next 30-plus years, David Wargowski, MD, professor in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism, has served tirelessly, addressing genetically based diseases and health conditions of the region’s children.

John Svaren honored with Vilas professorship

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.

At UW-Madison, autistic students navigate personal, classroom obstacles

There are 99 UW-Madison students on the autism spectrum, according to the McBurney Disability Resource Center’s 2022-23 annual report.

André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week

The granular dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is an evolutionary specialization of primates that is centrally involved in cognition. We assessed more than 600,000 single-nucleus transcriptomes from adult human, chimpanzee, macaque, and marmoset dlPFC.