Awards

Chemistry professor Randall Goldsmith is one of ten 2022 Schmidt Science Polymaths award winners. Each recipient, who is a newly tenured university faculty chosen for their promising interdisciplinary research, receives $2.5 million over five years to help fund their research groups.

Steve Carpenter, one of the world’s foremost lake ecologists and L&S professor emerit at the University of Wisconsin­–Madison, has been awarded the Blue Planet Prize.

Three seniors, graduating from the College of Letters & Science, have been selected by Dean Eric M. Wilcots for the Dean’s Prize. Candidates for this award completed a minimum of 24 Honors Program credits, made significant contributions to UW–Madison and the local community, completed an undergraduate thesis or major research project, and excelled in their classes.

Professor of German Pamela M. Potter will research and receive mentorship among a community of scholars at one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry.

Preeti Chopra, Professor of Visual Studies, South Asian Art and Architecture in the Department of Art History, receives prestigious Rome Prize for work in historic preservation and conservation.

Claire James will travel the world on a generous stipend that allows her to volunteer with community initiatives and understand more about the intersections of economics, poverty and geography.

YWCA Madison has announced that Associate Professor of History, Christy Clark-Pujara, will be among the recipients of the Women of Distinction Leadership Award at the organization’s 47th annual awards ceremony in May.

Three L&S faculty were recently recognized with honors by the Ecological Society of America.

Assistant Professor Jen Rose Smith of Geography has won a prestigious ACLS Fellowship for her transdisciplinary analysis of the social and material landscapes of ice. Drawing from archival research and cultural studies analyses of Indigenous literatures and popular Science discourse, Smith's project, titled Icy Matters: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality in Ice-Geographies examines ice in multiple ways.