Staff

Six receive L&S Academic Staff Award honors in three categories: Early Career, Mid-Career, and the Judith Craig Distinguished Service Award.

Awards honor faculty and staff who have demonstrated exemplary performance both in terms of their positive impact on students and through distinctive contributions to their department, unit, and/or the College of Letters & Science.

Eric Wilcots, dean of the College of Letters & Science, will serve as interim provost starting April 24. Wilcots will stay until a permanent provost is appointed, which is expected to take place in late summer.

UW–Madison employs over 2,100 teaching assistants (TAs) across its 200-plus undergraduate major and certificate programs. Whether teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in the wider community, their work is vital to fulfilling the university’s educational mission and the Wisconsin Idea.

Department Manager of the English department, Spring Sherrod, receives 2023 Outstanding Women of Color award.

Shanee McCoy (African American Studies '09) a champion for students with a long record of increasing college access and success, will serve as the next director of UW–Madison’s Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE). McCoy is well-positioned to lead the program, which helps low-income and first-generation Wisconsin youth achieve their academic goals.

The awards honor staff members for their excellence in effectiveness, innovation, creativity, originality, leadership, climate, and service to the university.

With a founding goal of “transforming career services for all L&S students,” SuccessWorks is celebrating five years’ worth of vision, growth and impact.

The partnership will will accelerate the commercialization of UW–Madison science and technology advances by increasing the speed and frequency at which UW research is translated into usable technology.