Giving

Jason Cohen's <i>Facing Fear</i> was nominated for an Oscar in 2013.

The need-based scholarships will go to low-income, first generation and underrepresented minority students.

Richard and Debra Sincere pave the way for a new generation of students and scholars to reap the benefits of a globe-spanning education.

The school is moving ahead with plans to construct the first phase of a new performance center at the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue.

Demand is up in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Todd Warnock, BA’83, and his wife Liz recently established the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Chair in Economics.

The Stephen F. Brenton Health Policy Scholar Award will support UW-Madison political science majors interested in health policy.

Carol Ryff and Susan Stanford Friedman are awarded Hilldale Professorships, while Steven Nadler, Janet Shibley Hyde and John S. Gallagher receive named Bascom Professorships.

The new career training model for graduate students in the humanities is seen as increasingly important.

The program receives more than $265,000 in student scholarship funds from the National Security Education Program to support intensive study of the language in Russia and on campus.