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Meet the 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award winners

Eight L&S faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.

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A New Family Tree for Familiar Flowers

Thomas Givnish and his team of researchers reconstructed the rise, spread and species diversification of Calochortus, a large group of flowering plants in the lily family.

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Olympian Meghan Duggan to keynote Spring Commencement 2024

This year’s spring commencement speaker at UW–Madison, Meghan Duggan, a Department of Integrative Biology alumna, Badger sports legend and trailblazing leader who scaled the heights of her sport, winning Olympic gold in women’s hockey as captain of Team USA in 2018.

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Associate Dean Ruth Litovsky

From astronomy, chemistry and geoscience to mathematics, physics and biology, the physical, natural and mathematical sciences hold the keys to understanding our universe.

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