Awards

Five L&S employees receive University of Wisconsin–Madison 2025 Academic Staff Excellence Awards.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced that four L&S faculty members have been elected to the national honorary society and research center.

The 2025 Wolff Fellowship recipient, Cat Carroll, plans to spend the next year studying the migration phenomenon in seven different countries.

A team of 13,508 scientists, including over 100 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, won the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The Prize recognizes work conducted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) between 2015 and 2024.

Recent L&S graduate Felicity Klingele has been awarded a Barry Scholarship, a relatively new, highly selective academic prize.

Three College of Letters & Science students have received 2025 Goldwater Scholarships, considered the country’s preeminent undergraduate scholarship in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

L&S Alum and UW–Madison’s Director of Student Radio, Kelsey Brannan named WBA Young Professional of the Year.

The Dean of the College of Letters & Science honors outstanding instructional academic staff for their excellence in teaching and mentoring undergraduate students.

College of Letters & Science professors Gregg Mitman, Emily Stanley and Claire Wendland receive 2025 Hilldale Awards recognizing their contributions to teaching, research and service.