Natural & Physical Sciences

Ona Ambrozaite is tapped as the new executive director of the Wisconsin Quantum Institute. 

 

The chemistry professor was honored for ushering in a new era of green chemistry.  

24 exceptional L&S graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2025-26 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching.

Lauren Fields receives Schmidt Science Fellowship to develop earlier diagnostic tools for ALS.

Elena D’Onghia is part of a team that identified a cosmic object unlike any previously observed.

Meet the eight L&S faculty members named as this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award honorees, who will be recognized at a ceremony in April.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation named 126 fellows from 44 institutions in the 2026 cohort, chosen from more than 1,000 nominees. Congratulations to assistant professors Dallas Albritton, Paul Apisa, Annie M. Bauer, Tina Wang and Yang Yang for this prestigious honor.

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers just released a groundbreaking study on the same mushrooms behind an uptick in poisonings in California.

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