Staff

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.

Prough, who spent the last 18 years with the City of Fitchburg, takes over the strategic coordination of information technology throughout the college.

Jennifer L. Mnookin, Dean of the School of Law and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named the 30th leader of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

About 23,000 years ago, the Bighorn Mountains of Northern Wyoming resembled the landscape of today’s African Serengeti plains. The Miracinonyx, also known today as the extinct North American cheetah, roamed this region among mammoths, saber tooth tigers and even camels. Imagine an ancient Miracinonyx spotting a pronghorn antelope and plotting its plan of attack — unaware that its path will ultimately lead to a laboratory at UW–Madison, where researchers will turn to modern technology to see into the Miracinonyx’s past.