Students

Instructor Dan Cornelius is "trying to help students connect to place, so that no matter where they are, they’ll think more deeply about the land and its history.”

DeVon Wilson, Director of the L&S Center for Academic Excellence, is the subject of an excellent profile in Beloit College’s magazine. Wilson is a ’90 graduate of Beloit College, and the article lauds his work helping underrepresented, first-generation, low-income UW-Madison students navigate their time here, including the many challenges posed by COVID-19.

Helping students navigate an uncertain job market where work, and interviews, are now done remotely.

It’s not often that a graduate student has the opportunity to fine-tune the inner workings of a high-energy gamma-ray telescope, but that’s
exactly what physics graduate student Leslie Taylor was doing in the remote mountains of Arizona, at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
some 35 miles south of Tucson.

Duncan Slagle, a senior from Minneapolis, Minn., arrived at UW-Madison prepared for a period of adjustment. “I knew that every space I entered wouldn’t be full of people I could relate to,” they say. But they wound up finding community through poetry as a First Wave scholar.

As part of a series, L&S is taking a look at how professors and students are adapting to teaching and learning during the global coronavirus pandemic. A limnology seminar meets outside, while a lab tackles a new language.

On September 2, a mix of remote and in-person classes resumed for UW-Madison students. On September 9, everything changed. What happens next will depend on a highly contagious virus and human behavior.

It’s not just for STEM majors or super-connected overachievers. The Undergraduate Research Scholars program connects L&S students with faculty via a wide spectrum of fascinating projects—opening minds and changing lives.

SuccessWorks helps students find resilience in the face of job and internship setbacks.