L&S News

Computer Sciences alum Rajiv Batra MS’83 receives Wisconsin Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award. The award is the Association’s highest honor and most high-profile and long-standing award. It celebrates prestigious graduates for their professional achievements, contributions to society, and support of the university over the course of their career or lifetime.

Sarah Smith Pancheri (Political Science ‘98) is a driving force behind Milwaukee’s annual Summerfest music festival.

African American Studies and Economics alum Alexander Gee ’85 receives Wisconsin Alumni Association Luminary Award. The Luminary Award, in its inaugural year, recognizes alumni who serve as aspirational examples for others through their accomplishments in the areas of leadership, discovery, progress, and service.

Sociology alum Alex Hannah MS’13, PhD’16 receives Wisconsin Alumni Association Forward Award. The Forward Award acknowledges rising stars in various fields who exemplify the Wisconsin Idea through an emphasis on service, discovery, and progress.

Professor of Classics and Director of Integrated Liberal Studies begins new role in early August.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Allison Daminger studies how an imbalance in cognitive labor--things like planning, organization and follow-through--often unfairly affects women in relationships.

Director of Programming talks about the history and future of UW’s international film scene.

Professor of botany, Anne Pringle and team of researchers from UW–Madison and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service are first to document some of the complexity behind the mystery of why toxic mushroom has invaded the North American West Coast.

In a world dotted with mountains of geospatial data, Dr. Jonathan Nelson advocates for maps users can understand.