University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Awards & Recognition

Faculty/staff/student awards, honors, fellowships, professorships.

Dr. Marina Emborg awarded the Steenbock professorship

Congratulations to Dr. Marina Emborg for being awarded the Steenbock professorship!

2024 Student awards and recognitions

Graduate student research news Samuel Dettle, a graduate student in the lab of Igor Slukvin, M.D., Ph.D., won a 2024 Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Graduate Research Training Award. His research focuses on developing a differentiation system capable of generating engraftable hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These cells have …

David Abbott wins Curet Award in OB-GYN educational excellence

WNPRC scientist David Abbott received the UW Department of OB-GYN’s Curet Award for Educational Excellence, honoring his teaching and mentorship.

Spring 2023 student and staff recognitions

So many awards, so much to celebrate! If we’ve accidentally omitted someone from this story, please let us know! And congratulations to all our graduates! The 25th Undergraduate Research Symposium occurred April 28 at Union South and included abstracts by 24 students mentored by WNPRC faculty. We are also excited to share that Marina Emborg, M.D., …

Toni Ziegler wins 2022 ASP Distinguished Primatologist Award

By Jordana Lenon Congratulations to Toni Ziegler, WNPRC distinguished scientist emerita, on winning the 2022 American Society of Primatologists Distinguished Primatologist Award! Ziegler accepted the award at the 2022 ASP meeting in Denver Aug. 25-28. The Distinguished Primatologist Award recognizes a primatologist who has had an outstanding career and made significant contributions to the field. …

Thomas Friedrich wins Kellett Mid-Career Award

Congratulations to WNPRC scientist Thomas Friedrich, recipient of a Kellett Mid-Career Award from UW–Madison. Friedrich studies how viruses like influenza and Zika evolve and spread.

Spring 2022 student awards and recognitions

Jacob Blanchar, mentored by David Abbott and Molly Willging, has been awarded a Sophomore Honors Summer Apprenticeship for his project, “Which beta-adrenergic receptor enables stimulation of thermogenesis in female rhesus monkey brown fat?” He will look at aspects of diminished thermogenesis in brown fat from experimentally manipulated female rhesus monkeys deprived of either estradiol action …

Four UW–Madison students awarded prestigious 2022 Goldwater Scholarships

Samuel Neuman, an undergraduate in WNPRC’s Emborg lab, was among four UW–Madison students awarded 2022 Goldwater Scholarships.

David Abbott wins the 2021 Ricardo Azziz Distinguished Researcher Award

The Androgren Excess & PCOS Society has awarded its 2021 Ricardo Azziz Distinguished Researcher Award to David Abbott. The award was created through an endowment to recognize distinguished leadership in the field of androgen excess and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) research. The award supports the vision of the Society as an international leader in fostering the highest …

Spring student 2021 awards and recognitions

Several UW–Madison undergraduate students with Wisconsin National Primate Research Center faculty mentors received Hilldale Undergraduate Research Awards and one received a Sophomore Research Fellowship in a live virtual ceremony presided over by Chancellor Rebecca Blank on April 28, 2021. Grants from the Hilldale Foundation and the Wisconsin State Legislature provide for awards of $3,000 each …