L&S faculty take home eight Distinguished Teaching Awards

Each year, the Committee on Distinguished Teaching Awards honors faculty for teaching excellence. This year, the committee selected ten outstanding faculty — eight who teach in the College of Letters & Science.

Congratulations to the winners on this outstanding achievement! 

To read more about the recipients and their work, see: http://www.news.wisc.edu/17913

• Emily Auerbach, professor of liberal studies and the arts and English, Van Hise Outreach Award
• Richard Avramenko, assistant professor of political science and integrated liberal studies, William H. Kiekhofer Award
• Donald Davis, associate professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia, Class of 1955 Distinguished Teaching Award
• Judith Leavitt, Ruth Bleier WARF Professor of medical history, history of science and women’s studies and UW Foundation Chair Rupple-Bascom Professor, Chancellor’s Award
• Mahesh Mahanthappa, assistant professor of chemistry, Emil H. Steiger Award
• Kirin Narayan, professor of anthropology, Chancellor’s Award
  
• Antonia Schleicher, professor of African languages and literature, Chancellor’s Award
• Tracy Schroepfer, assistant professor, School of Social Work, Chancellor’s Award

The recipients will receive their awards at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Pyle Center.

News via University Communications

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Ford Scholars come back to campus

In early October, a group of active scholars came back to campus. 

These scholars were former participants in the Ford Scholars Program — a Ford Foundation experiment that selected mature and bright 15- and 16-year-olds to begin college early.

The program's goal was to increase the supply of professionals for the United States after World War II and to increase the number of college-educated persons in the military.  Originally for men, the program expanded to include women. 

UW-Madison was one of 12 universities that participated and the Integrated Liberal Studies Program was much touted to the Ford Scholars by UW Professor Herbert Howe.

Coming back to UW-Madison gave the scholars a chance to meet with current ILS student workers and administrators and share their stories, experiences and advice gained from the rare opportunity they took advantage of many years ago.

The Ford Scholars and the role of their undergraduate hosts —Howe and his wife Evelyn Howe (PhD) — was profiled by the UW Foundation and is available online. 

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Aylward, three UW students returning to Turkey this summer

William Aylward, professor of ILS and Classics, will be returning to Troy in western Turkey with three UW students for his 14th summer at the international research project at Troy, directed by the University of Tübingen.

While in Turkey he will also participate in research on monumental architecture at Ephesos and in study of a Hellenistic shipwreck near ancient Claros, where marble freshly quarried for a temple of Apollo there sank before reaching the harbor.

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Nyhart's new book charts the rise of ecology in late 19th century Germany

Lynn K. Nyhart, professor of Integrated Liberal Studies and History of Science, recently published a new book, “Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany,” from the University of Chicago Press. 
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