Four faculty receive 2021 Hilldale Awards
MADISON – Each year, the Secretary of the Faculty recognizes four professors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison for distinguished contributions to research, teaching and service.
The Hilldale Awards go to one faculty member each from the arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and biological sciences, selected from nominations by department chairs. The winners were recognized at the April 5 Faculty Senate meeting and are awarded $7,500.
This year’s Hilldale Award winners are: Susan Ellis Weismer , Michael Fiore, Sabine Gross and Robert Mathieu.
Susan Ellis Weismer
Susan Ellis Weismer is an expert on language learning disorders in children. She has contributed new insights into three major language-associated disorders: Autism Spectrum Disorder, developmental language disorder, and children who are late to talk. Her work has uncovered previously hidden patterns of learning in children living with these disorder
April 12, 2021
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Keith Baker
Keith Baker, a particle physicist known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson and his work on dark matter, has been appointed the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics. His appointment was effective Feb. 20.
A member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Baker concentrates on experimental particle physics, including research at the energy frontier being conducted by the ATLAS collaboration at the
Large Hadron Collider (
LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, in Geneva, Switzerland, and precision studies at sub-eV energies. He helped build the detectors and was part of the team that carried out the machine learning analysis in the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last elementary particle predicted in what is known as the Standard Model of particle physics.
Five faculty members named Meigs Professors for teaching excellence
April 9, 2021
The 2020-2021 Meigs professors are:
Joseph Goetz, professor of financial planning in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences
John Mativo, associate professor of career and information studies in the Mary Frances Early College of Education
Lori A. Ringhand, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law in the School of Law
Jo Smith, associate professor of small animal internal medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine
Zachary Wood, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
“This year’s Meigs Professorship honorees are exemplary educators who engage students at all levels through innovative instruction and experiential learning,” said S. Jack Hu, the university’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “They are committed to positioning their students for success, not only in the classroom but throughout their lives.”
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