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Meet Peer Leader Grace Ruo

Peer Leaders are undergraduate students who support their peers in WISCIENCE programs and courses while learning valuable leadership skills. Find out more about Grace and her experience as a Peer Leader! Pronouns: She/her Peer Leader for: Exploring Peer Leadership in STEM (INTEGSCI 230) Major: Human Development & Family Studies Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri If you could choose …

Research Trainees & Mentors: We Need Your Input on a New Researcher Development Framework!

Are you a mentor of undergraduate, graduate or postdoctoral trainees or a trainee at one of these levels?  If so, you’re invited to participate in a research study to develop a comprehensive researcher development framework. What’s involved? You’ll be asked to review a set of learning objectives and provide suggestions for how they can be …

Spring 2025 Research-Related Resources

Research Peer Leader Drop-in Hours, Find a Mentor Workshops, and More

The 2024 WISCIENCE Sticker Contest Winners Are…

We are thrilled to announce the winning designs of the 2024 WISCIENCE Sticker Contest! The 4 winning artists created beautiful designs that express the theme of "Science for Sustainability" in original ways.

Spring 2025 Course Offerings

Find out which WISCIENCE courses will be offered in spring 2025.

WISCIENCE and Collaborators Bring Educators from 23 US Colleges Together to Advance Biology Education

This August, WISCIENCE and collaborators brought twenty-five biology educators from colleges and universities across the United States together for three days in Madison to develop Core Concept Teaching Tools (CCTT) for college biology classes. The CCTTs are designed to help students break down complex biological phenomena by guiding students to transfer and apply their knowledge …

The 2024 WISCIENCE Sticker Contest

Grab your colored pencils and tablets: all UW–Madison students are invited to create a unique work of art for the 2024 WISCIENCE Sticker Design Contest! The winning design(s) will be made into stickers that will be shared widely with the campus STEMM community. The winning student(s) will receive a backpack with art supplies and other …

Renewed STEM Transfer Immersion Program Helps Students Find Their Home at UW–Madison

To start the fall semester, about 25 new transfer students from 24 schools in 11 states and 5 countries gathered in the BioCommons to learn about life at UW–Madison—and make some new friends in the process.

WISCIENCE Celebrates 30 Years of Supporting Undergraduate Research Experiences with the Cellular and Molecular Biology of Stress Summer Research Program

This summer, 35 undergrad students from colleges across the USA traveled to Madison to spend ten weeks getting hands-on experience as scientists.

Meet Peer Leader Brady Wittig

Peer Leaders are undergraduate students who support their peers in WISCIENCE programs and courses while learning valuable leadership skills. Find out more about Brady and his experience as a returning Peer Leader! Pronouns: He/him Year: Fourth Major: Neurobiology and Education Studies Hometown: Green Bay, WI If you could choose anyone to be a mentor to …