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Awards and Honors
Congratulations to Yuan Ping for receiving an H.I. Romnes faculty fellowship!
Eighteen faculty have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.
WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes awards represent some of the most meaningful investments in the people who drive discovery at UW–Madison, according to Dorota Brzezinska, vice chancellor for research.
Congratulations Yuan!
Additional details can be found here.
Congratulations to Ben Woods for receiving a YIP young investigator award!
The Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) supports individual early-in-career scientists and engineers showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program’s objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.
YIP awards are funded up to $150,000 per year for three years, for a total of $450,000.
Congratulations Ben!
Additional award details can be found here.
Matt Otten receives an NSF CAREER award!
Congrats to Matthew Otten, Assistant Professor of Physics, for being selected for an NSF CAREER award. The 5-year award will support Otten and his group’s research on achieving practical quantum advantage for electronic structure on …
Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2026/07/10/matt-otten-is-awarded-an-nsf-career-award/Prof. Soley receives ACS Kavli Emerging Leader Award
Prof. Soley receives ACS Kavli Emerging Leader Award
Congratulations to Micheline Soley for receiving the American Chemical Society Kavli Emerging Leader Award!
The Kavli Foundation Lecture Series recognizes groundbreaking discoveries by scientists tackling many of the world’s mounting challenges; and in particular, the Emerging Leader Award is for distinguished younger scientist who is highly regarded by their peers for significant contributions to an area of chemistry and multidisciplinary areas of chemistry. The award is a keynote lecture and the only Kavli young investigator talk at the American Chemical Society meeting.
Keynote Lecture
Shimon Kolkowitz promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Shimon Kolkowitz on his promotion to Associate Professor of Physics with tenure! Professor Kolkowitz is an AMO physicist whose research focuses on ultraprecise atomic clocks and nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds, both …
Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2022/11/01/shimon-kolkowitz-promoted-to-associate-professor/Alex Levchenko, Mark Rzchowski elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
Congratulations to Profs. Alex Levchenko and Mark Rzchowski, who were elected 2022 Fellows of the American Physical Society! Levchenko was elected for “broad contributions to the theory of quantum transport in mesoscopic, topological, and superconducting …
Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2022/10/19/alex-levchenko-mark-rzchowski-elected-fellows-of-the-american-physical-society/Chemist Randall Goldsmith named a Schmidt Science Polymath
The UW–Madison professor's multidisciplinary approach to studying chemical and biophysical systems earned a $2.5 million award from the philanthropic organization founded by the former CEO of Google.
Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/chemist-randall-goldsmith-named-a-schmidt-science-polymath/Thad Walker honored with Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship
Thad Walker honored with Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship
Extraordinary members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty, including physics professor and WQI member Thad Walker, have been honored during the last year with awards supported by the estate of professor, U.S. senator and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840-1908).
Walker was one of seventeen professors were named to Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship as well as standout efforts in teaching and service. The professorship provides five years of flexible funding — two-thirds of which is provided by the Office of the Provost through the generosity of the Vilas trustees and one-third provided by the school or college whose dean nominated the winner.
In addition, nine professors received Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Awards and six professors received Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Awards.
Shimon Kolkowitz awarded Sloan Fellowship
Shimon Kolkowitz awarded Sloan Fellowship
