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Practical life lessons help provide recipe for success at UW–Madison Winter 2024 Commencement
Smiles and excited hugs filled the Kohl Center on Sunday, Dec. 15 as more than 2,000 graduates — and their friends and family members — celebrated their accomplishments at Winter 2024 Commencement.
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ACE member @UWMadison automatically provides in-state Pell-eligible students enough aid to cover their full financial need—including tuition, housing, food, and books. Read more:
Happy Holidays from my family and our campus community –– wishing you a holiday season and New Year filled with connection, curiosity, and joy.
Meet the winners of @Google's AI sustainability competition at @UWMadison:
PhD students Asmita Pal, Zhewen Pan, and Elise Song (@UWMadisonECE) used approximate computing to win N+1's campus-wide "reverse pitch" event.
Learn how:
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2024/12/17/students-pitch-google-n-plus-one-ai-sustainability-competition/
Ever wondered what inspired Aldo Leopold to write his famous essays in "A Sand County Almanac"? It’s all in his handwritten Shack Journals. Thanks to new transcriptions by @UWMadLibraries, @AldoLeopoldFdn, and volunteers you can explore his journals too.
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Mnookin’s Road to Wisconsin
Mnookin brings deep experience, wide perspective
Every incoming UW–Madison leader professes to understand the Wisconsin Idea. For Jennifer Mnookin, it’s deeply personal. Mnookin says she won’t shy away from challenges, and promises a leadership style that emphasizes listening. “Vision comes through collaboration and engagement — working together to find common purpose,” she says. “We will look for ways to improve the institution that you love, and that I am coming to love.”
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Institutional Statement on Diversity
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW–Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background—people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
UW–Madison is going to be in great hands under Jennifer Mnookin’s leadership as she takes the baton and builds on the strong legacy of Chancellor Blank. Collaborative leadership is at her core and she has extensive prior experience with shared governance. She brings vision, high energy, a deep appreciation of the Wisconsin Idea, a passion for students who are at the heart of all that we do, a genuine commitment to fostering an inclusive campus, and an impressive understanding of the opportunities before us.
Jennifer Mnookin’s innovative approaches to education, research, service and diversity provide a strong foundation for leading Wisconsin’s flagship university. She has a personal, intimate understanding of the Wisconsin Idea and will be a tremendous asset to our state.