Win a Postdoc Travel Award
The 9th Annual UW–Madison Postdoctoral Research Symposium will be held on Monday, September 16th, at the Discovery Building. Organized during National Postdoc Appreciation Week, the symposium offers a venue for UW–Madison postdocs to share their work and connection with other local postdocs.
Poster and Blitz Talk Competition
The symposium’s Poster and a Blitz Talk competition will showcase postdoc research from all disciplines. The winners will receive substantive travel awards.
To participate, submit your ~300-word abstract by Wednesday 8/7. Notification of acceptance will be sent in late August. Blitz Talk presenters will give a 5-minute research talk designed to engage a general audience. Poster presenters will bring a poster highlighting a recent research project (feel free to re-present a poster from another conference). This is a great opportunity to share your work and hone your research communication skills.
Postdoc Art Exhibit
The symposium will also feature an art exhibit for multi-talented postdocs to share their artwork (any medium) with the postdoc community and have the opportunity to win a people’s choice prize!
Questions? Contact Smrithika Subramani (subramani3@wisc.edu) or Freya Joessel (joessel@wisc.edu). Regarding art exhibit enquiries, contact Khadijeh Masumnia-Bisheh (khadijeh.masumnia-bisheh@wisc.edu)
[Extended deadline] You can submit your abstracts for poster presentations here
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Past Postdoc Appreciation Week Symposium Award Winners
Annually, the UWPA hold a postdoc research symposium to coincide with National Postdoc Appreciation Week. The symposium showcases research from postdocs across disciplines, to highlight the tremendous work done by postdocs to support science and research on campus. In addition, it serves as an opportunity for postdocs to meet one another and socialize at the reception after the symposium. Currently, a 5-min Blitz Talk competition is held, and two postdocs are chosen to receive travel awards. One award is based on judges scores of the postdoc talks, and the other award is a people’s choice award, voted on by the postdocs at the presentations. Listed here are previous winners of the travel awards, who presented outstanding research during the symposium. Congratulations to all the winners, and we look forward to more great work in the future!
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2023 Award winners
Anumitha Venkatraman – Department of Surgery- Judge’s Choice 1st Place
Khadijeh Masumnia-Bisheh – Biostatistics and Medical Informatics – Judge’s Choice 2nd Place
Xiao-Fei Gao – Department of Chemistry – People’s Choice Award
Mykola lalovega – Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics – First Prize (Poster Competition)
Saba Munawar– Department of Medicine – Second Prize (Poster Competition)
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2022 Award winners
Kaylin Didier – Department of Kinesiology – Judge’s Choice Award
Maria Needham – Department of Chemistry – People’s Choice Award
Mykola lalovega – Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics – First Prize (Poster Competition)
Jizhe Cai– Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics – Second Prize (Poster Competition)
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2019 Award Winners
Arkadipta Bakshi – Department of Botany – Judge’s Choice Award
Suyong Choi – School of Medicine and Public Health – People’s Choice Award
2018 Award Winners
Prarthana Dharampal – Department of Entymology – Judge’s Choice Award
Yuzhe Xiao – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – People’s Choice Award
2017 Award Winners
Yichao Rui – Department of Soil Science – Judge’s Choice Award
Libby Pier – Center for Women’s Health and Research – People’s Choice Award