Graduating senior Catherine “Cat” Carroll (majors in journalism and mass communication, international studies and German with certificates in public policy, European studies, Middle East studies and Arabic language and culture) has been awarded a 2025 Reporting Fellowship by the Pulitzer Center. Carroll’s project “Critical Care: Two Nations, One Crisis, and the Race for Healthcare Workers” …
Following the 2025 Wisconsin Slavic Conference, the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus hosted another major Slavic event: a symposium on Polish literature and culture under the theme Beyond the Horizon. The symposium brought together Polish cultural scholars from across the United States and Canada—at various stages of their careers—who both engaged with established cultural models and …
Slavic is delighted to congratulate Anna Tumarkin and her co-author Shannon Donnally Quinn (a UW-Madison Slavic PhD alum) for receiving the 2025 MAFLT LCTL Innovation Award for their textbook Diverse Russian. For more on this award and the textbook it honors, see this profile by Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters.
The UW–Madison Polish Program is pleased to announce that three students in our Polish language program: Sydney Kurszewski, Gavrielle Lent, and Ryan Rowe were awarded the 2025 Polanki College Achievement Awards. Congratulations and gratulacje! Polanki’s College Achievement Awards are conferred to students who “have demonstrated high achievement and who are committed to understanding, preserving, or disseminating …
The UW–Madison Polish Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Lapinski and Gąsiorowska awards for the academic year 2025-2026. Among the awardees are undergraduate and graduate students who will receive financial support for their continued study of the Polish language, literature, and culture at UW–Madison and beyond. Congratulations and gratulacje! The Michael and …