Madison College's Win a Career Contest

On Campus: Wrong answers, dance marathons and trips to Las Vegas

By DEBORAH ZIFF dziff[at] madison [dot] com 608-252-6234 | Posted: Friday, February 12, 2010 11:46 am | Wisconsin State Journal

On Campus roundup:

• UW-Madison has its first Churchill Scholar in 30 years. Daniel Lecoanet, originally from Madison, will spend the 2010-11 academic year at the University of Cambridge. He is one of only 14 Churchill Scholars from across the country, including five from public institutions.

• UW-Madison's School of Pharmacy raised more than $22 million in a six-year fundraising campaign. The donations will create 34 new scholarships and five endowed chairs, and fund research.

• Quinn Hedberg, of DeForest, won $6,000 through Madison Area Technical College's "Win a Career" contest to pursue a career as a chemical engineer.

• Singing "On, Wisconsin!" could get you one of two travel packages to a Badgers football game in Las Vegas next September. People are invited to submit a video rendition of UW-Madison's fight song here. Contest entries will be accepted until April 5.

• UW-Madison students will dance for cash at the second annual Wisconsin Dance Marathon Feb. 26-27. Proceeds will go to the American Family Children's Hospital.

• The UW-Madison student computer team "Wrong Answer" earned an honorable mention at the world championships last week in Harbin, China.

• Seven UW-Madison researchers have been chosen as the scientific research team for the Morgridge Institute for Research, the private side of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. They are James Thomson, regenerative biology; Paul Ahlquist, virology; Thomas Mackie, medical devices; Sangtae Kim, pharmaceutical informatics; Susan Millar, education research; Miron Livny, computer science; and Nirupama Shevde, scientific learning programs.