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Interior Architecture students do it again

Extending a long winning streak, Interior Architecture students again cleaned up in a prestigious competition sponsored each year by the Wisconsin Chapter of IIDA - International Interior Design Association. The awards are considered one of the industry’s premier competition for gifted young interior architecture majors.

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Raison joins campus leadership team on psychedelics

Depression is the leading cause of disability around the world and medicines that use the psychedelic compounds found in consciousness-expanding drugs are showing great promise. “These therapies don’t just help treatment-resistant populations,” says Charles Raison, MD, who holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine and Public Health. “Studies to date suggest they also will offer substantial improvement over existing therapies.”

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Hark wins major book arts award

Professor Mary Hark, a professor in the Design Studies department, has been named the prestigious 2021 McKnight Book Artist Fellow. "Receiving the McKnight Fellowship is a wonderful, deeply appreciated affirmation of this work and will allow me time and space to reflect on knowledge I have accrued and respond with a new body of work that celebrates and extends what I have accomplished to date.”

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Thomas to research Black fathers' roles in maternal and infant health outcomes

Black infant mortality is higher in Wisconsin than any other state in the nation, and maternal mortality is five times higher among Black women than White women in Wisconsin. A new UW-led research project will pursue a novel approach to address these persistent inequalities.

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