Walt Bogdanich, a UW-Madison alumnus, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his work with The New York Times.
Bogdanich won the award for his series \Death on the Tracks,"" which documented the corporate cover-up of responsibility for fatal accidents at railway crossings.
He conducted hundreds of interviews and worked 15 months on his investigation into the railroad incidents.
This is the second Pulitzer for Bogdanich, who graduated from UW-Madison with a political science degree in 1975.
He also won in 1988 while working at The Wall Street Journal for his reporting on substandard medical laboratories.
UW Hospital and Clinics has garnered the U.S. Health and Human Services Medal of Honor for their work in increasing organ donation.
In April 2001, former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson began a national initiative to increase organ donation rates.
The UW Hospital will receive the Medal of Honor in May for achieving a 75 percent donation rate. The national average rate is 50 percent.
Four faculty members have received the 2005 Hilldale Awards for excellence in teaching, research and public service, while three others received Guggenheim fellowships for furthering the development of scholars and artists.
The Hilldale awards have been given every year since 1987 and honor professors in biological sciences, physical sciences, social studies and arts and humanities.
This year's recipients are biochemistry Professor Richard Amasino, history Professor James Donnelly Jr., mathematics Professor Paul Rabinowitz and anthropology Professor Karen Strier.
The Guggenheim fellowships are given by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in New York, created in 1925 and named for the former New York U.S. senator.
Of the 185 recipients, three come from UW-Madison. The fellowships were given to French Professor Richard Goodkin for his work with ""personality in early modern French comedy and fiction;"" English Professor Theresa Kelly for research on botany and romantic culture; and Jewish studies Professor David Sorkin for his investigation on ""six faces of the religious Enlightenment.""
