Nine UW-Madison professors recently won an award for faculty at a critical stage in their careers through nomination by departments, Ph.D. major programs and interdepartmental groups, according to a university press release.
The Kellett Mid-Career Award is geared toward faculty that are anywhere between seven and 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education ultimately chose the winners, the release said.
This year’s recipients represent a diverse pool of departments, including Physics, English, Biostatistics, Musicology and more. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will provide funding for each award winner to receive $60,000 for research.
David Page, one award-winner who studies biostatistics and medical informatics, said he plans to use the grant money to fund graduate students for more than a year to continue their research.
He said he and the students are working on a project that is developing algorithms to predict patient health events based on electronic health records. The long-term and positive outcomes, like predicting adverse drug effects or heart attacks, that could come of their research is one reason Page said he believes his department nominated him.
“[Being nominated] shows that the campus appreciates our efforts and what we’ve been doing,” Page said. “I like to think it’s a combination of the fact that I and my graduate students are working on projects that have a potentially big impact on peoples’ lives.”
