Former Faculty Director Kathy Cramer Receives 2018 Academy Fellows Award

Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service and professor of political science, is pictured sitting on a bench on State Street Mall near Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on July 1, 2015. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison)

Contact: Jason A. Smith, associate director, Wisconsin Academy

MADISON–The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters today announced the fourteen recipients of the 2018 Academy Fellows Award.

The winners will be given their awards at an April 6, 2018, celebration hosted by the Wisconsin Academy at the Pyle Center at UW–Madison. The award celebration is open to the public with advance registration at wisconsinacademy.org/2018FellowsAwards.

Established by the Academy in 1982, the Wisconsin Academy Fellows Award recognizes educators, researchers, mentors, artists, and civic or business leaders from across Wisconsin who have made substantial contributions to the cultural life and welfare of our state and its people.

Among the fourteen Academy Fellows Award recipients was former Faculty Director Kathy Cramer. Kathy provided strong leadership at the Morgridge Center and embodied a lifetime commitment to intellectual discourse and public service.