Two professors and a program designed to help new students transition to college have been honored by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. The 2012 recipients of the 20th annual Regents Teaching Excellence Awards are Donald Hanlon, professor of architecture at UW-Milwaukee; Jennifer Kosiak, associate professor of mathematics education at UW-La Crosse, and the First Year Interest Groups Program at UW-Madison. The First-Year Interest Groups (FIG) program, directed by Greg Smith, was established at UW-Madison in 2001, with 75 students living and learning together, usually during their first semester, in four pilot FIGs. This spring, more than 1,200 students were enrolled in 66 FIGs.
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