{"id":4111,"date":"2018-08-31T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/?page_id=4111"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:06:04","slug":"underkofler-excellence-in-teaching-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/james-r-underkofler-awards\/underkofler-excellence-in-teaching-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"cfct-build-4111\" class=\"cfct-build grid\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-md-12 cfct-block\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cfct-module uwsa-tabs-accordions\">\n\t\t\t\t    <div class=\"bs-accordion \">\n            <div class=\"accordion-all-buttons\">\n          <a href=\"#\" class=\"accordions-showall btn btn-primary btn-xs\" role=\"button\" data-panel=\"98ok0\"><span class=\"uw-resize-full\">Open All<\/span><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n        <div id=\"98ok0\" class=\"panel-group\">\n        \n            <div class=\"panel panel-default \" id=\"panel_2024\">\n    <div class=\"panel-heading\" id=\"heading_2024\">\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title\"><button href=\"#2024\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" class=\"collapsed panel-link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"2024\">2024<\/button><\/h4>    <\/div>\n    <div id=\"2024\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\"  role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading_2024\" role=\"region\">\n        <div class=\"panel-body copy\">            \n            \n        <p>\u00a0<\/p><h3>Congratulations to the 2024 Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients!<\/h3><p>View the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/download\/alliant_energy\/AlliantEnergyAwardsProgram-2024-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Awards Program<\/a> to read full bios of each recipient. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/alliant-energy-awards-photo-gallery-2024\/\">2024 Photo Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><div style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/09\/Coffey-2024-image_50446337-1-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Coffey, Teaching Faculty III, Department of Psychology, UW-Madison<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/08\/Krugler-David-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"299\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">David F. Krugler, Professor, Department of History, UW-Platteville<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/08\/Obielodan-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"299\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florence F. Obielodan, Instructional Academic Staff, Department of Mathematics, UW-Platteville<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/ProwagHeadshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"296\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael W. Wagner, William T. Evjue Distinguished Professor of The Wisconsin Idea, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison<\/p><\/div>                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n            <div class=\"panel panel-default \" id=\"panel_2023\">\n    <div class=\"panel-heading\" id=\"heading_2023\">\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title\"><button href=\"#2023\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" class=\"collapsed panel-link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"2023\">2023<\/button><\/h4>    <\/div>\n    <div id=\"2023\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\"  role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading_2023\" role=\"region\">\n        <div class=\"panel-body copy\">            \n            \n        <h3>Congratulations to the 2023 Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients!<\/h3><p>View the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/download\/alliant_energy\/AlliantEnergyAwardsProgram-2023-web(2).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Awards Program<\/a>\u00a0to read full bios of each recipient.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/alliant-energy-awards-photo-gallery-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p><div style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/12\/DSC_2568-768x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"441\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(l-r) Gail Hoffman, UW-Platteville; Howard Schweber, UW-Madison; Kristy Burkholder, UW-Madison.<\/p><\/div>                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n            <div class=\"panel panel-default \" id=\"panel_2022\">\n    <div class=\"panel-heading\" id=\"heading_2022\">\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title\"><button href=\"#2022\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" class=\"collapsed panel-link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"2022\">2022<\/button><\/h4>    <\/div>\n    <div id=\"2022\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\"  role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading_2022\" role=\"region\">\n        <div class=\"panel-body copy\">            \n            \n        <h3>Congratulations to the 2022 Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients!<\/h3><p>View the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/download\/alliant_energy\/AlliantEnergyAwardsProgram-2022-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Awards Program<\/a>\u00a0to read full bios of each recipient.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/alliant-energy-awards-photo-gallery-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p><div style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/DSC_1257-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo of the four James R. Underkofler Award Recipients with two Alliant Representatives.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(l-r) Benjamin Bilitz, (Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, Alliant Energy), Daniel Erman, UW-Madison, Christopher Schulenburg, UW-Platteville, Catherine Woodward, UW-Madison, Matthew Fencl, UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County, Andy Kitslaar (Senior Community Affairs Program Manager, Alliant Energy Foundation).<\/p><\/div>                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n            <div class=\"panel panel-default \" id=\"panel_2021\">\n    <div class=\"panel-heading\" id=\"heading_2021\">\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title\"><button href=\"#2021\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" class=\"collapsed panel-link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"2021\">2021<\/button><\/h4>    <\/div>\n    <div id=\"2021\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\"  role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading_2021\" role=\"region\">\n        <div class=\"panel-body copy\">            \n            \n        <h3>Congratulations to the 2021 Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients!<\/h3><table style=\"width: 870px\"><tbody><tr><td style=\"width: 274px\"><div style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/Attenborough-Holly_UW-Platteville_Underkofler2021-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holly Attenborough, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, UW-Platteville<\/p><\/div><\/td><td style=\"width: 317.234px\"><div style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/FiorenzaMary-2021_submitted-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Fiorenza, Faculty Associate, Department of English, UW-Madison<\/p><\/div><\/td><td style=\"width: 274.766px\"><div style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/Thurs_Head-Shot-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Patrick Thurs, Assistant Faculty Associate, Department of Physics, UW-Madison<\/p><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>Bios of each recipient are contained in the <span class=\"doc-icon\"><a class=\"doc-type pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/download\/alliant_energy\/AlliantEnergyAwardsProgram-2021-web(2).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alliant Energy Awards Program 2021<span class=\"sr-only\"> pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span>\r\n.<\/p>                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n            <div class=\"panel panel-default \" id=\"panel_2020\">\n    <div class=\"panel-heading\" id=\"heading_2020\">\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title\"><button href=\"#2020\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" class=\"collapsed panel-link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"2020\">2020<\/button><\/h4>    <\/div>\n    <div id=\"2020\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\"  role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading_2020\" role=\"region\">\n        <div class=\"panel-body copy\">            \n            \n        <h3>Congratulations to the 2020 Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients!<\/h3><table style=\"width: 1181.5px\"><tbody><tr><td style=\"width: 10px\"><div style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/10\/Brosky_Ken-headshot-2-scaled-e1602172700771-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Brosky smiling at the camera\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Brosky, Associate Professor, College of Integrated Studies, UW-Whitewater at Rock County.<\/p><\/div><\/td><td style=\"width: 192px\"><div style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/10\/Fields-Photo-e1602172540565-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kristina Fields smiling at the camera\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristina Fields, Professor, Department of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, UW-Platteville.<\/p><\/div><\/td><td style=\"width: 189px\"><div style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/10\/Thoma_Sharon-headshot-1-scaled-e1602172409147-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Thoma smiling at the camera\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Thoma, Faculty Associate, Department of Integrative Biology, UW-Madison.<\/p><\/div><\/td><td style=\"width: 238.5px\"><div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/10\/Wilkum_Kristi-headshot-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kristi Wilkum smiling at the camera\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristi Wilkum, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, UW-Oshkosh, Fond du Lac Campus.<\/p><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>Bios of each recipient are contained in the <span class=\"doc-icon\"><a class=\"doc-type pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/download\/alliant_energy\/alliantenergyawardsprogram-2020-web(2).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alliant Energy Awards Ceremony Program 2020<span class=\"sr-only\"> pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span>\r\n and <span class=\"doc-icon\"><a class=\"doc-type pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/download\/alliant_energy\/Alliant-Energy-Award-Ceremony-2020-PPT-for-Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alliant Energy Award Ceremony 2020 PPT<span class=\"sr-only\"> pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span>\r\n.<\/p>                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n            <div class=\"panel panel-default \" id=\"panel_2019\">\n    <div class=\"panel-heading\" id=\"heading_2019\">\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title\"><button href=\"#2019\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" class=\"collapsed panel-link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"2019\">2019<\/button><\/h4>    <\/div>\n    <div id=\"2019\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\"  role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading_2019\" role=\"region\">\n        <div class=\"panel-body copy\">            \n            \n        <h3>\u00a0 \u00a0Congratulations to the 2019 Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients!<\/h3><div style=\"width: 5923px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/10\/Underkofler-Award_2019-Group_Ray-Cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5913\" height=\"3331\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Underkofler Award Recipients; from left: Robert Durian (Senior Vice President\/Chief Financial Officer, Alliant Energy), Dr. Amanda Tucker, Dr. James Kabrhel, Dr. Jamie Henke, Julie Bauer (Executive Director, Alliant Energy Foundation), President Ray Cross, UW System.<\/p><\/div><p>Bios of each recipient are contained in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/news\/download\/AlliantEnergyAwardsProgram-2019-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 Alliant Energy Awards Program<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/2019-alliant-energy-foundation-awards-photo-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 Photo Gallery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n            <div class=\"panel panel-default \" id=\"panel_historical-recipient-list\">\n    <div class=\"panel-heading\" id=\"heading_historical-recipient-list\">\n        <h4 class=\"panel-title\"><button href=\"#historical-recipient-list\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" class=\"collapsed panel-link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"historical-recipient-list\">Historical Recipient List<\/button><\/h4>    <\/div>\n    <div id=\"historical-recipient-list\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\"  role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"heading_historical-recipient-list\" role=\"region\">\n        <div class=\"panel-body copy\">            \n            \n        <p><span class=\"doc-icon\"><a class=\"doc-type pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/download\/alliant_energy\/Alliant-Energy-James-R.-Underkofler-Historical-Award-Recipients.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alliant Energy James R  Underkofler Historical Award Recipients<span class=\"sr-only\"> pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n            \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2417,"featured_media":0,"parent":378,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cfct-can-haz-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10048,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4111\/revisions\/10048"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/grants-awards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}