Twelve professors receive Kellett Mid-Career Awards

Twelve outstanding faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been named winners of this year's Kellett Mid-Career Awards. The Kellett award, supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), recognizes outstanding mid-career faculty members who are five to 20 years past the first promotion to a tenured position. Each winner, chosen by a Graduate School committee, receives a $60,000 flexible research award. The award is named for William R. Kellett, a former president of the board of trustees and retired president of Kimberly-Clark Corp. Here are this year's recipients: Christopher Bradfield, professor, oncology, directs the Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center. His research focus on how mammalian systems adapt to environmental change. His team has identified the cellular receptor for the pollutant dioxin and has helped defined the molecular clock that governs circadian behavior and physiology.