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Waisman Center Receives $11M Gift to Fund Interdisciplinary Training Through the Morse Society and Fellowships

August 6, 2012

Website Link  http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/NEWS/STORIES/2012/ScholarsGift.7.31.2012.html

Dr. Richard Morse (right) on a tour at the Waisman Center.
Dr. Richard Morse (right) on a tour at the Waisman Center.

A multimillion-dollar planned estate gift from Dr. Richard Morse ('67 MD) of New Orleans, will fund an interdisciplinary society of graduate student scholars to study childhood mental health and developmental disabilities in the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"This is a game-changing gift," says Marsha Mailick Seltzer, director of the Waisman Center. "The Morse Fellows will be conducting interdisciplinary research, and these graduate students will come from a minimum of three academic departments."