Faculty Mentoring
Wendy Crone’s book Survive and Thrive: A Guide for Untenured Faculty reached #11 on the Morgan & Claypool Publishers most read titles list.
Women Faculty Mentoring
Wendy Crone has served as director and a faculty mentor in the UW’s Women Faculty Mentoring Program (now wtnbfmp). She has been a convener and regular attendee of the Gooey Chocolate Cake Lunch for women faculty in the physical sciences. Her faculty mentoring has been recognized with the Doris Slesinger Award for Excellence in Mentoring in 2011.
Undergraduate Mentoring
Wendy Crone was recognized in 2020 with the UW’s Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Undergraduate STEM Learning Community
The Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) learning community is a welcoming environment where women interested in STEM fields build a strong community with each other and UW-Madison staff and faculty who share their interests. Wendy Crone is a former director of the program and recipient of the WEPAN Educator Award, Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network.
Professional Society Leadership
The Society for Experimental Mechanics is a professional society formed in 1943 to support research and researchers in the experimental mechanics. This engineering professional society holds two major conferences annually and publishes three peer reviewed journals.
Wendy Crone has been a member of SEM for more than 35 years and Fellow since 2015. She has served as President of the Society along with other committee and Executive Board responsibilities. The society has honored her with the Presidential Service Award and the M.M. Frocht Award.
National Professional Service
The U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Mechanics (USNC/TAM), which represents the United States in national and international activities related to the broad science of mechanics, including related sciences, engineering, and mathematics. It serves as a focal point for charting future priorities in mechanics related research, applications, and education. It represents the United States in IUTAM. The International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) was founded in 1946, and strives to create a link between persons and national or international organizations engaged in theoretical or applied scientific work in solid and fluid mechanics or in related sciences.
Wendy Crone was SEM Society Representative to USNC/TAM (2015-2022) and USNC/TAM Fellowship Committee Chair (2015-2016, 2019-2021). She also served as a member of the Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) (2019-2022).
NSF Program Director
As a Program Director with the National Science Foundation under an Interagency Program Agreement (IPA), Dr. Wendy Crone provides expertise in experimental solid mechanics and biomechanics to the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) Program and the Biomechanics & Mechanobiology (BMMB) Program in the Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division. She is also the CMMI Division lead for the Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI).
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Campus Leadership
Dr. Crone’s leadership contributions include serving as Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the Graduate School at UW-Madison. She led campus graduate education for over 9,000 enrolled students across more than 150 post-baccalaureate programs, responsibility for offices managing admissions, academic services, academic analysis, funding, professional development, and diversity of graduate students. As Interim Dean, Dr. Crone managed the daily operation of the graduate education infrastructure and saw the organization through a major restructuring.