Prof. Xuejun Pan won the 2018 Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award (https://news.wisc.edu/forty-faculty-honored-with-vilas-professorships/), one of the most prestigious awards granted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The award is supported by the estate of Professor, Senator and Regent William F. Vilas (https://www.rsp.wisc.edu/Vilas/vilashistory.cfm) to recognize the excellence of the awardee in research and teaching at the university.