July 29, 2022
The Summer 2022 edition of Learning Connections, a magazine for alumni and friends of the UW–Madison School of Education, is now posted online. This issue centers on Rising to the Challenge — and above the political noise — to demonstrate how quality education can play a vital role in helping people better understand each other and work together to reimagine a better future.
July 22, 2022
UW–Madison alumna Allison Johnson presented her “Accessible Attitudes” disability inclusion workshop at the 2022 Moebius Syndrome Foundation conference on July 15 in Atlanta, Georgia.
July 19, 2022
The first major retrospective of work by UW–Madison’s Tom Jones, an award-winning contemporary photographer and professor of photography in the School of Education’s Art Department, will be on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend, Wisconsin, from July 23 – Oct. 9.
July 15, 2022
An exhibition by UW–Madison alumnus Dale Chihuly was featured on PBS News Weekend recently in a segment that is headlined, “Glass artist Dale Chihuly’s exhibit takes inspiration from Arizona’s desert landscape.” Chihuly earned his MFA from the School of Education’s Art Department in 1967.
June 24, 2022
UW–Madison Chief Diversity Officer and School of Education alumnus LaVar J. Charleston joined with his wife, Sherri Ann Charleston, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Harvard University, on the “Black Like Me with Dr. Alex Gee” podcast recently for a discussion about the evolution of the chief diversity officer position in higher education.
June 22, 2022
An art/design paper and proposal by recent UW–Madison graduate Josephine M. Cutrara has been selected for the International Digital Media and Art (iDMAa) Conference 2022 at Winona State University from June 24-26. Cutrara earned her BFA degree from the School of Education’s Art Department in May 2022, with concentrations in graphic design, 3D modeling, and painting.
June 7, 2022
Two alumni of the UW–Madison School of Education — Laura Chávez-Moreno and Ashley Smith-Purviance — have been selected as 2022 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows.
June 3, 2022
Two scholars with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have been selected as 2022 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Dissertation Fellows. Tyler Hook is a current graduate student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, and Jessica Lee Stovall is an alumna of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Hook is the sixth student studying with the Department of Educational Policy Studies since 2020 to be named an NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow. In 2021 Elizabeth Hauck and Rachel Johnson received these awards and in 2020 Qing Liu, Huimin Wang, and Choua Xiong were selected.
May 4, 2022
UW–Madison alumnus Mike González received a 2022 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Principal Leadership Award. González, who earned his master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies in 2006, is principal of Bessie Allen Middle School in the School District of North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
May 2, 2022
SHAPE America, the Society of Health and Physical Educators, honored recent UW–Madison alumnus Brett Frieder as a Major of the Year during the organization’s 136th National Convention and Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana.