April 18, 2022
The UW–Madison School of Education recognized some of its most outstanding individuals with Faculty and Staff Distinguished Achievement Awards during a reception and short ceremony on Thursday, April 14. This year’s event also included recognition of the inaugural recipients of the School of Education’s Impact 2030 Staff Innovation Awards.
March 29, 2022
UW–Madison is home to the fifth-ranked school of education in the nation — marking the ninth straight year it has been rated among the top five. UW–Madison’s School of Education is also the only one in the nation to have a top-10 ranking in all nine education specialty areas — including the No. 1 Educational Psychology program.
March 17, 2022
UW–Madison’s Corissa Lotta, an instructor in the School of Education's Department of Counseling Psychology, is the first recipient of the Distinguished Fellowship from UW–Madison’s Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE) and the UW–Madison Teaching Academy.
March 11, 2022
The next Real Talk for Real Change symposium, “Trans Care in Wisconsin,” on March 24, will bring together leading community-engaged scholars to share thoughts on critical issues in trans care.
March 7, 2022
Chase Ochrach, a PhD candidate in the Department of Counseling Psychology, is a recipient of a UW–Madison Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant (TA) Award for 2021. She received the Excellence in Community-based Learning Teaching Award — a new award this year — which recognizes TAs who have demonstrated outstanding instruction using a community-based learning approach.
February 28, 2022
Mindi Thompson, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, recently assumed a leadership position with the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) as co-director.
February 24, 2022
Travis Wright, an associate professor with the School of Education's Department of Counseling Psychology and a nationally recognized expert in school-based support for children and families undergoing trauma, has been named faculty director of UW–Madison's Morgridge Center for Public Service.
January 24, 2022
The work of UW–Madison’s Simon Goldberg is examined in a report from the health-oriented news website STAT that’s headlined, “What types of mental health apps actually work? A sweeping new analysis finds the data is sparse.” The report examines a meta-review paper that was published in PLOS Digital Health by Goldberg and a study team, including Sin U. Lam, a PhD student in the Department of Counseling Psychology, and UW–Madison alumna Shufang Sun, who earned her PhD from the department and is now an assistant professor at Brown University.
December 22, 2021
Following three years of dedicated service as the faculty director at the Morgridge Center for Public Service, Earlise Ward will be stepping down from the position at the end of the fall 2021 semester. Following her departure, she will return to her full-time faculty duties at the School of Nursing and continue her research.
December 9, 2021
UW–Madison alumna Zhalarina Sanders has created an autobiographical music video series entitled “The Light" with PBS Wisconsin, which she wrote, acted in, and produced. Originally released in May 2020, the series won an Emmy in the Chicago/Midwest region for Outstanding Achievement in Arts/Entertainment Programming.