August 15, 2022
As parents, students, and teachers prepare for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year, experts from UW–Madison’s School of Education are ready to share their thoughts with media members on a range of school and education-related topics.
Department of Kinesiology
Student scholars explain their work at Summer Education Research Poster Symposium
August 4, 2022
The students had been conducting research alongside faculty mentors as a part of the 10-week Summer Education Research Program (SERP). The young scholars, who came to Madison from around the country and beyond, delivered short presentations and spoke with those who attended the event about their findings.
Stamm’s ‘The Brain on Youth Sports’ makes list of academic best sellers
August 2, 2022
A book by UW–Madison’s Julie M. Stamm, “The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future,” is number 29 on Library Journal’s list of academic best sellers from May 2021 through June 2022. Stamm is a clinical assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology.
Research that empowers autistic children wins kinesiology professor national recognition
July 29, 2022
Years of work breaking down barriers to physical activity for autistic children and their families have won a UW-Madison kinesiology professor national recognition.
Latest Learning Connections alumni magazine now available online
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.
Yadev is awarded Hilldale fellowship for undergraduate research
July 27, 2022
Mindy Yadev — who is pursuing a double major in biology and health promotion and health equity — is among the 107 UW–Madison undergraduate students who were awarded Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships at the 2022 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony.
No Limits Kids Fitness hosts biking day, empowers kids with disabilities to be physically active
July 21, 2022
On Tuesday, July 12, children with disabilities in the No Limits Kids Fitness program experienced the freedom of biking in a special event using adapted bikes on loan from Project Mobility in St. Charles, Illinois. The theme for the day was “Iron Kids.”
New study could lead to better treatment for veterans’ chronic pain
June 30, 2022
According to the study, which was published this month in the journal JNeurosci, Gulf War veterans who experience chronic pain have larger pain-processing regions and smaller pain regulation regions in their brains than their healthy peers.
UW–Madison’s Fields receives American Occupational Therapy Foundation Early-Career Award
May 16, 2022
UW–Madison’s Beth Fields, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, was recently awarded an American Occupational Therapy Foundation Early-Career Research Excellence Award.
Get to know some of our outstanding School of Education graduates
May 11, 2022
On Saturday, May 14, UW–Madison will celebrate its Spring 2022 Commencement. We reached out to a few of the more than 600 students who are graduating from programs in the School of Education to learn about their favorite memories, advice for incoming students, and future plans.