November 19, 2021
UW–Madison alumnus Dominic Ledesma is the recipient of the Joseph C. Beckham Award for dissertation of the year from the Education Law Association. He earned his PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2021.
November 18, 2021
UW–Madison alumna Mary Pfeiffer was named Wisconsin Superintendent of the Year by the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA) on Monday, Nov. 8. Pfeiffer currently is the superintendent of the Neenah Joint School District. She earned two degrees from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis — a master’s in 1999 and a PhD in 2006.
November 17, 2021
UW–Madison student Caitlin Mary Margarett has been selected to show her work at a Satellite Art Show presented by Performance Is Alive in Miami Nov. 30 – Dec. 4. The piece she is presenting, “for the love of god,” documents the damage and land destruction caused by the 2020 Iowa Derecho.
November 16, 2021
UW–Madison’s Courtney Bell is one of 15 experts selected nationwide to serve on a new, ad-hoc committee created by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) to provide practical, evidence-based guidance to make STEM learning in the PreK–12 system equitable. Bell is director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and a professor of learning sciences with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology.
November 15, 2021
UW–Madison’s Carl Grant, the Hoefs-Bascom Professor in the School of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is the author of a new book that is titled, “James Baldwin and the American Schoolhouse."
November 11, 2021
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education's Department of Educational Psychology, was elected as president of the Psychometric Society.
November 10, 2021
UW–Madison’s Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess are co-authors of a new study published in the Journal of Curriculum Studies that is titled, “Teaching the U.S. 2018 midterm elections: a survey of secondary social studies teachers.”
November 9, 2021
Audiences can expect a new way to experience dance in UW–Madison Professor Jin-Wen Yu's latest body of work, "Non Ordinary." This visually striking, thought-provoking concert of contemporary dance will take place at the H'Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall on the UW–Madison campus Nov. 18-20.
November 8, 2021
UW–Madison's Stephanie Budge, an associate professor in the School of Education's Department of Counseling Psychology, was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).
November 5, 2021
UW–Madison alumnus Roberto Torres Mata is one of the organizers of the 2021 Día de los Muertos Community Altar Project on display at the Overture Center for the Arts through Sunday, Nov. 14.