Wisconsin Idea Principal Preparation program now fully online

February 11, 2022

Educators wanting to earn the credentials to pursue a principal license in Wisconsin have a new, fully online option offered by UW–Madison’s highly regarded School of Education. The recently approved master’s degree program can be completed in 15 months.

UW–Madison’s White Hawk selected for Whitney Museum biennial

February 11, 2022

UW–Madison alumna and incoming painting professor Dyani White Hawk has been selected for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 80th biennial exhibition, “Quiet as It’s Kept.” White Hawk, one of four Native artists to be included in this year's biennial, has created a large-scale, mixed-media piece rooted in Lakota aesthetics to show at the exhibition.

Mitchell Nathan is winner of 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition

February 7, 2022

The School of Education’s Mitchell Nathan is among the 26 UW–Madison faculty winners of the 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition, recognizing “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Nathan is a Vilas Distinguished Professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology.

Jackson is elected as fellow of national science organization AAAS

February 1, 2022

Jerlando Jackson has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of 13 scholars from UW–Madison who received fellowship status this year. Jackson is chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and concurrently holds the Rupple-Bascom Professorship of Education and the Vilas Distinguished Professorship of Higher Education. He also is the director and chief research scientist of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB).

MMOCA receives significant grant supporting fall exhibition of work by UW–Madison’s Abdu’Allah

January 28, 2022

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOCA) has been selected for a significant grant award from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts that will support a fall 2022 exhibition of work by UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah, the associate dean of the arts in the School of Education. Abdu'Allah's DARK MATTER, opening Sept. 17, 2022, explores cultural representation and the systems of power that structure our experiences of the world.