Chief Diversity Officer Sims to depart for provost role in North Carolina

June 23, 2020

Chief Diversity Officer and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion Patrick Sims will depart later this summer to become the executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, a top-ranked creative and performing arts conservatory in Winston-Salem, N.C.  Sims arrived at UW–Madison in 2004 as a faculty member with the Department of Theatre and Drama, which today is housed in the School of Education.

‘The Journalism Game: Scaling Practices to Middle School Youth to Support Democracy’ receives Baldwin funding

June 19, 2020

In an age of widespread fake news and rampant distrust in public institutions, media literacy is crucial. A partnership between the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Field Day Lab at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) will collaborate with Wisconsin teachers and journalists to produce and disseminate a digital learning game that helps students improve their critical media literacy skills.

UW–Madison announces Smart Restart plan to reopen in fall

June 17, 2020

The University of Wisconsin–Madison plans to begin fall classes as scheduled on Sept. 2 and offer in-person instruction in many courses until the Thanksgiving recess, the university announced on Wednesday, June 17. Additional information will be provided to the campus community as plans are finalized via the “Smart Restart” website: https://www.wisc.edu/smartrestart/

Four with ties to School of Education named Morgridge Fellows

June 9, 2020

The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship, defined as: teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, mutually beneficial collaboration with communities to fulfill campus and community objectives.

Six universities join CIRTL Network to improve research and teaching skills of future STEM faculty

June 8, 2020

“Our goal is to develop a STEM faculty of great researchers who are also great teachers, not one or the other,” says Kitch Barnicle, associate director of the CIRTL Network, operated within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research in UW─Madison’s School of Education. CIRTL’s six new members are: University of Arizona; University of Florida; University of Houston; University of Idaho; University of Illinois─Chicago; and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Paper from UW-Madison’s Miller recognized by American Kinesiology Association

June 4, 2020

Kathleen Miller is a doctoral student with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and a predoctoral trainee in the UW Cardiovascular Research Center. The award recognized her first-author manuscript titled, “Age-Related Reductions in Cerebrovascular Reactivity Using 4D Flow MRI.” The article was published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.