June 15, 2020
The following message from School of Education Dean Diana Hess was emailed to students, staff, and faculty across the School on Monday, June 15.
School News
Six from UW–Madison receive prestigious 2020 NAEd/Spencer fellowships and awards
June 11, 2020
PhD candidates Qing Liu, Huimin Wang, and Choua P. Xiong were named Dissertation Fellows, while faculty members Jordan A. Conwell and Diego Román were awarded Postdoctoral Fellows, and Kathryn Kirchgasler received a Research Development Award.
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.
Working on Grand Challenges project a transformative experience for Bartloff
May 29, 2020
UW-Madison PhD student Jennifer Bartloff felt lucky to have the opportunity to join the Grand Challenges team led by faculty members Kreg Gruben (Department of Kinesiology) and Peter Adamczyk (Department of Mechanical Engineering) soon after her move to Madison in 2019.
Alum Smith to become dean of Southern Illinois University’s School of Education
May 28, 2020
M Cecil Smith will become the dean of Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale’s reorganized School of Education on July 13, pending approval of the SIU Board of Trustees. The announcement came via an SIU news release on May 20. Smith earned his PhD from the human development program within the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology in 1988.
UW-Madison’s Hora, Chen receive NSF grant to study online internships during pandemic
May 27, 2020
This award, for $145,000, is part of the NSF’s COVID-19 rapid grants program. Hora, the principal investigator, is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT). Chen is an assistant researcher within WCER who works with CCWT on research projects.
Report co-authored by UW–Madison’s Jackson earns best paper honor at RESPECT 2020
May 27, 2020
The 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference was a virtual, international conference designed to serve as a premier venue for peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary research on broadening participation in computing.
UW-Madison’s Baldridge authors, ‘Negotiating anti-black racism in “liberal” contexts’
May 26, 2020
Bianca Baldridge, a sociologist of education and an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies, explains that her research “challenges liberal and progressive claims of social justice in education within predominantly white cities that reify anti-Black racism.”