March 9, 2020
The work of UW–Madison's Mollie McQuillan received honorable mention recognition in the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award competition being administered by the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Division A. McQuillan is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. The dissertation being recognized, which McQuillan completed en route to earning her Ph.D. from Northwestern University, is titled “Beyond Bathrooms: The Educational Policies, Practices, and Health of Gender-Expansive Students.”
March 7, 2020
UW-Madison’s Beth Fields is helping lead sessions of an upcoming series of events titled, “Preparing to Care.” A preview of the series notes: “No one is ever prepared to become a caregiver for a loved one diagnosed with dementia. This series is designed to help you prepare and plan for the future.” These events are being held on Wednesdays, March 18, 25, and April 1, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St.
March 6, 2020
Pauline Ho received the 2020 Psychological Science Research Grant from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). The Ph.D. student with the human development program within the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology aims to better understand how individual and contextual factors interact to chart the course of ethnic and racial identity development of African American students attending predominantly white institutions.
March 3, 2020
UW-Madison’s Lisa Gralnick was recently recognized by the American Craft Council (ACC) as a 2020 College of Fellows Honoree. According to an ACC news release, Gralnick “is a contemporary American metalsmith, studio jeweler, and academic whose work challenges the monetary, cultural, and personal value of objects by transforming metals into objects of thought provoking visual beauty.” She has been a faculty member with the School of Education's Art Department since 2001.
February 28, 2020
UW-Madison's Department of Theatre and Drama presents their production of “Julius Caeser,” by William Shakespeare, through March 8. The play follows “a country riven by polarization” and “a resistance pushing its ideals to an extreme action.” Performances are at the Mitchell Theatre in Vilas Hall.
February 27, 2020
The new book from Erica Turner finds that, despite good intentions from district leaders, they often adopt policies and practices that perpetuated existing inequalities and advanced new forms of racism.
February 27, 2020
UW-Madison’s Brett Nachman, a doctoral candidate with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, served as the lead author on a case study article exploring campus climates for autistic LGBTQ college students. The article, which Nachman wrote with Dr. Ryan A. Miller (UNC-Charlotte) and Dr. Edlyn Vallejo Peña (California Lutheran University), was published in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership.
February 26, 2020
UW-Madison's Andrea Ruppar was recently named an inaugural co-editor of a new research-to-practice journal called Inclusive Practices. Ruppar is an associate professor with the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education.
February 26, 2020
The Wisconsin Center for Education Research hosted a free community workshop, with most of the attendees being Madison-area early childhood educators from public schools, Head Start, and private childcare centers.
February 25, 2020
Carlyn Mueller is receiving an Outstanding Dissertation Award from AERA's Special and Inclusive Education Research SIG. Her dissertation is titled, “Beyond Stigma: Disability Identity in School Contexts.” Mueller, whose research is informed by her personal experience as a disabled scholar, will be joining the School of Education prior to the fall 2020 semester as an assistant professor with the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education.