January 27, 2020
UW-Madison’s Stacey Lee and Lesley Bartlett were recently named incoming editors for Anthropology and Education Quarterly (AEQ), a journal of the American Anthropological Association.
School News
Elected to educate: Baruah fights for accessible and equitable public education
January 22, 2020
UW–Madison’s Samantha Baruah, the associate director of the School of Education’s Teacher Education Center, has been working for the past 11 years to make education more accessible and equitable on a local and national scale.
UW-Madison’s Nachman to be honored with Cross Future Leaders Award
January 21, 2020
UW–Madison’s Brett Ranon Nachman is one of seven students from across the country to be honored with a K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
Badger Volunteers registration opens Jan. 24
January 20, 2020
On Friday, Jan. 24, registration for Badger Volunteers will be open to all UW-Madison students.
UW-Madison’s Louie receiving Early Career Publication Award from AERA SIG
January 16, 2020
UW-Madison’s Nicole Louie is receiving the Early Career Publication Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Research in Mathematics Education Special Interest Group (SIG).
UW–Madison alum Marri named dean of Ball State’s Teachers College
January 14, 2020
UW-Madison alumnus Anand R. Marri was named dean of Ball State University’s Teachers College, BSU announced in a news release on Jan. 7.
Latest Gear Learning game ‘Newt’s Voyage’ teaches physics via virtual spacecraft
January 14, 2020
Jake Ruesch has a secret weapon to ensure the educational video games he helps design for UW−Madison’s Gear Learning are playable not just by "gamers," but by those with little or no experience playing video games.
Wisconsin Education Recruitment Fair March 5 at the Monona Terrace
January 10, 2020
The Wisconsin Education Recruitment Fair (WERF) will be held in Madison on Thursday, March 5, from 3:30 to 7 p.m. at the Monona Terrace.
Internship in Ecuador deepens love for education, Spanish language, and other cultures
January 9, 2020
Haleigh Slack, a UW-Madison senior who is double majoring in elementary and special education, interned as an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher and administrative assistant at Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano in Guayaquil, Ecuador during the summer of 2019.
Bell named next director of Wisconsin Center for Education Research
January 6, 2020
Courtney Bell will become the next director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), UW–Madison School of Education Dean Diana Hess announced Monday, Jan. 6. Bell, who is currently a principal research scientist with Educational Testing Service (ETS), the world’s largest private, nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization, will begin her new position July 1.