July 29, 2022
Paris Wicker is a fifth-year PhD candidate with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Her dissertation is titled, “Who Gets to be Well”? A Social Network Analysis of Well-Being for Black and Indigenous College Students.”
July 29, 2022
Years of work breaking down barriers to physical activity for autistic children and their families have won a UW-Madison kinesiology professor national recognition.
July 29, 2022
The Summer 2022 edition of Learning Connections, a magazine for alumni and friends of the UW–Madison School of Education, is now posted online. This issue centers on Rising to the Challenge — and above the political noise — to demonstrate how quality education can play a vital role in helping people better understand each other and work together to reimagine a better future.
July 28, 2022
Lisa Jansen was recently named the new IT director for the UW–Madison School of Education, a role she will begin on Aug. 1. She will lead a new IT leadership trio within the School — along with Anna Lewis, academic technology and libraries director, and the soon-to-be hired research IT director (formerly known as the Wisconsin Center for Education Research's technical services director).
July 27, 2022
Mindy Yadev — who is pursuing a double major in biology and health promotion and health equity — is among the 107 UW–Madison undergraduate students who were awarded Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships at the 2022 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony.
July 25, 2022
When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. Can this couple turn what could be a dating disaster into something special before the check arrives? Find out in University Theatre's production of “First Date,” to be presented July 28 – Aug. 7 in the Ronald E. Mitchell Theatre.
July 22, 2022
Teaching people how to spot and outsmart a particularly tricky form of misinformation online is at the heart of new UW-Madison research recently funded by the National Science Foundation.
July 22, 2022
UW–Madison alumna Allison Johnson presented her “Accessible Attitudes” disability inclusion workshop at the 2022 Moebius Syndrome Foundation conference on July 15 in Atlanta, Georgia.
July 21, 2022
On Tuesday, July 12, children with disabilities in the No Limits Kids Fitness program experienced the freedom of biking in a special event using adapted bikes on loan from Project Mobility in St. Charles, Illinois. The theme for the day was “Iron Kids.”
July 20, 2022
WCER's ONPAR (Obtaining Necessary Parity Through Academic Rigor) team is one of only 30 projects worldwide to win a prize in the 2021-22 Learning Engineering Tools Competition, becoming eligible to share $4 million to develop improved educational technology tools potentially impacting millions of students.