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.
School News
UW alumna Johnson presents on ‘Accessible Attitudes’ at Moebius Syndrome conference
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.
No Limits Kids Fitness hosts biking day, empowers kids with disabilities to be physically active
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.”
WCER team wins award in global ed tech competition for student assessment tool
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.
First major retrospective of work by UW–Madison’s Tom Jones will open July 23 at Museum of Wisconsin Art
July 19, 2022
The first major retrospective of work by UW–Madison’s Tom Jones, an award-winning contemporary photographer and professor of photography in the School of Education’s Art Department, will be on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend, Wisconsin, from July 23 – Oct. 9.
Three from School of Education are named Morgridge Fellows
July 18, 2022
Three individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have been named to the fifth cohort of Morgridge Fellows. They are: Khrysta A. Evans, a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies; CJ Greer, a PhD student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis; and Marquel Norton, a PhD student in the Department of Counseling Psychology.
UW–Madison’s Anderson is chosen for nationwide institute exploring ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Care’
July 14, 2022
UW–Madison student Janel Anderson, a PhD student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, has been selected to attend the Philosophical Perspectives on Care Institute from July 12 – 29 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
The Discussion Project announces new, in-person course sessions in 2022-2023
July 13, 2022
Applications are now open for The Discussion Project’s in-person course, with new sessions starting in August 2022 and January 2023. The course is free and open to all UW–Madison instructors, including faculty, academic staff, and graduate students.
Festschrift celebrates careers of ‘The Julies,’ Mead and Underwood
July 12, 2022
The UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) hosted a festschrift on June 3 to honor longtime faculty members Julie Mead and Julie Underwood ("the Julies") on the occasion of their retirements.
UW–Madison’s Kaplan will be guest professor at Heidelberg University in Germany
July 11, 2022
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was named an international guest professor and will spend three months at the Institute für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at Heidelberg University in Germany.