Brenda Spychalla wins Ann Wallace Career Achievement Award

April 27, 2022

Brenda Spychalla, a distinguished information processing consultant emerita for the School of Education’s MERIT, is one of 11 UW–Madison employees who are recipients of this year's Academic Staff Excellence Awards. Spychalla will receive the Ann Wallace Career Achievement Award, which recognizes a retiring academic staff member who has provided leadership on behalf of academic staff across the campus and in addition has had a distinguished career.

Flow Project Gallery proposal is recipient of Emerging Artist Award in this year’s Arts Business Competition

April 26, 2022

A project team that includes students who are pursuing degrees within the UW–Madison School of Education is a recipient of an Emerging Artist Award in this year’s UW–Madison Arts Business Competition. The students’ proposed project, Flow Project Gallery, aims to bring Wisconsin’s water issues to the forefront through art by connecting UW–Madison student artists with water professionals across the state.

Koza’s ‘Destined to Fail’ is winner of Outstanding Book Award from AERA’s Curriculum Studies division

April 22, 2022

Julia Eklund Koza’s book, “ ‘Destined to Fail:’ Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music,” has been selected as the winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2021 by the Curriculum Studies division of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Koza is a professor emerita in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and with the Mead Witter School of Music.

Khadejah Ray is awarded AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

April 21, 2022

UW–Madison graduate student Khadejah Ray has been awarded a Minority Dissertation Fellowship from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Ray is a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.

UW–Madison’s Travers is selected as Fulbright US Scholar

April 20, 2022

UW–Madison’s Brittany Travers, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2022-23. Travers will travel to Spain during the spring of 2023 to collaborate with Antonio Cuesta-Vargas at the University of Málaga on work that is focused on testing and improving balance in autistic youth.