By Amellia Fowler UW–Madison’s Xueli Wang, the Barbara and Glenn Thompson Endowed Professor in Educational Leadership in the School of Education, has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). According to the ASHE website, the fellows program honors members for their integrity, mentorship, significant contributions to higher …
By Victoria Vlisides, Center for Healthy Minds Over 1 billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition, but only seven out of 100 people actually get treatment — typically medication and/or therapy or counseling. From the start of treatment, much of the process is trial and error, leaving people caught in the current system …
By Amellia Fowler UW–Madison alumnus Keith Edwin Fox is the author of a new textbook, recently published by Cognella Academic Publishing. As described by the publisher, “You Be the Art Critic: An Inclusive Approach to Art Appreciation in the Postmodern and Metamodern Eras” introduces students to the analytical tools and frameworks used in art criticism …
Office of Research & Scholarship Communications The Multilingual Learning Research Center (MLRC), housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) in the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Education, invites researchers, educators, students, and community members to explore current issues in multilingual education through its 2026–27 Speaker Series. The annual series features scholars whose work …
Award-winning author and illustrator Matthew Cordell will present the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s 2026 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 350 of the Teacher Education Building. The title of Cordell’s lecture is “Work in Progress: The Ever-Changing Process and Approach of Matthew Cordell.” Cordell received the 2018 Caldecott Medal …
By Amellia Fowler UW–Madison’s Kate Somerville, a postdoctoral research fellow in the School Mental Health Collaborative within the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, has received a Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program (LRP) award. The award, presented by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), recognizes Somerville …
By Amellia Fowler UW–Madison’s Megan Schliesman, librarian and assistant director emerita of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) in the School of Education, will be honored with the South Central Library System (SCLS) Foundation’s Cornerstone Award. The Cornerstone Award is presented annually by the SCLS Foundation to an individual who has had a significant and …