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. As the date unfolds, Casey and Aaron’s inner critics take on a life of their own as supportive best friends, manipulative exes, and protective parents sing and dance them …
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. Johnson earned her master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education in 2021. Johnson created the workshop to start a conversation about people’s past experiences with the disability community, …
By Laurel White 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. The research, led by Martina Rau, will focus on visual misinformation — specifically, misinformation presented online in graphs. Rau, an associate professor with the …
By Kari Dickinson 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.” No Limits Kids Fitness is a summer program that is hosted by Adapted …
By WCER Communications The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) is thrilled to announce that its 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 …
By Kari Dickinson 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. Titled “Here We Stand,” the exhibition features 120 photographs from …
Three individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have been named to the fifth cohort of Morgridge Fellows. They are: The 14 fellows — from across the campus community — were selected through a juried process to participate in a year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship. Community-engaged scholarship is defined …
By Kari Dickinson A recent exhibition by UW–Madison alumnus Dale Chihuly was featured on PBS News Weekend in a segment that is headlined, “Glass artist Dale Chihuly’s exhibit takes inspiration from Arizona’s desert landscape.” Chihuly earned his MFA from the School of Education’s Art Department in 1967. The episode spotlights installations by Chihuly at Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic winter home, Taliesin …
1950s Doris EberleinBS 1951 — Social Group Work/Art EducationDoris interned at the Madison YWCA. She worked as the adult program director at the Wausau (Wisconsin) YWCA and is the founder of the Wausau Child Center. Marilyn Grabin PutzBS 1954 — Physical EducationAfter a long career of teaching, Marilyn retired and began working for an animal hospital …
By Todd Finkelmeyer Sofia Garcia Garbuno endured experiences as a young student that no one should have to. After moving from Chicago to the suburbs, Garbuno was placed in special education coursework because it was assumed they didn’t understand English (Garbuno did, and is fluent in English and Spanish). Around second grade, Garbuno also recalls …