By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications A new cohort of universities in the United States and Canada will be welcomed this fall into the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), an international network of 35 research universities dedicated to delivering more effective undergraduate STEM learning by ensuring that today’s STEM graduate students — …
UW-Madison’s Kathleen Miller has received honorable mention recognition in the 2020 American Kinesiology Association (AKA) National Graduate Student Writing Award competition. Miller is a doctoral student with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and a predoctoral trainee in the UW Cardiovascular Research Center. This award was given for her first-author manuscript titled, “Age-Related Reductions …
UW-Madison’s Matthew Hora was interviewed for a recent New York Times report headlined, “Another Casualty of the Coronavirus: Summer Internships.” Hora is an assistant professor with our Department of Educational Policy Studies and the director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT). The Times reports how for “millions of college students, internships can …
On Tuesday, June 23, Dean Diana Hess and Senior Associate Dean Carolyn Kelley held an all-School virtual meeting to provide an overview of the School of Education’s plans related to the “Smart Restart” program for the fall semester, as well as some of the challenges the School is facing. Hess explained that School of Education …
UW-Madison PhD student Jennifer Bartloff felt lucky to have the opportunity to join the Grand Challenges team led by faculty members Kreg Gruben (Department of Kinesiology) and Peter Adamczyk (Department of Mechanical Engineering) soon after her move to Madison in 2019. Grand Challenges is an initiative within the School of Education that supports meaningful research …
Earlier this spring Madison365.com put the spotlight on “Wisconsin’s 38 Most Influential Native Americans,” a report that showcased several alumni of UW-Madison’s School of Education. This is the first list of its kind for Madison365.com, which over the previous five years has recognized Wisconsin’s most influential Black and Latino leaders. “This list represents something that’s never been …
M Cecil Smith, an alumnus of UW-Madison, will become the dean of Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale’s reorganized School of Education on July 13, pending approval of the SIU Board of Trustees. The announcement came via this SIU news release on May 20. Smith earned his PhD from the human development program within the School of Education’s …
UW-Madison’s Matthew Hora and Zi Chen received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study online internships amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This award, for $145,000, is part of the NSF’s COVID-19 rapid grants program. Hora, the principal investigator on the grant, is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational …
UW-Madison’s Jerlando Jackson is the co-author of a report that received a best paper recognition at the 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference. Jackson is the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He …
UW-Madison’s Bianca Baldridge recently published a paper in the journal Race Ethnicity and Education that’s titled, “Negotiating anti-black racism in ‘liberal’ contexts: the experiences of black youth workers in community-based educational spaces.” Baldridge explains in the paper’s abstract that her research “challenges liberal and progressive claims of social justice in education within predominantly white cities …