UW-Madison’s Jerry Dempsey, who is recognized as a leading authority on pulmonary physiology, received an honorary degree from Western University in his hometown of London, Ontario, Canada, on June 18. Dempsey is the John Robert Sutton Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences, and the director of the John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine. He also holds …
Over the next two years, a team of education researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will use a new $1.8 million grant to learn significantly more about college internships and how students of color enter the workforce from college. Awarded to the Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions (CCWT) in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, …
Undergraduate Shasparay Lighteard launches multidisciplinary festival to celebrate black artists and build community Ask Shasparay Lighteard how she came to organize Madison’s first Black Arts Matter Festival this past March, and the junior from Austin, Texas, laughs. “It’s kind of complicated,” says Lighteard, who is double majoring in theatre and drama, and Afro-American studies at …
Project connects university’s autism experts and graduate students with Gundersen Boscobel Area Hospital and Clinics As Jessica Muesbeck was working toward her master’s degree in occupational therapy, she was searching for additional opportunities to apply the knowledge she was gaining in the classroom and as a member of Assistant Professor Karla Ausderau’s research lab. Thanks …
This is the online edition of Learning Connections, a news magazine from the UW-Madison School of Education. The Summer 2019 issue is filled with exciting news about School of Education faculty, staff, students and alumni. A pdf of the Summer Learning Connections is available here. Summer 2019 edition highlights include: Keep in Touch! The School of Education …
Evaluation and policy clinics give graduate students opportunities to build partnerships and connect research to practice Annalee Good started her career in education by teaching middle school social studies and civics in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin, more than two decades ago. After three years, she moved west for a two-year stint in a similar position …
Historic ‘All of Us’ project creating largest health database ever Dorothy Farrar Edwards is helping lead UW-Madison’s participation in the nationwide All of Us Research Program, an effort to compile the largest representative medical database ever to accelerate research and improve health. In an effort to better reflect the full diversity of the United States, a …
The work of UW-Madison’s Tom Jones and John Hitchcock was showcased in the “Original Warrior” exhibit housed at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago last October through April 22, 2019. Curated by Jones and Ash Kyrie, “Original Warrior” showcases the work of Native American artists. Many of the artists are also veterans, and all …
UW-Madison’s Robert Enright spent five weeks earlier this year overseas delivering presentations and workshops related to his groundbreaking forgiveness work. The person Time magazine once called “the forgiveness trailblazer” engaged with audiences that included correctional facility innovators, cancer specialists, educational leaders, and more. Enright, a professor with the Department of Educational Psychology and the founder …
One of the things I value most about the School of Education is the sense of community. We have a wide range of departments and programs but we are all bound by a common purpose: enriching lives and making the world a better place. We know that one of the best ways to work toward …