University of Wisconsin–Madison

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New Faculty Focus: Simon Goldberg

Goldberg is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, and he is an affiliate with the university’s Center for Healthy Minds. Goldberg explains that he “fell in love” with meditation in college, struck by its simple yet powerful techniques. His focus has expanded to include mental health in military veterans. Check out …

Indiana’s Raglin to deliver Department of Kinesiology’s annual William P. Morgan Lecture

Raglin is the director of graduate studies in the Department of Kinesiology at Indiana University–Bloomington. His research has examined psychological factors associated with performance in athletes. In addition, Raglin’s writings focus on methodological issues in sport and exercise psychology research, with a specific emphasis on the placebo effect. Both of these lines of research extend …

Garbacz named to new Morgridge Fellows program designed to advance community engaged scholarship

The Morgridge Center for Public Service is launching this new professional development program to further institutionalize and support community engaged scholarship at the university. Community engaged scholarship (CES) is defined as teaching, research and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, mutually beneficial collaboration with communities and community members to fulfill campus and community objectives. Garbacz is an …

Hora speaks with Education Week for special report on skills students need for workplace

A preview of the series of reports explains: “In survey after survey, employers complain that today’s young job candidates lack practical skills in reading, writing, speaking, and digital literacy. In this special report, Education Week probes the disconnect between what schools teach and what the workplace demands and highlights how some K-12 educators are attempting to bridge …

Winkle-Wagner authors paper looking at expectations placed on black women in college

Winkle-Wagner is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis​, and a faculty affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE). The report is co-authored with Bridget Turner Kelly of the University of Maryland’s College of Education, Courtney Luedke of UW–Whitewater and Tangela Blakely Reavis of Tulane University. …