CIRTL is a collaborative network of 39 research universities based in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) within UW‒Madison’s School of Education. Funding for this new alliance builds on an earlier NSF INCLUDES pilot project awarded to CIRTL in 2016. “NSF INCLUDES was conceived as a sustained effort, a recognition that a problem as complex …
Hess is the dean of UW–Madison’s School of Education and holds the Karen A. Falk Distinguished Chair of Education. “The Morning Show” host Carrie Kaufman notes that despite requiring high schoolers to pass a civics test, Wisconsin is one of the few states in the country that doesn’t require schools to offer a civics course. …
Smedema is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, and is the director of the rehabilitation counseling master’s degree program. The research project is titled, “Character Strengths as Buffers against the Negative Effects of Multiple Sclerosis.” In people with multiple sclerosis (MS), Smedema explains how research has …
Yet even when UW–Madison’s occupational therapy program was founded in 1943, the field of OT was still establishing itself as a vital health care profession. “There were very few practitioners and the field was growing very slowly,” Caroline Thompson, who became director of the university’s OT program in 1945 and served in that capacity until …
The Reuters report explains: “Children and teens who specialize in one sport may be more likely to get injured than those who play a variety of sports, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data from five previously published studies with a total of about 5,600 athletes age 18 or younger. Compared to athletes who played the …
The annual summer institute is an effort to build a cross-cultural platform for meaningful intellectual dialogue. This year’s program theme was, “Re-envisioning Globalization, Regionalization, and Localization in Education and Society.” Those from UW–Madison taking part in the program, which ran July 8-15, included: Hanna Lichtenstein and Kristen McNeill, who are master’s degree students with the …
The event resembled a think tank for about 20 researchers and humanitarian specialists from Taiwan, India and the United States, including School of Education faculty members Francois Victor Tochon, Lynet Uttal, and Mimi Bloch. When explaining the theme of “Valuing Deep Education,” Tochon notes that a number of researchers and practitioners in various fields have …
Kowalczyk, who earned a Reading Specialist license through UW–Madison’s School of Education in 2005, will receive the award during the association’s annual conference Oct. 25-27 in Orlando, Fla. The award, supported by the AMLE Foundation Fund, recognizes outstanding practitioners in middle level education — those who have made a significant impact on the lives of …
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have built a robot, named Minnie, to serve as a reading buddy to middle school kids, and Minnie’s new friends grew more excited about books and more attached to the robot over two weeks of reading together. “After one interaction, the kids were generally telling us that, sure, it …
Hora is an assistant professor of adult and higher education with the Division of Continuing Studies, and is an affiliate with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Hora is also a research scientist with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), and the director of UW–Madison’s Center for College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT), which is …