University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Event to encourage discussions about math between students and community

CAP is run through the School of Education’s office of Student Diversity Programs. CAP is a three-week summer enrichment residential program for first-generation college students or students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The program is open to 9th and 10th graders who have completed their high school academic year. The event is titled, “A Gathering of …

Wisconsin Public Radio speaks with Bell about his work on specialization in youth sports

Bell is a faculty member with the Department of Kinesiology’s Athletic Training Program and the director of the Wisconsin Injury in Sport Laboratory (WISL). In the report, Bell discusses the do’s and don’ts of training teens to be specialized in a single sport. Listen to an archive of the full report on this Wisconsin Public Radio web page. …

UW–Madison’s Mathieu appointed to national STEM education advisory panel

Mathieu, director of the university’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and the associate dean for research at its School of Education, begins his first term on the national panel immediately and could serve up to three years. The NSF established the advisory panel to encourage U.S. science and technological innovations. Panel members will offer …

Chronicle’s report on ‘education deserts’ quotes UW–Madison’s Hillman

Hillman is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and is an affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE). The article explores the breadth and impact of the pockets of the country in which it’s difficult for placebound students to get to college, otherwise known …

Wilkerson named faculty director of new Teacher Education Center

Kimber Wilkerson, a professor with the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, was recently named the faculty director of the center and started her new position on July 1. Samantha Baruah will fill the role of associate director, a post she will start on Aug. 6. “We are very excited that the new Teacher …

Dyer, Sinnard, Raines receive American Psychological Association Travel Awards

Dyer is a master’s degree student, and Sinnard and Raines are Ph.D. students — all with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology. They received the awards, worth $300 each, to help with travel to the 2018 APA convention Aug. 9-12 in San Francisco to present their research. Read more about the awards here. Connect …

Article co-authored by UW–Madison’s Winkle-Wagner appears in Teachers College Record

Winkle-Wagner is a faculty member 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). She co-authored the article with Bridget Turner Kelly of the Loyola University at Chicago’s School of Education. Winkle-Wagner and Kelly’s research examined how black women …

First National Writing Project Midwest Conference coming to campus Aug. 3-5

The conference will be hosted by the Greater Madison Writing Project, and offers educators the opportunity to share their work and learn from colleagues in the field. The Greater Madison Writing Project is a joint effort between UW–Madison’s College of Letters & Science, and the School of Education. It’s an affiliate of the National Writing Project, …

UW–Madison alum Woit featured by Isthmus reminiscing about Art Fair on the Square

Woit earned a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction in 1973, a master’s in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 1992. Woit tells the Isthmus that she visited her first fair in 1959, and it sparked a love of the arts and a “lifetime of …

UW–Madison’s Miller to deliver TEDMED talk

TEDMED is the independent health and medicine edition of the famous TED conference, which is dedicated to “ideas worth spreading.” TEDMED bridges the gap between science and the public by finding and sharing stories that inform, inspire, engage and provoke action across a broad, passionate community both inside and outside of health and medicine. Miller …