By Laurel White When Michael Mohr was 15 years old, he had a diving accident during varsity swim team practice. The pool’s starting blocks had been in the shallow end of the pool, 3 ½ feet deep, and he struck his head on the bottom of the pool practicing a racing start. A spinal cord …
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Anthony Hernandez in a recent article reporting on the financial struggles and uncertain future facing Milwaukee’s Alverno College. Alverno, Wisconsin’s first federally-designated Hispanic-serving institution, is confronting a $9 million deficit for the fiscal year and has declared a financial emergency. The article notes that becoming a …
Meg Medina will deliver the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s 2024 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m., at Tripp Commons in the Memorial Union on the UW–Madison campus. Medina is a Newbery and Pura Belpré award-winning author and the 2023-24 National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature. Her picture books, as well as middle grade …
By Laurel White In 2022, Luis Columna won a major research award from the National Consortium for Physical Education for Individuals with Disabilities. Columna, a professor in the Department of Kinesiology, was honored by the recognition of his work, but was quick to turn his thoughts to his community. Columna thought the honor could mean …
By Laurel White A new multimedia resource aimed at combating the shortage of Black men in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields launched today at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As the shortage of Black men in STEM remains a dire challenge in the United States — according to 2022 statistics from the National Science …
By Laurel White Research projects led by Department of Kinesiology faculty members span from head to toe. Here’s a short overview of some of their achievements and ongoing work: Connect with us Recent News
1950s Corinne WickBS 1952 — Education/Speech TherapyCorky began as a young, married speech therapist in Providence, Rhode Island. She was married to another UW student who became a doctor and who enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he and Corky were sent to Tripoli, Libya, from 1962-64. From there, she moved to California, where …
Forbes features Wei LAB project building pathways to inclusion in engineering A project out of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) that aims to more fully engage women and people of color in engineering was featured in a report from Forbes on April 23 headlined, “REVIIS and the Path to Inclusive Engineering.” Brian Burt, …
By Laurel White Mollie McQuillan, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, authored an article in the nation’s top educational leadership journal, Educational Administration Quarterly, showing four distinct ways elementary and high school leaders disrupt or enable bullying of transgender and gender-expansive students in their schools. Full story here. Erica O. …
By Laurel White Dane Cook has spent decades studying diseases some believe don’t even exist. Those diseases, which fall under the medical community’s broad category of “chronic multisymptom illness,” include fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Gulf War Illness, and — a new addition to the pack — long COVID. “Most of these diseases have …