The UW–Madison School of Education’s Dance Department presents the Alumni Festival, a live stream event Sept. 24-26 on YouTube. The event will feature performances and choreography from our recent UW–Madison graduates Julianna Hom (BFA, 2020), Megan Schimke (BFA, 2020), and Alice Svetic (BFA, 2020). Hom will present a video compilation from three sections of her project “What …
Diverse Issues in Higher Education utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Jerlando Jackson in an article examining the causes of the recent protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the shooting of a Black man, 29-year-old Jacob Blake, by a police officer on Aug. 23. Jackson is a Vilas Distinguished Professor and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational …
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced the winners of its 2020 awards for excellence in education research earlier this summer, and UW–Madison’s Annalee Good and Huiping “Emily” Cheng were recognized with top honors. Good is an assistant scientist with the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), the co-director of WCER’s Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative, and director of …
A conversation with the School of Education’s LaVar Charleston was featured in the Fall 2020 issue of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s On Wisconsin magazine. Charleston is the School’s associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion, and a clinical professor with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. In the Q&A feature, headlined “Systemic Racism Does Indeed Exist,” …
UW–Madison alumna Patricia Marroquin Norby has been hired as the first full-time Native American art curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Norby earned her master of fine arts degree from the School of Education’s Art Department in 2002. Norby has previously served as senior executive and assistant director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum …
By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications UW–Madison’s Sadhana Puntambekar will collaborate with national researchers on establishing one of five artificial intelligence (AI) institutes and education hubs. A $100 million initiative of the National Science Foundation, the centers are the single most significant federal investment to date in exploring how AI can benefit the United States’ quality of life, …
UW–Madison’s David Furumoto is part of the cast of the virtual performance of the play “Haiku,” by Judy Dove, which was presented by Goodly Frame Theatre as part of its Zoom Fest 2020, Series 2. Furamoto is a professor of acting in the School of Education’s Department of Theatre and Drama, as well as the artistic director of …
COVID-19 has revealed how structural racism manifests in the health experiences and outcomes of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. An upcoming symposium, titled Advancing Health Equity in the Era of COVID-19, will explore these challenges and outline strategies for promoting health equity in times of crisis. The event, which will take place on Thursday, …
The Wisconsin State Journal utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Yorel Lashley for an article about supporting the social and emotional learning needs of students. “Now, in the time of COVID, social and emotional learning is even more important,” said Lashley, the director of arts in the School of Education’s office of Professional Learning and Community Engagement (PLACE). “Most …
Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) and the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male at Ohio State University have announced plans for the 2020 International Colloquium on Black Males in Education (ICBME). The event will be held virtually this year, with content and events happening each Tuesday in October. This year’s colloquium …