By Laurel White Three faculty from the School of Education have been honored with prestigious campuswide research awards from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. David Kaplan, Emily Arthur, and Andy Garbacz are among just 32 faculty from across campus who were chosen to receive a 2024-2025 WARF Named Professorship or H.I. Romnes …
The Summer Education Research Program (SERP) aims to encourage, promote, and prepare undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds to both pursue and thrive in their future graduate studies. SERP is sponsored by UW–Madison’s School of Education and the university’s Graduate School, and it aims to increase opportunities for individuals to engage in important, independent research in …
UW–Madison’s Tessa Michaelson Schmidt discussed racial and gender representation in children’s literature with Scientific American earlier this month. Schmidt is the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), which is administratively housed in the School of Education. “There are just so many more choices of books (reflecting) the multifaceted complexity of individual lives,” Schmidt …
The UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education is offering a unique doctoral training grant opportunity through a partnership with the University of Washington. Qual-LEADS (Qualitative Leaders in Equity, Access, and Disability in Schools) is a doctoral training program that places a focus on qualitative methods and critical theory in special …
Three School of Education faculty members shared their expertise on advising and mentoring graduate students from diverse communities at a World Education Research Association (WERA) meeting in Singapore last month. Brian Burt, Ain Grooms, and Mollie McQuillan presented their insights, entitled, “Advising and Research Preparation (Re)Imagined: Promising Practices for Mentoring Graduate Students Holding Diverse Identities,” …
Wausau ABC affiliate WAOW spotlighted the School Mental Health Collaborative (SMHC) recently, led by UW–Madison’s Stephen Kilgus, Katie Eklund, and Andy Garbacz. The story, headlined “UW–Madison guides new national center to address lack of school mental health providers,” reports that the researchers have been awarded a $10.4 million federal contract to launch and operate the …
The Summer Education Research Program (SERP) aims to encourage, promote, and prepare undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds to both pursue and thrive in their future graduate studies. SERP is sponsored by UW–Madison’s School of Education and the university’s Graduate School, and it aims to increase opportunities for individuals to engage in important, independent research in …
By Sofie Schachter To celebrate our alumni excellence across the arts, health, and education, the School of Education selected three trailblazing UW–Madison alumni to honor with a Distinguished Alumni Award. These awards recognize talented alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their field. The three award recipients — Tania Isaac, Julie Côté, and Tony Evers …
As we approach the end of another year, we wanted to look back and reflect on all of the great work that has happened across the School of Education in 2023. Below are some highlights from among the hundreds of news stories we shared this year spotlighting efforts across the arts, health, and education. With …
By Laurel White A School of Education faculty member has been selected to join a year-long national program aimed at helping scholars effectively share health equity research with policymakers. Mollie McQuillan, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, was selected for the 2023-24 cohort of the Scholars Strategy Network’s Health …