University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Department of Educational Psychology

Pauline Ho receives GHI grant for project, ‘Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health’

UW-Madison’s Pauline Ho recently received the UW-Madison Global Health Institute’s (GHI) Graduate Student Award Grant. Ho is a PhD student within the human development area of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. The award will fund her project, “Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health: The Role of Meaning-making and Residential History.” This work was selected …

Three from School of Education receive WARF Named Professorships

Highly regarded School of Education faculty members Li Chiao-Ping, Robert Enright, and Stacey Lee were appointed to prestigious WARF Named Professorships, UW-Madison announced on May 12. Overall, 32 members of the UW-Madison faculty have been awarded faculty fellowships for 2020-21. The awardees span the four divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and biological …

Alum Lammert recognized by AERA’s Research in Reading and Literacy SIG

UW-Madison alumna Catherine Lammert received the Graduate Award for Literacy Excellence from the American Education Research Association’s (AERA) Research in Reading and Literacy special interest group (SIG). Lammert earned her master of science for professional educator’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology in 2014. The award honors her dissertation research titled “Inquiry, advocacy, …

School of Education’s Kaplan, Clark recognized with UW–Madison Hilldale Awards

David Kaplan and Laurie Beth Clark, both faculty members with the School of Education, were honored with UW–Madison Hilldale Awards for their distinguished contributions to research, teaching, and service. Each year, the Secretary of the Faculty recognizes four professors from across campus for these major awards, which have been given annually since the 1986-87 academic …

UW–Madison’s EdNeuroLab tackling math learning through brain imaging

By Lynn Armitage, Wisconsin Center for Education Research communications In 2012, Edward Hubbard, a cognitive neuroscientist and assistant professor with UW‒Madison’s Department of Educational Psychology, created the Educational Neuroscience Lab to understand — through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) — how the physical changes that occur in children’s brains as they learn may help improve education practices. “We use …

UW–Madison School of Education No. 1 among public institutions in U.S. News rankings

UW–Madison’s School of Education and several of its programs are once again ranked among the very best in the nation in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 17. UW-Madison is home to the No. 1-ranked public school of education in the nation, a distinction it is sharing …

UW–Madison’s Pauline Ho receives 2020 Psychological Science Research Grant

UW–Madison’s Pauline Ho received the 2020 Psychological Science Research Grant from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). Ho is a Ph.D. student with the human development program within the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Ho’s project aims to better understand how individual and contextual factors interact to chart the course of ethnic …

Popular Science features expertise of UW-Madison’s Enright on psychology of forgiveness

Popular Science magazine recently featured the expertise of UW-Madison’s Robert Enright in an article on forgiveness. Enright, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has been researching how forgiveness affects wellbeing at locations across the globe for more than three decades. According to Popular Science, expanding research on the topic suggests that …

School Mental Health Collaborative examining best ways to support kids’ social and emotional well-being

It wasn’t long ago when the concept that schools should play a role in supporting a child’s mental health was met with skepticism. “Historically, schools have not been seen as having a major role to play,” says Stephen Kilgus, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. “Ten years ago, we …

Hirshberg studies benefits of fusing mindfulness training into preservice teacher education

UW-Madison’s Matt Hirshberg is the lead author on a new paper published in the journal Learning and Instruction that examines the merits of incorporating mindfulness training into preservice teacher education, and how such efforts can lead to improvements in the classroom. Hirshberg is a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the university’s Center …