This past summer, UW–Madison’s Douglas Rosenberg, a professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, was honored with an international artist residency at the Ingmar Berman Center in Sweden. The residency included a screening of Rosenberg’s film, “Song of Songs,” his deeply personal evocation of the erotic prose poem of the same name that appears in the …
By Kari Dickinson It is a big year for glass. In fact, the United Nations has declared 2022 as the “International Year of Glass” to celebrate the essential role that glass has in society. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of UW–Madison’s Glass Lab, the first collegiate glass program in the nation, and considered by many …
The UW–Madison Dance Department and Jin-Wen Yu Dance present “Home Wandering,” a two-part concert of new contemporary dance and older, award-winning work by Professor Jin-Wen Yu, Oct. 13-15 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall. The first half of the program, created and performed over the summer in Taipei with six Taiwanese dancers, explores the surrealistic feel …
Grace Lin and Alvina Ling will deliver the 2022 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m., in the Great Hall at Memorial Union. Established in 1998 by UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), housed in the School of Education, the lecture was named to honor Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished children’s book editor for 38 years with Harper Junior Books, and …
UW–Madison’s Erica O. Turner, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, was a panelist for a colloquium hosted by the Center for Ethics and Values (CEHV) at Ohio State University earlier this month. The colloquium, titled “Why Integrate Schools in Our Segregated World,” examined the democratic obstacles and opportunities present …
An educational video game developed at UW–Madison that allows fourth through sixth graders to explore Great Lakes shipwrecks as maritime archaeologists has put another jewel in its crown. The game, The Legend of the Lost Emerald, won a top prize this month at the 54th Annual Public Media Awards in a category dedicated to educational resources for classrooms. The …
Providing thoughtful and data-driven support services and continued flexibility for faculty, staff, and students will be keys to success for Wisconsin technical colleges as they move on from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new UW–Madison research findings. The findings were presented in a new research brief released this month from the Crisis as Catalyst for …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications Christine Pfund, director of WCER’s Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, and three other experts on mentorship share some of what they’ve learned in a recent article for the Harvard Business Review titled, “Don’t Let Mentoring Burn You Out.” The article begins by explaining how the nature of mentorship contains within it …
A team from UW–Madison co-authored an article that was published in the Journal of Dance Education, titled “Interdisciplinary Integration: Linking Differentiated P(arts) to Create Accessible Dance Experiences.” The article — written by Kate Corby, a professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department and chair of the School’s Department of Theatre and Drama; Mariah Meyer LeFeber, an outreach …
A new report released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit focused on unearthing and disseminating education data, found the average full-time college student does not attempt enough courses to earn a bachelor’s degree in five years. The report also found the average college student only earns credit or a passing grade in 75% of …