The Summer 2022 edition of Learning Connections, a magazine for alumni and friends of the UW–Madison School of Education, is now posted online. This latest issue centers on “Rising to the Challenge.” The nation is divided on a range of topics and ongoing divisions are making it difficult to solve problems. In this environment, School of …
By Laurel White Years of work breaking down barriers to physical activity for autistic children and their families have won a UW-Madison kinesiology professor national recognition. Luis Columna, associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology, was honored this summer with a prestigious research award from the National Consortium for Physical Education for Individuals with Disabilities. According …
Lisa Jansen was recently named the new IT director for the UW–Madison School of Education. Jansen will start in this role on Monday, Aug. 1, and will provide leadership and vision for the School of Education and its information technology support. She will lead a new IT leadership trio within the School — along with …
Mindy Yadev — who is pursuing a double major in biology and health promotion and health equity — is among the 107 UW–Madison undergraduate students who were awarded Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships at the 2022 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony. These fellowships support undergraduate research done in collaboration with a faculty or staff member. To help …
When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds, Casey and Aaron’s inner critics take on a life of their own as supportive best friends, manipulative exes, and protective parents sing and dance them …
UW–Madison alumna Allison Johnson presented her “Accessible Attitudes” disability inclusion workshop at the 2022 Moebius Syndrome Foundation conference on July 15 in Atlanta, Georgia. Johnson earned her master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education in 2021. Johnson created the workshop to start a conversation about people’s past experiences with the disability community, …
By Laurel White Teaching people how to spot and outsmart a particularly tricky form of misinformation online is at the heart of new UW-Madison research recently funded by the National Science Foundation. The research, led by Martina Rau, will focus on visual misinformation — specifically, misinformation presented online in graphs. Rau, an associate professor with the …
By Kari Dickinson On Tuesday, July 12, children with disabilities in the No Limits Kids Fitness program experienced the freedom of biking in a special event using adapted bikes on loan from Project Mobility in St. Charles, Illinois. The theme for the day was “Iron Kids.” No Limits Kids Fitness is a summer program that is hosted by Adapted …
By WCER Communications The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) is thrilled to announce that its ONPAR (Obtaining Necessary Parity Through Academic Rigor) team is one of only 30 projects worldwide to win a prize in the 2021-22 Learning Engineering Tools Competition, becoming eligible to share $4 million to develop improved educational technology tools potentially impacting …
By Kari Dickinson The first major retrospective of work by UW–Madison’s Tom Jones, an award-winning contemporary photographer and professor of photography in the School of Education’s Art Department, will be on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend, Wisconsin, from July 23 – Oct. 9. Titled “Here We Stand,” the exhibition features 120 photographs from …