By Doug Erickson Art inspired and empowered Dawry Ruiz as a teenager. Now he hopes to spread its motivating force to other young people. Ruiz, a UW–Madison junior, will have help in that career goal as the recipient of a 2022 Truman Scholarship, one of the most prestigious honors for undergraduates in the country. The …
By Ila Schrecker Four Ho-Chunk graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are working to elevate the voices and experiences of Native American people, and to make academic and cultural spaces more accessible and beneficial to the Ho-Chunk community. All four are pursuing PhDs: Kendra Greendeer in art history; Molli Pauliot in anthropology: Brenda Owen in …
Each spring, the School of Education recognizes some of its most outstanding individuals with Faculty and Staff Distinguished Achievement Awards. On Thursday, April 14, this year’s award winners were honored during a reception and short ceremony in the Education Building’s Wisconsin Idea Room. “Today we recognize an extraordinary group of people,” said School of Education …
The University of Wisconsin–La Crosse will rename its Center for the Arts after UW–Madison Professor Emeritus Truman Lowe, which the university described as “one the most accomplished alumni in the university’s 113-year history.” Lowe graduated from UW–La Crosse in 1969 and became a world-renowned artist and sculptor. His work is described as “bridging the traditional and contemporary, …
A collection of poems and short stories that promote brain exercise and creative thinking for older adults is the latest book written by UW–Madison professor emeritus Richard Smith. Smith retired in 1990 from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and in the last ten years has been the author of numerous books including: …
Faculty members and students associated with the Greater Madison Writing Project at UW–Madison work with teachers in rural school districts like Gresham, Wisconsin, to offer professional development for educators as well as enrichment opportunities for students and young adult writers. Bryn Orum and Mark Dziedzic are co-directors of the Greater Madison Writing Project (GMWP), which is housed …
Jamie Macias was recently named the UW–Madison School of Education’s director of career services and strategy, a position she is starting on Monday, April 25. In this new role, Macias will lead the transformation of student career services across the School of Education, which is home to over 2,700 undergraduate and graduate students in 10 …
The UW–Madison Department of Theatre and Drama’s newest production, “Heathers the Musical,” will be a hilarious, heartfelt, and homicidal show based on the 1980s cult classic film. Directed by Jake Penner, an artistic associate for American Players Theatre, performances will take place April 14-24 in the department’s Robert E. Mitchell Theatre in Vilas Hall. The show tells the darkly …
The UW–Madison Division of the Arts welcomes Omari “Motion” Carter to campus April 7–15, through the International Visiting Artist Program. A collaboration between the Division of the Arts and the International Division, which funds the program, the International Visiting Artist Program supports short-term residences for international artists on campus. Omari “Motion” Carter is a screendance …
State of the Art: The 2022 International Symposium on Screendance will be hosted at UW–Madison April 10-13, with events taking place primarily in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall (1050 University Avenue). The symposium, directed by UW–Madison Art Professor Douglas Rosenberg, will focus on topics that are timely to the field of screendance, including, …