The inaugural Arts Crawl will take place on the UW–Madison campus from Thursday, March 31 – Saturday, April 2. Arts Crawl highlights a collection of arts events held over several days in the arts departments and co-curricular arts units at UW–Madison, including the School of Education’s departments of Art, Dance, and Theatre and Drama. It is an opportunity to have creative …
UW–Madison’s School of Education and many of its programs are again rated among the very best in the nation according to the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 29. UW–Madison is home to the fifth-ranked school of education in the nation — marking the ninth straight year it has been …
The UW-Madison Filipinx American Student Organization (FASO) is playing a leading role in hosting the first post-pandemic Midwest Filipino American Summit (MFAS), which is being held on campus April 2, with more than 400 Filipinx students from seven states expected to attend. FASO’s eight executive board members are doing most of the planning for this year’s event …
UW–Madison’s Brandon Fico has been awarded a three-year research fellowship from the Alzheimer’s Association for his project entitled, “Arterial Stiffness and Cerebral Hemodynamics Impact on Alzheimer’s Disease.” Fico is a postdoctoral fellow in the Bruno Balke Biodynamics Laboratory in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology. The fellowship will support Fico’s investigation of how age-related changes in the …
UW–Madison’s Colleen Conroy is a co-author of a new article published in Voice and Speech Review that is titled, “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Gender Affirming Voice Training.” Conroy is an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Theatre and Drama. She and her co-authors on the article — Owen Karcher, an art therapist, and …
UW–Madison’s Ashley L. White is the author of a paper that proposes a new framework for preparing future teachers to better connect with and educate the nation’s increasingly diverse student population. The article — published earlier this year in the journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies — is titled, “Reaching Back to Reach Forward: …
Last week over 500 artists from around the world — including from Canada, Poland, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, and New Zealand — descended on UW–Madison for the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) conference, “Our Shared Future,” hosted by the School of Education’s Art Department. As a result, there was a virtual explosion of art and …
UW–Madison School of Education Dean Diana Hess will serve as a panelist at the “Finding Common Ground for Civic Education in Turbulent Times” mini-conference, hosted by the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College at Columbia University. The mini-conference, which will take place virtually on Thursday, March 24, from 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. (EST), offers an opportunity …
UW–Madison alumnus Brett Nachman has accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas, in its Adult and Lifelong Learning program in the College of Education and Health Professions. Nachman earned his PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2021. He is currently a postdoctoral research scholar at …
The UW–Madison Dance Department, housed in the School of Education, announces the creation of the Arnhold Directorship in Dance Education, a position made possible by a transformational gift from dance advocate, educator, and founder of the Dance Education Laboratory Jody Gottfried Arnhold (BA 1965) and her husband John Arnhold that was matched by the School of Education’s Impact 2030 initiative. …