A project team that includes students who are pursuing degrees within the UW–Madison School of Education is a recipient of an Emerging Artist Award in this year’s UW–Madison Arts Business Competition. The award, which is new this year, is granted to applicant groups whose proposals demonstrate a strong potential for success. The award-winning project team includes …
Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) proudly presents “terza rima; Writings on the Body” on April 29 and 30, in collaboration with the UW–Madison School of Education’s Dance Department and the Department of French and Italian. Li Chiao-Ping, the artistic director of Li Chiao-Ping Dance, is the Sally Banes Professor of Dance and a Vilas Research Professor in the Dance Department. …
Julia Eklund Koza’s book, “ ‘Destined to Fail:’ Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music,” has been selected as the winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2021 by the Curriculum Studies division of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Koza is a professor emerita in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and …
Michigan State University Provost Teresa K. Woodruff has recommended Jerlando F. L. Jackson to be the next dean of MSU’s College of Education, effective July 1. The recommendation is subject to approval by the MSU Board of Trustees. Jackson has spent more than two decades on the UW–Madison campus and is currently chair of the School …
UW–Madison graduate student Khadejah Ray has been awarded a Minority Dissertation Fellowship from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Ray is a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. The one-year research fellowship includes $25,000 to support Ray’s dissertation research, and she will be required to present her work …
The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2022 Annual Meeting is being held in San Diego April 21-26. And once again, faculty, staff, and students with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) are being well-represented at this major event. According to information collected by the department, 31 sessions taking place …
UW–Madison’s Brittany Travers, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2022-23. Travers will travel to the University of Málaga in Spain during the spring of 2023, where she will further her research focused on testing and improving balance in autistic youth. In her …
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 …