UW–Madison’s Field Day Lab, housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, has launched a new learning game through PBS Wisconsin Education that is titled, “The Legend of the Lost Emerald: Searching for Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes.” In the point-and-click adventure game, learners use critical thinking and historical inquiry skills to recover stories about …
UW–Madison’s Sadhana Puntambekar is the lead author on a paper that’s being recognized by the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) as one of its Research Worth Reading awards. The paper being recognized is titled, “Supporting middle school students’ science talk: A comparison of physical and virtual labs.” This award is given to three …
Reports of school districts struggling to find enough qualified teachers weren’t rare prior to the onset of the pandemic — and today these growing staffing challenges are placing significant strains on education systems across the nation. Headline after headline documents a harsh reality: Teachers are leaving the profession and not enough people want to join …
The highly anticipated “Blu³eprint” by UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah was unveiled last week on Tuesday, Feb. 22, and now stands in front of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOCA) on State Street in Madison. Abdu’Allah, an internationally acclaimed artist and professor with the School of Education’s Art Department, is the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art and the …
Focusing on a tumultuous era in our history, the UW–Madison Department of Theatre and Drama’s upcoming production of “A Piece of My Heart” presents a potent message on the human cost of war and the scars that still remain. Written by UW–Madison alumna Shirley Lauro and directed by Professor Baron Kelly, the play shares the true stories of …
Mindi Thompson, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, recently assumed a leadership position with the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) as co-director. CCWT’s mission is to “conduct and support research, critical policy analysis, and public dialogue on student experiences with the transition from college to the workforce in order to …
The Arts + Literature Laboratory is hosting UW–Madison’s Li Chiao Ping for a screening and conversation about her “Women Dancing” Project, on Monday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. Li is a Vilas Research Professor with the School of Education’s Dance Department. For Li’s project, she commissioned seven postmodern choreographers to create unique solos for her to …
By Käri Knutson, University Communications Travis Wright, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology and a nationally recognized expert in school-based support for children and families undergoing trauma, has been named faculty director of UW–Madison’s Morgridge Center for Public Service. Wright began his new role Feb. 1, replacing Earlise C. Ward, …
Latimer is a successful heart surgeon. When his much younger girlfriend, Nina, unexpectedly gets pregnant, Latimer must break the news to his grown daughter, who is struggling to start a family of her own. Forward Theater Company’s upcoming world premiere of “The Mytilenean Debate,” by Quan Barry, is directed by UW–Madison’s Mark H., an assistant professor …
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has received a three-year, $897,000 grant from the Institute for Education Sciences to work on the development of probabilistic forecasting approaches to model trends toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, the United Nations identified …