The School of Education’s Latinx Affinity Group and Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (OEDI) invites students who identify as Latinx to join them for an event, titled “Stressed? RELEASE IT!” on Friday, Apr. 23, from 4 – 6 p.m. The goals of the event are to: The first 25 registrants will be mailed a …
UW–Madison’s Kate Vieira is receiving a 2021 Advancement of Knowledge Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Vieira is a professor and the Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair in Literacy in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. The award honors an empirical research publication in the previous two years that …
The Week of the Young Child is being celebrated April 10-16 by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The purpose of this week is to focus the spotlight on the needs of young children and their families, and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs. This …
The UW–Madison Dance Department presents the H’Doubler Concert, a livestream event of new student work from 13 student choreographers, including Alexis Baynard, Jessica Billings, Olivia Bruhn, Akiwele Burayidi, Sarah Dewey, Courtney Kopchinski, Sarah Langdon, Emma Miquelon, Caitriona Quirk, Katie Soldatke, Abbi Stickels, Grace Stuckey, and Rakhi Winston. The works have been scheduled in three separate programs and …
UW–Madison’s Erica Turner is receiving the 2021 Erickson and Hornberger Outstanding Ethnography in Education Book Award from the University of Pennsylvania’s Ethnography in Education Research Forum. Turner’s book that led to this honor is, “Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality,” which was published in 2020 by the University of Chicago Press. Turner is …
UW–Madison’s Stephanie Budge has received the Early Career Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Counseling Psychology, from the Society of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Budge is an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology. Her research and advocacy efforts focus on transgender and gender diverse people. In his nomination letter for …
By Käri Knutson, University Communications A search-and-screen committee has been appointed to help identify and select candidates for UW–Madison’s next deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, vice provost, and chief diversity officer. The committee is being chaired by Jerlando Jackson, professor and department chair in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the School of …
Several faculty members from the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology will be participating in an online panel discussion, “What You Don’t Know About Exercise,” on Friday, Apr. 9, at noon. The event is part of the Wisconsin Idea Spotlight series hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. During the program, moderated by Gary Diffee, professor and chair of …
Screen.Dance 2021, Scotland’s festival of dance on screen, announced its 2021 festival awards. The jury members selected four works for festival awards and four for special mentions in two main competitive categories — UK and International. This year the International category uniquely recognized three additional contenders from three curated festival programs: Growing Up, Going Out and Staying In. UW–Madison’s …
UW–Madison’s Jin-Wen Yu, a professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department, will present “Non-Ordinary,” a concert of contemporary, cross-cultural, cutting-edge dance, on April 10-11 in Taipei, Taiwan. The concert is shared with emerging Taiwanese choreographer Chien-Kuei Chang, featuring 10 outstanding Taiwanese professional dancers. Yu will present a sextet, titled “Non-Ordinary Position,” that explores the idea of …