By UW–Madison Graduate School communications School of Education Ph.D. candidates Nancy Herrera and Dominic J. Ledesma have been selected for the 2020 cohort of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society’s UW–Madison Chapter. The Bouchet Society provides scholars with a network of peers who exemplify character, leadership, scholarship, service, and advocacy for those who have …
UW–Madison’s School of Education and several of its programs are once again ranked among the very best in the nation in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 17. UW-Madison is home to the No. 1-ranked public school of education in the nation, a distinction it is sharing …
UW–Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT) recently started a research project to understand the career development needs of working learners at UW-Parkside. In a recent survey of 2017-18 UW-Parkside graduates, more than 40 percent of respondents reported working off campus for pay for more than 30 hours per week. This figure is reflective …
UW–Madison alumna Jamila Lee-Johnson received second place honors in the Dissertation of the Year Award competition from the American Association for Blacks in Higher Education. Lee-Johnson earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2019. Her dissertation is titled, “I am Becoming”: Understanding the Experiences of Undergraduate Black …
The work of UW–Madison’s Mollie McQuillan received honorable mention recognition in the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award competition being administered by the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Division A. McQuillan is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. The dissertation being recognized, which McQuillan completed en route to earning …
UW-Madison’s Beth Fields is helping lead sessions of an upcoming series of events titled, “Preparing to Care.” A preview of the series notes: “No one is ever prepared to become a caregiver for a loved one diagnosed with dementia. This series is designed to help you prepare and plan for the future.” These events are …
UW–Madison’s Pauline Ho received the 2020 Psychological Science Research Grant from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). Ho is a Ph.D. student with the human development program within the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Ho’s project aims to better understand how individual and contextual factors interact to chart the course of ethnic …
UW-Madison’s Lisa Gralnick was recently recognized by the American Craft Council (ACC) as a 2020 College of Fellows Honoree. According to an ACC news release, Gralnick “is a contemporary American metalsmith, studio jeweler, and academic whose work challenges the monetary, cultural, and personal value of objects by transforming metals into objects of thought provoking visual …
UW-Madison’s Department of Theatre and Drama presents their production of “Julius Caeser,” by William Shakespeare, through March 8. The play follows “a country riven by polarization” and “a resistance pushing its ideals to an extreme action.” The University Theatre, with diverse and gender-bending casting, presents “an ancient story that feels all too modern.” Performances started …
UW-Madison’s Erica Turner, a faculty member with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, recently wrote a new book, “Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality.” Turner’s work notes that American public schools have been enrolling more students identified as black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white students over the past …