By Todd Finkelmeyer Thanks to the generosity of its alumni and friends, the UW–Madison School of Education on Thursday night announced an $11 million investment to support Wisconsin educators. These funds will extend the innovative UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge program; invest in the Early Career Teaching Institute; and bolster the vital work …
The UW–Madison Division of the Arts has announced the recipients of the 2024 Creative Arts Awards, who will be recognized at special gala event on Tuesday, May 2, at the Hamel Music Center. Among the award winners are nine individuals with ties to the School of Education’s Art Department. The Creative Arts Awards program enables …
By Laurel White As complementary and integrative health treatments like mindfulness, acupuncture, and chiropractic care continue to grow in popularity, a new project led by a School of Education faculty member aims to increase understanding of how well those treatments work. The project, recently funded by a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, …
By Kari Dickinson Based on Virginia Woolf’s feminist classic, University Theatre’s newest production, “Orlando” — which opens this Thursday — will take the audience on a journey across the world and through centuries in a profound, moving, and sometimes funny story about one person’s search for love and artistic fulfillment. The show runs April 18-28 in …
UW–Madison’s Tandem Press has awarded graduate students David Love and Emilee Taxman the Gabriele S. Haberland Graduate Student Printmaking Award for Travel to Europe. In 2019, UW–Madison Professor Emeritus Willy Haeberli established two annual travel awards of $4,000 each in honor of his late wife, Gabriele Haberland. Haberland believed in the power of travel to expand a student’s worldview and …
The Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE America) honored UW–Madison student Paige Peloquin as a Major of the Year during the organization’s 138th National Convention and Expo, March 12-16 in Cleveland, Ohio. The award celebrates outstanding undergraduate students in the health, physical education, recreation, and dance professions who are nominated by a faculty advisor …
Artist, author, and anthropologist Marlon F. Hall, a Spring 2024 Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence with UW–Madison’s Division of the Arts and the School of Education’s Art Department, is presenting an exhibition, “Can I Tell You a Story?: From a Door at the Center of the Table,” in the Memorial Union’s Main Gallery through May 17. The exhibition …
By Sofie Schachter Sophie Sanchez arrived on the UW–Madison campus with a plan of majoring in biology. “I didn’t even know kinesiology existed at that point,” admits Sanchez. But that all changed during her sophomore year, when as part of a biology class project, Sanchez was introduced to the Schrage Lab. Led by Department of Kinesiology …
UW–Madison Professor Emerita Gloria Ladson-Billings will deliver the AERA Distinguished Lecture at the 2024 Annual Meeting, to be held April 11–14 in Philadelphia. Her lecture, titled “‘Not Yet at Plessy’: 70 Years Post-Brown,” will begin at 11:25 a.m. ET on Friday, April 12. Ladson-Billings, the former Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the School …
UW–Madison’s School of Education is the No. 1 school of education in the United States, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Education Graduate Schools rankings released on Tuesday. It marks the first time the School of Education has received the first-place ranking from U.S. News & World Report, though it has been highly …