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UW–Madison student Kat Schneider, who is graduating this month with a bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation psychology, is the School of Education’s recipient of this year’s Ginsberg Family Award. Since 2018 Ginsberg Family Awards have recognized outstanding student leaders. The Ginsberg family has chosen to offer these awards in honor of the late Dean of Students …
By Laurel White The latest video game from UW–Madison’s Field Day Lab and engineering professor Victor Zavala teaches high school students how to harness systems engineering and attempt to navigate one of the biggest environmental challenges facing the United States right now — and it all has to do with cow poop. The game, Bloom: …
UW–Madison student Annabelle Zhang, who is pursuing a BS in the School of Education’s Art Department, recently won the Best in Show award at the 2024 Digital Salon for her project, “Block Scheduler for Visually Impaired Kids.” In her artist’s statement, Zhang writes that “this project seeks to bridge the gap in daily scheduling tools …
This year’s winners of Bucky Graduate Student Awards include three students from the School of Education. Tony DelaRosa and Qiang Xie each received Graduate School Student Commitment to Engagement and Activism Awards, and Emily Nott was honored with the Graduate Peer Mentor Award. Graduate Student Commitment to Engagement and Activism Awards recognize graduate students who …
A 28-minute documentary short about UW–Madison’s Lynda Barry, associate professor of interdisciplinary creativity in the School of Education’s Art Department, screened recently as part of this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival. Tommasina Capelli, who graduated from UW–Madison last spring, created “A Room Alive!” as a senior class project after taking Barry’s comic drawing classes. She told Isthmus …
UW–Madison alumna Erin Hastey, who graduated with a PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2023, has received the Dissertation of the Year Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC). For over a decade, Hastey “has empowered organizational leaders to move from conflict to …
UW–Madison’s Tomiko Jones, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, has written an essay about her long-form photography-based project, “These Grand Places,” for the digital magazine Edge Effects. Jones’ photography and multidisciplinary installations explore social, cultural, and geopolitical transitions, considering the twin crises of too much and too little in the age of climate change. Running …
By Laurel White Education data can be harnessed to promote groundbreaking and energizing movements toward play, creativity, and social justice in the classroom, according to a new book from a School of Education faculty member. The book, “The Left Hand of Data,” was released this week by The MIT Press. It is the latest release from …
By Laurel White A popular assessment of literacy and numeracy in Kenya does more to advance a global education reform agenda than serve the needs of individual schools or students, according to a new paper from a School of Education faculty member. The article, published in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, argues the …