By WCER Communications Kelly Mella, who has more than 30 years’ experience in communications as both a college professor and a practitioner, will join the WCER leadership team on Aug. 14 as WCER’s new director of communications and marketing. An accomplished communications professional with proven leadership skills and rich experience in the academic world, Mella …
By WCER Communications Few graduate programs teach grant writing. Yet education researchers frequently must secure outside funding to test theories and gather evidence on what works in education. To help School of Education faculty, staff, and students apply for — and hopefully win — more grant funding, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) recently …
By Laurel White When Adaurennaya “Ada” Onyewuenyi was a doctoral student at the University of Washington, her research advisor stumbled upon a book that would drastically change their work — and, arguably, Onyewuenyi’s career as an educational psychology researcher. At the time, Onyewuenyi was at a crucial point in her dissertation and was beginning the …
A recent article highlights a Department of Curriculum and Instruction course, “Videogames and Learning,” as one of UW–Madison’s top ten summer classes in 2022. The course, which was offered again for Summer Term 2023, is taught by Krista-Lee Malone, a teaching professor in the department. “One of the main things I want students to take …
UW–Madison student Joseph Romero-Reyes, a doctoral candidate in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, was recently accepted into the California State University Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program. According to his acceptance letter, Romero-Reyes’ selection honors his “promise as a doctoral student and (his) interest in pursuing future tenure-track faculty opportunities in …
UW–Madison student Atilano Escobar, who is studying graphic design in the School of Education’s Art Department, will have his work displayed in a juried exhibition at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition is part of the annual Construct3D conference Aug. 1-3, which showcases works of digital printing from …
By Laurel White A new research project from a School of Education faculty member aims to shed more light on a widely-used loan parents take out on behalf of college students. The federal loan, called a Parent PLUS loan, has virtually no borrowing limit and is most often utilized by Black, Latinx, and low-income families. …
Following is a Q&A with Learning Analytics alumna, Jay Winston. Winston graduated in May 2023 with an MS in Educational Psychology: Learning Analytics, and is now working for the City of Madison. Read along to learn about Winston’s experience in the program and find out what she has been up to since. Can you speak …
By Sofie Schachter Last month, 17 librarians from across Wisconsin convened at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) to explore how virtual reality experiences could help increase rural Latinx students’ engagement with scientific research in the Arctic and Antarctic. Field Day Lab, an educational video game lab within WCER and the UW–Madison School of …
UW–Madison graduate students Skyler Simpson and Mallory Stowe have been selected as finalists for the AXA Art Prize U.S. 2023 Exhibition. They created two of the 40 pieces selected for this honor, out of over 700 nationwide submissions. Their work will be exhibited in New York in the fall, with first and second place prizes …