University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Tandem Press announces Friday Jazz Series starting Oct. 21

Tandem Press announces its annual Friday Jazz Series featuring students from the UW–Madison Mead Witter School of Music’s Jazz Studies Program, led by Johannes Wallmann, the John and Carolyn Peterson Chair in Jazz Studies, along with Emma Dayhuff, Chad McCullough, Nick Moran, and Les Thimmig. The 2022-2023 series, beginning on Oct. 21, includes three concerts during …

Romero-Reyes, Wallace selected for Project MALES Graduate Scholars Program

UW–Madison PhD students Joseph Romero-Reyes and Josh Wallace were both recently selected to be part of the Project MALES Graduate Scholars Program. Romero-Reyes and Wallace are two of just four scholars from across the country to be selected this fall for the program, which is designed to support the academic and career advancement of emerging scholars …

UW–Madison’s Rosenberg honored with Ingmar Bergman Center residency

This past summer, UW–Madison’s Douglas Rosenberg, a professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, was honored with an international artist residency at the Ingmar Berman Center in Sweden. The residency included a screening of Rosenberg’s film, “Song of Songs,” his deeply personal evocation of the erotic prose poem of the same name that appears in the …

Jin-Wen Yu presents ‘Home Wandering’ contemporary dance concert Oct. 13-15

The UW–Madison Dance Department and Jin-Wen Yu Dance present “Home Wandering,” a two-part concert of new contemporary dance and older, award-winning work by Professor Jin-Wen Yu, Oct. 13-15 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall. The first half of the program, created and performed over the summer in Taipei with six Taiwanese dancers, explores the surrealistic feel …

Lin and Ling, cohosts of ‘Book Friends Forever,’ to deliver 2022 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture

Grace Lin and Alvina Ling will deliver the 2022 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m., in the Great Hall at Memorial Union. Established in 1998 by UW–Madison’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), housed in the School of Education, the lecture was named to honor Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished children’s book editor for 38 years with Harper Junior Books, and …

UW–Madison’s Turner is panelist for school integration talk at Ohio State

UW–Madison’s Erica O. Turner, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, was a panelist for a colloquium hosted by the Center for Ethics and Values (CEHV) at Ohio State University earlier this month. The colloquium, titled “Why Integrate Schools in Our Segregated World,” examined the democratic obstacles and opportunities present …

Educational video game created at UW–Madison earns national Public Media Awards honor

An educational video game developed at UW–Madison that allows fourth through sixth graders to explore Great Lakes shipwrecks as maritime archaeologists has put another jewel in its crown.  The game, The Legend of the Lost Emerald, won a top prize this month at the 54th Annual Public Media Awards in a category dedicated to educational resources for classrooms. The …

New research brief highlights ways Wisconsin technical colleges press on in the wake of the pandemic

Providing thoughtful and data-driven support services and continued flexibility for faculty, staff, and students will be keys to success for Wisconsin technical colleges as they move on from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new UW–Madison research findings.  The findings were presented in a new research brief released this month from the Crisis as Catalyst for …

Pfund co-authors article on avoiding burnout while mentoring

By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications Christine Pfund, director of WCER’s Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, and three other experts on mentorship share some of what they’ve learned in a recent article for the Harvard Business Review titled, “Don’t Let Mentoring Burn You Out.” The article begins by explaining how the nature of mentorship contains within it …