The UW–Madison Dance Department and Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) present “bits ‘n pieces,” Nov. 17-19 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall (1050 University Avenue). This family-friendly concert is packed with humor and delight, and will feature new choreography, fan favorites, and rarely seen works by award-winning movement artist Li Chiao-Ping, the Sally Banes …
By Kari Dickinson University Theatre’s newest production, “Peter and the Starcatcher” — which opens this week on Thursday, Nov. 17 — offers a chance for audience members of all ages to rediscover a spirit of childlike wonder. This Tony Award-winning play upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be “The Boy …
David Williamson Shaffer has been appointed the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics in the UW–Madison School of Education. The honor acknowledges Shaffer’s decades of exemplary teaching, mentorship, and research, which includes establishing the field of quantitative ethnography. Quantitative ethnography (QE) unifies statistical and qualitative research methods to help researchers use the power of “big …
UW–Madison’s Taekyeom Lee, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, was a featured speaker recently at the 2022 AIGA Design Conference in Seattle, Washington, Oct. 20-22. Lee, who was a mainstage speaker at the conference, presented a talk that is titled,“Tangible Graphic Design,” in which he explored the symbiotic nature between technology …
On Veterans Day, we’re putting the spotlight on Dale Schulz — a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, a proud UW–Madison School of Education alumnus (BS in elementary education), and an award-winning and now retired teacher. Schulz spent three years serving with the Marines from 1974 to 1977, rising to the rank of sergeant. From there, …
The ratings are eye-opening and outstanding. According to the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings, UW–Madison is home to the fifth-ranked school of education in the nation — marking the ninth straight year it has been rated among the top five. Those same Best Education Schools rankings put UW–Madison’s Department of …
Anjalé Welton was appointed by UW–Madison campus leadership as the Rupple-Bascom Professor, which confirms the high esteem in which she is held by her colleagues. Welton, who chairs the School of Education’s highly ranked Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, focuses much of her work on how educational leaders talk about and address race …
UW–Madison’s Yuanru Tan received the Best Student Paper Award at this year’s International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 15-19. Tan is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology’s Learning Sciences program. Her paper, “Ordered Network Analysis,” introduces ONA as a solution to model and visualize collaborative problem …
UW–Madison alumnus Alejandro Nunez is among 29 promising high school mathematics and science teachers who are just beginning their careers that were awarded Knowles Teaching Fellowships for 2022. Nunez is currently a first-year teacher at Verona Area High School in Verona, Wisconsin. He recently received his master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of …
UW–Madison’s Emily Arthur, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, has been awarded an Eleanor M. Garvey Visiting Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard University to carry out her research proposal that is titled, “Secrets of Havell: Making Prints for ‘The Birds of America.’ ” The central objective of Arthur’s …