During the course of the academic year, we’ll be sharing out Q&As completed by our newest faculty members in an effort to introduce them to our campus and School of Education communities. This story originally appeared at news.wisc.edu. Aly Renee Amidei: Assistant professor of design in Theatre and Drama Hometown: Streamwood, Illinois Educational/professional background: BA in theatre, Knox College, Galesburg, …
By University of Wisconsin–La Crosse UW–La Crosse (UWL) has dedicated its Center for the Arts to the late Truman Lowe, a UWL (and UW–Madison) alumnus who drew international acclaim during his five-decade career and inspired thousands of aspiring artists as a professor at UW–Madison. The Truman T. Lowe Center for the Arts was dedicated Oct. 3, …
UW–Madison’s Tim O’Neill, a 3-D technician in the School of Education’s Art Department, has an exhibit of new work at the Abel Contemporary Gallery in Stoughton, Wisconsin, through Nov. 6. O’Neill is an accomplished studio artist working in both wood and metal. His most recent body of work, “Halls Creek Lodge,” looks to Castor canadensis, the North American Beaver, …
By Laurel White Moves to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic may have mitigated some mental health challenges for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and gender-expansive (LGBTQ+) students, according to a new study from UW–Madison researchers. According to the study, which analyzed survey data from more than 40,000 middle and high school students before and during the …
Media reports about attempts to pass educational gag orders and ban books with “divisive concepts” are now surprisingly common — with such efforts likely to continue into 2023 and beyond. UW–Madison’s Ashley White and Kimber Wilkerson are taking part in a panel discussion about this important topic on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 12 p.m. (CST). …
UW–Madison alumna Jo Ann Oravec is the author of a new book that explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives, but also their unsettling “dark sides.” Oravec earned her master’s and PhD in educational administration from the School of Education, and holds degrees from UW–Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Kari Dickinson It is a big year for glass. In fact, the United Nations has declared 2022 as the “International Year of Glass” to celebrate the essential role that glass has in society. This year also marks the 60th anniversary of UW–Madison’s Glass Lab, the first collegiate glass program in the nation, and considered by many …