The Paper Artist Collective recently profiled UW–Madison’s Michael Velliquette as its December Artist of the Month. Velliquette, who is known for crating paper sculptures, is a faculty associate with the School of Education’s Art Department. Velliquette explains to the Paper Artist Collective: “I began my investigations into paper art about 15 years ago somewhat accidentally, …
National Public Radio (NPR) recently interviewed UW-Madison’s Lynda Barry, one of this year’s recipients of the MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius Grants.” Barry is a professor of interdisciplinary creativity with the School of Education’s Art Department and holds the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art. She joined the faculty in 2013 after serving as the spring 2012 artist in …
Maggie Hawkins, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was honored with the International Literacy Association’s (ILA) Erwin Zolt Digital Literacy Game Changer Award. Hawkins’s work focuses on languages, literacies, and learning in classrooms and schools, while striving for equity and social justice. At UW-Madison, Hawkins has been involved in many …
Jo Ann Carr, director emerita of the School of Education’s Media, Education Resources, and Information Technology (MERIT), has recently published “Such Anxious Hours: Wisconsin Women’s Voices from the Civil War,” with the University of Wisconsin Press. Carr provides a chronicle of Civil War Wisconsin by placing the words of eight Wisconsin women in the national, state, and local context of …
The Wisconsin State Journal interviewed UW-Madison’s Peter Goff for a report examining the trial implementation of grading floors in Madison schools. Goff is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Madison West High School was selected to test a grading floor as a part of a district examination of …
UW-Madison’s Julie Mead was named the vice president of the Education Law Association (ELA) at the organization’s annual conference on Nov. 13-16 in Norfolk, Virginia. Mead is the School of Education’s associate dean for education, and a professor with the School’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Her research focuses on topics related to the legal aspects …
UW-Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah, an associate professor with the School Education’s Art Department and faculty director of The Studio, was mentioned in Muse’s memoriam of well-known art curator Olabisi Obafunke Silva (known as Bisi), who Abdu’Allah credits with launching his art career in London. After working in London, Silva left the UK in 2000 to champion global arts of …
A performance in CorningWork’s “The World as We Know It” from UW-Madison’s Li Chiao-Ping, a Vilas Research Professor with the School of Education’s Dance Department, was recently reviewed by Pittsburgh (PGH) City Paper. “The World as We Know It,” as described by Lisa Cunningham from the PGH City Paper, tells the stories of six women “of …
Tim Tansey, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, will serve as the principal investigator (PI) on the UW-Madison sub-awards for two major new grant-funded projects. Virginia Commonwealth University Professor Paul Wehman is the PI on the two five-year, $4.4 million awards (total funding of $8.8 million) from …
UW-Madison’s Martha Vukelich-Austin received the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Greater Madison’s Outstanding Fundraising Professional award. The AFP aims to honor community champions that give their time, resources, and talent to causes they love, and making their community a more vibrant place to live. Nominated by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Vukelich-Austin has worked in various …