UW-Madison’s Kevin Reilly co-authored an article in Change: The Magazine of Higher learning, about how faculty and quality instruction can increase the value of a college degree. The article, headlined “Creating Value,” is co-authored with Penny MacCormack, the chief academic officer at the Association of College and University Educators, and David Brailow, the vice president for …
For Faisal Abdu’Allah, it was an art teacher who played Miles Davis and John Coltrane records as the young student painted. Those early jazz sessions encouraged the London teenager to pursue a career in art. Inspiration — entire life paths — can spring from small moments, chance encounters, mundane objects. That’s the premise explored by …
Kelli Koltyn and Susan Andreae recently received a UW-Madison Contemporary Social Problems Initiative Award for their project titled “Enhancing Maintenance of Standing Up and Moving more in Older Adults.” Koltyn is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, while Andreae is an assistant professor with the department. Older adults spend most of the …
UW-Madison’s David Kaplan was named a research affiliate at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) located in Bamberg, Germany. Kaplan is the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. According to the institute’s website, “…LIfBi at the University of Bamberg aims to promote longitudinal studies in educational research …
Kristen Hendrickson was recently named the UW–Madison School of Education’s chief financial officer (CFO), a position she is starting on Aug. 12. In this role, Hendrickson will oversee financial forecasting and planning, budget/resource management, business services, facilities management, and human resources. She will work closely with the dean, senior staff, and department and unit leaders …
A joint effort to strengthen communities in rural Green County, a collaboration to reduce cancer among black women, and a partnership to improve health literacy were among the winners of the 2019 Community-University Partnership Awards, presented by UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank on June 26 at Olin House. This year, the School of Education’s Gloria Ladson-Billings …
UW-Madison’s Elizabeth Graue is a part of the “We Care for Dane Kids” team that took second place in the Alliance for the American Dream competition. Graue is the Sorenson Professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and the director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (CRECE). Graue and her …
UW-Madison’s Jerry Dempsey, who is recognized as a leading authority on pulmonary physiology, received an honorary degree from Western University in his hometown of London, Ontario, Canada, on June 18. Dempsey is the John Robert Sutton Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences, and the director of the John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine. He also holds …
This is the online edition of Learning Connections, a news magazine from the UW-Madison School of Education. The Summer 2019 issue is filled with exciting news about School of Education faculty, staff, students and alumni. A pdf of the Summer Learning Connections is available here. Summer 2019 edition highlights include: Keep in Touch! The School of Education …
Historic ‘All of Us’ project creating largest health database ever Dorothy Farrar Edwards is helping lead UW-Madison’s participation in the nationwide All of Us Research Program, an effort to compile the largest representative medical database ever to accelerate research and improve health. In an effort to better reflect the full diversity of the United States, a …