Niu analyzing how selfie filters affect self-image While observing heavy use of selfie apps such as Snapchat, UW–Madison Ph.D. student Yanzhuo (Amy) Niu found herself wondering about the effects that virtual makeovers have on college-age females. The apps offer users photographic filters that change their look. In China, where Niu is originally from, apps similar to this …
A project led by UW–Madison’s Stephen Quintana that’s designed to strengthen mental health services for Madison’s Latinx community is receiving a $1 million grant over the next five years from the Wisconsin Partnership Program. “The grant addresses ethnic and racial disparities in access to culturally and linguistically competent mental health services by Spanish-speaking and bilingual members of …
The benefits associated with staying active are widely understood, with physical activity being shown to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and depression, to name only a few. “If there was a pill that produced all the benefits of exercise, it would be a very easy sell,” says Lisa Cadmus- Bertram, an assistant …
A new research project focused on the experience of undergraduate military service members and veterans enrolled in Wisconsin universities has recently been launched at the Wisconsin Center for Research Education (WCER), part of UW-Madison’s School of Education. The Veteran Education to Workforce Affinity and Success Study (VETWAYS), a three-year $556,000 project funded by the National Science Foundation, will seek …
A critical intersection exists between education and health, according to a consensus of researchers and evaluators from the University of Wisconsin‒Madison who have been working closely with rural schools, the community-school model, and Native American communities in Wisconsin. “Better educated individuals live longer, healthier lives than those with less education, and their children are more likely to …
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 …
A team of researchers from UW-Madison secured a $1.2 million grant to partner with the State of Wisconsin to examine a significant decline in the number of regulated early care and education (ECE) providers operating over the past 15 years. Although fluctuations in the market are to be expected, the persistent decline in the number …
A story out of the University of Georgia explains new research on sport-related concussions (SRC) that’s co-authored by UW-Madison’s Andrew Winterstein and Dee Warmath, a former faculty member at UW-Madison. Warmath and Winterstein’s study — which was published in the journal Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach — reveals that knowing how to report a concussion may be …
A new report from the Madison Education Partnership finds that rather than causing students to do poorly in school, unexcused absences may be signals of significant challenges in students’ lives. To respond, the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is working to understand and act on those signals. Student absences in grades six through eight have steadily increased …
Alongside lead author Wendy Wood of Colorado State University, UW-Madison’s Beth Fields recently co-authored a report that was featured in the journal Disability and Rehabilitation. Fields is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology. The purpose of their study was to map studies of hippotherapy over 30 years as a guide to …