UW–Madison’s Pauline Ho received the 2020 Psychological Science Research Grant from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). Ho is a Ph.D. student with the human development program within the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Ho’s project aims to better understand how individual and contextual factors interact to chart the course of …
Each year, the Secretary of the Faculty recognizes four professors from across campus for these major awards, which have been given annually since the 1986-87 academic year. One faculty member each from the arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and biological sciences is selected from nominations by department chairs. The winners are awarded $7,500. …
UW–Madison’s School of Education and several of its programs are once again ranked among the very best in the nation in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 17. UW–Madison is home to the No. 1-ranked public school of education in the nation, a distinction it …
Take a look at some of the IT resources for School of Education students, faculty, and staff. MERIT has detailed instructions for setting up the SOE VPN, Network Drives, and they also provide many other helpful how-tos. Mapping Network Drives VPN (Windows) VPN (Mac) Other KnowedgeBase Articles
Students and faculty from the school psychology program are excited to be attending the National Association of School Psychologists Annual Convention in Baltimore this week! Five faculty and over twenty graduate students will be presenting at the conference, disseminating research on a wide variety of topics including family-school engagement, school mental health, behavior screening, and …
Department Profs. Craig Albers and Andy Garbacz have teamed up with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research to create a new program that will focus on “rigorous, sophisticated, and interdisciplinary research that is responsive to needs identified by rural schools and communities.” According to a WCER article announcing its creation, the Rural Education Research & …
Dr. Susan Sheridan recently became the inaugural recipient of the Department’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Sheridan, who earned her PhD here in ’89, is the director of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools and the George Holmes University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received the award after giving …
Albers, Garbacz, and Kratochwill Awarded OSEP Training Grant to Prepare School Psychology Doctoral Students for Leadership Careers in Academia School Psychology faculty members Craig Albers and Andy Garbacz, in addition to School Psychology Professor-Emeritus Tom Kratochwill, were awarded a 5-year, $1.25 million U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Program (OSEP) Preparation of Leadership …
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and former colleague Prof. Frank Baker. Dr. Baker, who passed in early November at the age of 90, was a professor with the Department’s Quantitative Methods area for more than three decades. He also served a term as Department Chair. Baker did …
Lisa Hebgen has taken over as director of the Department’s Master of Science for Professional Educators program. She succeeds interim director Mary Louse Gomez. Hebgen, who was previously the associate vice president of student success for the Wisconsin Technical College System, is excited about her new role. “I love working with educators, especially when it …