Month: May 2026

Icy Zhang received 2026 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Learning Sciences Assistant Professor Icy Zhang received a 2026 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Zhang will utilize her funding on her project, “Bridging the Research-Practice Gap in Statistics and Data Science Education: Co-design ‘Embodied’ Programming Notebooks with Instructors Across Institutions.” Zhang’s research investigates the cognitive and developmental processes that underlie learning in complex domains, such as STEM domains, with …

Andy Garbacz Receives 2026 APA Division 16 Tom Oakland Mid-Career Scholarship Award

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School Psychology Professor Andy Garbacz received a 2026 APA Division 16 Award. The Tom Oakland Mid-Career Scholarship Award recognizes a mid-career school psychologist (7–20 years post-graduation) who has demonstrated exceptional scholarly contributions throughout their career that merit special recognition.

UW–Madison doctoral student Jeong wins first place in national eBoard competition

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UW–Madison’s Tai Sun Jeong, a PhD student in the Quantitative Methods area in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, won first place in the 2026 Graduate Student eBoard Competition hosted by the Graduate Student Issues Committee at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting. Jeong The competition was designed to …