Department Posts
Educational Psychology faculty honored with WARF Professorship, Romnes Fellowship
Two faculty from the School of Education were recently honored with prestigious campuswide research awards from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. David Williamson Shaffer and James Pustejovsky are among…
From AI in the classroom to student mental health, UW–Madison education experts can share back-to-school insights
As students, educators, and families prepare for the start of a new school year, experts from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education are available to share insights on some of the…
UW–Madison’s Bell named chair of ICPSR Governing Council
UW–Madison’s Courtney Bell, a professor of learning sciences in the School of Education’s top-ranked Department of Educational Psychology, has been appointed chair of the Governing Council of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and…
UW–Madison offers fellowship on AI in education for Universities of Wisconsin instructors
A UW–Madison program aimed at helping educators ethically and effectively use artificial intelligence (AI) to support their work will continue for a second year. In its second year, the program will be…
UW–Madison’s Nathan explores the role of the body in learning on podcast
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan was recently featured on “The Science of Creativity” podcast, hosted by Keith Sawyer, to discuss embodied cognition — the idea that learning is grounded in the body, in movement,…
Icy Zhang received 2026 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
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…
Andy Garbacz Receives 2026 APA Division 16 Tom Oakland Mid-Career Scholarship Award
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…
UW–Madison doctoral student Jeong wins first place in national eBoard competition
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…
UW–Madison’s Kaplan receives Humboldt Foundation award
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, Hilldale Professor and Richard L. Venezky WARF Professor of Educational Psychology, has received a Renewed Research Stay Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Kaplan The award recognizes Kaplan’s…
UW–Madison School of Education, Educational Psychology ranked No. 1 by U.S. News for third straight year
For the third consecutive year, UW–Madison is home to the top-ranked school of education in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Education Graduate Schools rankings published on Tuesday. In addition…