Author: hdrost

Paper on AR and math education earns top award at international conference

UW–Madison graduate student Chaeyeon Kim received the award for Best Doctoral Colloquium Paper at the 11th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) in June. Kim Kim’s paper, “A Comparison of Teachers and Students in Categorizing and Representing Geometric Conjectures using AR Simulations,” investigates how high school geometry teachers and students use augmented reality (AR) to …

Bucky’s Classroom Star: Helping 7th graders across the state prepare for college

By Serena Wang Stephanie Kressin of UW–Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom team meets with 7th-grade students at Maplewood Middle School in Menasha, Wisconsin. (Photo: Bryce Richter) In her five years working for University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom program, Stephanie Kressin has visited 256 classrooms in more than 100 schools across Wisconsin, reaching a total of 6,863 students.  It’s …

Lauren Knuckey and Sahian Cruz, School Psychology students, receive 2025 Kratochwill Award

Two School Psychology PhD students, Lauren Knuckey and Sahian Cruz, were each awarded a 2025 Thomas R. Kratochwill Dissertation Award to Advance Prevention and Intervention Sciences. Lauren writes, “I am grateful to have received the Thomas R. Kratochwill Dissertation Award for Summer 2025. My dissertation focused on creating a family-school-community collaboration framework that was based …

UW–Madison’s Karumbaiah receives early career award in learning analytics

By Laurel White A School of Education faculty member has received an internationally competitive award from the Society for Learning Analytics Research that will support her research on bias in artificial intelligence tools. Karumbaiah Shamya Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, received the organization’s annual ECR Research Grant. The honor recognizes a promising early …

UW–Madison School of Education, Educational Psychology again ranked No. 1 by U.S. News

UW–Madison is home to the top-ranked school of education in the nation for a second consecutive year, according to the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Education Graduate Schools rankings published on Tuesday. The UW–Madison School of Education is solely at the top of this year’s U.S. News education school rankings, after tying for No. 1 …

Ed Psych Faculty win School of Education Awards

Read the full article with all 2025 Faculty and Staff Award Winners here. Faculty Distinguished Achievement Awards The Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes faculty members who have made contributions and demonstrated continued excellence in each of the three areas of teaching, research, and service. James Wollack Department of Educational Psychology For more than two decades, …

Four from School of Education named 2025 AERA Fellows

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced the selection of 29 exemplary scholars as 2025 AERA Fellows — including four who are faculty members with UW–Madison’s School of Education. The AERA Fellows Program honors scholars for their exceptional contributions to, and excellence in, education research. Nominated by their peers, the 2025 Fellows were selected by the Fellows …

Seven from School of Education win 2024-25 Teaching Assistant Awards

The 2024-25 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards have been announced, and among the 31 honorees are seven exceptional graduate students from the School of Education. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of disciplines. Their contributions to the classroom, lab, and field are essential to the university’s educational mission. To recognize the excellence of …

Study co-authored by UW-Madison’s Short, Williams, Kral shows racism could affect infant brain development

By Laurel White Maternal experiences with racism could affect brain development of children in utero, according to a study co-authored by a School of Education faculty member and doctoral student. The study, published in Scientific Reports, found preliminary evidence that mothers who experienced racism during pregnancy gave birth to newborns who showed changes in brain activity, particularly …

UW-Madison No. 3 in U.S. News’ Best Online Master’s in Education Program ranking

The UW–Madison School of Education has received several top-five rankings for its online graduate degree programs in education, according to new ratings released today by U.S. News & World Report. The publication ranked UW–Madison No. 3 in overall Best Online Master’s in Education Programs, No. 2 in the category of Best Online Master’s in Educational Administration and …