The Educational Psychology department is proud to recognize Melina Knabe, a current PhD student in the Human Development area, as the recipient of the 2023 Michael Vincent O’Shea and Harriet Frisbie Eastabrooks O’Shea Fellowship. Working with Dr. Haley Vlach in the Learning, Cognition, and Development Lab, Melina’s work focuses on the intersection of cognition, education, …
On Saturday, May 13, UW–Madison will celebrate its Spring 2023 Commencement. We reached out to a few of our graduating students from bachelor’s to PhDs to learn more about their favorite memories, advice for incoming students, and future plans. Scroll down to learn more about these graduates — who are just a handful of the …
The School of Education’s Diego Román and David Shaffer are among 12 UW–Madison faculty members who were chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Román is an assistant professor with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and received the Chancellor’s Inclusive …
When you ask Percival Matthews to define “civic science,” he doesn’t have a simple answer. One way to embrace the idea of civic science, Matthews explains, is to begin any scientific endeavor with the knowledge that you are a person as well as a scientist — a person who was born and lives in a …
Mental health screenings are a valuable tool for identifying students who need additional support, but they are only the first step in effectively addressing youth mental health in schools, a School of Education faculty member said in a recent interview with EdWeek. Katie Eklund, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, recently offered …
UW–Madison’s Julia Rutledge, the director of the MS in Educational Psychology program in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was a presenter at a roundtable session on learning analytics at the recent American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Chicago. Julia Rutledge teaching an educational psychology class The session, titled “Graduate Programs …