The UW–Madison School of Education is bringing another talented and diverse cohort of new faculty members to campus this year! To welcome these newest members of our community — and to reconnect with colleagues and celebrate the start of the upcoming 2024-25 academic year — the School is hosting its annual Welcome Back Bash event …
By Laurel White Three faculty from the School of Education have been honored with prestigious campuswide research awards from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. David Kaplan, Emily Arthur, and Andy Garbacz are among just 32 faculty from across campus who were chosen to receive a 2024-2025 WARF Named Professorship or H.I. Romnes Faculty …
By Käri Knutson, University Communications Marcelle Haddix has been chosen as the next dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Haddix has held numerous leadership positions in her 16 years at Syracuse University and currently serves as associate provost for strategic initiatives. She also led for two terms as chair of the Department …
Pauline Ho, who today will be graduating with a doctoral degree from the School of Education, was recognized as one of UW–Madison’s spring 2024 “notable graduates” by University Communications. Pauline Ho Ho “had just $3,000 in her bank account when she started her graduate work at UW–Madison. English was her fourth language, and neither of her …
Shamya Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has been awarded new funding for her research aimed at identifying harmful biases in artificial intelligence tools. Karumbaiah Karumbaiah’s project will develop a framework to audit large language models (LLMs), which power AI applications, for such biases. The framework will make …
David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has been honored with a Hilldale Professorship. Kaplan Hilldale Professorships are given to faculty members who excel in scholarly activity, have records of outstanding research or creative work, and show promise of continued productivity. Recipients receive a salary increase …
The Educational Psychology department is proud to recognize several students who recently received awards: Lauren Knuckey, School Psychology PhD student, received a 2024 Thora Wick Homme Memorial Scholarship from the School of Education. Lauren writes, “My name is Lauren Knuckey (she/her), and I am a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the school psychology program. Currently, I …
By Laurel White For the past 20 years, School of Education faculty member Sadhana Puntambekar has worked with teachers and middle school students across Wisconsin to build technology-enhanced learning environments for science learning and teaching, from solving complex design problems and writing about them to contrasting virtual and in-person lab experiments. Now, Puntambekar and a School of …
The Educational Psychology department is proud to recognize Priscilla Tovar-Perez, a current PhD student in the Human Development area, as the recipient of the 2024 Michael Vincent O’Shea and Harriet Frisbie Eastabrooks O’Shea Fellowship. The O’Shea Fellowship is awarded to an Educational Psychology student who shows promise in adolescent or educational psychology, the education of …
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan offered his expertise to Madison’s WKOW/Ch. 27 last month, sharing his thoughts on the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in college admissions. Nathan Nathan is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in Learning Sciences in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. “This tool is likely to be very useful for young …