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Katie Grant joined WCER’s leadership team as the center’s new director of communications & marketing on Aug. 12. Grant is a communications professional with a focus on organic social media strategy and community engagement, marketing strategy, and crisis communications. She excels in executing forward-thinking, long-term strategies that get results, with experience amplifying social media reach …

Angela Crumdy, a postdoctoral researcher of teacher development at the University of Pennsylvania, had at least two compelling reasons for visiting UW–Madison for a week in July to learn a research methodology that’s without peer in pulling human insights from big data. First, she says, she was drawn to the method, known as quantitative ethnography, or …

Thirty-two UW–Madison faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research for 2024–25, including School of Education/WCER members David Kaplan and Andy Garbacz. The awardees span the four research divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and biological sciences. “These awards recognize excellence in faculty research, academics, and outreach at various …

Fifteen faculty and campus members at UW–Madison have been named Morgridge Fellows for 2024–2025, including WCER members Matthew Wolfgram and Amanda Fowler, WCER/School of Education researcher/professor Shamya Karumbaiah, and SoE doctoral student Virginia Downing. The 15 were selected through a juried process for a year-long learning community designed to support community-engaged scholarship. The Morgridge Center for Public Service defines community-engaged scholarship as teaching, research, and scholarly activities performed in equitable, …

Top officials in Uruguay are working with UW–Madison researchers who are experts in pulling rich new patterns of meaning about culture and human behavior from big data to assess and improve the South American country’s pioneering educational-technology innovation center, known as Ceibal. The trailblazing Uruguayan agency was born as the implementer of a nationwide one-laptop-per-child program 17 years …

A project out of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) that aims to more fully engage women and people of color in engineering was featured in a recent Forbes article headlined “REVIIS and the Path to Inclusive Engineering.” UW–Madison’s Brian Burt, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy …