Events
WCER and its projects host dozens of lectures, panels discussions and other events throughout the year, including the Wisconsin Ideas in Education and Carl A. Grant series, and the annual UW-Madison Education Research Poster Fair.
Nearly all these events are free, and open to the campus community, as well as to other educators, community leaders and members of the interested public.
You can scroll event descriptions beginning with the most current on this page, get a larger view and subscribe to WCER’s Google calendar, visit the individual pages for each type of event or use the search.
Past Events
Smart Restart | A Smart Return to Campus Fall 2020
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September 2, 2020, Times vary as scheduled, Providing a mix of in-person and remote courses

CANCELLED | Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series Lecture | April 22, 2020
Thalia Goldstein, Assistant Professor, Applied Developmental Psychology, George Mason University
April 22, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, UW-Madison

CANCELLED | Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | April 16, 2020
Winston Thompson, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
April 16, 2020, 12 - 1 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building
CANCELLED | CCWT | Supporting Higher Education and Career Success for Refugees in Wisconsin
To be rescheduled for the fall
April 10, 2020, 9:30 am-4 pm, Madison College Truax Campus, Room D1630, 1701 Wright Street Madison, WI

CANCELLED | Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series Lecture | April 8, 2020
Michelle J. Bellino, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Education
April 8, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, UW-Madison
CANCELLED | Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series Lecture | March 25, 2020
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Associate Professor, History, University of Illinois at Chicago
March 25, 2020, 12 - 1 pm, Room 159, Education Building

CANCELLED | Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | March 23, 2020
Zandra de Araujo, Associate Professor, University of Missouri College of Education
March 23, 2020, 12 - 1 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building
CANCELLED | What Drives Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline?
Jayanti Owens, Assistant Professor of Psychology, International and Public Affairs, Brown University
March 13, 2020, 12 - 1:30 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building

CANCELLED FOR PUBLIC: The Power of Humanizing Pedagogy on Minoritized Youth
Jessica Stovall, PhD student in Race Inequality and Language in Education program, Stanford University
March 12, 2020, Noon - 1pm, Educational Sciences Room 259
CANCELLED | UW–Madison Education Research Poster Fair
Jessica Stovall, PhD student in Race Inequality and Language in Education program, Stanford University
March 12, 2020, 10 am - 1:00 pm, Town Center | Discovery Building, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.

WIES | Fostering Community-Engaged Partnerships to Develop, Evaluate & Disseminate Interventions
John Begeny, Professor of School Psychology, North Carolina State University
March 11, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, UW-Madison
WEPOP/Annalee Good Book and Policy Discussion
Annalee Good, WCER researcher and evaluator
March 10, 2020, 4:15 - 5:45 p.m., Memorial High School, 201 S Gammon Road, Literacy Center
ITP & MEP | Working with School Districts
Katie Eklund, Kira Hicks, Erica Halverson, Percival Matthews, Annalee Good, Chris Harrison, Jay Affeldt, Casey Pellien, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison Metropolitan School District
March 6, 2020, 12:30 - 2 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, UW-Madison
Field Day Lab | AI and Video Games in Education Lunch
David Gagnon, Robert Nowak, Bernadette Baker, Researchers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 6, 2020, 12-1 pm, Morgridge Commons, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
ITP | Estimating Treatment Effects in Multi-Site Randomized Trials
Stephen Raudenbush, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
February 28, 2020, 12 - 1:30 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building