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.
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Past Events
ITP Lecture: Gifted Programming can be a Benefit to All
Jenn Vadas, Assistant Researcher, Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative
March 9, 2018, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Publishing 101
Catherine Bernard & Anna Clarkson, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
March 8, 2018, 2:15, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall

WIES Lecture Featuring Jorge E. Gonzalez
Jorge E. Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Health and Learning Sciences, University of Houston
March 7, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall

Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture Featuring Shirin Vossoughi
Shirin Vossoughi, Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy
March 6, 2018, 10:30 - 11:30 am, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Sex Education: A Center for Ethics & Education Lecture
Lisa Andersen, Professor of Liberal Arts, The Juilliard School
March 6, 2018, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Complexity and Constraint: College Attitudes and Expectations among Teens of the Prison Boom
Anna Haskins, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
March 2, 2018, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street

The Influence of Kindness and Community in Broadening Participation in STEM Careers
Mica Estrada, Carl A. Grant Visiting Scholar, Asst Professor, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Institute of Health & Aging, University of California San Francisco
February 23, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 Orchard Street
2018 UW-Madison Education Research Poster Fair
Mica Estrada, Carl A. Grant Visiting Scholar, Asst Professor, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Institute of Health & Aging, University of California San Francisco
February 23, 2018, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 Orchard Street
Reframing Labor: How Evolving Work Experiences Influence Student Success
Vanessa A. Sansone, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, The University of Texas at San Antonio
February 23, 2018, 9:30 - 10:30 am, DeLuca Forum at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, 330 Orchard Street
Book Panel: K–12 Education as a Hermeneutic Adventurous Endeavor
Chair: Paula McAvoy, Program Director, The Center for Ethics in Education
February 22, 2018, 3:00 - 4:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall

WIES Lecture Featuring Megan Luce
Megan Luce, Research Associate, Research in Education & Design (RED) Lab, Stanford University
February 21, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Cultural Identities in Science
Mica Estrada, Asst Professor, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Institute of Health & Aging, University of California San Francisco
February 21, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, 1111 Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building, 425 Henry Mall
Leveraging Meta-Analytic Methods to Inform Successful Early Childhood Education
Katherine Magnuson, Professor, UW-Madison School of Social Work
February 16, 2018, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Introduction to Tableau for Data Visualization
February 13, 2018, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, 259 Educational Sciences Building
Network Fellows Back to School Gathering
January 25, 2018, 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Virginia F. Harris Parlor, Lathrop Hall