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

WIES Lecture: School of Education Alumni Panel: Where Are They Now?

SoE Alumni, Eight graduates of UW–Madison's School of Education

November 16, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


ITP Seminar: Using Multiple Discontinuities to Estimate Effects of Public Need-Based Aid for College

Drew Anderson, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Financial Security, UW–Madison

November 11, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street


ITP Translational Workshop: Research Practice Partnerships in Wisconsin

Panel with Eric Camburn, Peter Goff, Kurt Kiefer, Robert Mathieu, Beth Vaade, Representing ELPA, DPI, WCER and MMSD

November 4, 2016, 12:00 - 2:00, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


WIES Series: Retrieval-Based Learning: Active Retrieval Promotes Meaningful Learning

Jeffrey D. Karpicke, James V. Bradley Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University

November 2, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


Lunch and Learn: Practical Reflections upon and Responses to Homelessness

Peter Miller, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, UW-Madison

October 31, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street


ITP Seminar: Prompting Active Choice Among High Risk Borrowers

Benjamin Castleman, Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy, University of Virginia

October 28, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street


ITP Seminar: Inequality before Birth: The Developmental Consequences of Environmental Toxicants

Claudia Persico, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, UW–Madison

October 21, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street


Inequality and the Public University

Moderator: Jennifer Morton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York

October 20, 2016, 4:00 - 5:15 PM, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


WIES Series: Education Reform and Gender

Margaret Smith Crocco, Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University

October 19, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


ITP Seminar: Child Care and the Development of Early Childhood Skills

Matt Wiswall, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

October 14, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street


Delta Workshop: How to Address the Broader Impact in Your NSF Fellowship Application

October 7, 2016, 1:00 - 3:00, Ebling Auditorium, Microbial Sciences, 1550 Linden Drive


ITP Seminar: Evaluation of the Implementation and Impacts of Reading Recovery

Henry May, Director of the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy, University of Delaware

October 7, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street


WIES Series: Participatory Design as a Practice in Designing for Learning

Betsy DiSalvo, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech

October 5, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


Lunch & Learn Discussion of Space at WCER: The Final Frontier

Bob Mathieu, WCER Director

October 3, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street


ITP Seminar: Inequality at Home

Ariel Kalil, Professor, Director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of Chicago

September 30, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street