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Goplin, a Senior Accountant, Has Worked at WCER for More Than 45 Years WCER is very pleased to congratulate the Center’s Gwen Goplin on earning a prestigious University Staff Recognition Award. Just 10 were…

WCER researcher Ross Benbow and his growing NSF project involving support networks for student military were part of a recent roundtable discussion on campus with U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough. The June 6, 2023…

Three WCER Researchers Among 34 Awardees Thirty-four UW–Madison faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education for 2023-24, including three researchers from the Wisconsin…

WCER researcher Shinye Kim, an assistant professor of counseling psychology in the School of Education, is using a $249,973 campus grant to create a “pain expression library” and digital assessment tool to help…

On May 1, 2023, in honor of School Principals Day and the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), producers of the blog Inside IES Research asked UW−Madison education professors Rich Halverson and Carolyn Kelley to…

Two new reports from the Madison Education Partnership look at differences in the experience of students enrolled in full-day and half-day four-year-old kindergarten (4K) in the Madison Metropolitan School District during the 2021-2022 school…

Smith, 85, Died May 1 of Cancer in Palo Alto, California Marshall S. (Mike) Smith, a giant in American education and social policy for over six decades who led the Wisconsin Center…

Andrew Ruis, a WCER research scientist and expert on the history of school lunches—he wrote the book Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States—has done many…

WCER is pleased to congratulate Christine Pfund for earning the esteemed title of Distinguished Senior Scientist. Per university policy, an academic staff member awarded the Distinguished prefix is one who typically performs at a…

WCER’s MSAN Network hosted 175 teachers, principals, and school district leaders from across the country last week for the 2023 MSAN Institute, a two-day professional learning conference aimed at building racially just schools, with a…