From the South Pole to Rural Wisconsin via Virtual Reality
August 1, 2023 | By Sofie Schachter
David Gagnon, director of Field Day Lab, says Field Day is exploring how virtual reality games like Waddle may help increase users’ empathy and engagement with certain subjects. For players of Waddle, those issues include polar research and conservation.
From Grant to Global Impact: WIDA’s Journey Over Two Decades
July 17, 2023 | By Hannah Haynes, WIDA Communications
WIDA turns 20 years old this year. Read about how WIDA grew from the early days as a grant-funded startup to the large-scale consortium it is today and see where the organization is hoping to go in the next two decades.
Communications Pro Kelly Mella Joins WCER as Director of Communications and Marketing
July 5, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Mella has more than three decades of experience in communications as both a professor and practitioner.
WCER’s Gwen Goplin Receives One of 10 Campus-wide University Staff Recognition Awards
June 27, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Goplin, whose job title is Accountant III, has worked at WCER for more than 45 years.
WCER Researcher Ross Benbow in Campus Roundtable with U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
June 15, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Benbow is studying the effect of social support networks on the academic and career success of student military and veterans.
Faculty receive 2023-24 WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, Romnes Awards
June 13, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Three from WCER/SoE are among the 34 awardees: Lesley Bartlett, Brian Burt, and Mitch Nathan.
CRECE Seeks Applicants for Paid Research Internships for Undergrad, Grad Students
June 8, 2023 | By WCER Communications
For both programs, the goal is to diversify the research communities that address early childhood education issues. CRECE hopes to do this by providing mentored research experiences to traditionally underrepresented and other minoritized undergraduate and graduate students.
Meet Your Service Unit Member: Angela Chang
June 8, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Angela Chang works in the Business Office as a pre-award specialist, where she is responsible for proposal preparation and submission including budgeting, preparing non-technical documents, and communicating with intra- and extramural stakeholders. A former tea shop co-owner, she still likes to make different types of breads in her off-time.
Nominations Open for WCER Values Awards
June 8, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Do you have a WCER colleague who embodies the WCER Values? Nominate them to receive the WCER Values Award. This annual prize will be presented at the All-Staff Conference on Oct. 6. Deadline to nominate someone is on or before Aug. 25.
OVCRGE Grant to Investigate Asian American Pain
June 6, 2023 | By WCER Communications
The two-year project is designed to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficacy for multiple pain conditions, including informing whether to prescribe opioids and at what level, Kim says.
WCER’s CALL Project Celebrated on IES Blog
June 6, 2023 | By WCER Communications
“The CALL project provides a model of how IES-funded research can have broad impact in schools around the country,” the blog post says. “We are thrilled that CALL developed into the rare educational survey that was embraced by the people who tested it as well as the research community.”
New MEP Reports Explore First Year of MMSD’s Full-Day 4K
June 6, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Researchers assessed 406 students, observed 16 classrooms, and interviewed 13 teachers across full- and half-day classrooms. The team estimated differences in student achievement gains, as well as qualitative differences in instruction, time use, and culturally responsive practices.
In Memoriam: National Education Giant Marshall S. (Mike) Smith Led WCER from 1980–1986
May 16, 2023
Smith died May 1 of cancer at age 85 at home with his family in Palo Alto, California.
WCER Researcher Makes News on School Lunches
May 9, 2023 | By WCER Communications
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 interviews and media consults this year as the topic has been often in the news.
Publish Your Research in WCER Working Paper Series
May 9, 2023 | By WCER Communications
Since 2002, scholars and projects affiliated with WCER have published new educational research in the center’s Working Paper Series.
