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UW-Madison School of Education Online News - May 2008
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Welcome to the UW-Madison School of Education Online News, a monthly update on School and campus news and resources.

IN THIS ISSUE: May 2008

• Scholarship banquet honors stellar students and their benefactors
• Three alumnae receive School’s highest honors
• Researchers examine practices, potential of digital media
• Research publications are plentiful online
• Cooperative Children’s Book Center debuts podcast
• Education memories scrapbook – yours for the asking
• Applications due soon for online master’s program
• Summer institutes provide something for (almost) everyone
• Campus news: Chancellor finalists are named
• Kudos to faculty & staff

SCHOLARSHIP BANQUET HONORS STELLAR STUDENTS AND THEIR BENEFACTORS
It was a night to remember! A record-setting 240 undergraduate scholarships, worth a total of nearly $500,000, were announced at the School of Education Undergraduate Honors Banquet, April 30. More than 350 people attended the event, which provided an opportunity for many of the scholarship recipients and their families to meet the people who support their scholarships. Congratulations to these stellar students, and thank you to the alumni and friends who made these awards possible.
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THREE ALUMNAE RECEIVE SCHOOL’S HIGHEST HONORS
Three outstanding alumnae returned to Madison this spring, when each participated in a special day-on-campus to celebrate their achievements and receive the School’s highest honors. Noel Hefty (dance) and Tashia Morgridge (education) were honored with School of Education Alumni Achievement Awards. Kimberley Dawn Lakes (counseling psychology) received the School’s Outstanding Recent Graduate Award.
Read more about the recipients

RESEARCHERS EXAMINE PRACTICES, POTENTIAL OF DIGITAL MEDIA
An after-school program that uses video games to re-engage with middle and high school boys who’ve lost interest in school is just one example of researchers’ efforts to use digital media to promote literacy skills and foster learning. Here’s a sneak peak at the feature article of the soon-to-be delivered spring edition of Campus Connections.
Read the article

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ARE PLENTIFUL ONLINE
Looking for summer reading ideas? The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) offers a Project Publications website that provides easy access to bibliographies, research briefs, PDFs of conference presentations, guidebooks, and other resources developed as a part of current and recently completed research projects.
Check out the site

COOPERATIVE CHILDREN’S BOOK CENTER DEBUTS PODCAST
This weekly feature on the website of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) showcases a few good books each week, as well as a glimpse of what’s happening at the CCBC.
Check it out

EDUCATION MEMORIES SCRAPBOOK – YOURS FOR THE ASKING
Protests of the '60s, five-cent taxi rides down Langdon Street (remembered by a 1939 grad), countless inspiring classes, nuns sledding down Bascom Hill . . . all this and more in a memories scrapbook created to celebrate the ceremonial closing of the Education Building on May 2, 2008. (Occupants will begin moving out of the building this fall in preparation for its renovation.) All the alums who contributed memories to the scrapbook will receive one soon. Copies also are available by request - be sure to include your mailing address in your request.
Write to request a scrapbook
Read more on the building project

APPLICATIONS DUE SOON FOR ONLINE MASTER’S PROGRAM
The next cohort of the Master of Science for Professional Educators (MSPE) program will begin this summer. In addition to the convenience of providing most classes online, MSPE also offers teaching professionals the opportunity to complete a high-quality degree from the Department of Educational Psychology, which was ranked No. 1 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report this April. Applications are due June 1.
Get the details

SUMMER INSTITUTES PROVIDE SOMETHING FOR (ALMOST) EVERYONE
Educators, school administrators, career counselors, literacy advocates, distance ed practitioners, spoken-word enthusiasts, and many others can hone their professional skills by joining a School of Education institute or conference this summer. Many programs offer online registration, but interested participants need to sign up soon. Among the professional development opportunities are:

Summer Dance Institute: June 16-July 2

UW Reading Research Symposium: June 27-28

WIDA Academy: Providing Access to Academic Achievement through Language Development: June 30-July 3

Wisconsin Idea Leadership Academy: July 7-10

3rd Annual Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Educator’s Institute: July 7-11

Games, Learning & Society Conference - July 10-11

WIDA Academy: Collaborating to Meet the Needs of ELLs: July 14-18

Summer Institute on Education and Work: July 28-29

Distance Teaching and Learning Conference: Aug. 5-8

CAMPUS NEWS: CHANCELLOR FINALISTS ARE NAMED
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin P. Reilly has announced four finalists who are being considered for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison: Gary Sandefur, dean, College of Letters & Science, UW-Madison; Biddy Martin, provost, Cornell University; R. Timothy Mulcahy, vice president for research, University of Minnesota; and Rebecca M. Blank, former dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
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KUDOS TO FACULTY & STAFF

• An article written by RPSE professors Norm Berven and Fong Chan, and by Gloria Lee (University of Buffalo) has received the first place 2008 Research Award from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.
• Derrick Buisch, art associate professor, has received a Vilas Award.
• Colleen Capper, ELPA professor, is one of 200 triathletes chosen to participate in the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii in October.
• Jo Ann Carr, CIMC/IMDC director, began a two-year term as president of the Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association.
• Laurie Beth Clark, art professor, has received an Arts Institute Creative Arts Award.
• Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell, RPSE professor, has been selected as a fellow to the 2008-09 Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program.
• Merri Lindgren, CCBC librarian, was elected to the 2010 Caldecott Award Committee.
• Truman Lowe, art professor, has received a WAA Distinguished Alumni Award.
• Adam Nelson, EPS associate professor and WISCAPE faculty affiliate, has been named a fellow in residence at the American Antiquarian Society beginning in fall 2008.
• Megan Schliesman, CCBC librarian, was elected chair of the 2011 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Committee.
• Audrey Trainer, RPSE assistant professor, has received a Virginia Horne Henry Fund for Women’s Physical Education Grant.

HAVE YOU MOVED OR CHANGED YOUR NAME?
You can easily update that information via the alumni page on the School’s website. And we’ll make sure that your University records are changed as well as ours.
Update your records

UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN . . .
The School of Education Online News will observe summer vacation June through August, and will resume publication in September. Of course, if there’s breaking news during the summer, we’ll be sure to inform you. In the meantime, we leave you with our annual summer salute – here’s to sailboats on Lake Mendota, jazz on the Union Terrace, and two scoops of orange-custard chocolate-chip ice cream – hooray for summer!

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