Truman Lowe, a professor and internationally known artist, is among seven alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison who will be honored in May with a 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award, presented by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.

With work on one building project underway and construction set to begin early next year on another, the UW–Madison School of Education faces some exciting changes on the horizon.

More than 500 students and faculty from 33 colleges and universities in the Midwest, along with 30 students from Taiwan, will come to campus in March to participate in the North-Central Region American College Dance Conference.

Researchers are examining the practices and potential of digital media.

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.

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.

Seven members of the School of Education have been selected to receive Distinguished Achievement Awards, the highest honor the School bestows upon current faculty and staff.

The UW–Madison School of Education's core programs again this year rank among the very best in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2009 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools.

The public is invited to a memorial service for painter and UW-Madison Art Department faculty member, Gelsy Verna, who unexpectedly died last month.

Ever wonder how artists come up with an idea for a painting, drawing or sculpture?

The “WorkBooks” exhibit at the UW-Madison Special Collections library may provide some clues by allowing viewers a peek into the artistic process behind several local and national artists’ work.

The Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) is putting current research on successful schools to good use via two initiatives: an annual conference for practitioners and a new cohort approach to its existing Ph.D. program.

Scholars from UW-Madison and other institutions will meet on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 7 and 8, to discuss the intersections of religion and education in the United States and around the world. "Faith in Schools: Religion and Education in Comparative and International Perspectives," the fifth annual conference sponsored by the UW-Madison Department of Educational Policy Studies, will be held at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. All sessions are free and open to the public.

The Art Department's visiting-artist program is introducing students to professional artists and also providing weekly visiting-artist lectures that are free and open to the public.

The Art Department Faculty Exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art fills three galleries as well as the museum's entire fourth floor, and showcases the work of 27 faculty, 17 emeritus faculty, and seven affiliates. Faculty members will give a series of talks during the exhibition, which runs from Jan. 26 to Mar. 30. The public is invited to an opening reception at the Chazen on Friday, Jan. 25, from 6 to 8 p.m.

UW–Madison spent $30 million of externally generated funds on education research in fiscal 2006, more than any other U.S. university, according to the latest figures released by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Most of the education research at UW–Madison resides in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), one of the nation’s oldest and largest university-based research centers.

Educators from area K-12 schools filled the Memorial Union's Great Hall with conversation, laughter and applause during the 2007 Partners in Education Banquet on Tuesday, Nov. 13. A photo gallery accompanies the news article.

Videos, photographs, a book project, and sculptural elements that explore landscape, culture, and technology will be featured in “The Beautiful Lie,” an exhibit by Stephen Hilyard running Dec. 1 through Feb. 17 at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), at the Overture Center.

Construction soon will begin on the next phase of an effort to consolidate all Art Department programs at a single site. Once completed, the Art Lofts - located in a remodeled warehouse next to the Kohl Center - will house all departmental programs except those now located on the sixth and seventh floors of the Humanities Building.

Kinesiology professor Jo-Anne Lazarus is engaged as both researcher and subject in exploring a range of therapies aimed at warding off the progression of the disease.

Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility is the theme of American Education Week 2007, a celebration of all the people – in schools, homes and communities – who work together to help children and young adults achieve. The School of Education will mark the occasion with a full calendar of events, and it invites the public to join in the celebration!

The campus-wide Arts Night Out! celebration (Oct. 13) features a drive-by printing press, Art Department activities for children and adults, lessons in ballroom dancing, and much more.

Research findings just published by occupational therapy professor Mary Schneider and colleagues suggest that infants and children who carry a certain gene variant may be more vulnerable to ill effects of fetal alcohol exposure.

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), which is administered by the UW-Madison School of Education, has received a three-year, $5.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand a campus science education program to five other major research universities.

Months of study and ongoing discussions involving the State of Wisconsin, UW-Madison, the School of Education, and the architectural and engineering firm of Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson, Inc. have produced the basic concept plan for renovating and expanding the Education Building.

Two UW-Madison education assistant professors are studying fantasy leagues in a new project aimed at understanding how both expert and novice players approach the game and what their strategies reveal about how people learn.

Ute Ritschel, a UW-Madison Arts Institute spring 2007 artist in residence, brings together artists from around the world to explore the connection between art and nature.

Some Madison middle school students will have a pretty impressive subject for their “What I did on my summer vacation” essays – developing their own plan for making over the capital city’s most famous street and some of its key neighborhoods.

Professor and department chair Li Li Ji takes students to his native China to learn about their physical education programs.

William P. Morgan, UW-Madison emeritus professor and renowned sports psychologist, and his contributions to the field of exercise psychology have been honored in several ways over the past year, culminating in this year’s Hetherington Award, the highest award bestowed by the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education.

The Clark W. Hetherington Award – given to Morgan this month at the Academy’s annual meeting in Tucson, Arizona – honors members who have provided outstanding leadership and significant contributions to those fields.

Associate Professor Nancy Mladenoff returns to teach painting after residencies in Norway and the Czech Republic.

Fast forward five years: After picking up sandwiches and chips at the Education Cafe, several education students gather nearby, in a quiet corner of the new Education Building commons area, around a laptop computer to put the finishing touches on an upcoming group presentation.