News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Steele, associate professor and department chair in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was recently elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). He joins President-Elect Randolph A. Phillipp (San Diego State University) and Treasurer Anita A. Wager (UW-Madison) as new […]
UWM education students scored well in recent results for the edTPA program. The educative Teacher Performance Assessment is a national method of measuring education students’ readiness to be licensed in Wisconsin as teachers. It incorporates video clips of classroom instruction as well as lesson plans, student work samples, analysis of student learning and reflective commentaries. It is […]
High school students take UWM’s Architecture 100 course – free and online – to help inspire their interest in the field.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Dec. 21 at Incarnation Lutheran Church, 1510 W. Keefe Ave., for Diane Pollard, professor emerita from the Department of Educational Psychology. Pollard, who was 71, joined the faculty in 1976 and served as an outstanding member of the UWM community for more than 30 years. Pollard was UWM’s first recipient […]
Best Counseling Degrees, an online resource for exploring the nation’s best counseling degree programs, ranked UWM’s doctoral program in school psychology fourth among the top 50 doctoral programs in the nation. Published in the fall, the ranking was created from a list of programs that were accredited by the American Psychological Association and approved by […]
Igoni Igoni drove his cab at least 60 hours each week to pay the bills while focusing on his goal – getting a college degree in community engagement and education and being a role model for his two young children.
Jesse McLean, media artist and assistant professor in UWM’s Department of Film, won the Best Editing Award for her film “I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining” at Brazil’s Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife. According to McLean’s website, “I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining” is an experimental portrait of a lighting stand-in/body double whose work […]
Dietmar Wolfram, professor in the School of Information Studies, who came to UWM in 1990, was elected vice president/president-elect of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. His term starts in January, and he said he looks forward to encouraging greater inclusion of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in allied information areas, as well […]
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, UWM distinguished professor of history, was elected vice president/president elect of the World History Association. She will assume these roles beginning in 2016 and will be president beginning in 2018. At UWM, Wiesner-Hanks is an historian of early modern Europe and a world/global historian, with a primary focus on women, gender and sexuality within these areas. […]
UWM professor of nursing Jane Leske was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing 2015 Class of New Fellows. The American Academy of Nursing selected 163 nurse leaders to be inducted during its annual policy conference in October in Washington, D.C. “We are pleased to welcome this talented class of clinicians, researchers, policy leaders, educators […]