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Nichole Springer can travel to almost every part of the world and find common grounds on which to communicate. That’s because in addition to her native English, Nichole has developed proficiency in Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil, Bangla, Tibetan and Spanish. This incredible repertoire of languages gives her numerous ways to connect across cultures and …
“Beaches all around, beautiful skies, beautiful food, just beautiful people.” That’s how Alvin Thomas describes his home island of Saint Lucia, located in the Caribbean. But it was the people, and the not-so-idyllic social and economic issues they faced, that inspired Thomas to pursue psychology. He wanted to find ways to support people “who were …
I write this message at a time of new beginnings. We are one month into a new calendar year, a new semester is barely underway, and the new moon, on February 1, marks the beginning of a new lunar new year—the year of the tiger. The tiger is the third in the cycle of 12 …
Explore how a new collaboration is helping to address deforestation and its links to meat and leather supply chains during the Sustainable Success Lecture on February 24, 2022, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT. Register today to attend the 2022 lecture, “The Pathway Forward: How companies, NGOs, and scientists are collaborating to help save the Amazon”, which …
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOCA) has been selected for a significant grant award from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts that will support DARK MATTER, a fall 2022 exhibition of work by UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah… Read the full article.
At age 18, Chris Castro boarded a plane bound for Miami with his family, unknowingly a one-way journey from Colombia that would upend his life. When they landed, Castro’s parents told him and his 13-year-old sister they wouldn’t be returning home to Bogota, the South American country’s bustling capital. His mother had received death threats …
UW–Madison alumnus Dosun Ko has been named as the 2022 president-elect of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL)… Read the full article.
The Turkish Education Association has published an interview with UW–Madison’s Michael W. Apple on the limits and possibilities of current educational policies and practices. Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies in the School of Education and has a long history of working with critically democratic educators …
Nearly 6,000 miles separates the United States and the West African country of Liberia, but their histories are forever intertwined. In fact, Nelson Institute affiliate Gregg Mitman, who also serves as the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says that to …
UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal delivered the keynote address for an online conference at the Centro Universitário Carioca (Unicarioca), in Rio, Brazil, in Dec. 2021. Bal is a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education (RPSE). Bal’s address, titled “Expansive Learning, Justice, and Joy: Systemic Transformation for Addressing Racial Disparities in …