Accolades
The following selected list of awards showcases the many achievements of WCER research staff and how their work affects teaching and learning nationwide.
2010
June
By unanimous consent the U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Adam Gamoran to the National Board for Education Sciences, Department of Education. More information is available here.
April
Sara Goldrick-Rab has been named a William T. Grant Scholar. The award supports early-career researchers who design rigorous 5-year research and mentoring plans that will help them expand their skills and knowledge. Goldrick-Rab’s project is “Rethinking College Choice in America.”
VARC director Robert Meyer received a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research.
Sara Goldrick-Rab has been named a William T. Grant Scholar. The award supports early-career researchers who design rigorous 5-year research and mentoring plans that will help them expand their skills and knowledge. Goldrick-Rab’s project is “Rethinking College Choice in America.”
March
MSAN Director Madeline Hafner has received a Bridge People Award from the AERA's Leadership for Social Justice SIG. The award recognizes those whose work "creates a bridge between themselves and others" through scholarship and research.
February
Beth Graue has been named an AERA Fellow in recognition of "exceptional scientific or scholarly contributions to education research or significant contributions to the field through the development of research opportunities and settings."
Adam Gamoran is among President Barack Obama's nominees to the National Board for Education Sciences, Department of Education.
2009
May 2009
Kenneth Zeichner, the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and associate dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Education (NAEd).
2008
December 2008
The Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning has received an Award for Leveraging Excellence from the National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education. The award recognizes efforts to take effective business or management practices in higher education and bring them to a larger scale. Read the press release here.
June 2008
CPRE’s Herb Heneman has received the Society for Human Resource Management’s $50,000 Michael R. Losey Human Resource Award, which recognizes human resource researchers or professionals whose contributions significantly advance the field of human resource management.
2007
September 2007
The Council of the Great City Schools has named VARC director Rob Meyer an Urban Education Research Fellow. His proposed project will develop an early-warning system for Milwaukee to identify students at risk of dropping out or performing below proficiency on state assessments.
April 2007
ITP fellow Chris Hulleman has won the Paul Pintrich Award given by the Motivation SIG at AERA, for the best student paper presented at AERA. Chris's award-winning paper, "The Role of Utility Value in Promoting Interest and Achievement," presents the results of two randomized classroom trials which are part of his dissertation.
March 2007
Gloria Ladson-Billings receives a YWCA of Madison's 2007 Women of Distinction award for her community service and advocacy for closing the academic achievement gap. (Capital Times, 8 March)
February 2007
On February 1 former WCER researcher Cora B. Marrett became head of the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Education and Human Resources, making her one of seven Directorate heads. She will lead NSF's mission to achieve excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education at all levels.
2006
October 2006
David Williamson Shaffer and Richard Halverson are among those participating in a UW-Madison team that will play a significant role in a new $50 million MacArthur Foundation project investigating digital media and its impact on youth culture, learning, and literacy. The Advanced Digital Learning team includes seven faculty from three departments within the School of Education, and is one of two dozen nationally.
Geoffrey Borman has been appointed to The Institute of Education Sciences Urban Education Research Task Force. The 15-member panel includes leading educators and researchers and will provide the Institute with guidance on critical directions for research to improve education in the nation’s urban districts.
August 2006
Mary Hilfiker has received the President’s Award for outstanding professional or personal achievements or service to UW-Eau Claire, her alma mater. Mary is an associate education and school improvement specialist working with WCER and the North Central Comprehensive Center. Mary serves on the boards of two foundations and has established two scholarships through the UW-Eau Claire Foundation.
June 2006
Sara Y. Goldrick-Rab, assistant professor in the departments of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology, has been awarded a 2006 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Tom Kratochwill, Educational Psychology, has been named Sears Roebuck Foundation-Bascom Professor in Education. Kratochwill directs the department's School Psychology Program and the School's Educational and Psychological Training Center, and codirects UW-Madison's Mental Health and Education Resource Center on Children and Adolescents.
May 2006
WCER Researcher Mark Connolly has received a professional development grant award to support his attending the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association. He will gather information and develop professional connections to help senior scientist Susan B. Millar with planning a WCER-based evaluation service unit serving researchers across the UW-Madison campus who need evaluation assistance, and also graduate students who wish to gain rudimentary skills in evaluating educational programs.
Sarah Mason has received WCER's first Exceptional Performance Award. Sarah was recognized for her major contributions to her project, SCALE (System-wide Change for All Learners and Educators), and to WCER, as evidence by an "extraordinary range of accomplishments during 2005." To read Sarah's nomination and to learn more about WCER's Exceptional Performance Award, please see the WCER Professional Development & Merit Exercise Resources Web page.
April 2006
Terry Millar, a principal investigator of WCER's SCALE project has received a Madison Metropolitan School District Distinquished Service Award. Read more here.
2005
August 2005
Audrey M. Cotherman is among those profiled in "150 Lives that Make a Difference," published in celebration of Hamline University's 150th anniversary.
Bradford Brown has received the Society for Research on Adolescence Social Policy Award for Outstanding Edited Volume for "The World's Youth: Adolescence in 8 Regions of the Globe" (Cambridge University Press, 2004), edited by B. Bradford Brown, Reed Larson & T.S. Saraswati.
Tom Kratochwill was awarded the Jack Bardon Distinguished Achievement Award from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association.
Elisa Steele Shernoff, former graduate student and project assistant in WCER, will receive the Outstanding Dissertation Award from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association. Tom Kratochwill served as Dr. Shernoff's advisor at UW-Madison and was her dissertation chair.
May 2005
Gloria Ladson-Billings, the Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been elected to the National Academy of Education (NAE).
April 2005
Among those receiving this year's UW-Madison School of Education Distinguished Achievement Awards were L. Allen Phelps, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and Anthony Milanowski, Consortium for Policy Research in Education.
January 2005
Martha Alibali receives the 2004 Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award of the American Psychological Association. The award recognizes promising young investigators in pyschology or related disciplines.
2004
December 2004
Alberto Cabrera is named senior scholor at the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, D.C., where he has worked on two major projects, including co-authoring Latino Youth and the Pathway to College. EIP is a collective association of researchers and policy analysts seeking to enhance knowledge of criticial barriers facing students and families throughout the educational pipeline.
July 2004
Richard Halverson receives a National Science Foundation grant for support of his project "CAREER: Data-Driven Instructional Systems—Accessing How School Leaders Develop Local Capacity to Use Data to Influence Instruction." The five-year project will study how local school leaders create the capacity to systematically review and integrate student achievement data into daily math and instruction in schools.
April 2004
Gloria Ladson-Billings is voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Geoffrey Borman receives the AERA’s Raymond E. Cattell Early Career Award and the AERA’s Review of Research Award (for the article "Comprehensive School Reform and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis").
Martha Alibali receives a UW-Madison Chancellor’s Award, which honors teaching excellence.
Kenneth Zeichner receives a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia. The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program offers two- to six-week grants to support curricular and faculty development.
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recognizes Thomas P. Carpenter for a lifetime of accomplishment in math education. Carpenter directs WCER’s National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science and Diversity in Mathematics Education: Building Infrastructure for Learning and Teaching Mathematics with Understanding.
WCER researcher David W. Shaffer receives a 5-year CAREER Award grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support Shaffer’s project, "Alternate Routes to Technology and Science."
March 2004
B. Bradford Brown receives the Society for Research on Adolescence Best Edited Book Award for The World's Youth: Adolescence in Eight Regions of the Globe (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
February 2004
Thomas Romberg receives the University of South Africa’s Distinguished Leadership in Mathematics Education Award
2003
WCER senior scientist Norman Webb receives a UW-Madison Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research.
David W. Shaffer is chosen as a 2003-04 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.
Deborah Brandt, researcher for the Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) receives the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education for her book “Literacy in American Lives.”
2002
Andy Porter is named UW-Madison Anderson-Bascom Professor of Education.
Thomas Kratochwill receives the 2002 Top Research Article of the Year Award in the American Psychological Association journal, School Psychology Quarterly.
Adam Gamoran is elected to Sociological Research Association.
Alberto Cabrera receives the William Elgin Wickenden Award, given for the best paper published in the American Society of Engineering Education’s Journal of Engineering Education.
Geoffrey Borman is named a 2002-03 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.
Deborah Lowe Vandell receives UW-Madison School of Education’s Distinguished Achievement Award.
Lynn McDonald’s Families and Schools Together (FAST) receives a Research-Based Model Program Award from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, US. Department of Health and Human Services.
Ken Zeichner receives the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education’s Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research on Teacher Education.
2001
Jeffrey Braden receives the UW-Madison Van Hise Outreach Award, in part for his work on a case-based Internet learning environment to expand knowledge about, and use of, educational assessment tests.
Andy Porter is named Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies and is elected president of American Educational Research Association.
Thomas Kratochwill receives the 2001 Top Research Article of the Year Award in the American Psychological Association’s journal, School Psychology Quarterly.
The National Academy of Education names Andy Porter a “Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies.”
Adam Gamoran is elected to National Academy of Education.
2000
Ken Zeichner receives the UW-Madison School of Education’s Distinguished Achievement Award.
1999
Thomas Kratochwill is appointed Chair of the American Psychological Association, Society for the Study of School Psychology, and the National Association of School Psychologists Task Force on Evidence-Based Interventions in School Psychology.
Adam Gamoran receives the Spencer Foundation’s Mentor Award.
Lynn McDonald is appointed to the President’s Advisory Council on Youth Drug Abuse.
1998
Thomas Romberg is elected to the National Academy of Education.
Ken Zeichner receives National Staff Development Council’s Best Non-Dissertation Research Award (with Cathy Caro-Bruce and Robin Marion).
1997
Elizabeth Fennema is elected to National Academy of Education.
Thomas Romberg receives the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award. Romberg also receives a Spencer Fellowship to conduct research at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Calif.
Walter Secada represents UW-Madison at the White House Conference on the public role of artists and humanists in American colleges and universities.
1996
Thomas Kratochwill is elected president of the Society for the Study of School Psychology.
Allen Phelps is elected chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education.
Andy Porter receives the Dean’s Club Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award from the UW-Madison School of Education.
1995
Andy Porter chairs the Special Emphasis Panel on Evaluation for the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources Directorate (1995-1998).
Robert Mathieu is elected to UW-Madison Teaching Academy.
Thomas Romberg receives the UW-Madison School of Education’s Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award.
Thomas Kratochwill receives the Margaret Bernauer Psychology Research Award from the Wisconsin Psychological Association for an outstanding research paper on consultation. He also receives the association’s award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Scientific Knowledge in Psychology. Kratochwill is also selected for honorary membership in the American Academy of School Psychology. He receives the Senior Scientist Award for Divison 16 of the American Psychological Association journal, School Psychology Quarterly. Kratochwill also receives the APA’s 1995 Top Research Article of the Year award.
1994
Andy Porter is elected to the National Academy of Education. He also chairs the U.S. Department of Education’s Advisory Council on Education Statistics (1994-2001).
Thomas Kratochwill is selected for the Dean’s Club Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, UW-Madison School of Education. He also is elected to membership in the Society for the Study of School Psychology.
Allen Phelps is elected to the Board of Directors, National Association for Industry-Education Cooperation.
Martin Nystrand is elected to membership in the UW-Madison Teaching Academy.
1993
Thomas Romberg receives Stanford University’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Deborah Lowe Vandell receives a UW-Madison Vilas Associates Award.
Allen Phelps chairs the editorial board of Journal of Vocational Education Research (1993-95).
Martin Nystrand is named Fellow of the National Conference on Research in English.
Ken Zeichner receives an Award for Excellence in Professional Writing from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
1992
Ken Zeichner is named Wisconsin Teacher Educator of the Year by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin State Association of School Boards.
1991
Thomas Romberg receives the American Educational Research Association’s Professional Service Award, the AERA’s Interpretive Scholarship Award, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Martin Nystrand is elected president of AERA Writing Research Special Interest Group.
1990
The American Psychological Association awards Thomas Kratochwill Fellow status in Division 25, Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
Thomas Romberg is named UW-Madison Sears Roebuck Foundation-Bascom Professor in Education.
Ken Zeichner receives the Association of Teacher Educators’ Distinguished Teacher Educator Award and its Distinguished Research Award.
1989
Adam Gamoran is named a Spencer Fellow of the National Academy of Education. The UW-Madison Department of Sociology awards Gamoran a Citation for Excellence in Teaching.
1988
Thomas Romberg receives the American Educational Research Association’s Research Review Award.
Allen Phelps is elected to the Board of Directors of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education.
1986
Allen Phelps is named chair of AERA’s Vocational Educational Special Interest Group.
1985
Lynn McDonald receives UW-Madison Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
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