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Christy Starr’s Work Helps Parents Who Didn’t Go to College Motivate Their Children in STEM Classes

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  A new special report in Education Week profiles IDS Affiliate Christy Starr‘s research looking at how parents who didn’t attend college themselves can better support their children’s motivation for STEM coursework. Starr, an assistant professor in the UW-Madison Department of Educational Psychology, studies how parental support can impact students’ motivation in STEM. The challenge is multifaceted. …

Patricia Devine elected to AAAS

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IDS Affiliate Patricia Devine was recently elected as member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), along with nearly 250 other leaders from across a variety of disciplines and mediums. Devine joins three other University of Wisconsin-Madison members elect: Harry Brighouse, Lisa Martin, and Mark Seidenberg. Devine is the Kenneth and Mamie Clark …

Five IDS Affiliates Honored with Vilas Professorships and Awards

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Five IDS Affiliates were recently honored with University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Professorships and Awards. These awards are given annually to extraordinary UW-Madison faculty and staff. This year, 44 total professorships and awards were given. Affiliates earning awards are: Felix Elwert, Sociology: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship Kaiping Chen, Life Sciences Communication: Vilas Early-Career Investigator Award Lauren …

Passmore and Green-Harris Develop Innovative Curriculum to Promote Inclusive Clinical Research

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  In an effort to advance health equity, a team of researchers led by IDS affiliate Susan Racine Passmore and Gina Green-Harris has developed and tested a new curriculum that aims to help clinical research teams implement more inclusive practices. Despite persistent health inequities, clinical research participants are disproportionately drawn from populations with the best …

Karumbaiah Awarded Grant from Spencer Foundation to Study how AI Tools Can Better Support Multilingual Learning

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IDS affiliate Shamya Karumbaiah was recently awarded a Spencer Foundation Grant to study how generative AI educational tools can better support multilingual learning. Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Psychology, is a computer scientist and learning scientist whose work focuses on using human-centered AI to improve learning outcomes for …

Mariel Barnes on the ‘Manosphere’ and American Politics

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In a recent interview with PBS Wisconsin, IDS affiliate Mariel Barnes describes researching the online “manosphere” movement and its growing influence on culture and politics. Read/watch the full interview: https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/mariel-barnes-on-the-manosphere-and-american-politics/  

New Study Highlights Impact of Social Inequalities and Location on Wisconsin’s “Digital Divide”

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Access to high-speed internet has become crucial to staying connected—to jobs, medical care, social services, and many other parts of life. A new paper by Ashley Cate, Steven Moen, and IDS Affiliate Kaiping Chen suggests that Wisconsin broadband expansion efforts can be made more effective by accounting for local conditions and needs. In their paper, …

Angela Byars-Winston named to In Business Magazine’s Power 100 List

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IDS Chair Dr. Angela Byars-Winston was recently named to In Business Magazine’s Power 100 list. The list is made up of executive leaders from around the Madison, Wisconsin area who lead in business, government, and non-profit areas. The full list was published in the October 2024 print edition of In Business: Great Madison Area. About the …

Byars-Winston, Isadore, Jackson, and Meuris present at 2024 Diversity Forum

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Panel: What Does Diversity Science Say About Belonging and Community? On November 14, IDS affiliates Kyesha Isadore, Corey Jackson, and Jirs Meuris shared their research at the 2024 UW-Madison Diversity Forum in a panel moderated by IDS Chair Angela Byars-Winston. Watch the Session Recording   Panel Description: Diversity science can help harness the power of …

Study Group on the Black Community Experience Co-Chaired by Byars-Winston Releases Final Report

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UW Communications: Last year, after a video of a student making racist comments surfaced online, Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin tasked a campus ad hoc group with studying the Black experience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and recommending steps the campus community could take to positively influence that experience. The Ad Hoc Study Group on the …