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  • Karumbaiah receives Vilas Early-Career Investigator Award

    IDS affiliate Shamya Karumbaiah was among University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty recently honored with a Vilas Award. Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the Learning Sciences area. Karumbaiah studies human-centered AI …

  • Byars-Winston named to Wisconsin Academy

    IDS Chair Angela Byars-Winston was among 16 Fellows inducted to the Wisconsin Academy on March 23rd. The Academy honors Wisconsinites who have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to intellectual discourse and public service. The 2026 Class …

  • Kaiping Chen named to NASEM’s New Voices 2026 Cohort

    The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine have announced that IDS affiliate Kaiping Chen, an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, has been selected of one of 20 members of the …

  • Taylor Odle makes list of nation’s top 200 education scholars

    IDS affiliate Taylor Odle recently made a list of 2026’s top-200 U.S. education scholars. The list, appearing in EdWeek, was compiled by a 27-member committee with rankings partially based on factors including Google Scholar citations, …

  • Workshop on AI-Assisted Coding of Textual Data

    On October 3rd, IDS offered a workshop given by Junior Visiting Scholar Ananya Ganesh about using large language models to assist with coding text-based data in research. The workshop was attended by UW-Madison graduate students …

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