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August 2017

Tate to receive Inspiring Leaders in STEM Award
William F. Tate, dean of the Graduate School, is receiving the 2017 Inspiring Leaders in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. Tate is also vice provost for graduate education and the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Ar

April 2017

Professor Cindy Brantmeier to give the plenary address for the United Nations/UNESCO international conference on literacy
Cindy Brantmeier has been selected to give the plenary address for the United Nations/UNESCO international conference on literacy.

March 2017

Interview with Kelly Harris, PhD Candidate, “Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality”

January 2017

The 2017 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
State Department selects Washington University to host EducationUSA Academy......again for Summer 2017

October 2016

Professor Cindy Brantmeier has been named a distinguished visiting professor of applied linguistics by the School of Foreign Languages of Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China.
Professors Carol Camp Yeakey and Garrett Albert Duncan were recently featured in a debate on police body cameras.
Graduate student Haley Dolosic offers ways for other graduate students to engage during debate weekend.

September 2016

Andrew C. Butler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, will present the talk "Applying the Science of Learning to Educational Practice" on Mon, Sept 26 at Noon in Seigle 148.
Professor Garrett Albert Duncan recently published an invited article in The Crime Report on Michael Brown and Black Lives Matter.
Ebony Omotola McGee, Ph.D. and Assistant Prof. of Diversity and Urban Schooling at Vanderbilt Univ, will deliver a talk entitled “From Resilience to Decolonization: Evolving Interpretations of Black Students in STEM Fields” Mon, Sept 12 in Umrath Hall.
Andrew D. Cohen, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, will deliver a lecture titled Fluctuation in Language Strategy Functions, and then a workshop titled Learning Pragmatics from Nonnative Teachers. See flyer for details.

July 2016

Thanks to a collaborative effort from Arts & Sciences’ Summer School Programs and our Department of Education, Washington University is one of 10 American higher education institutions chosen from among 50 to host the EducationUSA Academy.

June 2016

Congratulations to doctoral student Ming Yen who received the Dr. Eugene Owen Scholarship to participate in the 2016 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research.

May 2016

Congratulations to Ashley Macrander who will become the Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs at Washington University.
Cindy Brantmeier is in China receiving an honor of Distinguished Visiting Professor and will give the plenary for the anniversary of the School of Foreign Languages at Northeast Normal Univ. Grad students Haley, Huan and Weih Cheih are also presenting.

April 2016

Congratulations to Professor Odis Johnson who was awarded a $617,202 NSF grant, and is the sole PI, for his project titled "Race-Gender Trajectories in Engineering: The Role of Social Control Across Neighborhood and School Contexts."
On April 21, Professor Crystal T. Laura of Chicago State University will present a talk titled “Teaching for Love, toward Justice, with Joy: An Intimate Approach to Educational Work.” From 4p‐5:30p at Seigle Hall 204.

March 2016

On April 22-23, Professor Odis Johnson will participate in a symposium at Yale titled The Inner City School: Inequality and Urban Education.
Congratulations to Dean William F. Tate and Professor Carol Camp Yeakey who were elected to the National Academy of Education.

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