Kudos to Dennis Kopf, associate professor of marketing, who answered questions about the car insurance industry as a marketing expert on WalletHub. Read more »

Kudos to Erin Ellison, a senior lecturer on the UW-Whitewater at Rock County campus, for being named Rotary Teacher of the Month. Ellison, whose expertise is in developmental reading and writing, teaches a reading course that helps students hone their academic reading abilities. She also designed a writing studio at UW-Whitewater at Rock County that provides weekly individual writing help for at-risk students. Read more »

Kudos to Kerryn Foley, a graduate assistant in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, who is the recipient of the 2021 Student Leadership Award from the Wisconsin Speech and Hearing Association, the professional organization for communication disorders in Wisconsin. Kerryn and other awardees will be celebrated at the 2021 WSHA Fall Conference being held Oct. 14-15 at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake.

Kudos to Pilar Melero, professor in languages and literatures, who is the 2021 scholar teaching in the North Dakota State University English Department Summer Scholars Program in Fargo, North Dakota. The department annually invites one nationally recognized scholar to teach an intensive, one-week graduate course in their area of expertise. Melero’s course is titled “Dissident Ontologies: Latina and Latin American Women’s Thought,” and begins June 21.

Kudos to Marilyn Farias, music and Spanish double-major, who has been inducted into La Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society), Sigma Delta Pi. Inductees must have achieved an overall 3.2 grade point average and a minimum 3.0 GPA in at least three upper-level Spanish courses over three semesters.

Kudos to Meg Waraczynski, professor of psychology, who received this year’s Cisco/Presidio Teaching With Technology Innovator honorarium. The announcement last month came at the end of a program hosted by the Learning Technology Center and the LEARN Center. Faculty presented at the program on developing equitable courses and inclusive classroom communities; a session highlighting learning technology innovations included a presentation by Waraczynski.

Kudos to Saree Behm, an early childhood education major, Grace Caine, a music major, and Brandon Klas, an entrepreneurship major, who are among ten students statewide to each receive a $2,000 scholarship from the Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired. Behm and Caine will return as sophomores and both have goals to teach. Caine wants to become a band instructor. Klas, who will return as a junior, aims to own an automotive business. The Council began awarding scholarships 30 years ago to advance the educational and professional goals of students who live with low vision and blindness.