Name: Isabel Pike, PhD candidate in sociology Hometown: Kampala, Uganda (that is where I spent my whole childhood until college but I was born in England and am a UK citizen) Educational background: Princeton University, …
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New Grants and Awards for CDE Affiliates
CDE affiliates had a productive fall semester—congratulations to Michael Light, Katherine Curtis, Marcy Carlson, Malia Jones, Marguerite Burns, and Jenna Nobles for their new grants and awards. Michael Light (sociology; Chican@/Latin@ studies) received funding from …
Alberto Palloni Named 2019 IUSSP Laureate
Congratulations to Alberto Palloni, recipient of the 29th Laureate Award from the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Established in 1991 and awarded annually, the IUSSP Laureate Award recognizes the life-time achievements …
CDE Center Grant Renewed
We are pleased to announce that the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) renewed CDE’s center grant (P2C HD047873) for 2019–24, continuing a nearly half-century tradition of infrastructure support …
Marguerite Burns Receives Health Sciences Award from the Wisconsin Partnership Program
Congratulations to Marguerite Burns (population health sciences) who received one of four new awards from the Wisconsin Partnership Program, which supports collaborative, original research from interdisciplinary teams. The awards provide up to $600,000 to each …
Michael Light’s Paper on Undocumented Immigration and Violent Crime Publisher’s Most Popular Article of 2018
“Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?,” by CDE affiliate Michael Light and Ty Miller (Purdue), was Wiley Sociology’s most popular article of 2018. The article received an Altmetric Attention Score of 1914, putting it in …
Paper by Three UW Researchers, Including Jenna Nobles, Earned Top Honors from the American Public Health Association
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Malia Jones Receives K01
Malia Jones received funding from NICHD for her new study “Estimating Childhood Infectious Disease Outbreak Risk in the Context of Heterogeneous Vaccine Coverage.” More information here.
R13 Conference Grant Awarded
Katherine Curtis, Marcy Carlson, and Malia Jones received R13 funding from NICHD to organize a conference on the demographic responses to changes in the natural environment. The conference will bring together scholars at varying career stages …
Two CDE Predoctoral Students Complete PhDs
Congratulations to CDE graduate students Ellen Dinsmore and Catherine Doren, who completed their PhDs in sociology this summer. Dinsmore’s research focuses on crime, deviance, and social control. Her dissertation, “Blurring the Thin Blue Line: The Rise of the …