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Katherine Curtis, Malia Jones, and Team Receive National Excellence in Multistate Research Award

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CDE affiliates Katherine Curtis, (community & environmental sociology; Applied Population Lab) and Malia Jones (Applied Population Lab), and their colleagues recently received the National Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the United States Department of Agriculture. The award recognized the research team’s work on the W4001: Social, …

Congratulations to Graduating Students and Recent Retirees

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Congratulations to Sebastian Daza, Amelia Gibbons, Michael King, Julie Kirsch, Amrita Kulka, Isabel Pike, Jessica Polos, Ankit Rastogi, and Nathan Seltzer on the recent/upcoming successful defense of their dissertations! We wish them well on their new endeavors, and our next newsletter will include details of their exciting new positions. Also, we’d like to congratulate CDE …

DemSemX – A Cross-Center Collaboration

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CDE has developed a new cross-center collaborative effort – DemSemX – that will virtually bring together faculty and students from population research centers across 8 U.S. universities (Bowling Green, Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, Texas, UCLA and UW–Madison) to enhance scholarly interaction and graduate training across institutions. These centers will join forces to bring you …

CDE Hosted Virtual ‘Census 2020 Symposium’

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Following UW–Madison’s move to fully remote work in mid-March due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus, CDE decided to hold its planned March 24th symposium on Census 2020 online – a first for CDE amidst our changing landscape. We were delighted that approximately 216 individuals from around the country (and a few from other …

Sharing Information and Gathering Data about the COVID-19 Pandemic

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In recent weeks, the COVID-19 outbreak has been the near-singular focus of the news media, and CDE affiliates have made their mark in the news cycle. Malia Jones typed a message for her family, friends, and colleagues with an overview of her thoughts on the outbreak as an epidemiologist in mid-March, just as the pandemic was …

PAA 2020 Roundup

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As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Population Association of America’s 2020 Annual Meetings were cancelled. We certainly missed the chance to attend this gathering. Some of these sessions were held virtually later in April. The CDE/CDHA Alumni & Friends Reception scheduled to take place during PAA was also cancelled. We hope to …

Memorial resolution published by UW-Madison Faculty to honor Hal Winsborough

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Dr. Winsborough, who went by Hal, arrived at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Sociology charged with the creation of a demographic research center. Hal succeeded in securing funding from the NIH, the Center for Demography and Ecology was born — and the rest, as …

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CDE & CDHA Presentations at Virtual PAA

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A virtual version of the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting will be taking place online Thursday, April 23 through Saturday, April 25. Though fewer scholars will be participating overall, a healthy number of CDE/CDHA faculty and students are still set to present! Their sessions are listed below. All times are ET. To view the …

CDE Affiliate Malia Jones Pens Op-Ed in USA Today

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Malia Jones (Assistant Scientist, Applied Population Lab) is a social epidemiologist and CDE affiliate. Last week, she shared her thoughts about the COVID-19 epidemic via a Google Doc that went viral (the power of social media!), and a refined version of that document has now been published as an op-ed in USA Today. Among several …