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 …
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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 …
New Faculty, Postdocs, and Graduate Students Join CDE
Welcome to John Eason (sociology), CDE’s newest faculty affiliate. Eason came to Madison from Texas A&M, where he was an associate professor of sociology. In his research, Eason challenges existing models and develops new theories of community, …
2017–18 Academic Year in Review
The 2017–18 academic year has come to a close, making it a great time to reflect back on what has been accomplished at CDE since September. “It’s an exciting time to be at CDE, with …
Grant Awarded for Educational Researcher-Practitioner Partnership
Professor Eric Grodsky and colleagues at the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) received a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences on “Enhancing the Quality of Instruction in 4-Year-Old Kindergarten.” A partnership between the Wisconsin …
Christine Schwartz on Women Who Earn More Than Their Husbands
Christine Schwartz’s 2016 paper on women’s earning power and divorce was cited in the recent New York Times piece “When Wives Earn More than Husbands, Neither Partner Likes to Admit It.” The Times article explored new Census Bureau research …