CDE extends hearty congratulations to three of its graduate students, Isabel Pike, Esteban Quiñones, and Julia Thomas, on their recent awards and honors. Pike was named a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women’s Studies for 2019. The competitive award supports the final year of dissertation writing for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences …
CDE affiliates Chao Fu and Jenna Nobles were among the 11 faculty members to receive H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships. The award recognizes faculty up to six years past their first promotion to a tenured position and comes with $60,000 in research funds that may be spent over five years. Three affiliates, Christine Schwartz, Jason …
Congratulations to the seven CDE affiliates who received new research grants, from both university and federal funders, this spring. The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation awarded seventeen new projects funding in the fifth round of the UW2020 Initiative. The competitive grant program supports collaborative, …
CDE and CDHA affiliates have been busy preparing for the annual meeting of the Population Association of America in Austin. Fifty-seven affiliates, including faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and scientists, appear on the conference program ninety-eight times as authors, presenters, chairs, or discussants. For more details, see our list of events.
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 the National Science Foundation for the new project, “Immigration, Legal Status, and Criminal Adjudication in State Courts.” Using the California …
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 of outstanding IUSSP members in advancing population science and rendering distinguished service. After completing a PhD in 1977 at the …
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 from the federal government. CDE’s research and training efforts have provided foundational information about the health and well-being of individuals, …
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 project over a three year period. Burns and co-principal investigator Ryan Westergaard (medicine) will lead the project, “Leaving Prison and …
“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 the top five percent of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. According to the data collecting resource, the paper is …
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