Paper by Three UW Researchers, Including Jenna Nobles, Earned Top Honors from the American Public Health Association
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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.
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 conducting research at the intersection of environmental studies and demographic analysis to promote the exchange of relevant conceptual frameworks, analytical …
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 Military Model in U.S. Policing,” examined the increased use of military strategies and equipment by American law enforcement. Dinsmore’s work …
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, health, race, punishment, and rural/urban processes. In 2017, he published Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and …
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 an exceptional interdisciplinary group of faculty, thoughtful and hardworking students and postdocs, and top-notch staff who support the Center’s various …
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 Center for Eduational Resarch and MMSD will look for ways to reduce educational inequality and enhance educational opportunity for all …
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 that found in opposite-sex marriages, women who earned more than their husbands reported earning less while husbands claimed to earn …
We are sad to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Halliman H. Winsborough on September 5. A remembrance gathering will be held on Saturday, September 22nd, at 2:00pm in the Premier Room at Capitol Lakes, 333 W. Main St., Madison, WI 53703. Read more.