University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: jan/feb 2019

Student Profile: PhD Candidate Isabel Pike

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, BA in Anthropology Can you describe your research interests? Current research projects? My research focuses on gender and socioeconomic change …

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 the National Science Foundation for the new project, “Immigration, Legal Status, and Criminal Adjudication in State Courts.” Using the California …

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 of outstanding IUSSP members in advancing population science and rendering distinguished service. After completing a PhD in 1977 at the …

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 from the federal government. CDE’s research and training efforts have provided foundational information about the health and well-being of individuals, …