University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: may/june 2019

PAA 2019 Recap

Another great PAA annual meeting is in the books! At the conference, 57 affiliates, including 24 students and 6 postdocs, appeared on the conference program 98 times as part of a panel or poster. Graduate student Renee Kramer and faculty affiliate Deborah Ehrenthal won a best poster award for “Understanding Associations Between State-Level Policy Factors and …

Graduate Students Accomplishments

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 Receive University Honors

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 …

New Grants for CDE Affiliates

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, …