CDE & CDHA affiliates and graduate students presented a wide array of excellent research at the Population Association of America meetings last month. 57 affiliates appeared 104 times on the program! Two students won awards for their research: Emma Romell, for her study, “Converging Destinies? Patterns of Educational Attainment Following Divorce and Nonmarital Childbearing in …
Congratulations to Lonnie Berger, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Social Sciences and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Social Work, for receiving the 2022 Social Policy Researcher Award from the Society for Social Work and Research. The award honors a social work scholar who has demonstrated distinguished achievement across an extended career of research …
For nearly 120 years, the Wisconsin Idea has shaped UW–Madison and the university’s commitment to public service. Based on the principle that education should influence people’s lives beyond the boundaries of the classroom, the Wisconsin Idea has become the guiding philosophy of university outreach efforts, both within the state and throughout the world. The UW …
CDE affiliate Tiffany Green is the recipient of a highly-competitive grant from the New Investigator Program from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the School of Medicine and Public Health. The New Investigator funding provides support for early-career faculty to initiate innovative research and/or education projects that address Wisconsin’s health issues. The Wisconsin Partnership Program is …
At the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE), CDE affiliate Jenny Higgins leads a team of scholars that conducts high-quality, rigorous, policy-relevant, and community-engaged interdisciplinary research on reproductive health and healthcare, both nationally and locally within Wisconsin. Through their research, CORE investigators aim to inform and improve reproductive health programs and policies throughout the state. Higgins, …
Summer DemSem 2022 Causal Inference Short Course May 17-24: CDE affiliates are invited to participate in a 5-day short course led by Scott Cunningham (Economics, Baylor), author of Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Virtual training from 11-5 ET on May 17-19 on regression discontinuity, instrumental variable, and difference-in-difference designs (sign up here); followed by a two-day …