Since working with ethnic minority and displaced populations affected by the HIV epidemic in Thailand as an undergraduate and later as a researcher with the United Nations, CDE doctoral candidate Stephanie Koning has been interested …
nov/dec 2017
Health Disparities Research Scholars
The Health Disparities Research Scholars (HDRS) program at UW–Madison, led by Deborah Ehrenthal (obstetrics and gynecology; CDE affiliate) and training grant coordinator Pamela Asquith, offers postdoctoral fellowships through a grant funded by the Eunice Kennedy …
Applied Population Lab Brings Demographic Research across State
At the Applied Population Laboratory (APL), a team of researchers, scientists, analysts, and demographers, led by Katherine Curtis (community and environmental sociology; CDE affiliate), work to translate social and economic data into useful information for …
Uncovering Gaps in School Readiness
Nationally, students of color and children who are poor enter kindergarten substantially behind their peers. In Wisconsin, gaps in graduation rates between black and white students and in math and reading scores of black and …
Affiliates Launch New Research Projects
Jason Fletcher: Examining the Role of Peers on Childhood Congratulations to Jason Fletcher who received a two-year R21 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study …