CDE is pleased to welcome its new director, Jenna Nobles, and associate director for training, Katherine Curtis! Nobles is a professor of sociology with affiliate appointments in population health sciences and obstetrics and gynecology. On …
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Trainee Profile: Annaliese Grant
Name: Annaliese Grant Title: PhD candidate Hometown: Tucson, Arizona Educational background: Barnard College, BA in Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; minor in Math Can you describe your research interests? Current research projects? I …
Congratulations to Graduating Students and Recent Retirees
Congratulations to Sebastian Daza, Amelia Gibbons, Michael King, Julie Kirsch, Amrita Kulka, Isabel Pike, Jessica Polos, Ankit Rastogi, and Nathan Seltzer on the recent/upcoming successful defense of their dissertations! We wish them well on their …
DemSemX – A Cross-Center Collaboration
CDE has developed a new cross-center collaborative effort – DemSemX – that will virtually bring together faculty and students from population research centers across 8 U.S. universities (Bowling Green, Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, Texas, …
New Grants around CDE
Deb Ehrenthal and Lonnie Berger received R01 funding from NICHD for their project on “Prenatal Opioid Exposure: Birth, Health, Socioeconomic, and Educational Outcomes of Mothers and Their Children.” The research team has assembled a database of …
CDE Hosted Virtual ‘Census 2020 Symposium’
Following UW-Madison’s move to fully remote work in mid-March due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus, CDE decided to hold its planned March 24th symposium on Census 2020 online – a first for CDE …
Sharing Information and Gathering Data about the COVID-19 Pandemic
In recent weeks, the COVID-19 outbreak has been the near-singular focus of the news media, and CDE affiliates have made their mark in the news cycle. Malia Jones typed a message for her family, friends, and …
CDE Grad Students and Postdocs Move to Faculty Positions
Congratulations to CDE graduate student Esteban Quiñones (agricultural and applied economics), who completed his PhD last spring/summer. Quiñones’ research focused on poverty and the roles that households and government policies play in alleviating deprivation, with …
Marcy Carlson Elected Vice President of PAA
We are pleased that CDE’s Director, Marcy Carlson, has been elected vice president of the Population Association of America (PAA). PAA is the leading U.S. scientific, professional organization promoting research on population issues. She will …
New Faces at CDE
CDE is excited to welcome five new assistant professors to campus in fall 2019 who will expand the depth and breadth of our scholarship. Megan Bea joins UW’s School of Human Ecology after receiving a …