In February 2017, UW–Madison’s School of Education launched the Grand Challenges grant program to support research and practice in education, health, and creative expression. In its inaugural year, Grand Challenges funded four Transform Grants (up …
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Student Update: Graduation, Awards, and Honors
Congratulations to four CDE students who completed their doctoral work in May 2018: Zack Barnett-Howell, Rachel Frattarola, Jinho Kim, and Stephanie Koning. Zack Barnett-Howell completed a joint PhD in agricultural and applied economics and political …
Spencer Foundation Funds Study on Transition to Kindergarten
Eric Grodsky (sociology) received a grant from the Spencer Foundation for the project “The Madison Education Partnership: Collaborating around the Transition to Kindergarten.” Together with co-principal investigators Elizabeth Vaade, Caroline Racine Gilles, and Culleen Witthuhn …
New Round of UW2020 Projects Funded
Five CDE affiliates are taking part in new research funded by the UW2020 initiative, a competitive grant program that supports collaborative, highly innovative projects that have the potential to fundamentally transform a field of study. …
Affiliate Updates: Awards, Professorships, and Promotions
Each spring, extraordinary members of the faculty receive prestigious awards supported by the estate of William F. Vilas (1840–1908), a former UW professor and regent. This year, three CDE faculty affiliates were among those honored. …
New Affiliates & Staff Join CDE, Spring 2018
CDE extends a warm welcome to three new affiliates, Lindsay Jacobs, Hyunseung Kang, and Jeffrey Smith. Jacobs joined the La Follette School of Public Affairs in January 2018 as an assistant professor. Jacobs specializes in …
CDE Presentations at PAA 2018
The annual meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) is the most important annual scientific conference for the dissemination and discussion of new population-related research. Scholars from a range of disciplines come together to …
Affiliates Receive University Honors
Congratulations to Maria Cancian (public affairs; social work), J. Michael Collins (public affairs; human ecology), Katherine Curtis (community and environmental sociology), and Jenny Higgins (gender and women’s studies; obstetrics and gynecology) who recently received major …
Cluster Hiring Initiative
Started in 1998, UW–Madison’s Cluster Hiring Initiative, an innovative partnership between the university, state, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation fosters collaborative research, education, and outreach. The initiative creates new areas of study that cross …
The Genome Factor
“The social genomics revolution is now upon us,” according to Dalton Conley and Jason Fletcher in their new book The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future …