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 share cutting-edge research that addresses today’s most challenging demographic, social, economic, and public health issues. This year’s meetings will take …
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 research awards from UW–Madison. Cancian was honored with the Kellett Mid-Career Award, which recognizes and supports research conducted by faculty …
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 boundaries of existing academic departments, and since its launch 20 years ago, nearly 50 interdisciplinary clusters have received support. …
“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 (Princeton University Press, 2017). In just over a hundred years, the gene has gone from relative obscurity, with research relegated …
On Thursday, September 28, Peter Bearman will speak on campus as part of the Hilldale Lecture Series. Free and open to the public, the series features distinguished thinkers whose contributions to the arts, humanities, and biological, physical, and social sciences have received international recognition and acclaim. Bearman, the Jonathan R. Cole Professor of the Social …
Four CDE faculty affiliates have received prestigious UW awards. Christine Schwartz, professor of sociology, received a Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award, which recognizes research and teaching excellence. Since joining the university in 2006, Schwartz has produced numerous papers on assortative mating, spousal earnings inequality, and marriage dissolution. Schwartz regularly teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses …
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 in public health in the area around the Thai-Myanmar border. At UW–Madison, Koning, who is pursuing a joint PhD/MA degree …
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 Wisconsin citizens, policy makers, government agencies, and community-based organizations. By spreading its maps, reports, and analyses beyond the confines of …
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 white fourth graders are the largest in the country. Recent research has shown that these achievement gaps in the graduation …
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 the short- and long-term influences of school peers on childhood obesity and fitness in New York City. Fletcher will analyze …