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 …
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Affiliates Receive UW Professorships, Grants
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 …
Student Research: Exploring Maternal & Child Health in Thailand
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 …
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 …
Recognition for Raymo and Smeeding
Jim Raymo, chair of the sociology department and training director for the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, received the 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from the Section on Aging and the Life Course of …
Fall 2017: New Faculty, Students, Visitors, Staff Join CDE
This fall, five new faculty affiliates joined the Center’s ranks: Jordan Conwell (sociology and educational policy studies), Michael Light (sociology and Chican@/Latin@ Studies), Corina Mommaerts (economics), Anita Mukherjee (Wisconsin School of Business), and Matthew Wiswall …
Summer Seminar: Accessing Bigger Data for Research and Policy
With over 650 researchers working on 267 active projects, the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (RDC) network is an important resource for demographers. Administered by the U.S. Census Bureau, the country’s 27 RDCs provide secure …
CDE’s T32 Training Grant Renewed
In June, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) renewed CDE’s T32 training grant (T32 HD07014). Founded in 1962 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, CDE is home to one …