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 the American Sociological Association. Co-written with Andrew Halpern-Manners (Indiana), John Robert Warren (Minnesota), and D. Adam Nicholson (Indiana), the paper, …
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 (economics). Jordan Conwell is completing an Anna Julia Cooper postdoctoral fellowship during the 2017–18 academic year and will begin fall …
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 access to restricted microdata from federal agencies such as the National Center for Health Statistics and the Bureau of Labor …
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 of the largest and longest-running demographic training programs in the country. The center has received NICHD T32 funding since 1975—a …