“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 …
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 …