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Call for Proposals: 2025 CDE Rapid Research Seed Grants

The Center for Demography and Ecology is pleased to announce a seed grant competition to support pilot research for future grant applications to NIH. Request for Proposals: Deadline 10 November, 2025 Research Focus CDE invites proposals on a wide range of topics related to the population sciences. Of particular interest is research that addresses one …

Sarah Halpern Meekin quoted in NYT “America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny”

Predoctoral Trainee Lindsay Cannon awarded NICHD F31

Congratulations to CDE predoctoral trainee and Sociology PhD candidate Lindsay Cannon, who was awarded an F31 award by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) for her project “Fertility Among Women with Chronic Health Conditions: A Mixed Methods Study.” “This F31 funding will support my mixed methods dissertation research,” …

NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Update

NSF Updates Effective May 20, 2024, the National Science Foundation has issued updated guidance regarding the preparation of proposals and administration of projects. The principal updates are summarized below and we encourage investigators to review this guidance to ensure that proposals conform to these new requirements. More information can be found via this link (https://new.nsf.gov/policies/pappg/24-1/summary-changes) …

Alumni Spotlight: Augustino Mayai named new chairperson of the National Bureau of Statistics for South Sudan

Congratulations to former CDE graduate student Augustino Ting Mayai who has been announced as the new chairperson of the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics.  In an interview with Radio Tamazuj, Dr. Mayai stated that the NBS in South Sudan has not done any data collection and analysis work since 2010 because of a lack …

Maureen Durkin featured in CBS News “Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. children have been diagnosed with a developmental disability”

Tiffany Green featuring on Channel 3000 “Studies show rates of Black infant, maternal deaths increase in 2020, 2021”

Tiffany Green featured in On Wisconsin Magazine’s “Fixing the Future”

Race and Ethnicity Workshop – Spring 2023 Schedule

Below, you can find the Race & Ethnicity Workshop’s presentation schedule for the Spring 2023 semester. The Race Workshop meets weekly on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12pm CST in 8108 Sewell Social Sciences and over Zoom.   Please reach out to Wendy Lee (wklee3@wisc.edu) if you have any questions. If you would like to receive weekly reminders about upcoming …

Non-Profit Funding Opportunities, October 24-October 28, 2022

Social Science Research Council: Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Fellowship Application deadline February 10, 2023 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Application deadline February 10, 2023 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Application deadline February 10, 2023 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: …