University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Alberto Palloni has been elected as the 2019 Laureate of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). This is a lifetime achievement award for contributions to the advancement of Population sciences and distinguished service provided to the IUSSP. Alberto will receive this award in a ceremony April 10, 2019 at 5:30pm, …
Assistant Professor Jordan Conwell discusses his research that examined how children of different races and genders, but from the same family income, fare in early educational measures in a podcast created with the UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty.
In it’s annual issue to feature “artists, innovators and thinkers” who died in the past year, The New York Times Magazine included a tribute to UW-Madison’s Department of Sociology alumnus, Devah Pager. The piece was written by Matthew Desmond, also an alumni of the department and who had previously been a colleague in the Department …
Associate Professor Michael Light’s article “Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?” published in the journal Criminology was the most popular article viewed of Wiley’s Sociology publications.