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  2. Year: 2021
  3. Month: September

Month: September 2021

COVID-19 and Infant Health Grant for Nobles and Elwert

Posted on September 27, 2021

The National Science Foundation funded Professors Jenna Nobles and Felix Elwert’s research “The Intergenerational Effects of COVID-19 on Inequality.” Collaborators include Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology at Stanford University as Co-Principal Investigator, and Deirdre Lyell, …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, Grants & Research Findings, News

Christine Schwartz’s Research on Household Income Inequality

Posted on September 24, 2021

Research by Christine Schwartz, Professor of Sociology, and her colleagues analyzed trends over the last 50 years in assortative mating, which is the tendency of people to marry those with similar jobs. They found that …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, NewsTagged Demography, Faculty

Franklin Wilson Memorial Changed to Zoom Format

Posted on September 22, 2021

Due to the delta variant and rising COVID case numbers, we have made the decision to hold the celebration of Franklin Wilson’s life entirely by Zoom. If you haven’t registered already and plan to attend, …

Posted in NewsTagged Faculty, News

Wisconsin Book Festival to Feature “Education for Democracy”

Posted on September 21, 2021

Professor Chad Goldberg served as editor for the recently published book “Education for Democracy : Renewing the Wisconsin Idea” that will be discussed as part of the Madison Public Library’s Wisconsin Book Festival on October …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, NewsTagged Faculty, News

Frankie Frank is Representative for ASA Section

Posted on September 21, 2021

Frankie Frank was appointed Graduate Student Council Representative for the Teaching and Learning Section of the American Sociological Association. This Section aims to improve the teaching of sociology from the high school through graduate level. …

Posted in News, Student & AlumniTagged Graduate Program, News

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2021: University Recruitment of High School Students in Taiwan

Posted on September 16, 2021

Term: Fall 2021 (Soc 320, Section 281) Status: Open Contact: Please contact Mikki Liu mikki.liu@wisc.edu with your resume and cover letter (see details below) to apply for this position. It is available for 1-3 credits. …

Posted in Undergraduate Research & Internship Opportunities - Archive

Graduate Students Receive Fellowships and Grants

Posted on September 15, 2021

Congratulations to the following graduate students on receipt of their fellowships and grants! Nona Gronert is a 2021 National Academy of Education’s Spencer Dissertation Fellow through August of 2022. Walker Kahn received the National Science …

Posted in Grants & Research Findings, NewsTagged Graduate Program, News

Monica Grant Awarded NIH Research Grant

Posted on September 14, 2021

The National Institutes of Health awarded Monica Grant, Professor of Sociology, a two-year R03 grant to study the reproductive consequences of schooling expansion for men in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda.  This project builds on previous …

Posted in NewsTagged Demography, Faculty

Leafia Zi Ye Receives ASA Award for Paper

Posted on September 10, 2021

Leafia Zi Ye’s paper “Continuous Integration or Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants’ Economic Trajectories in Later Life” received the Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging & the Life Course.  Ye …

Posted in News, Student & AlumniTagged Graduate Program

John Eason Named Urban Institute Equity Scholar

Posted on September 3, 2021

Associate Professor John Eason has been selected to be one of eight Equity Scholars at the Urban Institute.  This two-year program provides opportunity for the scholars to deepen their own policy-oriented research on race, equity, …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, NewsTagged Inequality, News

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