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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, Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine also at Stanford, as co-investigator. The team examines the effects of COVID-19 exposure on infant health …
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 Foundation’s Law and Science Dissertation Grant Award. Kurt Kuehne won a Multi-Country Research Fellowship from Council of American Overseas Research …
Associate Professor Michael Light, and UW–Madison graduate student co-authors Jingying He and Jason Robey, had their research published in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that compares crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas. An interview with Light about the research can be found …
John Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the UW–Madison Justice Lab, has presented early results from a research project that suggest that efforts to reduce the jail population in the months of January, February and March resulted in decreasing the number of COVID-19 cases in the Dane County Jail. Eason has partnered with …
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) has launched the 2020 edition of their “State of Working Wisconsin” report that tracks the ongoing economic indicators of the COVID-19 crisis in the state. This year’s research took a new approach since there was the unprecedented unfolding of the pandemic, economic crisis, and protests again racial injustice. An …
Associate Professor John Eason has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research the extent of the reciprocal relationship of infections and deaths from COVID-19 among prisoners, correctional staff and the larger community over time. The project will also examine the spatial aspects of the relationship of infections and deaths from COVID-19. …
Congratulations to Jordan Conwell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, for being selected to receive a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship! This competitive program supports 30 early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. Jordan’s study, “All in the Family: New Perspectives on the Returns to College Quality,” will apply a multigenerational, family perspective to research in …
Associate Professor Monica Grant is one of nine recipients of Seed Grants from the UW–Madison Global Health Institute. She is examining the connection between climate change and family planning in Malawi by interviewing men and women four months after flooding associated with Cyclone Idai displaced thousands of people. Grant is asking “How do families make …
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a UW–Madison think tank lead by Professor Joel Rogers, just released a study which shows that if the state of Wisconsin could reduce it’s use of fossil fuels, the state economy would benefit.
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.