Associate Professor of Sociology Michal Engelman spoke with two local radio stations about the second straight year of continued declines in US life expectancy, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time and WORT’s 8’O’clock Buzz. Engelman is …
Demography
NextGenPop: Recruiting the Next Generation of Scholars into Population Research
NextGenPop is a new NICHD-funded undergraduate program (R25 HD105602) in population research that aims to increase the diversity of the population field and nurture the next generation of population scientists. The program offers undergraduates an …
Jenna Nobles Presents at March 31 OB-GYN Grand Rounds
Christine Schwartz’s Research on Household Income Inequality
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 …
Monica Grant Awarded NIH Research Grant
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 …
Michal Engelman Interviewed about Decrease in Life Expectancy in U.S.
On February 18 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released estimates that decreased life expectancy for Americans, and the drop was larger, depending on race and ethnicity. Michal Engelman, …
Michal Engelman to be New Director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
Associate Professor Michal Engelman will be the new director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a long-term study of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957. Engelman plans to enhance the …
Memorial Resolution Published by UW-Madison Faculty to Honor Hal Winsborough
Hal Winsborough arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Sociology charged with the creation of a demographic research center. Hal succeeded in securing funding …
Census 2020 Symposium Online Tuesday March 24
Beginning at noon (CST) on Tuesday March 24, the Census 2020 Symposium will be held online. Four invited experts (Steven Ruggles, Diana Magnuson, Michael Hawes and Margo Anderson) will discuss the collection and use of …
ALBERTO PALLONI 2019 IUSSP LAUREAUTE
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 …