Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
The La Follette School’s first all-virtual alumni reunion is less than a month away! Alumni from 1975 through 2018 already have registered for the hour-long event on Thursday, May 13. Registration is requested. Starting at 6 p.m. CDT, alumni will celebrate with the Class of 2021 and then reconnect with former classmates in Zoom breakout rooms based …
As the Spring 2021 Public Affairs Journalist in Residence, Amy Westervelt will discuss the news media’s role in the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to block climate action and obscure climate science. Westervelt’s presentation, Widening the Circle of Accountability: Media & the Climate Debate, will be livestreamed at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 21.
Andrew D. Kemp (MA ’91) passed on February 8 at the age of 53 from complications of COVID-19. His immediate family called him Andrew all his life, but as an adult, he asked to be called Andy. Andrew graduated from Northland College in 1989 followed by a master’s degree from the Robert M. La Follette …
La Follette School Professor Dave Weimer conducted research to calculate the value of statistical dog life. In other words, how much Americans are willing to pay, on average, to reduce their pet’s risk of dying. The numbers tell us how owners implicitly value their dogs.
As social media companies face growing scrutiny among lawmakers and the general public, the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW–Madison welcomes Katie Harbath, a former global public policy director at Facebook for the past 10 years, for a livestreamed public presentation March 24.
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated alumna Linda Thomas-Greenfield U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Thomas-Greenfield received her master’s degree in public administration from UW–Madison’s Center for the Study of Public Policy and Administration – the La Follette School’s predecessor – in 1975. Thomas-Greenfield is a distinguished resident fellow in African studies at the Institute for …
Tawsif Anam (MPA ’13) has been nominated for a Professional Elevation Award by Madison Magnet, Madison’s largest young professional organization. Voting continues online through Friday, Sept. 11. The award is given to a young professional in Wisconsin who actively is engaged in their own professional development and who is bringing others along with them. This person may …