In a career spanning five decades, Smeeding contributed to understanding poverty and inequality, and how to design more effective programs to reduce them.
Faculty
News featuring La Follette School faculty members.
La Follette School’s director joins prestigious ACUS assembly
Susan Webb Yackee, was one of seven new public members appointed to the assembly of Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) earlier this month.
Spring 2023 faculty awards
La Follette School faculty members Mark Copelovitch, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Tana Johnson, Tim Smeeding, and Manny Teodoro received awards this spring.
La Follette professors help inaugurate social genomics conference
Jason Fletcher and Lauren Schmitz helped organize the inaugural The Advances in Social Genomics Conference.
Arolas awarded American Family Funding Initiative Award to innovate research method
Assistant Professor Héctor Pifarré i Arolas and his collaborator, Assistant Professor Adeline Lo of the Political Science department, received the American Family Funding Initiative Award.
Schmitz advances aging research with groundbreaking Malawi project
Assistant Professor Lauren Schmitz and her team of researchers were awarded a National Institute on Aging grant for their work on the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health.
New study led by Fletcher advances understanding of geographic health disparities
By looking at where people were born instead of where they ultimately move to and die, geographic disparities in mortality look different, according to a new study by Jason Fletcher.
Fletcher awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship
Fletcher is one of three UW-Madison faculty selected for this prestigious fellowship this year, and the only scholar from the Sociology discipline to be selected.
2023 Kohl Competition winners announced
The Kohl Competition supports nonpartisan research that policymakers can use to make evidence-based decisions when shaping public policy.
La Follette remembers Rebecca Blank
Rebecca Blank, UW–Madison Chancellor Emerita and former La Follette School faculty member, was an economist and educator who made major contributions to scholarship that helped to reduce poverty and inequality.