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Spring 2023 faculty awards

Posted on July 14, 2023

La Follette School faculty members Mark Copelovitch, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Tana Johnson, Tim Smeeding, and Manny Teodoro received awards this spring.

Posted in Energy and the Environment, Faculty, Health and Aging, International Policy & Economics, News, Social Policy

La Follette professors help inaugurate social genomics conference

Posted on July 14, 2023

Jason Fletcher and Lauren Schmitz helped organize the inaugural The Advances in Social Genomics Conference.

Posted in Faculty, Health and Aging, News, Social Policy

Arolas awarded American Family Funding Initiative Award to innovate research method

Posted on June 19, 2023

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.

Posted in Alumni, Faculty, Health and Aging, News, Social Policy

Students help answer legislators’ health policy questions through La Follette workshop

Posted on June 18, 2023

Sixteen undergraduate students were given an exciting opportunity this spring during La Follette’s Workshop in Health Policy when they were able to research and propose recommendations for policy questions crafted by Wisconsin state legislators.

Posted in Health and Aging, Health policy certificate, News, Outreach, Students, Undergraduate

Epic tour for La Follette!

Posted on May 12, 2023

La Follette faculty, staff, and students visited Epic Systems to learn from Epic leadership about data, health equity, and how electronic health records can improve health.

Posted in Health and Aging, News, Outreach

Schmitz advances aging research with groundbreaking Malawi project

Posted on May 9, 2023

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.

Posted in Faculty, Health and Aging, News, Social Policy

New study led by Fletcher advances understanding of geographic health disparities

Posted on April 27, 2023

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.

Posted in Faculty, Health and Aging, News, Social Policy

Fletcher awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship

Posted on April 17, 2023

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.

Posted in Faculty, Health and Aging, News, Social Policy

Schmitz publishes study linking early-life poverty with accelerated aging

Posted on December 18, 2022

A new study by Assistant Professor Lauren Schmitz that follows people who were born during the Great Depression shows that early-life exposure to poor economic conditions is associated with accelerated aging.

Posted in Faculty, Health and Aging, News, Social Policy

Health policy undergraduates gain valuable experience through internships

Posted on November 14, 2022

Health Policy Certificate students have the opportunity to apply practical skills and knowledge gained during their coursework and develop skills in a professional setting through internships with the state legislature, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and more.

Posted in Health and Aging, Health policy certificate, News, Students, Undergraduate
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