Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
Effective this fall, Morgan Edwards will officially be a tenured member of the La Follette faculty. This comes after the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously voted to recommend her for tenure in December 2025. Her new title is associate professor. Edwards’ cutting-edge research focuses on energy responses to the climate crisis and the …
On August 25, the College of Letters & Sciences officially approved the La Follette faculty’s recommendation to appoint Professor J. Michael Collins as the next director of the La Follette School. He will begin his post on January 1, 2027. Collins is an accomplished scholar who studies consumer decision-making in the financial marketplace and the …
This article by Susan Yackee was published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Ideas Lab as part of the 2026 Main Street Agenda. According to our friends at the Marquette Law School, 19% of Americans say they can never trust the government while only 18% say they can trust the federal government to do what is right all or most of …
50 leading environmental social scientists from around the world converged on Madison this summer for the 2026 Environmental Politics & Governance Conference hosted by La Follette’s Manny Teodoro. The conference, which took place June 29 to July 1 in the Memorial Union, brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Environmental Politics and Governance …
Every summer, a variety of La Follette students head to Washington, D.C., interning or working in different roles to get hands-on experience with the issues they care about most.
This summer, La Follette students are opening doors across the globe thanks to support from Ascendium and Summer Policy Learning Experience Scholarships.
This summer, a group of La Follette alumni stepped into the supervisor's role, taking on student interns and discovering what they already knew: that the next generation of La Follette students is exceptional.
In July 2026, Graduate Program Manager Mo O'Connor retired after an impressive student-facing career that included time as a high school teacher and 25 years in career services across multiple UW–Madison departments.
In May 2026, Director of Strategic Initiatives Lisa Ellinger (MPA ’03) retired from La Follette after an illustrious career as a public servant that spanned a variety of public policy sectors.
La Follette School faculty members earned two of UW-Madison’s highest honors in the 2025-26 academic year, showcasing La Follette’s expertise and teaching talents across a variety of disciplines.