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Spring 2025 faculty awards

Posted on April 23, 2025

Associate Professor Yang Wang was named a Vilas Associate. Professor Susan Yackee’s paper won the Kenneth J. Meier Award.

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

New report cards indicate Wisconsin water utilities excel in water quality, but concerns remain

Posted on March 24, 2025

Most of Wisconsin’s water utilities provide safe, healthy drinking water with 92% of the state’s water utilities earning A grades for water quality (health) in a first-of-its-kind water utility report card designed by Professor Manuel P. Teodoro.

Posted in Equitable policymaking, Faculty, News, Public Management, Research

As water pipes crumble, so does our trust in government. Here’s how we fix this.

Posted on December 17, 2024

Manny Teodoro reflects on the 50-year impact of the Safe Drinking Water Act and shares opportunities for improvement in Wisconsin and nationwide over the next 50 years.

Posted in Energy and the Environment, News, Outreach, Policy perspectives, Public Management

Safe Drinking Water Act turns 50: symposium charts path for the future of America’s tap water

Posted on December 17, 2024

For the 50th anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the La Follette School of Public Affairs partnered with the Water & Health Advisory Council to host an event envisioning the future of U.S. drinking water.

Posted in Energy and the Environment, Faculty, News, Public Management

How do we rebuild trust? One simple answer is to ask people what they think.

Posted on October 15, 2024

Denia Garcia addresses the lack of trust in government and her research on participatory budgeting.

Posted in Faculty, News, Policy perspectives, Public Management, Social Policy

La Follette bolsters its world-class faculty

Posted on August 26, 2024

La Follette is thrilled to welcome three new faculty members this fall: Silvia Barcellos, Myriam Grégoire-Zawilski, and Amber Wichowsky.

Posted in Energy and the Environment, Faculty, Health and Aging, News, Public Management

New faculty Q&A: Amber Wichowsky

Posted on August 26, 2024

Amber Wichowsky joined the La Follette School’s faculty in fall 2024. She discusses her research, teaching, and more.

Posted in Faculty, News, Public Management

Teodoro’s book wins prestigious Caldwell Prize

Posted on August 25, 2024

The American Political Science Association awarded the 2024 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize to Manny Teodoro and his co-authors for their 2022 book, “The Profits of Distrust”

Posted in Energy and the Environment, Faculty, News, Public Management

2024 Kohl Competition winners announced

Posted on August 24, 2024

The Kohl Competition awards funding to faculty research projects that exemplify evidence-based policymaking and meaningfully shape public policy.

Posted in Energy and the Environment, Health and Aging, Kohl Initiative, News, Public Management

Chicago’s participatory budgeting a positive, but incomplete, step toward inclusion

Posted on July 2, 2024

A new study finds that distrust in government was common among both those who voted in the participatory budgeting election and those who refused to vote.

Posted in Equitable policymaking, Faculty, News, Public Management
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