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Tim Smeeding reflects on his career upon retirement

Posted on September 18, 2023

In a career spanning five decades, Smeeding contributed to understanding poverty and inequality, and how to design more effective programs to reduce them.

Posted in Faculty, News, Social Policy

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

Capstone projects provide real-world training and policymaking opportunities

Posted on July 11, 2023

Students concluded their graduate education this spring by completing projects addressing real-world challenges on behalf of clients from the public, non-governmental, and private sectors.

Posted in Academics, Client projects, Energy and the Environment, International Policy & Economics, News, Outreach, Social Policy, Students

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

La Follette students highlight benefits of universal child savings accounts in Wisconsin

Posted on May 11, 2023

La Follette School students showed that universal child savings accounts could have significant benefits for the state when they conducted the first statewide cost-benefit analysis of the idea.

Posted in Client projects, MPA News, News, Outreach, Social Policy, Students

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

2023 Kohl Competition winners announced

Posted on March 21, 2023

The Kohl Competition supports nonpartisan research that policymakers can use to make evidence-based decisions when shaping public policy.

Posted in Faculty, International Policy & Economics, Kohl Initiative, News, Social Policy
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