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Milestones define 2025-26 academic year for La Follette
This past year was transformational for the La Follette School, marked by incredible growth, exciting new opportunities for our students, and important milestones that will shape La Follette for years to come.…
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Schmitz awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
Associate Professor Lauren Schmitz of the La Follette School was one of just 18 UW-Madison faculty members to receive a coveted 2026-2027 H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship this summer. Named after the late…
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La Follette excited to welcome three new faculty members
Michael Powell joins La Follette as an assistant professor. He earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of Missouri after spending nearly a decade as a nonprofit executive and attorney…
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La Follette faculty promotions: Edwards earns tenure, Wang now full professor
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…
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Collins to serve as new director after Yackee’s transformative tenure
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…
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Rebuilding citizen trust by engaging across Wisconsin
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…
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Teodoro welcomes leading environmental policy scholars to Madison
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…
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La Follette students make an impact in DC
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.
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Scholarship recipients making their mark
This summer, La Follette students are opening doors across the globe thanks to support from Ascendium and Summer Policy Learning Experience Scholarships.
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La Follette alumni prepare the next generation of policy leaders
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…
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