2024-25 Highlights Report showcases an exciting year for La Follette
The 2023-2024 academic year is a momentous one for La Follette as we celebrate 40 years of training future policy leaders.
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
The 2023-2024 academic year is a momentous one for La Follette as we celebrate 40 years of training future policy leaders.
“The challenges you face do not define your future — they prepare you for it.”
A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, and that none of the generations born after 1939 will reach 100 years of age on average. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National …
President Donald Trump’s massive budget bill makes sweeping changes to the tax code, defense spending, and while also impacting most of the clean energy provisions enacted under President Joe Biden.
Under an implementation plan proposed by graduate students in the La Follette School of Public Affairs, Hudson, New Richmond, and River Falls could implement a shared-ride taxi system by 2027.
A new study published this weekend in Scientific Reports, a Nature Portfolio journal, analyzes the relationship between increasing building electrification and the energy burden for the remaining gas utility customers over time. Whether building electrification is market-driven or policy-driven, this analysis is intended to support energy regulators and planners in proactively considering and avoiding the …
Associate Professor Amber Wichowsky and Director Susan Webb Yackee shared how the Main Street Agenda Project helped bridge political divides in Wisconsin.
A host of emerging methods that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere can be critical tools to limit global temperature increases, so long as policymakers don’t overestimate the methods’ role in their climate strategies. This is according to research published yesterday in Nature Communications led by PhD student Matilyn Bindl from UW–Madison’s Nelson Institute for …
This spring, Associate Professor Amber Wichowsky capped off an impactful first year at La Follette by debuting a new undergraduate course aimed at getting students to think about public policy as part of everyday life, build critical thinking skills, and encourage civic engagement and dialogue. In PA 230: Advancing Public Policy in a Divided America, …
On May 12, 2019, La Follette School Director and Professor Susan Webb Yackee announced the transformative $10 million gift from Senator Herb Kohl during the La Follette graduation ceremony in the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dubbed the Kohl Initiative, Sen. Kohl’s gift aimed to expand La Follette’s public outreach mission, advance the training of future public leaders, …