University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Tiffany Green named 2023 Outstanding Women of Color Honorees by UW-Madison

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Congratulations to Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Tiffany Green, who were named 2023 Outstanding Women of Color Honorees by the University of Wisconsin-Madison! This annual award, established in 2007, honors women of color among UW–Madison’s faculty, staff, students, and in the greater Madison community whose advocacy, activism, or scholarship has fostered social justice and organizational change, who …

Call for Pilot Proposals 2024-2024

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The Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites investigators with an interest in aging to submit proposals for pilot research projects. Proposals are due by March 1, 2024, and awards will be supported from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025.  The program is open to faculty and …

Fall 2023

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Sept 6 Casey Pellien, UW IRB: What Demographers Need to Know About the IRB Sept 13 No class Sept 20 Katherine Curtis, UW C&E Sociology: PAA Abstracts Workshop Sept 27 No class—Institute on Aging Colloquium Oct 4 Caitlin Lowery, IRP Fellow: Quasi-Experimental Methods Oct 11 Alex Mikulas, UW Sociology: Practice Job Talk Oct 18 No …

Judith Simcox awarded ASBMB ‘s Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator in Lipid Research Award

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Andrea Gilmore Bykovskyi & Tiffany Greeen named 2023 Outstanding Women of Color Honorees

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Lauren Schmitz featured in the Cap Times “Childhood trauma linked to faster aging in adults, UW study finds”

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WLS-ILIAD awarded R01 renewal & DIAMOND/Hmoob Lub Neej project awarded UW-Madison Research Forward 3 Grant

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The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) continues to build on its stellar legacy with a NIH R01 supporting the collection of cognitive data and a Research Forward award for the Hmoob Lub Neej project, a study exploring aging in Wisconsin’s Hmong community. What began as a survey to gauge college preparedness among Wisconsin’s Class of 1957 high …

Meet the 2023-2024 CDHA NIA T32 Trainees!

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CDHA welcomes two new CDHA T32 Trainees Erin Nelson-Bakkum (PHS) and Sabrina Sanchez (Sociology), along with our two returning trainees Lauren Giurini (PHS) and Sarah Salas (Sociology)! “My planned dissertation research focuses on the aging population of Wisconsin and how they access hearing health care services. I am looking forward to working with Michal Engelman …

Christine Schwartz awarded NIH-funded R03 & Olayinka Shiyanbola awarded NIH-funded R01

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Congratulations to Christine Schwartz for her NIH-funded R03 “The Divorce Decline and Relationship Stability: 1970-2019.” Christine Schwartz is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Sociology and was recently named the Associate Director of CDHA. “The Divorce Decline and Relationship Stability: 1970-2019 is an NIH-funded R03 on trends in divorce and relationship dissolution in the United …

Graduate Student Profile: Grace Venechuk

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Name/Title: Grace Venechuk, PhD student in the Department of Sociology Hometown: Boulder, Colorado Educational Background: Bachelor’s in Music from Berklee; MA in Soc from UC-Denver   What are your research interests and current research projects? Broadly, my research interests are health disparities, the life course and work quality. That’s fairly wide-ranging, though, so my current …