Category: Announcements

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 …

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 …

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 …

Yue Qin awarded New Investigator Award at the Institute on Aging’s Annual Colloquium

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Congratulations to CDHA graduate student Yue Qin, who was awarded a New Investigator Award for Excellence in Aging Research for her poster entitled “Labor union membership & the educational gradient in later-life health: Results from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study at the Institute on Aging’s Annual Colloquium. Qin is a PhD student in the Sociology department …

CDHA Welcomes New Director Michal Engelman

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The CDHA Steering committee has selected Michal Engelman as the Center’s next director. She is replacing former CDHA director Jason Fletcher, who stepped down this summer. Engelman has been an affiliate of CDHA since joining UW–Madison in 2013, and has served as the director of CDHA’s pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training program in Population, Life Course, …

CDHA Directorship Transition, Letter from 4th CDHA Director Jason Fletcher

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