CDE & CDHA affiliates and graduate students were a powerful presence at the 2024 PAA annual meeting in Columbus! Both centers were well represented with 30 faculty affiliates and 28 graduate student affiliates appearing 106 …
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Graduate Student Profile: Somalis Chy
Name: Somalis Chy, PhD candidate in Consumer Behavior & Family Economics Hometown: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Educational Background: B.A. in Economics from Cambodia in 2016 & M.A. from a consortium of European universities in Economics of Globalization and European …
Sterling Johnson’s Clarity in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI) study awarded $150 million NIH grant
Congratulations to Sterling Johnson, study leader of the Clarity in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI) study, which has been awarded a $150 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to …
Maichou Lor awarded 2023 Outstanding Women of Color in Education award by UW System
Congratulations to Maichou Lor, who was awarded a 2023 Outstanding Women of Color in Education award! Lor was one of 13 recipients honored by the University of Wisconsin System this year, with the award recognizing …
Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Tiffany Green named 2023 Outstanding Women of Color Honorees by UW-Madison
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, …
WLS-ILIAD awarded R01 renewal & DIAMOND/Hmoob Lub Neej project awarded UW-Madison Reseach Forward 3 grant
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 …
Meet the 2023-2024 CDHA NIA T32 Trainees!
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 …
Christine Schwartz awarded NIH-funded R03 & Olayinka Shiyanbola awarded NIH-funded R01
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 …
Graduate Student Profile: Grace Venechuk
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? …
Yue Qin awarded New Investigator Award at the Institute on Aging’s Annual Colloquium
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 …