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 times on the program as authors, discussants, and chairs. Emma Rommell, graduate student in the Department of Sociology at …
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 Integration in 2018 How did you first connect to your field of research? There are both personal and academic reasons …
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 provide imaging and blood-based biomarkers for researchers to advance the field of ADRD. The CLARiTI study will involve 37 Alzheimer’s …
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 their achievements in advancing equity and inclusion for people of color within the Universities of Wisconsin and communities across Wisconsin. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …