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 …
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, …