AAPOR Announces Nora Cate Schaeffer as the Recipient of the 2025 Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement Award

AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement is the Association’s lifetime achievement award and is given for an outstanding contribution to the field of public opinion research, including advances in theory, empirical research, and methods; improvements in ethical standards; and promotion of understanding among the public, media and/or policymakers. AAPOR announced Nora Cate Schaeffer as the Recipient of the 2025 Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement Award.

UWSC team presents at Showcase 2025 on using WisconSays to recruit for qualitative research

Project Directors Ken Croes and Jacob Boelter presented a poster highlighting the advantages of using the WisconSays panel to recruit participants for qualitative research. Their presentation and flash talk at the Annual UW-Madison Showcase event on April 17th at Union South featured the innovative uses of the UWSC’s online panel, WisconSays, to recruit participants for qualitative research.

UWSC team to display a poster at Showcase 2025 on using WisconSays to recruit for qualitative research

The UW-Madison Showcase, an annual event to highlight organizational improvements and innovations across campus, will take place April 17, and Project Directors Ken Croes, Jacob Boelter, and Nadia Assad, and Faculty Director Jen Dykema, will attend to display a poster titled “Recruiting Participants for Qualitative Research with the Probability-Based Panel WisconSays.”

Wisconsin Longitudinal Study rolls out new online portal to enhance data exploration and analysis experience for researchers

The WLS team recently announced the rollout of a new online portal that is designed to enhance the data exploration and analysis experience for researchers and data users. The updated portal supports integrated documentation of longitudinal datasets like the WLS, and will replace the study’s older system of online codebooks, offering richly-described metadata, summary statistics, and data visualizations for all 27,000 WLS variables.

From WisconSays: What Says Wisconsin?

In June of 2023, the Supreme Court voted to disband the use of race in college admissions. About half of American adults disapprove of considering race and ethnicity in college admissions, with opinions varying considerably by party identification (PEW 2023). Results from a recent WisconSays survey show attitudes are similar among Wisconsin adults: 47% oppose affirmative action in college admissions, 31% support it, and 22% say they don’t know. These results, however, vary substantially by political party.