In its May 2nd edition, Inside UW-Madison News shared an update on diversity efforts at UW-Madison. In the article, they described the 18 initiatives to be achieved in phases over a 10- year period. The …
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UWSC survey work at the heart of Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted
UWSC client, Matthew Desmond, has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for his book, Evicted. UWSC collected the in-person survey data for Dr. Desmond’s Milwaukee Area Renter Study (MARS) and Milwaukee Eviction Court Study (MECS). Evicted is based in …
Big Read author and UWSC client Matthew Desmond talks about Evicted
On Tuesday November 1, Matthew Desmond will discuss his book Evicted as part of the UW’s Go Big Read events: https://gobigread.wisc.edu/. Desmond, a MacArthur Fellow who is currently at Harvard, received his Ph.D. in Sociology …
Milwaukee Area Renters Study, conducted by UWSC, featured in Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, the Big Read for 2016-2017
Evicted, the acclaimed book by Matthew Desmond was selected for the UW’s Go Big Read in 2016-2017. http://news.wisc.edu/go-big-read-selects-evicted-for-2016-17/ . In addition to Desmond’s ethnographic and other research, Evicted features findings from the Milwaukee Area Renters …
UWSC and UW Faculty Partner in UW2020 Pilot Study: Wisconsin Study of Family Complexity and Public Policy
Lonnie Berger, Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and Professor of Social Work, and Nora Cate Schaeffer, Faculty Director of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center and Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology are …
UWSC Studies cited as landmarks in PAA Presidential Address
In her April 2016 Presidential address to the Population Association of America (PAA), Judith A. Seltzer reviewed significant milestones and issues in family demography in the United States. She highlighted two studies in which the UW …
UWSC receives high praise for its work on the Milwaukee Area Renters Study
March 2016 – UWSC receives high praise for its work on the Milwaukee Area Renters Study (MARS) from Dr. Matthew Desmond, Harvard University Associate Professor of Social Sciences and 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (“Genius Grant”) …
What makes a good life? UWSC client Dr. Robert Waldinger talks about three important lessons learned from his research
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to psychiatrist and UWSC client Robert Waldinger, you’re mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.
Results of successful web surveys conducted by UWSC for the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science released
The University of Wisconsin Survey Center’s work in administering two very successful web surveys of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science Alumni was released in early October, 2015. To see the announcement, click …