On behalf of a University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health research team headed by vascular surgeon and medical ethicist Dr. Margaret (Gretchen) Schwarze, UWSC senior project director Ken Croes conducted in-depth interviews …
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UWSC welcomes Ciara Bridges as a project director
Ciara Bridges joined the UW Survey Center project direction team as a Project Director on August 1 2017. Before joining the Survey Center, Ciara worked as a research assistant and telephone interviewer for the Center …
UWSC welcomes Carol Wintheiser as a project director
Carol Wintheiser joined the UW Survey Center project direction team as a Project Director on August 1 2017. Carol originally joined the UW Survey Center in 2010 as a CATI interviewer. After graduating she returned …
MIDUS: A UWSC Flagship Study showcased by Center for Healthy Minds (CHM)
The Midlife Development in the U.S. study (MIDUS) was recently featured in a newsletter from the Center for Healthy Minds, which UWSC considers one of its defining achievements. Now 20-years-old, MIDUS brings the limelight to …
Who’s Calling? Predicting Survey Participation from the Opening of the Call
Although survey researchers have been conducting phone surveys since before the 1970s, little is known about how best to begin a call. A new publication by UWSC researchers and colleagues using data from the Wisconsin …
UWSC Hosts Visitors from the National Analytical Center (or Nazarbayev University) in Kazakhstan
The UWSC welcomed guests from Kazakhstan to learn about survey center operations: Ms. Aktoty Aitzhanova (Chief Economist of NAC), Mrs. Saule Gazizova (Senior Researcher of Surveys and Statistics Center of NAC), Mr. Assylan Akimbayev (Researcher-analyst of Surveys and Statistics Center of …
Featured Artist – Jesy Grose
Jesy G latest inspiration has been to meet color with gravity. “It’s forming a flow that isn’t quite me” says the artist. The art is painted reverse style on glass. Most often found windows. Her art encompasses views on human experience, expression and identity. Connecting and attaching branding of Band-aids that pose as feelings “ouch” that any generation can relate to; roads that lead to somewhere and itsy bitsy spiders that represent new beginning. Jesy g believes the mind is master of reality.
UWSC featured in Wisconsin State Journal’s “Fueling Discovery”
“Quality surveys give people a voice in science” by UWSC Faculty Director Nora Cate Schaeffer, was part of the Wisconsin State Journal’s May 7, 2017 special section “Fueling Discovery”. The article about UWSC is featured …
UWSC Study Results Cited by New York Times
An April 25, 2017 New York Times opinion piece describing the college experience of a former foster care youth cited findings of the Midwest Young Adult Study, conducted by UWSC for Dr. Mark Courtney, a University of …
UWSC helped collect survey data for Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story
In 2013, Washington Post staff writer Amy Goldstein spent several months as a visiting scholar at UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty laying the groundwork for her recently released book on how Janesville weathered the …