Nadia Assad joined the UW Survey Center project direction team as a Project Director on November 1, 2014. Nadia has a Master’s degree in Sociology from the UW-Madison, and has taught and lectured at both …
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UWSC welcomes Rob Schultz as a programmer
Rob Schultz joined the UW Survey Center IT team as a programmer on November 1, 2014. Rob has many years of experience working with the field operations group at UWSC. He started as a CATI …
Expanding STEM Talent Study
Expanding STEM Talent study is a longitudinal mixed mode web/mail survey of students at UW Colleges, Madison College and Milwaukee Area Technical College.
UWSC welcomes Dr. Margarete Wichmann as a project director
Dr. Margarete Wichmann joined the UW Survey Center project direction team as a Project Director on October 1, 2014. Margarete has recently completed her Ph.D in Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and …
UWSC welcomes Marie Nitschke as a database administrator and web programmer
Marie Nitschke joined the UW Survey Center as a database administrator and web programmer in August, 2014. Prior to joining UWSC Marie was an analyst at Tetra Tech, Inc., where she worked on all facets …
UWSC staff participate in the 39th annual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR)
UWSC staff will present papers at the annual meeting of the 2014 conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) in Chicago, Illinois on November 21-22 (staff names appear in bold). One paper …
UW-Madison College of Letters and Science Alumni Surveys
WSC contacted over 8,000 UW-Madison L&S Alumni to participate in a mixed mode web/mail survey regarding their opinions about their time at UW-Madison, and their current career status as alumni.
The Post-Adoption Life Study (PALS)
In 2014, UWSC developed and fielded PALS, the Post-Adoption Life Study. This study assesses well-being and examines challenges that youth face who were adopted through the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids (WWK) adoption recruitment program as they transition to adulthood.
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Microbiome Pilot
UWSC conducted a series of focus groups, then launched a pilot effort to collect human microbiome samples, drinking water samples and tests, and a self-administered questionnaire from a subset of Graduate and Sibling participants and their spouses or partners for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS).
National Academies Press releases report, Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault
A panel assembled by the National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics has released a study that reviews issues in measuring rape and sexual assault. The panel, sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) …