Most Wisconsin schools protect students from discrimination against everything but this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 13, 2025 By Natalie Eilbert A study of Wisconsin school board policies has found that nearly all districts have policies protecting …
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McQuillan highlights importance of Youth Risk Behavior Survey
In a recent article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, IDS Affiliate Mollie McQuillan was interviewed about the removal of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey or YRBS from public sources and its potential impact on LGBTQ …
Mariel Barnes on the ‘Manosphere’ and American Politics
In a recent interview with PBS Wisconsin, IDS affiliate Mariel Barnes describes researching the online “manosphere” movement and its growing influence on culture and politics. Read/watch the full interview: https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/mariel-barnes-on-the-manosphere-and-american-politics/
NPR: Handelsman on Cuts to Science Funding
Jo Handelsman, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and an IDS affiliate was recently quoted in an NPR piece on potential federal cuts to research funding. Listen/Read.
HBR: Stav Atir – Competent Leaders Know The Limits of Their Expertise
September 25, 2024, by Stav Atir and David Dunning, Harvard Business Review Accurately gauging what you know — and more importantly, what you don’t — can mean the difference between success and failure as a manager. …
Stav Atir on How Gender Influences the Way We Refer to Kamala Harris and Women Professionals
In the days since Vice President Kamala Harris has become the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, part of the discussion around her candidacy has focused on what she will be called. Her campaign has embraced the …
WORT: Mariel Barnes discusses connections between firearms and domestic violence
June 27, 2024, on A Public Affair IDS Affiliate Mariel Barnes is a founding faculty member of UW–Madison’s Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She joined WORT’s Allen Ruff to talk about the recent Supreme Court United …
Badger Herald: Kaiping Chen shares research into relationship between gender, race, education inequality, technology
December 6, 2023, by Anna Smith The Computational Demography Working Group held a forum Dec. 6 during which assistant professor in computational communications at the University of Wisconsin Kaiping Chen discussed her research on equity within science …
Marketplace: Max Besbris on Homebuying Among Members of Gen Z
IDS affiliate Max Besbris recently spoke to Marketplace about home-buying progress among members of Gen Z. Besbris, a sociologist who studies access issues in the housing and rental markets spoke about how Gen Z both …
SMPH Quarterly: Angela Byars-Winston’s Work Bolsters Underrepresented Groups’ Participation in STEMM Fields
July 19, 2023, By Kendi Neff-Parvin A professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, chair of the UW–Madison Institute for Diversity Science, and a …