University of Wisconsin–Madison
IDS Affiliate Shamya Karumbaiah is one of 15 UW–Madison faculty and campus members who was recently named a 2024-2025 Morgridge Fellow by the Morgridge Institute for Public Service. The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support Community-Engaged Scholarship. Karumbaiah is an assistant …
In this podcast episode, Professor Aziza Jones of the Wisconsin School of Business talks about a paper she co-authored with Broderick Turner and Kalinda Ukanwa about how marketing interventions can be used to decrease school segregation. Their research shows that providing information to parents that counters prior beliefs can increase the likelihood that they will send their children to …
For this episode of the podcast, we hear from Kendall Holley, Ben Douglas, and Michelle Marji about work they have been doing to build resources and communities around antiracism here at UW–Madison and beyond. Holley, Douglas, and Marji are all graduate students here at the UW. They talked with our Institute Chair and podcast host …
Description: Adults enter their later years with a wide range of different care needs, challenges, and resources available to them. In the U.S. aging population, there is evidence of significant overlaps between social disparities—including race, ethnicity, and economic status—and health disparities that include disability and neurodiversity. In this webinar, held on April 4, 2024, we …
The Institute for Diversity Science sponsored a workshop on Antiracist Resources and Actions in Academia that took place on February 9th at the 2024 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference. The session offered tools and strategies that individuals in academia can use to improve racial equity in their communities and academic groups. The presentation …
On January 12, IDS Chair Angela Byars-Winston participated in a panel with Rev. Dr. Marcus Allen, and Mr. Confidence Kpegeol about the difficulties still faced by African Americans in health care today and the important role African American churches play in promoting health and healthcare coverage for their communities. The panel was part of an …
In this episode IDS Chair Angela Byars-Winston talks to Jirs Meuris about his research on the sorts of policies and practices that make a difference for organizations that want to promote diversity. Meuris is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Human Resources Department at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of …
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 communication. Specifically, three main topics within Chen’s research were covered — how inequality was represented through digital content creation, stereotypes …
People who are looking for an apartment or other rental housing often start their search online, looking at websites like Craigslist to find a place to live. In this episode, we hear from sociologist Max Besbris about two studies he did with colleagues from Washington University and Michigan State. The studies look at how …
November 21, 2023, by Tommy Jaime By using advanced epigenetic aging techniques and new data from older adults, a team of researchers found that being deprived of a nurturing childhood environment is associated with accelerated biological aging at older ages. Led by Lauren Schmitz, a professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the …