- For information about swine flu and ways to prevent it, please visit http://www.news.wisc.edu/flu.
- Yair Kaldor had an article published in Socio-Economic Review and the American Sociological Association put a blog post about it on their “Works in Progress” page. Click here to read the post.
- Caitlin Bourbeau won the CALS Academic Staff Award for Excellence in Service.
- Ike Leslie received a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship to finish his dissertation research in Argentina.
- An article by Malia Jones is in Health Affairs. Read more.
- Laura Hanson Schlachter received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her project: The Constructive Side of Social Movements.
- Professor Samer Alatout’s (2008) article, “States of Scarcity: Water, Space, and Identity Politics in Israel, 1948-1959”, has been selected by the editors of Environment and Planning Journals to appear in a special collection celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the journals. It will be freely available on the journals’ website: https://www.eandponline.org/50th-anniversary-collections-e/.
- Jane Collins was awarded with a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Named Professorship this year. The award is one of the highest honors that UW-Madison gives.
- Jane Collins’ new book, Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy, will be out in January. Read more.