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• For information about COVID-19, please visit https://news.wisc.edu/covid-19-campus-response/.

 

• Walker Kahn has been selected to receive an NSF Law and Science Dissertation Grant. Walker’s work on mortgage foreclosure identifies mortgage foreclosure litigation as a nexus connecting macro-level financialization to inequalities and precarity experienced by families and individuals. This work was recognized as having the potential to re-orient policy discussions and public discourse away the question of whether blame should be pinned on the “reckless” behavior of financial firms or debtors, and towards the explicit legal disempowerment of debtors caused, in part, by the effects of financialization on legal disputes. The Law and Science Dissertation Grant program provides financial support for graduate students in diverse law-and-science disciplines to conduct their doctoral dissertation research. The program is funded by an award from the Law & Science program at the National Science Foundation to Arizona State University.

 

• Elisa Avila won the Early Excellence in Teaching award.

 

• Monica White won the UW-Madison Outstanding Woman of Color award.

 

• Dan Veroff, Malia Jones, and Katherine Curtis are members of a multistate research project that recently won the National Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the USDA.