Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships Seven professors were named to Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship as well as standout efforts in teaching and service. The professorship provides five years of flexible funding — two-thirds of which is provided by the Office of the Provost through the generosity of the Vilas trustees and …
Assistant Prof. Pajarita Charles’ continued work on parenting and family relationships for individuals involved in the criminal justice system was highlighted in The Capital Times. “In particular for fathers that are in the criminal justice system, typically as a society and as a justice system, we have not done a great job acknowledging their identity …
Two faculty with the School of Social Work are part of a team awarded a grant to increase the quality and amount of housing-related data available to the Wisconsin Administrative Data Core, a unique data resource at the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP). Professor Katherine Magnuson, Principal Investigator and Professor Marah Curtis, Co-Principal Investigator, and …
Mary Ann Test (UW–Madison School of Social Work) helped create ACT. This is the first comprehensive national study of ACT fidelity and implementation. When Mary Ann Test, PhD, a long-time professor at the UW–Madison School of Social Work, and colleagues from the Mendota Mental Health Institute gathered sometime in the late 1970s for a regular …
Assistant Professor Pajarita Chalres was recently named a co-lead on a national initiative to address the need for smart decarceration policies. The Promote Smart Decarceration Grand Challenge focuses on reducing the number of people in jails and prisions; remedying racial and behavioral health disparieties among people incarcerated; and maximizing community well-being. The American Academy of …
A new study of 3,000 people in Wisconsin aged 21 and older with Down syndrome, published in JAMA Neurology by Assistant Professor of Social Work Lauren Bishop and colleagues, shows that by age 55, three in five will be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or a similar neurodegenerative condition. The prevalence of dementia among people with …
Associate Prof. Marah Curtis (co-principal investigator) and colleagues received a “Contemporary Social Problems Initiative” grant to explore the relationship between housing stability during pregnancy and short and intermediate health outcomes of families with infants. The project will investigate possible differences by maternal race and urban and rural residence. The researchers will explore associations between stability …
Jason Lee SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS TAKE PART IN SIMULATION TO UNDERSTAND DIFFICULTY OF REENTRY The United States is the most prison-dependent country in the world. There are over two million prisoners in the U.S., with several million more on probation or parole. Wisconsin state prisons house 22,000 people alone, with 68,000 more on probation and …