SoHE HDFS graduate student Emily Parrott has been awarded UW-Madison’s prestigious Institute for Research on Poverty Dissertation Fellowship. Through the award, Emily is provided with a year of funding to work on her Ph.D. dissertation, …
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SoHE News and Stories: August 14 – August 20
Lesley Sager’s Design Thinking Interview with Wisconsin Public Radio SoHE’s Lesley Sager was highlighted in a Wisconsin Public Radio interview about Design Thinking. She talks about how she and her students are using the principles of …
SoHE News and Stories: July 31 – August 6
Take a look at SoHE in the news this week! A look at Fairbanks solar textiles SoHE Assistant Professor Marianne Fairbanks was highlighted in a Wisconsin Life article talking about her pursuit to create solar …
2016 SoHE Alumni Award Winners
The School of Human Ecology Alumni Awards honor the tremendous achievements of SoHE students post-graduation. From early-career entrepreneurs to renowned scholars, the recipients of the annual School of Human Ecology Distinguished Alumni Award, Early-Career Award and …
Grad Student Hu: Combining Research with Action
Ming Hu, PhD Student Civil Society and Community Studies International Exploration and Experience Combining research with action for a better society, SoHE doctoral student Ming Hu is examining the role of nonprofit organizations in civil society. …
Grad Student Bennett: Back to Her Roots
Hannah O’Hare Bennett, MFA Candidate Design Studies Hannah O’Hare Bennett remembers the day Textiles & Fabric Design Professor and Coordinator Jenny Angus sent her the news she’d been awarded a fellowship to attend SoHE’s MFA …
Grad Student Vigna: The Power of Self-Compassion
Abra Vigna, PhD Human Development & Family Studies As a researcher of LGBTQ+ youth with both her Master’s and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the School of Human Ecology, Abra Vigna has …
Alumni Spotlight: Emily Ostertag Working to Design New SERF Building
Who better to help design the UW-Madison South East Recreational, or the SERF, than former UW-Madison swimmer and SoHE alumna Emily Ostertag (’06, ’08)? Eight years after finishing her masters in Interior Architecture at SoHE, …
WID Summer Weaving Lab Being Lead by SoHE’s Marianne Fairbanks
Weaving Lab: Plain Cloth Productions Interconnectivity is at the foundation of weaving. Textiles rely on the principle that multiple entities that were once separate, like fiber or thread, can become interwoven together into one whole. …
HDFS’s Albert Burgess-Hull Receives Fellowship
Congratulations to Albert Burgess-Hull, Human Development and Family Studies graduate student, who was recently awarded a competitive Social Network and Health Scholars (SNHS) Training Fellowship at Duke University. The NICHD funded (R25) program is designed to …