Professor Dipesh Navsaria reflects on a research finding that reading aloud to children could enhance their knowledge capacity.
Media Mentions
News clips and media mentions featuring experts from the School of Human Ecology
What’s Eating Parents? Decision Fatigue and Burnout (Mad in America; Kerr)
Assistant Professor Margaret Kerr talks about her research findings surrounding COVID-19’s impact on parental mental health.
Doctor Radio: On Call for Kids (SiriusXM; Navsaria)
UW–Madison students cook up marketing ideas for campus’ Bucky’s Varsity Meats store
Judy Frater weaves together UW-Madison students and Indian artisans
Artist-in-resident discusses the show, “Coming Together: Cultural Inspired Creation,” that runs through May 27 in the gallery located in the School of Human Ecology.
Opinion | Let’s make the tax system reflect our values (Capital Times; Halper-Meekin)
Associate Professor Sarah Halper-Meekin writes about her personal and professional opinions about the United States’ tax system and its shortcomings.
What Wisconsin students are learning about financial literacy (WPR; Harvey)
Assistant Professor Melody Harvey touches on how college courses are improving the financial literacy of students.
How payday loans in Wisconsin hit borrowers (PBS; Harvey)
Assistant Professor Melody Harvey discusses the potential downfalls of payday loans and how this can affect a variety of people, regardless of financial status.
Learning to cope: COVID-19 exacerbates growing youth mental health challenges (Capital Times; Thomas)
Throughout the past two years of isolations and chances of illness due to COVID imposed a lot of stress on people. Experts, including Assistant Professor Alvin Thomas, discuss growing mental health challenges among youth.
Cooking school lunches from scratch can fix labor and supply issues (Washington Post; Gaddis)
School cafeterias are losing funding, resulting in a decrease in healthy meals available for students. Associate Professor Jennifer Gaddis (Jane Rafferty Thiele Faculty Fellow) advocates that cooking from scratch offers a solution to this issue by enabling the farm-to-school supply chain.