Dave Smallen, Doctoral Candidate Human Development & Family Studies In 2006, at the age of 21, singer/songwriter Dave Smallen was signed to Capitol Records and touring the U.S. with his band, Street to Nowhere. To …
Grad Student L’Esperance: Exploring Financial Decision-Making
Household Finance and Well-being In our modern world, life can be a series of big and small financial decisions. So how do individuals make these day-to-day decisions that can impact the rest of their lives? …
2016 Distinguished Alumni Winner: Elizabeth Schar
It has been said that human ecologists have been quietly and humbly changing the world for centuries. Because of Elizabeth Holloway Schar’s (BS ’75 Family and Consumer Journalism) many and varied contributions that continue to …
Stacy Igel Receives 2016 Wisconsin Idea Alumni Award
SoHE is proud to announce Stacy Igel (BS ’99 Retail) as the 2016 recipient of the Wisconsin Idea Alumni award. Change by Design From the moment Stacy Igel stepped onto the UW-Madison campus she knew …
Kari Temkin Awarded 2016 Early Career Alumni Award
Badger Kari Temkin (BS ‘09, Double Major: Community & Nonprofit Leadership and Women’s Studies) has been awarded the School of Human Ecology 2016 Early Career Alumni Award. Kari’s experiences as an undergrad at the UW-Madison …
New Hockey Coach Sets Goal at SoHE
On July 13, Granato read to children in the SoHE Preschool Lab on chameleons and crocodiles. New Hockey Coach Comes Back to the Badgers & SoHE The new men’s hockey coach, Tony Granato, 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. …
Student Blog: Looking Back at My NYC Retailing Trip
by Jaylin Carlson, Retailing and Consumer Science student This past January I was given the incredible opportunity to represent UW-Madison as the National Retailing Federation’s Rising Star. A major part of this honor was attending …
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 …