Ecological Society of America announces 2022 Fellows

Three L&S faculty were recently recognized with honors by the Ecological Society of America.

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Front line for women's health

In studying the medical assistants who work at an abortion clinic, Kelly Ward examines a microcosm of women’s reproductive health care.

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Jen Rose Smith receives prestigious ACLS Fellowship

Assistant Professor Jen Rose Smith of Geography has won a prestigious ACLS Fellowship for her transdisciplinary analysis of the social and material landscapes of ice. Drawing from archival research and cultural studies analyses of Indigenous literatures and popular Science discourse, Smith's project, titled Icy Matters: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality in Ice-Geographies examines ice in multiple ways.

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2022 Hilldale Awards recognize three L&S faculty

Michael Bernard-Donals, Timothy Smeeding and Stephen Wright are L&S faculty award recipients for the 2022 Hilldale Awards.

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Betting boom

Jason Kido Lopez, an assistant professor of communication arts, studies the symbiotic relationships between sports leagues, sports media and betting organizations.

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Birgitte Fielder in the New York Times: Giving children the stories and poems of their own people

Professor of English shares a reading list of African American children's writing published before Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights era.

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Greg Nemet on CBS News: Expanding the Keystone XL Pipeline won't reduce gas prices

Professor with the La Follette School of Public Affairs notes that oil prices have been rising since last fall, when demand for gasoline was much lower.

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Simon Gilroy in the Capital Times: Plants are essential to our lives

According to the professor of botany, plants are "the background of what it means to be alive," and have been a great source of stress reduction during the pandemic

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Andrew Kydd on PBS Wisconsin: Seizing Russian assets could pressure Russia to stop war in Ukraine

Professor of political science says that seizing assets from wealthy oligarchs, like the Lady M, an expensive yacht that was originally constructed at a shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, might create pressure on Vladimir Putin.

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