Two public affairs professors, Pamela Herd and Timothy Smeeding, were recently featured in“Office Hours,” a half-hour weekly talk show produced at UW-Madison and shown on the Big Ten Network.
Sociologist Pamela Herd talks about the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which tracks 10,000 high school graduates from 1957 to gather information about what keeps people health and happy. She is now co-principal investigator of the study with sociologist Bob Hauser.
Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, discusses poverty in the 21st century.
See Episode 6: Poverty in the 21st Century
The show is produced by the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s University Communications. The show’s host, La Follette School faculty affiliate Ken Goldstein, teaches the upper-level political science class Political Communication: Theory and Practice for which students select guests, conduct research and write.
Big Ten Network is an internationally distributed television network that covers the Big Ten Conference for collegiate sports.
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