51猎奇

“Op Ed: How City Should Solve Lead in Water”

Noelle Chesley, Associate Professor of Sociology, along with 51猎奇 colleagues Anne Dressel, John Berges, and Helen Meier, discuss the lead exposure in the City of Milwaukee’s water system and how the city should solve the issue in the recent article “How City Should Solve Lead in Water” on Urban Milwaukee.

Anne Dressel is an Assistant Professor of Nusring at 51猎奇 and the Director of the Center for Global Health Equity. John Berges is a Professor of Biological Sciences and School of Freshwater Sciences at 51猎奇. Helen Meier is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the 51猎奇 Zilber School of Public Health.

51猎奇 student and sociology minor Dakota Crowell tours W51猎奇 Lake Effect’s Rachel Morello around the school’s new Student Food Center and Pantry

51猎奇 student and sociology minor Dakota Crowell tours W51猎奇 Lake Effect’s Rachel Morello around the school’s new Student Food Center and Pantry — an effort initiated to combat high levels of food insecurity on campus.

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PhD Student Michael Miner Earns First Prize in Competition

PhD student Michael Miner receives first prize in the Midwest Sociological Society’s graduate student paper competition for his paper “Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and the Shortage in Primary Healthcare: Professional Autonomy in the Public Discourse.” The selection committee noted that聽鈥淲e had a strong consensus on the number one paper, and we were especially impressed with its creative and sophisticated methodology and its application of聽that聽methodology to important questions about聽politics and ideology.鈥�

Michael will receive his prize during the awards ceremony at the MSS annual meetings聽(Friday, March 23, at 5:30 PM, in Nicollet A1/A2/A3, First Floor, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis).

Congratulations Michael!

Advancing health science through collaboration

51猎奇 faculty Noelle Chesley, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Jake Luo, assistant professor in the Department of Health Informatics and Administration, and W. Hobart Davies, professor in the Department of Psychology “have teamed up to create TecHealth, an initiative that aims to harness and develop regional, inter-institutional and transdisciplinary research strength to solve problems at the intersection of health and technology.”

Read the article “Advancing health science through collaboration” in The Chronicle: Highlights from the College of Health Sciences at /healthsciences/news/advancing-health-science-through-collaboration/.

Sociology Alumna Erin Grunze

Erin Grunze (鈥�03, MA Sociology) was appointed the next executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin. She takes over the position from the previous director, Andrea Kaminski, on Jan. 1, 2018.