The following article by Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD, Rebecca S. Bigler, PhD, Daphna Joel, PhD, Charlotte Chucky Tate, PhD, and Sari M. van Anders, PhD has been awarded the 2019 George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology from Division 1, Society for General Psychology. Hyde, J. S., Bigler, R., Joel, …
Congratulations to Professor Janet Hyde who has been named as the recipient of the Kinsey Institute’s inaugural Alfred C. Kinsey Distinguished Researcher Award! Well deserved, Professor Hyde! More... .
Congratulations to Professor Chris Barcelos for being selected into the first cohort of Morgridge Fellows. This year-long learning community is designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship across campus. Read more…
GWS Masters student Grace Morrison was chosen for the Deborah Hobbins Award for 2017, and Renee Kramer, a doctoral student in Population Health, is the 2018 winner. The Hobbins Award, named for long-time advocate for reproductive justice Deborah Hobbins, is given to a graduate student for exceptional work in reproductive health, rights, and justice. Grace’s …
Congratulations to Araceli Alonso for being the 2018 recipient of the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching! A well deserved honor for a life changing instructor.
Congratulations to Ann Fink on winning two recent awards! The first of which is a poster award at the International Neuroethics Society meeting in November for her work with comics and neuroscience pedagogy: Fink, AE. Teaching the Neurobiology of Stress and Traumatic Memory in the Context of Social Power and Identity. Abstract presented at the …
Congratulations to Jenny Higgins and her collaborators for winning a two-year planning grant from an anonymous donor to support their initiative, “Supporting Reproductive, Infant, and Family Health in Wisconsin”! The $575K grant will allow them to develop a campus-wide initiative focusing on reproductive health research, healthcare access and delivery, policy evaluation, and communication to address …
Professor Janet Sibley Hyde has been selected for the highly prestigious James McKeen Cattell Award by the Association for Psychological Science.
The majority of new contraceptive users become dissatisfied with their birth control method and stop using it after only a few months. Researchers are still trying to understand the major factors that lead to this contraceptive dissatisfaction and continuation. GWS professor Jenny Higgins argues that a critical but overlooked factor is sexual acceptability, or how …