Upcoming @UWSoHe graduate and accelerated MPA student Brelynn Bille has been a fierce advocate for disability rights, leading numerous efforts to improve accessibility on campus and throughout the state.

Congratulations, Brelynn! 🎓

Learn more 🔽
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Support the La Follette School Student Association by purchasing some La Follette merch! Visit the link below to check out the great selection of shirts, sweatshirts, and hats, and make sure to have all orders in by May 17.
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As final exams begin, we want to wish all students the best of luck! Your hard work and dedication have gotten you extremely far, so remember to take some time for yourself this week.

Congratulations on a great semester!

Congratulations to J. Michael Collins, a Consumer Science professor and Fetzer Family Chair in Consumer and Personal Finance, for receiving the Robert G.F. and Hazel T. Spitze Land Grant Faculty Award for Excellence: ow.ly/RS6A50RuOnm.

🌟To close out our research event this morning,
Héctor Pifarré i Arolas (Héctor Pifarré i Arolas) presents 'Is mortality inequality growing in the U.S.?'

🌟Next up, Lauren Schmitz (Dr. Lauren L. Schmitz) shares 'Estimating Biological Age in a Low-Income Country Context: Early Lessons from a Pilot Study in The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health'

Great to see our faculty members, Lindsay Jacobs, Lauren Schmitz (Dr. Lauren L. Schmitz), and Héctor Pifarré i Arolas (@HectorP90663372), representing the La Follette School at UW-Madison CDE and UW-Madison CDHA's Spring Research Event!

Former WI Governor Jim Doyle and Roger Ervin, chair of our board, recently met with graduate students in our Intro to Public Management class to share lessons from their careers.

Thank you to Gov. Doyle and Roger Ervin for sharing for sharing advice with future leaders!

During @staterelations' annual #UWDay at the Capitol, a group of our master's students and faculty presented their research to policymakers.

Check out some photos from the event!
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During his recent visit to La Follette, Ezra Klein presented on political polarization and how the political environment has changed since 2020. “We’re polarized less about politics and more about the system itself,” he said.

Read about the event. #LFS40 lafollette.wisc.edu/news/ezra-klei…

Applications open today for our undergraduate certificates in public policy and health policy. The 12-credit programs provide practical policy skills and direct experience to enhance your major. How will you make a difference?

Choose a certificate: lafollette.wisc.edu/academics/#und…

A group of our students interested in health policy joined an event hosted by Access Community Health Centers, a non-profit that helps people overcome barriers to quality healthcare. La Follette Director of Strategic Initiatives and president of Access' board Lisa Ellinger coordinated the visit.

Using statewide survey data, La Follette Professor Menzie Chinn recently found that despite national progress in reducing inflation, it is still a major concern among most Wisconsinites.

He shares his full analysis in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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📈FMRI seminar this week: Brian Hartman (BYU) will present “Multivariate Spatiotemporal Models for County Level Mortality Data in the Contiguous United States”
➡️Join us this Friday, May 3rd, from 3:00-4:15pm in Grainger Hall Rm. 4151 for our final seminar of the semester!

During his recent visit, Ezra Klein sat down with WisPolitics.com President Jeff Mayers to discuss politics, media, and government. In attendance were state policymakers who asked questions and listened to Klein's thoughts on the upcoming election.
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'There aren't positive alternatives to the dollar in our lifetime,' said spring fellow & UW Political Science prof. Mark Copelovitch at his talk on the US dollar's dominance in global finance despite predictions of its decline. Intro & moderation by Mark Hallerberg. 📺: buff.ly/3Qn0VdL

The annual WI Women in Govt Leadership Seminar brought together 24 women working in or with all levels of government. Participants discussed leadership in public service and learned from La Follette faculty.

Learn more about the seminar 🔽
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