Shari Wilcox is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Culture, History, and Environment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; a role that she has held for the …
Month: June 2018
Rima Apple Publishes Papers, Highlighting Public Health in Nursing
Professor Rima Apple recently published two papers, highlighting public health in nursing. “’Women’s mission among women’: Unacknowledged origins of public health nursing,” Nursing History Review, 2018, 26: 55-67 “School health is community health: School nursing in …
Displaced Horizons Performance Exposes Water Systems
Displaced Horizons was a collaborative multimedia performance that was co-sponsored by the Holtz Center on June 9. The performance focused on water infrastructures’ socio-cultural and historical complexities to encourage a re-visioning of current water systems to …
Oravec Publishes Article on Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Social Welfare
Professor Jo Ann Oravec‘s peer-reviewed article, will be published in the “Ethics and Social Welfare” journal later this summer. The article is entitled “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Social Welfare: Some Ethical and Historical Perspectives on Technological Overstatement and Hyperbole“. …
Hausman Studies and Writes in London
During the 2017-2018 academic year, while on sabbatical, Professor Dan Hausman has been a Ludwig Lachmann research fellow at the London School of Economics. He has been studying the explicit use of cost-effectiveness information by the …
Eschenfelder & Downey Develop a Synthesizing History of SSDAS
Kristin Eschenfelder and Greg Downey are finishing their four year Sloan funded exploration of the long-term sustainability challenges of science data infrastructures in the social sciences with co-PI Kalpana Shankar from UC Dublin. They visited …
New Member Profile: Todd Allen
In 2017, Dr. Todd Allen returned to the UW-Madison campus after a series of admirable roles and accomplishments in the field of science and technology. Allen was previously on the faculty from 2003-2012 and is currently …
New Member Profile: Kole Binger
After graduating with her bachelor’s degree in Biology from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017, Kole Binger joined the Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team (SMAHRT), led by Dr. Megan Moreno. As an Associate Research …