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Woman stands in an interior space with beige walls looking away from the camera. She wears a white shirt and white face mask elaborately embroidered with Oaxacan designs in bright colors, especially reds and pinks. Embroidery on her shirt includes large panels of floral motifs with ribbons and a small band of embroidered human figures line the edge of the embroidered sections. Face mask features a large red butterfly with floral wings.

SoHE News: Oct 16–22

| October 22, 2020

SoHE and CommNS win 3 WPP grants, Addo featured in Newsweek on pandemic economic relief, Duncan publishes on postpartum wellbeing, Community Altar Project goes virtual for 2020, and more.

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SoHE and CommNS to Partner on 3 New Wisconsin Partnership Program Grants

| October 19, 2020

The School of Human Ecology and the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies will partner on three of six new grants announced Friday by the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The grants, each of $1 million over five years, support community-academic partnerships designed to improve health outcomes by addressing the social determinants that influence health and well-being over the course of a lifetime.

Grandmother on a couch reading Sesame Workshop materials to grandson

SoHE News: June 12-18

| June 18, 2020

Poehlmann-Tynan research with Sesame Workshop featured by university, Thomas talks mental health with alumni for UW Now, CFS RDRC hosts its second annual Junior Scholars in Training program, and more.

Kids Doing Homework

SoHE News: Apr 10–16

| April 16, 2020

CNPL major wins Truman Scholarship, Grad student connects local farms’ produce with Latino/Indigenous families in need, Consumer Science PhD alum publishes CDL research in Nature, Hartley featured on WPR and Wisconsin State Journal, Halpern-Meekin applies “social poverty” concept to understanding families’ COVID experiences, and more.

The Rise of the Only Child

SoHE News & Events: Feb 21–27

| February 27, 2020

Halpern-Meekin gives TV interview on single-child families | McInnes highlights heritage marker at SoHE in Cap Times | Addo’s joint open letter on student debt | Mace and Greendeer in prominent Crafts magazine | Gaddis cited by fellow scholars in Aeon | Hark’s work on display at Chazen | Huambachano to present at 2020 Global Health Symposium | Poehlmann-Tynan webinar for foster parents