News & Notes | April 5, 2018 
Neuroscience, genetics, microbiome event 4/12
Thanks to technological advances, researchers know more about the human microbiome, a person's genetic makeup, and the human brain than anyone could have imagined decades earlier.  The 2018 Symposium on April 12 at the Fluno Center will explore what researchers have learned about each of these breakthroughs and the resulting challenges. Read more. 
Yackee brings together top regulatory review scholars
More than a dozen of the nation's top scholars on regulatory review participated in a daylong workshop sponsored by the La Follette School and UW-Madison's Law School on March 23. The Herb Kohl Public Service Research Competition provided funding for the workshop, New Frontiers in the Empirical Study of Agency Policymaking. Read more.
After 13 years at UW-Madison, Professors Pam Herd and Don Moynihan are leaving to take positions at Georgetown University. Moynihan is the La Follette School's director, while Herd is a professor of public affairs and sociology. Read more. 
Rankings highlight La Follette's strengths
The La Follette School placed highly in new research-based rankings of public policy schools in the United States. The rankings use bibliographic databases to gather measures of the quality and quantity of publication output for faculty members at 44 of the top U.S. policy schools, including La Follette. Read more.
40+ prospective students welcomed for Visit Day
More than 40 prospective students received a warm welcome from numerous La Follette School faculty members, staff, current students, and alumni March 19 during the school's annual Visit Day. Read more.
In the News
Professor Tim Smeeding, Wisconsin's unemployment rate reaches an all-time record low of 2.9 percent, Wisconsin State Journal. Read more. 

Faculty Affiliate Cecelia Klingele, Wisconsin doubles GPS monitoring despite five years of malfunctions, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Read more. 

Faculty Affiliate Nick Hillman, Amid protests at UW-Stevens Point, lawmaker calls for commission on higher ed, The Capital Times. Read more. 
Calendar 
April 10: DC Bobs & Friends Happy Hour

April 12: Symposium: Emerging Policy and Ethical Implications for Neuroscience, Genetics, and the Microbiome

April 18: Purposeful Leadership: Life Lessons from Curt Culver 

April 25: Seminar Series - Who's Driving the Austerity Machine? Money, Power, and the Role of State Policies

April 25: BIG Lecture - The Effect of DNA Databases and Ban-the-Box Policies on Recidivism

May 2: Seminar Series - Racial Differences in Family Formation within Maternal Education Groups and Their Implications for Children's School Readiness

May 13: Graduation
Alumni News
Classmates Karina Virrueta and Mitch Running plan to web in 2019. Read more. 

Katie Sanders (MIPA '05) received a Driven to Achieve Award from the Donald Driver Foundation. Read more.
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