News & Notes | October 30, 2019
Nemet named World Citizen Prize recipient
La Follette School Professor Greg Nemet will receive one of the first two World Citizen Prizes in Environmental Performance during APPAM's 2019 Fall Research Conference. The award recognizes research that assesses pathways to achieve measurable but as-yet unrealized gains in overall environmental performance, especially for reducing consumption and waste. Read more. 
Muhammed Shayan
Moved by boy's sacrifice, graduate student launches scholarship in his honor
In 2014, teenager Aitzaz Hasan confronted a suspicious man outside his school of 2,000 students in the village of Hangu, Pakistan. The man detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and Aitzaz but sparing everyone else.
Muhammad Shayan did not know the boy, but the story moved him deeply. He secured the family's blessing and last year started the  Aitzaz Hasan Educational Scholarship. Read more.
Marie Koko
Megan Stritchko

Administrator, career specialist join staff
Megan Stritchko (MPA '09) and Marie Koko joined the La Follette School staff in September - Stritchko as the School's administrator and Koko as senior career services specialist. Read more.
Collins named to retirement security task force
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers appointed UW-Madison Professor J. Michael Collins as a public member of the Governor's Task Force on Retirement Security. The task force will study issues facing the growing number of retired people in Wisconsin, particularly the amount of money they have saved. Read more. 
In the News
Professor Greg Nemet, Does solar power make sense in Southern Wisconsin?, WISC-TV. Read more. 

Professor Tim Smeeding, Paul Ryan Launches Foundation In Janesville To Fight Poverty, Wisconsin Public Radio. Read more.   

Faculty affiliate Nick Hillman, Top Democrats Take Different Approaches To Make College Affordable, Iowa Public Radio. Read more. 
Submit Workshop project proposals by Nov. 1 for priority consideration
Calendar 
Nov. 6:  Genes & Society, Professor Jason Fletcher

Nov. 11: Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar, Professor J. Michael Collins

Nov. 14: Neuroscience & Public Policy Seminar, Assistant Professor Lauren Schmitz

Nov. 19: Current Crisis, Big Questions - Vaping, Evidence-Based Health Policy Project
Alumni News
Kate Austin Stanford 
(MPA, MPH ' 15) is director of operations at Public Health Madison & Dane County, a city-county agency that supports community health initiatives while also providing health services and environmental health information. Read more.
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