UW Awards

2025 Herb Kohl Public Research Competition
Refining “lives saved” measures for health interventions and longevity
(with Héctor Pifarré i Arolas)
La Follette School of Public Affairs / Kohl Initiative
2025

2024 Herb Kohl Public Research Competition
Early-life conditions and policies and U.S. longevity (book project)
La Follette School of Public Affairs / Kohl Initiative
2024

2023 Guggenheim Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Support for research and a book project on early-life conditions and U.S. mortality
2023
La Follette announcement

2023–24 Fall Research Competition Award
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (VCRGE) and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
2023–2024

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2022–present

2022–23 Fall Research Competition Award
Early Life Effects on Aging Outcomes: Understanding, Measuring, and Integrating Cohort Mortality Selection
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (VCRGE) and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
07/01/2022–06/30/2023

Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative (URI) Program
The Foundational Inequality—Race Differences in Equal Opportunity in the United States
(co-PI: Eric Grodsky)
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (VCRGE) and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
2021–2023

2021–22 Fall Research Competition Award
Cognitive Aging with a History of Work Disability
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (VCRGE) and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
07/01/2021–06/30/2022

UW2020 Award
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study 2020 and Beyond
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Discovery Initiative
07/01/2019–06/30/2021

2019 Vilas Mid-Career Award
Office of the Provost
07/01/2018–06/30/2020

H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
07/01/2017–06/30/2022

2018 Kohl Public Service Research Competition
In Utero Conditions, Reproductive Health Policies and Life Course Outcomes
La Follette School of Public Affairs / Kohl Initiative
2018–2019