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Robert M. La Follette
School of Public Affairs
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Telephone: 608.262.3581
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Last updated:
April 19, 2013

Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2013

PDF of spring 2013 issue

From the director: Students gain insight from alumni, friends

Alumni and friends of the La Follette School have been seeing a lot of our students lately. Read more …

Homecoming welcome for alum

More than 70 friends, family, and colleagues, including 15 La Follette School alumni, gathered to celebrate the return of Andy McGuire, ’09, from a yearlong tour of duty in Afghanistan. Read more …

Reschovsky to retire, continue tax policy research

Andrew Reschovsky has spent his career exploring how tax policies affect individuals and the various ways in which state and local governments are financed. Although the government finance expert is retiring from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, his research schedule remains full. Read more …

Students win 1st place at national policy competition

A team of five La Follette School students won first place in a national public affairs competition in Washington, D.C., March 22-23. Read more …

In memoriam: Don Nichols shaped wisconsin economy, led La Follette School

A memorial service for professor emeritus Donald Nichols was held March 16 in Madison. Nichols, whose tenure leading the La Follette School of Public Affairs helped shaped Wisconsin's economic development, died February 15 at age 72. Read more …

In memoriam: Family, friends mourn 1995 alum, conservationist Dennis Presser

Memorial services for 1995 alum Dennis W. Presser were held February 23 in Madison. Presser, 54, passed away suddenly from natural causes at his home in Madison on February 16. Read more …

Health-care reform expands patient advocacy, alum finds

Health-care reform makes “free and vigorous” advocacy around private insurance issues available to more Americans, according to a study co-authored by 2002 alum Sarah Davis. Read more …

Alum reviews food policy in journal article

2012 alum Carly Hood is lead author on an article published in the Wisconsin Medical Journal. Read more …

Students share costs, benefits of consolidated fire departments, EMS

La Follette School students shared their analysis of the costs and benefits for four municipalities to merge their fire departments and emergency medical services with officials in a December 17 presentation. Read more …

News from alumni and friends

Career updates and babies galore. Read more …

UW honors 2 La Follette faculty members

La Follette faculty members Menzie Chinn and Susan Yackee have been honored with campus awards.. Read more …

Analysis debunks currency policy tenet

The argument that more flexibility in the exchange rate regime speeds up current account adjustment is not true, recent analysis by economist Menzie Chinn suggests. Read more …

Moynihan urges full FEMA funding

The United States must not follow through with its plans to scale back its Federal Emergency Management Agency, professor Donald Moynihan argues in the journal Nature. Read more …

Moynihan wins award for paper

A paper professor Donald Moynihan coauthored won the 2013 Joseph Wholey Scholarship Performance Award from the American Society for Public Administration for outstanding scholarship on performance in public and nonprofit organizations. Read more …

Professors endorse research on gun violence

La Follette School director Tom DeLeire and professor Barara Wolfe encouraged President Obama to end the ban on research on the public health effects of gun violence. Read more …

Efforts to mitigate climate change must target energy efficiency

Public institutions and private investors devote twice as much effort to developing energy supply technologies — such as new power stations — than on improving the efficiency with which energy is used, a report co-authored by professor Greg Nemet shows. Read more …