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Michal Engelman @EngelmanMichal

Demographer @UWSoc & @uwcdha. Interested in aging, health, inequality, counting, and complicated stories. (she/her)

Joined December 2020
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Michal Engelman retweeted
UW-Madison CDHA@uwcdha
24 Jul 2024
We are #hiring a Post-Award Accountant to join our friendly & dynamic team with @UWMadisonLS! ✨Make a positive impact by becoming a subject matter expert in post-award grant management, accounting, and compliance reporting ✨Apply below by August 12th jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/l-s-divis…
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Michal Engelman retweeted
UW-Madison CDHA@uwcdha
7 Dec 2023
☀️This morning on @wprmornings CDHA & WLS Director Michal Engelman (@EngelmanMichal) discusses the biggest takeaways from the decades-long Wisconsin Longitudinal Study! wpr.org/studying-wisconsins-…

Pipeline construction updates, Lifelong impacts of adolescence

First, we get the latest on pipeline plans in the Straits of Mackinac. Then, we hear from the director of a Wisconsin study on what effect people’s adolescence has on […]

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Michal Engelman retweeted
Wisconsin State Journal@WiStateJournal
26 Nov 2023
Wisconsin's 'Happy Days cohort' is helping researchers understand aging | Tap on the picture to learn more 🔽 madison.com/news/local/busin…

Wisconsin's 'Happy Days cohort' is helping researchers understand aging

UW-Madison's Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, with participants now turning age 84, has produced hundreds of findings on how many life factors influence growing old.

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A great piece by @davidkwahlberg on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study! Lots of thanks to @UWSurveyCenter @uwcdha and @roanschewe for all their work and support of the study.
Wisconsin State Journal@WiStateJournal
26 Nov 2023
Wisconsin's 'Happy Days cohort' is helping researchers understand aging | Tap on the picture to learn more 🔽 madison.com/news/local/busin…
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Our NIA T32 grant has been renewed, and we're recruiting a postdoctoral scholar! All research on aging and health across the life course is of interest ~ please feel free to get in touch with any questions.
UW-Madison CDHA@uwcdha
10 May 2023
📢CDHA invites applications for our postdoctoral traineeship beginning in summer or fall 2023!📢 Review of application is on a rolling basis until the position is filled. #postdocjobs View the full job posting on our website: cdha.wisc.edu/about/employme…
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Congratulations to Carol Roan @roanschewe on receiving the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research! The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study has been so fortunate to benefit from your skills and talents over the past 18 years! @UWSoc @uwcdha
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Looking for a postdoc that will allow you to pursue research on aging and health? Check out this new possibility at Wisconsin!
UW-Madison CDHA@uwcdha
19 Jan 2023
📢CDHA invites applications for a postdoctoral traineeship beginning in summer or fall 2023! Review of application will begin on February 15, 2023. Apply on our website today: cdha.wisc.edu/about/employme…
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Congratulations to @ipums founder Steven Ruggles (@HistDem) on being named a #MacFellow by @macfound! His successful vision for making historical and contemporary population data a widely accessible public resource really is *genius*. .
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Check out the new WLS website! Same fantastic (and growing) data, in a beautiful new package.
UW-Madison Sociology@UWSoc
10 Oct 2022
It's the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study as you've never seen it before! See the updated website: wls.wisc.edu/ #PopTwitter #WisconsinInnovates
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Enjoyed being part of this conversation about social isolation and loneliness -- and avoiding them -- across the life course.
A Public Affair 🎙️@WORTtalk
5 May 2022
Experts have declared a loneliness epidemic in the U.S. But how did we get here? Did the pandemic make things worse? What can we as a society do about it? We learned more about this on yesterday's show with guests from @UWSoc and @fdn4sociconnect. wortfm.org/loneliness-epidem…
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New paper in @geronsociety @oxfordjournals on health, wealth, and long-term voting patterns in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study -- with @1takjoo, @jasonmfletcher, and @bcburden @uwcdha doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab1…

Health, Wealth, and Voting Trajectories in Later Life

AbstractObjectives. Much of what we know about voting behaviors is based on cross-sectional comparisons of voters at different ages. This study draws on a

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A quick summary here: news.wisc.edu/poor-health-th…

Poor health threatens voting in older age. Absentee and early voting can help maintain turnout.

A research team wanted to address a longstanding question in their field: How do voting patterns change as people age? One-time snapshots of different generations never provided a clear answer.

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An even quicker summary: Health declines reduce voting turnout among older adults. Alternative methods (like absentee ballots) help wealthier folks continue voting, but aren't sufficient on their own to keep a broader set of voters engaged.
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Michal Engelman retweeted
UW-Madison CDHA@uwcdha
6 Jul 2021
We're hiring! CDHA is now accepting applications for a postdoctoral traineeship funded by NIA. Position will begin in fall 2021 or winter 2022. Review of applications begins August 15. For more details visit, go.wisc.edu/4d2889. @nia_demography
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This is an amazing story. Science needs history and rhetoric studies! wired.com/story/the-teeny-ti…
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Linnea Evans, @KristenMalecki, Alex Mikulas & I on how social epigenetics has the potential to help us understand biological consequences of social inequality. But only if we move beyond individual-level traits to measuring upstream social processes. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Excited about this! Please be in touch if you want to collaborate on strengthening and enhancing the WLS as a study of aging in diverse communities.
UW-Madison Sociology@UWSoc
3 Dec 2020
Michal Engelman (@EngelmanMichal) will be the new director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a long-term study of adults who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957. Congrats!
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