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APL's New Look

Welcome to the new APL website. We have spent the last several months updating the APL image in an effort to better communicate our services and areas of expertise. This is an opportunity for us to reach out to past and potential clients and collaborators and to provide a well-defined sense of what we do and who we are. Take a look at the descriptions of the services that we offer, examples of recent work, and data that we provide.

We hope you like what you find.

Recent News

APL Scheduled to Present at Upcoming Rural Sociology Society Conference

Richelle Winkler will present a talk titled "Rural Destinations and Their Uneven Development: Variations in the Impact of Natural, Social, and Urban Amenities across Space and Place."

Katherine Curtis will present "Southern Poverty and the Return Migration."

Katherine Curtis and Annemarie Schneider will also present "Human Population Implications of Climate Change: Localized Predictions."

WISCAPE Funds APL Study on Wisconsin’s First-Generation College Students

Sara Lazenby, assistant researcher at the Applied Population Laboratory, will conduct a new study that may help University of Wisconsin System institutions recruit and admit first-generation students. To learn more about the study please click here.

APL Staff Win a Madison Public Health Award

Dan Veroff, Bill Buckingham, and Dave Long won a Madison Public Health Award for partnering with Public Health and building interactive mapping tools to inform public health program planning and decision-making.

Click here to view the news release.

Upcoming Events

72nd Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS)

"Climate Change and Societal Response: Livelihoods, Communities, and the Environment"
July 30-August 2, 2009, Madison, Wisconsin

Featured at the conference will be a session devoted to the American Community Survey: Challenges and Opportunities for Users of Rural Data
Click here for RSS program.