Three University of Wisconsin-Madison rural sociologists were honored by the Rural Sociological Society at its 1999 annual meeting in Chicago in August.

University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor Gene Summers received the Distinguished Rural Sociologist award from the Rural Sociological Society at its 1999 annual meeting in Chicago this August.

Taking inventory of 275 million people may never come easy, but a UW-Madison rural sociologist is being honored for helping make it more efficient.

A new book on African-Americans in Wisconsin presents a current profile of the population and how it has changed during the past 25 years. The book now makes an earlier research report more accessible to professors, students and policy-makers.

Located in the UW-Madison”s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the Pesticide Use and Risk Reduction Project addresses the impacts of the U.S. Food Quality […]

Eugene A. Wilkening, Professor Emeritus of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, passed away Oct. 15, 1998, in Middleton, Wis. at the age of 82.

Common knowledge doesn’t always square with the facts. Case in point: spotted owls and logging jobs in the Pacific Northwest.