Student Research
Consumer Science & Retailing
The Center for Retailing Studies
The Center for Retailing Studies is funded by corporate grants to the Consumer Science Department. The Center advances research and collaboration in retailing and consumer science between the business sector and the School. It serves as a resource library for faculty and retailing students and provides support for scholarships and students activities, such as the Retail Club and the Annual Retail Symposium.
The Center for Retailing Studies has a library collection of information on retail and business. Many informative periodicals are housed in the center such as the Wall Street Journal, Women's Wear Daily, Chain Store Age, American Demographics and also literature on marketing and advertising.
Design Studies
Lighting Lab
A classroom equipped with a wide range of light sources serves as a lighting demonstration area. In this lab, students can compare the color, quality, and distribution patterns of various light sources.
Textile Science Lab
The Textile Science Lab is equipped with gaulity control, dyeing, and plasma treatment equipment. In addition, students and faculty have access to the Plasma Center and Materials Center labs.
Resource Room
This facility houses an extensive collection of furniture catalogs and material samples that students may use to develop design solutions. Lightboxes and computer databases, as well as equipment, tools, and workspace for reproducing drawing and constructing models and sample boards are available for student use. This facility is open to students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Family, Consumer & Community Education
Family Voices Project
The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies has undertaken a community building project conducted through university-community cooperation that focuses on perspectives of African-American families in South Madison and the application of those perspectives in larger community initiatives and activities.
Human Development & Family Studies
Family Interaction Lab
The Family Interaction Lab is designed to provide a naturalistic, home-like setting for unobtrusive videotaping of marital, family, parent-child, and peer interaction. The room is equipped with hidden cameras, ceiling mikes, and two-way mirrors. A control room is located adjacent to the interaction lab for camera control, taping, editing, dubbing, and coding of videotapes.
UW Preschool Laboratory
Faculty and students conduct research related to child development and learning, family development, childcare, and other related topics. All research conducted is approved by the Committee of Research Involving Human Subjects and a faculty member from the Human Development & Family Studies Department. For more information, contact Professor Julie Poehlmann at poehlmann@waisman.wisc.edu
