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GIS and Population Science Workshops - Summer 2005
Two GIS and Population Science workshops (supported by an NICHD R25 training grant) will be offered during Summer 2005. The GISPopSci workshops are scheduled for May 29 - June 11, 2005 (Penn State) and June 19-July 2, 2005 (UC Santa Barbara). These workshops will be intensive training experiences lasting two weeks and are an ideal opportunity for doctoral students, post-docs and junior faculty to learn more about spatial analysis and GIS as applied to population science. All participants are ex...
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New IRB Website and Forms
As recently announced, the Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) was created to centralize and enhance oversight of research at UNC-Chapel Hill involving human subjects. The next phase of integration will be to standardize practices across all Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on campus.
The IRBs have worked together over the last year to develop
standardized application forms, consent form templates and related guidance. These are now available on a common website, shared by all IRBs at...
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NIA Program Announcement - Retirement Economics
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for research on retirement economics. The research objectives of this Program Announcement include, but are not limited to: (1) the determinants of retirement behavior, (2) the variation in work patterns in later life, (3) the evolution of health and economic circumstances of individuals through retirement and into later life, (4) time use and life satisfaction before and during retirement, (5) the implications of retirement trends, (6) ...
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Aurora Waddell
Aurora Waddell, three year-old daughter of former computer unit staff member Joe Waddell, has been diagnosed with cancer and is being treated with radiation and chemotherapy. Joe is obviously having to take a great deal of time off from work during the treatments and afterwards. If you would like to donate vacation leave to Joe, contact Joyce Vines. You can get information about the shared leave program,and access a copy of the donation form, at http://hr.unc.edu/Data/SPA/leave/volsharedleave. J...
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Steve Wernke TV appearance
Steve Wernke's wife Tiffiny Tung is going to appear on an upcoming Discovery Channel series, Mummy Autopsy, as a regular investigator and he may appear a time or two as well as a consultant. Dr. Tung is also a consultant and Mummy Investigator for the Discovery Channel series Mummy Autopsy, which airs every Tuesday at 9pm, starting on December 14, 2004 and running until April 2005. In this television series, Dr. Tung and colleagues try to solve mysteries of the past by analyzing ancient m...
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World Development Indicators on the Network
World Development Indicators 2004 is now available on the network and can be found at R:\WDI2004. Use of this data from the server requires a setup program to be run on the users' workstations. Please write to cpchelp@unc.edu if you would like to have this installed on your PC. ...
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East-West Center Summer Seminar on Population, 2005
The East-West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii is seeking participants for its 36th Summer Seminar on Population, to be held May 31-June 30, 2005 at EWC.
In 2005, the three Summer Seminar workshop topics are:1. Evaluating the Impact of Reproductive Health Programs (in collaboration with the MEASURE/Evaluation Project)2. Liveable Cities in Pacific Asia: Research Methods for Policy Analysis3. Communicating with Policymakers about Population and Health (in collaboration with The INFO project)Ple...
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Nang Rong Projects Data Release
The Nang Rong Projects are releasing for public use much of the Social Survey Data, including most of the 1984, 1994, and 2000 household census data as well as most of the 1994-95 and 2000-01 migrant follow-up data. All of the released data files are available in SPSS, Stata and SAS transport (using xport engine) format, at no cost. For more information, go to the Nang Rong web site....
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Symposium on Inequalities in Population Call for Papers
The Research Committee on Sociology of Population (RC41) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) is pleased to announce that it will hold its mid-Congress symposium on September 15 and 16, 2005, in Malta. The general theme of the symposium is: Inequalities in Population. Sociologists and demographers are urged to submit their proposals/abstracts (or papers) to the organizers listed in conjunction with the identified sessions below. Proposals/abstracts, which do not fall into any of t...
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CPC Receives Obesity Center Grant
The Carolina Population Center has been awarded a grant under NIH's prestigious National Center for Research Resources Program. The grant will be used to establish an Inter-Disciplinary Obesity Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NIH awarded only 21 of these grants nationwide, and UNC received three of them. The Obesity Center will be headed by Dr. Barry M. Popkin, Professor of Nutrition and a CPC fellow.
The long-term goal of the center will be to develop effective way...
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Demography and Economics of Aging Research Center
The Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR) program promotes research and research training on the demography and economics of aging at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The program has been supported by a K07 award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and received a P30 center grant award from NIA in September 2004. The center grant award will allow the DEAR program to expand its activities in support of research on population aging. This program is led ...
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Global Tobacco Surveillance System Data Release
The CDC Office on Smoking and Health's Global Tobacco Control Program announces the first release of data collected under the Global Tobacco Surveillance System, a collaboration of WHO, CDC, and research coordinators from the participating countries. One part of this system, the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), has been completed by over 1.3 million students from 133 countries. The survey collects information on tobacco use prevalence and consumption, media and advertising exposure, second ...
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2004-05 Program on Latent Variable Models in the Social Sciences
Latent variables are widespread in the social sciences. Whether it is intelligence or socioeconomic status, many variables cannot be directly measured. Factor analysis, latent class analysis, structural equation models, error-in-variable models, and item response theory illustrate models that incorporate latent variables. This SAMSI program will take a broad look at latent variables and measurement error. Issues of causality, multilevel models, longitudinal data, and categorical variables in lat...
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Arne Kalleberg, CPC Fellow, New Senior Associate Dean
Arne Kalleberg, distinguished professor of sociology and senior associate dean of the Graduate School, has accepted the position of senior associate dean for the social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2004. He follows Richard Soloway, distinguished professor and former interim dean, who has
decided to return to full-time teaching and research in the department of history.
Arne, who has been a member of our faculty since 1986, is an
internationally renown...
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Fulbright scholar award Population Science in India, 2005-06
The Fulbright Scholar Program announces the availability of a Fulbright lecturing award in Population Science at the Institute of Population Sciences in Mumbai (Bombay), India, for a period of four to six months starting in July or August 2005. Faculty or professionals who hold a PhD, are U.S. citizens and have a record of teaching and research in any of several specializations--mathematical demography and statistics, fertility, public health and mortality, migration, urban studies, population p...
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Endeavors Features CPC Researchers
The Spring 2004 issue of Endeavors, the journal of current research at UNC-CH, features an article about Latinos in North Carolina. Several CPC fellows and a trainee are mentioned: James Johnson, Krista Perreira, Deborah Bender, and Melanie Wasserman. A copy of the issue will be available in the lounge....
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Elder Ranks 4th in Top 20 Studies That Fascinated Child Psychology
Glen Elder's Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience (1974) ranks 4th in the Top Twenty Studies that Fascinated Child Psychology. Wallace Dixon, member of the Society for Research in Child Development, compiled this list from a survey of SRCD members. The list was published in the Fall 2003 issue of SRCD Developments....
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Kathie Harris Wins Award
Kathie Harris, CPC Fellow and Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of Sociology, is the winner of the 2004 Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement. This award, given biennially by the Population Association of America, honors outstanding innovative scholarly achievements of population professionals who have attained their highest professional degree within the past 20 years....
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Siega-Riz Wins Award
Anna-Maria Siega-Riz, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Maternal and Child Health and CPC Fellow, has received the Center for Women's Health Research Award for Excellence. It is awarded for the multidisciplinary research that best demonstrates the strength of collaborative investigation to drive discovery of knowledge and achieve excellence in research. Dr. Siega-Riz received the award for her work in the Pregnancy, Infection and Nutrition Study (PIN) on the effect of a high glycemic load die...
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Editing Services Contact
Please send all editing requests to the new email address: cpcedit@unc.edu. If you have any questions, please contact Tom Swasey (966-1725)....
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Copyright Law Website for UNC
The campus Copyright Committee is pleased to announce a website for faculty and staff. The reference is: http://www.lib.unc.edu/copyright/. Developed with funds from the Provost's office, the Committee has developed resources to educate faculty and staff about copyright, assist faculty members with decisions about what constitutes fair use and gathered campus policies on copyright. Links to outside organizations and copyright education websites combine with the other material to create an im...
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Demographic Analysis Online Course
This online course was developed for researchers, professors, students and any interested person as a tool for deepening basic demographic concepts. It was designed as a didactic guide useful in any basic demographic course. Because of its theoretical content, examples and interactivity it becomes a choice in pregraduate as well as graduate courses.This course is for free use; the costs of development were covered by the sponsors. You can find it in http://ccp.ucr.ac.cr/cursos/demografia_03/Plea...
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Public Release of Chinese Health and Family Life Survey
William Parish and Edward O. Laumann are pleased to announce the first public release of Chinese Health and Family Life Survey (CHFLS). The dataset is available for free, downloadable in several formats from the PRC website , by following the "download dataset" links. Research design and questionnaire are also available from this website.
The CHFLS was carried out between August 1999 and August 2000 in 18 widely dispersed provinces, with 3,821 completed interviews for a response rate of 76%...
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Three Fellows Receive Teaching Awards
Congratulations to Barbara Entwisle, Paul Leslie, and Boone Turchi for receiving teaching awards.
Barbara Entwisle received a Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction.
Paul Leslie received the J. Carlyle Sitterson Freshman Teaching Award.
Boone Turchi received a Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
For more information see the September 24, 2003 University Gazette (no link available to this special section).
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Former CPC postdoc, Robert Crosnoe, wins award
Robert completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1999 and spent the next two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the CPC, with Glen Elder as his preceptor. He recently received the award for Distinguished Contributions Early in a Career of Research and Teaching on the Sociology of Children and Youth, from the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association.
Rob is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin....
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