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CPC Fellow Jacqueline Hagan on C-SPAN
Jacqueline Hagan, CPC Fellow and author of the book Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey, took part in a panel on immigration that aired on C-SPAN. The panel was part of the seventh Annapolis Book Festival which took place April 18 at The Key School in Annapolis, Maryland. A video of the event can be found at the link below. Jacqueline Hagan begins to speak around the 1 hour 12 minute mark. http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video...
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CPC Fellow Popkin named Tar Heel of the Week by News & Observer
CPC Fellow and Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition Barry Popkin was named Tar Heel of the Week by the News & Observer for the week beginning March 29, 2009.
An excerpt from the news story:
"It's not entirely accurate to call
Barry Popkin a flame-thrower, because he doesn't ignite controversy for
the sake of igniting controversy. But the economist and nutrition
professor at UNC-Chapel Hill has sparked his share of conflagrations in
the food wars. Just l...
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CPC Fellow James H. Johnson, Jr. to moderate panel on "green" jobs
James H. Johnson, Jr., CPC Fellow, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, Sociology, and Public Policy, and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise will moderate the panel "Creating Jobs in North Carolina's New Green Economy" at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theater, April 22 at 7 pm. For more information, click here: http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/orange/10-1138318.cfm Some media outlets may re...
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CPC Fellow Guang Guo mentioned in Chronicle of Higher Education article about biocriminology
Guang Guo, CPC Fellow and Professor of Sociology was mentioned in an article about biocriminology.An excerpt from the article: Even some biocriminologists question their field. Among them is Guang Guo, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has expertise in the biosciences that is rare among biocriminologists. In 2008 he and colleagues published a paper based on data in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a huge, federally financed surv...
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CPC Fellow James H. Johnson, Jr. quoted in Triangle Business Journal
James H. Johnson, Jr., CPC Fellow, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, Sociology, and Public Policy, and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise was quoted in a Triangle Business Journal article about improving academic performance of at-risk children. An excerpt from the article: In 1995, when the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill launched an initiative to boost school perform...
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CPC Fellow Jane D. Brown guest on WUNC’s The State of Things
Despite a recent decline in the number of children born to teenagers in North Carolina, the rate of teenage pregnancies in this state is significantly higher than the national average rate of 42 percent.* Teen pregnancies cost taxpayers more than $300 million annually and the social costs are high as well. New legislation that aims to restructure sex-ed curriculums in schools is making its way through the General Assembly. Today, "The State of Things" host Frank Stasio explores the continuous c...
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Release: UNC receives Gates Foundation grant to help tackle reproductive health issues facing urban poor
UNC receives Gates Foundation grant to help tackle reproductive health issues facing urban poorIssued by UNC News Services (March 30, 2009):http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-receives-gates-foundation-grant-to-help-tackle-reproductive-health-issues-facing-urban-poor.htmlThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received more than
$22 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a new
project that aims to improve the reproductive health of the urban poor
in S...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on red meat consumption in news
CPC Fellow and the Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition Barry Popkin discusses the environmental impact of consuming red meat. “‘We've promoted a diet that has added excessively to global warming,’ Popkin said in an interview.” (Johnson, C. K. (2009). Study: Lots of red meat increases mortality risk, Associated Press (March 23, 2009 ed.))To read the entire article, click here:http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=7155745In an ABC news item, Popkin says, “Eating le...
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Affirmative action for minority students subject of commentary co-authored by CPC Fellow Margarita Mooney
Margarita Mooney, CPC Fellow and assistant professor of sociology, has co-authored a commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the use of race in higher education admissions. The essay, which is adapted from a forthcoming book, discusses critiques of the policy as well as results of the authors’ research. To read the entire article (Charles, C. Z., Fischer, M. J., Mooney, M. A., & Massey, D. S. (2009). Affirmative-Action programs for minority students: Right in theory, wrong in practice...
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Dr. James Moody presents seminar on on adolescent popularity and substance use, March 27
Dr. James Moody, Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University, will present “Popularity Trajectories and Substance Use in Early Adolescence” on Friday, March 27 from noon to 1 pm in Room 405 CPC East. For the full schedule of CPC's Spring Semester seminars, go to: https://www.cpc.unc.edu/training/seminars.html Location information is available at the CPC website: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/aboutcpc/contactcpc ...
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CPC Director Entwisle talks about National Children's Study on WCOM's Radio In Vivo show
Carolina Population Center Fellow and Director Barbara Entwisle was interviewed about the National Children's Study on WCOM's Radio In Vivo show. Entwisle, Carolina Population Center Director and Fellow, is the principal investigator of the National Children's Study in North Carolina. She was interviewed by Radio In Vivo host Ernie Hood.
Listen to the interview (approximately 60 minutes):
http://www.ibiblio.org/wcom/podcast/mp3s/mp3s/RIV03182009.mp3...
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Interview with CPC Director Entwisle about National Children's Study now on iTunes
An interview with Barbara Entwisle about the National Children's Study is now available on iTunes. Entwisle, Carolina Population Center Director and Fellow, is the principal investigator of the National Children's Study in North Carolina. She was interviewed just prior to the launch of the study's data collection activities in Duplin County, N.C.
To access the video, go to the UNC-Chapel Hill iTunes U website: http://itunes.unc.edu/index.php
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CPC Fellow Cohen wins Best Article Award from American Sociological Association
Carolina Population Center Fellow Philip N. Cohen
has received the Best Article Award 2009 from the Sex and Gender
section of the American Sociological Association. His article "Working
for the Woman: Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap" appeared in the
October 2007 issue of the journal. Matt L. Huffman of the University of
California-Irvine co-authored the article. Cohen is an Associate
Professor in Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Cohen and Huffman will receive the award at the 104t...
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CPC Fellow Glen Elder appears in NY Times, Washington Post
Two articles recently published in the New York Times and the Washington Post quote CPC Fellow Glen Elder on the effects of economic recessions on children. Elder discusses his research on children growing up during the Great Depression. ‘The older children were better able to understand the hardships, and to get outside the household to help the family earn. They went off to World War II and benefited from the structure of the military, then returned to the booming economy and the G. I. Bill. U...
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Jane Brody quotes CPC Fellow Barry Popkin in New York Times
In her column on the pros and cons of consuming artificial sweeteners, Jane Brody quotes Barry Popkin, CPC Fellow and Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition. Citing his recent article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Brody says Popkin and his coauthor Richard Mattes “concluded that ‘taken together, the evidence summarized by us and others suggests that if non-nutritive sweeteners are used as substitutes for higher-energy-yielding sweeteners, they have the p...
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Review of CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s book The World Is Fat appears in Washington Post
This review discusses three books on the growing global obesity epidemic. “The world is fat, proclaims the title of Barry Popkin's book -- something we all know by now, and all recognize as a disaster. But what are we going to do about it? This is the question addressed, in different ways, by him and two other authors.” (Dunlop, Fuchsia, “Industrial Food: Is the food industry a villain, a potential savior, or both?” Washington Post, January 25, 2009, BW15) To read the entire review, click here: ...
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Release: Rural N.C. county, N.Y. borough kick off largest ever long-term U.S. child health study
Multimedia:
To see a video related to this news release, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hwsjM40g8Y
CHAPEL HILL - In many ways, Duplin County, N.C., and
Queens, N.Y., are worlds apart.
Duplin is rural, proudly southern and home to about
50,000 people. Queens is urban, counts immigrants from more than 100 nations
among its residents and the number of babies born in the borough each year
equals more than half of Duplin's entire population.
But from Tuesday (Jan. 13) onward...
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Chronicle of Higher Education highlights CPC fellow and sociologist Guang Guo’s work on genetics
CPC Fellow Guang Guo’s research on how genes affect behavior appears in the cover story for the section “The Chronicle Review” in the January 9, 2009 issue of “The Chronicle of Higher Education.” Guo uses the CPC study The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) for his research on genetics. Also named in the article are Add Health project designers and CPC fellows Kathleen Mullan Harris and J. Richard Udry. “For his AJS paper, on genetic influences on teenagers' sexual act...
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CPC Fellow Elder honored with special issue of Research in Human Development devoted to his research
The journal Research in Human Development recently published a
special issue celebrating CPC Fellow Glen H.
Elder, Jr's research on life course studies. Elder is a Research
Professor of Sociology and Psychology at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The special issue, entitled "Glen H. Elder,
Jr., and the Importance of Lived Experience," was edited by Michael
J. Shanahan, a former CPC postdoctoral scholar. Research in Human
Development is the official
journal of the Soci...
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Newsweek features CPC Fellow Popkin and his new book, "The World is Fat"
Barry Popkin,
CPC Fellow and Carla Steel Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global
Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill, was interviewed by Newsweek about his new book, The World is Fat.
An excerpt from the article:
"Two years ago, when Barry Popkin announced that more than a billion
people worldwide were overweight—easily outnumbering the 800 million
who were malnourished—folks looked up from their Big Macs in shock.
Then they went back to eating, pushing the number of overweight people
to...
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CPC Fellow Bollen elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
CPC Fellow Kenneth A.
Bollen has been elected to the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. The Herald-Sun announced this honor. "Bollen is the H.R. Immerwahr Distinguished
Professor of Sociology and director of the Odum Institute for Research
in Social Science. The association cited him for his "important work on
latent variable structural equation models and major contributions to
liberal democracy studies and to social science measurement." (Source: UNC professors honored....
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CPC Fellow Popkin interviewed by New York Times about proposed soda tax in NY
Barry Popkin,
CPC Fellow and Carla Steel Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global
Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill, was interviewed by Nicholas D. Kristof
for an op-ed piece about New York's proposed soda tax.
“Soft drinks are linked to diabetes and obesity in the way that tobacco
is to lung cancer,” says Barry Popkin, a nutrition specialist at the
University of North Carolina and author of the excellent new book, “The
World Is Fat.” (Source: Kristof, Nicholas D. Miracle Tax Diet. New Yo...
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Research by CPC Fellows Rindfuss and Guilkey featured on UNC Global website
CPC Fellows Ronald R. Rindfuss and David K. Guilkey
collaborated on research about how the availability of child care
impacts fertility in Norway. UNC Global features a story about this
research on its website. The story, A Solution to the Shrinking Family, is posted here:http://global.unc.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=762&Itemid=94
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CPC Fellow Jane Brown comments on teen media exposure in USA Today
A new report on the effects of adolescent exposure to various forms of mass media was recently released. "The study provides overwhelming evidence of the importance of limiting children's use of media and teaching them to critically evaluate the ever-growing volume of text, images and sounds with which they are bombarded, says co-author Ezekiel Emanuel of the National Institutes of Health.... “Keeping an eye on children's media use is tougher today, says Jane Brown, a journalism and mass communi...
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The Jamaica Observer quotes CPC Fellow Sudhanshu Handa
Poverty levels decreased in Jamaica last year, but could increase in the future. “Launched Wednesday, the 2007 Survey of Living Conditions (SLC), conducted by the PIOJ and Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), reported overall improvements in consumption and housing conditions and a decline in consumption inequality and gender-based consumption inequality. Poverty has now fallen almost 10 per cent in the past ten years.... “Presenting his findings at the survey launch, Dr Sudhanshu Handa of...
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