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CPC Fellow Philip Cohen comments on trends in mothers staying at home
Mothers with the financial means have long had the choice to go back to work
or stay home after the birth of their children. Today, however, more moms in
all economic levels appear to be considering the stay home option - at least
that's what some experts suspect when they point to recent population surveys,
which show all female employment numbers declining after decades of sustained
growth.
"The employment decline is apparent among all income groups, roughly
equally," says Philip Co...
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CPC Fellow Andy Olshan receives grant to study head and neck cancers
A grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation to the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill will fund research on the experiences of
head and neck cancer survivors, so that health professionals can
effectively manage the impact of treatment on a patient’s social,
family and work roles.
The three-year, $246,760 grant was awarded to Dr. Andy Olshan,
professor and chair of epidemiology in the UNC School of Public Health
and principal investigator of the study. Olshan is also a research
p...
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CPC Fellow Entwisle Receives Funding to Research "Modeling Household Dynamics and Land Use"
Barbara
Entwisle, CPC Fellow and Director and Professor of Sociology at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding
for the research project "Modeling Household Dynamics and Land Use."
This research project uses an empirically informed agent-based simulation
approach
to examine the dynamic interrelationships among migration, household
assets, and land use within a larger and changing social and
biophysical environment in Nang Rong, Thailand. Funding is provided
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses soft drinks, beverages in news
The 11-year-old patient showed a considerable amount of tooth decay since his last cleaning, prompting his dentist, Dr. Anjali Miranda, to take action: No more soda for the boy at home, and only an occasional soft drink when he eats out with his parents.... Barry Popkin [a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill] blames sodas and other sugary drinks for the alarming increase in both obesity and diabetes in the past 20 years. (In all, two-thirds of Americans adults ...
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CPC Trainee Tyson Brown's research on childless women and mothers appears in news
For one day each year, motherhood brings flowers, cards and Sunday brunches, but a new University of Florida study asks, how important is it for women’s happiness in midlife whether and when they had children? ... Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox worked on the study with Amy Pienta, a University of Michigan sociologist, and Tyson Brown, a sociology doctoral student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. To read the entire article, click here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070511080...
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CPC Fellow Philip Cohen quoted in news
Great news, couples! You're doing better than ever! ...Philip Cohen , a sociology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, said it helps that many weddings involve older participants than in years past. That's a chief predictor of the success of marriages, along with income and education levels, he said. To read the entire article, visit www.news-record.com. Some media outlets may require free user registration or a subscription. Most articles are available at the URLs provided for a limited time, usually ...
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CPC Fellow Cohen Awarded NSF Funding for Management Matters Project
Philip N. Cohen, CPC Fellow and UNC Associate Professor of Sociology, has been awarded funding for the project Management Matters: Consequences of Managerial Composition.
This project will examine the association between
managerial composition and inequality among nonmanagerial workers.
Funded by the National Science Foundation through March 2008, this will
be the first study to combine longitudinal organizational data
with a national sample of U.S. workers in a study of managerial
composi...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on energy beverages in News & Observer
Tim McCullen drinks his morning pick-me-up at 3 p.m. Instead of black coffee, McCullen, who tends bar at The Goat in Raleigh, downs a couple of effect brand energy drinks when he reports for a shift that doesn't end till the wee hours. ..."We don't really have any sense of how it affects humans," said Barry Popkin, a nutrition professor and director of the interdisciplinary obesity program at UNC-Chapel Hill.To view the entire story, click here:http://www.newsobserver.com/707/story/567836.html...
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CPC Fellow Jay Kaufman's research appears in news
High blood levels of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids, found in fish oil, may help preserve thinking ability in the elderly, according to the findings of two studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. ...In the second study, which involved 2,251 older individuals, [former CPC trainee] Dr. May A. Beydoun and colleagues showed that high blood levels of EPA and DHA are associated with less decline in verbal ability.To read the entire article, click here:http://www.reute...
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CPC Fellow Cohen Served as Expert Witness to US Senate Committee
CPC Fellow Philip N. Cohen was one of several expert witnesses to testify at a
full committee hearing of the U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor,
and Pensions Committee at a hearing on "Closing the Gap: Equal Pay
for Women Workers." The committee, chaired by Ted Kennedy, is
considering gender equity bills proposed by Hillary Clinton and Tom
Harkin this session. The hearing was Thursday, April 12, 2007. Text and video of the hearing are available at
http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/...
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CPC Fellow Johnson Discusses Role of Arkansas' Undocumented Immigrants as Workers
Most of those companies would probably go out of business or those
jobs would be shifted offshore, because that's their competitiveness
factor. Those firms are competing in a global marketplace," said Jim
Johnson, a professor at the University of North Carolina who
contributed to the study on Arkansas' immigrant population. "You can
raise chickens in any place in the world now. The variable cost is
labor.
To read the entire article, click here: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin's research on beverages discussed in New York Times
Last year, with the support of the Unilever Health Institute in the Netherlands (Unilever owns Lipton Tea), a panel of experts on nutrition and health published a “Beverage Guidance System” in hopes of getting people to stop drinking their calories when those calories contribute little or nothing to their health and may actually detract from it.The panel, led by Barry M. Popkin, a nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina, was distressed by the burgeoning waistlines of Americans an...
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CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss's research on Norwegian mothers appears in NY Times Magazine
To the dismay of pundits and politicians alike, women in industrialized
countries and elsewhere have been bearing fewer and fewer children.... According to Ronald Rindfuss, a sociologist, Norwegian women who live
in towns with more day-care slots available have more children and
become mothers earlier. The timing of births is important, because
lower fertility rates may owe something to the fact that many women
inadvertently delay becoming pregnant until it’s no longer biologically
possibl...
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CPC Fellow Siega-Riz comments on the value of breakfast
It may be considered the most important meal of the day, but in the daily morning fire drill of getting out the door on time, breakfast can easily become an afterthought. ... "You should be eating something for breakfast, there's no question about it. Your body needs it in order to be able to concentrate and perform at its best," says Anna Maria Siega-Riz, associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.To read t...
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CPC Fellow Jane Brown appears on CNN
CNN's interview with CPC Fellow Jane Brown is CNN's "Most Popular Video." In it, Jane discusses her book Media, Sex and the Adolescent. To see the video, click here: http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=876402546&pt=YSome media outlets may require free user registration or a subscription.
Most articles are available at the URLs provided for a limited time, usually
two weeks or less.
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CPC Fellow Popkin reacts to news of caffeinated baked goods
Dr. Robert
Bohannon wants you in his world. It's fast, upbeat, jovial and driven by
caffeine -- lots of it....[H]e developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods,
one that eliminates the natural, bitter taste of caffeine...."I see
nothing positive from this," said Barry Popkin, a nutrition scientist at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Read the
entire article on the www.nytimes.com site
Some media
outlets may require free user registration or a subscription. ...
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CPC Fellow Darity comments on research on skin tone and earnings in Washington Post
Light-skinned
immigrants in the United States make more money on average than
those with darker complexions, and the chief reason appears to be
discrimination, a researcher says. ...William Darity Jr., an economics
professor at the University of North Carolina, said Hersch's findings are similar
to a study he co-authored last year on skin tone and wages among blacks.
To read the
entire article, click here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007...
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News features CPC Fellow Barry Popkin's research on eating fast food and BMI
A new study provides the best evidence to date that eating fast food makes you fat. Among nearly 3,400 young adults participating in a long-term study, every additional fast food meal they consumed each week correlated with a substantial increase in body mass index (BMI), Dr. Barry M. Popkin of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and colleagues found.The news article is based on an article in the latest American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (January 2007, volume 85, number 1, pages ...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin named Chamblee distinguished professor of global nutrition
Dr. Barry M. Popkin has been named the first Carla Smith Chamblee distinguished
professor of global nutrition in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill effective Jan. 1.
The professorship was endowed by the late Carl M. Smith to honor his daughter,
Carla Smith Chamblee, a Carolina graduate with a strong belief in the benefits
of good nutrition and a great interest in advancing nutritional research. The
professorship is to be awarded t...
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CPC Fellow Arne Kalleberg Quoted in News Article about Minimum Wage
Arne Kalleberg, a sociology professor at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill who specializes in economic equality, said that while the
wage hike may be a financial hit for businesses, it may also make minimum wage
jobs more respectable and increase productivity.
"When employers can pay low wages, they create very bad jobs,"
Kalleberg said. "If they have to pay more, they have to respect those jobs
more. I think it will improve the quality of jobs."
To read the entire article,...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin Comments on Caloric Beverages in the Washington Post
When most people think about calories, they consider food, not drink. Yet
beverages now account for about 20 percent of daily calories consumed by those
2 and older, according to Barry M. Popkin, director of the Interdisciplinary
Obesity Center
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"When did we start to drink anything other than water and [as babies]
breast milk?" asks Popkin, co-author of a system to help consumers make
smarter choices about beverages. "We didn't ev...
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CPC Fellow James Johnson Quoted in Charlotte Observer
N.C. population surges into nation's
top 10
Continuing waves of newcomers from the Northeast and other regions boosted
both Carolinas in the ranks of the nation's most
populous states in new U.S. Census Bureau data being released today.
North Carolina passed New
Jersey to become the nation's 10th most populated
state. And South Carolina, which
broke into the ranks of the nation's top 10 fastest growers, passed Louisiana
to become No. 24.
North Carolina gained more
than 1...
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CPC Fellow Harris Receives Funds to Study Parental Incarceration and Adolescent Health
Kathleen Mullan Harris,
CPC Fellow and Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNC, has received funds from the
American Bar Association to investigate parental incarceration as part
of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).
Questionnaire items will be included in Add Health's Wave IV data
collection, and will contribute to Northwestern University's study,
"Parental Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion: The
Long Arm of the Law." ...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin Quoted in NY Times Article on Changes in Portion Size
Along with the American waistline, the American plate and portion size have grown too. A study at Rutgers University supports earlier research that people today eat bigger servings than they did 20 years ago.
A 1994 informal survey found that the standard plate size in the
restaurant industry grew in the early 1990s, from 10 inches to 12.
''That
holds 25 percent more food,'' Schwartz said. ''That really makes a
difference in how much our plates can hold and how much we eat from
them.''
Ob...
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CPC Fellow Leslie Awarded NSF Funding for HSD Collaborative Research Project
CPC Fellow and UNC Professor of Anthropology, Paul W. Leslie,
has received funding for the project "HSD Collaborative Research:
Dynamics of Parks as Agents of Change in Eastern and Southern Africa."
This research project will examine the inter-relationship of livelihood
diversification and social
and environmental change outside protected areas in eastern and
southern Africa. Funding is provided by the National Science
Foundation. Leslie will work in collaboration with J. Terrence McCabe
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