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CPC Weekly Seminar, Jan. 27: Note New Presentation Title
Dr. M.E. Hughes,
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke University, will present "What
Money Can Buy: Marriage, Material Aspirations, and Home Ownership in
the United States" on Friday, January
27 from noon to 1 pm in Toy Lounge, Dey Hall....
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Findings from Adolescent Health Project Illustrate Increasing Health Risk from Teen Years to Adulthood
A study published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine offers new insights into race/ethnic disparities in leading health
indicators. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Project (Add Health) indicate
increasing health risk and reduced access to health care from the teen
years to the adult years for most US race/ethnic groups, with serious health
implications for this generation. Relative rankings on 20 diverse health indicators (and p...
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UNC is one of six sites nationwide to start study on environments effects on children; Duplin County to be UNCs study location
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as one of six institutions nationwide
– and the only institution in the South – to kick off an
unprecedented effort examining the effects of environmental, social,
behavioral, biological and community factors on U.S. children’s development.
Researchers from
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School
of Public Health and Carolina
Popula...
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Kalsbeek Chair-Elect for ASA Section on Survey Research Methods
William Kalsbeek, CPC Fellow and Professor of Biostatistics, was recently elected chair-elect
for the section on Survey Research Methods for the American Statistical
Association at its national meeting.
For information about the Survey Research Methds section, visit http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/.
For more information about Kalsbeek, visit https://www.cpc.unc.edu/bios/index.php?person=wkalsbeek.
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CPC Fellow Popkin Awarded Grant from NIH
CPC Fellow and Professor of Nutrition, Barry Popkin has been awarded a 5-year grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
"Diet, Activity, Obesity & the Built Environment Dynamics" is a longitudinal study with work continuing until June of 2010. Co-Investigators of the project are Penny Gordon-Larsen, CPC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Nutrition, and
David Guilkey, CPC Fellow and a Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished
Professor of Economics.
For more inf...
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MacArthur Foundation Awards Grant to CPC Fellow Leslie
Paul Leslie, CPC Fellow and professor of anthropology, has been awarded a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. The 18-month study, entitled Alternative Consequences of Migration for Land Use and Conservation in Northern Tanzania, was co-awarded to Terrence McCabe at the University of Colorado Boulder. Work on this study is underway, as the award was granted April 1, 2005. For more information on this study, please visit https://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/grants.php?show=102....
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CPC Fellows Walsh and Bilsborrow Awarded Grant from NASA
NASA has awarded a grant to Stephen J. Walsh, CPC Fellow and and
Professor of Geography, and to Richard E. Bilsborrow, CPC Fellow and
Professor of Biostatistics, for a two-year study entitled "Multi-Agent
Models of Land Cover/Land Use Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian
Amazon: Coupling Human & Natural Systems through Pattern-Process
Relationships and Spatial Simulations." The funding period begins
January 2006. For more information about this study, please visit http://www.cpc.unc.edu/pro...
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Anna Maria Siega-Riz President-elect of SPER
Anna Maria Siega-Riz was
elected president-elect of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
(SPER) at their annual meeting in June.
She will serve as president in 2006-2007 and will preside at the annual
meeting in Boston in June 2007. Congratulations
to Anna Maria!
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Barbara Entwisle President-elect of PAA
CPC is pleased to announce that Barbara Entwisle has been elected President-elect of the Population Association of America.
She will serve as President during 2006-2007 and will preside over the PAA meeting in New York City, March, 2007. Congratulations to Barbara on this well-deserved recognition of her commitment to the population field.
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New National Survey of Children's Health Data Web Site
The following news item was sent by Christina Bethell, Director, The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative.
The National Survey of Children's Health Data Resource Center is now
posted as a public site. The link is www.nschdata.org
. Please send contact information
(e-mail lists, etc) of people and organizations you think should be
included in the formal announcement of the site (in June).
This is the "soft launch" of the site. This means that it...
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New UNC Library Catalog Search Interface
The UNC Library system has launched a new online catalog,
which has an updated look and improved functionality. The catalog is accessible from
http://webcat.lib.unc.edu/. The key improvement is in the search function: you can
search the CPC Library catalog and all other campus library catalogs at the
same time, or narrow your search to one library collection. Because the new
catalog is just one module of an entire new system called Millennium, there are
improvements in acquisitions, catalo...
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CPC Fellow Lisa Pearce Wins Award
Lisa Pearce, CPC Fellow and assistant professor of sociology, has been
selected as one of five William T. Grant Scholars nationwide. The
William T. Grant Scholars Program supports early career scholars who
conduct research on youth development. A $300,000 5-year research grant
accompanies the award. Dr. Pearce's project is entitled "Religion's
Role in the Shaping of Self-Image Aspirations and Achievement in
Youth." For more information about the William T. Grant Foundation and
the Scholar...
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Southern Demographic Association Conference, Nov 3-5
The 2005 Southern Demographic Association Conference will be held in Oxford, Mississippi on November 3-5. The call for papers is on the SDA website
(http://www.fsu.edu/~sda/), along with an online abstract
submission feature, the pre-registration form, lodging information, and transportation information.
Note that the 2006 SDA meeting will be from November 2nd to 4th at the Durham Hilton Hotel, in
Durham, NC....
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ICPSR Summer Workshops
In 2005 the ICPSR Summer Program will be offering two new courses
of potential interest to researchers in demography and population
studies: "The American Community Survey," and "Data Sharing and
Dissemination." Both courses are 3 days in duration, are taught at the
University of Michigan, and fees are waived for individuals at ICPSR
member
institutions. Further information about these and other ICPSR Summer
Program courses
can be found at www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog
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Penn State Symposium on Families' Contributions to Disparities in School Readiness
Early Disparities in School Readiness: How do Families
Contribute
to Successful and Unsuccessful Transitions into School? will be the
focus of Penn State Universitys 13th annual Symposium on Family
Issues,
to be held October 13-14, 2005. The 2005 symposium is innovative,
not only for its emphasis on family contributions to school readiness,
but also for integration of psychological, sociological and policy
perspectives.
The intent of the symposium is to better understand str...
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Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Program Announcement (PA) Number: PA-05-090
The behavioral and social sciences offer significant fundamental insightsinto the comprehensive understanding of human health, including diseaseetiology and treatment, and the promotion of health and well-being. Toencourage the investigation of the impact of social and behavioral factorson health and disease, the participating Institutes and Centers invitequalified researchers to submit research grant applications on methodologyand measurement in the behavioral and social sciences. Methodology a...
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View 2005 PAA Posters
CPC Fellows, Trainees and Staff attended the 2005 Annual PAA Meeting, March 31-April 2, in Philadelphia, PA. They displayed posters which can now be viewed online as 11x17 pdfs as well as a short abstract of each....
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NIH Summer Institute on Behavioral and Social Intervention Research, July 18-22
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is sponsoring a Summer Institute to address essential conceptual, methodological and practical issues involved in planning and carrying out research on psychosocial interventions. The Institute will take place in Washington DC from July 18 to 22. For additional information go to the NIH Summer Institute website.
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Symposium on Family Issues at Penn State, Oct. 13-14
"Early Disparities in School Readiness: How do Families Contribute to Successful and Unsuccessful Transitions into School?" will be the focus of Penn State University's 13th annual Symposium on Family Issues, to be held October 13-14, 2005. The 2005 symposium is innovative, not only for its emphasis on family contributions to school readiness, but also for integration of psychological, sociological and policy perspectives. The intent of the symposium is to better understand disparities in child...
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Data Sharing for Demographic Research
The Data Sharing for Demographic Research project began at the end of last summeras a partnership of NICHD with ICPSR and the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, the Carolina Population Center, and the Minnesota PopulationCenter. The goal of the Data Sharing project is to assist data producers and datausers in all tasks associated with sharing the data produced and used by the demographic community. The project has a web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dsdr. Amy Pienta of...
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Workshop on the Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families
Addressing Health, Educational, and Socioeconomic Disparities of Children in Immigrant Families will be held on May 25 and 26, 2005, Wednesday and Thursday (half day) at 6001 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The funders for this workshop are National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Child Health and Development
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Child Development and Behavior Branch
Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
U.S. Citizen...
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California Health Interview Survey
The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is described as the most comprehensive source of important health information on Californians. Conducted every two years, CHIS provides information for the entire state and most counties on a variety of health topics for California's diverse population. Please see the attachments for more information....
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Population Research & Policy Review Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Population
Research and Policy Review
Special Issue on Spatial Demography
Paul R. Voss
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Guest Editor
July 29, 2005 – Deadline for paper proposals
(Send to spatialprpr@olemiss.edu.)
Aims and Scope of this Special Issue
The goal of this special issue is
to introduce demographers to new analytical approaches involving demographic
data that are spatially referenced. It
is anti...
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Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Launches Monitoring & Evaluation Website
A new website dedicated exclusively to the M&E of population, health, nutrition and poverty programs is now on-line. The Latin American Network of Evaluation Programs (REDEVAL) website has also been created. Please visit
http://redeval.insp.mx.
This effort is an initiative started by the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (INSP) de Mexico and Measure Evaluation. It responds to the growing need to strengthen the practice of monitoring and evaluation programs in the LAC region.
The main pu...
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Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health Program Announcement
This announcement invites applications to (a) elucidate basic social and cultural constructs and processes used in health research, (b) clarify social and cultural factors in the etiology and consequences of health and illness, (c) link basic research to practice for improving prevention, treatment, health services, and dissemination, and (d) explore ethical issues in social and cultural research related to health. For more information, go to
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-05-0...
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