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Science Daily announces new research by CPC Fellow Glen Elder about mentorship of disadvantaged teens
A new study in Sociology of Education has found that when a teacher mentors a disadvantaged student, the student's odds of attending college nearly doubles. For all teen students, having an adult mentor means a 50 percent greater likelihood of attending college.The study's lead author is Lance Erickson, now a sociology professor at Brigham Young University and formerly a CPC Predoctoral Trainee. Steve McDonald, now a sociology professor at North Carolina State University and formerly a CPC Postd...
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CPC Fellow Philip M. Cohen featured in WRAL-TV story about mothers during the recession
Philip N. Cohen, faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center and UNC associate professor of sociology, is featured in a news story on WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh) discussing mothers in the current recession. Cohen is quoted in the text of the story and also appears in the accompanying video.The recession has put increased pressure on mothers, in part because three-quarters of the jobs lost in the recession were jobs filled by men."Recession puts more pressure on mothers," (WRAL-TV, November 4, 200...
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Nature story features CPC's National Children's Study vanguard center in Duplin County, NC
The NIH-funded National Children's Study was the focus of an article
that appeared today in Nature. The reporter, Meredith Wadman, visited
the NCS vanguard center in Duplin County, NC to learn about the study.
The Carolina Population Center implements the study in Duplin County
and in four other counties in North Carolina. See this website for more
information:
http://centers.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/unc/Pages/default.aspx.
Children's study fights to survive (Nature, November 4, 2009...
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Cross-cultural study of wealth and inequality appears in Science; CPC Postdoctoral Scholar David Nolin among research team
Science has
published a landmark cross-cultural study of the intergenerational transmission
of wealth, and how such transmission can lead to persistent inequality in
small-scale societies.
The project, organized by economist Sam Bowles (Santa Fe
Institute) and anthropologist Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (UC Davis), drew on the
combined research of anthropologists working in 21 different field sites.
Quantitative data from these sites were used to estimate the correlation
between p...
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The State of Things (WUNC) reports on African-American Economic Summit, Nov. 1-2; CPC Fellow William A. Darity is a co-organizer
WUNC radio program The State of Things reported on the upcoming African-American Economic Summit, a free event being held November 1-2 at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. Carolina Population Center Fellow William “Sandy” Darity is a co-organizer and will present the morning of November 2.The free public summit will discuss the current recession and its impact on African-Americans and their communities. Topics will include housing, education, labor, wealth, health and incarceration.After the ...
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Durham Herald-Sun announces groundbreaking new research by CPC Fellow Philip N. Cohen about international and domestic adoption
Philip N. Cohen, faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center and UNC associate professor of sociology, and Rose M. Kreider, Ph.D. of the U.S. Census Bureau, have published the first national study on disability rates among internationally adopted children.The study, which appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, found that children adopted from overseas have disability rates similar to those adopted from within the United States.The Herald-Sun (Durham) published an announcem...
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america.gov features study by CPC Fellows Kasarda and Johnson about economic impact of Hispanics in NC
Carolina Population Center Fellows John D. Kasarda and James H. Johnson, Jr.
studied the economic impact of the growing Hispanic population in North
Carolina. Their findings were featured in a recent news story by
america.gov, an information source developed by the U.S. Department of
State's Bureau of International Information Programs.
Vying for a Slice of One State's Growing Hispanic Consumer Market (by staff writer Andrzej Zwaniecki)
http://www.america.gov/st/business-english/2009/Sep...
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UNC receives nearly $2.2 million to study nutritional supplements to protect HIV-positive mothers and their infants in Africa
UNC News Services issued a research brief about this project:http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2964/71/For immediate release: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Do nutritional supplements, fortified with micronutrients and essential
fats, protect the health of HIV-positive women and their infants after weaning?
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) will
analyze data from a study in the African nation of Malawi to find out if the
low-cost, locally-produ...
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CPC Fellow Popkin will speak about his book The World is Fat, Nov. 17
Barry M. Popkin, CPC Fellow and Carla Steel
Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global
Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill, will discuss his book The World is Fat at UNC on Tuesday, Nov. 17th from 7-9 pm. The event will be held at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center.
Registration is requested. Register online for the public event or by contacting Ann-Louise Aguiar '76 at (919) 962-3574 or ccll@unc.edu.
The presentation is sponsored by the UNC General Alumni Association.
The announcement and p...
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CPC Fellow Walsh's research in the Galapagos focus of story in University Gazette
The recent edition of the University Gazette includes a story about new developments at the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies which is directed by Carolina Population Center Fellow Stephen J. Walsh.
Walsh and other researchers of the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies
have partnered with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) to
expand their research, education and outreach efforts. Carlos F. Mena, a CPC
predoctoral trainee alumnus, is a professor at USFQ and is the primary
collaborator...
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CPC Fellow Popkin among the experts advocating for a sales tax to tackle obesity
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin co-authored an article
published by the New England Journal of Medicine that describes how
taxing soda pop and other sugar-sweetened beverages can help decrease
the rising obesity rates in the U.S. and throughout the world. The
article is being discussed in numerous media outlets, including the
following. Popkin is Carla Steel
Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global
Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Proposed tax on sugary beverages debated
New York Times, Sept. 16...
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Durham Herald-Sun announces new South Africa project led by CPC Fellow Pettifor
Audrey Pettifor, faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center, has begun work on a new project in South Africa that will evaluate whether paying girls to attend school will reduce their risk of infection with HIV.The Herald-Sun (Durham) published an announcement about this new project which is called Effects of Cash Transfer and Community Mobilization in Young South African Women (see abstract about the project here.)"UNC gets $2.7M for HIV study," (The Herald-Sun, September 7, 2009)An excer...
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Washington Post story about religion and Facebook cites CPC study led by Fellows Brown and Pearce
The Washington Post published a story about Facebook users' approach to
the question about religious views in the profile setting. The article
quotes Piotr Bobkowski, a graduate research assistant at the Carolina
Population Center, who is working on a study about youth and religious
expression on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The
CPC study, "Youth Online Self-Disclosure Project," is led by CPC
Fellows Jane D. Brown and Lisa D. Pearce. Funded by the John Templeton Fo...
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CPC release: UNC receives $2.7 million NIH grant to determine whether paying girls to attend school reduces HIV risk
UNC News issued a release to the media about this new study: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2818/107/The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received
a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the
effects of using monetary incentives and community mobilization to prevent
young women in South Africa from becoming infected with HIV.
Audrey Pettifor,
Ph.D., an assistant professor of epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings
Scho...
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SELF magazine and CPC Fellow Popkin create "What's Your Weight Fate?" quiz
The August 2009 issue of SELF magazine features a story about weight
control and has an accompanying quiz called "What's Your Weight Fate?"
The story cites research by Barry Popkin, CPC Fellow and Carla Steel
Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global
Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
It doesn't require a crystal ball to see your weight fate—just a couple
of researchers and a whole lotta science! For the story, SELF worked
with renowned obesity expert...
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CPC Fellow Philip N. Cohen cited in Newsweek story about multi-generational households
The recent issue of Newsweek cites research by Carolina Population Center Fellow Philip N. Cohen about multi-generational households. Cohen is also an associate professor of sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill.
The story, You Will Be a Parent to Your Parents, is available at http://www.newsweek.com/id/212148.
Excerpt from the story:
Philip Cohen, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of the upcoming book [The] Family: Diversity, Inequality and Social Change,
predicts ...
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'Food is the new tobacco' column discusses CPC Fellow Barry Popkin's book 'The World is Fat'
An editorial column in The Garner-News that says food is the new
tobacco discusses CPC Fellow Barry Popkin's new book, "The World is
Fat," linking the addiction to tobacco to the addiction to fatty foods
as they destroy our health in similar ways.
"Increasingly the high caloric liquids and food we consume are driving
up our weight dramatically," the article says. "Keeping a healthy
weight is an individual challenge. The consequences of not meeting that
challenge are clear: higher incide...
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CPC Fellow and former CPC director J. Richard Udry cited in MSNBC article
CPC Fellow and former CPC director J. Richard Udry and his 1970
study on birth rates after one-night events were recently cited in a
MSNBC article. The article discusses the myth of a baby boom after
President Obama's election and other dramatic events, such as a
snowstorm or blackout.According to the article, many predicted that celebration by Obama
supporters would result with "nine months later, babies born out of
that election night euphoria."However, the article says there is no stati...
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TIME magazine features CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen in "Must Read" article
CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen and her study on increased weight gain
in couples who live together will be featured in TIME magazine's July
6th edition and is on the front page of Time.com as a "Must Read"
article.
Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D., an associate professor of nutrition at UNC,
said that "married individuals are twice as likely to become obese as
are people who are merely dating," according to the article."With women, we saw incremental risk after one year," Gordon-Larsen
said in the ar...
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Research on weight gain in couples by CPC Fellow Penny-Gordon Larsen mentioned on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
CPC Fellow Penny-Gordon Larsen,
Ph. D., an associate professor of nutrition at UNC, and her research on
increased weight gain in couples who live together were featured on
NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, a weekly comedy news-quiz program. The show, which was taped in UNC's Memorial Hall, ran this past weekend.
The study was cited on the "Limericks" section of the show, in which a caller fills in the blank of a news-related limerick.
"I move in with my girlfriend," starts the limerick...
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Pregnancy guidelines co-author Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, a CPC Fellow, mentioned in Associated Press article
An article recently published by the Associated Press reports new
pregnancy guidelines from the Institute of Medicine for how much weight
women should gain during their pregnancy. CPC Fellow Dr. Anna
Maria Siega-Riz, an associate professor of epidemiology and
nutrition at UNC, is quoted in the article and is co-author of the
guidelines, which are the first national recommendations on
pregnancy-related weight since 1990.
According to the article, "normal-weight woman should ga...
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CPC Fellow Halpern receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
CPC Fellow and Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health Carolyn Halpern
was awarded the Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring from
the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Dean of the Graduate School, Steve Matson, presented the award to Halpern at the 2009 Doctoral Hooding ceremony on May 9th. His remarks are posted at http://gradschool.unc.edu/events/hooding/2009/#halpern
He said: "Underlying Professor Halpern’s skill as an ac...
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CPC Fellow Guang Guo appointed Odum Distinguished Term Professor
On the recommendation of the chaired professors in the department, Guang Guo has been approved by the College of Arts and Sciences as the Odum Distinguished Term Professor in the Department of Sociology, effective July 1, 2009. This is a five-year appointment.Congratulations to Guang for this achievement....
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CPC Fellow Siddiqi's research on Canadian health care referenced in the news
The research of Arjumand
Siddiqi, CPC Fellow and assistant professor of health behavior and
health education, was recently referenced in a news story about Canadian health care.
The story says: "...Siddiqi and Hertzman write (and technology and
helicopter salesmen
should take note) that redistributing wealth within a society trumps
spending more money on health care. In terms of resources, not
surprisingly, Canada does better in some comparisons and loses in
others."
To read the ...
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CPC Fellow Barry M. Popkin guest on WUNC’s The State of Things
From the WUNC website:Fifty years ago there were 100 million overweight people in the world. That sounds like a lot, doesn't it? Well, it does until you learn that number has skyrocketed to 1.6 billion. Barry Popkin, author of "The World is Fat," joins host Frank Stasio to discuss the growing global problem of obesity. To listen to the program, click here: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0429abc09.mp3/view ...
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